When he saw a corner of the temple ruins looming above the undulating sand dunes in the distance, Luther, who was following Cherus and Nanoha on the right in a small sand boat, was really relieved.

As prey, Chelus and Nanoha naturally feel uncomfortable, and as hunters, they are not easy to go. Although Cheruth and Nanoha tried to break through several times along the way, they were blocked under his command, but Luther, who had really fought with these two little girls, knew very well that if it weren't for the fact that the other party seemed to have something to rely on in their hearts but didn't want to be injured by them, the two little girls really fought hard and didn't have much confidence that these degenerate mercenaries would be able to stop them.

"Captain, their squad is over there, right?"

Luther confirmed this to his men, who had been guarding the Communication Stone since the battle began, reporting news from the other squads.

"Yes, the regimental commander, they just wrote back that they have already set up a position there. ”

The "leader" in Luther's mouth is the real leader of this mercenary group before the whole group fell because of the breath in the ruins,**, even the strongest leader in the original group was just an ordinary outcast with slightly stronger strength in front of the person who fused the "seed". The original mercenary group was broken up into five squads, and the head of the regiment became one of the five squad leaders like Luther, the former deputy commander, but because of the majesty accumulated as the head of the regiment before the fall, everyone still habitually called it "the head of the regiment" in private.

"Great, wait until you catch that little girl with the 'seed' on her body, this time you have to let the head of the regiment or Brother Luther merge, that kid from Jett was really shit luck before, obviously everyone thought that he fell into the trap of the ruins and died. ”

Jett is the one who fused the sealed shattered godhead in the ruins—or the "seed" as the outcasts understood it. Originally, he was just an unknown rookie in the mercenary group, and he was even often bullied by the mercenary seniors, but after accidentally fusing the "seed" in the ruins, not only did he suddenly have a terrifying power of law and became the source of the aura that degraded the surrounding creatures, including the mercenary group and the sand wolf clan, but even his temperament changed dramatically.

Luther could still remember the distorted feeling that emanated from the timid and cowardly young man when he saw Jett in the ruins who everyone thought was dead. After fusing the "seeds", Jett didn't give everyone much of a chance to react, and directly disposed of the other group of teams that were much stronger than their mercenary group who came with them to explore the ruins, and then used the tone of the ants that seemed to be crushed to death at any time - in fact, with Jett's strength at that time, this is indeed a fact - as if they were either give in or die.

Looking at Jett, who could easily defeat another team that was an absolute master compared to them, the remaining mercenaries could even feel an inexplicable sense of fear from the depths of their hearts as if an animal had encountered a real natural enemy. Unbeknownst to them, it was a mercenary group that was inherited from the ancient ancestors' fear of the Great Demon Breath, and everyone only thought that this was the majesty of a law-level powerhouse, so they quickly gave in to Jet.

Later, in the eyes of everyone who gave in and feared, Jett used the aura on his body to degenerate the whole group into outcasts, and after selecting a small group of original leaders or stronger people in the mercenary group to give them extreme strength, he divided the original mercenary group into five teams and let them come out to spread destruction and destruction around here.

At the beginning, including the original head and deputy head of the group, including Luther, everyone was afraid of Jett from the bottom of their hearts, and had to obey the other party's requirements to continue to do evil in this great desert, but after a while, they found that Jett had stayed in the deepest part of the ruins since then and did not even have any contact with them, only the aura that had been emanating from the ruins kept reminding them of the existence of Jett.

Originally, everyone's attitude towards Jett was more fear than awe, but now the other party has not appeared in the ruins, and everyone's fear of Jett has slowly weakened. Despite still treating the man as a demon with a terrifying wave of his hand that would turn them into outcasts, in private, the mercenaries had dared to occasionally express their indignation and some unfavorable views of Jett.

It is precisely because of this that Luther dared to contact the degenerate mercenaries so blatantly to hunt down Chelus and the others without worrying that someone would go to tell Jett, watching a rookie who was originally bullied by himself become a high-ranking guy who can control his life and death is not a good experience for anyone, if these outcasts really need a powerful existence that is strong enough to protect them, then it is better to let the head of the regiment or Luther, who was originally convinced by everyone, fuse this new and complete "seed". And then cleaned up the stinky boy in the ruins who was just lucky.

"Captain Luther, when the regimental leader has the strength to clean up Jett's kid, it is estimated that Jett's current 'seed' will not be able to escape. ”

Luther couldn't help but move when he heard this, indeed, after catching the wolf girl, it is estimated that most of the "seeds" on her body will be accepted by the strongest leader, but after the leader fuses the complete "seed" and then kills Jett, Jett's incomplete "seed" is very likely to become the biggest hero of himself. The thought that he might be able to acquire such a miraculous and powerful ability made Luther's heart burn.

“...... Okay, catch them first, and we'll talk about the rest. By the way, the last team still hasn't sent any news so far?"

"No, Captain Luther. ”

There were five squads of depraved mercenaries in the desert, but only three squads responded after Luther gave instructions to round up the two Cyrus.

