The corpse lying in the snowdrift had almost been frozen into popsicles, but it could still be vaguely seen that he was about forty or fifty years old, upright and prime; The facial features are quite upright, and the eyebrows and eyes can vaguely be seen to be locals, wearing a thick fur suit, and holding a short bow in his hand, at first glance, he is a hunter in the Lantoniland area.

Brando could actually confirm the identity of the other party, but before he could answer, Freya, who was squatting next to the corpse, said in a somewhat sad tone: "The fatal wound is an arrow wound in the back, the same as the corpse we found before, but this one should have died at that time." ”

"--The wound on the corpse we encountered earlier should have been sustained in this vicinity, but the hunter's wound was relatively minor, and after he escaped from here, he was attacked by the frost demon and finally died." Lorena looked at the corpses in the snowdrifts and said with some indignation, "You nobles of Eruin are really too much. ”

"The nobility of Cruz is similar, not to mention that the identity of our enemies is first and foremost a cultist, and there is also a responsibility for you." The black-haired female knight replied coldly on horseback.

Lorenna glanced at her, and finally couldn't hold back her mouth.

"That's not unreasonable." Brando thought to himself, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he raised his head and said to everyone: "If the battle is happening near here, then this should have been Anlek's camp, everyone scattered and searched left and right to see if there were any clues." ”

Before he could finish his words, as if to confirm his words, a whistle sounded in the forest. It was a signal that his guards had agreed to communicate with each other.

Everyone turned their heads to that side, and saw the girl on the white horse trotting out of the forest. Hipamila, still wearing her linen robe in the cold, turned around and pointed with her staff in the forest in a certain direction, "Your Excellency." A number of bodies were found here. ”

"Anlek really did it." Nimesis shook her head slightly.

Freya stood beside Brando, and her heart sank slightly. couldn't help but grit her teeth, she had a trace of luck expecting to save those hunters, but she didn't expect the other party to be so desperate.

beside her. The female knight Laurenna's face is also not very good-looking.

"Take us there." Brando sighed and replied. He remembered the worried and expectant looks on the hunters' families when they left Shallow Water. Their husbands and fathers may be the sole breadwinners of a family. Once you lose your financial resources, your future life can be imagined; There are even single-parent families, and the rest are just helpless children, who wait at home for their father's return, but may wait for the news of him to be heard from again.

When he thought of this, he couldn't help but feel a slight chill in his heart.

Hipamela seems to have seen what her lord thinks in his lord's heart, and as the priest of Himerude, she originally existed in this world to protect the world. The girl is not the saint who is not contaminated with dust in the deep palace of the Flame Temple, she knows the hardships of the people's livelihood. Therefore, I can't help but lower my eyelashes slightly.

She tugged at the reins, turned her horse's head, and led the group into the woods.

After passing through a small sparse cedar forest, the view suddenly becomes clearer. A clearing believed to have been cut down appeared in front of everyone. But everyone couldn't help but suffocate slightly when they saw the scene in front of them. The collapsed animal skin tents seemed to be still the same as they had been back then, and in this camp that seemed to have been trampled once. The tragic battlefield was restored in front of everyone.

More than twenty corpses were piled up in the center of the camp, with a few scattered around, the snow strewn with conspicuous dried blood, and broken arrows stuck everywhere in the camp.

Brando saw Metisa's unicorn standing by the pile of corpses, and the little silver elf princess held the ice and snow on the ground with both hands, and the ice and snow turned into crystal clear ice flowers in her hands. She placed the bouquets next to each corpse, looking very calm.

"Your Excellency," she saw Brando, before patting the snow on her knees and standing up, "I remember in the last great battle. The Silver Elves will give a bouquet of lilies to all the companions of the brave warriors, which the warriors will wear on their chests on the next time they go into battle to avenge their fallen companions. ”

Brando nodded.

"Rest assured, Enlek will pay for this, some people regard the lives of others as ants, these people have long been abandoned by Martha." He replied coldly: "Chaos can't shelter them, look, the bloodshed will be repaid with blood." ”

"Are there any people alive?" Seeing this scene, Laurena couldn't help but gasp and asked in a low voice. But anyone could tell that this honest and kind lady from Cruz was only suppressing her anger.

Medisa shook her head, "At least in this camp, it's all dead. ”

There was a slight silence in the camp.

Although Brando, Freya, Nimesis, and even Akane had all fought many battles, and life and death on the battlefield had long been commonplace - but it was a fight for their lives, and there was a naked slaughter in front of them - these hunters from the region around Lantoniland had their own families, fathers, husbands, or sons of their families, who may have entered the forest with a vision for the future, but simply to make life better for their loved ones.

But all hope for the future is ruthlessly stifled here. It's just for the inexplicable pursuit of some people, who don't know how to respect life at all.

As Freya watched the scene, she seemed to think of Buche burning in the fire. The people of the kingdom are struggling in the midst of disaster, while his nobles are just indifferent bystanders, even fueling the trouble.

How similar is the qiē that happened at different times and places.

She gritted her teeth, her fists clenched almost white.

Laurenna, who was on the side, also seemed to notice the future Valkyrie's mood fluctuations, and she felt a little good for Freya in her heart, and couldn't help but say: "Let's put the hunters' bodies in order, and it's better to find a way to bury them, and then take them out when we leave here - at least their families have the right to know what happened here." ”

The words of the female knight from Cruz couldn't help but impress Brando. Although he knew that Laurenna was known for her integrity and kindness. But after all, the other party is the daughter of a big aristocratic family. I didn't expect to think about it so carefully.

