There was a slight movement in the nearby bushes, and the most vigilant masked man took out his arrow and attached it to the bowstring, pointing it at the source of the sound. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Who's there, get out of here!" she warned once.

"It was an accident...... They're going to hunt me down......" came a woman's trills from the bushes.

Mo Mocha, who had a keen sense of hearing, immediately jumped off his horse and came to the bushes where the sound came, and pushed aside the branches that crisscrossed the trees, only to see a young girl holding a bloody cloth sleeve, trembling and hiding in the bushes.

Mo Cha breathed a sigh of relief, stretched out her hand to the girl, and smiled lewdly: "Beautiful lady, you are already safe, come out?"

"Bang, bang!" The two slaps were firmly slapped on Mo Cha's face, and although the girl was frightened, she still had the ability to fight back.

"Why are you hitting me, we're here to help you!" Mo Cha was suddenly a little annoyed.

"Stand back...... I don't want to hurt anyone, don't come here......"

The girl pulled out a bloody dagger from her sleeve, held it with both hands and pointed it at the lewd man in front of her, and slowly moved her body backwards.

Out of self-preservation, Mocha easily snatched the dagger from the girl's hand and forcibly pulled the girl out of the bushes.

The girl still refused to bow to fate, grabbed the stone at her feet and slammed it into Mo Cha's forehead, but she was flashed, so she lost her center of gravity and slipped on the woodland.

"That's enough, you get out of the way. Since Mo Cha really didn't deal with women, Niza had to dismount herself and help the woman who had fallen in the woods to her feet.

The girl in front of her had a peugeot face and well-groomed features, although her cheeks were red from fatigue and the little blood on her face made her look very haggard.

On closer inspection, she was beautiful enough to overpower all the aristocratic maidens Niza had ever seen, which made him immediately take a liking to this woman of unknown origin, and respectfully inquired about her.

"Honorable lady, are you alright? I'm Niza, and I'm a mercenary at the moment. He said politely and gentlemanly. "Your identity, the origin of these gray-robed people, I want to know this, can you tell me the news?"

Because of Niza's handsome appearance, the girl also took a liking to him, and pointed to the corpse of the gray-robed man on the ground and replied: "I am Valme, a wandering poet, and they call themselves pilgrims of the Drua Order, and they sacked some villages and towns in Hokuriku to please the gods they worship, and my family was captured by them a few days ago, and I heard this from a soldier who chased them to McCann village to rescue my family, but I was caught by these looters when I went into the village to rest......"

"Are the villagers all right, are you the only one who escaped?" asked Deacon anxiously.

She shook her head. "I don't know, one of the guards had drunk too much, and I stole the key while he was resting, and escaped from his pursuers, but I was caught up here. ”

After understanding the general situation, the masked man put away the arrows in his hand and asked, "Since you are a poet, you have also learned some combat techniques, but I don't think you have the ability to destroy these pursuers alone, who helped you?"

"The situation was urgent, and when I came to this woodland, I hid in the bushes, and when the cultists chased after me, another team of horses broke in and mingled with the pursuers. Those men were all in leather armor. I closed my eyes because I hated blood...... Anyway, after they had killed them, they went west, until one of the surviving disciples found me, and when he was in a trance, I took the opportunity to stab him to death with a dagger......"

"It's not hard to tell from your account that they're a small group of mercenaries," Niza invited. "Now we are also chasing those disciples, do you want to come together, so that we can take care of each other?"

"I only want to save my family from them, not to join your bloody struggle, please forgive me for refusing. ”

Valme declined Niza's invitation, and she couldn't wait to leave these cold-blooded mercenaries because of her opposition to war and killing, and after bidding farewell to the other party, she headed west alone.

"Alas, how to save her family unarmed, what a naïve girl. Mo Cha muttered a few words.

Nizazema caught up with Valme, threw her the sword of loyalty he had with him, and commanded: "Listen to me, ma'am. If you want to save your family from these people, you have to accept this bloody process. I'll leave this sword at your disposal for the time being, and hopefully you'll have saved your family with it when we meet again!"

"Thank you so much, Lord Niza, but why do you have the sword of a noble knight?" Valme thanked Victor for his generosity until she recognized the knight's sword in her hand.

"It used to be ...... Now I'm just a bard, just call Niza, don't be too formal!"

"Thank you, Mr. Niza, I will be a good fighter. After thanking him again, Valme ran off into the distance with his sword in hand.

The girl disappeared from Niza's vision, and although it was only a one-sided relationship, Niza found himself deeply in love with the poetess, and he had no choice but to secretly pray that Valme would be able to rescue her family.

"Only little white faces are liked by girls?...... what kind of world is this?" said Tea patted the horse to Niza's side, and his heart was full of jealousy for Niza, and from time to time he nagged some words of contempt.

"As long as you are serious, you can find your sweetheart!" he was hammered on the shoulder, and Merck caught up with him, handing Niza the half-severed sword he had snatched from the bear.

Although Merck sharpened the broken sword, Niza still waved away White's kindness, saying, "No need, you should keep it, we should go." ”

After continuing some distance west, they found several horses spinning in place on the forest path, leaving the corpses of their owners nearby.

There was another shouting sound nearby, and after confirming the distance several times, Mo Cha shouted: "It's just ahead, the exit of the jungle, let's go and see!"

The group hurried and arrived at the end of the forest trail in a few minutes.

After exiting the jungle, they came to a cliff with a marked difference in elevation, and there was no doubt that there was a skirmish going on.

Wiggins jumped off his horse and approached the edge of the cliff to take a look at everything, and found that the mercenaries dressed as civilians below the cliff were engaged with dozens of gray-robed cultists.

On the other hand, on the cliff, the drop of more than ten meters means that everyone cannot go down directly.

After observing the surrounding environment, Mo Mocha's eyes locked on the smoke rising from a jungle not far away, and alerted his teammates.

"Their camp is not far away, do you want to divide the troops into two ways, guys?" asked the group for advice.

Wiggins agreed. "The Masked Man and I followed the tavernkeeper to their lair, and you guys went to rescue the trapped mercenaries. ”

"Understood," he said, immediately patting Merck on the shoulder. "Merck, let's go, don't let those mercenaries all fall!"

The group split into two groups, Wiggins and his group followed the path on the edge of the cliff to the target camp, and Mo Tea, Merck, and Niza also slowly moved down the cliff face. (To be continued.) )