“...... Probably because the communication stone on their side is out of order, or if they are in some trouble, forget it, four teams of people are enough anyway. ”

Luther said this, leaving the matter behind him for the time being. In fact, he didn't know that he had guessed half of it, and the last team was indeed in trouble a day ago, and the other half that he didn't guess was that the team was in trouble at that time, and it was three ** annoyances wearing wanderer mercenary badges with the power of Nolan's law.

"Okay, summon them to tell the head of the ruins over there, let them block the direction of those two girls, everyone, start closing the net-"

Before Luther could finish speaking, suddenly there was an explosion from the front of the team, and then I saw that Cherus and Nanoha, who were surrounded by them, stopped in mid-air and kept attacking in front of the side of the encirclement network, and the place where they were attacked was a commotion, and the sand boats stopped, and the light of fighting spirit and magic continued to flicker in the dust raised by the battle, obviously a very fierce melee was going on.

No, no, it's not the two girls who are being attacked, but their own people!

Luther's eyes widened and he stared in shock at the scene in front of him.

Finally...... What the hell is going on, Captain, and what about their squad? Who can tell him what happened to the group of muscular men in armor rushing from the ruins!

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Time was reversed slightly, in front of the ruins of the temple a few minutes ago.

"Boss, there's a message from the communication stone in the sand boat, and they'll be here in about five minutes. ”

On the sand boat, which was supposed to be the squad led by the original leader of the Fallen Mercenary Regiment, a muscular man in silver armor came out of the cabin inside the boat and reported to Shuai Ke standing on the deck of the sand boat.

"Okay, tell everyone to get ready for battle, this time there are three squads at once, let the young men fight their spirits, whoever wants to be injured again, the next battle will have no part in him, and, call me squadron leader!"

"Got it, boss!"

As soon as he heard that there was a fight to be fought, the strong man's face suddenly showed a look that did not look like a militant that a Templar should have, and he happily turned around and strode towards the rest of the other armored muscular men under the sand boat to "announce the good news".

"Hey guys! The boss has spoken, and there will be a fight again!"

Shuai Ke couldn't help but laugh and curse as he looked at the players who were excited about the upcoming battle.

"These stinky boys...... How many times have I called the squadron leader, and the Templar Squadron Leader has been called the boss, so that those old antiques in the sect will hear it, and it will be said that it is accidental. ”

It's been almost two days since they left Rooktown, and although they didn't encounter the group of sand wolf bandits attacking Rook Town, they unexpectedly encountered a group of human mercenaries who were attacking a small caravan.

Coincidentally, the human mercenaries who were broken by Shuai Ke and others happened to be the team led by the original leader of the group of degenerate mercenaries, and the behavior of the fallen mercenaries who hijacked the caravan and did not rob or seize but kept killing and destroying goods attracted Shuaike's attention, knowing that the curse in Rook Town implied the effect of arousing people's desire for destruction, Shuai Ke decisively led the team to stop the seemingly meaningless destruction of the fallen mercenaries, and by the way, he was ready to conduct a light magic investigation on their bodies.

As abandoned and degenerate mercenaries, the mercenaries naturally would not let these Templar Knights, who were obviously from the Cult of Solan, pierce the mutations on their bodies, and after a short battle, the fallen mercenaries, who were not at all the elite muscular male squadron under Shuai Ke's command - the opponents of the elite knight squadron, reluctantly gave up their targets and began to flee in the sand boat.

Shuai Ke was reluctant to let go of this group of strange mercenaries who might have something to do with the attack on Rook Town, both of them had sand boats as a means of transportation, so the fallen mercenaries couldn't get rid of this group of Templars, and in desperation, the fallen mercenaries thought of luring the Templars to the temple and luring them into the temple to use Jet's power to deal with them.

However, what they didn't expect was that when they entered the temple, and Shuai Ke and the others were about to chase them in, a message from Luther suddenly came from the communication stone on the sand boat they parked outside the ruins, and this message for them to cooperate with the siege of the two of them was seen by a muscular man arranged by Shuai Ke to patrol the enemy's sand boat.

The ruins in front of you are obviously suspicious, and instead of recklessly breaking into the enemy's home field to pursue them, it is better to wait outside and wait for the rabbit to trick the other party's accomplices into ending them first.

With such an idea, Shuai Ke immediately made a decision, and used the communication stone to send a message that this side was just in the ruins to rectify, and asked them to drive people to the ruins to ambush on all sides, because the communication stone only transmits text messages but has no images and sounds, and Luther didn't know that the people who sent and received the letters here were not the people he imagined, and he happily gave the order to drive the two of them to the ruins of the temple.

Right now, seeing the expected pursuit team not far away, Shuai Ke jumped off the sand boat with his sword and shield in his hand, and thought about something that was not very relevant to the battle in front of him.

...... After returning to the Holy City this time, I suggested that the communication stones equipped for the Knights should be modified into a design where you can see the faces of both sides of the communication, and sure enough, it is too unreliable to communicate only by words.