Ian knelt in front of Jyoson's corpse, closed his eyes, and a tear trail silently stretched down his cheek.

He already owes too much in the village of Breeze, but he still hides his true origin from the people here.

He felt like a wandering demon, lurking among the good travelers with a changed appearance in order to enjoy their blessings. He was ashamed of himself, but he did not dare to reveal his identity, he wanted to leave, but he coveted the warmth of the campfire.

Blame, remorse, and shame were so overwhelming in Ian's heart that he felt so sullen that he wanted to howl out loud or lean over in repentance, but his lips trembled, but he couldn't say a word.

The hunter in the distance, Ba, saw it clearly, and knew that Qiao Sen was probably dead, and he was anxious. He blew his whistle eagerly again, but his whistle still echoed lonely in the air.

The Soul Eater seemed pleased with Jossen's death, and the mushroom thieves were jumping off the platform and rooftops, approaching Ian step by step. Their eyes glowed with a faint red glow, and their teeth rattled, not at all what humans were familiar with in the past. Just by throwing a spear and killing someone, it has long exceeded the human definition of a small spirit.

The mushroom thieves slowly surrounded them at first, but it didn't take long for them to pick up their pace, and they began to move towards Ian eagerly, as if they could no longer suppress their bloodthirsty urge to kill. About fifty paces away from Ian, they suddenly rushed towards Ian. The hunter on the roof shot a few arrows quickly, and several mushroom thieves fell to the ground, but more mushroom thieves rushed towards Ian with their companions' bodies in disregard, as if even their already pitiful sanity had been lost.

"Ride!" shouted a few times, and with the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, a group of human cavalry caught up from behind Ian.

They kicked up huge clouds of smoke and dust on the dirt roads of the village, and their menacing charge deterred the mushroom thieves. Before they could react, five or six had been plundered by the cavalry's charge. One of the cavalrymen who led the team did not immediately enter the battle formation, but reined in the reins of his horse and stopped beside Ian.

He leaned over and shouted, "Ian, Ian, is she still alive?"

Ian seems to be unguarded and ignorant. He heard shouts in the dimness, and slowly looked up, and saw a familiar face of the heavily armed cavalry on horseback: Sid.

Sid's voice cut through the hazy veil, as if bringing reality back to Ian's. The boy's eyes slowly cleared, and he nodded at Sid, indicating that he was fine. The sound of footsteps all around, the neighing of war horses, the characteristic muffled sound of a sword slashing into the mushroom thief's body...... It's all back in Ian's ears.

"Why are you here?" Ian carefully straightened Josson's left hand as if he were still alive.

"You didn't set the fire?" Sid was stunned for a moment, then asked, "What's going on here?" He frowned as he looked at the corpse in front of him, then at the mushroom thieves around him and the black demonic beast he couldn't name.

"The village chief is dead, this is Elder Qiao Sen, who also died just now to protect me. No other night watchmen and hunters can be contacted. Ian replied with a blank face, then pointed to the roof in the distance, "There's a hunter on the roof. ”

Sid narrowed his eyes, looked around, and said, "I've never seen such a fierce mushroom thief!"

Through the dust, he saw the cavalry fighting to the death with the mushroom thieves, who were frantically attacking them and the horses as if they were not going to die. It is not so much that they are not afraid of the sharp blades and the trampling of their horses, but that they ignore death and have no desire to survive at all.

"Beware, the elders said they weren't quite right. Ian remembered Josson's reminder.

"I see. Sid glanced at the dagger in Ian's hand, "Protect yourself." As he spoke, he kicked the spur and urged the horse into the chaos. Ian gripped his dagger and took a stance, looking nervously around. He noticed that a number of mushroom thieves were climbing up to the roof where the hunter Ba was, and Ba was shooting arrows in the tossing and turning gap, and even using his saber, and he was already overstretched.

Ian gritted his teeth and clutched his sword to help, but was blocked by two mushroom thieves scurrying out of their spurs.

The two mushroom thieves only stayed for a moment, then lunged at Ian one after the other.

Ian didn't know how to do swordsmanship, and he slashed awkwardly at a mushroom thief in front of him to the left, following the way he remembered Zach and the other soldiers he had seen fighting and swinging his sword. The mushroom thief had no weapon in his hand, but he lunged at him with his bare hands, and was split in half by Ian, who was overforced. Dark green shimmering demonic beast bodily fluids splattered out, and Ian's face and hands inevitably stuck to a lot. He was astonished to find that their bodily fluids had no temperature, and were as cold as the land of the eternal night moon.

He took a breath and didn't dare to stop, so he took advantage of the situation and turned his sword over and cut horizontally to the right. The other mushroom thief held a short spear in his hand, babbling and screaming, and did not dodge the blade that Ian cut horizontally, and stabbed the short spear straight at Ian. Ian's dagger severed the mushroom thief's waist, but he felt a pain in his right shoulder almost at the same time.

