The Blue Leaf Forest was not that big of a forest, but it was important for two things. One, inside the forest, was a fruit called Blue Pearl Fruit that could be very well sold in the markets in the city itself. Two, blue birds themselves were creatures that could enlighten the moods of the humans around them with magical capabilities.

For the people who lived in other empires, these two things were important, and the empire itself created a good financial income from these two things.

At that time, when Fraus was still walking, he noticed that the way he was going through was pretty silent.

It could be said it was too quiet in the daytime.

Fraus took the handle of the sword he was holding and then waited. At that time, as he was not surprised, two creatures emerged from the ground.

Fraus looked at these two creatures and took a little breath. Two creatures emerged from the ground, called Ground Iron Rats. These creatures were the size of a normal dog and could dig tunnels in the ground before ambushing humans or animals with their claws and teeth.

These creatures did not have any kind of strong defense or anything, but as their names suggest, their teeth and claws are strong as iron and sharp like well-made iron knives.

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Fraus was not scared of them because he wanted to have some kind of experience. If he could not even deal with these two, then so be it.

At that time, he had already unsheathed his sword, and one of the Ground Iron Rats started to run toward him with the intent of attacking.

Fraus' thought from his mind.

"Just take a side-step and slash its body in the air as it lunges."

Fraus waited for one second and then the Ground Iron Rat lunged towards himself, and then he side-stepped towards the right at a fast speed and then slashed with his sword vertically.

As Fraus slashed, he managed to cut deeply into the rat, dropping it on the ground with a large grave injury. At the same time, the other ground iron rat became enraged by what he was doing and began running towards Fraus as well.

Fraus waited again, and then when the creature lunged towards him, he again side-stepped towards his right and slashed vertically.

This time it was a success too. He managed to deeply injure two ground-iron rats. He was going to walk without doing much more, he thought.

"These creatures are still meat, and it is their teeth and claws that are worth something."

With these thoughts, he killed both of the ground iron rats and then put them in his big backpack.

He did not have much space left in his backpack after putting the two creatures together. It could be said that it was full.

Fraus then took a deep breath again and smiled as he started walking again.

It was a little bit of a fight, but at least right now he has some kind of experience fighting a low-leveled creature.

If both of them attacked at the same time, it could have created some kind of trouble for themselves, but in the end, they only attacked one by one, and it did not create any trouble for themselves.