Chapter 4: Wolves

About half a magic hour after Hathaway's departure, a sturdy figure appeared next to the corpse, one of several Church of Nature knights who were chasing Earl.

He looked around vigilantly, and when he saw Earl's shriveled corpse, his expression was stunned, and then a look of vigilance and anger appeared on his face, and he drew his sword to guard as he signaled...... A moment later, the knight leader and several other knights arrived.

After seeing Earl's body, the knight leader's face showed a look of pity, but he disappeared immediately, motioned for a knight to search his body, and then asked the knight who arrived first, "What did you find?" ”

"It seems that there were people resting here just now, and the number should not be much, but the scene has been destroyed, and there is no way to know more details about the road." The knight replied.

"Judging by the direction in which the traitor fled, even if someone answered, it shouldn't be in this position, and this canyon,"

The knight leader looked up and shook his head: "It can't be that you chose to answer here. ”

"My lord, Earl's belongings have been stolen." The knight who searched his body reported.

The knight leader's face immediately became gloomy, he looked at the terrain of the canyon, and said in a deep voice: "Earl has something on him that we must find, immediately split up to find it, that person can't escape too far!" ”

"My lord, what the hell did Earl steal?" A knight asked.

"That's not what you're supposed to ask!" A glint flashed in the knight leader's eyes.

"Yes, sir!" The interrogating knight was in a pang and immediately investigated separately with his companions.

After a while, a knight came back to report that he had found signs of a hasty departure at one end of the ravine, and the chief of the knights, with a gloomy face, ordered a message to be sent to the church, and led the men to chase him down.

At the moment, Hathaway was still walking quickly in the jungle, and when she took out the old gold watch left by her grandfather for the third time, she found that three hours had passed...... The time of this world is about the same as that of Earth, but the moment shown now is definitely wrong. Thankfully, this pocket watch is something she wears wherever she goes, otherwise timing would have been a problem.

The dense woods blocked most of the sunlight, and Hathaway walked in almost total darkness. The direction of initial recognition has long been lost. As time passed, Hathaway's mood became heavier and heavier. The strange cries of unknown birds in the forest, the green eyes that flashed from time to time in the darkness made her nerves tense more than once, she felt that some danger was approaching, fortunately this body had been transformed by that inexplicable force, otherwise it would have collapsed long ago, Rao was so, she still felt tired, but fortunately, the common sense from this body told her that it was not far from leaving this mountain range.

"It's not too unlucky, at least I didn't encounter a Warcraft or anything, otherwise it would be even more troublesome."

Hathaway sighed inwardly as she looked at the sky where only a few crevices were exposed...... You have to continue to hurry, and you will only be safe when you get to a crowded place.

Suddenly, a strange feeling came to her heart, and without hesitation, she drew her dagger and looked around.

Abnormal! The woods suddenly became quiet, and the original frightening bird calls disappeared, but the silence was all the more terrifying.

There was a sudden slight noise in the bushes not far away, and Hathaway felt as if her heart was about to jump out of her mouth, and she swallowed hard, holding her breath to distinguish the sound.

It's the sound of grinding teeth!

The two big words 'Warcraft' suddenly appeared in my mind.

Hathaway doesn't want to be involved in a vendetta for no reason, but she won't hide when she sees danger, since they meet on a narrow road, it should be regarded as a fateful meeting. The magic power of this body is not very strong, and she can only cast a few zero-level spells in a row, but fortunately, after being transformed by the force just now, at least the national art she originally learned can still be cast...... Her left hand touched the handle of the Colt pistol, and she slowly approached the grass in circles with her waist bent.

There was a 'boom', and a large, black-covered creature burst out of the grass and pounced on Hathaway. Hathaway, who had already been on guard, kicked the ground suddenly, and scurried up diagonally, followed by a leopard's tail foot, sweeping backwards.

Bang!

Hathaway felt as if her calf had been swept into a stone pillar, almost shattered, and there was a muffled roar and the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground behind her.

"What the hell is it?" Hathaway endured the pain, her body turned around like lightning, and finally saw the beast that was attacking her.

More than 2 meters long, with dark and shiny hair, a shiny mouth with interlaced canine teeth dragging a shiny saliva, and a pair of bright yellow eyes staring at him fiercely as if he was looking at lunch. This is an adult dire wolf.

