"What's going on!?" When he saw Byron, the large red blood stains on the other party's abdomen made Crand's heart sink, "Do you feel like you can still hold on?"

"Thanks, I'm fine. Byron's face turned a little pale, "He told me to rest for a few days, and try not to pull the wound......"

"What the hell is going on here? There's another person!?" Crane was completely confused.

Probably in order to make the bleeding wounded a little easier, Adolf, who was accustomed to silence, took over the conversation: "The wound on his body was done by the guy named Allen, it shouldn't matter anymore, an elf ranger used a life spell to heal him, the details of this will be discussed on the way, we had better bring this news to you as soon as possible." ”

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As they left the forest, the entire burial procession was unusually silent. These people had just experienced the strength and ruthlessness of the enemy through the corpses of their companions, and what made them even more disturbing was that the two leaders had brought the news that the enemy's thousand-strong team was hidden in the jungle. However, before the enemy showed up, they were unaware!

If the purpose of those alien warriors was not simply to show force, but to annihilate them, the adventurers who entered the forest to bury the corpses of their companions, perhaps they would have become lonely ghosts and abandoned in this foreign land...... He died in the forest because of the collection of corpses, and it was difficult to think of someone to bury him.

"Are those alien warriors really that powerful?" Although Crane believed the judgment of Byron and Adolf, the young leader, who had never witnessed the shocking images, still had a certain sense of luck.

Answering this question repeatedly, even Byron, who was close to Crane, began to become impatient: "What makes me more curious than this confirmed information is what the elven ranger said at the end of the 'choice', and why they are reluctant to show more people how powerful they are." ”

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It wasn't until they returned to the adventurer's camp that the three leaders, who were already faintly on the same front, understood why the enemy was useless, and achieved the purpose of deterrence by allowing more people to experience their strength up close.

Because it was not necessary, the adventurers of the entire camp now had a more intuitive idea of the enemy's military strength - Andrari's team of spearmen, shield guards and archers was now stationed on the opposite bank of the adventurer's camp. At a cursory glance, Byron even thought that the troops stationed on the other side of the river were even larger than the enemies he had seen in the forest!

As for the so-called "choice", it has already spread throughout the camp. In the morning, a warship drove from the opposite side, stopping only a few dozen paces away from the river bank, and shooting at the human camp. Perhaps because the other party did not aim to kill the enemy, the warship sailed back after two rounds of arrows, causing only a few casualties. It's just that the message that Andrarui wants to send out has been successfully in the camp of adventurers, and has caused a certain degree of shaking in their morale.

- Inform all adventurers stationed on the banks of the Emerald River that this forest you are in belongs to the legitimate territory shared by the Elven Kingdom and Andrarui, and you must evacuate this place within three days each. If there is no positive response within the time limit, it will be regarded as a declaration of war by Andrari. At that time, Andrarui will expel you by force! I hope you cherish your lives and do not do anything you regret!

On the slip of paper, which was full of lingua franca, was written: André Gesareth, Supreme Governor of Andrari.

There were already hundreds of these little notes in the camp, and almost every literate adventurer had read them more than once, and as for those who were illiterate, it was naturally impossible for them to stay out of the important news that spread so quickly in the camp. The leaders who wanted to block the news and stabilize the morale of the army were also unable to contain Andrari's strong tactics, and it was a thank god for them that the adventurers' inferior hunting bows could barely make an effective counterattack, and did not cause a large number of casualties.

The atmosphere in the council, made up of dozens of adventurer leaders, was oppressive and dreary.

The Elven Ranger's healing spell is not so reliable, and the current Byron is equivalent to the first recovery from a major injury, stabilizing the fatal hemorrhage.

Byron and Adolf sat in the middle of the leaders, describing in as plain language as possible what they had seen in the forest today. Of course, it was mainly Byron who was speaking, and Adolf stood by as the only witness to the truth and reliability of all of Byron's statements. Just like the betrayer Allen, who has been captured by the enemy and whose fate is unknown, said, if it weren't for Adolf's reputation as a veteran adventurer leader, no one would dare to question it to his face. All of Byron's descriptions may really be dismissed by some as alarmist with ulterior motives.

"Could those guys just be bluffing?" Hearing Byron's description, there are still self-conscious leaders who think that the threat of the enemy has been exaggerated by some people.

"In any case, the fact that the other side can march in and out of the forest without a trace is a great thing to be wary of, and our scouts have always kept an eye on the banks of the river for more than ten miles. It is clear that the enemy who appeared in the forest and the enemy who was now stationed on the other side of the river could not be the same group, and now it was not only the enemy's weaponry and the combat effectiveness of the heavily armored soldiers, but also in terms of numbers, their strength had already exceeded our expectations. As a companion, Crane had no reason not to support Byron's remarks, especially since he had not considered relying on force to plunder wealth in Andrarui. Now, the facts before us have proved that the extravagant hopes of adventurers for wealth are unrealistic in the first place, and are clearly a fantasy condensed by the propaganda and encouragement of people with good intentions.

