Half a month ago, it was the night of Grace Day.

Nock and Leo, carrying two big burdens and leading Nock's horse, quietly slipped out of the village.

In this way, the two of them stared at the wind and snow of the Divine Grace Festival, and left the village where they had stayed for three years step by step. There is no reluctance and nostalgia.

When the two of them could not see the lights of the village and appeared in the wilderness, the two finally spoke.

"Now, where are we going? My esteemed priest. ”

"Naturally, to the west, my dear knight. To the east, the only way to go is to Pali along the Seine. But I don't want to go there. I want to go west and see the sea. ”

"You are the master, you have the final say, my priest."

"Then summon the mounts, and let's gallop our horses!"

"Yes! Father! ”

And then......

Leo and Nock stood stupidly in the snow, watching Nock's mount disappear into the night with their luggage.

"Chasing? My priest. ”

"Do you think it's too late to catch up?"

"But our luggage is still on it."

"It's not a valuable thing anyway."

"But I stuffed our travel expenses in a quilt and wrapped them around our horses."

"What! That's not to chase it! ”

The two of them flipped onto Leo's mount in a panic, and a huge black shadow, with its thick legs, rushed in the direction where the horse had disappeared.

Knock knock

This is the movement of Leo's mount as he runs.

Don't get me wrong, Leo's mount wasn't the horse that Anos had given him.

The horse remained in the stable in the village of Tarn.

Now the two of them are riding mounts, and they are Leo's companions in the Dragon Knight's contract, the Earth Walking Dragon.

Yes, although Leo gave up his identity, he did not return the Earth Dragon to the Dragon Knights.

This was Zola's acquiescence.

In her words, the Lionheart Kingdom's Earthwalking Dragons were all lent to the Lionheart Kingdom, and she had the right to decide who they belonged to.

Therefore, when the two fled, Leo took the Earth Walking Dragon with him.

Leo's Earthwalker is a growing Earthwalker, with a body size of seven or eight meters long and more than three meters tall.

It's no wonder that the breath that leaked when summoned scared off Nock's mount.

Fortunately, it wasn't too difficult for the Earth Dragon to make its way through the snow.

Soon chased a long distance.

It's just that they ignore a problem.

The Earth Dragons live in the alternate dimensional world of the Emerald Territory, where the seasons are like spring.

The Earth Dragons had no experience in fighting in the winter at all.

After walking tightly for less than half an hour, the Earth Walking Dragon lost his temper and wanted to return to the contract space.

Because, it's so cold!

Leo didn't expect this kind of moth to appear.

After all, in winter, their Dragon Knights basically didn't go out.

Where do you know that the earth dragon does not carry the cold!

As a last resort, he could only put away the earth dragon, and the two of them relied on their four legs and chased forward desperately.

However, heavy snow soon covered the horses' tracks.

The two of them, lost!

"Trouble, we have to find a place to shelter from the wind and snow."

"If we can't find our luggage, we don't have any travel expenses."

"We'll talk about that then. I still have more than a hundred gold here. ”

"What! How I didn't know! ”

"Ahem, before Grace Day, those young ladies who came to pray gave it."

"Well, then you still let me run the mission."

"Ahem, I'm not thinking about making more money, so I can feel more at ease on the road. Poor families are rich. ”

"So, we stupidly got ourselves lost for more than thirty gold coins?"

In the face of Leo's questioning, Nock touched his nose embarrassedly, not daring to refute again.

Without the trouble of money, the two hurriedly found a place to shelter from the snowstorm.

Otherwise, even if the two of them are silver-level, they will freeze out.

Soon, Leo dug a snow hole with the ice shield he was carrying.

Leo activated the ice crystal enchantment magic on the ice shield, and after freezing the snow cave into an ice cave, he and Locke got inside, and the two sat back to back in the ice cave, closing their eyes and recuperating.

In this way, the two sat all night, and did not break out of the hole until they woke up the next day.

Looking at the vast snow, the two who lost their way could only choose a random direction and move forward.

It's just that the two don't know that the direction they chose completely deviated from Nock's wishes.

They chose the south, not the west.

In this way, the two stopped and went.

When thirsty, dig snow in the snow to quench your thirst.

When you are hungry, you still dig snow in the snow to satisfy your hunger.

It wasn't until a week later that the hungry hands and feet were weak, and the two people with panicked eyes lay on the body of the Earth Walking Dragon, and despite the opposition of the Earth Walking Dragon, they forced it to carry the two of them to continue to move forward.

Otherwise, the two of them threatened to cut off the tail of the earth dragon and eat barbecue!

In the face of such an unscrupulous master, the earth dragon could only carry everything silently and walk forward aimlessly.

"Sniff~" Leo snorted suddenly.

"Nock, do you smell a scent?"

"I don't know, I just want to have a hot soup."

"How do you know I smell broth?"

"Broth! Where is it! Where is it! ”

Nock looked up excitedly, and soon, he spotted the light of fire and cooking smoke in the distance on the left.

"Someone! There's someone over there! ”

Nock shook Leo's arm excitedly, and Leo also saw the smoke and immediately patted his mount excitedly.

"Ukao, rush over there!"

Oh! The earth dragon roared excitedly, and ran away.

Nock was shocked and hurriedly shouted, "Wait! Stop, stop! ”

"Why stop, you don't want to drink soup and eat meat?" Leo looked at Nock puzzled.

"You idiot, you don't want to think that if Ukao ran over like this, I'm afraid that people would be scared away by us. I also drink soup and eat meat. I'm afraid that people will think that they will give soup and meat to become Ukao! Ran early. ”

Leo, who was awakened by Nok, hurriedly laughed and put away the Earth Dragon.

When the two of them were silent for half an hour, and finally saw a pile of bonfires and a group of people around the bonfire, they ran to the crowd with excited cheers.

