Collect the corpses and burn them along with the settlement - leaving the corpses in the wild will only attract beasts and spirits, and they will become a threat to nearby villages when they eat the corpses.

And as it began to snow, Marlin aborted the rest of the team's itinerary and began to retreat with dozens of goblin cubs, losing one of the summoned earth elementals, Marlin asked Cross to cancel the summoning, and then let the summoned earth elementals carry some cargo boxes that had been turned out of the settlement - they must have attacked the humans with small caravans, otherwise these chests that were not goblin-style at first glance came from.

These chests are taken back to the city and handed over to the Chamber of Commerce, which should be able to exchange a lot of bounties and clear the stigma of the caravan - it is better for a mercenary to die at the hands of a foreign race than to flee with the goods.

"Then again, it's already spring, so why is it snowing." When Marin first arrived last year, it was cold and cold, but it hadn't snowed like this year, so he wasn't sure if it was abnormal weather or normal weather.

"It's normal for Fort Carter to snow in April at the latest, and on the battlefield in the north, it snows in June, and the invasion of Chaos is affecting the weather in several kingdoms in our region, heading east through the plains and into the kingdom of Saar, and now they are probably able to wear single clothes." The dwarf who walked in front of Marlin tightened his collar: "I heard my grandfather say that Fort Carter used to be very hot, and everyone didn't wear winter clothes in winter. ”

It seems that the Chaos Invasion is really fatal, the northern kingdom has not been solved until now, and the fifth great destruction that I don't know where to start has all made Marin feel a headache.

On the way back, Marlin came across a group of light cavalry, who said they had come to inform the hunting apprentices to return to Fort Carter - judging by the weather, there would be snow in the coming week, and in such weather, the spirits would kill each other for the sake of hunger without the apprentices and spirits fighting each other.

"You also killed a litter of goblins?" The light cavalry at the head saw the Corincloth cubs tied with ropes at the back of the group: "Where are their settlements?" ”

"To the east, in the hilly area east of the village of Xerra, if you go now, you should still be able to see the plume of smoke from our incineration." Marin glanced at the hussar.

"Then let's let them continue to burn, let's go, gentlemen, you can only walk back by yourself, be careful all the way." The light cavalry did not react unusually, and the light cavalry led by the light cavalry said goodbye to Marin and left with their companions.

"Although I've always loved steam turbines, it's so cold that steam turbines need to be warmed up, and sometimes they can't start at all, so it's better to have horses." Some team members exclaimed.

"I still prefer steam turbine locomotives, you still need to feed the horses, and the locomotives don't need them, I can even grow flowers to death, and my father said I am not suitable for feeding animals." Another team member expressed a different opinion.

The snow is getting heavier and heavier, and Marin feels the extreme weather of this world for the first time, and everyone doesn't wear much when they go out, so Marin can only add techniques to them one by one to fight against extreme weather.

This caused him to fall behind the group, and in the snow, the Kolimb cubs were guarded by a group of dwarves, and Marlin cast a spell on the dwarves, and then after thinking about it, he took the goblin blanket off the earth elemental's back, slashed it with his sword, and distributed it to the little cubs.

The team stopped for five minutes.

"I feel...... You seem to be ...... Values cubs a lot. Jessica looked at Marlin and said.

"We fight for life and death with their parents, because this world is too small, and we have to decide between each other, but they are just children, and there is more than one goblin paladin in the Just Church, and I think even a goblin is not born a villain with sores on his head and pus on the soles of his feet." Marlin said, looking at the goblin cubs.

"What if any of them grow up and choose to remain our enemies?" A member of the team asked a little unhappily.

"I'll kill it with my own hands, and everyone will have to pay for their choices." After Marin finished speaking, he walked to the front of the team: "Tell those little cubs, when you return to the human city, you can eat, if you don't want to go back with us, I can put it here, put down the blanket and it can go!" ”

“…… You're too merciful, aren't you? A member of the team said dissatisfied, and was immediately beaten by his teammates: "On such a cold day, a goblin walks in the wild, what is the difference between this and suicide." ”

"It turns out that your kindness also has a price." Faye looked at Marin and smiled.

