The southeast monsoon from the Endless Sea finally brings some humid air.

From the morning onwards, a light rain began to fall in the city of Highlandza.

The drizzle has rejuvenated the mountain town, the street trees on the street have revealed a new green under the rain, and the lilac trees are blooming in the street, and there is a faint smell of lilacs in the drizzle.

A magician in a magic robe walked briskly through the cloister and boarded the magic caravan in front of the steps by the fountain.

The magic caravan slowly drove out of the manor, out of the Maple Avenue in the affluent area, and directly into the traffic on the central street of the city of Highlandza.

As it passed through the gates, the caravan was stopped by the gate guards, and the coachman jumped from the royal seat to talk to the gate guards.

The black carriage door was pushed open from the inside, and a mage in a long distance in black magic leaned out of the carriage and glanced faintly at the gate guard, who immediately straightened up and saluted the magician.

The magic caravan quickly passed through the city gates and headed northwest along the winding mountain road into Oak Ridge.

A knight in gray leather armor stood on the hill, and beside him stood a black war horse, with a piece of armor embedded in some important part of the hard leather armor, and he touched the saber at his waist with his hand, and looked through the sparse oak forest, looking anxiously in the direction of the city of Highlandsa.

A small group of knights waited in the woods, and these knights set up tents in the glade covered with thick fallen leaves, and the horses on the side were covered with a layer of waterproof felt, and several knights lay in the tents to rest.

A magic caravan appeared on the opposite mountain road, and in the drizzle, the knight at the top of the mountain saw the wolf's head flag on the magic caravan.

He hurriedly beckoned the knights who were resting in the tent behind him, and hurried to clean up the tent.

Not long after, a team of five knights rushed down the hill and caught up with the magic caravan among the mountains.

Five knights braved the drizzle and followed the magic caravan as they continued along the mountain path.

Then, from time to time, some knights came out of the woods in Oak Ridge, and they followed the magic caravan honestly, and it was not long before they formed a squadron of fifty cavalry.

The knights did not wear any family crest or knightly insignia on their chests, and the armor on their bodies also looked patchwork, many of the broken parts were patched with hard armor pieces, and the hard leather armor was wrapped around a gray linen cloak, which looked more like a group of travelers.

The magician pushed open the window and asked one of the chief knights who had come to the carriage, "How many men did your chief send this time?" ”

The knight commander immediately replied, "Three squadrons of cavalry have been dispatched, and only one squadron of cavalry has arrived in the city of Highlandsa as scheduled. ”

The magician nodded, and then said to the chief knight, "Whether you can find a clue or not this time, you must fight quickly, and then you will pass through the barren land and enter the Paglos Mountains to stand by." ”

"Yes! Lord Kirdon. The chief knight agreed.

Wizard Kirdon glanced at the knight and asked, "Have you found out who stole it?" ”

The chief knight replied, "It is not yet determined who it is, but at the moment the two of them are still very suspicious, since they have not been found, it is very likely that they were lost or those knights of the security team have found it." ”

Wizard Kirdon waved his hand impatiently, and said to the chief knight, "I'll ask the villagers along the way how far the village is from Wall......

……

It was the first rain in the Badlands after entering June.

Despite the rain, there are still many poor villagers who go to Oak Ridge to dig wild vegetables, not only digging wild vegetables, but also catching small animals in the forest, picking dried red fruits from trees, some fresh sweet grass roots in the soil, and so on.

A big wilted hand struggled to reach a horizontal branch from under the tree, and the other hand trembled and shook the dried fruit on the top of the tree, and couldn't wait to stuff it into his mouth, the red fruit was dry and hard and difficult to chew, and it had to be eaten slowly in his mouth, the man stood on the branch and climbed higher at the top of the tree, he wanted to pick a few dried red fruits hanging on the treetop.

The drizzle made the branches a little slippery, and the rain soaked his linen clothes, making him feel a little cold.

