Marin turned his head again, and the sound of the explosion in the woodland made him understand that there was only a big problem today, and the signal that exploded in the sky made Faye recognize it, and the girl's voice sounded in Marin's head: "It's the alarm signal from the battle mage, don't go over, he's dead." ”

"Is that the final signal that leads to the soul?" Jessica had heard of this too, and her question was echoed by Faye: "Yes, the final signal, the Crimson Signal, the Three-Ring Battle Mage, there are many ways to make such a mage die, but it can force him to ignite his own soul...... The other party is not so simple. ”

Faye's answer convinced Marin that it would be better to stay as far away from there as possible: "Let's go, girls. ”

As they continued through the woodland, Fio whispered in Marin's ear from time to time, and every now and then he could feel something chasing them as he planted thorns along the way.

This is bad news, but the good news is that they can't seem to sniff the smell and can only rely on the little traces they leave behind to pursue, which greatly delays their movements, and even goes down the wrong path that Marin left them on several occasions.

"Something is after us." Marin told Faye the news, and the latter thought for a moment: "There are a lot of things that can go after us, and I think it could be war dogs." She looked at the war dogs walking at the bottom of the slope: "But it's not likely, although we are here in the south, but the wild species of war dogs are not uncommon, the other party should not think that we have war dogs, so they will be led astray, but I suggest that you better let these war dogs stay farther away from us." ”

"I asked Lorraine to take them a little farther away." Marin accepted Faye's suggestion, and Lorraine quickly disappeared from Marin's vision with them, so that even if they found traces of war dogs, they should not have thought that these big dogs and the targets they were chasing were companions.

Turning over a hill, Marin saw the camp - in the clearing, the apprentices chose a good place, under normal circumstances, choosing an open space to camp is conducive to defending against possible raids, after all, in the southern woodland, the green skins are already the most difficult things to deal with, and they basically live in the western provinces and the southern woodlands at the junction of the border area, rarely go south, and the apprentices have a few brushes, and if they can't beat the green skins, they can at least run away.

It's just a pity that these brushes are a little too much for the ogre.

"It's strange, there's no investigation team in the camp, did they go back?"

Jessica lay on the ground, holding a telescope, she looked at the situation in the camp with some doubts, and then handed the telescope in her hand to Marin: "I can't see anyone, but the tent of the investigation team is still there." ”

"Don't look at it, there's definitely a problem." After Marin finished speaking, he patted the backpack on his back, and Milani got out of the bag, knowing Marin's intentions, he went up the tree, and then followed the treetops to the camp to scout.

"We went around from the west to the north." Sensing that the wind had changed, Marin decided to continue to hide downwind - it would be better if the two sides could fight when the camp was unaware of the situation and the enemy was chasing behind him.

Halfway through the detour, Jessica first smelled the scent, and under her leadership, Marin and the others found a corpse.

One of the senior students of the Church of the God of War, who was supposed to be a member of the investigation team, died very close to the creek when an uncut branch entered the back of his heart and crucified him to the ground.

"He should have been pinned down in that position." Jessica pointed to the top of the hill not far away.

"That has to be very powerful, right, ogre?" Faye asked with some uncertainty as he glanced at the location.

"No, the thing that cuts the branches is sharp, and I don't think the ogre has such a sharp weapon, because according to the intelligence, the group of apprentices killed by the ogre used stone blades when they were dismembered."

Speaking of this, Marin sighed: "Ogres may not be able to eat enough in the woodland, and if they were to kill people, they would not have thrown such a large piece of meat here. As soon as he finished speaking, Marlin noticed a warning from Melo on the slope.

Marin immediately stood up, and Faye turned on the invisibility orb, and she and Jessica carefully circled behind the rocks and began to move away from the battlefield.

And Marin pulled up the hood of the gilly suit and hid beside the stones and moss on the side, blending in perfectly with the landscape.

After a while, an old man with a child walked up to the top of the hill.

"Grandpa, there's a dead man there." The child said with some smugness, as if to show his elders his sight and stupidity.

Sure enough, the old man patted his grandson on the head: "If the person who killed them is here, you and I are already dead just now." ”

Then the old man went downhill, examined the body, and crossed the river from the ford.

It was only then that Marin began to move, and Milani climbed down from the tree, bringing Marin the not-so-new news that the camp was full of dead people.

"All the camps are dead." After Marin finished speaking to the girls, he led them over the river beach, and after making sure that the old man and the young man had walked carefully and left no traces, Marin continued north.

