"Across this river is the northern part of the Principality of Michael." Kelland Hallein said politely to Erica who was standing next to him on horseback: "The building in the canyon ahead is the Kasan Pass.

, all ladies can pass there unimpeded with the Grand Princess's token. If you are not in a hurry, you can take a rest inside the pass, and as long as you show the Grand Princess's token to the hotel staff inside, you can also stay for free...

However, there is a charge for the goods inside.”

Erica listened to Klande's explanation and nodded. Then she spit the cigarette butt in her mouth onto the ground and stamped it out. She looked at the high wall built in a strange valley on the other side of the river and sighed.

Said: "It's really spectacular... almost 20 meters high..."

At this moment, Diana came over with Hannah Hallein, who was leading the war horse. Kland looked back at his sister and smiled excitedly after finding that her abdominal injury was no longer harmful.

"Well, then I won't bother you, let's just say goodbye." Diana helped Hannah, who was still a little awkward with her movements, get on the horse, then handed a small leather bag to the other person and said: "This

It is a healing potion that I mixed with the magic power of healing magic. It can be used as an emergency medicine. There is also a portion of dried herbs. Just remember to eat them after sunset. Your injuries will be fully recovered by tomorrow morning.

"

"Thank you..." Hannah thanked Diana very embarrassedly.

"You're welcome, just remember to pay more attention to safety. Let's go quickly. If you delay any longer, you may not be able to reach Mariaburg before noon." At Diana's urging, Hannah rode her war horse to Kelland.

In front of them, the two brothers and sisters thanked Erica and the others again and then rode their horses towards the bridge in the distance.

Looking at the two of them walking away, Erica took out a cigarette again and put it in her mouth. But she did not intend to light up the cigarette immediately. Instead, she smiled and teased Diana: "You can save them once."

Twice, but it can't save them for a lifetime..."

"I know..." Diana came over and took the cigarette from Erica's mouth very dissatisfied, but she did not throw it away but held it in her mouth, and then wiped it out between her fingers.

A cluster of flames ignited it and said: "But anyway, we just happened to see them being attacked. Do we still have to ignore them? We finally met humans who can try to develop friendly relations. It would be too wasteful to just ignore them."

"Okay, I agree with this point of view. But..." Erica licked her lips and took out another cigarette from the cigarette case that hit her jacket pocket, put it in her mouth and lit it with a lighter, and then looked at

When it came to the scene where Diana just lit up a cigarette, she said: "What a surprise, I thought you didn't smoke..."

"Quited for a while..." Diana took a big puff of the cigarette in her mouth, which caused the fire at the cigarette butt to burn violently. In less than two seconds, the cigarette that had just been lit was

Most of the cigarette burned in an instant. Then Diana spit out the turbid smoke in one breath, frowned, threw the half of the cigarette to the ground, stamped it out and said: "If I remember correctly...the last time I smoked was when

It happened ten years ago..."

"Really..." Erica lightly lit the cigarette and took a puff slowly. She really wanted to try Diana's wild and uninhibited smoking style just now, but in the end she gave up decisively after thinking about it.

After all, human lung capacity is limited...cannot be compared with an elf who transcends common sense.

The two stood in silence for a while, watching the Harlein brothers and sisters drifting away in the distance. Then after seeing them entering the tall pass city wall in the distance, Erica took the lead and said: "We

Should we go to the pass first or deliver the letter first?"

Diana took out a hand-drawn map and looked at it, then looked at the terrain around the pass ahead and said: "There seems to be no road to the mysterious military camp in this area... There is no indication on the map... Even on the magic map

I can’t even see it.”

"Really... I would have asked the Harlein brothers and sisters if I had known it earlier. What a mistake." Erica also scratched her head at a loss, then threw away the cigarette butt, stamped it out and said, "Let's go inside and take a look first.

Maybe someone inside knows how to get to that military camp."

Erica and I turned together and walked towards the GZA armored vehicle parked at the rear. However, as they approached the armored vehicle, Erica accidentally saw Agnes Ally, who was holding her chin in her hands and pouting with a sullen look on her face.

