Without hesitation, he swung his sword, causing Glori to tear out a trace of the waning moon with the magic inherited by Lord Bud. Under the fierce push of the flames, Glori directly caused the dozen or so puppets that came up to fly down the steep slope.

Leave the southwest side of Soaring Cliff, head northwest and then straight west. Passing through a dense field of pine and cypress, Glori, with the help of Adonis, found traces of the Knights of Merit's evacuation.

Several blood-bladed sword marks were carved into trees a few steps along the way. When Glori saw the sign, he knew it was Susan. If it weren't for Susan, how could she have left the same mark on several trees one after another.

Susan, so that Glori could easily find the location of the Knights' evacuation.

Glori smiled subconsciously.

"Our team has done a good job of guiding us on the road. ”

It's just that the situation is not too good. Along the way, there were still knights who were left in the yellowed conifers because of the fight, a few were members of the Knights of Merit, and a few were members of the Snow King Knights.

Out of his heart, Glori didn't intend to let the spirits of those knights wander the jungle at the end of winter. After a pause, he silently offered a blessing to the fallen knights. Although they didn't spend much time together, Glori remembered every face in the team.

The young knight who fell in front of Glori, with a white silk scarf tied around his hand.

Glori heard that the silk scarf was a gift from a rich girl. Before the knight could become a member of the Order, the girl was married to him.

Some people have tried to persuade him, but no one can stop a young man with ambitions, especially if he is a knight of the Meritorious Order. Loyalty, glory, of course, are things that should be said. But how many people can do it for the sake of the goal, like the young knight in front of him, at any cost?

After offering the blessing, Glori re-fastened the young knight's silk scarf with a new button.

Glori hoped that if one day he was lucky, he would tell the bard who loved to run around about the bravery of the young knight in front of him, and if he could, perhaps tell a beautiful and tearful story to the young knight's hometown.

Perhaps, it will bring some comfort, right?

"The dead are gone, why should they endure the wind and dust?"

Taking off his cloak to shield those who remained, Glori thought about what was next.

In order not to increase the casualties in vain, and in order not to cause trouble to the team, Glori could only let the four Snow King Knights members who had been rescued go. While searching for the Bloody Blade Sword emblem engraved on the tree, and feeling the direction of the magic fluctuations, Glori and Adonis, as well as the two members of the Knights of Merit, walked quickly, sometimes slowly.

Without a horse, Glori understands that wanting to leave Edge Mountain is an exhausting affair. In order to avoid detours, he led his team to climb several rock piles and also crossed several gravel ditches.

The scenery along the way, of course, is good. The snow has long since disappeared from the treetops, the woods are lush, and there are even rushing streams.

Unfortunately, no one is in the mood to enjoy the scenery. If too much time passes, then those puppets trapped in the funnel will crawl out. Others, including Glori, knew that it would be unwise to face those troublesome Light Knight puppets when it was dark.

Perhaps, it was too much concentration and no one felt wrong.

Gradually, the woods began to become dark, and the sound of stones colliding with each other could be heard from time to time. At that time, Glori had tried it with Starlight Dust, and nothing strange had appeared. Even, there was no trace of any tree spirit in Glori, not even the little ghost who likes to haunt the night.

Where have all the creatures here?

There are no hares burrowing out of the woods and hiding, and no wild boars attacking for territory. Even the owl is silent. Moreover, the time is getting longer and longer, as if something is pulling, and it is not released until it can no longer be pulled.

Whether it was the creaking sound that followed or the inexplicable fog, there was a hint of weirdness that made Glori and Adonis more and more cautious.

"What's wrong with this place?"

The young knight, who was accustomed to tilting his head and talking because of the injury on the right side of his neck, asked Glori. Just as he looked, a fog thicker than smoke and dust bubbled out of a crack in the stone like a spring. He knew that there were only two stones as large as a table clinging to them, and he tried to swing his sword to see if there was something behind them.

The rock didn't crumble, but the fog gushed out.

Suddenly, the sky was dark.

"Look, what did I find!"

When Adonis lost his words, he drew his sword.

Turning south and following Adonis' gaze, Glori also found what Adonis saw. It was the same place that the knight had probed with his sword wave just now, and a shriveled hand stained with dirt poked out of the fog.

Then Glori saw his other hand push a rock away. It's a rock the size of a table! What's going on?

