Morning.
Kana crawled out of his tent.
He stretched lazily in the morning breeze.
It must be said that camping in the wild is far worse than resting in a small town.
But compared to the initial journey when he just crossed over and had to flee all the way here, it was much better.
The camp was already bustling.
The dozens of laborers recruited had been assigned to start cutting down trees around.
Suitable trees were used to build large rafts, while unsuitable scraps were used to enclose the camp and erect two watchtowers.
Kana looked at his fully recovered magic power.
Eagerly, he took out the alchemy shield from his space waist bag.
He looked at the small round shield in his hand and directly datafied it.
Magic power surged from his body, covering the round shield following the palm of his hand.
"Hmm, the consumption doubled?"
Kana felt that the consumption of his magic power was twice as much as before when datafying.
Based on his previous guesses, he could basically confirm that the alchemy round shield in his hand was a piece of equipment above ordinary level.
After datafication was complete, he only had a pitiful two points of magic power left.
However, the magic power concentration was relatively high here, and it should be fully recovered tomorrow if he didn't use any magic power today.
He turned his attention back to the shield.
[Transformable Alchemy Shield]
[Silver Shield—Shield—Magic]
[Attributes: Tough, Lightweight, Anti-Magic]
[Special Effect: Transformation, Vibration Rebound.]
[Transformation: Infuses magic power, and the shield's shape can change at will.]
[Vibration Rebound: Infuses magic power, able to vibrate and rebound an incoming attack. The higher the attack strength, the more magic power required; there is a limit.]
[Evaluation: Ancient alchemy product, although quite good, it's still an antique. More valuable as a collection than on the battlefield.]
Kana automatically ignored the evaluation; what he needed was practicality.
And as he expected, this piece of equipment was indeed a magic equipment, one level higher than ordinary equipment.
It directly caused his magic power during datafication to double.
Kana clasped the shield on his left hand, and the structure below the shield instantly retracted, securely fastening onto his hand.
He controlled his magic power and infused it into the shield.
The surface of the shield immediately changed, transforming from a round shield into a diamond shield, and finally becoming elongated, covering the entire arm.
Kana was very satisfied, not to underestimate this transformation.
In games, there were also such pieces of equipment, which were of course much better than the antiquity in Kana's hand.
But essentially there was no difference.
Following his will, a sharp spike extended from the back of Kana's hand.
It could even temporarily serve as a weapon.
Of course, what truly was used was the second skill, which players often used and were very familiar with—parry reflect.
Moreover, it was a vibration parry reflect; as the enemy's weapon struck, magic power was infused, and with suitable parry techniques, it could even disarm the enemy by vibrationally dislodging their weapon from their hands.
And this shield had an additional function, which was the extra entry in its attributes section.
Anti-Magic, the metal used in its construction had some anti-magic effect, effectively defending against some low-level elemental magic.
Anyway, this shield could definitely be considered an upper-medium existence within the same level, very practical.
Kana originally wanted to continue to spend magic power to datafy the spherical puppet, but it seemed impossible for today.
He looked up.
He saw Alyris and Bobo not far away.
Bobo seemed to be studying the surrounding vegetation, occasionally chatting with Alyris.
Seeing this, Kana did not disturb them and took the experimental manual out of his space waist bag, reading it while he began training around the camp.
He still needed 30 experience points to reach level three, and with a bit of effort, he should be able to break through today or tomorrow.
At that time, he could directly increase his attribute value by five points, which would be extremely satisfying.
By the way, learning the experimental manual would allow him to acquire a new skill, otherwise, it would be awkward if he datafied the spherical puppet but couldn't control it.
The surrounding soldiers and townspeople glanced at the prince's eccentric behavior, chatted a bit strangely, but then paid no attention.
...
In the afternoon, Kana was by the riverside, conducting a simple wash to rid himself of the sweat from his intense training.
Alyris and George walked over quickly.
"What's wrong?" Kana stood up and shook the water droplets off his hands.
George hurriedly said, "There's something spying on the camp."
Upon hearing this, Kana frowned, "What creature?"
To his surprise, George shook his head, "We found its traces, saw a vague silhouette from afar but didn't see what kind of creature it was specifically.
It might be some kind of animal."
George, eager to learn, knew through yesterday's communication that this area might be different from the forest he often hunted in.
According to that big white mouse, this place is much more dangerous, and there are many strange creatures.
If it had been before, George would have assumed it was some animal, but now, having seen ratmen and the like, he couldn't be sure.
"Has Bobo been to check?"
Compared to their insight, Bobo, who had traveled extensively, would know more.
Alyris next to him spoke, "Bobo has already gone to check."
Kana nodded, stood up, and had the two take him there.
When they entered the woods, they hadn't walked far when they saw several soldiers and Bobo returning.
Seeing Bobo frowning, Kana asked, "Any discoveries?"
Bobo looked up at Kana, nodded, "Yes, we've basically determined that it's definitely not an ordinary animal, and probably not some magical beast either.
Although the magic power here has been somewhat restored, this place is still a bit too barren for those magical beasts.
It might be some sort of evil creature from the forest."
"Evil creature?" Kana frowned.
This category was too broad.
A vast majority of dangerous creatures in the wild could be included in this category.
For instance, Kobolds, goblins, forest spirits, harpies...etc.
Most of these were regulars in the fantasy world.
Due to the influence of the Stone of Creation in this world, there was all sorts of bizarre stuff.
"The range is too broad."
Bobo also knew this, narrowing the scope a bit: "We can ascertain it's some sort of short, bipedal creature about Bobo's height.
Definitely heavier than a rat; they said they saw glowing green eyes, apparently camouflaged with leaves."
Hearing the intelligence Bobo summarized, Kana frowned in thought and had a general range in mind.
Combined with this area and his knowledge of it,
he could basically confirm it.
"If nothing unexpected happens, it should be goblins."
"Goblins?" Bobo was somewhat puzzled.
Those around showed curiosity; they hadn't heard such a term before.
"You don't know?" Kana was a bit puzzled; Bobo couldn't possibly not know such things.
"I know them, but haven't seen many. Also, they shouldn't have green eyes, right?" Bobo expressed his doubt.
Only then did Kana remember that Bobo was not a native of this continent, having just arrived here.
While goblins are distributed across every continent, they primarily inhabit the land beneath their feet.
They are the kind of wild monsters one might often encounter in the wilderness of this continent.
One of the characteristics of the goblins on this continent is their green eyes.