Fort Mephis, west of the Philins Mountains, takes about half a month to travel from Babylon, but thanks to Layla's magic, the carriage travels so fast that Randy estimates that it will take about five days to reach its destination.

"Will we pass through the Philings Mountains?" Zhou Lie looked at the map and found a familiar name, where was the place where Garcia had led people to crusade against monsters not long ago.

"Yes, but we don't have to go into the mountains, we just need to follow the pipes at the foot of the mountain to get to Mephisburg, after all, we don't have a trail in the Philings Mountains. Randy replied.

Zhou Lie didn't resist spending the night in the mountains, but it wouldn't be good if he accidentally got involved in Garcia's crusade against the Demon Beasts, and in every sense of the word, it was a thankless task.

The carriage was extremely driven, and Alfred had been there all kinds of innocuous words along the way, making jokes that were no big or small, at first Zhou Lie would echo a few words, but later, he was really tired, and even reached the effect that when he heard the other party speak, Zhou Lie would feel sleepy.

"By the way, how did you know for sure that the star carved appeared in Mephisburg?" Sitting outside the carriage, Zhou Lie chatted with Randy without a ride.

"It was the language of Tionlis, who had only predicted the existence of the Fire Star Carving before that. ”

"Do you know what attribute the star is engraved this time?"

Unfortunately, the prophecy was not so accurate. ”

"Then what are you going to do after you find the star carving?" Zhou Lie asked, "If it's already on a living person, do you really want to kill someone?"

Faced with Zhou Lie's question, Randy didn't reply immediately, and after being silent for a while, he said, "Which one do you think is more important, life or ideals?"

"Nature is life, and without life, everything is free to talk about. There is no need to think about Zhou Lie to answer his own answer, it is precisely in order to live that he left the palace and came to the West to find his future.

"That's true, but in our opinion, ideals are more important, because one person's ideals can be passed on to the next person, and even if they die, their ideals will not disappear. Randy said lightly, "So in the face of our pursuit, a person's life is not so important." ”

"I don't agree with you, and I'm sure Layla won't either. ”

"But the reality is that the knight and the thief knew about it for a long time and was willing to join it, and Layla was the one among us who didn't know about it. Randy shrugged, "But it's part of her growth path, and you can't stop her." ”

"That's a good reason, after all, you're sacrificing someone else's life, not your own. Zhou Lie sneered twice.

"Then what are you going to do? The Prime Minister's order is absolute, and in the war, there are many people who die, and one or two deaths at this time will not have any effect, and besides, my life will be dedicated in the near future for the great cause. ”

"What a great cause. ”

"It's a secret. ”

This concludes the conversation.

It was spring when I left Babylon, and unlike when I first came to Babylon, I was full of farming and greenery all the way.

It only took three days for everyone to reach the Philins Mountains, but what made Zhou Lie have a bad premonition finally happened.

A wounded soldier was lying on the ground, and a bunch of people were watching from the outside, but no one dared to step forward to help the other person up, the soldier was covered in blood, unconscious, and did not know when he was lying here.

"Look, it's in the way!" Alfred shouted as he saw the man on the road and didn't know what he was doing, sticking his head out of the window.

The crowd broke out, revealing the appearance of soldiers, and seeing the armor on the other side, Randy stopped the carriage, threw down the reins, and ran towards the other party.

Zhou Lie had also seen this armor, which was the armor style of the team of men and horses that Garcia had taken away, and seeing the injuries suffered by this soldier, he was afraid that he had suffered a devastating blow.

"It's Mistress Randy. The soldier still breathed.

"That's right, what's going on, don't you have the Knight King with you?"

"It's useless for the Knight King to be here, it's just a monster, and then there was a man in black who came to the aid halfway, Your Highness, and they fled, I have to report the news. Ahem. The soldier coughed, and Randy quickly told him to stop talking.

"Wow, it's miserable, but if you look closely, the wound is only on the back, and most of the blood on his body is not his own. Alfred stepped forward and took a look at the other man's injuries, and found that they were not very serious.

"Move him to the wagon first, how about getting to the nearby towns?" asked Layla eagerly.

"From here you can go north to the nearest town, called Oaks, where there is a doctor. Passers-by said.

