I can't let these guys wander around like a bunch of vagrants anymore.

"We have to set up an attendance system. Stannis muttered to himself and kicked Robert, who was still hugging his thigh, away, and then he and Maester Romon rode out of town along the newly built gravel road.

However, there was a man on the road who blocked their way.

It was Batesmore, the captain of the infantry, who was the culprit who took the lead in absenteeism, and he always disappeared for days without a sound with his blue glowing sword of the Soul Slayer, and when he returned, a few days later, he received the news that all the bandits and robbers had been killed.

Of course, Stannis can't blame him for his killing, after all, this kind of spontaneous behavior of eliminating harm for the people is still worth encouraging, but every time Batesmore comes back, he lies in bed for days like his soul has been stripped away, which makes Stannis feel that he is really a little wronged by this salary.

But now, how could he, who has never seen the dragon, take the initiative to show up? Stannis was still looking for him, because the black armor that appeared on his body last time was somewhat similar to the armor worn by Bates Moore when he fought the Dire Wolf.

"Captain of the infantry, I haven't seen you for a long time! I've almost forgotten you existed!" Stannis teased.

But Batesmore didn't feel any shame about his dereliction of duty, he just said with a lot of regret: "I'll go to the school city with you." ”

"Oh?" Stannis was amazed, looking like the guy knew something.

He looked at Maester Romone, and the old man nodded at him with his eyes closed.

"Well, come with me, but I'm not going to pay you for the heads you cut off on the journey. ”

So a group of three people headed towards the school city.

Since the famous school city of the Erathian Empire was not in the Duchy of Tanis, but in the territory of Lokel, which was also a Duchy of Nine in the west, the three men had to cross the Duchy of Tanis to get there, but it would take four days just to get there.

Stannis also took the opportunity to familiarize himself with the topography of the Duchy of Tanis, which is a typical tertiary terrain, with a mountainous plateau in the west, a large plain in the middle, and a shock plain and forest in the east.

"The low-to-high terrain was a bit of a disadvantage for me to attack. Scratching his head, Stannis felt that the god of time travel seemed to have made the task more difficult for him.

Along the way, they were looking for a small hotel to stay in, and posing as ordinary merchants, because Duke Garcia, as a thorn in his side, did not want to attract the attention of Blackwatch.

However, on the last day, which is close to the school town, they were unable to find a home to stay in before sunset, so they had to sleep in the wilderness.

At this time, Batesmore finally came into play, as a mercenary often had to sleep on the streets, so he also mastered the art of survival in the wild, such as now, a warm flame is burning among the three of them.

Stannis rubbed his body to warm himself up, but at last he felt his body itch more and more, and then he simply rolled up his sleeve and scratched his arm frantically, as if he was going to scratch the skin off.

"Your Excellency!" Master Romon saw that something was wrong and immediately shouted to stop him.

Stannis reacted, he stopped what he was doing, and began to understand where the black warrior's skin had gone, he had torn his own skin alive!

And Bates Moore on the side was silent, this was only the beginning of being possessed by black armor.

Stannis felt to say something to deflect the feeling of being bitten by ants under his skin.

"Master Romon, I didn't expect you to hide that hand and be able to use such powerful magic. He shifted the conversation back to that night, when the corpse tide was besieging the city, when the old man suddenly cast a powerful spell to save their lives.

The old man touched his beard embarrassedly, "Where, where, I'm far behind my teacher." ”

"Don't be modest, why don't you show it?"

"After my wife died, I stopped using magic and focused on being a bachelor. Lady Lomon's eyes darkened.

"That's a shame. Stannis said this, but it is also understandable that if he does have such great power, he can only watch his relatives die in front of him, and everyone will feel desperate to give up his strength.

"But I think you used more than one kind of magic at the time?" Stannis secretly scratched his ass with his hand to stop the itch.

"Yes, I used the thunderbolt and earth puppet barrier of elemental magic. ”

I didn't expect this old man to be so powerful, and Stannis decided not to drive the old man away when he went to the battlefield in the future, but also to let him come up to suppress the formation.

"Okay, Your Excellency, stop chatting, go to bed early, we will probably be able to reach the school city tomorrow by another day's journey." ”

Stannis agreed, and he hoped that he would be able to meet Sasha's soul fragment again in his dreams, giving him a powerful power to stop the itch......

In the middle of the night, Stannis, who was awakened by urine, woke up from his dream, and it seemed that the woman was really tickling him in his dream, and now he has no other negative state except cold.

However, by the light of the campfire, Stannis found that only Lady Romon was still snoring under the covers, and Batesmore did not know where to go.

He stood up a little dazed, and found a dark figure facing away from him by the pond.

It looks like he should be his own infantry captain, but why does he stand by the lake without sleeping at night?

Stannis tiptoed over to get a peek at what he was looking at.

But Batesmore had already noticed him and slowly turned around.

At this moment, the man's eyes, which had been blank in the past, also lit up red.

"Now, then, it's time to tell my story. ”

"You're a cup cat?" Stannis wanted to say something to ease the less friendly atmosphere now.

Bates Moore didn't speak, he just pulled out the sword wrapped in an old scabbard.

The eerie blue light bloomed in the darkness, and Stannis couldn't help but cover his eyes, and when he opened them again, countless white stars like dandelion stamens floated around him.

"What is this?" Stannis curiously fiddled with the white light closest to him, but it dodged his hand as if it were alive and continued to wander.

"It's the soul. ”

A voice that Stannis had never heard before rang out, so low that it was so chilling.