It's a humble little estate on the west bank of the Aeva River, and from here you can still see the Tedar Mountains to the east.

Towards noon, there was still silence inside and outside the manor.

Suddenly, a strange sound shattered the eerie silence and woke Donner and Wesley from their slumber.

The female knight, whose body was wrapped in ropes, was constantly writhing her body and making strange sounds of "whining".

On the wooden pole erected not far in front of her, the corpse of a girl, Chi Luo, ran through it. The sharpened pole stabbed through her lower body and out the back of her neck. The face that had begun to decay was facing Ke Lei, and the twisted and hideous face was faintly visible, recording the inhuman treatment of the deceased.

Wesley rushed over and slapped a round slap on Corey's face, who seemed to have forgotten to use his fighting spirit to defend, and half of his face immediately swollen, and even the cloth stuffed in his mouth was shaken to the ground.

"Are you scared too? Isn't that what you're doing?!" Wesley, still unfazed, kicked the kneeling knight to the ground.

Donner's hands clenched into fists, trembling uncontrollably.

The girl looked to be fifteen or sixteen years old, the same age as Kelly.

Last night, Donner and Wesley ran all the way after they got out of trouble, and when they saw this remote manor, they were exhausted, and they found a corner and fell asleep, no one expected that they would see such a picture when they woke up in the morning.

Falling to the ground, Curled up in a ball, Ke Lei defended in vain: "No...... Our Army...... No...... It won't be like this......" It's just that the voice is getting softer and softer, and it's getting more and more unreliable.

Wesley made up a few more kicks before stopping, gasping for breath and asking, "Where is your nearest army?"

As if she hadn't heard, Clay continued to repeat her previous justification.

Donner didn't take out his anger at Corey like Wesley, nor did he come forward to persuade him.

He sat still, trying to calm the anger in his chest, and after a moment struggled to sit up and walked away in silence.

It wasn't long before he walked back and presented an equally horrible female corpse in front of Ke Lei.

An hour later, there were dozens of corpses piled up in front of Ke Lei, in addition to the naked female corpses without exception, there were also old people, and even children, except for the middle-aged men.

Donner sat on the ground, his eyes blank, and Wesley crouched with his head in his hands.

Ke Lei no longer spoke, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't hide the facts in front of her. The army she led was the first to cross the border into the Femon Empire, and almost no resistance was met before reaching the banks of the Ava River.

The troops in the back kept sending adult men to her camp to serve as coolies.

She never imagined that those coolie family members would be treated like this.

In her understanding, war always goes hand in hand with courage, stratagem, conquest, and honor. She couldn't imagine that the loyal and upright Imperial army in her eyes would do such a crazy thing.

She tried to refuse to accept the facts in front of her, but when more and more corpses were presented, all kinds of miserable and amused things were presented to her. She collapsed.

In the afternoon, Donner and Wesley found shovels and dug holes on the slopes of a hill near the village. All the bodies were buried before sunset. No matter what they have suffered in front of them, they can finally return to the earth at this moment, retaining the last shred of dignity.

At this time, there is silence all around, there is not even the sound of the wind, and the sunset shines on the manor under the hillside, and the picture is as beautiful as a fairy tale.

"Why would your army do such a thing, don't you understand?" Donner sat on the hillside and spoke slowly, without a trace of emotional fluctuation in his voice, "Everyone has the seed of evil in their heart, it will be awakened by war and killing, and then nourished by fear and blood......"

Corey's blank eyes finally moved, and she knew that Donner was talking to her.

“...... Since they have become demons, they should be sent to hell...... But it is the people who have unleashed these demons into the world like those who provoke wars. ”

"I'm going to make them pay, make them regret it, and let them taste the pain...... You'd better pray that you won't live to that day......"

"I'll make sure she survives to that day. Wesley interjected suddenly.

After a day and a night of endless fierce fighting, followed by two days and one night of dangerous descent from the mountain, Mino was exhausted, and the magic apprentices behind him were all persevering with faith at this time.

Halfway through, the arrow wound in Quissar's thigh began to fester, and at his insistence, Mino had to leave some food and water behind and continue the descent with the team.

Not long after the sun set from the top of the Silang Mountain behind them, the young reserve army, which was only more than fifty people left, finally arrived at the village at the foot of the mountain.

"Is it the Youth Reserve?" In the dark, a dozen soldiers ran out, led by a non-commissioned officer.

"Who are you?" asked Mino, alert.

"Commander Kane told us to wait here, are you the only ones?" the non-commissioned officer explained.

"The others are still behind, what about our horses?" said Mino, hiding his left hand behind him, waving to the team.

"Don't you have to wait for the others?" the non-commissioned officer wondered.

"We're almost exhausted, let's go back to the camp first, those wastes are walking so slowly, don't wait for them......"