However, once the delusion is formed, it is not destined to be so easy to let go. In the ensuing vote, more than three-quarters of the leaders still decided to stay on the banks of the river and wait for the right moment.

This is a temporary rule that was made before the formation of the adventurer's party, and all major decisions are made by all leaders by vote, and any private action that does not follow the agreement will be considered a betrayal.

Crane could only express his frustration at such an outcome, and it would probably be three days later, when Andrari's soldiers carried out the so-called "expulsion by force" in accordance with their previous declaration, that the adventurers, blinded by greed, would realize the seriousness of the problem.

In fact, the current choice of most leaders is not completely incomprehensible, after consuming so much material and manpower, they gathered on the banks of the Emerald River, but because the enemy could not determine the deterrent, because of this kind of reason that many people felt inexplicable, they chose to retreat without even fighting, which is undoubtedly unacceptable to the vast majority of people.

If things do come to this, most of the leaders will probably lose their prestige from their own ranks as a result of this unconscionable action, and the adventurers' historic and rare spontaneous joint action will end in a joke. Such an outcome is undoubtedly unacceptable to all the leaders, even if most are vaguely concerned about the current situation.

From the day Andrari had shown their strength to their enemies, the Adventurer coalition had rarely been seriously involved in the management of supplies and the arming of their camps. Although the adventurers at the bottom were a little incomprehensible to the leader's decision, they had somehow become the defender of the attacker.

What about the siege that was promised at the beginning!?

But regardless of the efficiency, this somewhat bloated team finally began to move because of the threat of the enemy, and the adventurer camp by the river turned over with great difficulty, like hiding in a cave to hide from the cold of winter. Only a few of them really cared about the threat from the enemy, while the rest believed that they would always have to cross the river in front of them and hit the walls of the other side. The current defensive momentum was better than showmanship, and they didn't believe what the soldiers on the other side of the river could do to them, as for the legendary alien army hidden in the forest. Has anyone else actually seen them other than those two talking to themselves?

In the eyes of most people, it was impossible for Andrari's enemies to leave the fortified city unfortified and take the initiative to cross the river to find the uncomfortable.

Isn't this an obvious thing! Why should they take the initiative to seek war on a battlefield that is even more unfavorable to them, when they have a better position to defend the city? At least half or more of the adventurers feel that Andrarui's declaration and the combat effectiveness they display are just a pretense and want to use this ridiculous method to deter the unprecedentedly powerful adventurer "army of 10,000 people" and achieve the goal of avoiding war.

The main problem that really bothered some of the leaders was the supply of their troops, and some of them were loosely planned, and they had less than ten days' worth of food left. To this end, more than a dozen leaders gathered the combat power of their subordinates, and cobbled together a team of 1,000 people, planning to go deep into the forest again to replenish some prey, so that their supply problems, which had begun to become overstretched, were somewhat alleviated.

They set out on the morning of the third day, after Andrari's warning. Almost all the adventurers who joined the hunting party had a very relaxed expression. In their opinion, as long as they did not fall for the enemy's tricks like the fools before them, with such a large scale of a thousand men, and swept through the forest with a relatively rapid marching speed, those enemies who hid their heads and tails must have no way to take them.

An hourglass after the hunting caravan left the camp, another warship on the other side of the river approached the camp of adventurers on the riverside...... This time, the opposing shooter still fired some arrows with text messages on them.

-- Although there is still one day left before the deadline set by us, we will resolutely stop any act of force that persists in disregarding the advice of others who insist on destroying the balance of the forest.

The name on the note is Leader of the Watchers, Elder Druid, Catrion Wind.

The attitude of the leaders of the adventurers who remained in the camp was not consistent in the attitude of the enemy in response to this blatant intimidation of the enemy. However, after a brief argument, they were largely unanimous in their opinions, sending several messengers to bring a declaration of the enemy's impending attack to their fellow hunters in the forest.

However, the small group of adventurer messengers was doomed to be unable to complete their mission after setting off into the forest. Andrari already has an elite squad of scouts hiding in the path of the enemy's messengers, waiting to intercept the link between the adventurer's camp and the hunter's party.

If the messengers were far beyond their capabilities, Andrari's elite scouts would at best rely on raids to harass them as a deterrent. But the leader of the adventurers only sent a small team of a dozen people, so the fate of the enemy's thousand-man hunting team was already foreseeable in their eyes. Thanks for the tip.