"We can start searching for your brother, Jessica, if there are any secret marks in your family, keep an eye out for yourself." Marin didn't want to be omniscient, so he left the matter to Jessica herself, and Marlin climbed the hill and immediately fell to the ground.

Jessica grabbed Faye—she almost followed as she climbed the hill with her head down.

"What's wrong?" Jessica climbed up.

"Ogre, one of them, the other may be blocked by a tree." Marin pointed into the distance, where an ogre was heading this way, perhaps the calamity brought on him by the child's voice earlier.

After a short walk, another ogre came out from behind the tree.

Good, looks like both ogres are there.

"What to do." Looking at these two behemoths, Jessica couldn't bear what to do.

“…… Killed. Marin looked at the ogre, and there was an irrepressible killing intent in his heart - he couldn't let this monster run rampant in the woodland and kill them.

With this in mind, Marin motioned for Jessica and Faye to move fifteen meters to his left.

Then Marin stood up.

Shake off the pulley bow, pull an arrow from the quiver, and swap the small firing device and arrow in the fanny pack.

The ogre approached, and they looked around, but they didn't notice Marlin at all—with their sight, they were afraid they wouldn't notice Marlin at all.

So when he was still about thirty meters away from them, Marin drew his bow.

The sound of the pulley finally caught their attention, and Marlin let go of the strings as they stopped and began searching for the source of the sound.

The arrow burrowed into the eye socket of the ogre closest to him, and as the firing mechanism hit the undereye and began to work, Marin saw the ogre's head explode like a watermelon.

He drew a second arrow and opened his bow, which went into the knee of the ogre running towards him.

The latter roared and lost his composure, and when he fell, the surface he faced had turned into a mire, and the ogre splashed a large amount of muddy water.

Then Marlin's third arrow burrowed into its skull.

Adamantite armor-piercing arrows can penetrate human heavy plate armor, and no matter how hard the ogre's head is, it can't be as hard as the stainless steel plate armor pressed by humans with a water press.

"Let's go." After speaking, Marin slapped an acceleration technique for the two girls who stood up: "Hurry up, let's flow by the small river." ”

With that, Marin came to Faye's side and picked her up and jumped down the hill first.

Jessica jumped up to him, "Aren't we going to cut off their ears as proof?" ”

"No, their cries will help the hunters around us locate us and must leave." After speaking, taking Faye's hand, Marin led the two into the creek, the river was full of cold, and Marin patted the three of them to resist the cold.

Less than two minutes after they left the area, a crouched undead crossbowman emerged from the air, its soulless dark eye sockets swept around it, and then the soul fire rekindled, and its owner appeared at its side.

"Roland is dead...... A waste, how long has it been since he left the battlefield, and he has forgotten that the lion and the rabbit also need to do their best. The young man sniffed the blood in the air, stood on the top of the hill, looked at the two dead ogres in front of him, and noticed the small footprints on the side.

Then he went downhill, saw the footprints by the river, and eventually watched the footprints disappear into the river.

"Cunning fellow......" he stretched out his hand, and a bony bird landed on his hand, "Tell our master that we have found prey, and are heading south down the hill, and it seems that we want to escape back to Fort Carter, and ask for interception." ”

With that, he released the Bone Bird.

Then he began to pursue along the river, and on both sides of the river, more and more bone crossbowmen appeared.

They seem to be completely unafraid of the sun, and as their commander, the young man walks in the sun, and the shadow elongated by the sun has an ominous translucency.

Like white bones, it comes out of the world on its own.

………………

At the same time, Fort Carter, the organizing committee of the competition.

"Cel Kate, I don't think we should put him on it." As a member of the organizing committee, the middle-aged man scratched his head: "Really, you can't put it on, I've been thinking about it for a long time, I think we ...... He shouldn't be played, right? ”

"Why, is it just because he is a pale lord." The young man was unimpressed: "Didn't he say that he only fights with real swords." ”

"But what if he doesn't control his thirst for blood, there are so many kids on the field."

"That's why the Mage Tower will be here at that time, don't worry, my old friend, you have to believe the promises made by the mages, especially the promises made by the two mage groups that are completely incompatible with each other."

The conversation between the two came to this point, and someone made a final statement for their argument.

An old man walked in: "Lady Anna has recommended Her Excellency Cel Kate as the finale of the exhibition match. ”

"You see, Lady Anna has recommended him, and I said that the one who knows the mage best will always be another mage."