More than two days had passed since they left the town of Scotti, and Henry and Mira had made their way north with enough warm gear and supplies, and walked back along the road that had fortunately not been completely flooded by the snow, and went to find Konstantin and his party.

The low temperatures in the south and the eerie snowfall continued, and while thankfully the temperatures did not go down and began to rise, the weather change over the past few days had completely obscured any traces that might have been left behind, making it even more difficult for them to find someone.

Rummaging through the vast white world is almost impossible even for a sage.

The ideal search and rescue situation should be to set off when you know that you are missing, so that it is possible to find all kinds of traces before they are completely destroyed by the natural climate, wild animals and even other people, and follow these clues to successfully rescue.

But even under such ideal conditions, the success rate of search and rescue on record is still not very high.

Not to mention that there were only two of them.

In the face of the imminent threat, Scotti could not allocate any manpower, and even if there were 5 members of their group named Little Explorers by Margaret, the remaining 3 people would better stay there and command the supplies and arrange personnel to defend.

In the end, Henry and Mira were the only ones who could travel. Two men and two horses could not carry much more than they could, so they carefully considered and brought with them the most expensive candied and salted jerky, nuts and dried fruits, and the like, small in size but providing a lot of energy.

There are two sides to everything, even in this sudden and harsh winter. High-calorie and nutritious food is easy to spoil in the usual hot and humid climate, not to mention that it will attract all kinds of rats and insects, but in today's cold weather, Henry and they can pack up and go on the road with confidence.

All of them are full of high-calorie dry goods, and the price will naturally not be low. The two sacks of food carried by the two horses could feed two or three hundred civilians for three weeks if they were converted into bread, but they could barely feed more than 30 people for a week.

And even these were not easy to use, in order to save food rations for Constantine and his party, Henry and Mira hunted the already scarce beasts as much as possible, and gathered the few fruits and wild vegetables that were left.

Having recuperated and changed into warm clothes, they were now energetic enough to withstand the exertion of hunting, but Konstantin and his party would not be optimistic even if they predicted the results in the best case.

Warm cloaks for them, Henry and Mira also carried several pieces, and it was the first time in several years that Mira had gone out without her own books after meeting the sage. In order to be able to carry more supplies, they abandoned all their belongings except weapons and armor, and instead of carrying a change of clothes, they placed several warm blankets and cloaks.

But even then, it's barely up to par. After finding Konstantin and his party, they must use their minds and think carefully to ensure that they can save everyone.

Speed must be guaranteed, every minute counts, and the chances of a successful rescue decrease with every minute that passes. But at the same time, they also had to make sure that they didn't consume too much of the supplies and left them with Konstantin and his party.

If this is already difficult, add to this the fact that the horse that Mira is riding is an inferior horse that is not very disciplined.

After arriving at Scotti, not only the people, but also the horses were tired enough. Near the ancient city of Katigali, she lost her horse due to an encounter with the earth dragon Mira, so she had to share a ride with the sage, the weight of two people plus some of the supplies caused a lot of burden, and the rest of the carriage operated by Margaret was overwhelmed with three people and a cart of supplies and Mira's books.

Not to mention that the two knightly horses of Filippo and Ferruccio were already scarred, and one of them died on the spot after rushing all the way to Scotti, and when the temperature dropped by more than ten degrees, the other dying horse finally died in the stable.

Therefore, Henry and Mira rode bad horses that had been temporarily purchased in the small town of Scotti.

The physique and speed cannot be compared with the previous good horses, and even the brain is stupid, and often runs around without listening to commands. But this is also the best means of transportation that can be bought in this small town of only 1,000 people.

If you don't want them, you'll have to be a dumber mule.

Nothing went as planned, but even so they couldn't give up on their companions.

In the case of ensuring that he and the car do not overexert his physical strength, he is basically in a hurry during his waking hours. The icy and snowy weather has caused a lot of impact, but the strange thing is that the sage who is originally from the north does not mention it, and even our Luoan girl is extremely resistant to this.

Perhaps the scholarly speculation that the Luo'an people were originally a minority in the iceberg somewhere is not unreasonable, but in short, thanks to their ability to resist the cold, the two of them do not need to wrap themselves tightly and still shiver like other southerners. You only need to put on a cotton coat with a certain warmth effect, and then put on a cloak over the cuirass, and you can move freely.

And after two and a half days of rushing back with such speed and concentration, they came to the glade where they had changed, but which could still be seen to be the place where they had been.

The reason why it can be recognized is partly related to the few open spaces along the road in the Bao Forest that can accommodate more than 30 people, and on the other hand, there is a clear sign in a very conspicuous place on the side of the road.

A broad-bladed sword several meters long slashed deep into the trunk of a century-old tree.

The snow on the blade and the bare hilt of the sword, as well as a few black footprints on the trunk of the tree, proved that someone had tried to pull the sword off, and that it was probably the behavior of a passing villager or hunter, after all, a weapon of this size was worth a lot of money even if it was reheated into steel.

But because the sword was deeply embedded in the trunk of the tree and the cold weather caused the gap to shrink, it was so tightly bound to the tree that they could not let go even a minute, even though several of them had kicked their feet on the tree.

"It looks like we were attacked shortly after we parted. Mira looked back at her surroundings, our Loan maiden who had heard and seen by the sage's side was now an excellent expert in finding traces, and despite the ankle-deep snow on the ground, the broken branches of the various trees around her, and the obvious signs of falling bark from the impact and slash, they had been frozen and preserved by the sudden cold of winter.

