After Allen was injured and hidden, in order to speed up the speed of finding Allen, the reconnaissance battalion dispersed into several squads to search around, six swordsmen and two dogs were one of the teams, they searched the river bank a few miles away from the wooden house, and had completely lost Allen's traces and clues, who knew that at this time there was smoke rising from the mountains in the distance, so they quickly rushed over to find out. The three of them were busy lighting a fire and cooking at the time, completely unaware that it was the smoke they made when they lit the fire that the enemy from miles away found and followed the direction of the smoke.

After entering the woods, Alan did not continue to escape, but chose to crouch on the branch of a large tree, staring nervously at the ground below. With the dense foliage above his head blocking the light from the sky, and the tree trunks beside him as cover, the light in the cloudy woods was already a little dim, and he had laid a stealth spell around him, which should be enough to fool the swordsman who was tracking him, but it was the two hounds with extremely sensitive noses that were difficult to deceive.

At this moment, the two hounds were circling the tree where he was in his line of sight, sniffing and sniffing, as if they had caught some scent but were not very sure. Alan stared at the two hounds under him and didn't dare to move, he was nervous, but he was a little strange, because when he fell into the woods, he took off his coat and threw it out, just to use the smell of his coat to lure the two hounds away, but now it seems that this plan has not succeeded. It is said that if you stay at a height of more than a dozen steps, this distance should be enough to isolate the smell.

Just when Alan was wondering, he suddenly saw a touch of red in the corner of his eye, and then he immediately understood the reason. He held the injured and unconscious girl in his arms, because he had no time to heal the girl's wounds, so the crossbow arrow was still inserted in the girl's shoulder, but the wound was constantly oozing blood, and the smell of blood was much stronger than the body odor, so it attracted the attention of the hound under the tree.

Allen, who figured out the reason, hurriedly cast a freezing magic on the girl's wounds, freezing the blood flowing out and the wound together, preventing the spread of the smell of blood, this method really worked, the two hounds circled under the tree again, and found no more, and turned around before the swordsman behind arrived, and pounced towards a vine. Allen's robes were hidden among the vines, and they were quickly found by two hounds, who bit a corner with their teeth and dragged it outward. But before they could tear their robes out of the vines, the vines around them suddenly moved, and the vines twisted like spirit snakes around the bodies of the hounds, and the two hounds screamed and were dragged into the vines, and when the four swordsmen arrived, they saw only their corpses.

"What kind of magic is this?"

A swordsman asked in shock as he looked at the battered hound pierced by the spikes on the vines.

"I don't know, but it looks like elven magic. ”

The second swordsman was equally surprised.

"No way, that person is obviously a human magician. ”

The third swordsman denied that he didn't believe anyone could cast both elven and human magic, so he shook his head as fast as he could.

"Don't think about it so much, catch him, interrogate him and you'll know everything. ”

The words of the fourth swordsman seem to make a lot of sense.

"But now that the hound is dead, what are we going to do to find our target?"

"Flare up and call a nearby search team to come and help. ”

There are more than a dozen search teams like this, each responsible for different areas, and in case of emergency, they can contact other teams through flares, so their first thought after losing their hounds is to ask for help from other teams.

"The signal flicked on the crossbowman. ”

A swordsman said, pointing out of the woods.

"Okay, everyone, be careful, let's get out first. ”

The four of them knew that their opponent was very cunning and had to be cautious, so they formed a circle and slowly moved outward, but before they were halfway there, two screams were already heard from outside the woods.

"Not good!"

The four of them heard the screams of their companions, and knew that they had fallen for their opponents' tricks, so they pulled their legs and ran out, and when they came outside, they were stunned by the scene in front of them.

Outside the woods, the wreckage of the hut was still burning, and on the grass next to it were two figures, one charred and black, the other with a long wound on his neck, blood gushing out frantically along the wound.

"Where are his people?"

A swordsman stepped forward to pick up his companion with a wounded neck, looked at the wound that had almost cut his neck in half, and knew that he was hopeless, so he asked with grief in his heart. However, his companion could no longer speak, so he could only point his finger in the direction of the descent, and then his head was crooked and he died.

"Chase!"

The swordsman put down the corpses of his companions, and the first one chased in the direction of the downhill, followed by the other three swordsmen who carried the bodies of two of their companions and followed until they disappeared for half an hour. The flames in the cabin jumped and split off in a path, and Eren emerged from it, taking advantage of the fact that several swordsmen were studying the cause of the hound's death, and one of them quietly sneaked out of the woods, went around behind the two crossbowmen, and launched a surprise attack, first seriously injuring one of them with a wind blade, and then burning the other with a flaming knife.

Continuous spell casting is already the limit of Allen, so after killing two people, he pretended to run in the direction of the mountain, but in fact he didn't run far before he turned around, quietly went around to the burning wooden house, and used fire resistance to protect himself, until all his opponents left, he drove the flames and walked out.

"Wait!"

Just as Alan was about to enter the woods behind the hut, a faint voice suddenly came from behind him. Alan was startled by the sound, and he almost thought that his opponent had turned around and chased after him, but turned around to find that there was no one behind him. Alan was sure he had heard correctly, and he watched carefully for a moment, then focused his gaze on the body of the old man in Nande.

The old man had been lying on the ground after being hit by the arrow, Alan stepped forward and turned him over, tried his snort, found that there was no movement, and just when he thought the old man was dead, the old man suddenly reached out and grabbed his arm.

"I know you're a good person. Protect Miss, send her home, promise me. ”

The old man's eyes opened suddenly, and he looked at Allen's eyes bulging outward, emitting a terrible light, as if Allen's eyes would fly out if he didn't agree.

"Yes! I promise you. ”

Alan hesitated for a moment, but nodded. Seeing that Alan agreed to him, the muscles of the old man's face trembled twice, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say the words when it came to his mouth, and finally his head was tilted, and this time he was completely dead.

It was not appropriate to leave the old man's body in the wilderness, so Alan put the old man's body in a burning wooden house and gave him a cremation. Then he returned to the woods, and with great skill found the tree where he had been hiding, and at the top of the tree, in the branches, where the unconscious girl was still there.