When choosing to return, Louis didn't expect any rewards, but he didn't expect to get a lot of pure energy after returning.

This should be the most affordable reward. For Louis, pure energy is a practical increase in strength. It not only increases his own Force reserve, but also gradually improves his physical fitness as the Force increases. In other words, pure energy will improve him in all aspects, but it is not as good as rewarding the improvement of his physical attributes directly.

Nodding with satisfaction, Louis stretched and his physical fitness continued to improve, which not only made him more and more ease in combat, but even fighting with the charming Virginia and the invincible young Kenm for half a year, he did not feel unable to cope with it.

Looking around, Louis found that he did not return to the Redwood Village, but stood in a thick fog, and the surrounding mist was dissipating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, the fog around dissipates at a rate that is not consistent. Some places quickly disappear, while others slowly disappear, even gather in one place, slowly condense into large marshmallows.

Louis didn't know if this change was good or bad. He could only avoid those areas carefully, and then turn left and right from the clearing where the fog was dissipated and turned forward.

Fortunately, he chose the direction this time, and soon he saw Makikimura, Jill, wearing a combat uniform, with a serious and vigilant attitude; and Artoria, wearing white armor and carrying a long sword.

"I'm back!"

Louis waved and greeted the two of them. Jill and Artoria were stunned when they saw Louis appear suddenly. With his happy face, he gave Louis a big hug to the return.

Artoria was covered in armor, and Louis just hugged her and let go. Gil, who was wearing a tight suit, wanted to hug her for a while, but unfortunately, Gil, who saw through his thoughts, pushed away.

"How long have I left this time?" Louis judged from the reactions between the two of them when they saw him that this time it was definitely not just a day.

"You have been away for a whole week this time!" I got the accurate answer from Jill, and I also learned that the thick fog in Redwood Village had undergone various strange changes since yesterday.

"Oh? What kind of changes are they?"

"At first we saw the thick fog begin to dissipate, we all thought you had succeeded... But soon some of the thick fog condensed into a ball, or although the thick fog disappeared, it threw something out before it dissipated, which gave us a very headache." Jill pointed not far away, and Louis turned his head and saw a corpse lying there, which looked obviously not a human.

"Will such trouble still occur?" Louis frowned and looked at the thick fog that had not yet dissipated. Is it a wrong choice to deal with the core before the thick fog is cleaned up?

Could it be that the correct way is to sweep away the thick fog around first, and then attack the core?

"Compared to going to the unknown world and completing all kinds of weird tasks, these are not a problem now." Artoria held the hilt of the sword with her left hand, and a relaxed smile on her face. For this Knight King, the mess left by the thick fog is easy to solve: it's nothing more than fighting.

"In some ways, Artoria is right." Jill rubbed his wrists, and looked at her expression. He must have been injured during the battle.

"Are you injured?"

"Not a serious injury."

Louis did not continue to ask about Jill's injuries, but instead asked about Bruce and Steve and others. He learned that the two were doing similar tasks with these two. Even the sage Myron was staring in all directions of the village, dealing with strange situations that could appear at any time, or sudden enemies.

Just as Louis was about to go and see the others, he noticed that there was a dog hanging out in front of him.

It seems that it is not a strange thing to see a dog wandering around in a village, but the situation in Redwood Village is quite special. Louis has never seen a creature like a dog here after he came to Redwood Village.

It is said that there were several dogs in Kuraki Village, which were raised by hunters in the village, but the thick fog appeared shortly after the thick fog appeared, and the dogs never came back because they were "swallowed" by the thick fog.

Where did this dog come from? After it eliminated the core, the thick fog spit out the swallowed dog again? But which hunter would raise a husky?

Looking at this guy's eyes and expressions, he can tell that the bloodline of this husky is quite pure.

"Where did this husky come from?"

Jill and Artoria also looked back at the same time. They had never noticed when the husky appeared. Anyway, they hadn't seen the dog yesterday.

"Did it run out of the thick fog?"

"This...is not impossible."

Jill and Artoria looked at each other, then stared at the husky with Louis. The husky was not afraid of them, so he stood there and looked at Louis and others.

"Can this thing be a powerful monster? It's disguised as if it was awesome?" Artoria suddenly burst out with an astonishing momentum, as if she would draw out a long sword in the next second to cut the husky in front of her into eighteen pieces, and then sprinkle peppers and other hidden weapons.

