"Eh, hehe, it's not as powerful as you say, there are children in our sect who are younger than me, but their strength is not weaker than me at all~"

Almost as soon as Raphael said this, the atmosphere on the sand boat suddenly froze.

Almost all people who can become light sacrifices will have light beliefs, but they will not necessarily join certain religions, in fact, except in the territory of the Southern Solan Holy State, many light rituals in other places are celibate sacrifices with light beliefs but no sect affiliation. However, in the discourse, Raphael naturally mentioned "within our sect", which means that this light sacrifice girl is a believer in a certain sect.

So here's the problem, although not all light sacrifices will be initiated, once they want to join the sect, almost all of the sacrifices will naturally choose the most orthodox source of the light doctrine in name, that is, the first sect in the mainland, the Solan Divine Cult...... And unfortunately, on this small sand boat, there happened to be three people who had a rather unfriendly relationship with the Solan Divine Cult.

Gray Wind, who was sitting next to Raphael and sensing the direction of Cheruth and preparing to report to Egger at the helm at any time, suddenly sensed that something was wrong, the beast's intuition made her quite sensitive to hostility, she could almost feel it, just after Raphael finished saying what he had just said, the other three people on the sand boat instantly developed a lot of hostility and even a little bit of killing intent.

Could these three people have had a holiday with the Solan Cult?

Thinking like this, Gray Wind quietly mobilized ten percent of his vigilance.

“...... The church is saying...... Eh...... Raphael, are you a member of the Solan Cult?"

Ali Ali, the glasses girl, originally looked very happy on her face because she was talking to a cute girl, but now it looks a little unnatural, and her tone is not as energetic as before, but a little dry.

The rough-witted Raphael fully confirmed the sentence "Ninety-nine percent of the natural abort will not observe the atmosphere", and nodded to Ali Ali with a smile, as if I was proud of the Divine Religion.

"Yes, oh~ I was baptized by the light in the Solan church and became a light sacrifice~"

Behind Shazhou, Egg, who was at the helm, used unnatural force for a moment, pinching out a few shallow handprints from the wooden rudder handle in his hand, and Xingxi's back, who had been tilting his head sideways, not knowing whether he was listening to the chat here or watching the scenery, was obviously stiffened.

The glasses lady who faced Raphael directly was not much better, in order to keep the expression on her face from collapsing immediately, Ali Ali barely maintained a smile, and the hands on her lap clenched into fists to the point that the backs of her hands were slightly white.

"Yes, yes...... It turned out to be a priest of the Solan God Cult......"

The new friend, who had been chatting with each other very cordially, suddenly called himself "Sacrificial Lord" in a very strange tone as if he was suppressing something, and even Raphael's nerves could faintly see that something was not quite right.

"Uh, this ......"

Raphael looked at Ali Ali, who suddenly lowered his head and did not raise his eyes, with some confusion, not knowing what was happening, and at this moment, Xingxi, who had been watching the scenery from the sidelines, spoke.

"It's okay, A-chan, she's just a little tired. ”

It's a lame excuse, but Xingxi finished it expressionlessly, and reached out to pull Ali Ali, who had his head down, to his side, obviously separated from Raphael and Gray Wind.

Raphael blinked, put away the cute smile on his face, showed a slight look of loss, turned to the gray wind on the side, leaned over and whispered secretly.

"Gray Wind Sauce, did I say something bad to make everyone angry?"

The ears on the top of Gray Wind's head stood pointed, frowning and feeling the breath from the bald uncle behind him and the two girls in front of him who were suddenly estranged, although at first this group of people did have a lot of hostility and killing intent towards Raphael, but what relieved Gray Wind was that although the hostility did not dissipate, the killing intent seemed to have been put away by these three people, although I don't know why they were so disgusted with the identity of the Solan Divine Cult, but at least now they don't seem to have the intention of really doing anything to Raphael。

“...... It's okay, maybe they just don't like the Solan Cult, maybe they have dark beliefs. ”

In fact, if it is a person with a dark faith, he will have a cold eyebrow against her as early as when he knew that Raphael is a light sacrifice, but whether it is Gray Wind as a demonic beast or Raphael, who grew up in the holy kingdom of Solan, they have only heard of the dark faith and have not really seen anyone with this faith, so it is still easy for the two of them to accept this speculation.

The sand boat continued to follow Grey Wind's prompts on the desert, but this time none of the five spoke, except for Grey Wind, who gave his mouth every once in a while to report the location of Cheruth.

The rescue trip became completely embarrassing.

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「...... That's it, Raphael and I, as well as the elite team of the newly arrived Wanderer Mercenary Regiment, are now rushing to you, Xiaobai, you and Nanoha hold on a little longer, and if possible, rely on the contract induction to move closer to me, pay attention to safety!"

The thought of the gray wind came from her consciousness, and Cheruth, who was flying in mid-air, moved her ears, and finally decided not to let her wolf sister worry too much.

