Rodman was pondering when he was interrupted by the Chief: "Old friend, the only way now is for you to be alone, take a little detour to get to the barracks, and bring someone to our rescue. "
Rodman: "But the Duke and them ~~~~"
The Chief continued, "Do you think one of us can mobilize your army? Or, are you comfortable leaving the Duke alone in his quest?"
The chief continued, "Don't worry, we will never hand the duke and the others over to save our own lives, because even if we did that the other side would kill us to silence them."
Rodman thought about it and thought it was indeed true. Looked back at the Duke, who nodded.
Rodman said to the chief: "A total of 200 miles round trip, as long as you can hold out for 2 days I will bring back help." After saying that, he took the 4 horses and prepared to go.
Chief: "Go quickly, return quickly, we will last for two days. By the way, Lao Luo, that very expensive arrow should be considered mine, right?"
Rodman hurriedly came over and surrendered the broken arrows to the chief. Then jumping on his horse, the Duke nodded to Rodman, and Rodman nodded back to the Duke, both without speaking, the trust both sides had in each other no longer needed words to express. Rodman turned back to the lieutenant and said, "Here's where I'm counting on you all." After saying that, he urged his horse to go.
Faintly, Hearing the chief's feeble laugh behind him: "If this kind of arrow can get a few more will be rich." After hearing this, Rodman sighed mentally and thought, "It seems his greed for money and lust is not pretend, really is a knight scum." Mental in thinking, but the feet did not relax at all, in the twinkling of an eye the crowd could not see his back.
The lieutenant beside the chief was also sighing in his heart: "It's better to shoot all over your body, so you don't even have to pick up. I am also considered out of the sea of suffering, with such a chief, the empire's sorrow ah."
After watching Rodman disappear, the lieutenant began to think about the problem at hand. Two members were already lying down, the Chieftain that punk was not a consideration, but the Princess being unconscious left them without their only healing and auxiliary attack members. Hahn didn't know when he'd be back yet. Continuing to stay on the roadside was clearly not an option, and they had to quickly find a temporary camping site and prepare to defend themselves against the enemy.
Thinking of this, the lieutenant decided to act immediately, and she said to Yas, "Yas, you take charge of the guard for a while, I'll go find a place where I can camp."
Yas nodded his head.
The lieutenant walked towards the depths of the woods. Somehow, although he had just listened to what Rodman said and knew the power of the dark elves, she felt that the other party was certainly no match for Hahn, and even from the time she arrived in this world, she felt as if Hahn simply belonged to this world. Of course the situation now but she could not allow her to continue to think.
After walking in the forest for more than two miles, the ground began to have a slope, in a few hundred meters ahead, saw a cliff crossed in front of the eyes, the height of the cliff is probably several hundred meters, there is no way to go over directly.
The lieutenant made a mental calculation: "If the other side really has only a few experts coming, as the chief said, then this is a good terrain, and we only need to guard one direction." She walked along the cliff for nearly a mile. Suddenly the lieutenant heard the humming of a beast from ahead.With a thought, she walked along the direction where the sound came from, and after a few dozen meters, the cliff suddenly took an inward turn. At the end of the twist there is indeed a cave, It turned out that a hibernating black bear had been awakened by something and was fuming with rage right at the entrance of the cave.
Seeing the situation in front of him, the lieutenant rushed up without saying a word and settled the poor black bear with his knife. After entering the cave, it was a small cave of 2 square meters, but on the right side of the wall there was a 90 degree turn to the right, and along the turn to the inner one meter, there was a 1 meter square cave, and the highest part of the cave was more than 2 meters high. It seems that this is the place where the black bear hibernates.
After collecting the black bear corpse at the entrance of the cave, the lieutenant hurried back to Yas and the others. Then together with the Duke, everyone carried the injured chief and the unconscious princess to the cave together. As for the horses because of the fear of revealing the target had to be all scattered. After packing up, the lieutenant was ready to go back to the place where he had just been to wait for Hahn, but was stopped by the chief. The reason was that Hahn must have been killed. Of course, no one but the Duke believed this. But it was known that Hahn must be able to find it himself.
After the cave barely arranged the two wounded soldiers one inside and one outside, there was little room to stand people. Yaz did not say anything and walked outside the cave by himself. The lieutenant was going to come out too, but was barred by the Duke and said, "You stand inside, I'll go out."
The lieutenant was flabbergasted before he could say anything, he saw the Duke walking to Yas and had to keep quiet. Only the chief in the outer cave still did not know good and bad said: "I did not expect, you kid is still full of conscience! Yes, yes, this is called chivalry." The crowd pretended not to hear. The lieutenant was even thinking, "How come they didn't shoot you dead just now."Completely forgetting the fact that the arrow was suffered for her.
That night, the snow fell heavier and colder, in addition to the snow can cover the traces of their walk this only one advantage, other than the situation is getting worse.
Because of the fear of being discovered by their opponents, they didn't dare to light a fire at all, and everyone hadn't eaten anything hot for days. The black bear that was killed earlier was still placed inside the cave, leaning next to the chief. The smell of blood filled the entire cave, but the people did not dare to drag him out and bury him, because it was likely to attract the forest wolves who were sensitive to the smell of blood and thus exposed the target, and in order to prevent the smell of blood from spreading outside the cave, the snow had to be swept into the cave to cover the black bear's body. So in addition to the inner cave where the princess lies, the temperature inside the cave is not much higher than outside the cave. Hahn has also been gone for almost 8 hours and has not returned, even Yas and the lieutenant are a little worried.