A heavy knight's spear stretched out from under the branch and put it on the villager's shoulder, the cold blade frightened him so much that he almost fell from the tree, the villager tried to move his body from the place where the knight's spear was pointing to the left, but the knight under the tree unceremoniously stabbed him from the tree with his spear.

The knight in hard leather armor had a straight face and clamped his horse between his legs, and the horse took two steps forward, and the knight hung his spear next to the saddle, leaned over and reached out to scoop the villager up from the ground, put him on the horse's back, and rode the horse towards the mountain road.

The knight led the villagers to the magic caravan and fell to the ground in front of the magic caravan with a 'poof'.

The villagers sat on the muddy floor, the rain making the ground very muddy, and looked at the magic caravan with a panicked look on their shoulders that had been broken.

The door of the caravan was pushed open, and the magician named Kirdon poked his head out of it, looked at the villager with a look of disgust, and asked, "How far is this from the village of Wall?" ”

The villagers replied tremblingly, "It's not too far, and after crossing the Paglos Pass is the village of Wall." ”

The magician Kirden frowned slightly, and he looked up at the mountain pass not far away.

"I heard that there is a security team of a guard battalion in the village? Do you know? The magician's eagle-like gaze fell on the villagers.

The villager only felt that his whole body was penetrated by some kind of force, and he must have sat down in the muddy water without being moved, and replied:

"Master Magician, are you asking Lord Knight Surdak?"

Wizard Kirdon nodded and said:

"His name is Surdak, yes! I'm just looking for him! ”

He glanced at the mountain pass in the distance, and said to the knight chief beside him, "Let's go!" ”

The chief knight hurriedly waved the long sword in his hand to the knights behind him, and the knight who had captured the villagers asked:

"Lord Kirdon, what is he going to do?"

In the drizzle, the magic caravan slowly rolled forward, and a cold and merciless voice floated from the cabin:

"Since you see my face, let's kill it!"

In the drizzle, a patch of blood was splattered on the muddy mountain road, and the body of a wizened villager slowly stiffened in the cold rain......

……

On the hills

Samira gave the panther's cut flesh to the curious onlookers.

The villagers in the barren land were digging wild vegetables in the mountains, and they happened to see her hunting the panther, and while Samira was skinning, several brave villagers gathered around and looked at Samira with great envy.

Many of the villagers outside the village knew the taciturn Samira, but few had ever seen her face, let alone known her as a half-elf.

Samira hid her face deep under her hood, and the rain fell on her, rolling down her cloak.

As a half-elf, she didn't like the flesh and blood of wild beasts, so after collecting the panther skin and fangs, she cut open the panther's body, divided it into several pieces, and gave them to the villagers on the side.

The villagers did not expect to get a piece of fresh leopard meat, and they were overjoyed and thanked one after another.

Samira remained as silent as ever, and after collecting the leopard skin, she prepared to return to the village of Wall.

In order to hunt the panther, she had been delayed in the mountains for five days.

She was about to walk down the hill when she saw a villager in tattered clothes running through the woods, and the villager ran up to Samira, and without waiting for his breath to catch his breath, he shouted to Samira: "Lord Samira, there are a group of knights over there who have killed people, they are not knights of the Haylansa Guard Battalion......"

Samira's body tensed instantly, and like a cheetah, she sped through the oak forest and ran in the direction the villagers pointed.

When she stood on the ridge next to the mountain road, she happened to see the knights crossing the moon Paglos Pass, and sure enough, as the villagers said, those knights did not have standard armor on their bodies, and they were wearing linen cloaks, and it could be seen from the posture of riding horses that they were all battle-hardened warriors.

In the drizzle, Samira faintly saw a magic caravan.

On the mountain road down the mountain, a villager lies in a pool of blood.

A bad feeling welled up in Samira's heart, and she hurried along the mountain to the village of Wall.

……

As they crossed the Paglos Pass, the rebel knight looked at the wooden cross at the top of the hill in the drizzle, and thought for a moment.

The village of Wall in the col is very striking even in the rain, and the rich green in the valley is the strongest color in this barren place.

