The mayor's child is about twenty-five years old, and it is said that he is already a mature young man, but his face has not shed his stubborn childishness.

He led his group and headed for a river that waded through the town of Chahe.

Finn and the other four, as guards to protect against unnatural disasters of demons and monsters, were not on the original accompanying list, but even if the four of them were removed, the hunting team was still huge:

Three friends or guests of the mayor's children followed the young man on tall horses to clear the way, followed by a ranger and two licensed hunters on ponies. The rest were two captains of the City Guard, a valet, two accompanying guards, three maids who carried miscellaneous items, a horse boy who guarded the horses from loss in the hunting grounds, and three different kinds of hounds, which, like the four of Finn, followed at a brisk pace or a small jog.

"Hopefully they'll just hunt rabbits, teals, and maybe wild boars. "If you ride on a horse and chase a deer on a whim, you'll be in trouble." ”

"Is there danger?" Ofeichher thought at once.

"No, then we'll be sweating in the sweat when we go back. Finn denied, "We can't always be too far away from our employers, even if nothing happens." We don't have any horses, if they're going to be on a carnival..."

A little more than 1 nautical mile outside the north gate of the town is the hunting paradise of the nobles. The territory of the hunting ground belongs of course to the lord who owns the land, and only with his permission can guests or professional hunters who serve him hunt here.

Anyone who dares to poach without permission can be caught by a ranger or even have his hand chopped off on the spot, a punishment that is even more merciful than the Duchy of Zalahod and much of the Empire. In colder areas to the north, rangers can shoot poachers or have guards take them back to prison and be tried and hanged in public.

The mountains, hills, and ponds that were getting closer and closer to Ofeicher seemed to him to have hidden unknown ferocious demons in every shadow. But in the eyes of the children of the mayor, the former consul, it may be like a back garden reserved for nobles and idlers.

"Could it be that they are not afraid of demons and monsters at all?" Ofeichher asked puzzled, "In the last half month, there have been two vicious incidents, and the church has also announced to the whole town that the Kuroshio is showing signs of approaching Chahe Town. Why do they dare to go out hunting and have fun...... They believe so much in your strength, Mr. Finn?"

"How can aristocrats like them, who don't even believe the words of the church, believe me. Finn chuckled, "Even if they're so arrogant that they don't even believe what the church says, it means they still believe some." Let me ask you first, do you know what demons, demons, ghosts, and monsters are?"

Ophiecher copied what he had heard from the church: "The church says that they are four different kinds of unnaturally born beings, all of which come from evil and darkness. ”

"Is there anything else the church thinks isn't evil?" Helena suddenly interjected.

"Ugh. Ofiicher himself thought so, so he had to be speechless.

Fein raised an eyebrow, glanced at Ophiecher and then at Cornelia, "Conelia, if I'm not mistaken, you said you mentioned the concept to him. ”

"I, I just said it casually and didn't explain it to him in detail. Cornelia was a little embarrassed.

"That's up to you. Finn sighed slightly.

Cornelia's face flushed slightly, and she turned to Ophiicher beside her, and said, "Although it is customary that these kinds of things, which are obviously different from natural creatures and do not come out of nature, are collectively called demons and monsters, they are not the same kind of things. ”

"Is it the difference between land and water, or is it the difference between beasts and trees?"

Originally, Ofiichhe wanted to use the concept of biological compendium to ask rhetorical questions, but he suddenly remembered that the biological research in this world has not yet perfected a detailed and systematic biological discipline.

"Huh, ......"

Cornelia thought for a few seconds before deciding to abandon the question of continuing Ophiecher's analogy: "In short, they're not the same thing at all.

"Monsters are born through rituals, and they are haunted by the goals of rituals. Judging from the various materials recorded so far, monsters only appear through secret rituals, and will only be active in secret events.

"They exist only so that the secret event can finally officially start and end, if it is not the goal of the ritual, and it does not hinder the development of the ritual, then the monster will not take the initiative to harm unrelated people.

"Monsters, one of the results of the invasion of the outer gods, appeared in the area swallowed by the Kuroshio, and it is the outer god thug that allows the Kuroshio to continue to expand. They appear with event-level and even disaster-level phenomena caused by the expansion of the Kuroshio Current.

Although the Church does not disclose a single fact, there is a large number of records that indicate that monsters do not attack people who do not believe in any gods. But that is to say...... Anyone with faith will be targeted by monsters, which is not a good thing for all citizens of the Empire. ”

"Ghosts are the remnants of the spirit body. Whether it is the joys and sorrows of the living, or the resentment and resentment of the dead, they all finally manifest themselves in the present world with the help of supernatural powers.

"Some people think it's the power of the soul, others say it's an advanced way of source qi, but the appearance of the ghost seems to be completely against the will of the person in question - you think, if the person had this power, he might just go to his wish or cast a curse instead of becoming a residue......

"Monsters, which have existed as long as ghosts, were the first unnatural creatures to appear in the sparsely populated wilderness. Monsters have been documented for the longest time, but the meaning and purpose of their existence are difficult to understand. Due to their brutality and remoteness from other creatures, monsters have long been regarded as a kind of super beast that roams the wilderness.

"Monsters have been the most studied, and before the Imperial Church classified them as simply evil creatures, there were theories that monsters were mythical creatures, sacred gifts. After all, the earliest supernatural substances were obtained from monsters, but people soon discovered that monsters were not the only source of supernatural substances......"

Fein bowed to Cornelia almost imperceptibly, "You are not bad at summarizing its relationship and danger to humans, as well as the significance of its existence. ”

He looked at Ophiecher again, "So, what conclusion can you draw from this? You should be able to deduce the answer to your question." ”

Uh, no, I'm really your student now, and I can't complain about your habit of being a teacher......

Ofiicher sighed helplessly, and then sorted out the information a little:

"Those noble sons and gentlemen obviously have access to detailed information like the one mentioned above from the church, and they also know that monsters do not appear out of thin air outside of hidden events, monsters do not appear far away from the Kuroshio Tide out of thin air, ghosts do not appear out of thin air in places where there are no powerful grudges, and monsters do not appear in places that are inaccessible to people.

"This hunting ground is located in the north of the town, according to the church bulletin, the Kuroshio is still behind the mountains far southeast of the town, it is unlikely that there will be monsters here, and this is the main occasion for the worship of wild game to the high-ranking nobles of Chahe Town, and it is frequented by forest rangers and licensed hunters, and there have been no recent murders in the mountains and forests, so ghosts can also be ruled out.

"The only thing to worry about is that someone sets the noble prince as the target of the secret ritual, and then they will be attacked by the secret event and the monster - and they have hired you, Mr. Finn, the expert in the secret ritual, so they think they have no worries. ”

Seeing that Ofeichher had understood, Finn shrugged his shoulders with a smile, and added two sentences while they were still in the downstream of the wind, talking softly so that no one else would hear them: "By the way, these noble sons and daughters who can't even be knights, no matter how you look at them, their value is far less than that of Miss Goslar, whom you serve." I don't think anyone will ask some supernatural to kill them, the only thing to worry about is one thing. ”。

"What is it?" Ofeichher thought quickly, and didn't seem to notice anything missing in the information.

"They want to hunt deer. ”