"What are they talking about?"

"I always feel like something is not quite right..."

"Where have you seen that pattern before?"

Through Crow's perspective, Art saw the conspiracy of the members of the Gray Wolf mercenary group, but he could only see but not hear anything.

Therefore, the whole time, he was observing the patterns on the animal fur.

If they were discussing the route, they didn't need to wait until he left. They must have some ulterior motive for doing so.

Under simple inference, Art imagined various conspiracies, and finally boiled them down to one sentence——

Can't trust them.

He had a bad impression of the Gray Wolf Mercenary Group and never trusted these people.

Now, I am even more skeptical.

After thinking about it, he decided not to go back to the camp and leave directly.

Stay away from them, just let the black crow hang them from a distance.

After making the decision, Art looked around, left in a direction at right angles to the Gray Wolf mercenary team, and at the same time gave instructions to the black crows.

"Follow them from a distance."

...

Half an hour later, the camp was set up.

"Hey! Hope! Where did that kid go!?" Sheridan, who was waiting impatiently, shouted to Hope.

"Who knows where he went!?" Hope was also extremely irritable.

After deciding to use Art as a sacrifice, attention to Art naturally increased, and Art's absence for half an hour also made them irritated.

Nortonk said in a sullen voice: "Isn't that kid running away?"

"Idiot, why did he run away?" Hope cursed in his heart, but said on his face, "He didn't hear that we were going to sacrifice him, so how could he run away?"

"Perhaps he ran into the Forest of Melancholy?" Hunter Loft answered, "You have to know that the Forest of Melancholy is filled with fog all year round, and people who are not familiar with it can easily get lost. That kid may have lost his way."

The Forest of Melancholy is the most famous place in the Glora County, besides the Glora Forest. Although the area is less than one-tenth of the Glora Forest, the scene filled with fog all year round is also very beautiful.

famous.

Many mercenaries who like adventure will go to the Forest of Melancholy. I heard that even Count Glora himself has been to the Forest of Melancholy.

Compared to the dangerous Glora Forest, there is no danger in the Melancholy Forest, only the danger of getting lost.

Other adventure mercenaries did not find any high-level monsters in the Forest of Melancholy. The highest ones were only low-level monsters equivalent to the middle. Most of the victims were lost because they were lost and lacked food and water. They were killed by those in weakness.

Kill monsters that are not strong at all.

As long as you are adequately prepared, let alone going in, you can go back and forth twice. If you are not prepared and have bad luck, you will have no choice but to die inside.

After hearing what Roft said, everyone believed it except Sheridan who was still a little confused.

"Damn..." Hope cursed in a low voice. Now, the sacrifice was no longer easy to obtain.

He looked at the others.

"If you can, treat them as sacrifices..."

Hope was frightened by his sudden thought and quickly lowered his head. After all, they were companions who had been together for nearly four years. He was not the last to join, but he also stayed in the Gray Wolf mercenary team.

for three and a half years.

Rand, the swordsman and shieldman who stayed the shortest, also stayed for three years.

"What's wrong with you? Hope?" Loft put down his backpack and asked aloud. He felt that his friend's reaction was a bit strange.

"Nothing, nothing." Hope tried his best to act as normal as possible, "I'm just thinking that we have to be prepared. We can't be like that kid and rush into the Forest of Melancholy without any preparation. I don't want to

Die inside."

"Don't worry, Hope, we are very well prepared." Loft smiled. Although it was uneven, his white teeth made him look cheerful.

As he spoke, he opened his backpack: "My backpack contains enough food and drink for us to eat and drink for two days without any supplies. Plus what you brought, it doesn't matter even if we stay in the Forest of Melancholy for three days."

As a hunter, he is usually mainly responsible for the logistics of the mercenary team, and other tasks, such as catching wild animals and so on. Over the past three years, he has already become accustomed to various accidents, so he has already made plans.

Although it was only their first time to come to the Forest of Melancholy, they had asked many caravans and mercenaries who would pass through the Forest of Melancholy. Even if they got lost, it would only take two days at most to get out.

Moreover, that is just usual, because people often get lost in the Forest of Melancholy, many mercenary teams will make some marks when passing by.

Now, in the Forest of Melancholy, there is a road that can be exited by following the mark, and it only takes half a day to pass.