Loading the people into the carriage, the crowd gradually dispersed, and Randy did not leave immediately, but grabbed a pedestrian and asked, "Where did you come from, why didn't you save this soldier." ”

The pedestrian looked embarrassed and said, "We are the villagers of the next village, there was a team of troops who appeared before, and asked us to go into the mountains to lead the way, and the hunters in our village went to lead the way, but now we haven't come back, we are ready to go into the mountains to find someone, and we found him, to be honest, we don't know what to do, the nearest town is far away, and we don't know how to save people, just when you came." ”

"Are you going into the mountains next?" Randy asked.

The other party hurriedly shook his head and loved the club, "Seeing that kind of injury, we don't dare, we originally heard that they came to retreat from the demonic beast, but now their soldiers are like this, you see that scar, it is definitely a huge claw scratch, where do we dare to go, we were originally discussing which lord to report from time to time, it just so happened that you came, you go back to report." ”

Looking at the other party's frightened eyes, Randy waved his hand in annoyance, sent the other party away, and silently got into the carriage and drove north.

The silent knight Fred took off the soldier's armor and treated the wound briefly, the wound on his back was hideous and ugly, like the scratches left by a wild beast, but it was not a troublesome wound, but if it was not handled properly, it was fatal enough.

When they arrived in the town of Oaks, it was already evening, and Alfred had gone to the hotel, and the others drove the soldier to the only doctor's house in the town, and it was the time for their meal, and almost half by begging and half-forced, the doctor had treated the soldier's wounds.

"That's it. The doctor walked out of the room and wiped the sweat from his forehead, half of the pressure here came from the trouble of the wound, and half from the pressure given by Randy, if he didn't handle the requirements of these officials this year, he might lose his life at any time, but it seemed that this time he met a more reasonable person.

"The wound is deep, I have to recuperate for half a month before I can resume normal exercise, I have to rub the medicine on time every day, change the bandage, if you can't change the bandage, you can come to me. ”

"Well, thank you, it's a consultation fee. Throwing over a bag of money, the doctor didn't even dare to count it, and took it with a smile, as long as he could send away this trouble quickly, he was willing to collect less.

Returning to the hotel with the soldiers, Randy inquires about the ins and outs of the group.

"After our group came here, although the knight king Moran had been here, Garcia still asked the locals to lead the way, and Moran did not force it, so under the leadership of the two hunters, a team of men and horses entered the mountain and came to the top of the mountain, and sure enough, when the sun rose, there was a dragon roar. ”

"For three days we searched the mountains, and on the fourth day we found the source of the sound, which was in a cave, a naturally formed stone cave, with a stream flowing from the front, and His Highness sent half of the men to stay outside, and the ordinary people followed him in, and before entering, His Highness changed into a strange armor. ”

That armor must have been something he got from Ronald, Zhou Lie nodded.

"The cave is very large, and there is a fork in the road, His Highness thinks that it is necessary to go separately, but Moran feels that it should not be like this, so there is a dispute, and finally His Highness leads a team of people to one side, and Lord Moran leads another team to the other side. ”

"I was in the ranks of His Highness Garcia, and as we walked, we actually walked out of the cave and came to the other side, and there, we found the monster. ”

At this, the soldier had a frightened look in his eyes.

"It's an ancient demon god, it's terrifying, those wings are covered with corpses, they can cover the sky, and the flames that protrude from that mouth can sweep the earth, if that monster wants to, I'm afraid it can swallow the world. ”

When Zhou Lie heard this, he looked at Randy, this kind of monster seems to be a beast god soldier?

Randy ignored it and continued to wait for the soldier to continue.

"At that time we were all about to run away, but His Highness rushed up, and His Highness flew up, and he also sent out magic, I don't know what it was, anyway, colorful balls of light flew around in the air, and His Highness and the monster were fighting there, but we couldn't help at all. ”

"Suddenly, His Highness fell from the sky, we hurried to save him, but we couldn't find His Highness, but were scattered by the monster, and it was also at this time that a man with a hood and a sickle rushed out and actually dragged the monster, and I seemed to hear the monster speak. ”

"I was scared, and then I fled, I don't know how long, and I found out that I had left the mountains, and I thought that I would at least find the lord and report it before I died, and then, I met you. ”

After listening to the soldier's account, Alfred came out, and the rest of the people were solemn and silent.

The ghost blows the lamp