"I'm afraid not, Your Excellency. The crocodile soldier replied respectfully, "As far as I know, the Great Patriarch is looking for you for the sake of war. ”

"Alright, come on, little villain, let's go see what the Great Patriarch is looking for us. Rogge stood up as he spoke, and reached for the wide-brimmed hat on which he was sitting, and the little owl landed on the hat at once, and cried out, "Don't take it, I'm going to sleep!"

"You just said you were going out to play!" Rogge reached out and grabbed her in his hand, took the hat with the other hand and stuffed her into the hat barrel, buttoned it on his head, and said, "If you want to sleep, sleep in it, don't wait for me to slip out." ”

He led Lilith, who was protesting loudly, and followed the crocodile soldiers through the silent camp at dawn to the residence of the crocodile patriarch Gustav.

After receiving permission, Rogge opened the fur curtain and entered the house, where he found Gustav talking to Murphy, who beckoned him to sit down and said, "Mr. Rogge, I'm sorry to have brought you here so early, I have an important matter for my help." ”

"Patriarch, it's a great honor to serve you," Rogge said to Gustav, "but I hope it's not another homicide." ”

"No, no, no," Gustav said, waving his hand, "it's not like that, you can take a look at this first." He picked up a large yellow leaf from the stone table beside him and handed it to Rog, who looked down to see the handwriting on it.

"Challenge book?" Rogge glanced at the title and looked at Gustav in surprise, the Grand Patriarch bowed slightly, motioning him to continue looking, and when Rog looked at it again, he found that it was a lizardman challenge letter.

It turned out that since the last battle of the river valley, the crocodile tribe had defeated the lizardmen's forces with the help of Murphy, killing a senior commander, and the lizardmen's forces had to retreat out of the river valley, and the crocodile tribe took over the land.

The lizard-man patriarch Larkin was very surprised when he learned about this, and he was even more uneasy about the crocodile tribe getting the help of human warriors, but he soon found two human warriors who were willing to help them fight, so he sent someone to send a letter of war to Shrek, the front-line commander of the crocodile clan, hoping to let the human warriors of the two races fight in front of the battle.

"There are really a lot of humans in the swamp," Rogge smiled slightly after reading the letter, glanced up at Murphy, who was sitting opposite, and asked the patriarch Gustav, "So, are you going to send me and Murphy to fight?"

"I've consulted with Mr. Murphy, and I'm afraid I'll ask you to make a trip, but the lizardmen's challenge book states that if we can win, they'll withdraw from the disputed border area and end the war once and for all, which is a tempting bet. Gustav said as he looked at Rogge expectantly.

"In that case, I have nothing more to say, I thought you could have let Miss Catherine try it, your armory has enough bullets for her to beat a hundred humans into a sieve. ”

Rogge smiled and got up to return the challenge to the patriarch, shrugged his shoulders and said, "But for the sake of such a big bet, I, an old gambler, will still have a little itchy hands if I don't participate in it myself, so let's go and see what powerful helpers the lizardmen have found." ”

"That's great!" Gustav stood up and said with a smile on his face, "I have sent someone to prepare breakfast, we will leave immediately after breakfast, I will hand over the base camp to the archwizard and personally accompany you to Shrek's frontline camp." ”

As she spoke, Catherine and Lisa came in from outside, and Gustav ordered all the remaining musket bullets from the armory to be taken out and handed to Catherine, and Lisa had enough bows and arrows and other weapons from it to spare.

After breakfast, Gustav said goodbye to the Great Wizard, and together with Rogge and others, he led the army to the front line camp of Shrek, the commander of the army, and the army walked about two days to reach the destination, and the front commander Shrek personally came out of the camp and introduced the current battle situation to everyone.

"Great Patriarch, our army now occupies the three valley entrances of the river valley, completely blocking the lizardmen's army outside the river valley, and the favorable terrain is under our control, and it is very difficult for the lizardmen to invade this place. ”

Shrek confidently led everyone into the Chinese tent, and after everyone was seated in turn, he continued: "According to our scouts, the lizard-man matriarch Largin has arrived at the enemy's forward base and agreed to fight in the wilderness outside the river valley in the morning two days. ”

"Very well, this time we must give the lizardmen some color!" Gustav said with a smug expression.

"Commander," Rogge asked curiously, looking at Shrek, "Have you ever asked what helpers the lizardmen have hired to help in the war?"

"This ...... We didn't know much about them, only that there were two people, a man and a woman, and the lizardmen also offered to send a man and a woman to fight as well. Shrek glanced back at Catherine and Lisa, and looked at Gustav with an inquiring gaze.

"Oh, that's what I thought," said Rogge, smiling slightly, turning back to a skeptical Gustav, "trust Miss Catherine, she will be up to the task, don't worry." ”

Catherine glanced back at him when she heard this, and saw that Rogge nodded to herself trustingly, she lowered her head and gritted her teeth secretly, she must seize this opportunity and fight for herself.