Of course, their purpose was not just to pass through the Forest of Melancholy, so Loft prepared enough food for the entire team, including Art, for two days.

In addition to Loft, everyone else will carry more or less some of them, and they can also hunt beasts and monsters in the Forest of Melancholy as food supplements.

There is no need to worry about insufficient food at all.

"You are awesome! Loft!" Hope raised her hands exaggeratedly, "If you were a woman, I believe you would be a good wife."

"That is absolutely impossible to happen!" Loft shuddered. He thought of the man he met in Ludy County who was a wizard's experiment and was transformed into a woman with pointed ears. In the end, he went to

Liuying Street... is really disgusting...

Seeing his performance, Hope recalled the story Loft once told and shrugged his shoulders: "Well, you must be a good husband."

During the conversation, they completely forgot about the young man entrusted to them by Hawke.

In other words, he has been deemed dead.

.......

One day passed.

Art, who was hiding between the trees and rocks, frowned.

Through the perspective of Black Crow Glora, he has been hanging behind the Gray Wolf mercenary team. When he is hungry or thirsty, he will take out something from the inventory to eat. When he is sleepy, he will find a corner to hide and use meditation instead of sleep.

.

When meditating, his spirit is in a state of light sleep, half asleep and half awake.

Deep meditation can restore energy faster than sleeping, but he has only entered such a state once.

He was lucky that he didn't encounter any other beasts except a creature that looked like a gray mongoose.

There are very few creatures in this forest.

Faintly, he sensed danger—not his own, but the feeling coming from the body of Black Crow Glora.

There seems to be something dangerous in this forest.

After getting such a perception, Art hesitated for a moment. Animals' perception of danger is far greater than that of ordinary people. Although he didn't feel it, it didn't mean it didn't exist.

However, after thinking twice, he decided to continue tracking.

When the Gray Wolf mercenary team rests, Art also rests. If the opponent makes any movement, he will also retreat and then continue to follow.

However, although Black Crow is allowed to conduct remote observation through [Shared Vision], among the Gray Wolf mercenary team, the swordsman Thorndike and the hunter Loft are very alert and look up to the sky from time to time.

He had to control the black crow to stay farther away.

After continuing to follow for a long time, he found that the Gray Wolf mercenary team had stopped.

This is a jungle full of rocks and trees.

This is not a common situation in Glora County. Most of the entire Glora County is barren plains. Only the northern part of Glora County has mountains. What is the condition of this stone?

Moreover, if they are ordinary stones, forget it, but in the Forest of Melancholy, the distribution of these stones is high density.

Ever since entering the Forest of Melancholy, Art has never seen a place without stones.

Those broken rocks that look like weathered rocks look suspicious no matter how you look at them.

In fact, the people in the Gray Wolf Mercenary Team were also a little shocked.

"team leader."

Loft walked to "Gray Wolf" Sanger and said to the taciturn captain: "The situation here is not right."

"Yeah." Sanger nodded, then looked at the others.

Noticing Sanger's gaze, everyone looked at each other and nodded one after another.

The situation here is wrong.

It's not that they have never been to the Forest of Melancholy. On the contrary, they went there once two years ago.

Because of the legend that "the fog of melancholy can swallow up those who are lost", they have always been cautious and have investigated the information about this place.

The final result was that after getting lost due to heavy fog, these hungry, thirsty and weak trapped people ran into wild beasts and monsters and died in their mouths.

This result finally became a conclusion. Travelers, caravans, and mercenaries gradually all thought so. After someone saw the Earl of Glora coming and leaving not long after, this statement became clear.

It is even more solid.

But...the members of the Gray Wolf mercenary team are different.

In order to obtain extraordinary power, they did not let go of any news about the Forest of Melancholy, just like the previous areas.

From an old hunter's mouth, they heard a different story.

"Before the long cold winter comes, the fog in the Forest of Melancholy will become very thick." The old hunter, who looked like a beggar, said nervously, "There is a high castle in the forest. People who enter,

Everyone will die."

Hope and Loft walked around in the woods, picking up rocks on the ground.

After careful identification, the two came to the conclusion: "These stones seem to be the remains of some building."

"The wreckage? Where is it?" Sanger frowned deeply.

Hope and Loft looked at each other, and then the thin thief said: "We can't tell exactly where it is, but the general direction should be west and north..."
Chapter completed!