Fifty knights lined up from the pass, like a large net, towards the village of Wall.

Wizard Kirdon pushed the window and looked at the village of Wall in the rain, the cistern in the upper valley looked like a mountain city towering in the rain at first glance, which made the magician's eyes show a hint of surprise, he did not expect that there was such a rich village in this barren land.

Fifty knights rode on horseback, approaching the village of Vol as if they were facing a great enemy.

The first rain of June came to the barren land, and many villagers rushed back to dig wild vegetables, not wanting to miss the opportunity to plant seeds after the rain.

The rainy season is finally here.

It won't be long before many parts of the barren land will turn green, although it will not be able to fill the stomachs of the villagers for the time being, but this rain will make the villagers no longer need to dig wild vegetables over the mountains and mountains, and the sea buckthorn grass and thirsty immortal grass in the valleys of the barren land will soon grow.

These villagers never imagined that the group of knights who came up from behind would actually harvest human lives like the nightmare knights in the underworld.

They rushed up from behind with a knight's spear, and the knight's spear in their hands was violently provoked, and an unsuspecting villager was stabbed in the back by the knight's spear, and the whole person was picked up by the knight behind him.

'Ah......h

With a scream, his body fell heavily on the ground covered with rubble.

It was this scream that made the other villagers in the rain look at this side, and before they could see the situation in the rain here, they felt a sharp pain in their bodies, and their bodies flew up uncontrollably, and they couldn't breathe, and when they coughed violently, blood spurted out of their throats, and then they fell heavily in the rain.

Fifty knights continued to cover up the village of Wall.

……

Selena looked up at the leaking reed sheds, and her heart was full of resentment against Surdak, who hadn't even thought about rain.

Drops of rain continued to drip through the reed mats in the shed overhead, and the children in the shed gathered together and hid in dry places under the care of several women in the village, but as the drizzle continued to fall, such dry places in the sheds became less and less.

The simple wooden door of the children's home was slammed open from the outside, and the old village chief, Bright, walked in with a group of villagers.

He looked up at the improvised hut where the rain was dripping and said to Selena, "This improvised hut doesn't block the rain, so we have to organize people to move the children to the carpenter's workshop in the village." ”

He turned to a villager behind him and said, "Go and tell the old man in the carpenter's workshop, and ask him to move all the wood and wood in the workshop outside, and vacate the house for me." ”

"Got it, Uncle Bright!" The young villager said yes and immediately turned and plunged into the rain.

The villagers of Wo Village have already run to the children's home and are taking their children home one after another.

The old village chief, Bright, took a child from another village in each hand, hid them under his cloak, and said to the villagers who had brought them behind him: "Follow me, everyone, and we will send these children to the carpenter's workshop to shelter from the rain." ”

The villager behind him reminded, "But...... Uncle Bright, what to do with the volcanic ash stored next to the canal embankment? ”

The old village chief frowned, gritted his teeth and said, "It doesn't matter if you go a little late, just do as I say." ”

"Yes!"

The village chief of Bright has a lot of prestige in Wall, and the villagers have no doubts, so they pick up the children in the children's yard and walk briskly towards the carpentry workshop in the village.

Selena stayed at the back, carefully counting the number of children, for fear of any forgetting.

Higna, hidden in her skirt, looked in the direction of Yamaguchi, her eyes tinged with concern.

Not long after the old village chief Bright left the children's home with a group of villagers, a team of knights had slowly emerged in the rain at the entrance of the village.

At this time, the kobold slaves in the slave camp felt the killing in the rain first, and they got up from the shed in a panic and looked out through the shed restlessly.

The two villager overseers guarding the gate of the slave camp saw that the kobold slaves were unusual, and hurriedly took their leather whips to intimidate the kobold slaves, warning them to be honest......

The villager overseer followed the frightened gaze of the kobold slave and saw a group of knights speeding in the rain, their hooves crushing countless splashes on the ground.

The two villager overseers were a little puzzled, why were they still holding heavy knights' spears in their hands......