Emerging from the dimensional gate of the Dreador Garden, Rog's feet landed in a pool of dirty muddy water, he cursed secretly, jumped out of the sewage onto the clean ground, raised his head and looked around at the night swamp around him, and found that the scenery around him was completely different from what he had seen outside the Dreadhouse Garden before.

Gone are the swamps of the former Ichimari River, replaced by the surrounding hills, which divide the marshes into valleys, and they are now in the center of the two intersecting valleys, in the silence of the night, as if they were in the heart of the world.

"Oh my God, where are we?" said Rogge, frowning and looking around at the surrounding river valley.

"I don't know, I'm afraid no one can tell us. Murphy patted him on the shoulder helplessly, and Rogge looked back in the direction he was pointing, and found that there was no shadow of the Garden of Dreads and the Gate of Dimension behind him, except for the river valleys, mountains, and swamps.

"Well, hopefully it's not a bad thing. Rogge turned to Bach and asked with concern, "Priestess, is there any problem with the Hallow?"

Bach nodded solemnly, took out the white jade rod from the dirty silver robe, and Rogge nodded with relief: "That's good, keep it, otherwise we will be busy in vain." ”

He turned to the crowd and said, "The current situation is both good and bad for us. The good thing is that we don't have to worry about William and Elizabeth hunting us down, at least for the time being, and I think they won't be able to find us for a while!"

"What's that bad thing?" Catherine looked curiously at the crowd and felt that everything was normal.

Rogge smiled slightly, shrugged his shoulders at her and smiled, "I've already said the bad thing just now, Elizabeth and William can't find where we are, and neither can we!"

"We ...... Lost?" Catherine became a little worried, she shifted her gaze back and forth between Lisa and Murphy's faces, two guides, you look at me, I look at you, after a long time, Murphy said without confidence, "I have a suspicion that it may not be good news." ”

"Tell me brother, we're in a bad enough situation, and it shouldn't be worse!" Rogge said, looking at him expectantly.

"It's hard to say, maybe it's worse, I guess we're in the heart of the swamp by now, that is, not far from where I came here to steal the Wyvern eggs......" Murphy said, glancing at the people present, the expressions on everyone's faces becoming ugly.

"Although I said that I had not walked this road when I first came, I knew that the terrain of the swamp was that the deeper you go, the more complex the terrain becomes, and there will be more and more valleys, ravines, and hills, especially near the northern regions, because of the dark hills close to the dark wizards, there will be many hills and river valleys......"

"You mean, we're already close to William's lair......" Rogge said as he stared at him with a slanted eyebrow.

Murphy pondered for a moment, nodded slightly, and said, "Almost, of course, it's still far from the Shadow Fortress, but many of the things that live here have been polluted by dark magic, and you may encounter some powerful and terrifying things......"

"That's good news, what I'm talking about, lone wolf, it's no good to be with you!" Wood, the leader of the Guild of the Guilty Breakers, sighed.

"Oh, Wood, at least we're all alive now, so why sigh?" Rog glanced at the sad look on Wood's face, turned back to Murphy and said, "And your brother, don't scare the girls and the poor executive priest, Catherine doesn't even have bullets, how do you let us deal with those mighty monsters?"

He paced back and forth with some annoyance, "I wish I hadn't agreed to Tali leaving with Antonio, and that our supply officer had left at the right time." ”

"Don't you still have the Captain's Ghost Fire Gun for you?" the little owl suddenly interjected, "Wouldn't it be okay to give it to the stupid girl?"

"You know what a bad idea!" Rogge glanced back at her and said, "This thing can shoot a total of ten shots, and when it is used up, it will have to wait for it to replenish its own energy, and if it is really a troublesome monster, it will not matter at all." ”

As he spoke, he walked up to Catherine, took the ghost fire bolt from his waist and handed it to her: "But the little villain is right, give it to you first, and it is good to use it for self-defense at a critical time, but remember not to run out of bullets, and always make sure to keep a shot to summon Captain Jack's undead ship cannon!"

Catherine nodded solemnly, took the ghost fire and hung it on her belt, Rogge stood in place and was silent for a while, looked up at the stars in the sky, relied on the position of the Big Dipper to identify the direction, and led everyone to the west.

"Come on guys, we're running out of ammunition now, any of you still have food and water, it's best to keep some, it's hard to find clean water to drink in this place, let alone eat, but fortunately I still have a little bad bird, and after raising it for so long, it can finally come in handy......" Rogge said babbling as he walked.

"I don't have any flesh on me, so you can't eat me, so let's eat stupid girl!" said the little furball as he jumped up from Rog's shoulder, sneakily stepped back to the edge of his shoulder, flapping his wings and hiding on Catherine's head.

"Wait a minute!" Rogge, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, raised his hand to stop everyone, and the little furball that hid on Catherine's head glanced at his back, pouted and said, "Hmph, I know you are reluctant, you are so biased!"

