Donald used the knife he had left in his hand to dig holes in the ground.

Although the soil of this grassland is quite soft, the work of digging a pit is definitely not easy, only digging a small pit that is half a person and less than 30 centimeters deep, he is already tired and sweating.

After the big battle dozens of minutes ago, the last remaining strength is almost exhausted.

But he gritted his teeth stubbornly and continued to repeat his movements again and again.

Beside him, there was a bloody corpse that had even been broken into several pieces, vaguely recognizable from the conspicuous scar on the mutilated face, which was the veteran who had saved Donald before.

"I'll help."

After resting for a while, the magician girl Silwen, who had recovered a little more mentally, couldn't stand it anymore and stood up with a wooden stick from nowhere.

"No, the magician should continue to rest."

Donald squeezed a smile out of his face, then turned back and continued to work silently.

"Don't underestimate me just because I'm a girl, what I took in the academy is the Earth Element Intensive Study."

The girl drew her small wand, spat out a string of incantations in her mouth, and with a slight wave, the pit in front of Donald's eyes gradually expanded in a form visible to the naked eye.

"Thank you." Seeing that the pit gradually took on the appearance of a tomb, Donald hesitated for a moment, and finally thanked the girl.

"No thanks, didn't you say you would always protect me?"

The girl covered her mouth and smiled smartly, her eyes narrowed like a crooked crescent moon. It looks very cute: "My mage, Mr. Hu Cong." ”

"What ...... the Dharma and the Master do?"

Probably remembering what he said earlier, Donald scratched his head, a little embarrassed.

He has been very strict with his family since he was a child, and he has been dragged by his grandfather to practice swordsmanship and martial arts for a lot of time, and has almost no experience with girls, so that he blushes when he talks to Sylvin.

"Well, since you don't like to be a mage's servant," the girl looked even happier when she saw this: "What about the knight?" A knight who can always protect me. ”

"Please—Please don't make fun of me......"

The boy protested weakly.

Then he turned his head as if to avoid the girl's topic, and despite the fact that he was stained with blood (although it was not clean before), he placed the old soldier's body in the grave. Then cover with soil. He took off his helmet and stood silently in front of the grave for several minutes.

Originally, he wanted to pick some flowers, but unfortunately it was approaching winter, and the grassland had turned yellow. There are no flowers that can be used at all.

Time. Both fell silent. In addition to the conversation of the soldiers who survived the catastrophe not far away, all they heard was the sound of the wind howling on the prairie.

"My grandfather said that the best medal for a soldier is a scar. The best grave for a soldier is the battlefield. ”

After a long silence, Donald broke the silence: "Although this senior has both, but ...... Is he really satisfied with this? Will he really be happy? ”

"Of course not."

The girl did not hesitate for a moment, and replied in a firm tone: "Although war will bring honor to some people, it will cause pain and death hundreds of times greater than those honors. No one is happy because they died in battle...... Although this era is unlikely, I hope that one day, war will be completely eradicated! ”

"Do you say that your ......"

Donald, who didn't expect the girl to have such a big reaction, was stunned, and asked tentatively with some hesitation.

"My parents died in the war, and the border friction between Sidria and Jonassenn was there. When I was nine years old. Xi Erwen did not have any taboos about this, and casually told the teenager: "After that, I stayed at my aunt's house until the admission letter from the college was delivered...... However, my aunt didn't have the money to pay for the tuition, so the dean gave me special permission to take credit first, and then make up for it when I became an official magician. ”

“…… I'm sorry. ”

For a while, Donald didn't know what to say, and finally he could only apologize.

"Nothing."

Sylvin shrugged her shoulders - this move was learned from Sivi and was very popular at Adric Academy. Then she pointed to the captain not far away: "That's your commander, he seems to be calling you." ”

"Uh-oh."

Donald hurriedly put on his helmet, nodded to the girl, and ran towards the captain.

"We've got a couple of scouts back...... But they were all hurt. ”

The captain turned his face sideways, and not far behind him were the wounded scouts, nearly half of them so badly wounded that they wouldn't have long to live no matter how they looked.

Their mounts are loyal to their masters.