Hathaway was a little nervous about the enemy in front of her, she had faced extremely vicious criminals, and she had seen the wolves in the zoo, but it was the first time she had come face to face with a carnivore, especially since this dire wolf was definitely much more vicious than the wolves on Earth.

Dire Wolf is not terrible is not magic, but the strength and speed of the body, sharp teeth, in the case of the possibility that there are chasing soldiers behind, Hathaway has no time to use it, so she quickly put away the short sword, chanted the spell while making a gesture, a gray energy ray shot towards the Dire Wolf...... Level 0 magic 'Weakening Ray'.

Dire Wolf is really known for its speed, its body flashed agilely, jumped to the right side of the man, and avoided the magic attack, but at this time, the muzzle of Hathaway's Colt pistol in his left hand was raised, and with a 'bang', a flash of fire burst out, and the bullet was shooting into the eye of the Dire Wolf, and the ferocious creature fell to the ground with a terrible roar, and after a convulsion, it was motionless, obviously dead.

"It's okay, it's not an invulnerable guy." Hathaway put away her weapon. Her left pistol is rarely known, that is when she was arresting a criminal, her arm was wounded by a gunshot, so she trained with a left-handed gun, and then she played more accurately than her right hand, and also practiced a hand of dart kung fu, only her master knew Lu Dao, but she didn't expect to use it on the criminal, first kill wolves in a foreign land.

Just as she was about to leave, she suddenly remembered the strange incident that had happened to the jade coral before—it seemed to be able to absorb the blood of the dead to obtain power, although this method was a bit evil, but for her at present, the strength was the most important, as for whether there was any trouble...... Let's talk about it when I can live.

Thinking of this, she took out the Mithril box from the fairy garden and took out the jade coral...... Sure enough, as soon as he sensed the corpse and blood on the ground, several long hair-like whiskers grew from the roots of the jade coral, which pierced into the corpse of the dire wolf to absorb its blood.

When the whole body of the dire wolf became shriveled, the jade coral was blood-red again, and its long whiskers were also put away...... The burning sensation came again, and Hathaway felt like she was about to pass out, but fortunately her strong will allowed her to survive again, and the jade coral was restored to its original state.

Hathaway, who was sweating profusely, suddenly felt brighter in front of her, she was stunned, wiped her eyes, and saw the trees a few hundred meters away clearly, and the sound of the surrounding wind blowing off the leaves and falling on the ground seemed to be in her ears. This was something Hathaway had never felt before, and at this moment, the entire world seemed to be enriched in her eyes.

"It seems that there is something other than strengthening my body." Hathaway noticed that her body, which had been somewhat tired from a moment earlier, had regained its vitality, and her sense of hearing and smell had changed dramatically as much as her sense of sight...... What about the amount of mana?

As a magic apprentice, she can only practice zero-level magic, and she can only weaken four zero-level magics such as the weakening ray, and after trying several times in a row, there is silence in the forest, without the slightest movement.

"Forget it, it's not so easy to reach the sky in one step." Hathaway shook her head, thinking that there might be someone chasing her behind, she walked away quickly, but after running a few steps, she remembered the corpse of the dire wolf, and hurriedly came back to collect it into the space, and then covered the blood-soaked ground with floating earth, and then quickly left...... In a hurry, that's all she can do.

As she drifted away, the knights of the Church of Nature also chased her, and the leader of the knights soon noticed signs of shivering nearby, and after a little search, he found a covered dirt.

"Humph! Make matters worse by attempting a coverup! The knight leader sneered and chased after the knights.

"Whew! It's finally out! ”

Hathaway stood on a hill and looked delightfully at the field ahead...... According to the plan, she was to go to the town ahead for a night's rest, and then take the next day's boat down the river, first to her grandmother's house, and then to go home to receive the canonization of the Grand Duke—although she inherited the title, there were certain procedures to be fulfilled.

Spring is the busiest day of the year in the fields, and farmers work hard in the fields. How much labor is put in in this season, how much can be rewarded in autumn, even the nobles who are not engaged in agriculture know this. But there were only weeds in this field, not a single crop, and not a single farmer, because it was adjacent to the Kaye Mountains, and even if it was planted, it would have to be plagued by wild beasts, and perhaps there would be casualties. So this fertile land, not only is it not cultivated, but there are not even people living there, only those who venture into the Kaye Mountains pass through here, leaving the trails they have stepped on in the wilderness.