The corpses of the soldiers lay crookedly across the meadow of the woods, and most of the leaves that had been slightly yellowed were stained red with blood.

At this time, the skeleton monster and ghoul were carrying the already cold corpse, and Nitos and Ciel were leading people to make up for the unbreathed ones.

Corpses have always been the most needed material in Levy's plane, and it would have been merciful if he had invaded other places with his men. But for the invaders, Levi will definitely not give the other party any chance.

In this battle, Levi's casualties here were not small, three orc warriors were dismembered, and six were inserted into a hornet's nest. The minotaurs were all covered in wounds, and they looked extremely miserable, and only they had a strong physique to hold on.

Agna was stunned when she saw it, the elemental power she now possessed was simply not enough to support the treatment of these minotaurs, and she finally ran out of gauze that she had prepared.

The half-elves were not seriously injured because of the protection of their whole body armor, but the physical strength consumed was too great, and they were so tired that they finally sat down on the ground.

The biggest loss was Wood's army of the undead, the skeleton monster was broken in half, only two of the dozen golden skeletons were left intact, the ghouls also died more than a third, and the raging ghouls died three.

These undead are enough for Wood to accumulate for a long time.

After all the bodies were removed, it was already dark, and Gunler didn't understand what Levi was trying to do, so he and the mad wolf didn't bother to care, and went to find a place to sleep on the other side of the woods.

"Father, there are two hundred and seventy-nine corpses in total, most of them are of grade four or five, and they are of better quality than the previous ones. The strength of those two knights should be above level eight, and you can choose to cultivate. ”

"Hmm. ”

Levi nodded slightly, "According to the old rules, let's send them back to your plane first." ”

Wood answered and went to do it, and Levi stood still and looked around at his men, all tired, and sent them all back to the plane, leaving Valila and Arya alone.

When he was done, he walked to the other side of the woods, where Gunler was snoring.

Although Gunler was asleep, the hammer in his hand still did not let go. Soon after the three of Levi approached, he opened his eyes sharply, picked up his hammer and entered the battle mode.

But when he saw the face of the visitor, he immediately sat back and squinted.

Valila was very displeased to see him like this, and said coldly: "If you don't leave, what are you still sitting here?"

"Huh, are you leaving?" asked Gunler curiously.

"And do you want to spend a day in the forest?"

Valula didn't like Gonler's casual attitude very much, it was very disrespectful to the master. In her opinion, the master should kill people like Gunle and turn them into zombies, so that they will always be obedient and obedient.

However, Valila would never say such a thing to Levi herself, and if there is a chance, Ciel will do it for her.

Gangle was wronged now, not that he didn't take the initiative, but he didn't know that Levi had brought so many people, and now the three of them were leaving.

"Where did everyone else go?"

"You don't care about other people, it has nothing to do with you. Just know what you do. ”

"You!"

Gunler is also a grumpy man, and he is very unhappy to be ordered by Valila like this.

But after looking at Levi next to him, he thought about it, since he had chosen to be loyal to the mage master, it would be over to be more patient with his woman.

At this time, Levi smiled, "The others have gone from the other side, and there are other tasks. I'll take you back to Katerina's camp, where I think it's a little more comfortable to sleep in than in the grass. ”

"Okay, in which direction?"

"To the east, on the other side of Redwood. Levi pointed to Gunler.

So Gangle, who wanted to do it, patted the dirt on his body, regardless of the others, and walked away with the hammer, while the mad wolf followed behind with laughter.

Levi left with the people, but Xiao Hei still hovered over Honglin Town. It was quiet at this time, and the vast majority of people were asleep in victory. Because the camp was some distance from the town, it wasn't until another patrol reached the front of the camp that the blood and corpses on the ground made them realize that something was wrong.

Without considering the rest of the barons, the captain of the patrol immediately brought the news back to the town.

"What?!"

After listening to the report of the patrol leader brought by the adjutant, Pisen's eyes instantly widened, "The people in the entire camp are gone?!"

"How is that possible? That's three hundred!"

Trick's loud voice made the patrol leader's face look a little ugly, he knew it was a bit strange, but it was what he had seen with his own eyes.

