readx;? The sun rose over the dark hills once more, but the land was not much brighter than at night, and through the dark forest, the two regiments of Rogue and the Empire, guided by Mina, came to the mouth of the Valley of the Damned. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ（.. ）

"It was here that I watched the crows peck at and eat Owen. Mina stood in front of the grassy valley mouth, looking sadly at the dead valley in front of her, and Rog, who was standing beside her, looked up at the valley mouth, where two cliffs carved in the shape of crows' heads were dotted with large and small crow nests.

"I guess he already knows we're coming. Pointing to the crow's nest on the cliff, Rogge said to Antonio, "The crows will report our whereabouts to him at once, and we had better be prepared for trouble." ”

Before the words could be spoken, a crow landed on the ground ten paces away from them, raised its head and looked at everyone with a sly gaze, Catherine beside Rogge quietly reached for the silver gun and tried to shoot the crow, but Rogge held her hand.

"He's watching us with the crow's eyes," Rog whispered to Catherine, tilting his head slightly, "don't show him our power lightly, we don't know anything about him, and don't let him know much about us." ”

Catherine nodded silently, and inserted the gun back into the place that was about to be drawn, and the crow stood quietly and looked at them, flapped its wings and flew into the valley with a cry of "whoa".

"Let's go in too. Rogge beckoned to the others, and entered the valley first, crossing the narrow valley path, listening to the crow's mournful cry overhead, Rogge and the others stopped at the end of the path, and presented them with a completely different scene outside the valley of fish.

In front of them, many scarecrows with pumpkin heads stood in the fields, holding swords and shields sharpened from wood, and ripe crops were waiting to be harvested in the fields, looking like a good harvest.

Everyone who saw this scene could not help but show a look of surprise, and at this time, several farmers who had walked by the nearby path saw them, stopped curiously and looked at them and whispered, Rogge glanced at Antonio, and stepped forward to ask the farmers about the situation.

"This is called the Raven's Garden, and it has been a secluded paradise since ancient times," said a dark, thin farmer with a hoe on his shoulder, and in a voice as high as that of a dwarf, "We have been farming here for generations, serving the god of crows and receiving his blessings." ”

"What kind of person is the God of Ravens?" asked Rogge, calmly looking at the farmers.

"He is the master of the place, the greatest deity, and he has infinite power, and those who receive his gifts will live forever, and those who disobey him will suffer the most terrible curse, and become worse than death. Another farmer said to Rogge with a mysterious expression.

"Where can I find him?" Rogge asked quietly with a sneer in his heart.

"Ah, it is not easy to see the god of crows," said the third farmer to Rog with a serious face, "and when night falls here, the ravens gather their tribute from some unknown place to a certain location in the valley, and that position will glow brightly, and it can be seen from any part of the valley." ”

"At midnight, the Raven God's retinue will come to the tribute meeting point to collect the tribute, and only when they arrive at the tribute location before they leave and leave the name of the seeker at the place of the tribute will they have a chance to be summoned by the Raven God. ”

"Does no one know where the greatest god lives?" Rog asked, looking at the faces of the three peasants one by one, puzzled, "Has no one of you ever been to the dwelling of the god of crows and seen him in person?"

"We haven't been, but some have been, but when he came back he couldn't remember where it was, what it looked like, he didn't remember anything, only that he had seen the god of ravens, but he didn't remember the face of the god of ravens. The three farmers said babblingly.

Rog nodded silently, thanked them, turned back to Antonio, and told them about his conversation with the three farmers, Britney said affirmatively, "It's Forgetting, and those who see the God of Ravens must have their memories erased by Oblivion." ”

"I think that's the case, it's the way dark wizards pretend to be ghosts. Rogge raised his eyebrows unexpectedly and said to Antonio: "It seems that we have no other way now, it is better to go to the villages and towns in front of us first, maybe we can get some useful information." ”

Antonio followed his finger and looked far away, and saw a glittering farmhouse on the other side of the farmland, and he agreed to Rogge's suggestion, and together with the high priest Goethe, he led two regiments along the country road through the farmland, in the direction of the village.

As he walked, Rogge, who was suddenly walking in front, stopped, raised his two arms to stop the people behind him, and Mina, Catherine, and Britney, who were walking behind him, couldn't help but stop and looked forward curiously from both sides of his shoulders.

I saw a small scarecrow only half a man tall standing on the road in front of him, wearing a pumpkin head with a strange smile, and two small hands holding a wooden sword longer than an arm and a shield larger than his body, opening his arms to block their way.

