Let's first move our gaze from the Fengkou Plateau to the Kopol evergreen forest on the border of the Duchy of Ekrakit in the Eastern Plains.

A boy of fifteen or sixteen years old, carrying a girl who looked slightly smaller than him, stumbled and struggled forward with the branches and leaves of the trees that were still lush in the cold winter.

The boy was dressed like an ordinary hunter, and he had a purple machete pinned to his waist.

It's just that in recent years, hunters at this time will no longer venture into the jungle where there may be dangerous creatures roaming - the monsters who are hungry due to lack of food in the cold winter are much more dangerous than in the summer.

The girl was dressed in a thin linen gown, her shoes were long gone, and her little feet were purple from the cold. She wore a cotton forehead guard on her forehead, and in front of her forehead was an eye pattern embroidered with gold and silver thread.

If you get closer, you can smell a strong smell of blood from the girl.

Jon...... That's enough, let me down......"

Suddenly, the girl's voice sounded in the boy's ears like a candle in the wind.

"Don't worry, Aisha. Just walk through this woods to that kind of big city, and you'll be saved! ”

Knowing that his strength was about to run out, the boy still gritted his teeth and stubbornly moved forward despite his blistered feet.

"I... Heart... It's clear...... I've ...... There is no help. ”

The girl's voice was calm and weak, but in the boy's ears, it was like a thunderclap, making his body tremble.

Not so long ago, the maiden used her own delicate body. Blocked a cursed runic arrow for him.

Although he soon tried to treat the girl's wounds, the curse on the arrows still consumed the girl's life, making her wounds completely unhealable.

Even the boy's back was soaked with blood by now.

"Don't give up, Aisha! Aren't you looking to see the future! Your future is definitely going on! The boy shouted regardless of the fact that his voice might attract the pursuers, cheering him up for the childhood sweetheart he grew up with.

"I'm sorry, Jon...... It was hard to get out of there...... From now on...... Probably going to leave you alone ......"

The girl's voice gradually began to weaken.

"Abominable, abominable, abominable! Sure enough, what the uncle said was right! Soul equipment or something...... It can only bring misfortune to people! ”

The young man's words were already nasal: "Wen Na also left us because of the soul device, and now even you ......"

Jon...... I can't say anything......" The girl's voice suddenly increased a little: "It's because of the soul device...... Let's get away from that slave owner......"

"Your sister...... Wen Na too...... She believed it until the end of her life...... Soul tools are able to bring happiness to people...... The force of ......"

Desperately squeezing out the little life she has left, the girl wants to convey her feelings to the young man: "Me too...... These days of running away with you...... It's my whole life...... The happiest days ......"

The boy named Jon was stunned as he felt something cold fall into his collar.

I guess it's a girl's tears.

"Don't resent this world...... Don't resent the Soul Apparatus...... You have to take my share and Venna's sake...... Live well......"

Unconscious, his legs finally tripped over the aerial roots of the trees that were exposed to the ground. The boy and the girl fell to the ground together.

"Can't do it. I can't imagine a world without you. ”

The boy struggled to get up from the ground. Ignoring his ashen face, he sat next to the girl, and tears fell down his eyes.

"Ahem......" The girl's face turned even paler because of the impact of falling to the ground. She coughed for a moment. Desperately squeezing out the last smile: "Jon...... Tell you a secret......"

"What?" The boy held the girl's palm, which was gradually starting to become cold. Sniffled.

"Actually...... In order not to be found by those guys...... Venna's Soul Apparatus ...... I swallowed it in my stomach...... "She wanted to do as usual. She smiled mischievously at the boy, but her tear-stained face made it impossible for her to do such a thing, and she reached out with all her might. He took off the forehead guard from his head and put it in the boy's hand: "Wait until I die...... Slit my belly open...... When I take it out of the inside...... You have a total of three soul devices...... I will definitely be able to become a ...... The ...... that everyone admires Hero. ”

"What's the joke!" The boy yelled, "Don't say stupid things! How could I possibly do such a thing! ”

"Be a hero...... Isn't it your dream? The girl's eyelids began to droop uncontrollably: "Use the power of the soul tool to measure...... Save more people...... After becoming the number one hero in the world...... You can also say ...... to others You used to have a ...... The best childhood sweetheart...... Best ...... Lovers ......"

"I don't want anything to be! Didn't you say you would always be with me! ”

The young man couldn't bear it anymore, and hugged the girl's body with tears in his eyes: "Don't go, I beg you!" ”

"Sorry...... I...... I can't see it anymore...... own future...... ......"

At this moment, white, cold snowflakes began to fall slowly from the sky.

It seems that even the heavens are crying for the girl.

- The edge of the evergreen forest of Kopol -

"It's cold." A soldier wearing the standard leather armor of the Principality of Ekrakit held his spear in his arms, dusted off the snow accumulated on his shoulder armor, rubbed his hands with leather gloves, and let out a white breath at them, probably to warm his hands, but unfortunately it had no effect at all: "I said, it's just to find a few slaves, can you use such a big battle?" Even we, the Legion of the Coldscales, the strongest force in the Principality, have been pulled out. It really froze me to death. ”

"I heard that the fugitive this time has an incredible treasure on his body, obviously he is just a few pariahs, but even the high-level monster that Master Basha spent a lot of money to train and use to guard the slaves has been killed."

The other soldier beside him, who was spying on the bushes, shrugged his shoulders and replied casually

"Wouldn't it? Isn't Lord Basha the famous rich man in the country? I remember that there was no gossip that he had bought a monster above level 20 to slay him? A slave who doesn't even have the gift of magic......"

The grumbling soldier was stunned.

"Who's to say it isn't." Probably feeling a little tired from the work, the other soldier paused slightly with his spear, opened the iron shield and wiped his sweat: "Even the big masters in the Qiyao Mage Tower were alarmed, and of course the Duke couldn't sit still." ”

With that, he continued with the work at hand, while waiting for his companion to pick up.

But after waiting for a while, he still didn't hear a response, so he looked back to see if the companion was lazy again, but was startled by the sight in front of him.

The soldier who had just complained was split in half from the middle, blood and internal organs splattered all over the ground, and he died before he could scream.

Next to the corpse was the fifteen-year-old boy on the wanted notice.

At this moment, the other party held a purple machete in his right hand, a forehead guard with an eye pattern tied to his forehead, and a red thing in his left hand. The soldier noticed that the hand on which the boy was holding the object was stained with the almost black solid of blood clotting.

Swallowing some creepy spittle, the soldier immediately did what he had learned in military training, rolled into the bushes, and then ducked behind a tree where two people were hugging each other, intending to use it as cover and send a distress signal around him.

However, in the next moment, he found that he and the tree were cut in two by the other party with a machete from the place where he was waist!

How can it be...... Obviously, the other party is just an ordinary person...... Such a ridiculous thing......

"Your future ends here."

At the end of his life, the soldier heard the cold voice of the young man. (To be continued......)