The two men turned over and dismounted, took the reins and took a few steps forward, and then tied the reins to the trunk of the tree to prevent the car from escaping.

If they didn't have to do this in the past, the wise horse would naturally follow its owner unless it was too frightened.

"Click—" The snow that had accumulated on the emerald green leaves shook off, and many of the branches that had been frozen to death and had turned black were mixed in. Heng dodged them with small movements, and Mira watched as the Sage picked up a stick and single-handedly slashed several people with a broadsword that he couldn't pull out with all his strength.

"Grab the ——!" and pull it out of the trunk.

He grasped the sword with one hand as if it had no weight at all.

Mira rolled her eyes, then walked to the other side to investigate the other traces.

"The opponent is a human. ”

After a while, Henry gave his judgment. Constantine's broadsword was covered with notches, and as a knight's sword, it was clearly forged by a top blacksmith. The whole sword will begin to tremble after slashing at the trunk of a tree, which is firmly rooted in the dirt, and with Konstantin's physique and strength, if the quality of the weapon in his hand is not strong, the power of this shock will be transmitted to the weak point of the sword.

For example, if the raw ore contains too large impurities or the part that is heated unevenly during the heat treatment process, it will become an outlet for the force, and from here it will collapse and the whole sword will break in two.

It didn't turn out like this, and being able to withstand the rough use of such a strong man was a testament to its quality, and the dense gaps on it meant that the weapon of the man fighting him was not too bad.

As we've said before, blacksmiths don't usually make a sword of this size too hard, because a bent sword gives you a chance to twist it back, while a sword that is too rigid and "rather broken" will leave the user with no weapon to continue fighting if damaged.

Taking into account the hardness that will not be cut out by any weapon and the toughness that will not be broken, the two opposite attributes of the big sword, looking at the continent of Rigal, there is only Kramer behind Henry Mayer.

But even so, the greatsword used by Konstantin was of the highest quality steel, capable of fighting it hard and cutting through the gaps, and the opponent's weapons would be the result of the work of the best craftsmen.

And you also need to have a certain size.

Inch long and inch strong, if there is no matching size, it will only be unilaterally pressed and beaten by Konstantin - things don't seem to be so simple, his fingers touched the sword face sage felt something, he frowned and turned the sword over, and saw that not only the blade but also the sword surface was full of various scratches.

It's a trail of parry.

From these details, Henry was able to reason and restore the scene of the original battle.

He was suppressed.

Obviously, the long run had a great impact on Konstantin's physical fitness, and this was perhaps the biggest reason why he had no strength to pull out his sword when he slashed his sword in the middle of a tree with his last blow.

But he still won.

There were some brown hairs in the gaps on the sword, and there were dark red freeze-dried blood stains in the jagged gaps twenty or thirty centimeters long.

Plus cut the position on the tree.

After the bloody battle, Konstantin struck the brave man, who was likely to be the leader of the enemy, causing great chaos. But they were still outnumbered, so they had to drop their swords and retreat to the other side. After that, the remaining enemies cleaned up the battlefield, took what they left behind, and left, perhaps after them, or in other directions.

Now that the cold winter suddenly arrives and supplies are scarce, even the merchants' carriages will be broken up and burned as firewood. And the dead horses will not be spared, and the beasts and peasant hunters are all opportunists, and once they pass by, they will surely take something with them with them in the spirit of not picking up nothing.

Except for Constantine's big sword, which they couldn't pull out, everything else had basically been wiped out.

No one cared what kind of dead man's relic it was, they were just passing by, so they took what they needed.

He said, "Dead people don't need it anymore, do they?" "Convince myself, but I never thought about what it would be like if one day I died, and my things were picked up by passers-by.

Human indifference is evident in these details.

This kind of opportunism is very similar to the rat that everyone shouts about, so if you think about it, many people's hatred of rats is not "like the same kind of rejection".

"......" Henry watched left and right, while Mira furrowed her beautiful little eyebrows.

The trail had been completely destroyed, and they had no idea what to do.

The best way to wait for help after a distress is to stay where you are as long as possible, which will reduce consumption and make it easier for rescuers to find them. It would have been a good thing for them to have this non-branching passage in the Bao Forest, but it became a big problem when they moved away from the avenue after confirming that Konstantin and his party had indeed been attacked as expected.

This forest is big, very, very big.

The ancient path that twisted through it was only an eighth of the way to the periphery of the Bao Forest, and Konstantin and his flight were clearly directed towards the vast forests that went deeper.

The forest covers a wide area and is full of snow, and if you deviate from the avenue and enter it, you are likely to be confused by the same scenery and unable to discern the direction.

And even if you can tell it clearly.

With just the two of them, it will be as difficult as finding a needle in the bottom of the sea.

"Let's go, keep going. Mira's investigation over there didn't find anything significant, except for confirming that they had indeed fought with some humans, and because there were a lot of people fishing in troubled waters later, even if the snow was removed, the footprints below were all chaotic and overlapped, and it was impossible to tell which direction they were heading.

But even then, they had to hit the road.

Because for Konstantin and his party, the two of them are the only hope.

"Knock-" The fur-wrapped warm riding shoes stepped deep into the snow, and after tucking Konstantin's great sword into the side of the saddle and tying it up, the two staggered the avenue and went deeper into the vast forest to the east.