"Shut up, you little noise, listen attentively, what's up ahead?" said Rogge, pointing to the wide valley in the night ahead, and everyone present listened attentively, at first hearing nothing, and gradually they heard a chaotic and heavy footsteps.

"What is it? Sounds like a lot!" asked Catherine, surprised.

"There seems to be a voice behind it, too!" cried the little furball as he suddenly stretched out his wings and pointed behind Catherine.

Rogge turned his head sharply, and sure enough, he heard footsteps in the valley in the distance behind them, different from the front, the footsteps behind were relatively softer, but faster, as if they were marching quickly.

"Whatever they are, they're certainly not our friends, we'd better find a place to hide first!" Rog looked back at the cliffs on either side, and found that the hills were not steep enough to hike to the top, and he hurriedly led the group to the side of the cliff in the river valley.

Suddenly, there was a roar in front of the valley, and Rog and the others hurriedly looked back, only to see a large group of monsters swarming towards them, these guys were wearing heavy armor, armed with heavy battle axes and war hammers, and let out a terrifying roar from the bloody mouths full of fangs.

"Oh my God, that's ...... Crocodiles?" Rogge stared at the bulky crocodiles running upright, seeing them rushing towards him like a large army, and before everyone could react, the back of the valley was again screaming, and another army of monsters rushed towards him with strange screams.

"It's the lizardmen!" Murphy heard the screams of the monsters behind him, and couldn't help but turn around and exclaim in surprise, "I see, this is the army of the lizardmen and the crocodile, didn't Lisa say before that the two of them are at war?

"We need to get out of here, the lizardmen and crocodiles will tear us apart!" Lisa shouted to Rog with a javelin in her hand.

"Let's go!" Rogge shouted, leading everyone to rush towards the hill with all their might, Rogge pushed the executive priest Bach and the two girls towards the hill, and told them to evacuate to the hill first, and he and Murphy and Wood took cover.

At this moment, a series of javelins flew down from the sky towards Rogge and the others, and Rogge hurriedly stepped forward to grab Bach, the executive priest who was walking in front, and one of the javelins stuck to Bach's outstretched toes into the dirt, causing Bach to scream in fright.

Before the people who were blocked by the javelins in front of them had no time to bypass the javelin bushes that were blocking the way, the army of lizardmen and crocodiles had already surged like a tide, instantly drowning everyone in the two armies.

The roaring crocodiles and lizards wielded their weapons and slaughtered, and no one paid any attention to the diminutive humans caught in the crowd.

Not to be outdone, the fat crocodiles repeatedly swung their tomahawks to splice the heads of the lizardmen, and the lizardmen repeatedly pierced the crocodile warriors' chests with javelins and halberds.

Faced with the rampaging crocodile warriors, the slender Catherine looked weak, and accidentally fell to the ground under the collision of the two armies, she hurriedly got up from the ground, but was knocked to the ground by the lizardmen behind her.

At this moment, a crocodile warrior walked past her with heavy steps, not even noticing her falling to the ground, brandishing the war hammer in his hand and raising his foot to step on her to kill a lizardman, Catherine, who fell to the ground, screamed and hurriedly rolled to the side.

The crocodile warrior's feet grazed past her waist and stomped heavily on the ground, and Catherine crawled past him before she could stand up and was knocked to the ground by a backward lizardman warrior.

She fell to the ground hard, and before she could get up, the lizardman had already fallen on her back, Catherine rolled in pain to avoid the lizardman who fell to the ground, and the crocodile clan who followed him swung a giant axe and chopped off the lizardman's head.

Catherine, who was splashed with blood, got up in a panic, and suddenly found that the crocodile who had killed the lizardman had landed a fierce gaze on her, and raised the giant axe in her hand to slash down on her.

At the critical moment, Murphy, who was struggling to fight his way out, rushed to Catherine's body, hugged her with fists with both hands, and the battle axe slashed heavily at his body, turning into a marble coat and colliding with the axe blade of the battle axe, and suddenly sparks flew everywhere.

The heavy impact made Murphy feel his chest and abdomen tremble violently, and his internal organs suddenly turned over, and he fell to the ground with Catherine in his arms unsteadily, and in order to prevent Catherine from being injured by the heavy coat on his body, he tried to support the ground with both hands, supporting a small gap between himself and Catherine.

"Murphy!" Catherine stared at Murphy's pained expression and let out a scream, she hurriedly pulled out the ghostfire bolt from her waist and pulled the trigger on the crocodile warrior behind Murphy, who raised the giant axe to block it, and the ghostfire bullet hit the blade of his battle axe.

Enraged, the crocodile roared, raised the tomahawk in his hand and slashed at Murphy's heart, and the blade of the axe flew into the air, accompanied by Catherine's exclamation, which hit Murphy in the heart.