"Well, who got the scarecrow at the crossing? It's so annoying to block the way. Rog shrugged his shoulders and turned back to Catherine and said, "Miss Royal Shooter, would you mind using your gun to help me kill the scarecrow in front of me?"

Catherine shook her head with a smile and said, "No, such a cute scarecrow, I can't bear it!"

"Miss Necromancer, don't you want to help either?" Rog said as he turned his head to the other side and squinted at Britney.

"The only thing I'm willing to help with is to leave a few handprints on your face. Britney pouted and gave him a proud look, and replied slowly.

"What a face-saving answer. Rog smiled and shrugged his shoulders, turned back to Mina, who was standing next to the two of them and didn't quite understand what was going on, and smiled, "Miss Mina, you don't mind giving me a stone to use, right?" ”

Mina heard his words, and looked at the smiles on Catherine and Britney's faces, and still didn't understand what was happening in front of her, but she still felt a sharp stone from her body and handed it to Rog, who thanked her and turned and strode over to the scarecrow, stopping in front of it.

"Hey, scarecrow, listen, we're here to find your master, the god of crows, and if you don't get out of the way, I'm going to stone your pumpkin head, I'll count three, three!"

Rogge raised the stone in his hand and smashed it at the scarecrow's pumpkin head, only to see the scarecrow hurriedly raise the small shield in his hand to block his head, and at the same time shouted: "Bad wolf, don't smash me, don't smash my pumpkin head!"

After a short silence, the scarecrow, who felt that there was no movement around him, carefully removed the small shield from his face, only to see Rogge leaning over to look at him with a wicked smile, and took off the pumpkin head with both hands at once, revealing the expression of little Lolit Lilith.

"Little traitor, we are here for revenge, and as soon as you enter the door, you will rebel!" Rogge put the pumpkin head upside down on her little head, reached into the gap at the top of the pumpkin's head and knocked her head twice, then turned around her and continued to walk forward.

"I'm not a traitor, I'm a loyal bird!You're the cunning bad wolf!" Little Lori turned around and shouted at him with a pout, throwing away the sword and shield in her hand, turning over the pumpkin head on her shoulder, and running in the direction where Rog had left.

Little Lori caught up with Roger and grabbed his cloak, made him crouch down and climbed on his shoulder, riding on his neck and looking around curiously with a pumpkin head on his head, when Antonio came up to Rogge from the fork in the road on the other side of the farmland and whispered to him, "Don't you think it's strange?"

"What?" Rogge patted Lilith's calf dangling next to his head with his hand, and turned back to ask Antonio curiously, and the knight leader said to him with a serious face, "The situation here is completely different from what Mina said before, the farmers told this place out of paradise, who is lying?"

"Truth and lies just depend on whom, Captain," Rogge glanced at the surrounding farmland, and saw several crows standing on the ridges not far away looking at them, he leaned to Antonio and lowered his voice and said, "To you the Holy Congregation is sacred and solemn, to Lilith the Holy Congregation is extremely evil, who do you say is lying?"

Antonio looked at him with a frown, and heard the little Lori on Rogge's shoulder interject: "I don't lie, I'm an honest bird, and everyone who says I lie is lying!"

"It's good that you believe it yourself!" Rogge raised his eyebrows at Antonio with a wicked smile and whispered, "So, truth and falsehood just depend on which angle you stand, if you must distinguish between truth and falsehood, then you can only observe with your own eyes, I guess we will get this opportunity soon." ”

He stretched out his hand to point ahead, and Antonio saw that the gate of the village was close in front of him, a shallow river flowed in front of it, and above the wide wooden arch stood a wooden sign that read "Welcome to the Raven's Court", and on either side of the wooden sign hung two blue flags with the crow coat of arms flapping its wings.

Rog and Antonio joined the High Priest Goethe, and entered the Raven's Court with the two regiments and the other girls, and the street was brightly lit, and many peasants and village women stood by the street and looked at the strangers with curious eyes.

"There doesn't seem to be any evil here. Tali looked around as she walked, whispering to Antonio beside her.

The Knight Master nodded silently, he felt the same way about this place as Tali, before coming here, he had expected this to be an evil land, but he didn't expect to see a thriving and prosperous town.

At that moment, there was a sudden commotion in the street ahead, the crowd spread out to both sides, and a crow landed in the middle of the street from the sky, blocking their way, and in a burst of red light the crow gradually turned into a human form, and a clown with a strange smile mask came into their eyes.