"What the hell is going on?" asked Pissen.

"When the patrol arrived, there were only a dozen corpses, and there was no one else in the camp. ”

The captain of the patrol did not dare to hide it, and described in detail what he found in the camp.

After he finished speaking, the adjutant next to him added, "It's likely that he went to pursue the enemy." I sent someone to search outside the town for traces of the march, and I was already investigating in that direction. ”

What the adjutant didn't dare to say was that the blood on the corpses in the camp seemed to have coagulated for a long time, and even if he went out to chase the enemy, he was afraid that it would be more than lucky.

Trick asked angrily, "Even if you are chasing the enemy, you should send someone to report back, but why is there no news in the town at all?!"

The adjutant lowered his head and did not dare to reply, although Trick was not his lord, but as a baron, he was powerless to refute and explain.

Pearson, who was on the side, frowned, and was a little unhappy with Trick's reprimand for his lieutenant.

Although Celtic was silent, he was disdainful in his heart. The whole town of Honglin was almost in a frenzy last night, who would care about what was going on outside?

In the midst of this silence, a knight hurriedly rushed in from outside, "Lord Baron, we have found a large number of blood stains and traces of battle in the woods on the northwest side of the town outside the town, as well as fragments of various armor, but we have not found anyone or corpses!"

"Find, keep looking, expand the range in the neighborhood!"

"Yes, Lord Baron!"

The knight respectfully accepted Pisen's order, and hurried away.

Three hundred soldiers disappeared out of thin air, and this result must be unacceptable to Pisen and the others, so even if more people are sent, they must find out what is going on.

However, in Celtic's view, they were the most idiotic ones, and they were here to conquer the city, not to investigate the missing persons.

Now that you've made a mistake, it doesn't make much sense to stop dwelling on it.

It's just that Celts now have no power and soldiers, and their words are not convincing, and even if they say it, it will be in vain.

But Celt doesn't say it, but the reality is that it can teach Pissen and Trick what to do.

The silence in the hall didn't last long, and the soldiers outside brought a spy.

According to the spies' report, Layton and Caterina had already led their troops not far outside the town of Redwood, with two hundred elite standing troops and three hundred militiamen.

The army did not attack the town of Honglin directly, but camped outside the town, waiting for something.

After the debriefing, Pissen asked the soldiers to step back, and the three of them sat down together and began to discuss.

"Why don't Layton just attack here?" asked Trick.

Pisen, who lowered his head in contemplation, said in a deep voice, "We have five hundred elites here, even if the high walls of Honglin Town are not worth mentioning, it is not something that his five hundred miscellaneous soldiers can capture." ”

"Doesn't that mean that Leighton knows everything about our army?"

"If those 300 soldiers were captured by Leighton, then our information here is indeed transparent to them. ”

Pissen looked at Celtic, "What do you think about the disappearance of those three hundred soldiers?"

Celtic shook his head, "According to Leighton's strength outside the town, there shouldn't be a way to quietly make those three hundred people disappear, it is likely that the mage's means." ”

"Is that the mage behind Katerina, who is he, how much do you know?"

Of course, Pissen knew that his father had two mages under his command.

Mages need a lot of resources and gold to practice and study magic, so ordinary minor nobles simply can't afford it. Moreover, mages also need a lot of time to meditate, and it is rare to waste such a lot of time on such trivial matters.

The two mages under Pissen's father's command were only level 4 and 5, but they rarely came forward, and only when there was a decisive war, the two mages would participate.

"I don't know. It was as if he had appeared out of nowhere, and I lost the Baronial Castle before I could check it. ”

Celt hesitated for a moment, then spoke: "According to his own introduction, he is the illegitimate son of my father. ”

"Bastard?"

Kyleter nodded, then shook his head, "I didn't hear my father mention it, I'm not sure. But if he helps Caterina like that, it means that he has a difficult relationship with the Rhine family, and it is likely that he is the successor left by my father. ”

"He has a lot of very strange methods, and many people will become his servants after fighting him. On the day of the fall of Rhinetown, a large number of undead appeared in the East City District, and they appeared without warning, and disappeared quietly, which was not expected at all. ”

"It has something to do with the undead?"

