At night, Shi Nai, who had gone to bed early, opened his eyes slightly, left the warm quilt that was as soft as a cloud, and came to the highest attic of the City Lord's Mansion with bare feet, wearing only a light nightdress, looking at the cavalry leaving with torches outside the city.

"I see hope in you," Shi Na said dreamily, her black hair suddenly turning white, "you should lead us a little further." ”

As she spoke, she held out her hand into the distance.

A cool breeze of early spring blew through, and she lowered her hand as if nothing had happened.

In this first spring rain, Shi Nai returned to the room with a tired body.

In the distance, Rafa, who was leading a cavalry team of more than twenty people out of the city, seemed to sense something, and looked back at the ice field city farther and farther away.

"What's wrong? Audele, who was following behind, asked.

In an instant, he seemed to see that there seemed to be thousands of roads in front of him, but all the roads were blood-red, and only the one under their feet was full of bright light, and it was the only one he could see.

"Lu ......." a drop of rain fell on his face, pulling him back to reality, he didn't understand why he saw such a strange scene, he wanted to tell Audrey about that scene, but when the words came to his mouth, he didn't know how to describe it, he understood the meaning of that scene, but he couldn't say anything, it was like a cramped thigh, you know it can move, but it can't move.

"What's wrong with the road?" Audair wondered.

"It's nothing," his mouth was open for a long time, but he still didn't say anything, so he simply didn't say anything, "Put on the poncho and speed up the march." ”

"Yes!"

In the dark night, one knight in the front, middle and rear of the cavalry was holding a torch, and in the beating flames, the knights wearing only light armor took out the light but absolutely waterproof rain ponchos produced by the city lord's mansion and moved quickly in the drizzling rain.

The cavalry of twenty-five men was selected by Rafa from the Knights, both men and women, including Kinai's favorite older sister, Kyle.

He was going to send more men and even bring some witches, but in this way, the "army" of Icefield City might be startled, not only did the officials who hunted for witches scare away, but even the witches were scared away, and it was expected that Renault's army was coming soon, and the witches were stepping up the production of weapons, so there must not be a moment's delay.

All the knights had only a gun, a knight's sword, a dagger, some dry food and water, and bullets to hang from their waists and horses, and the purpose of their trip was to rescue the witch and find out the news of the attack of Renault's army, without the need to wear heavy armor.

Rafa unabashedly told them the news that he was going to find the witch, and the knights did not have anything unusual, not even surprised, because most of these knights had been in contact with witches, such as Kyle, who had seen Shina's magic up close, the knight who was rescued by Shirley, and the knight who often entered the city lord's mansion to see Hedda and Elle's fire magic;

Running around in the dark of night in the Northwest is a very dangerous thing to do, because the ruins destroyed by the evil beasts along the way are infested with strange beasts from time to time, and these beasts are especially frequent at night.

The cavalry squad looked at both sides of the road, many scarlet eyes were flashing in the night, the horses under their crotches were also a little flustered, as if they were about to get out of control, and the knights' big hands with iron gloves were pressed on the loaded guns, ready to shoot at any time.

Rafa was not too worried about these beasts, he was carefully observing the surrounding terrain, because to stop Renault's army, it would definitely not be enough to rely on Icefield City alone, he had to see the path of Renault's army first, and set up an ambush first, so that they would have become frightened birds when they arrived in Icefield City, and it should be easy to deal with them at that time.

Turning around a slightly raised mountain bag, many scarlet eyes had blocked the way, and although it was impossible to see the beasts in the dark, everyone could imagine their grinning faces.

"I knew that it would be dawn to leave again, wasting so many bullets on us. ”

Rafa snapped his fingers, then fired quickly, all the bullets shooting between the two points of the scarlet eyes, where the head was.

More gunfire rang out, the light of the fire jumping in and out of the darkness, the rapid gunfire mixed with the calm gunfire, which were two very different shooting styles.

Fortunately, these horses were accustomed to the sound of gunfire in Icefield City, otherwise such a violent noise would have frightened them into stumbling around.

The gunfire soon stopped, and the knights stopped firing, but Rafa continued because he could see more in the dark.

"By the way, I will get rid of all of you, lest those merchants always use you as an excuse to buy guns from me and be annoyed to death. ”

After firing two more magazines, he stopped, and then the cavalry began to move forward gradually.

The destination of their trip is Kosol City, which is the only way to go north to Icefield City, and if Freya tells the witches to go to Icefield City, they will definitely pass there, and Kosol City is also one of the important strongholds controlled by the Church, and the witches are afraid that they will encounter great danger there.

After a night of riding, when the sky was slightly bright, they finally reached a town with the corpses of evil beasts hanging from the side of the road, and it seemed that this town had resisted the invasion of evil beasts.

Entrusting the horses to the inn, Rafa gave the knights a slight rest in the inn, and after breakfast, went on his way.

Fortunately, these were experienced veterans who knew how to reduce physical exertion, so they did not feel any discomfort in such an intense march, but felt happy because they had the opportunity to go out and gallop wildly.

Beyond the town, the surrounding road surface was significantly smoother, and there were more pedestrians.

"Why didn't I notice when I came to Icefield City that the Hirry River actually flows all the way from Icefield City to here. ”

Walking along the grassy river, Rafa noticed that the sound of the river could be heard all night, and the Hirri River, which was already quite large, had become large and wide, and in the middle of the river, some three-masted galleons were docked on the opposite bank.

"Your Highness, the Hirry River can flow from Icefield City all the way to Kosol City. "Kyle is from the North and knows the river well.

"Very well, later we will be able to transport our artillery by water. ”

Smiling slightly, Rafa tugged at the reins and began to move on.

The rest of the knights glanced at each other and understood what he meant, and it seemed that His Highness's ambitions were far greater than they seemed.

"What a fertile land, and so barren in the spring. ”

After walking for a while, there were suddenly more people on the road, most of them were displaced people who had lost their land, perhaps the grassy land on both sides was originally theirs, but now it did not belong to them.

Walking through the exiles like a countercurrent, scrawny and glazed-eyed people stretched out their hands to them to beg for food, and the kind Audair had already distributed her dry food, and now there was nothing left to eat.

The experienced knights' eyes widened in rage, and the outcasts did not dare to stretch out their hands, knowing that their distribution of dry rations was only a drop in the bucket, and that sometimes giving them to emaciated women and children would attract the others to scramble, and the knights also tried to find traces of the women in the crowd, hoping to see white-haired or suspicious women, for witches were always cowering and easily recognizable.

Unfortunately, Rafa didn't see a single witch except for the infant baby, not even the woman with the child, and needless to say, he could predict what was happening in the city of Kosol.

By noon, the huge city of Kosol was finally close at hand, but from a distance, although the walls were majestic, they were bloodstained.

Walking a little further, the knights finally saw what was on the rampart, and they all became furious.

It was dozens of women hanging upside down from the city wall with their feet tied.

They were all stripped naked, their throats slit, and the blood on the walls was from them.

The women's eyes were wide open, their hair and arms were falling downward, and the scars on their bodies were terrible, and several of them seemed to be not dead yet, and they still convulsed from time to time, it seemed that they had not been killed directly, but had their throats cut and bleeding to death.

Enraged, Audair took out the dagger and tried to throw it out and cut the rope to save the girl who was not dead, but was stopped by Rafa.

"She's dead. ”