"Well, I see, you guys should be safe. 」

At the end of the recollection, Cheruth turned her head to look at the small sand boats of the fallen mercenaries who followed closely like wolves on the left and right, and couldn't help but smile wryly.

It's very safe to be safe, but it's unlikely that you'll get closer to Sister Grey Wind.

"Cheruth, Sister Grey Wind's message?"

Behind Cheruth, Nanoha, who was flying with the magic guide shoes, asked, there were only the two of them at the moment, and Cheruth's expression suddenly changed, so naturally she couldn't hide Nanoha's relatives and friends.

"Yes, the Sural tribe is safe, the Minotaurs and Sakura are preparing to go to the nearby human town to take refuge from the limelight, Grey Wind and Raphael, as well as the wanderer mercenary group that actually took over the mission issued by the Sural tribe, are coming to us to prepare to meet us. ”

"That's great," Nanoha said with a happy expression, but then looked around with some concern, "But, how are we going to get to Sister Greywind?"

Previously, Chyruth and Nanoha used as bait to attract Luther and his group of human mercenaries to leave the battlefield, because they originally planned to lure Luther and his party away for a certain distance and then accelerate to get rid of them, but what made them feel miscalculated was that when they began to accelerate, those human mercenaries also seemed to have expected this, and even began to speed up the sand boat to chase after them.

When they arrived at the Sural tribe, because of the mood of carrying out tasks and sightseeing along the way, Cheruth and the others did not let the guide driving the sand boat come up with the fastest speed, so Cheruth did not have an accurate understanding of the speed of the sand boat, which has replaced camels and horses as the most mainstream means of transportation in the desert in recent years.

The small sand boats that were really driving at full speed were traveling much faster in the desert than they had expected, and the mercenaries were hanging firmly behind the two Cheruths who were flying with all their might, and they couldn't escape their pursuit at all.

What made Chiruth even more unhappy was that not long after they accelerated to get rid of these people, two more groups of depraved mercenary squads appeared in the nearby desert one after another, chasing them from two other directions. It soon became clear to Cheruth that the three human mercenaries were surrounding them instead of fighting, but they had faintly made a large net in the desert with a small sand boat of nearly thirty or forty of them, which was constantly forcing her and Nanoha in a certain direction.

Instinctively feeling that it would be dangerous to continue to follow their intentions to that place, Cheruth immediately made a decision, and Nanoha made a U-turn and wanted to break through from the side, but at the moment when they showed their intention to break through, the net made by the mercenaries using small sand boats suddenly tightened towards the center, and bows, arrows, axes, and all long-range attacks came towards them.

There were even two mercenary leaders with special extreme enhancement abilities like Luther and the three Sand Wolf brothers emerging from the small sand boat group on the side, one had the same extreme leg strength as the Sand Wolf boss and could jump high to attack them, and the other had the same extreme arm strength, and the throwing axe that was thrown out reached a terrifying level without the blessing of fighting energy. Isolated and helpless, both Cheruth and Nanoha were a little afraid of being injured by these people, and they were helplessly blocked back by the other party.

Along the way, Cheruth and Nanoha kept trying to break through from other directions, but each time they were blocked by the new mercenary leaders with different extreme powers. Originally, Luther was paralyzed by Lee's defeat by the gray wind and only left Luther and Joe's two leaders, but the two newly surrounded teams had three and four leaders with extreme enhancement abilities in the team, and the nine leaders with extreme enhancement abilities were on the sand boats in nine directions of the encirclement network around them, leaving no gap for them to break through from the side.

These depraved mercenaries are already blatantly "hijacking" the two of them to a certain place in disguise, clearly telling Cheruth and Nanoha that you are heading to our predetermined ambush location, while the two of them are still helpless and unable to break through.

"Cheruth, what should I do? Do you want to fight to force a breakthrough?"

Nanoha asked a little anxiously, Chelus understood that the meaning of the chestnut-haired girl's fight was obviously to break through even if she was injured, indeed, there was a big reason why they couldn't break through because they were afraid of being scratched and bumped and contaminated with that weird aura, but now Raphael is also coming here with Gray Wind, as long as they break out and join Gray Wind at full speed, it should be able to be dealt with and treated in time.

Determined, Cherus nodded to Nanoha.

"Okay, when I re-replicate and strengthen my combat ability, we'll break through and find Sister Grey Wind and them-"

However, before she could finish speaking, she suddenly heard bursts of cheers coming from the surrounding sand boats.

"Haha, it's here!"

"Two little girls, you can arrest them!"

Chelus and Nanoha looked ahead in shock, only to see that in the middle of the desert, the ruins of an ancient temple suddenly appeared there, looking a little mysterious and terrifying.

That's where the Fallen were destined to deliver their final blow? Oh no, sure enough, there were people before that ruin, and there were quite a few of them......

Cheruth looked at the black crowd in front of the ruins, her heart first sank to the bottom, and then suddenly she had some doubts.

...... Uh, Ale?Speaking of mercenaries...... Will there be such a sophisticated army?