"Fourth-order powerhouse, run" a masked man was the first to react and shouted.

"Want to run?" Tribess gathered her magic, and the vines wrapped around the ankles of several masked men, preventing them from escaping. She wasn't a murderer, but she just didn't want to let these humans go unharmed at this time.

She didn't look back at the Ayton scene at this time, yesterday Her Royal Highness the Princess told her that Ayton was very strong, and in her cognition, the person who could save people from the hands of the dark elves was definitely very strong, so she still had a lot of confidence in him.

"Big Brother Ayton, help me... Ahh But she saw the headless corpse lying on the ground first, and her miserable appearance made her exclaim, she had never seen a forest spirit who was really fighting cruelly, and it was difficult to adapt to this kind of scene.

A masked man saw the moment and shot an arrow at Tribith's chest, as long as the mage was wounded, then the brothers scattered and fled, and Ayton would never be able to catch up with them.

"Be careful" Ayton didn't have time to think about it, and quickly condensed a black shield to block the arrow for Tribis. Trebis was so frightened that she sat down on the ground with a snap, and the entangled magic was released, and the remaining masked men turned and ran away.

"Tribis, are you alright?" asked Illuria as she quickly grabbed Tribis, worried.

"I... I'm fine," Tribes said after taking two breaths, and then she felt her back soaking wet, this was her first time fighting, so she was inevitably a little nervous, and she was in danger of her life twice, but fortunately Ayton helped her avoid it.

"It's okay, let's let them go," Ayton said, and walked over to the horses that tripped over Tribiss at the beginning, only to find that six of the original eight horses had tripped over their legs, and only the remaining two were in better condition: "Someone is coming soon, let's go, you... Can you ride a horse?"

"We've ridden chocobos in the Flower Forest, and the principle should be similar to this," Illuria replied, as Trebis seemed to be a bit consumed by the battle.

"Very good" Ayton took the horses, which had been raised by humans for a long time and were very obedient. Previously, when Ayton, Ariel, Elully, and Blue Coco traveled from Black Rock City to Luoxia Town, they all rode in a carriage, during which they also taught themselves horseback riding skills, although the skills were not very good, but they were better than running on two feet.

"You... Did you use dark magic?" Tribess said with a complicated look at Ayton.

"Yes" Ayton said simply, he had thought about it before, if he found out about the battle, if he and Ariel's dark magic was not exposed, his strength would be greatly reduced, and it was better to expose it to them as soon as possible. Moreover, although dark magic is not popular in the Dawning Continent, there is no such order to hunt down a dark magician once it is discovered, unless that magician has committed a particularly serious crime.

"You... Why dark magic" Tribiss looked at Ayton in disbelief, she couldn't believe that such a good person could be involved with depraved dark magic.

"Tribis, don't ask," Illuria reminded softly, knowing that many of Ayton's secrets should not be exposed, otherwise they would lead to death, and the magic she had just cast was to protect Trinity.

"Oh yes, I'm sorry, Big Brother Ayton" Tribiss reacted and apologized to Ayton, no matter what dark magic he had, he was a good guy anyway.

Ayton waved his hand and said, "It's okay, let's go quickly, we delayed a lot of time just now, and we may have distanced ourselves a lot from them."

They agreed to go to the foot of the Asahi Mountains in three ways, with no more than two kilometers between the two groups, so that they could support each other.

......

At the same time, Ravel and Glick on the other side were not surprised.

"Ravel, why do you help the forest elves, I've heard that the forest elves don't like half-elf humans very much, well... That's what they call you," and seeing that the atmosphere was a little dull, Glick took the initiative to chat with him and liven up the atmosphere.

"This—" Ravel hesitated slightly.

"Haha, it's okay if you don't want to say it" Glick patted Ravel on the shoulder, indicating that it was okay.

Ravel was silent for a while, but still spoke: "When I was a child, my mother took me to live on the outskirts of the Flower Language Forest for a while, and that place was beautiful."

"Hmm, so you want to get the power to inhabit the Flower Forest," Gorrik asked.

“... No, I don't know why, maybe it's because my mother is a forest elf."

"Oh, I see" Grek instantly understood that half-elves were rarely the product of a human's love affair with a forest elf.

Ravel is a bard who seems romantic, but in fact he has no fixed place to live, no regular friends, and all stories are told by hearsay, and then chanted in another place.

He lived in the Flower Language Forest when he was a child, and he would inevitably receive all kinds of white eyes from the orthodox elves, so he wanted to tell some self-righteous forest elves in this way that he was different from the so-called greedy human nobles in the Land of Thorns, they caught elves, and he would help them.

"By the way, Glick, what do you think about this grouping?" Ravel asked, having been thinking about it all the time.

"Grouping?" Greek frowned, "Do you think this dispersal is unwise?"

