The village closest to the hermit forest is called Katashi Village, with a population of only about 100 people, and it is basically isolated from the rest of the world. www.biquge.info The only news that everyone heard in Katahara Village was that there was an El City nearby, which could be reached on foot for three days.

In this era, population equals wealth, and a village as poor as Katashi Village naturally has no horses to sell to Arouca and others. Moreover, there was not even a single literate person in the village, so it was impossible to provide a map to the city of Ayr.

Fortunately, between a village and a city, there is a narrow nameless dirt road connecting them. The dirt road was potholed and covered with scars from the carriage running over it, and it was too crowded for four people to walk side by side, but at least you didn't have to worry about getting lost......

The group had no choice but to buy some dry food and cured meat, and continued on their way without stopping. This time was not wasted by Aluca, who used three days to accomplish two things.

First of all, Aluka spends some time each day exploring the wilderness and groves near the road, and finds several creatures that don't exist on the continent of St. Ainos, including marmots with front teeth larger than their front paws, wind snakes with wings on their backs, and poisonous snakes with highly corrosive saliva......

This shows that the mutation is not limited to the Hermit Forest...... Rather, it affected the entire continent.

It's a pity that there is no one else on the way, and Aluka can't find any news, and he can't even know what the battle situation of the Duchy of Guy is, so he can only wait until he arrives in El City to find a way.

Second, Aluka used the past few days to study his [Eye of Vision]. The way to do this is to do your best to puff out the muscles in your arms like a bodybuilder, trying to push the strength beyond what your body can handle.

As a result, the others could often see Aruka walking, and suddenly a bruise appeared on his head, and he took a stride, his arms bent and trembling, and his mouth let out a low roar of unknown meaning...... If Sinong didn't know anything about it, he would have wondered if Aluka had finally gone mad......

This kind of action is quite physically demanding, and it is also very heavy on the muscles, so it is okay to do it once in a while, but Aluca basically has to do it every half a minute...... If it weren't for the fact that the physical fitness of the God Punisher was beyond ordinary people, his body would have been scrapped long ago.

But the sore and exhausting gains are worth it.

When she first started to generate power, Aruka didn't feel anything. After repeating it dozens of times, he was pleasantly surprised to see white energy waves as thin as a hair flowing on the surface of his arm. Although he couldn't control it yet, he couldn't touch it. And once the muscles relax, that energy fades again.

After repeating this many times, Aruka gradually became familiar with the feeling of pure energy gushing out of his body, and became familiar with the laws of this energy.

With El City in sight, Aluka was already able to quietly gather egg-sized pure energy in her hands through the subtle trembling of her muscles. In time, it will no longer be a fantasy to rely on pure energy to fly into the sky and release energy cannons...... It's a pity that after the pure energy is gathered, people who don't have the [Eye of Vision] can see it, and they lose their concealment.

Being able to gain new abilities outside of the God Punher game will help Aluca and Sinong a lot in their next game. Now it seems that encountering the Yaqi Snake is a blessing in disguise.

As a perfect creature whose strength is comparable to that of the High Lord God, the Yaki Orochi is a unique existence in the universe and will not appear in any dimensional world. In other words, under normal circumstances, no god slayer would be able to obtain its bloodline.

Don't look at the Eight Qi Snake bloodline only provides 10 insignificant attributes, but it gives a bloodline skill! If you choose other gods as a side bloodline, the attribute is indeed higher, but there will never be a reward for bloodline skills.

For the God Puncher, the bloodline skill is the fundamental embodiment of strength. If you have a body with a few hundred attributes, and your physical fitness is stronger than that of a second-class god, but you don't have a strong bloodline skill, you can easily be killed by some strange and strange abilities.

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The Duchy of Guy served as the northern barrier of the Rhine Kingdom, and each city was built with defense in mind. Tall, sturdy walls, continuous towers, narrow gates, wide moats......

The city of El was no exception, with a dozen towers as tall as steel spears behind the walls visible in the distance, and hundreds of heavily armed defenders patrolling the walls. The four city gates in the south, east, and west were only opened, west and south, and the city gates were narrower than the normal city gates, causing the procession to enter the city to be hundreds of meters away.

There were more than twenty knights standing at the gates of the city, all of their weapons unsheathed, and extremely strict inspection of civilians who wanted to enter the city.

"It's not good...... "Aluka rubbed her hair irritably, looking at the city gate from afar, "even in times of war, it is not usually checked so strictly." And in this case, the captain of the knight who is in charge of the inspection work will inevitably take some bribes to make it convenient for the rich. Many people know that it is unfair and that they will be exploited when they enter the city, but they still queue up here......"

"What do you think?" asked Sinon.

"Obviously, this means that the flames of war are about to reach the city of El. These people who want to enter the city are all villagers from the villages near El City, who have come to El City for refuge. "Civilians can only learn about the fighting from two sources. The first is the merchants, but the merchants will not go to the front, let alone the caravans, and once they are discovered by the logistics troops, they are likely to forcibly requisition their goods without any compensation.

