Marin turned his head again. The explosion from the forest made him realize that something was going to go wrong today, and the signal that exploded in the sky made Faye recognize it. The girl's voice rang in Marin's mind:

"This is an alarm signal from the Battle Mage. Don't go there. He is already dead."

"Is it the final signal guided by the soul?" Jessica had also heard of this, and her question was approved by Faye: "Yes, the final signal, the red signal, the three-ring battle mage, can such a mage

There are indeed many ways to die, but being able to force him to the point of igniting his own soul... the other party is not that easy."

Faye's answer convinced Marin that the farther away from there, the better: "Let's go, girls."

As they continued to move forward in the forest, Feo whispered in Marin's ear from time to time. From time to time, he could feel something chasing them on the thorns he planted along the way.

This is bad news, and the good news is that they seem to be unable to smell the smell and can only rely on the traces they left to pursue. This greatly delayed their actions, and they even walked onto the traces left by Marin several times.

Wrong way.

"Something is chasing us." Marin told Faye the news, and the latter thought for a while: "There are many things that can chase us. I think it might be a war dog." She looked at the bottom of the slope.

War Dog: "But it's unlikely. Although we are in the south, wild breeds of war dogs are not uncommon. The other party probably won't think that we have war dogs, so they will be led astray. But I suggest you

It's best to keep these war dogs as far away from us as possible."

"I asked Lorraine to take them farther away." Marin accepted Faye's suggestion, and Lorraine quickly took them and disappeared from Marin's sight. In this case, even if they found traces of the war dogs,

It would not have occurred to them that these big dogs and the targets they were chasing were traveling together.

After climbing over a hill, Marin saw the camp - in the open space, the apprentices chose a good place. Under normal circumstances, choosing an open space to camp would help defend against possible raids. After all, in the southern woodland, green

Green skins are already considered the most difficult thing to deal with, and they basically live at the junction of the western provinces and southern woodlands. They rarely go south, and the apprentices have a few brushes. If they can't defeat the green skins, they can at least run away.

.

It's a pity that these brushes are not enough for ogres.

"Strange, there is no investigation team in the camp. Have they gone back?"

Jessica lay on the ground, holding a monocular and looking at the situation in the camp with some confusion, and then handed the telescope to Marin: "I can't see anyone, but the investigation team's tent is still there.

"

"Don't look at it, there is definitely something wrong." After Marin finished speaking, he patted the backpack on his back. Milani got out of the bag. Knowing what Marin was thinking, he climbed up the tree and then followed the treetops.

Head to the camp for reconnaissance.

"Let's go around from the west to the north." Feeling that the wind direction had changed, Marin decided to continue hiding downwind - when the camp didn't know the situation and there were enemies chasing behind him, if the two sides could fight, that would be

better one.

Halfway through the detour, Jessica smelled the smell first, and under her leadership, Marin and the others found a body.

A senior student from the Church of the God of War, who must have been a member of the investigation team, died very close to the river. A branch that had not yet been trimmed entered his back and nailed him to the ground.

"He should have been nailed down at that location." Jessica pointed to the top of the hill not far away.

"That must be very powerful, ogre?" Faye looked at the position and asked with some uncertainty.

"No, the things used to cut branches are very sharp. I don't think the ogres have such sharp weapons, because according to the intelligence, the group of apprentices killed by the ogres used stone blades when they were dismembered."

At this point, Marin sighed: "Ogres may not be able to eat enough in the forest. If they were to kill people, they would not leave such a large piece of meat here." Just after finishing speaking, Marin noticed.

Merlo's warning came up the slope.

Marin stood up immediately, and Faye activated the invisible sphere. She and Jessica carefully walked around behind the stone and began to move away from the battlefield.

Marin pulled up the hood of his ghillie suit and hid beside the stones and moss, blending perfectly with the landscape.

After a while, an old man and a child walked up to the top of the hill.

"Grandpa, there is a dead man there." The child said proudly, as if he was showing his eyesight and stupidity to his elders.

Sure enough, the old man patted his grandson on the head: "If the person who killed them was here, you and I would have died just now."

Then the old man and the young man went down the slope, checked the body, and then crossed the river from the ford.

It was only then that Marin began to move his body. Milani climbed down from the tree and brought Marin a not-so-new news - the camp was full of dead people.

"Everyone is dead in the camp." Marin said to the girls, and led them across the river beach. After confirming that the old and the young were walking very carefully and leaving no traces, Marin continued northward.