He looked at the other in amazement. But as if noticing his gaze, Lorenna turned back and explained to everyone, "The knights respect their sacrificial companions. At least they won't let their dead comrades be exposed to the wilderness. Although these people are not our companions, we promise to bring them back, dead or alive. At least give an account to their families. ”

With one hand on her chest, she replied with some seriousness to everyone, "I hope I can keep my promise." ”

"Yes, I support Sister Laurena's opinion." After hearing this, Medisa couldn't help but nod slightly in support of her.

"Me too." Freya exhaled softly and replied a little lonely.

Brando looked at the other side of the Nuga River, but there was not much time left for them. Her Royal Highness was on her way to Wallendenburg, and Eco and Macaro had clearly arrived first. In the south, Count Jean Denel and the army of the Blood Staff are converging - from persuading the Grand Duke of Vieiro to form an alliance, to ambushing Count Jean Denel as in history. There was only one month left for him.

That means he'll be in the forest for up to two weeks.

The scorching summer sun, which had become very mild in the frost-stained forest, had already moved over the middle line overhead, and if it was delayed a little longer, I was afraid that I would have to spend the night here.

He looked at Nimesis beside him. The female knight did not agree. There was no objection either. However, these days he has gradually become familiar with the other party's character, and he knows that this is actually a tacit acquiescence.

Brando finally nodded.

Fortunately, everyone present understood that they were pressed for time. Brando nodded, and each of them consciously began to clean up the battlefield. Due to the abundance of manpower, digging some pits in the snow to bury the bodies is actually not a difficult task. And because it was expected that the bodies of the hunters would be recovered sooner or later, the guards under the command of Lorenna dug only a few large pits that were not troubled, covered with snow and soil, and then made conspicuous marks.

Others, Metisha and Freya, searched farther afield for possible survivors. Although Brando didn't think it was too likely, he had seen from the hunters' arrow wounds earlier that this time Enlek had brought all the veterans he had been fighting with him for many years, and it was unlikely that he would make such a low-level mistake.

It's just that just as Brando was thinking this, Charles's voice suddenly came from his heart.

"Lord, what do you suppose I found?"

"What?" Brando was stunned for a moment, then asked.

"A woman."

"Shire, although the weather here is still relatively cold, it is already summer, and spring has long passed." Brando was stunned for a moment, then replied with some annoyance.

"No, no, you're mistaken about what I meant. My lord, I mean I found a woman alive. Charles hurriedly screamed that he had been wronged.

……

Peya was found in the Nouga River, and Charles happened to see her washed down from the upper reaches of the river along with the drift ice, hanging from a branch of a tree that reached into the middle of the river.

In this weather, the temperature of the river was close to freezing, and Charles found the woman almost soaking wet, soaked in the icy water, with a long stab wound on her back. The knife wound seemed to be due to excessive blood loss, and the rolled flesh was soaked white.

Originally, in such a state, the young wizard's first judgment was that the woman was dead, but the truth played a joke on him. When he used a spell to scoop the other party up from the middle of the river, he found that the other party still had a heartbeat.

And then what happened after that, Peya already knew.

But for the girl herself, she never remembered what happened before she jumped into the river. She only remembered that the nobles had turned their faces that day, and the oldest hunter in the team was directly impaled by the middle-aged swordsman's sword.

And then there was the scuffle, the swords and swords.

It's like a terrible scene that only happens in a nightmare. The most powerful hunter in the team, who was said to have served as a swordsmanship instructor in the army in the Manowell region, and the leader with silver strength, was not the opponent of the middle-aged swordsman for a round.

She never dreamed of the scene when the noble knights gathered around them with a smirk, and then the screams of familiar people came and went.

She remembered that a knight tried to hold her down, cutting off her hands. She remembered the vulgar rebuke and groped her with her hand in an unruly manner.

If it weren't for the ring, she really didn't know what terrible things would have happened after that.

After that, it seemed that the thing was to run away, but the wound on the back was so painful, and the body became weaker and weaker. But in his heart, he became more and more worried about his brother, and the pursuers got closer and closer, and then it was dark.

"Can't ...... Die"

"Yaruta ......"

It was like a long nightmare, and every face in the nightmare was distorted. The townsfolk who had once hated their siblings had blood on their faces. And then there was the face of the smirking knight. Eventually, she saw her brother stabbed by a gunshot and nailed to the snow, red blood spilling out from beneath him like a myriad of tiny red snakes.

"Don't-!"

The girl opened her eyes suddenly.

She was sweating profusely before she could see a woman's face in the faint light of the fire outside the tent. She recognized the identity of the other mountaineer at a glance, only the mountaineer would have such long fiery red hair, and the girl hugged her knees, leaned on a spear, and looked at her motionlessly.

"Y-who are you......" Peya seemed to want to ask, but she immediately felt a burning pain in her throat. In the end, only some meaningless hoarse syllables were heard, but the pain was so severe that she couldn't help but moan.

"Your lord said, you'd better not talk and rest more. You're badly hurt, but the point is that you've been in a coma for an unknown amount of time in the icy river water, and now you're having a fever, but we don't have any herbs at hand. ”

Akane has rarely spoken in front of strangers since she left the Gray Wolf Mercenary Regiment, but when she does, she finishes her words in one breath as if she were reciting a boring report.

After saying that, she still looked at the woman on the bed quietly, her eyes shining with the fire outside.

Peiya was slightly stunned, but felt the kindness of the other party. She lay back down, her mind in a mess, but finally quieted down.

She frowned slightly, as if struggling to remember what had happened.

……

(PS: Today's, 7K.) It's still the same sentence.,I've been a little busy lately.,Yesterday's difference can only be made up a little bit.,Let's make up 1K today.。 Before the 20th, we will strive to ensure a daily average of 6K. ）