The mouth is full of blood, Elan. Gerson spat on the cold and damp winters of Astelle, and even more so in the misty forest, his woolen sweater already soaked under the heavy leather armor. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Sweat froze in the cold wind, making him chill all over, even after the escape, his body still couldn't get warm, only the rust-smelling liquid in his mouth still had a little residual warmth.

Licking his lips, the burly man looked at the people around him.

The water-red curly-haired El youth was nervously rubbing his hands at the moment, on the one hand, to keep warm in this harsh winter forest, and on the other hand, to relieve his anxiety.

"I said, Mr. Gerson, shouldn't we go back to the camp, you see it's been so long, those monsters should be gone, right?"

The El youth, William. The cherry eyes of the distant mountains looked at Gerson, and his eyes were a little fluttering.

"It's all you...... It's all your fault! ”

Gerson's fists were clenched, and the muscles he had trained for many years were knotted, and this man exuded an aura of being unapproachable at the moment, and the young El in front of him looked even shorter.

"I knew I shouldn't have agreed to your bullshit commission, even if I was given three times the price, I wouldn't do it!"

Gerson cursed, staring at William fiercely, if his eyes could kill, this little man of the El clan must have been killed by Gerson thousands of times in various ways.

"Fifteen brothers died in this ghost forest for nothing, and I can't kill you on the spot because of this, what!"

Gerson threw his fist down, and the trees beside him shook for a moment, startling a few birds.

He had signed an agreement with this El guy in the mercenary association, he couldn't make a move against the two employers, this was a magic contract, as long as Gerson violated this contract in any way, the association would know about it, and Gerson and all the people of the lark mercenary group would be wanted by the major mercenary groups for premeditated homicide, even if it wasn't for himself, for the sake of those brothers who remained in the town, Gerson could only hold back this breath.

Gerson thought that there would be nothing wrong with this operation before signing the magic contract, in fact, the first few days of their journey was quite pleasant, the alchemist brother and sister were quite satisfied with the high-quality herbs and alchemy materials produced by Astel, although the two of them behaved a little strangely on the way, but Gerson did not take it to heart, only that the style of the El clan was different from that of humans.

Unexpectedly, in the early hours of yesterday morning, they were attacked.

Birmingham, who was keeping vigil, was the first to notice the anomaly, but just as he sounded the alarm bell to alert the others, a thick thorn pierced his chest, signaling that chaos began.

Gerson, who would have slept lightly on such occasions, got up and rushed to his employer's tent as soon as he heard the alarm.

According to Gerson's intelligence, the battle line between Wendland and Astel had not yet reached this area, so it should not be an army attack, and he had guessed that it was a bandit wandering in the woods, but when he rushed out of the tent with his beloved giant axe, he realized that he was very wrong.

It was hundreds of arm-thick thorns, and huge trees scurrying behind it, and he swore he had never seen such a terrifying monster, though he had heard from some Orions in the town's tavern about the moving tree-like monsters, but he had only taken it as a drunken old man's eyes, and he didn't take it seriously.

But now I can see with my own eyes, this is the song of hell played by dozens of tree demons, although the warriors of the mercenary group have the strength of the bronze middle rank to the peak, but in the face of such an opponent who has never fought before, he has suffered losses again and again, Gerson's giant axe cut off a thorn, and another thorn attacked him from the dead corner behind him, and he could only turn his body to meet it.

Gerson also has a strong man with the strength of the middle and upper ranks of the silver, and he is already bitter in the face of this tree demon's attack, and as for his team members, they are even more in a bitter battle.

Gerson saw that Cuenca, a fellow who was good at wielding long knives, had just blocked the attack of the thorns in front of him, when he tripped over another vine beneath him, and the spiked branches immediately wrapped around his legs, hanging Cuenca upside down, and then, five thorns penetrated his body from different directions, tearing it into several pieces, and blood and internal organs were scattered in the air, staining the thick fog red.

Gerson saw Clinkz, a guy who could shoot a rabbit ten miles away, and was about to attack a tree demon with a bow and arrows, when his hands were tied by thorns on both sides, and finally split in two under the pull, and the beech longbow was broken in two and scattered on the snow.

Gerson saw that Pugna, a mage skilled in freezing spells, had just struck the Dryad with an ice spear and was caught by the other two Dryads, shattering his staff, screwing his neck, and finally turning into a mess of rotten flesh under the whipping of the thorns, making it impossible to recognize even the human form.

Seeing the death of his teammates who had fought side by side, Gerson's eyes were red, and he wanted to rush out and smash all these damn monsters to pieces.

While fighting, he arrived at the tent where the El brothers and sisters were, only to find that it was already a mess, with human corpses and tree demons scattered and broken thorns, and only the elder brother and sister were left with the fallen tent to save their lives, and the younger sister was long gone.

Gerson picked up the confused William, immediately gathered the remaining people, and broke through to the place where the number of tree demons was small, along the way a few more people were dragged away by the sneak attack of the tree demons on the side of the road, until they got rid of the entanglement of the tree demons, and finally stopped, Gerson found that in addition to him and William, there were only two brothers of the mercenary group left.

Petra was an assassin who was good at stealth operations and was a good detective in the regiment, but now he had one eye half-closed, blood seeping from the corner of his eye, and his left hand was hanging down, without any strength.

Haas, the bard, had been acting as a healer in a mercenary group that lacked the healing profession of the Prator, but at the moment he was unable to heal his wounds, and the blood dripped down his arm on the snow-covered woodland, dissolving a little crimson mark.

"Anyway, I hope to find my sister Luluan...... No, no, Mr. Gerson, everything is up to you. ”

William couldn't read the air anymore, and he knew that Gerson was in a state of extreme anger now, and he was forced back by the expression on Gerson's face halfway through his words.

"We need to get out of this damn forest first, out of this annoying fog......"

Gerson looked up at the sky obscured by the shadows of the trees and mist, they had been attacked at dawn, it was already early afternoon, and if they didn't get out of the forest soon, they would face another terrifying night.

"But where do we go from here?"

William asked cautiously, he naturally wanted to go back to the camp to confirm his sister's situation, but William was not stupid, he knew that there might still be tree demons left there, and going alone was tantamount to death, but it was a little impractical to persuade the angry man in front of him.

"World Tree Bud Trasil, we can walk out of this forest as long as we go in the opposite direction of it."

Gerson said, looking at the huge branches that loomed in the distance.

"So can we stop by ......?"

William, though he regretted not being able to penetrate the World Tree Bud, was also restless by his sister's worries, and as William tried to make another proposal, his words were interrupted by the sound of a disturbing bush in the silent forest.

Gerson was the quickest to react, and he lifted the axe without saying a word.

"What !??"