People in this chapter: (Edward Hallongoth), (Ranned).

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Chapter 028: (Powerless)

In the sky, a large red sun hung obliquely, surrounded by long, bright bands of gilded clouds, which seemed to set the sky on fire and poured its orange glow into the trees.

In the woods, fallen leaves fluttered down from the trees, flying into the distance with the wind, like a kite with a broken string. It's like a small boat drifting on the ocean.

On the sheep intestine path in the mountains and forests, two soldiers wearing Rhodok military uniforms and wearing Luo pot helmets on their heads were hurrying. One soldier with a spear in his hand and another with a bow and crossbow behind him, looked like deserters who had lost a battle.

Two soldiers walked through the forest paths, surrounded by a group of peaks, surrounded by a myriad of magical peaks. Some are like wearing green feathers, some are like golden whips, reaching into the sky, and some are like two people, clinging to each other, but they have no time to admire.

After escaping from Marasburg, Edward, led by Lenid, followed this secluded path towards the northwest harbor town of Estina. Having lived in the Rhodoc area for fifteen years, Rannid is familiar with the mountain trails in the area.

These days, they travel day and night, either in the wilderness or in some damp cave. At this moment, their clothes were dirty and messy, and their bodies were filled with a strong smell of sweat and earth.

Along the way, the Rhodok villages and houses nestled in the mountains and forests have either burned down or are in a state of human desolation. The people here have either been captured by Swadia soldiers or have fled their homes.

Edward knew who was responsible for all this savage and murderous plunder—it was his half-brother, Baron Rogers Hallongoth, lord of Costholm! Although he didn't succeed, he did.

Two hours later, in a cave, they encountered some Rhodok refugees who had escaped from the Svadian soldiers. Edward had planned to spend the night in this cave, but the gloomy cave was already crowded.

These refugees curled up and nested in the cave. When Edward spotted them, they mistook him and Ranid for Rhodoc soldiers and begged for their help. The refugees thought they had been sent by Count Richson to rescue them.

Edward and Lenid were wearing the uniforms of the Rhodok soldiers, and the weapons in their hands were all made by Rhodok. And they all have half of the Rhodok blood in their blood, which makes them look more like Rhodoks than Swadiaks.

Although Edward always insisted on his identity as a Swadia, the Rhodok refugees refused to believe it. Some of these refugees even say they are deserters, others say they are going to join the Swadias, but many more are looking to them for help.

"Sir, help us, get us out of here, please. An old man with white hair and emaciated fell to his knees and begged him.

Edward hurriedly helped the old man in front of him to his feet, he wanted to say something to the old man, but he couldn't. He couldn't promise them anything, and his current situation wasn't much better than theirs. Except for self-preservation, he couldn't guarantee the safety of any of them at all.

"Bring my daughter with you!" neighed a middle-aged man who looked short and loyal. "She's yours for as long as you want. ”

Ranid seemed to have some thoughts, and he stared at the girl, who was curled up tightly in her mother's arms. The girl was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and looked small and thin, but she had a beautiful face. "My lord, we ......"

"Sorry, there's nothing we can do. Edward interrupted. With this sentence he had spoken, he pulled Lenid out of the dark, damp cave filled with the cries of old men, the cries of women, and the cursing of men.

The voice behind him gradually weakened, then disappeared, and the cave behind him became smaller and smaller as the distance continued to stretch. Ranned, with a crossbow on his back, kept looking back, but Edward didn't look back and quickened his pace.

"My lord," said Lanned, who had been walking behind, as he caught up. "We should help them. ”

"Yes, that's what you wanted to say in the cave," Edward emphasized. "But don't forget, there are only two of us, are you sure it's safer for them to follow us than to stay in a cave?" I once swore before my uncle and God: Help anyone who asks me for help! But I didn't help the unarmed Rhodok people behind me who asked for help. I broke my oath and ruined my honor.

"But, my lord," Lenid ...... still not give up.

"It's safe for them to stay there for the time being," Edward told the other party. "If they are hungry, the men can hunt some game in the nearby woods or pick some wild fruit to satisfy their hunger, but it is better than following us and then being captured by our compatriots, sold or executed on the spot. ”

"You are an officer of the Order of Sanctions, and they will not do it if you give the order. ”

"Lenid, as you said, I'm just sanctioning the officers of the Order," Edward repeated the other's words, emphasizing again. "Not all soldiers and knights' commanders, not all soldiers and knights will follow my orders. ”

Ranid honestly shut his mouth, no longer holding out any illusions. Because in this world, there are too many things that make him helpless. Even if he chooses to help them, he does not guarantee their safety and indirectly harms them.

This man, who dreamed of being a knight, thought that after he became a knight, he should be like the oath he made at that time: to sympathize with the weak, to protect the old and weak, to help anyone who asked him for help, and to fight for the unarmed......

Just the silent behavior of the two of them all the way on this forest path under the sunset, they can't change anything, they can't save anything, the only thing they can do is to follow the footsteps of fate and continue to move forward. Until one day, they are able to change all that.

As time passed quietly, the sky was dark, the red sun set in the west, and the silver moon rose in the south, representing another transition between light and darkness.

Although Light and Darkness have been repeated on the continent of Calradia for countless days and nights, and will continue to do so in the days and nights to come. But people will slowly find that the duration of darkness is getting longer and longer, and the light shines shorter and shorter.

Edward and Ranid stopped, choosing to spend the night in a secluded spot in the woods, and then continue on their way the next morning.