However, this Husky had no intention of being afraid at all, and he still looked at Louis and the others with contempt.

"What powerful monster would disguise itself as a husky?" Just as Louis was about to get closer, he even used the Force to judge whether this was a demon beast or a real husky?

Anyway, everything can be thrown out with thick fog, so it doesn't seem strange to throw out just a slut.

Before Louis raised his legs, the huhu suddenly turned his head, grinned and shook his tongue and ran away.

“…”

Louis looked at the direction of the Husky disappearing. The dog rushed into a place where the thick fog had not completely disappeared. I don’t know if it would be ‘swallowed’ by the thick fog, or would it go through the thick fog area and run directly to the wild?

Since he had run away, Louis ignored it and just looked at the direction of the thick fog. The large fog had disappeared, and only a small part of it condensed into a scattered ball and stayed there.

"The thick fog dissipates faster. At this speed, it won't take long to stay in this direction."

Artoria glanced at the farmland that had already appeared, and the smile on her face became stronger: "Louis, go back and say hello to Bruce first, Steve and the others! Jill also go back to deal with the injuries on her body, and just leave it to me here."

Jill nodded. After fighting together, she had a more intuitive understanding of how strong Artoria's combat power was? No matter what kind of monster emerged in the thick fog, Artoria killed her with one sword, and had never seen her swing the second sword against the same enemy.

She and Artoria were in the same direction. Rather than fighting side by side, she took the opportunity to hone her fighting skills under Artoria's care.

It turns out that her choice is very correct. If she runs to a certain direction and wants to deal with various enemies alone, she will be in a mess even if she is not in danger of life.

Walking side by side to the village, Louis noticed Myron standing on the bell tower and observing around.

Myron also saw Louis returning. He seemed very happy and quickly ran from the bell tower to Louis: "I knew that you would succeed."

"I didn't expect you to trust me so much."

Myron just smiled and did not explain why he trusted Louis so much. Maybe it was because his intuition told him that Louis was a unique brave man? Or maybe because Louis was the first brave man to be summoned after all, he was willing to give him more trust.

“Do you need a rest?”

"I have been resting there for half a year and there is no need to rest any longer. If something happens, just call me directly. I will help Jill deal with the injuries on his body first."

Myron nodded. He could see that Louis was in good condition now, and he felt that the energy fluctuations emitted from Louis were even stronger. It seemed that Louis not only solved the crisis of Redwood Village, but also achieved a huge improvement in his own strength.

"Those who say this can not only save Redwood Village, but also go to Hewan Fort..." Myron muttered softly and returned to the bell tower and observed the situation around Redwood Village from a high place.

Louis glanced at Myron's back and then reached out to Jill: "Do you need me to support you?"

"Did you see?" Jill was a little surprised. She thought she had concealed it well, but she didn't expect that she could still hide it from Louis.

"You walk in a bit abnormal, you can notice it with a little careful observation." Louis looked at Jill's ankle: "How did you hurt it?"

Jill's expression was a bit subtle. After the two of them returned to the wooden table that everyone often used to hold meetings, Jill gave the answer: "Because of the heel, I twisted it..."

"..." Louis thought about the possibility, but he had never thought about this situation. After a moment of silence, he finally gave a sentence: "It is necessary to strengthen exercise."

"Stop kidding, fighting in high heels... can this kind of thing be trained?" Just as Jill was crazily complaining about the shoes in the combat suit, Bruce, Steve, Peggy and Artoria came back one after another.

Louis looked at the people who came back one after another, and there were more or less traces of fighting on them, but except for Jill's ankle sprained by his shoes, he was basically injured.

"The thick fog has disappeared?"

"It has almost disappeared, and the things left have been cleaned up by us. There is only one thing we can't handle." Bruce paused: "It's because it's inaccurate, it looks like a mass of energy?"

Then Bruce described the shape and color of the thing in detail to Louis: "Do you know what this is?"

Louis was about to help Jill treat his lower ankle. He listened to the object described by Bruce, and became more familiar with it the more he heard it. Finally, he realized what Bruce was saying: "Isn't this a portal to the dark world?"
Chapter completed!