"Yes, mercy has a price, that paladin paid the price to save us, Sarah paid the price to complete the mission, as I said, here, the price of freedom is death." Marin looked back at Faye: "Some people may say that I am cold, but you must know that there are differences between people, not to mention between people and aliens, I am not their nanny, let alone their savior, they want to live, I give them the price, the price is to lose their freedom; They want to be free, and I give them at the cost of losing their lives, like alchemy, all of which is nothing more than a standard equivalent exchange. ”

"In your eyes, can everything in the world be clearly priced?" A little girl was asking Marin with confusion and doubt.

Marin smiled and nodded: "In addition to love, friendship and faith, everything in this world has a price. ”

"Why don't these three?" It was still the same girl, and there was a little more curiosity in her voice.

"Love is a priceless treasure that one person can give to another; Friendship is a beautiful scroll drawn by two people who trust and identify with each other; And faith is the shield that guards the softest part of every person's heart. Speaking of this, Marin looked at the girl: "The rest are just insignificant parts of this world, goods that can be put up at a price and sold at will." ”

Marin doesn't know who can really understand his words, but he doesn't expect them to understand, in this world, in the end, no one will really understand himself.

Even Faye, who grinned and held her hand, was not the girl who could really understand herself.

But as a man, don't be too picky.

Returning to Fort Carter safely, Marin asked the Earth Element to hand over the goods to the head of the merchant guild's warehouse area near the city gate, and the other party gave Marin a certificate of storage.

After receiving the proof, Marlin returned to the church with the party, and the goblin cubs attracted some attention, and some merchants wanted to buy them, but Marlin dealt with them on the grounds that they would be handed over to the just church.

As soon as this sentence came out, no one dared to take it at all - those who dared to catch it were either already dead balls or were running on the front line of dead balls.

On the side of the Church of Justice, there was also some lack of preparation for the fact that Marlin's apprentice hunting team could pull over so many goblin cubs, and after knowing that Marlin had burned a goblin settlement, doubts turned into appreciation, and His Excellency the Bishop specially gave Marin a medal, which was counted in the hunting activities, and the entire team had a share.

Leaving the church, Marin took Faye on the way back to the Harvest Goddess Church.

It was snowing heavily, which reminded Marin of his own youth, and it was almost the same weather as he and her, the two young children, met for the first time.

It's a pity that it's all in the past.

Marin thought as he noticed the children roasting the fire in the corner of the road, and Marin saw the fruit in the fire and their anticipation.

Is it something like roasted sweet potatoes?

Although life is not good, these little ones still seem to be able to entertain themselves.

As he crossed the crossroads, Faye took Marin's hand and stopped him.

"What's wrong?" There's something strange about Marin.

"I feel like you're a little unhappy, what's wrong?" Faye was curious, Milani stood on her head, and the little squirrel looked at his new owner with curious eyes.

"I thought of something unhappy, but nothing, I'm not the kind of person who can be overwhelmed by sadness." Marin replied with a smile.

"Yes, but I feel like you're lying to me." Faye tilted his head and looked at Marin, as if trying to see the deception in Marin's eyes.

But after all, she couldn't see anything, she could only snort unhappily with her mouth shut, and then took Marin's hand: "Mom is not wrong, boys can deceive people during the day." ”

Marin Yile: "This paragraph that I obviously wrote in it, when did it become what Aunt Anna said." ”

"She just said it yesterday." The girl snorted and replied, while pulling Marin's hand: "Let's go, the snow is getting heavier and heavier, and I'm going back to drink hot cocoa." ”

"I want to drink it too." Marlin nodded.

Holding hands with his peers, he walked through the streets, through the alleys, and through the crowd until he returned to the church, where Marin saw Maya standing in front of the door of the antechamber, and when the latter saw Marin, he finally breathed a sigh of relief...... For no reason, Marin felt uncomfortable, he reached out and patted the little leopard's head, took her hand and walked into the church.

