After leaving Rikarisu Town, the road ahead was one leading into barren wilderness.
During this journey, they would pass through a forest composed entirely of dead trees.
Not only was this forest eerie, but it was also home to lurking magic beasts such as zombie magic trees.
However, according to Roxy's description, they might also encounter attacks from snake-type magic beasts and Pax coyotes.
But for Dan Feng and Roxy as they were now, the threat posed by these magic beasts was utterly negligible—like ants.
After all, their current strength was on a completely different level from before.
Their destination was the Migurd village located at the northernmost point of the Demon Continent, and the direction they were currently walking was precisely the road leading to that village.
"Roxy, are we really going to walk all the way there like this?" Dan Feng asked Roxy somewhat puzzled.
Originally, he had planned to fly directly to the Migurd village, since the distance from Rikarisu Town wasn't actually that far.
But Roxy had insisted on traveling on foot, which left Dan Feng somewhat confused.
Roxy did not immediately answer Dan Feng's question. She continued walking forward with firm steps.
After a while, she slowly began to speak: "Dan Feng, do you know? I was only fourteen when I became an adventurer—and that was one year after Teacher Bloody Kant left."
Her voice was calm as she recalled that distant past.
Dan Feng listened quietly. He could sense that Roxy carried a story in her heart that few people knew.
"My goal back then was Rikarisu Town. Because I could become an adventurer there, after leaving the Migurd village I headed straight in this direction."
"At that time, I only knew intermediate attack magic, but it was more than enough to deal with ordinary magic beasts."
"After walking for several days, I was almost at Rikarisu Town when I encountered a pack of magic beasts—Pax coyotes."
"Unlike usual, this time the Pax coyotes were personally led by the wolf king. With my strength back then, I wasn't capable of handling such a large pack. Fortunately, Rikarisu Town wasn't far away, and some adventurers who had taken the wolf king subjugation request arrived. That's how I was saved."
Roxy slowly recounted her experiences from when she first set out, as if reminiscing about her past good fortune.
Perhaps it was a special favor and compensation from the heavens for her innate shortcomings—this kind of luck seemed to have become a constant in Roxy's life.
Whether it was the unexpected encounter with the Pax coyotes, meeting Drew and the others when she had no money, or her chance meeting with Dan Feng in Millishion—every experience felt like a clever arrangement of fate, allowing her to escape danger time and again.
However, among all these fortunate moments, the most crucial one was undoubtedly the time she was saved by Dan Feng in the labyrinth.
That was not only a life-saving rescue but also a major turning point in her life's trajectory.
From that moment on, her fate became tightly intertwined with Dan Feng's—the moment they became lovers.
"So right now you're reminiscing about the path you walked back then, right?" Dan Feng listened quietly to everything Roxy recounted, a surge of admiration rising in his heart for her past experiences.
He couldn't imagine how one person could be accompanied by luck so frequently—even during the days she spent with him, she had repeatedly turned danger into safety.
"No, silly. It's so I can walk the path I took at the very beginning—together with Dan Feng," Roxy corrected with a smile. Her water-blue gaze was extremely gentle.
Without another word, she unhesitatingly took Dan Feng's hand—this had already become the most natural gesture between them.
Then she pulled Dan Feng along as they continued toward the Migurd village.
After all, it would still take several days to reach the Migurd village. Traveling while chatting wouldn't delay their journey—in fact, it would make the trip far more enjoyable.
...
Over these past few days, Dan Feng had thoroughly experienced the exact path Roxy had walked as a child. At night, as usual, they stayed in earthen forts.
When hungry, they ate the Great King Land Turtle meat they had bought in Rikarisu Town.
This made Dan Feng furrow his brows tightly as he inwardly wondered what this Great King Land Turtle meat would taste like.
When he took a bite, he instantly froze.
Sure enough, just as the rumors said, the taste of Great King Land Turtle meat was truly hard to compliment. Not only was the texture coarse and tough, nearly impossible to chew, but it also carried a strange off-flavor that made it difficult to swallow.
If it weren't for the fact that Rikarisu Town lacked proper travel rations and other food, Dan Feng absolutely would not have bought this meat.
Even so, he forced himself to eat it—after all, it was still better than going hungry.
What surprised Dan Feng, however, was that Roxy showed no sign of discomfort whatsoever while eating this Great King Land Turtle meat.
She seemed completely accustomed to this awful food—even completely immune to it.
It turned out that because Roxy had eaten Great King Land Turtle meat since childhood, she had long since adapted to the taste.
For the Migurd race, Great King Land Turtle meat was their only source of meat, so Roxy felt no particular aversion to it.
In fact, Roxy had already anticipated that Dan Feng definitely wouldn't be able to stomach Great King Land Turtle meat. She had originally wanted to see his awkward expression, but the result left her somewhat disappointed.
Throughout the entire meal, aside from furrowing his brows slightly at the first bite, Dan Feng showed no other particular reaction.
Roxy couldn't help feeling a little dejected. She rarely saw Dan Feng display that kind of embarrassed look—usually, Dan Feng handled all kinds of situations with silence.
And so, Dan Feng and Roxy soon arrived near the Migurd village.
From a distance, it was just a few dozen houses clustered together, surrounded by a simple fence on the perimeter—it looked more like a small tribe.
From here, they could clearly see that one side of the fence bordered a field where something seemed to be planted.
"Can anything even be grown on the Demon Continent?" Dan Feng asked afterward. Although this world had mana, on the Demon Continent where even water sources were extremely scarce, planting anything seemed fundamentally impossible, right?
"What's planted there is a type of plant that fills the stomach but tastes bad. There are also flowers in there to repel birds," Roxy explained to Dan Feng after seeing his confusion.
In those fields, Migurd tribespeople with roughly the same height and hair color as Roxy were working.
But Dan Feng noticed that at the entrance of the Migurd village right now stood a figure they had only recently encountered—the Superd who had single-handedly faced off against the entire adventurer population of Rikarisu Town!