Trick's eyes widened in shock, and so was Pierson.

The undead of Kenriwa are confirmed to exist, but the undead are the public enemies of everyone, and they rarely appear in the public's field of vision, and some are hidden in various deep mountains, old forests, and swamps.

"I'm not entirely sure, but the people in Rhine are telling the truth, and many people have seen it with their own eyes. But there was no trace of it afterwards, and I didn't have time to investigate it. ”

Celtic was almost certain that Levi had a necromancer under his command, but he wouldn't tell Pison and Trick because he didn't want to scare the two barons away.

"If you're going to stay here, Pissen, you'd better lock down the whole town now. All the places that can be accessed have been sent to keep an eye on them, so as to prevent anyone from infiltrating and attacking Redwood from the inside. ”

"It's ridiculous, the gates of Redwood Town are closed, even if someone sneaks in, how many can there be?"

Seeing Celtic's cautious expression, Trick couldn't help but sneer a little, "Even if those three hundred people are gone, we still have five hundred elite soldiers, and whoever appears in the town will be looking for death!"

Celtic understood their cognition, and after a moment of silence, he said: "There may be more than fifty people mixed in, and the strength is very strong, surpassing the veterans, and there are magicians and archers to cooperate." ”

"Fifty, oh, Celtic, don't ......"

When Pison heard the news, he immediately felt that it was impossible, but after seeing Celtic's serious expression, he immediately put away his smile and asked with a frown, "Are you serious?"

Celt nodded heavily, "Otherwise, those towns wouldn't have fallen so quickly." At that time, the situation in Rhine Town was the same, and there was also my teacher, Kusilas, a knight with tenth-level strength, but now he is nowhere to be found. ”

"Why didn't you say it before with such important news?"

Trick Horan stood up and asked sternly.

If I told you all the news before, would you still come back?

Celtic sneered in his heart, but in fact, he changed his words, "We were preparing to attack Rhine Town before, and we never thought of being trapped here, and it was all uncertain news, and it was probably alarmist to say it." ”

Trick was overwhelmed by Celtic's words, and could only sit back in his chair with a deep sigh.

Pisen next to him frowned and said in a deep voice: "Then you should also tell all the news like this." Like Sir Roulin, if it weren't for him, maybe we wouldn't have spent the night here. ”

Now that Pisen has said it, Celtic, who is now powerless, has no way to refute it, so he can only nod and admit his mistake.

"Well, I was negligent, and there won't be any more mistakes like this. ”

"It's useless to say this, what should we do now? We can't stay in Honglin all the time, right?"

Trick, leaning back in his chair, spoke with impatience, as he had said, in an awkward position. A Red Forest Town wasn't worth it for them to spend so many soldiers guarding here, but it would be difficult for five hundred soldiers to do something about it.

"Trick, how many standing troops do you have in your territory?" asked Pissen.

Trick glanced at the other two people and hesitated for a moment before he spoke, "There are less than three hundred, all of them are third- or fourth-level recruits. ”

The training of the standing army requires gold and time, and the most important thing is the accumulation of precipitation.

After asking, Pison also explained the situation in his territory, "The situation in my territory is similar to yours, and there are fifty veterans in the two hundred standing armies. ”

"If we send the news back and bring in all the standing armies of the territory, then the problem will be solved. ”

After hearing this, Trick was obviously displeased, "Do you want to continue to invest, do you think this deal is still appropriate after so many things have happened?"

"Then you can't withdraw now, right? You and I have already lost more than 400 elites here, if you give up now, you will be completely defeated!"

"There are a lot of gold coins and treasures found in Honglin Town, which can be regarded as making up for some of the losses of the two of us, right?"

Trick had already calculated in his mind, "Even if it's a loss, it won't lose much, I admit it." Now I don't want to invest any more resources in this transaction. ”

The second son who separated from the big family like this didn't have much family background, and now the loss was enough for Trick to feel distressed. Although he was impulsive, he still wanted to stop the loss in time.

"I want to withdraw. ”