Second...... Even civilians witnessed the retreat of the army, and the rumors were always faster than the army's march. Before the army had retreated, civilians began to flee. ”

Sinon asked incredulously, "What do you mean...... The Duchy of Gay's army is retreating towards Eyre?"

The old butler Alexander also said in disbelief: "Young Master, judging from the geographical location of El City, this may be the southernmost city of the Duchy of Gay...... If the army of the Duchy of Guy is really forced to retreat here...... I'm afraid the whole principality is going to fall. ”

"What?" Aluka squinted at Alexander, "Can your mission still be to save the Duchy of Gay?" From the moment the Hill Empire decided to go south, the fate of the Duchy of Gay was decided, either surrender or be destroyed. ”

In recent years, the Thirteen Duchy and the Rhine Kingdom have been inseparable, and the Knights of the Sun, who are loyal to the Rhine royal family, are unwilling to waste their troops in the principality and stick to the Rhine. Moreover, after hundreds of years of development, the strength of the Thirteen Duchyes themselves is not weak. The military power of a single duchy is not as good as that of the Rhine Kingdom, but the geographically close principalities have formed offensive and defensive alliances with each other, and the Hill Empire is not so easy to break.

Only the Duchy of Guy has a special location, and other principalities can't support it even if they want to, and the reinforcements are very likely to be cut off by the Hill Empire in the middle, resulting in the annihilation of the entire army. The Knights of the Sun did have some garrisons, but they were a drop in the bucket, and they were not as numerous as the Duchy of Guy's own army.

The current situation is that Aluka and the others want to represent the Rhine Kingdom, which is hopeless to be saved, and give orders to the Grand Duke Guy who is in dire straits as rulers......

Not to mention what the content of the military order was, with this attitude, Aruka felt that the person in charge of the order was not unjustly killed ten times...... The two countries are at war without cutting off, that is nonsense. Sometimes the messenger is similar to a death squad, after all, using the messenger's head as a reply can show a tough enough attitude.

But it's all here, and you can't retreat in the face of difficulties. The crowd lined up at the back of the line to enter the city, and it was estimated that it would take about half a day to get in.

There are three killers in the team and one is mentally ill, just Xinong, a normal person, and the task of inquiring about the news has to be handed over to him to complete. Considering his own advantages in some aspects, Xinong accosted a little girl who was not far from the front.

The little girl is about fifteen or sixteen years old, and she looks very delicate, wearing a loose aqua blue cloth skirt, indicating that her family background seems to be okay. The poor could not afford dyed clothing, so they had to wear linen clothes that were cheap enough to cost the price of black bread, many of which were homemade.

Xinong walked over and coughed twice, revealing a polite and a little wilted, gentle and domineering, and cunning with a little cute. He cleared his throat and said, "This beautiful girl, I am a wandering mercenary from the south, can I ask you a few questions?"

The little girl was fascinated, her face turned crimson, and she said, "No problem, you ...... If you have any questions, just ask. ”

"Why are there so many people coming into the city today?" said Xinon deciding to test Aluca's conjecture first.

The little girl's shy expression was gone, replaced by a haze, and she said melancholy, "You don't know yet, the God of Light is angry! He has bestowed upon the soldiers of the Hill Empire boundless divine power, enabling them to smash the walls with their bare hands, and to run on two legs faster than their horses, even the heroes of the Knights of the Burning Sun cannot resist." Lord Lucas's army is retreating and is about to retreat to El City, and the army of the Hill Empire is about to chase after him.

Those of us who live near El City are dead end if we don't come to El City. The hateful bastard who guards the door still collects money...... Heard...... I heard that they still insulted women......"

It's really a rumor...... If the god of light could do such a thing, why didn't the sun god do it? He noticed a name in the little girl's words and asked, "Lord Lucas, ......?"

"Don't you know?" said the little girl, covering her mouth in astonishment, "he is the modern Grand Duke of Guy." I heard that Lord Lucas is handsome, with mesmerizing silver hair and red eyes as hot as the sun......" At this point she stuck out her tongue and said shyly, "Of course, I don't think he must be as handsome as you......"

Although Sinong was not proud of his handsomeness, he was still very happy to be complimented, so he said, "I think you seem to be alone, don't you go into the city with my companions, lest you be embarrassed by the gatekeepers." ”

The little girl nodded like a chicken pecking rice, showed a surprised expression, picked up her luggage and followed Xinong, and said as she walked: "Mr. red-haired mercenary, thank you so much, otherwise I don't know what to do." A few days ago, my father and I were traveling with a caravan, but I encountered a group of robbers on the way, and I managed to escape, but I was also separated from my father...... Now I have a dozen copper coins left on me, and even eating is a problem......"

Xinon smiled and responded casually, but a chill flashed in his eyes.