The group walked in silence until near dawn, when the gray wind suddenly stopped.

"Wait a minute. ”

"Huh?" Lucy looked at Cheruth strangely, "It's not far from that valley, but it's still some distance. ”

Because Gray Wind didn't want to reveal his identity as a high-level demonic beast, he didn't say anything in front of the Demon Tail Team, but fortunately, there was a tacit understanding between Cheerus and Gray Wind, and just exchanged glances, Cerus roughly understood what Grey Wind meant.

"No, if you go any further, you'll be discovered. ”

"Hey, it's a fake ......"

Lucy subconsciously expressed disbelief, but her teammates nodded anyway.

"Eldest sister, we didn't go far from here yesterday when we were warned by someone using magic sense. ”

Natsu said.

Anyway, since you've been warned, why do you keep going inside and going to a place where you can see the valley, ignoring each other, no wonder you're being hunted down.

Elusa stared at the gray wind.

"That wolf is not simple, we should not go again. ”

"However, if you don't go forward, you can't even see the edge of the valley, how do you want to grasp the situation inside?"

"You don't have to worry about this, as long as I can know the approximate location of the valley, I have a way. ”

Cheruth said confidently, and by the way, she straightened up her unexpectedly chest.

"Good Peace~"

Cheruth couldn't help but glare at Harpy fiercely.

"Hey, that flying stupid cat, don't think that I don't know what you said when I cover my mouth, and besides, you're embarrassed to complain about me at this point with that voice of yours!"

"Harpy, let's get down to business now, don't make trouble," the eldest sister Lucy said in a rare captain's demeanor, and then Cheruth waved her hand, "Cheruth, don't worry about it, it will grow up in the future." ”

Looking at Lucy's towering chest, Cheruth couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

Girl, you're not here to persuade but to pull hatred.

"Ahem, anyway, from now on I hope you can help to be on guard, and leave the investigation to me. ”

Chelus said, turning around and pulling Sekaria aside.

"Cheruth?"

Sekaria looked at Cerus quizzically, who winked slyly at her, and pulled out an emerald green leaf from her cloth pocket.

"Block it for me. ”

Although she didn't know what Cerus was paying attention to, Sekaria obediently pretended to be listening carefully to Cerus's orders, but used her back to block the sight of Lucy and the others looking at Cerus.

The glow on her forehead faded, and Cheruth turned around and smiled confidently.

Pretend to be forced mode, on!

"Actually, I'm a six-star arcane mage of the life department. ”

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Eders felt that he was really unlucky.

As the eldest son of the Mana family, the head of the four major families of the Loris Kingdom, he should have taken advantage of the holidays of the National Academy of Magic to relax at home, and find a group of fox friends who are also sons and sisters every day to have fun, and have nothing to tease and tease the maid at home, and get the new young ones to bed by the way, and occasionally go to a party of the noble young people to trick a few good-looking noble ladies to try it, this is his original day.

However, for the sake of his father's words, he had to give up all this and come to this dangerous and shabby place to play an adventure game with a royal concubine who didn't know if she had read too many mercenary novels or what was wrong.

Let's play, Sekaria is a beautiful girl she wants to get, and her background is enough to make the Mana family happy, if you can take this opportunity to leave a good impression in front of the beauty and create a good opportunity to press people under him in the future, Eddes feels that this trip is worth it.

But Eddes never expected that it should have been a pleasant pickle girl trip, but it was just one day before it became what it is now.

It is no secret that the open and secret struggle between the eldest prince Richard and the second prince Naris, it is better to say that after experiencing the iron-fisted rule of previous generations of kings, the big family led by the Mana family is very happy to see such a fight in the royal family, after all, the weakening of the imperial power means that the influence of the big family will be higher and higher in the country.

But only if the fighting between the two sides does not spill over to you.

Edus was not naïve enough to think that as long as he showed his identity and did not intervene in the battle between the two, he could leave the valley safely, not to mention whether this would offend the people on the side of the eldest prince, even if it was the strange mercenary group outside that obviously had the mark of the second prince, he would not necessarily let himself go back alive.

