Scouts emerge from the bushes and bring back a patch of fresh bark. The Knight Captain had a complicated expression.

"This is the mark of the Order...... It means that 'had' was stationed here. ”

And this bark is bare with fresh fibers.

"On the bright side, they may just be corrupted by the nezumi, which is not uncommon in the southern battlefields."

“…… There is no evidence yet that they are. ”

Maybe they're stationed here, maybe they're chasing the killer too, maybe they're forced to do it......

There are three orders of knights stationed in the royal city: the Knights of the Praetorian Guard, the Knights of the Golden Lion are subordinate to the nobility, and the Knights of the Holy Grail are subordinate to the Knights of the Holy Grail.

The Fifteenth Knight of the Holy Grail, Kleber Frankel Perkins, took with him nearly half of the Knights of the Servant when he went to the border, and the only ones who were still active were the Janissary Knights and the Golden Lion Knights. The cavalry squad that followed Annan came from the latter.

The former is stationed in the forest.

"Have you been discovered by them?" Annan didn't get a reply from the scouts, "Then let them find you." ”

Annan disguised the party as a passerby and did not notice them. As the protagonist of the first magical video in another world, Annan teaches the knights how to act and approach the cavalry station.

First the scouts found each other, and then the other horse's captain came out to verify. The cavalry proved the origin of the cavalry, and the cavalry proved the origin of the cavalry.

The team of the Praetorian Knights said they had been given a secret mission to stay in the forest for a while.

"What about you?"

"We've taken the task of sending the nobles to the Glory County ......," replied Master Aemon. Annan was that nobleman.

"Take this road?"

"You'll run into nezumi ...... outside"

The young and handsome captain thought for a moment, "The dark forest is not safe, and there are ghostly elves, so I suggest you set out tomorrow during the day." Then "kindly" gave them half of the camp.

Annan secretly instructed the knight captain Morin to agree to him, and they entered the camp. There is no trace of corruption, and there is no malice, and no one would associate them with the Corrupt Knights.

The captain of the knights breathed a sigh of relief, maybe it was really just a coincidence.

"Everybody takes turns keeping vigil tonight." Merlin paused slightly, "Keep your distance from the Knights of the Praetorian Guard." ”

As dusk ended, they lit fires, cooked food, purified by Master Emon, and distributed them to the knights.

Annan didn't rest, as the nezumi nemesis known to everyone in Prang Grace County, he was searching for clues about the nezumi...... But the Praetorian Knights are really clean.

In the quiet forest of the middle of the night, only insects chirped, and Annan sat outside his tent, listening to the sound of the forest.

At some point, Annan felt the breath of nature in this peace.

Annan left his seat, and Master Aemon, who was pretending to be asleep, opened his eyes: "Where are you going?" ”

"I sensed something ...... outside the camp"

"I'm with you."

"No, I don't. Don't worry, I'm the best guy on this team. ”

The Holy Grail Knight's shelter and teleportation scroll can't protect himself yet, so it's better to raise his hands and surrender to the nezumi.

Annan left the camp with a magic lamp, following the traces of nature, away from the gaze of the camp guards, and stood in the quiet forest.

Looming observations resurfaced. It could be an elf, or it could be a druid.

Annan first imitated the etiquette of the tree man druid and signaled to the depths of the dark forest, but did not respond, and replaced it with the etiquette of the elves.

Whoop –

The wind stirred the treetops, bringing with it a whisper of indiscernible direction: "Why do you know the etiquette of the Moon Elves and Druids?" ”

"My friends taught me, they are elves and druids."

"Friends?"

"That's right, friend...... Do you know Irelandzer? ”

"So...... Why should humans with status trespass into our forests. ”

"A group of Corrupt Knights has committed many killings in human territory, and we have pursued it...... No offense, have you found a suspicious presence close to the forest? ”

"You guys."

"Except for us...... At least except for the knights who came first. Annan shook his head, distancing them from the Praetorian Knights. Beautiful and noble elves, don't you really know? ”

“…… All I know is that you humans were stationed in the forest with a prisoner. ”

"You mean they have prisoners with them?"

Annan couldn't think of a reason for doing so, but the prisoner should know something.

"Thank you, you helped me a lot!" Before returning to the camp, Annan reminded the elves, "You better watch out for the nezumi...... They're not far from here. ”

A breeze blew, and there was silence all around.

Annan returned to the camp and told the Knight Captain and Mage Aemon who had woken up and waited for him.

"They didn't tell me about the prisoners." Said the captain of the Knights.

"So we should dive in...... Do you have a way to keep me from being discovered? ”

"Advanced stealth. Their team, like us, will not find out. "The bad news is that Master Aemon's forcible release of the High Stealth will fall into extreme weakness and will not be able to cast spells today.

"It's okay."

Annan opens the first portal of the day: large elements appear in tents one after another through the portal.

"Leave it to me." Said the captain of the Knights. His reasoning was that he was better at infiltrating than Annan, and was rejected by Annan on the grounds that "I am confident that I can solve them if my whereabouts are discovered".

Mage Emon knocked out the blue hedron from his staff and replaced it with a gray-white hedron, then unleashed his advanced invisibility.

At the cost of the weakness of Master Aemon and the fossilization of crystals into powder, Annan's figure disappeared in the tent.

……

Guarded and guarded tents, the scarred old mage hung his head in a cage. Only the faintly heaving chest proves that he is still alive.

Sasha –

The slight grinding sound did not alarm the guards scattered on both sides of the tent, only the old mage in the cage raised his head.

The dust in front of him formed an upside-down word: "Who are you?" ”

"The Temptation of Foolishness......"

The old mage let out a muffled grunt, revealing his broken teeth.

The guards remained unmoved, seemingly accustomed to the old mage's incessant cursing around the clock.

"Why did they arrest you?"

The old mage's mockery gradually subsided, and he did not know what he was thinking, and wrote with his feet in the same upside down.

Annan's peripheral vision suddenly caught a glimpse of the guard raising his head, and he hurriedly wiped the handwriting, and as soon as he covered the second line, the old mage raised his leg to cover the marks.

The strange movement caught the attention of the guards, who came to the cage, stared at the old mage with his head down, drew his long sword, and reached into the cage to pick up the mage's robes.

The text "Who are you" is presented to them. His companion drew his sword, and the guards continued to uncrack their mage robes, and new writing appeared on the ground: Fool.

(End of chapter)