As he spoke, Mino walked towards the village, where they had left their horses before going up the hill.

Several soldiers stopped Mino, and the leader continued: "Let's wait for everyone to come together." ”

"Okay......" Mino's back turned as he turned back to the soldiers, his right hand resting on the hilt of his sword at his waist, the corners of his mouth moving in one direction. Almost at the same time, more than fifty magic apprentices rushed in that direction.

"Stop them!" ordered the non-commissioned officer who had spoken before, and countless soldiers emerged from the darkness around them.

Mino drew his sword and slashed a soldier with a swing of his sword, the magic apprentices unleashed countless spells in the direction of their escape, and each time Paz's stone thorn technique was cast, a soldier fell.

The sound of arrows breaking through the air sounded behind him, and more than two dozen magic apprentices were shot in an instant, and they still kept casting their magic in the direction of the soldiers as they fell to the ground.

Their faces were hideous, they endured the pain, and they poured out their magic power desperately, suppressing the soldiers from coming forward.

The arrows kept coming, and these young people, who were like hedgehogs with arrows full of shafts, did not give up until their magic power was exhausted.

They had seen their companions defend them with their lives, and when it was their turn, none of them flinched, and like the knights who stood in front of the cliff passes, they preferred to drain their own blood than to keep the enemy behind.

The soldiers were frightened by the scene before them, and they could not understand why a weak magician would be so fearless of death.

They received an order from the Grand Duke to leave these young soldiers who had escaped here, but looking at the performance of these children, their thoughts were inevitably shaken: would this such an iron-blooded team really escape?

"What are you doing in a daze! Hurry up and chase me!" The non-commissioned officer, who had been giving orders, rushed to the front alone, but was halfway down the way by the magic apprentice who fell in a pool of blood, desperately holding his legs and feet, he struggled a few times but still couldn't get rid of it, and slashed the man's hand with a knife.

At this time, the remaining twenty or so young soldiers had completely disappeared into the darkness.

"Father, my brother has been up the mountain with them for five days, there will be no accidents, right?" spoke Roger's younger brother, the second son of the Celtic Grand Duke, Ron Celt.

"Don't worry, your brother is careful and will be fine. Archduke Celtic comforted Ron, but he didn't have much confidence in his own heart. When he received the news from Roger that night, he had hesitated to stop him from following the young army up the mountain, but now it was too late to think about this, and he could only hope that Roger would be smart, and that the army of the Thorn Empire would be a little rational and not kill indiscriminately.

"Father, there won't be any suspicions on General Baird's side, right?" Ron asked, still uneasy.

"Hey, you really should learn more from your brother, don't be so scared of everything. The Empire's eyeliner on the West Bank has long been replaced by us. Baird's old fool, who has always been stubborn, and the voices below him, he can only feel that they are challenging his authority......"

In the middle of the Celtic Grand Duke's speech, a voice sounded outside the military tent: "Grand Duke, there is news over there." ”

"What's the news, let's talk about it quickly. ”

A non-commissioned officer walked into the tent, and it was the same one who had stopped Mino at the foot of the hill earlier.

"Grand Duke, as you expected, we stopped ...... at the bottom of the mountain."

"Where's Roger, is he in the ranks?" said Archduke Celtic's voice a little anxious.

"Didn't see ......"

"How many of them are there, and they've all been delivered to where I told you?"

"More than fifty people, we killed half of them, and the others ...... Escaped ......"

"Bastard, you let a group of student soldiers escape right under your nose?" the Grand Duke was furious. Although he did not send his elite knights in order not to arouse suspicion, even so, an army of five hundred men was enough to leave fifty children who had never been to the battlefield.

"The subordinates are incompetent!but...... Grand duke...... Something seems wrong with those kids......"

"What's wrong?

“...... It's like killing red-eyed ......"

"Kill the red-eyed ......" the Grand Duke thought.

“...... More ruthless than veterans who have been on the battlefield...... The man at the head was covered with blood. The non-commissioned officer added.

"So, there's already over there...... Okay, you stay over there to answer, let your men, well, take another two hundred men, block the rear of the camp, and never let them return to the barracks!"

"Yes!" the non-commissioned officer ordered to step out of the tent.

......

"Father, brother, he ......"

"It's going to be fine, I should have joined up with the army over there. Celtic caress his youngest son, as if he is comforting himself.

On the pitch-black mountainside of the Four Wolves Mountain, Quisal woke up from his coma and groped for a flint to light the grass stems and branches around him.

In the dim light of the fire, he tore open the rotten flesh on his thigh with his sword, then tore a strip of cloth from his clothes and stuffed it in his mouth.

The flame flickered on the branch, and the hand holding the branch hesitated slightly, and slammed the flame into the bloody wound.

Darkness fell again, and Quisal passed out again.