After all, this action has offended himself so far, rather than putting back an heir of a big family who has a bad impression of the second prince, it is better to return an heir who has become a corpse because of the poor protection of the eldest prince. The former may cause the Mana family to retaliate against the second prince, while the latter can completely disassociate the second prince and stir up conflicts between the eldest prince and the Mana family if the intelligence operation is effective.

Therefore, only if the eldest prince's side succeeds in turning the danger into a disaster, the chance of going back alive is the greatest, but ......

Eders looked at the eldest prince sitting not far away and the sage Heilan who served as the guard, and couldn't help but feel a sense of confusion for a while.

The eldest prince's only daughter, Sekaria, was snatched away by the demonic beast, and the only son was trapped in a small valley with him, and the Silver Wing mercenary group, which was known as the most reputable in the continent, was also beaten by the other party, and even Master Hailan, one of the three sages of the kingdom who was responsible for the personal protection of the royal grandson, was now exhausted from the daytime battle, because the other party had a master comparable to him and could not lead everyone to break through.

The only thing that is happy is that the Silver Wing mercenary group is still firmly guarding the valley so that the other party cannot enter, and the small group of royal guards who came with the emperor grandson Garnes are basically unharmed except for Sylna, who is Sekaria's guard.

Eders rubbed his forehead in frustration, his handsome blonde hair was already a little messy from the day's fighting.

"Edus, are you alright?"

Eders, who was cursing the eldest prince and the second prince at the same time in his heart, was startled, and hurriedly looked up at the young man in front of him who was slightly older than himself.

"Uh, well, thank you for your concern, Your Highness Garnes. ”

Sekaria's elder brother Garnes, like Sekaria, inherited the aqua blue hair color inherited from the Loris royal family, and the slightly long shoulder-length hair for men, his handsome and kind appearance, and his courteous way of treating people at all times are the hallmarks of the only royal grandson.

Garnes smiled.

"I'm sorry I invited you out with me but I didn't expect such a thing to happen, and when I get back, I will personally go to the Duke of Mana's palace to ask Uncle Mana for his guilt. ”

When I go back...... Can I go back?

Eddes looked at Garnes, who didn't seem to have any nervousness in danger, was this calmness already a chance of winning or a fake gesture that he simply didn't want to demoralize his side?

"Where, His Royal Highness Garnes really don't say that, but I want to ask you, His Royal Highness Richard and His Majesty the Emperor for guilt, obviously there is a follower with you, but she still makes Her Royal Highness Secaria ......"

It's a pity that a little beauty, although Eddes is not as sad as his face shows, he does have some regret in his heart, in his heart, Sekaria, who was abducted by the mad troll mantis and disappeared in the Warcraft Forest, is no different from a dead person, as for the werewolf child who was taken away with Sekaria out of nowhere, he has long forgotten about it.

To Eddes' surprise, Garnes' face only froze slightly, and then he regained his composure.

"Where, the little sister has been stubborn since she was a child, it was I, the elder brother, who didn't discipline her well to let her fall into such a disaster and then suffer the consequences, whether she can survive this catastrophe can only depend on her luck, don't blame yourself too much. ”

Politics is sometimes surprisingly simple.

Everyone knows it's fake, but no one cares, because it's not the truth that matters, it's the attitude.

Eddes looked at Garnes very complicatedly, even if his sister's life and death were unknown, even if his future was uncertain, he didn't forget to win the hearts of the royal family and his father.

Garnes gave Eders a final pat on the shoulder, a smile of encouragement, and then turned and walked in the direction of the meditative Master Heilan.

Brothers, uncles and nephews, brothers and sisters......

Eders was suddenly a little glad that his son, the Duke of Mana, had already defeated his brothers and sisters and exiled them to a remote corner of the kingdom after inheriting the family business, and since then, although the Duke of Mana has married several concubines, he has always had only one son.

Looking at Garnes's back, Eddes smiled coldly, he didn't know whether he was smiling bitterly or laughing.

Admittedly, although he didn't like this grandson, who was much better than his peers in every way, if the eldest prince did succeed to the throne, Garnes would be a formidable king in a few decades.