It was a black tree, and the woods were dark and silent. The trees in the forest are all thousand-year-old, giving Edward a mysterious feeling. These trees are as old as time and as young as spring.

"I'm going to get us something to eat. Ranid said, then removed the crossbow from his back and attached an arrow to it.

Edward looked around as he grew darker and darker, and whispered. "Be careful, go and get back quickly. ”

"Don't worry, my lord, there will be no danger," Ranid said, patting his chest. "No one knows this place better than I do, and even when I'm in danger, I'm able to get out of it. ”

As he spoke, Ranned's figure disappeared into the nearby woods, and in an instant, his figure vanished. Edward was not idle, picking up a pile of dry and flammable branches and dead leaves around him, and then lit them with flint and steel.

In the dark silence of the woods, a red light flickered, and he could guide Lenid to find his way back, and at the same time he could drive away some mosquitoes and some beasts in the woods, but he could not scare off the overlord of the forest.

Edward sat alone by the campfire, quietly staring at the red light in front of him, the past surging and tumbling in his mind like a flood.

He remembered the time when his father looked at him with disgust, and remembered the time when his half-brother had always insulted him when he was a child, bastards, wild seeds, Rhodok mongrels, they were always pestering him and tormenting him.

And his father's wife, who used to abuse him, but his biological father didn't care about it, just because his mother was a Rhodoc. And the reason why Baron Robert would allow the birth of this boy was only to be angry with his brother.

Eventually, he remembered his uncle, who had taken him away from the place where he had been tortured and humiliated, and who had changed his fate, and his cousin Iris, who really cared for him, and who had written a poem for him, which he kept in his mind......

Thinking of this, Edward's tears inexplicably broke out of his eyes, and he didn't even feel that he was crying, but was still in the past that had brought him pain and joy.

Rannid returned, carrying in his hand a hare, which looked fat enough for both of them.

But Edward didn't hear Lenid's footsteps approaching him, until he was less than two steps away from him, he turned sharply and drew his sword.

A ray of light emerged from the scabbard and was directed at Lenid's throat, a few minutes away from his life. Panicked, Lenid threw away the hare in his hand and stood trembling.

Edward saw that it was Lenid who quickly withdrew his sword and put it back into its scabbard. "I thought it was the enemy. He explained. "I'm sorry I almost hurt you. ”

"Your Excellency, it didn't almost hurt me," Lannid corrected. "It almost killed me. But he didn't blame the other party, on the contrary, he noticed that the other party's face still had a clear tear stain. "My lord, do you remember anything sad?"

"Go sit and rest for a while," Edward did not answer his question, but bent down to pick up the hare that had fallen on the grass. "I'll leave dinner tonight, and I'll call you when it's ready. ”

"Leave it to me, sir!" Lenid snatched the hare from his opponent's hand, then pulled out a sharp knife. He said with a slick smile. "I'm better at doing this than you, and I'm starving now, and I can't wait a moment. ”

Edward waited and added some trees to the campfire to make it burn more vigorously, to expel the chill and gloom that seeped from the silent darkness.

The shaved, gutted hare was soon strung with a sharpened twig and grilled over a burning bonfire. When he escaped from Marasburg, Lenid had almost nothing with him except for the equipment he had, but he had brought a large piece of salt with him.

Edward had asked him why he had to carry a piece of salt. But Lenid said, "It's habit." He said that he would often go out into the woods to hunt for the Earl of Richsen, and for a long time he would take a piece of salt with him during the hunt and enjoy a meal of game.

If Ranid was caught in the woods of the Kingdom of Swadia or reported it, it would be considered poaching and punished. In the Duchy of Rhodok, however, it was a normal thing, and anyone could hunt in the woods.

In the kingdom of Svadia, hunters had to get permission from the local lord to hunt in the woods and pay taxes to the lord or risk being accused of poachers. He was then imprisoned in the dungeon of the lord's castle, and in serious cases, he was hanged in public.

In the Duchy of Rhodoc, however, the opposite was true, where people were free to hunt in the woods, cut timber, and build houses to live in, without being bound by anyone, and they only had to pay a little, if not a negligible tax, to the lord.

Edward suddenly felt that when there was no war, the Rhodoks who lived in the mountains and jungles were happier than the Swadians who lived in the fertile plains, and at least the Rhodoks did not have to worry about the lords who would hurt them or even execute them for poachers.

At this time, Lenid used a dagger to cut off a large piece of fragrant rabbit meat. "My lord, this is for you. ”

Edward reached out and took the tender piece of rabbit meat from the other party's hand, and chewed it heavily. These days, they are busy on the road, and it is rare to enjoy a meal of roast rabbit meat sprinkled with salt as an adjunct like now. Although it is somewhat monotonous, it is delicious.

When you're full, it's time to rest. Due to the frequent presence of wild animals in the woods, especially in the woods of the Rhodok region, the 'jungle overlord' mountain bear. One of them was responsible for keeping watch in the first half of the night and the other in the second half of the night.

"Sir, you go to bed tonight," Lanned solemnly announced, wiping the remaining grease from the corners of his mouth. "I'll keep watch for the first half of the night tonight, and you'll be responsible for keeping watch for the second half of the night. ”

Previously, Edward was the first half of the night, and Lenid was responsible for the second half of the night. Several times, Lenid woke up almost at dawn, and Edward never woke him up, but let him sleep until dawn, and he kept quiet with his back to the tree.

Edward smiled at the other man, but didn't speak, and then lay flat on the side of the campfire, looking up at the sky above him.

In the distant sky, the stars were silently watching him like twinkling eyes, and he was watching them at the same time.

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