The golden carats were more convincing than anything, and the mercenaries immediately took their own pay, leaving hundreds of gold carats in their pockets. Most of them looked at the gold carats with greedy expressions, and only a few had unusually gloomy eyes.

Catherine put away her smile and said solemnly: "The remaining gold coins belong to the seriously injured companion and the family members of the dead little John and Elwin, they are all qualified mercenaries and worthy of our respect. ”

Her words made everyone realize that the next task could be very difficult, and the atmosphere was unusually solemn.

Catherine glanced at the crowd and said, "Everyone knows that the next mission will be a gamble, and we will either escape safely or be hunted down. I can't guarantee that you will arrive in Port Lear safely, but I can guarantee that as long as I, Catherine, live, you or your families will be duly rewarded, whether you are seriously injured or killed!"

Her words seemed to have a kind of magic, and the eyes of many mercenaries were originally flickering, but after listening to her words, they gradually became firm.

Since you have chosen a mercenary, you are ready to die.

At this time, even the two deputy captains, Cruise and Old Thorn, who had been secretly fighting with Catherine, had to admire her leadership and charm.

Lear looked at Catherine quietly and smiled knowingly, he felt that Catherine was the most beautiful at this time.

However, when his afterglow swept over Cruise, the smile on his face disappeared and was replaced by a sneer that no one could detect.

Catherine pulls out a simple map and begins to announce a battle plan, or escape plan.

Ten minutes later, the Firelight Mercenary Group and the Black Eagle Mercenary Group fled to the southwest and southeast respectively, and then the Mountain Rock Mercenary Group split up fifty people and fled due south. The camp was brightly lit, and the rest of the men were defending with all their might, and it looked like they were broken off.

At this point, the whole team was divided into four parts, and except for a few people, no one knew which team Miss Audrena was in.

The Firelight Mercenary Regiment left the wagon and the seriously wounded members in the camp, and most of the thirty-eight people and Grear fled lightly with only two days' worth of rations, and only a few of them carried packages, which seemed to be more precious things.

In the direction of their escape was a small town called Dieter, and if all went well, they could reach it at noon today.

As they fled the camp, the eastern sky was white.

Lear and the Flare Mercenary Group enter the woods, which are not as dense as the rainforest, but are full of obstacles and the team's speed is never increased.

Not only do they have to guard against their pursuers, but they also have to guard against the monsters in the forest. Luckily, however, they only encountered a few beasts along the way, and did not encounter difficult and powerful beasts.

Some experienced mercenaries looked up at the sky from time to time, and after leaving the camp for nearly an hour, Cruise suddenly pointed to a black spot in the sky and said, "We have been discovered!"

Lear looked up and immediately saw that it was a black feathered eagle, a falcon used for reconnaissance in the Starry Sky Continent.

Catherine looked at it for a moment, and said, "This black-feathered eagle seems to have something on its talons, and if I'm not mistaken, it should be a magical tool that can see us clearly." Next, we slowed down our march and maintained our strength. If they don't chase and kill, we can use the same speed, and if they chase and kill, we can conserve our stamina. ”

Catherine's eyes flashed with a strange light, and then she added: "We don't have swordsmen, and in case they send powerful swordsmen, the faster we run, the closer we are to death." ”

The difference between a warrior and a swordsman is very big, an ordinary junior swordsman can face five high-level fighters without falling behind, and if you want to kill a junior swordsman, it is difficult to do it without fourteen or fifteen high-level warriors with tacit understanding.

They slowed their flight, and after nearly an hour, they were overtaken by the enemy who were rushing in full force.

Sensing the enemy's approach, Catherine and the others immediately stopped, turned around, and formed a defensive formation on the spot. There were five men in the team armed with bows and arrows, which had been given to them by Lord Pine.

Lord Pyne gave them not only bows and arrows, but also a berserk potion for each of the three captains—the potions master had made them to bring out the warrior's potential, but the potion was weakened when its effects wore off. However, this elixir is only useful for warriors, and strong people at the swordsman level can only make their spirits slightly excited after using it, without any negative effects.

Catherine cheered up the team: "We are very lucky, we have not encountered a Warcraft so far, I believe our good luck will continue!"

Old Thorn smiled and said, "When you arrive at Dieter City, I invite everyone to eat barbecue!"

Cruise said: "Everyone has broken through from the sword of the bandits, as long as they resist this pursuit and escape, everyone will have money and vacation!"

At that moment, a bright light suddenly appeared in the sky above the direction of the camp, and they looked through the woods as if a huge fireball was falling from the sky. Then the fireball exploded, and they could hear it from so far away.

Everyone changed color in unison.

A young mercenary asked with a blank face, "Such a powerful magic is at least the work of a high-level magician." ”

"Perhaps, but it has nothing to do with us. Catherine said casually.

She was even more anxious, the strength of the enemy she encountered this time was completely beyond her imagination.

After a while, there was a messy sound in front of them, followed by more than seventy people approaching.

Half of these men were dressed in very formal equipment, weapons and clothing were uniform, all of them were strong and well-bodied, and they were either the private soldiers of the nobility or the regular army of the Empire, and the ordinary garrison was far less powerful than they seemed. The other half is much worse, both in terms of equipment and physical fitness, it is obvious that they are bandits.

Looking at the crowd of black pressure on the opposite side, the people of the Firelight Mercenary Group were extremely nervous, they thought that the chasing soldiers were just ordinary thieves, but they never expected it to be so powerful.

The pursuers stopped twenty meters away from the Firelight Mercenary Regiment, and instead of attacking immediately, they formed an arc array, as if waiting for something.

Catherine took off her hat and shouted, "We are the Flame Mercenary Regiment, we don't have the people you want, you don't have to fight with us." What's more, that noble lady has dozens of swordsmen under her command, and your main team may not be able to win. We don't think we've seen each other, how about you go back to help your main team?"

Several of the leader-looking men in the pursuers discussed in low voices, and then one of them shouted, "Let's think about it, and we'll give you an answer in ten minutes." ”

There were so many people in the pursuers who didn't attack, obviously they wanted to rest, after all, they ran at high speed for nearly an hour, and the physical strength consumed was far greater than that of the people in the Firelight Mercenary Group. Unless it is a swordsman, even the high-level fighters are not affected a lot, and those junior fighters are gasping for breath, and their strength is at most half.

The people of the Flamelight Mercenary Group are very experienced, and they judge that if the other party really has a swordsman, there is no need to stop and rest. The three heads of the regiment glanced at each other and nodded in unison.