The sound of chasing footsteps broke the silence of the forest.

The shadow of the spruce trees covers the sun, like countless towering high walls forming a reckless forest sea. The girl staggered through the white veil mist, the footsteps of her pursuers still echoing through the forest.

The chase had been going on for two days, and her physical strength had long been exhausted, and she was almost unable to run.

She prayed for a miracle, but was answered by a cry of surprise———

"I'm afraid to call for your life, the god of the sun wheel..."

Instead of running away, she crouched down and drew a religious symbol symbolizing the sun with her fingers on the moss-covered mud floor.

"Bask in the light and be blessed with the grace of God..."

"Honest fear, sincere fear..."

The wind blew through the tall canopy, and a ray of morning light sparkled through the layers of ancient branches and leaves, and fell on the slightly scribbled hand-drawn symbols on the ground.

"Go on a pilgrimage, tread the light and move!"

In the next second, the wings broke through the shadows of the trees, and the sharp-eyed griffin swooped down, only to pounce into the air.

A knight with a bauhinia totem carved on his armor leaped off the back of a griffin, and a large number of mercenaries and adventurers gradually emerged from the shade of the trees, and even soldiers of the Kingdom of Roo.

They formed an encirclement, but the girl who had been locked up was nowhere to be found.

"Didn't you say you found someone?"

The leading gendarme asked the thieves dissatisfied.

The thieves were also puzzled.

"She was still squatting here just now..."

The griffon knight followed where he pointed, drew his saber and picked the fallen leaves with the tip of his sword, searching the ground for something.

Soon, he found a charred abstract drawing of the sun.

"A miracle..."

The information clearly shows that she has not yet become a priest, and the flight in the past month may have allowed her to enter the door.

But the clergy of the Church of Light are still at the level of rookies, so there is nothing to worry about.

He sheathed his sword, stomped on the picture of the sun on the ground, and ran it twice.

"She can't run far, with this position as the center of the circle, within a radius of a thousand meters."

The gendarme snorted, found a boulder, and lay down, unwilling to move.

"I've been chasing for two days, one will be another thousand meters, and the next will be five hundred meters, and I won't see a single figure, so I won't wait."

Several soldiers also complained and put on impatient attitudes. The mercenaries and adventurers were better, and obeyed the knight and continued the pursuit, but it seemed that they were just coping with the errands.

The knight's face, hidden in his visor, showed a hint of disdain.

If it weren't for the fact that you novice adventurers and outpost oilmen were too lazy, would it take two days to hunt down an unarmed girl?

He snapped his fingers.

A great shadow roared over the gendarme, the griffon's sharp beak spilling saliva and its cold vertical pupils looking down at him condescendingly.

The thick lion's claws trampled on the boulder on which he lay flat, and the sound of the rock cracking frightened him.

After crawling away from the griffin's shadow, he drew his sword and pointed it at the knight———

"You, you, what are you doing?"

The gendarme pointed at him with a fierce expression: "Why should I listen to you as a Bavarian lackey?" Do you dare to touch me to try one? This is Roo's land! ”

The surrounding soldiers also looked nervous and took up their weapons, surrounding the griffins and knights.

Of course, it's just for show, it's not enough to really fight the griffin as a pre-dinner bread.

"The cross-border manhunt has been approved by your Minister of Foreign Affairs. In that case, you should cooperate fully before you catch anyone, and your governor has agreed..."

The knight took a small cloth bag from his armor and threw it on the gendarme's face.

The gendarme's eyes lit up, and he heard the sound of gold coins.

It hurts to smash it, I'm afraid there are not one or twenty.

He immediately got up and ordered the soldiers to lay down their weapons with a look of flattery.

"You see what you say, aren't Bavaria and Roo a family? Why don't you see each other..."

"Let your lazy dogs get moving, and it's good for you and me to end it early."

The knight pulled the reins, and the griffin spread its wings and rose into the air again.

This cedar forest is tall and dense, with thick and staggered branches, which is not conducive to the flight of griffins.

The girl was petite enough to dodge, and she had to rely on the ground forces to search for her.

The knight's voice echoed through the forest, reaching the ears of everyone involved in the search:

"The bounty is doubled. 300 gold coins will be awarded for discovering the target's whereabouts, and 600 gold coins will be awarded for capturing them alive. She's around here, and her eyes are shining brighter for me! ”

"Oh!!"

The excited shouts startled the birds in the forest.

.........

The knight was right, the girl did not run far.

The first time she used a miracle, she not only couldn't control the distance, but also couldn't grasp the landing point.

And so a strange scene happened.

The good news is that she has successfully performed a miracle that proves that she and the gods of the Church of Light are extremely compatible and have an immeasurable future.

The bad news is that a miracle has moved her to the faces of the two mercenaries on the periphery, and the future is over.

As soon as the mercenaries heard the good news of the doubling of the bounty, they saw a ray of sunlight fall, and the target appeared in front of them impartially.

The six eyes are facing each other, which makes people scratch their heads.

The three of them read the surprise on each other's faces.

The mercenaries began to pray, reverently thanking the sun god for his gifts.

The girl cried and ran away.

But there was a gap in speed, and the petite girl was soon blocked by two tall mercenaries and gradually forced in front of a huge spruce tree.

The two mercenaries did not intend to call anyone, and decided to capture her alive together before receiving the reward from the Bavarian knight.

If someone else is allowed to participate in the capture, the bounty will be divided.

It's just a matter of catching a child, it's easy.

When I took a closer look, I found that this girl was much more beautiful than in the portrait, with three-dimensional facial features and fair skin, big and round eyes, and she was as cute as a girl comic character in the Eastern Kingdom.

"Hey, little Lori, don't resist, how about going with your uncle obediently?" The mercenary smiled a smile that he thought was kind.

The little girl wrinkled her face, as if she was very dissatisfied with the title Lori.

"Untouchable, what right do you have to speak to Miss Ben? Don't be too complacent, you'll all die when Miss Ben's escort arrives! ”

The mercenary smiled contemptuously.

"Amused by Miss Ben? Two trash fish. Get out of here, deal with low-class pariahs like you, Miss Ben's guards will be fine..."

"Stinky little ghost, didn't your adults teach you how to speak?"

The mercenary's eyes froze, and he drew his knife.

The bright blade reflected the cold light, and the girl was so frightened that she immediately shut her mouth.

"What about your guards? Let him come out and show me, if not, I'll be angry, uncle—"

The little girl leaned against the tree with her back and had no way to retreat.

"You, you're really not afraid? I'm shouting?! ”

The mercenary laughed even more at her trembling voice.

"Shout it."

So here comes the classic line.

"Help——!!!"

"It's useless for you to shout at your throat, no one will come to save you!"

According to the classic plot development, every time the villain shouts this sentence, the troublemaker is coming.

So, as soon as the mercenary's voice fell, with a "whoosh", three arrows broke through the air almost in a straight line, narrowly grazing the throats of the two mercenaries.

The arrow rubbed out two pieces of blood and sank into the trunk of the tree, three points into the tree, the tail feathers swayed, and the force was so great that the two of them retreated again and again, and their faces turned pale.

"Two big men bullying a little girl, do you want to be ashamed?"