The first reaction was to draw the sword. Glori clutched his sword and hid behind a tree like the other knights. To confirm his target, Glori leaned sideways and took a closer look. Beauty Nest

The crevice who had crawled out of the crack in the stones, except for the red glow of his eyes, was wearing a robe with strips of cloth on it, and his body was as thin as a pole, and his tattered clothes were like a mop head. Moreover, the dirt on his body has not yet dried. Just on the left chest, it turned out to be the winged white eagle emblem.

"It was a gold-encrusted ......"

Adonis only had his right eye, but he could see better than Glori. Moreover, the winged white eagle emblem was also stained with wet soil. In the absence of light, without the dazzling glitter of gold, Adonis could still discern the general outline.

"I read that right, it's a white eagle with wings spread. In the past, there were wars in this place. Judging by the appearance, it should be the old bones of the Moon God Kingdom. ”

"Are we in trouble?" asked Adonis, a middle-aged knight with a shaved beard.

"It depends on how capable the old fellow is. Adonis replied.

To put it mildly, after leaving the shelter of the pine tree, Adonis was hit by a pitch-black ball of flame magic. Thankfully, Adonis was quick to respond.

The orb grazed Adonis's left shoulder and headed for the tree to the north. There was no rumbling, only the shadows of the trees leaning in.

"He can, knock down a tree......"

"So, that's a bit of a capability?"

Adonis was originally quite concerned about whether a guy with a thousand-year-old immortal body drilled out of the ground should have some ability. Now, he's disappointed. Shrugging his shoulders and moving a little east, he let the tall pine tree fall from behind on the side of his right foot.

In the next second, Adonis's eyes widened.

"Tree, alive!"

Adonis looked at the swaying and curled branches, and almost thought that the pine tree in front of him was transformed from vines. However, the branches of the pine tree were so pliable that they bound Adonis.

With two tugs of his left hand, Adonis found that he could not compete with the arm-thick branches. Seeing that he was getting higher and higher off the ground, Adonis shook his right arm to keep himself out of the embarrassment of his right hand against the right side of his crotch. Unfortunately, there was only one result, and the more he struggled, the tighter he was bound.

"Adonis!

Glori was going to send a few sword waves, but after starting up, he realized that it was too late. He watched as the pine tree stood tall in front of him, the height of a three-story building. And Adonis, right at the top.

The ground was full of rocks, and if Adonis fell from such a height, how could he not be injured? In a worse situation, Adonis was unable to walk, so he had to take turns walking on his back.

Slowing down the speed of leaving Noah's jungle is creating more opportunities for the enemy. Glori, don't want to be in trouble.

“...... Distract the puppet first!"

Glori gestured to the young meritorious knight. Because he knew that if he wanted to make the pine spirit more honest, except for Adonis who had a way, it was himself.

While staring at Adonis and paying attention to the slapping from the sky, Glori dodged left and right. When one tree is knocked down, he hides in the next. Although the damage to the dryads with the help of the woods was not great, Glori managed to find a way to get Adonis to land safely.

The fallen trees, stacked on top of each other, were in the center. If Adonis falls, at least not directly on the rocks. If he was lucky, Adonis would have grabbed the slanted pine branch and could have avoided a contusion.

But what if Adonis was thrown out by the dryads?

Apparently, Glori knew that Adonis wasn't stupid. Adonis' left hand was idle, and the only thing he could do was to grasp the dryad's branches to prevent himself from being thrown out.

"Quick, stop this dryad! He's shaking so hard that I'm going to throw up!"

Adonis couldn't take it anymore. Either the head is shaken by the tree spirit, or it descends and rises with the branches. Coupled with the squeeze of the armor, Adonis wanted to squirt out the berries he had eaten on the road along with the nectar he had drunk. However, the people below are all their own, and there are no such people who have plagued the kingdom of Alex.

Puffing out his cheeks and forcibly swallowing again, Adonis burped. Then, disappointed again, he found that the branches that bound him were falling intermittently, as if the dryads were no longer moving. If you endure it, you may be able to wait until the moment you hit the ground and spit it out......

Because of the loosening of the branches, Adonis was freed. Climbing down from the stacked pine trees, and seeing the black mist that had been dispersed with dark magic fluctuations, he couldn't help but complain - it turned out that this pine tree spirit had attacked people because of the influence of dark magic.

"Commander, I said, next time, solve this kind of tree spirit ...... early"

"But, the regimental commander...... What about the old bones of the Luna Kingdom?"

"Over there......"

Glory pointed to the south side away from the pine pile, next to the two table-sized rocks.