Kroll and Youngor returned to the lakeside village at the same time as the village chief and the farmers who had run away first.

When the villagers of the lakeside village saw the return of the village chief, they all gathered curiously and asked what had happened to them who had lost their souls.

"It's a goblin, and a lizardbuise in human form." The village chief touched his chest and gasped, he didn't mean to answer at all, but the farmer next to him replied on his behalf, "Over there, on the north shore of Santa Kana Lake!" The fleet docked them! ”

The incoherent answers showed the extreme panic of the peasants.

"I think! The situation is much more serious! Those fleets we saw were most likely just the lead, and there were many more black boats on the southeast branch of Lake Santa Cana! Youngor testifies! Kroll looked panicked and pointed to Youngor, who was running sweaty, and Younger shook his head again and nodded quickly.

"It's true! I also hope it's just my hallucination. Youngor stuck out his tongue in a complicated mood, and his answer made the surrounding villagers boil, he was glad that the villagers could take what they said seriously, but unfortunately this time he didn't want to believe that it was true.

"Father, is your pack horse in the stable in the backyard of the big house? I'm going to borrow it! Kroll's eyes twinkled as he asked his village chief.

The village chief clutched his chest and glared at his son Kroll, then sighed, and finally burst out of his mouth a short sentence, "Here, what do you want my pack horse to do?" ”

"To Jaffenburg! Ask the lord to give us shelter! Hopefully it's still too late! Kroll pushed away the villagers who were blocking him, and without looking back, he ran to the village house by the lake.

"Hey! What should I do? Man! Youngor shouted from behind Kroll, "I want to take refuge in Jaffenburg too!" ”

"That pack horse can't carry the two of us! Do what you have to do! Figure it out for yourself! There was a 'bang' of the door closing in the direction of the village chief's house, and in a short time the pack horse ran out of the backyard of the village chief's house and headed straight between the Desco Terrace and the Guardian Terrace.

"Yes, evacuate! The closest ones are the Desco Terrace and the Diefender Fortress behind the Guardian Terrace! Youngor raised his index finger and dangled it around his chest, and then ran to the thatched hut where he lived, but what he didn't expect was that the existing villagers had already packed their bags and slowly pulled the ploughing oxen out of the village first.

Although the speed of the pack horse is not as fast as that of the war horse, it is after all four legs in a hurry, and it is much faster than those lazy ploughing oxen.

In the depths of winter, the coniferous forests covered the top of the Desco Terrace and the Guardian Terrace, like the erect hair on the top of the heads of two majestic guards, but the pack horse Kroll was not ready to enjoy such a view, but decisively left the two terraces behind, and there were several garrison monitoring posts on the undulating hills in front of him, but the rather tense military resources made the monitoring posts stand not really the soldiers of the Difender Fortress, but the scarecrows. The River Rif stretched east in the Hills, and after a sharp bend more than a dozen miles in front of the fortress of Diefend, Kroll passed through the littered Lucy Woodland, and continued south on the gravel road, and finally saw the legendary Pillar of Arcana erected outside the Jarfenburg, and looked south along the gravel road, and the city of Nayafen, the ruling center of the Eastem family, came into view.

"Your Excellency the Count is in the castle of the city ahead!" Hope burned in Kroll's heart, and he threw down his pack horse, which was so tired that he began to shake his head, at the city gate.

"Hey, farmer, your horse looks a bit like a donkey." The interrogating city gate guard slowly stepped forward with a halberd, and teased in a straight line, "Where did you come from, report your name and then open your bag and check it." ”

"I am in a hurry, sir, I have something important to report to His Excellency the Earl!" Kroll's anxious tone still left the interrogating gate guards indifferent.

"No one in Yafen is not in a hurry, and if they don't need to check, I won't need to stand here for work. Don't waste your time, farmer. The gate guard reached out and opened the bag that hung from the saddle of the horse's saddle, and turned out only a half-eaten bread.

"Well, I'm Kroll, the farmer from Lakeside Village who has come to report the goblins and lizardmonsters infested on the northern shore of Lake Santa Cana! A large number of black ships have appeared on the northern shore of Santa Cana! Kroll spread his hands, but almost roared, "Our village is already panicked!" There's not even a garrison of Diefend's there! ”

"Dude, you're really scaring us. Your storytelling skills are really good, and it's just emotional. Farmer Kroll, I have the unfortunate news that His Excellency Count Colossius has not returned from a winter hunt, and is still presumably still hunting deer on the shores of Lake Raif! The guard smiled and pointed in the direction of the foot of the mountain on the east side of the castle, and then he beckoned to his companions at the gate of the city, "Ask to see the farmer of His Excellency the Earl, and let him go." ”

Kroll frowned, hung his head and climbed onto the pack horse, which had been resting for a while, and quickly rode away from the gatekeeper who had turned around, and followed the edge of the city of Yafenburg in the opposite direction of the Raif. ”

"Hey, what are you doing?" The reacting guards yelled at Kroll.

"Go to Your Excellency the Earl!" Kroll rode on his pack horse and beckoned to the gate guards behind his horse's buttocks.