Two days later, in the morning, in the fog of the empty swamp outside the valley, the armies of the crocodile and lizardmen set out from their respective front-line barracks in the north and south and arrived at the agreed place.

Gustav, the Grand Patriarch of the Crocodile Clan, and Larkin, the Grand Patriarch of the Lizard Clan, reaffirmed the bet of this contest to each other in front of the two armies, agreeing that they would abide by the agreement no matter what the outcome was, and if they could not decide the winner today, they would continue the battle tomorrow.

After the two great patriarchs returned, the two armies began to cheer and thunder, and soon a woman in blue clothes came out of the lizardmen's camp, she slowly stepped out of the battle with graceful steps, and stood in the center of the battlefield, waiting for the opponent of the crocodile clan to appear.

"Ah, isn't that Sister Yu?" exclaimed the little furball lying on Rog's hat in surprise.

"Oh no, I have a bad feeling......" Rogge gasped and turned back to Murphy, "Why is Tully here?

"What to do?" asked Catherine, who was holding the silver gun in both hands, looking back at Rog and Murphy at a loss.

"Is something wrong?" Gustav, who didn't know why, looked back at everyone's hesitant expressions and asked suspiciously.

Murphy stepped forward to tell Gustav the reason for the incident, and Rogge took the opportunity to pull Catherine aside and whispered: "Don't panic, there are only two situations now, either Tali volunteered to help them, and if so, she wouldn't kill you." ”

"There is another way, that is, Tali is controlled by them, she may not know you at all, then you have to find a way to find a chance, your current strength is by no means Tully's opponent, but it is not impossible to defeat the strong with the weak, do you know what I mean?" Rog asked expectantly by pressing his hand on Catherine's shoulder.

"I'll do my best!" said Catherine, clutching the handle of the silver gun in her hand.

"Go, good boy!" Rog reached out and nudged her, watching her walk towards the battlefield.

When Murphy found Catherine out of the formation, he hurriedly turned back to Rogge and dissuaded: "You can't send her up like this, she is not Tali's opponent, not to mention that if an accident accidentally happens, there will be casualties between the two, everything is irreparable!"

"Do you want me to go up and take her place?" asked Lisa, holding her halberd in her hand, as she walked behind the two of them.

"Don't get excited, trust Catherine, she's a smart girl, she'll take care of everything. Rogge said calmly as he stared at Catherine's back.

With apprehension, Catherine came to the front of the formation, and looked at Tali who was standing opposite, and when she saw her, Tali couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and the two looked at each other a little overwhelmed.

After a moment of silence, Tali asked aloud in surprise, "Catherine, why are you here?"

"Sister Tully, I'm here with Mr. Rog, Murphy, and Lisa, what about you, why are you on the lizardman's side?" Catherine asked out loud when she saw that Tully knew herself.

"It's a long story, what happened to Bach and the Hallows?" asked Tali with concern.

"We don't know where the executive priest is now, there's so much going on that we won't be ......able to tell for a while," Catherine said, looking at Tali in distraughtness

At this moment, the sound of war drums came from both armies, and Tali muttered for a moment, then looked up and said to Catherine, "Come on, we must settle the battle in front of us first!"

"But......" Catherine looked at Tully at a loss, only to see her beckoning to her and saying, "Come on, let's go all out, let me see the results of your training with Mr. Rogge, there will be another one later, and the rest will be solved by the people in the back!"

Hearing Tali's words, Catherine froze, clenched the handle of the silver gun with both hands, and suddenly raised her right hand to aim at Tali and pulled the trigger, a metal projectile flew out of the chamber of the gun and shot at Tali's right leg, the mermaid guardian waved the staff, and a wall of water rose from the ground, and the projectile was embedded in the wall of water, leaving not even a spark.

Catherine, who missed the blow, saw Tali swing her staff and pointed at the ground, vaguely feeling the wind and thunder surging under her feet, she leaped to the side, and the agility bestowed by the three goddesses of the forest made her as light as an elf, and jumped several meters away, and when she looked back, a column of water the thickness of an arm rose from the dirt.

Catherine turned and ran clockwise around Tali, the twin silver guns in her hands aimed at her lower disc and fired a series of lightning-like bullets, Tali chanted loudly, waving her hand to summon several gushing springs in front of her, and the flying bullets were blocked by the springs and deflected off their positions.

"It's going to be something real!" Tali shouted at Catherine, chanting a series of incantations in a loud voice, and the water column rose like a water dragon, surrounding Catherine and surrounding her, crisscrossing Catherine in a swirling web of water that left and right left and right, leaving her with nowhere to escape.

With a loud bang, all the water jets fell from the sky at the same time and sprayed at Catherine's location, instantly drowning her in the churning white waves and turning the ground into an ocean.

When all the water jets had fallen back to the ground, everyone present was surprised to see that Catherine's place had become a large puddle filled with water, and that she herself was nowhere to be found.