"We can start searching for your brother. Jessica, please pay attention to whether there are any secret marks in your family." Marin doesn't want to be an all-knowing person and leave this matter to Jessica.

Doing it by himself, Marin climbed up the hill and immediately fell to the ground.

Jessica grabbed Faye—she climbed up the slope with her head down and almost followed.

"What's wrong?" Jessica climbed up.

"Ogres, one of them and the other may be blocked by a tree." Marin pointed to the distance, where an ogre was heading this way. Maybe it was the child's voice that brought disaster to him.

After walking for a while, another ogre came out from behind the tree.

Great, looks like both ogres are here.

"What should I do?" Looking at these two behemoths, Jessica couldn't bear to know what to do.

"...Kill." Marin looked at the ogre, with an uncontrollable murderous intention in his heart - he couldn't let such monsters run rampant in the forest, kill them.

With this thought, Marin motioned Jessica and Faye to a position fifteen meters to his left.

Then Marin stood up.

He shook off the pulley bow, took out an arrow from the quiver, and then exchanged the small firing device in the waist bag with the arrow.

The ogres approached here. They looked around, but did not find Marin at all - with their vision, they probably would not notice Marin at all.

So when he was still about thirty meters away from them, Marin drew his bow.

The sound of the pulley finally caught their attention. When they stopped and began to search for the source of the sound, Marin loosened the string.

The arrow penetrated into the eye socket of the ogre closest to him. When the firing device hit the eye and started working, Marin saw the ogre's head explode like a watermelon.

He drew out the second arrow, fired the bow, and the arrow went into the knee of the ogre running towards him.

The latter roared and lost its balance. When he fell, the ground he faced had turned into a quagmire, and the ogre directly splashed a large amount of muddy water.

Then Marin's third arrow penetrated its skull.

Adamantite armor-piercing arrows can penetrate even heavy human plate armor. No matter how hard the ogre's head is, it cannot be stronger than the fine steel plate armor pressed by humans with a hydraulic press.

"Let's go." After saying that, Marin gave the two girls who stood up an acceleration spell: "Hurry up, let's swim across the river."

After saying that, Marin came to Faye, picked her up and jumped off the hill first.

Jessica jumped to his side: "Why don't we cut off their ears as proof?"

"No need, their cries will help the hunters around us locate our position, we must leave." After saying that, holding Faye's hand, Marin led the two of them and ran into the small river. The river was full of chill, and Marin again

Patted the trio against the cold.

Less than two minutes after they left this area, a hunched undead crossbowman emerged from the air. Its soulless black eye sockets swept around, and then the soul fire was rekindled, and its owner appeared in front of it.

around.

"Roland is dead... a waste. He has only been away from the battlefield for a long time, and he has already forgotten that a lion needs all his strength to fight a rabbit." The young man sniffed the smell of blood in the air, stood on the top of the hill, and looked at the death in front of him.

The two ogres noticed the small footprints on the side.

Then he went down the slope and saw the footprints by the river, and finally watched the footprints disappear into the river.

"Cunning guy..." He stretched out his hand, and a bone bird landed on his hand: "Tell our master that we have found the prey and are going south along the river. It seems that we want to escape back to Carter Castle. Please request for interception."

.”

After saying that, he released the bone bird.

Then he began to pursue along the creek. On both sides of the creek, more and more bone crossbowmen appeared.

They seem to be completely unafraid of the sun, and as their commander, the young man walks in the sun, and there is an ominous light in the shadow lengthened by the sun.

Like white bones, they move through the world on their own.

………………

At the same time, Carter Castle, the organizing committee of the competition.

"Sel Kate, I think we shouldn't put him up." As a member of the organizing committee, the middle-aged man scratched his head: "Really, we can't put him up. I've been thinking about it for a long time.

I think we... shouldn't let him play, right?"

"Why? Is it just because he is a Pale Lord?" The young man disagreed: "Didn't he say that he only fights with real swords?"

"But what if he can't control his thirst for blood, there are so many kids on the field."

"That's why the mage tower will be there when the time comes. Don't worry, my old friend, you have to believe in the promises made by the mage, especially the promises made by the two mage groups that are completely irreconcilable."

At this point in the conversation between the two, someone gave a final word to their argument.

An old man walked in: "Mrs. Anna recommends His Excellency Sel Kate to appear as the final challenge of the exhibition match."
Chapter completed!