The movement of the two quickly attracted the attention of the crowd and caused a riot.

A group of people took up their weapons one after another, put up a defensive formation, and aimed in the direction of the two Nocks.

Seeing the actions of the crowd, Nock also understood that the two of them were acting recklessly.

He hurriedly grabbed Leo's hand, raised his hands, and shouted loudly to the other side: "Don't be nervous, everyone, we are not bad people!" We got lost in the snow, tired and hungry, and when we saw the smoke, we wanted to come over and beg for food, and by the way, ask for directions! If you agree, we'll go. If you don't agree, for the sake of all human beings, give us a bag of water and a little bread, we just can't make it any longer! ”

I saw that there were only two people on Nock's side, and they were walking again.

There were long footprints behind the two of them, and with Nock's shouting, the crowd hesitated for a moment, and a discussion ensued.

After a few minutes of discussion, a man who seemed to be in the lead stepped forward and shouted at the two Nocks, "You can come here, but you must be under our surveillance, and also, hand over your weapons, otherwise, don't blame us for being polite." ”

Nock hurriedly replied, "We agree to your terms!" Let's go over. ”

Nock didn't say anything more, just walked over with the hands, and Leo followed in the same way.

Approaching each other, by the light of the fire, both sides finally saw each other clearly.

The crowd was about twenty people, ranging in age from ten to forty, all men, no women.

Everyone was dressed in thick clothes, and there were piles of luggage around the campfire, but they were covered with white cloths, which were difficult to find in the snow.

Obviously, it was a caravan on foot.

At least on the surface, yes.

"Hello everyone, excuse me. I'm Nock the lost, and this is my retinue Leo. ”

Nock greeted everyone with a smile.

The leader-like man who shouted stood up and said, "I am the leader of this caravan, and my name is Blue. We can give you food, but you have to exchange things for things. Of course, hand over the weapon first. If you don't agree, please leave now. ”

"No, no, no, Mr. Blue, we agree. We've been lost in the snow for many days, and we can't walk anymore. We just want to have a hot meal and get a good night's sleep. If you are not at ease, you can wait until we have finished eating, tie us up, and let us sleep. We have no ill intentions. ”

"As for the exchange, we lost all our luggage and our horses were lost. But I still have a few silver coins left, can I buy a meal? If not, we can help. As long as you take us to a village or a city, we will definitely find a way to earn money for you. ”

As he spoke, Nock put his hand into his bosom and touched it several times before he took out the hot silver coins from all corners of his clothes and handed them to the man named Blue.

The man took the silver coins from Nock's hand and counted them, and there were only eight of them.

It's not much, but it's a lot, and it's definitely enough to change the food.

This means that in the wild, if you are in the city, you can have a full meal.

"This money is enough for one meal. But we don't have much food, so we can only let you eat half full, and you can't eat a full meal. ”

"Enough is enough, just have a mouthful of it hot."

"Then hand over your weapons."

"Oh, Leo, what are you doing in a daze, I didn't see anyone say it, hand over your weapons."

"Oh, yes, young master."

Leomune took the shield off his back and threw it in the snow.

"What about you?" Blue looked at Nock.

Nock raised his hands and said, "I don't have a weapon, I don't believe you search." I'm just a down-and-out young master, I want to go to my relatives, but I didn't expect to get lost. ”

Blue looked at Nock in front of him, and although his face was dry from the wind and frost, the young man in front of him looked no more than twenty years old.

The temperament is really like a young master in distress, with fine skin and tender meat, he is out of breath when he walks, and he doesn't look like he has a weapon.

As for such things as daggers, in the eyes of the people, they are not weapons at all.

It can only be regarded as a meat cutting knife.

"In that case, come with me. As long as you don't make stupid mistakes, we won't embarrass you. We are serious caravanserans, not robbers pretending to be caravanserais. ”

Although Blue said this, the people of the caravan still kept their weapons in their hands, and vaguely surrounded the two.

But Nock and Leo couldn't see it.

A group of ordinary people who don't even have bronze level strength, even if the two of them are tired, they can easily settle down.

Now the two of them just want to have a good hot meal and then have a good sleep by the fire.

I don't want to care about the rest.

So, under the watchful eye of the caravan, the two drank hot soup for the night and gobbled up two pieces of black bread and a piece of roast meat.

This is something that Nock didn't expect, they can still eat meat!

This Captain Blue is really a conscience!

On top of that, there are really no ingredients in the food. Sure enough, he is a businessman of conscience.

Nock thought that the other party would add ingredients to them, and Nock also considered whether to solve the problem after eating, but now it seems that he is suspicious.

After eating, Nock obediently handed out his hands and asked Blue to tie him up with Leo.

Such an active behavior suddenly made Blue a little entangled.

In his personal opinion, he believed that the two Nocks were not bad people.

But he was responsible for the caravan, so he had the two of them tied up hand and foot.

"You can sleep by the fire over there. I'll keep the night watchman watching you, and you'd better not let me down. Otherwise, don't blame us for being polite. ”

"No, no, Mr. Blue, don't worry, we want to get a good night's sleep. If you don't feel at ease, wake up tomorrow, as long as you show us the direction where we can find someone, we can leave by ourselves. ”

"It's better to be like this."

Blue said uneasily, then turned around and arranged for the personnel to keep vigil, staring at the two Nocks by the way.

Although the young master named Nock was very thin, the wooden servant named Leo had strength.

The shield he threw out, the caravan actually had to be carried by two people to move.

It's hard not for him to worry.

In this way, under the watchful eyes of the caravan, the two Nock fell asleep peacefully and soon snored.

This scene made Blue and the others a little ridiculous, feeling that they were a bit of a soldier.

So, the order of the vigil was arranged, and the merchants fell asleep one after another.