Ravel nodded, this time the group said that it could distract each other, but they didn't figure out the real goal of the other party, was it really the forest elf girl Cuibis? And wouldn't they be broken by others one by one when they separated this time, even if there was a signal flare, but the rendezvous would definitely take several minutes, and these times were enough for people on horseback to run back and forth.

"You're right, there's something wrong with that," Gorrik said suddenly, "I first proposed to split up, but what I thought was to split into two groups and go out of the city gate, and then meet a short distance outside the city and go to the Asahi Mountains together, but now they are divided into three groups and meet at the foot of the Asahi Mountains."

"And what do you think?" Ravel frowned, it was indeed Ayton who insisted on three groups yesterday.

Speaking of this, Gorrik smiled wryly, "I feel that they, especially the young man named Ayton, still don't trust us very much, and deliberately split us, and it was the same in the underground auction before"

"What? Why... Will they?" Ravel felt a sudden tingle in his heart, he regarded them as friends, but they couldn't trust him. "No, we fought together in the Pingxi Mountains and helped them, he should just be on the safe side, and didn't he give us signal flares?"

Glick patted the flare on his waist and sighed: "But if you think about it, isn't this kind of action too risky, especially since the two groups are still two kilometers apart, and said that in order to avoid the goal being too obvious, it is impossible for him to ignore this point with his wisdom"

Ravel suddenly felt that what he said made sense, and said gloomily: "Is it because I escaped from the battle against the necromancer before?"

Originally, he said that he would help the forest elf, but when he faced the seventh-order necromancer, he abandoned them and fled for his life alone. Although Ayton didn't say anything about it, he couldn't forgive himself in his heart, and he wanted to find a chance to prove himself, but they didn't give him a chance.

"I don't think so," Glick said in a deep voice, patting him on the shoulder.

"What?" Ravel looked into Glick's eyes, waiting for him to continue.

"Do you remember the mercenary who died on the ground when we first met them?"

Ravel nodded, not knowing what he wanted to say.

"The mercenary had just died, and although the fatal wound on his body was caused by the undead dragon, there was also a wound on his foot, a kind of piercing magic!" Grek concluded, "They don't have any explanation for it."

"What do you mean?" Ravel's eyes were solemn, as if he had difficulty taking in Glick's next words.

Gorrik took a deep breath and said, "You should know that undead creatures love the breath of blood the most"

Speaking of which, Ravelna still doesn't know what he wants to express, magicians are very rare, there are few mercenary groups in the Land of Thorns that have magicians, and piercing magic happens to be what the blue-clothed magician girl is best at, they... He actually designed to kill an innocent mercenary and used it as a bait to attract the undead dragon.

"No, they wouldn't do such a thing" Ravel suddenly thought of the simple Blue Coco and the kind-hearted Ilully, neither of which could connect them to cold-blooded ruthlessness.

"Of course the little girls won't, I mean the boy named Ayton," Glick mused, "I could tell from his eyes when I was in the Falling Mountains, that although he was kind on the surface, he was wary of anyone who made a living, and that the man named Ariel, who seemed to have only her brother in her eyes, and that the rest of the people had nothing to do with her."

"This..."Ravel wanted to refute something, but when he thought of the group of mercenaries he had just encountered when he entered the Pingxi Mountains before, the two of them had slaughtered almost the entire mercenary group, and there didn't seem to be the slightest discomfort on his face, and the woman named Ariel even had a bit of pleasure after killing. The two of them are less than eighteen years old, but they can treat killing people as such a mundane thing, and people who disregard life so much, can't they be called cold-blooded, and can't do the thing of killing an innocent mercenary for their own interests?

Ravel calmed himself down and tried to calm his voice, "Then why did they help the forest elves, and they trusted the two of them"

"Haha, you've only known them for a few days, how can they trust you, let alone me, so we're far away from them, but not necessarily between their two groups. Glick said of course: "And there are only three men in our group, Ayton must not be worried that any beautiful girl will be protected by our two 'strangers', in case we have bad intentions, or betray them, and tie up a girl and hand it over to the marquis, then he will not regret that his intestines are blue."

"How could I have done such a thing!" Ravel said angrily, feeling that he was insulting himself.

"Nothing is impossible, my friend, you don't think you will be naïve, he won't be so naïve" Greek laughed, referring to Ayton in particular: "Brothers who have had a long-term fighting friendship will fight to the death over an epic weapon, and you and they have only known each other for a few days"

“...... So what are we going to do" Ravel felt a breath in his stomach and had nowhere to vent.

Gorrik didn't pay much attention to it, he was just alone for too long, and wanted to help Ravel, a half-elf: "Let's do our own thing first, if they send a signal, we rush over as soon as possible, maybe they will gradually trust us, maybe when we get to the Flower Language Forest, we can become friends in the real sense"