"Judging from the direction of those orcs, I'm afraid their next destination will be the city of Lovenia, which our army has managed to recapture...... I've asked, and among those who aren't injured right now, I'm afraid you're the only one who knows how to ride. ”

He stared at Donald with burning eyes: "So I want you to get on the barking foal and go to Lovenia before the orcs, and inform the legions over there to be wary of the orc attack!" ”

Seeing Donald's somewhat hesitant look, he sighed and added, "This mission, to be honest, is indeed very dangerous...... But if it succeeds, the legions on the Lovinian side can reduce the casualties by at least thirty percent! Do you want them to repeat our mistakes......"

Donald looked around, countless people who had been his comrades not long ago, who were still alive, had now lost signs of life, lying quietly on the grass, except for a few comrades who had been well-connected with them, all but waiting to decompose—they could not stay too long in this dangerous area to bury these corpses.

"I know." The young man's gaze became firm: "Please let me go!" Even if I give up my life, I will bring the information! ”

Before the captain with an appreciative look on his face could say something, a crisp and awe-inspiring voice suddenly sounded.

"I'll go too."

Sylven came to them with a stick: "I weigh very lightly, and the speed of a barking colt carrying two people is about the same as carrying one. And with me, the success rate of this mission will be a little higher, right? ”

"Magician?!"

The captain looked at the girl in astonishment: "Are you really okay like this?" ”

After the three magicians were safe, the painful look on their faces due to overcasting was still fresh in his memory.

"It's okay, I'm almost recovered."

The girl spread her hands and spun in place to show that she had recovered, but the stick in her hand had reduced the credibility of her words to below the average.

"Besides, even if it's dangerous, my mage will protect me, right?"

"Mage Servant?"

The captain's suspicious gaze circled back and forth between Sylvin and Donald a few times, and finally threw a 'good job!' '' eyes.

So, after the last day, Sylwin said goodbye to her two fellow mages and set off with Donald to Lovenia.

Along the way, the two occasionally interacted with each other.

But the more they progressed, the less they communicated with each other.

Because the air has begun to smell faintly bloody. After experiencing the baptism of war, they have a different sensitivity to this smell.

The two looked at each other the same, and they both saw a meaning in each other's eyes.

I'm afraid there was a battle ahead.

In order not to complicate themselves, they decided to bypass the main battlefield.

However, the further you advance, the stronger the smell of blood becomes.

As the barking foal passed by a stream, Hilwen suddenly screamed, but immediately covered her mouth again.

"What's wrong?"

Donald, tormented by the lingering smell of blood, asked.

Silwin's face turned pale, and she leaned into Donald's ear and bit it, which made the boy feel that his ear was itching.

It's a pity that the content of the whisper is not good.

"The brooks on the ground do not flow with water...... It's blood! ”

Donald's face changed.

It's not an adjective like a red-dyed stream, but a stream that is directly made up of blood......

How many people have to die here!

"Shall we go and see how it goes?" The boy gritted his teeth and rode a somewhat restless barking foal towards the place where the smell of blood was most intense.

"But shouldn't we avoid accidents at times like these?"

Although the girl was equally curious, she was unexpectedly very sensible.

"Things should change now, and new information should be more valuable than old information."

Donald said with a slick voice.

Hilwen, who had not learned the relevant knowledge, was also convinced, drew her wand to be vigilant, and her breathing became slightly rapid.

Then they saw a mountain.

The place that should have been in the center of the forest seemed to have been bombarded by some devastating force, and all the trees in the center disappeared, and the surrounding trees showed a lodging pattern radiating towards the periphery.

The ground is also covered with all kinds of potholes, some are still smoking, some are neatly cut, some are still ice cubes, some are sizzling with green liquid, and some are even weeds growing inside......

And in this clearing, there is a hill.

It's a mountain of untold orc corpses!

Judging from this order of magnitude, it was not only the orcs who attacked Donald and them just now, but at least the orcs who were more than five times as numerous as they gathered here and died tragically here.

Many streams of blood that have begun to turn dark red originate from this hill and flow in all directions.

Above the hill of corpses, a figure was hovering there, as if it didn't see the miserable corpses at his feet, thinking about something.

Just as Donald was considering whether to hurry up and escape, the girl behind him let out another exclamation.

"Dean...... My lord? (To be continued......)