"Ah, you somewhat obnoxious peasant, the Earl hunts in the hunting grounds at the foot of Mount Yafen! You can't get in! The gate guards looked at Kroll's distant figure and shook their heads helplessly, not knowing if he heard or not, "I hope Arcana bless this guy." Don't die in vain. ”

The silence of the shores of Lake Raif is similar to the boring life of the lakeside village, the cottages on the farm lazily listen to the flow of the River Raif, the withered reeds of winter surround the source of the water of the Jarfen, Lake Raif, with the clatter of the swaying hooves of the Kroll pack horses, the little heads of otters poke out of the withered reeds, and they sell cuteness to this strange stranger who rides a pack horse for no reason.

Behind a taiga is the hunting ground of the Easttim family, whose borders are marked by ropes drawn between the trees and the bunting of the Aven diagonal stripes.

Kroll's heart was apprehensive, he stood still, he looked at the vast hunting ground in front of him, and his heart was completely bottomless, except for seeing His Royal Highness the Duke of Ella, who was still the Earl of Yafen at that time, with hatred at the time, he had no impression of the Earl of Yafen Colossius, who had been in office for more than two years, and only remembered the words of the nobles who passed by the lakeside village, "The Baron of Perland, that guy Colossius, really has a powerful red face, and looks like the ass of a monkey in the mountains and forests, No wonder he liked His Royal Highness the Duke. ”

The dry reeds whirring on the shore of the lake swayed, and instead of crouching on the dirt path in the shuttle of otters, he looked out at the water as if he saw the horrible black ships anchored on the north shore of Lake Santa Cana.

"Ah, hoof prints." Kroll looked at the hunting ground ahead, the clear hoof prints of the horses were still looming on the road, and he couldn't help but pray to Arcana, then gritted his teeth and rode his horse into the hunting grounds.

Following the chaotic horseshoe prints of the Earl of Yafen and the knights of the guards in the winter hunt, the coniferous forest became denser and denser, and the deep hunting ground seemed to have no more air flowing, and when there was no birdsong, the hoof prints were also invisible in a large area of fallen leaves.

"Whoosh." A terrible sound of arrows came from the hidden woods, Kroll had no time to dodge, fell sideways and dismounted, although he barely dodged the cold arrow, but fell heavily to the ground, the frightened pack horse did not hesitate to turn around and run, Kroll knew that he had fallen into an ambush, fear made him look like a deer in the hunting grounds.

"Wang~Wang~Wang!" It was clearly the howl of a wolfdog, coming from the woods where the arrows were flying.

"Catch that poacher and execute him on the spot!" The sound of the boiling people then frightened Kroll, who was bleeding from his head and feet, got up from the ground with his hands and feet, and ran away the way he came without thinking about flying. Sometimes he lowered his head, sometimes rolled, not caring about his hands and feet being pierced, only listening intently to the sound of bangs behind him and the bumpy road ahead.

"Wang!" A white shadow suddenly jumped out of Kroll's side, and when the chest was two beats to press Kroll to the ground, the moment Kroll fell to the ground, he finally saw that it was a shiny snowhound, with a sturdy body like a calf, but staring at him with a sharp cold light in his eyes, baring his teeth viciously.

A figure flipped off his horse from behind the snowhound, and a sharp sword immediately pressed to Kroll's throat, "Don't you know that poaching in the hunting ground means cutting off your hands?" Farmer, he runs pretty fast. ”

"No, sir. I'm not a poacher. You see, I didn't bring any poaching tools. Not even weapons! Kroll's eyes widened as he looked at the snowhound staring at him, shouting with a cry in his voice, as if he was frightened silly.

"Oh, then you must be lost. It doesn't seem like your accent is here. Say, what the hell is the intention of coming here? The sword resting on his throat was sticking tighter and tighter, and Kroll seemed to feel the sharp blade ready to cut his throat at any moment.

"I'm a farmer from Lakeside Village, and I've come to Count Colossius to ask for help!" Kroll kept fluttering with a trembling voice, his face flushed, tears rolling in his eyes, "A large number of unidentified ships have appeared on the shores of Santa Kana Lake, carrying a large number of goblins and a large number of green-skinned humanoid lizards, as well as giant monsters more than ten feet tall. So don't kill me! I really want to see the Count! My village needs the protection of the lord! I'm just a farmer, not a poacher! Please, trust me! ”

The soldiers with the wolfdogs gathered around, but did not approach Kroll, who was lying on the ground.

"What do you say? A large number of unidentified ships came to Santa Kana Lake? Goblins, humanoid lizards? The man with the sword in his hand seemed to become quite surprised, and he couldn't help but let out a loud fart, as if he remembered the news that had come from outside the Knight's Valley not long ago, and what happened to the farmer named Ranchi still remembers it vividly, "What is that giant monster like?" Do you see clearly? ”

"Locked in a black metal cage, earthy skin, ugly face, the bridge of his nose collapsed! Oh, and there are all sorts of dried skulls around their necks, and by the way, goblin skulls. Kroll was trying to describe what he had seen, and every detail of the monster in the huge cage came to mind.

"Bai Bo, my good boy, don't scare the guys on this ground." The sword that had been attached to his neck was gone, and Kroll could finally see what it looked like, and the pale sapphire on the hilt seemed to remind him of something.

"I'm the Count Culosius you're going to see. Well, farmer Kroll, you have brought me news that has left me stunned, and immediately follow me back to Yafen, but fortunately none of my soldiers' arrows have pierced your head! Count Colossius stretched out his hand to Kroll and pulled the farmer up from the ground.

There was no smile on his red face, and the sudden news made his face full of surprise.