Evans pulled the knight's sword from the corpse and pulled the bolt from his shoulder.

He looked up and saw that there were not many brothers left standing, this was the fifth attack of the day, less than ten miles from Lorraine, but it seemed that he would never be able to go.

Evans is the leader of the Greywind Mercenaries, a Wick man who has crossed the White Bay Sea to Lorraine to earn a living.

Three months ago, the Bounty Guild issued a mission to investigate a church of light in Hankshire, in the eastern part of the principality. Generally speaking, survey tasks are the most unpopular, not to mention time-consuming, and the pay is very low, but the bounty for this task is very rich, 1000 gold.

Evans thought it was strange, but considering that Greywind had nothing to do for a long time, he eventually took on the task.

Unexpectedly, this was the beginning of a nightmare.

They went to the church to investigate and found nothing unusual, but on the way back, they encountered ambushes one after another.

Evans initially thought it was just an ordinary bandit, but later he realized that it wasn't that simple.

Their attackers were dressed in the most ordinary linen clothes, without any identification, but they were well-trained, purposeful, not for money, unable to communicate, as if they were going to kill them.

The Grey Wind Mercenary Regiment could not withstand such continuous attrition, and its attrition was serious.

As they were about to leave the borders of Hankshire, they were attacked with one of the heaviest attacks.

The other side is a 50-person bounty team, fully equipped, with 3 high-level knights and 2 high-level mages in the team.

On the side of the Grey Wind Mercenary Regiment, there was only one high-ranking knight left in Evans, a dozen exhausted mercenaries, and a few seriously wounded people lying on stretchers.

This duel with a huge disparity in strength was supposed to be a one-sided slaughter of the Grey Wind Mercenary Group, but I didn't expect that after a vicious battle, the bounty team was wiped out.

Because Evans is a great knight with hidden strength.

The Grand Knight, like the Grand Magus, represents the top existence in their respective fields, and has the right to wear the Golden Oak Medal awarded by the Knight Guild. To any aristocratic family or army is a guest and a high-ranking general, who would have thought that such a high-ranking figure would actually come to be a mercenary.

It was this small miscalculation that allowed the Grey Wind Mercenary Regiment to seize a glimmer of life and escape from this supposed foolproof encirclement and suppression.

But what directly led to the other party launching a frantic counterattack, day and night, and the battle that did not give a respite at all almost dragged the Gray Wind mercenary group down.

"Damn Griffon Fern!" Evans cursed as he examined the corpse on the ground.

"Does the regimental commander mean that the people who attacked us were the Fonn family?" a mercenary with a bandage on his head asked weakly when he heard Evans's words.

"I was suspicious from the first time we were attacked, and now it's confirmed. Evans picked up a scimitar and handed it to his men.

"This narrow scimitar is a favorite weapon used by seafarers, and it is not common on the mainland. ”

"And this knife has a blood groove on the body, which is three points longer than an ordinary scimitar, and this is the exclusive weapon of the Foen family. They thought no one would recognize it in Lorraine, but alas, I was a Wick. ”

Evans held the scimitar in his hand, his eyes closed, and seemed to remember a lot of the past.

"In the Baiwan Sea, many of my brothers and sisters have died under this kind of knife, how can I not recognize it!"

"Hankshire is the fiefdom of the Foun family, and that Church of Light must have a secret that they want to destroy us at all costs. ”

Evans felt out of his bosom a wooden statue of the Lord of Light, which had been taken from the church at the request of the client. Investigative missions usually require the removal of an object from the site in order to prove that the mercenary was actually there.

"Maybe that's what you want. Evans thought to himself.

But alas, whatever your purpose is, you must face me, the great knight, come on, the Fern family, I want to see what the "griffon" is capable of.

Evans took the statue into his arms, took the great sword in his hand, and said loudly to the surroundings: "Brothers, cheer up, I will take you home!"

.........

"The Greywind Mercenary Regiment has entered the city?" Billy Fern smashed the teacup in his hand to smithereens.

"3 high-level knights!2 high-level mages!" Billy yelled at the squire, "More than a hundred people can't keep an ordinary mercenary group, what are you doing!"

Billy is the young master of the Fern family and the mastermind behind this sniping of the Greywind mercenary group.

"Brother, forget it, they didn't know that there would be a big knight in the mercenary group, I made this plan, and it stands to reason that I am the one who deserves the most punishment. "In the shadow of the room, a young man walked out, dressed in a black aristocratic gown with a gilded griffin badge embroidered on his chest, who was Leon, the magical genius of the Fern family.

Billy's face softened when he heard his brother speak, he waved his hand to signal his men to go out, and then said to Leon: "Lorraine is heavily guarded, and it will be troublesome to continue the pursuit if it attracts the law enforcement team, and now it seems that they can only be let go for the time being." ”

"Heavily guarded?" Leon said as if he had heard some joke, "Heavily guarded, there are still foreign knights who can come and go at any time, but our Fern family is not welcomed." ”

When Billy heard his brother's words, he remembered what happened to his family recently, and he suddenly felt bad, and he sighed, "You said that my father chose the side of Prime Minister Schiller, did he choose the wrong one?"

"So what?" Leon smiled bitterly, "It's not our own choice, from the moment Merlin rejected me, our Fern family was tied to the same chariot as the hand of the principality." ”

"Merlin, an old immortal, dares to refuse you, and one day he will regret it. Billy was upset for his brother, "And that Capone, the three-headed dragon deserves to hell!"

Leon thought to himself, as if the Fern family really had a conflict with the three-headed dragons, first Merlin rejected him, then the Marquis of Fern's younger brother had a big fight with Capone at a military meeting and was removed from the army, and even the Habs princess who fought with Leon for the staff at the auction became Merlin's student.

It seems that dragons and griffons cannot coexist, and both sides are destined to live or die.

"Don't worry about Gray Wind for the time being, I ordered my subordinates to do something with their weapons, as long as the injured people can't avoid the invasion of evil spirits. Leon said lightly, and Billy was very surprised to learn the news.

"Great. Billy had a smile on his face, "In Lorraine, as long as we say a word from the Foen family, no Holy Light Mage will treat them, they can only wait for death, hoping that the great knight will also die from the invasion of evil spirits." ”

"Not really. Leon said, "At his level, he is immune to these minor injuries and diseases, but it doesn't matter, when the time comes, there will only be one mercenary group left for him as a bare-pole commander, which is easy to solve." ”

"Now it is important to find out who is behind the commission and who is going to put our family to death. Leon pulled back the curtain from the window and looked at Lorraine in the night, his voice without a hint of emotion.

Billy nodded and beckoned the squire in.

"From now on, give me twenty-four hours to keep an eye on the leader of that mercenary group, I will know exactly where he went, who he met, and what he said!"

"Yes!" the squire took the order and retreated, and after a while, several dark shadows appeared in the Marquis of Fonn's palace, quickly blending into the streets and alleys of Lorraine, and soon disappeared.