Ian pulled the short spear from his right shoulder with all his might, the tip of which was already red with his own blood. He gasped for air, and could clearly hear his heart beating violently, as if it was about to burst out of his chest. Although the elf is a kind of monster, it is also a humanoid creature, and if an ordinary person takes a sword to kill them, it will be a little frightened, not to mention a young man like Ian who has not yet completed the rite of passage.

If it is said that the death of the cat man Velas before, he can only be regarded as an accomplice, but the mushroom thief killed by these two swords can be regarded as the first time in Ian's life that he has killed and killed a monster in addition to cutting fish and killing chickens. He straightened up and took a deep breath, the touch of the short sword cutting into the body of the demonic beast came to him through the blade and hilt, and it was still vivid at this moment. He felt his right hand holding the sword tremble uncontrollably, not knowing whether it was because of the injury or because of the nervousness. But the scene in front of him no longer allowed him to think about it anymore, a large number of mushroom thieves had gathered on the roof where the hunter Ba was located, and the wall was densely packed with demonic beasts, which made people stand up.

But Ian looked up, and where was Ba's shadow?

His heart tightened, and he squinted his eyes to examine the rooftop, only to see that the mushroom thieves kept crawling to one place, hugging each other, almost piling up a hill. And Ba's broken bow and arrow fell under the eaves, and it was stained with blood. Ian's heart was like a knife, and he looked at the roof in a daze, and his footsteps stopped, and he just muttered, "No, no, no......"

He stood dejectedly, and the roof in his eyes felt so far away, far beyond his reach.

"If only it could be faster...... I'm supposed to be fighting on the rooftops by now, with the hunters. If I had arrived earlier, Ba wouldn't have ......."

As if echoing his thoughts, blue points of light quickly gathered on the roof where Ba was, and the young spirit called Zack manifested out of thin air. Ian stood in place with his sword in hand, his eyes shining blue, as if he was looking at some distant place, ignoring the hustle and bustle of the battlefield around him.

Zach pulled out a misty dagger from his waist and let out a silent shout as he pounced on the place where the mushroom thieves had gathered. He slashed indiscriminately, his movements were rough, but he seemed to have an inexhaustible strength. He frantically swung more than twenty swords until the bodily fluids of the monsters stained the roof dark green, and finally killed the gathered mushroom thieves away.

Zach "looked" at the human body writhing in pain on the ground, which was the same as the mushroom thieves gnawing at the flesh.

Zack's eyes burst into a blazing blue flame, and the sword in his hand burned like a flame, pointing at the demonic beasts that were once again pouring onto the roof from all directions. On the ground in the distance, Ian still stood expressionless, his eyes glowing with a dark blue glow, his eyes empty but focused.

Sid noticed Ian's anomaly, and he saw more and more mushroom thieves approaching Ian, but the kid didn't seem to have the slightest intention of defending. He just stood there with his dagger in his hands loosely.

Sid wanted to go over to help, but was entangled by the mushroom thief who seemed to kill inexhaustibly and couldn't get out, so he had to shout anxiously: Ian!

Ian didn't seem to hear at all, and didn't react at all.

There were only a dozen cavalry brought by Sid, and several of them had already been pulled off their horses and fell to the ground. Mushroom thieves are constantly pouring in from nowhere, and what is even more terrifying is that there is also a soul eater dog watching from the side, waiting for an opportunity to move. Sid didn't dare to relax his vigilance against it for a moment when he was fighting, and it was precisely because of this that although the cunning monster had been staring at Sid, it did not rush to pounce on him.

The situation around Ian is getting more and more critical, and the encirclement is shrinking smaller and smaller. A number of mushroom thieves had already retrieved their short spears that had been thrown to the ground and surrounded Ian with their weapons. Just when Sid was unable to do anything, Ian suddenly handed the short sword in his left hand, and then raised his right hand, palm flat, towards the roof of a three-story house in front of him.

As blood continued to ooze from the wound on his right shoulder, the blue light in his palm swirled out, manifesting a petite and lovely girlish spirit on the roof. The pale blue translucent form can still be seen in her clothes. It was an archer's suit, almost identical to the one worn by Ba.

"Flynn ......?" Sid looked over Ian's hand, catching a glimpse of the girl's appearance and remembering what Ian had told him about several spirits.

The spirit girl named Flynn stretched out her bow and arrows, three at a time, and aimed them at the sky.

"Whoosh", the blue arrows formed by the convergence of spiritual powers, turned into blue stars in the sky under Frynn's almost indistinguishable movements. In a moment's time, the "stars" poured down like a torrential rain, washing away the encirclement of the mushroom thieves.

The rain of arrows rained down on the ground, shaking up a cloud of dust that obscured the Mushroom Thief, Ian, Sid, and Soul Eater.