In the second half of the night, the princess finally woke up, and after the duke's explanation also had a basic understanding of their current situation. The princess remembered that the chief's injuries had not been treated, so she asked the duke to help him over, to treat the chief. Surprisingly, the Duke did not hesitate for a moment and immediately helped her over. See here, even the chief within some moved, did not think that the other side of the titled princess, the status of the duke would treat them so mercenaries, and finally in the chief's firm opposition, or no treatment.
As the Duke helped the Princess to rest in the inner cave, Yas and the Lieutenant felt a little strange how they seemed to have adapted to their current status and naturally thought of themselves as mercenaries. The lieutenant even hurriedly reminded himself: "She is a regular soldier of the Empire, doing so solely to fulfill his glorious mission."
After settling the princess, the duke came out of the cave again, stood in the open air, and said to the lieutenant: "You have worked hard these days, it seems that nothing will happen tonight, why don't you go to the inner cave princess to rest, the task of the night watch will be taken by myself and Yas in turn." The lieutenant shook his head, and the duke looked at it without saying anything. Because the Duke saw the shadow of Rodman in the lieutenant and knew that such people could not be persuaded, unless it was an order. Thinking about the order he looked at the chief lying on the ground. Found it quite hard to understand that such a trash had such a good ministry.
The chief, on the other hand, grunted twice a moment, and twice a moment. Each time, the lieutenant beside him was very nervous, fearing that he had any accident. The chief asked the lieutenant to load up all the crossbows and arrows they had captured earlier and put them by his side, saying that he would sleep easy.
A night without words, is considered safe to spend, Hahn still no news. Early in the morning the five people inside and outside the cave were already exhausted. But there was still at least a day and a half before the time agreed with Rodman.
Early in the morning the snow that had fallen overnight had also stopped. The whole forest was white with snow. There was a thin white fog floating in the forest. One or two howls of forest wolves were occasionally heard from afar. The air was not as tense as it was yesterday, and it seemed that the other side's reinforcements had not yet arrived.
After another hour or two, Yas finally relented and tried to go to Hahn. The lieutenant judged from reason that Hahn may have been killed, but still could not bear to believe the speculation. So let Yas never go deeper just go back to the place where they were separated to see, and come back immediately no matter what happens. Yas agreed.
Just as Yas was about to turn around and leave.
Suddenly, he heard the lieutenant behind him shout a caution.
I saw the lieutenant step in front of Yas, his right hand raised to his body, a blue light from the hand, in front of Yas to form a pale blue hemispherical barrier, will Yas and the cave wrapped up. Almost at the same time from the front of the woods shot over hundreds of transparent short arrows. Hit in the blue barrier bounced up and fell to the ground,Surprisingly, the arrows are made of ice.
The Duke took a look and exclaimed, "Tiago!"
There was a string of harsh laughter from the woods as if a file was scratching on glass: "I didn't expect there to be a high-level magician among you who can use domain-level defensive barriers!" As spoke,saw a man whose body was snow-white and whose hair and eyebrows were white appear at the edge of the woods.
Looking at the Duke's expression, that person was Thiago.
Tiago continued to laugh to, "So,I feel strange, I didn't show any killing aura, how could you guys find out."
The Duke knew he had more to say, so he didn't answer.
Sure enough Tiago continued:"With Princess Sylia's level of magic,it is simply impossible to detect that I am gathering magical energy.It turns out that there is another person of high caliber ah, admire admire admire.Silman's Tiger really lives up to its reputation, with hidden dragons and crouching tigers under its command, it is indeed a man who has achieved great things."
The Duke did not speak, his expression serious, since he understood all the time since he was thinking of restoring the former glory of the Silman Empire. This is why he was called the Silman's Tiger behind his back. The tigers and wolves of the world are the only ones who have a heart of gold. Although no one had said it to his face, he himself had heard about it. I never thought that someone would call him that to his face today.
The Duke was about to rush out of the defensive barrier to fight Tiago to the death, but was stopped by the lieutenant. The lieutenant said, "Yesterday all night I felt that someone was spying on us, if he didn't suddenly strike, I thought I was wrong, now it seems there are others besides him, don't act rashly yet."
After hearing the lieutenant's words, Tiago said, "Originally we found your hiding place in the first half of last night, but in order to let you expend some more physical strength and energy, so we chose today to attack during the day. Now that you have discovered it, there is no need for me to hide anything." After saying that, he turned back to the forest and shouted, "Come out!"
Only to see from the four sides of the woods out of seven more people, from the dress, there are archers, swordsmen, warriors, assassins, and magicians.
The Duke counted the number of people and said, "I didn't expect that a team like you really existed within the intelligence department managed by the Second Imperial Brother!"
The Duke turned back to Yas and the lieutenant and said: "These people in front of us are the Black Hawk unit of our national intelligence department responsible for cleaning missions, that is, people who are engaged in assassination and other work that cannot see the light. All are the elite of the elite, must be careful. Especially the one in front of you, Tiago, is a magic swordsman, in addition to being an intermediate level water magician is also a sword master."
After saying that the Duke raised his voice and shouted to the people across the street, "Guys, do you know what you are doing?"
Diego: "Of course we know what we're doing, simply put, we want your lives! Because the one we swore allegiance to is the Second Prince not the Duchy of Silman." As soon as the words left his mouth, he saw the other side launch an attack on the defense barrier at the same time. The archers shot three poisoned arrows at the same time, the swordsmen's longswords swung their sword qi, the magicians' great fireballs, Tiago's ice-bound balls, and the warriors who lunged with their great axes.