"Happy hunting, Marlin, I've heard you've killed a litter of goblins and captured a lot of cubs." The senior students saw Marin and greeted him warmly.

"Happy hunting, why didn't you go out."

"We were going to go north, but when it snowed, we couldn't get into the mountains." The senior student spread his hands: "By the way, when will you come to practice for us again, I feel that I have made progress recently, and the next time I fight with you, I will definitely not be easily defeated by you." ”

"May, now Hoffman Sr. is thinking about what grade I'm going to jump to."

The grade of the apprentice is not calculated by age, but according to the apprentice's own situation and when he entered the school, so as long as possible, 20-year-old first-year students and 6-year-old first-year students are possible, Marin entered the apprenticeship class last year, and now a year has passed, because in the advance of his studies, the church has 'discussed' the problem of Marin several times, and the third-grade tutor said that the child has no problem jumping for a year;

Further up, Marlin's situation does not allow it (only one year, and the maximum can only jump to the fifth grade), but if he does not jump, the second-grade class is a completely repetitive process for Marin, and Marlin can't keep up with Marlin's pace in terms of technique.

But Marin didn't care at all, no matter how much he jumped, he wouldn't be able to learn a new technique until he was fourteen years old.

"That's nice." The senior student sighed, and then waved to Marin, who was dragged away by the girls: "Goodbye, Marin." ”

Marin smiled and nodded, and was dragged into the rest area by the girls.

The lounge area is used by church members and is usually made up of a small semi-open area of three three-seated sofas and a two-seater, where the girls in the group have already made drinks and some of the team members are sitting around listening to the bragging.

"Look, our commander is here." A little girl smiled and introduced herself to her companion.

"Hello, Marlin, you've had a good harvest over there." Everyone is in the same grade, and they usually don't see each other when they look up, so the relationship is not bad, and the leader of the other team, who is also the commander of Logan's team, greeted him with a smile.

Marin also nodded: "Did you have anything to gain today?" ”

"Helped the villagers kill a litter of giant rats, a total of seventeen, and then killed a wild boar that had entered the mess, and the meat was considered to have fallen recently, "During the hunt, everyone must bring their own food, and they can't get it from home, so hitting a wild animal big enough is a good thing to improve the team's rations."

"We're still going to have to eat the fruit." Faye deflated, and the twig in her hand was very cooperatively covered with fruit in an instant.

"My eldest lady, can you not do this, this fruit is better than our animal meat." The commander rolled his eyes: "Why don't we change it?" ”

"Then forget it, you should keep the meat for yourselves." After Faye finished speaking, he threw the twig at Marin, who reached out and the branch deformed in the air, and by the time it was put into Marin's hand, the twig had turned into a wooden bracelet.

Milani got out of Marin's hood, and it squeaked at Faye, who took the acorn out of his pocket and threw it to him, the squirrel caught the acorn that was bigger than it, and rolled twice in Marin's hood, and when he poked his head out, the fruit in his hand had already been bitten by it.

"Spirits!" The commander was nervous at first, then noticed that everyone in Marin's team looked strange, and then noticed the squirrel: "Pet? ”

"So to speak, I'm its owner." Marin replied, snapping his fingers, and Milani jumped into Marin's palm.

"Can I sell it...... Oh, when I didn't say it. The young man patted his head: "I don't think you are a person who has no money, so, sorry, I think this little thing will be very popular if you give it away." ”

"That's right, now I'm its second-in-line owner." Faye smiled and sat down with Marin: "Gorgen, how is your cousin. ”

"What else can he do, of course he went to the west, it is said that there are some brainless sea tribes on the beach who violated the convention and went ashore to hurt the animals raised by the villagers, they went to hunt, the sea tribe violated the convention in front, our people just killed those brainless guys, and the sea tribe has no place to reason."