Ka smiled at her, then opened the driver's door, got in and asked, "What? Why are you so unhappy? Are you hungry?"

Agnes turned her head and looked at Erica with a smile on her face through the rearview mirror in the car, and then said dissatisfied: "You haven't told me the reason why you can't kill Aledo Solis!"

After hearing what she said, Erica suddenly understood why she was unhappy. I am afraid that the Night Owl organization behind her must have planned a beheading operation to assassinate the culprit Aledo, although I don't know if they have ever implemented it.

, but if nothing else happens, it is probably already in progress.

When everyone was on their way, Erica accidentally mentioned the content of the mission given to her by the goddess Hex not long ago. Except for a few people who were not particularly concerned about the matter, the reaction was even more intense than Erica's original response.

Of course it was Agnes. After all, even if Erica was dissatisfied with this task requirement, she could only complain in the old-fashioned way. After all, Erica thought that Diana and herself were in Engvar before.

The accident was blamed on that prince, but even so, Erica did not have an absolute determination to kill Prince Aledo, because personal grudges were personal grudges, since the prince seemed to have the same status as the competition.

The goddess of trouble like Weiner asked not to kill Aledo, so Erica had no choice but to obey. As for the reason, it is probably some reason that mortals cannot handle, so compared to her inner dissatisfaction, Erica arrived

She was even more worried about compensation issues, but Erica believed that the Goddess of Misfortune would definitely live up to her expectations.

In addition, regarding Agnes's strong opposition, before Erica had time to explain it to her, she happened to encounter the Halein brothers and sisters who were attacked by another group of unknown armed men. Later, although she easily helped the Halein brothers and sisters solve the problem,

They were surrounded, but then everyone was busy treating the injuries of the two brothers and escorting them all the way to the vicinity of Kasan Pass.

After all, it was an emergency incident, so Erica almost forgot about Agnes's previous doubts, so after thinking about it for a while, Erica threw the scroll in her backpack to Agnes.

And said: "You ask me why I can't kill Aledo Solis? I also want to know this question, but... you see, this is a task given to me by a certain goddess, and it requires me to kill him without killing him.

Please help your Kingdom of Michael win this war."

After hearing what Erica said, Agnes, who had not had time to read the contents of the scroll, was so excited that she wanted to rush over and hug Erica, but as soon as she got up, she bumped into the top of the armored vehicle and then sat back down.

And then, after being comforted by Puffy who was sitting next to her, she held back her tears and opened the expensive-looking parchment scroll.

"What text is this? I can't understand it..." Agnes put away the scroll with some dissatisfaction, then patted Erica who was sitting in the driver's seat and said, "You are not bluffing me, are you?

Is this parchment scroll 'God's will'?"

"Otherwise?" Erica took the scroll and patted Agnes on the head with it and asked: "Then what do you think God's will should be? The sky is full of divine light falling to the ground? And then there are countless angels

Is it God’s will to appear from the divine light with an olive branch and flower petals while blowing a trumpet, and finally to reveal a glittering stone tablet amidst the singing of hymns?”

"Well... although it sounds a little weird, but... it does sound very much like the behavior of a god. But..." Agnes raised her head and thought for a moment, then asked behind Erica: "'

What is an angel?"

"Angels are...just..."

Erica almost casually said "the angel with wings", but she suddenly remembered that she had seen Severna and some of the servants around her, but none of them had wings like white doves.

She would not be called an "angel", and if we describe the appearance of Elena, the leader of the servants of God, she is definitely far from the gender-neutral fantasy product of an "angel"... and "god"

How to explain this inexplicable word "servant" in Annuo language? It is estimated that when translated into English, Erica can only use "god servant" to roughly explain it.

Erica, who was overwhelmed by the sudden question, looked helplessly at Diana, who was sitting in the passenger seat, and sent her a very sincere look for help. Diana was indeed aware of Erica's request.

, but she just smiled and waved her hand and said: "There should be no such species as "angels" in this world, but there are a few humanoid creatures with wings, but they have nothing to do with "angels". And I don't know.

I have never seen an angel, so I don’t know how to explain it to her..."

Erica nodded helplessly, then turned to Agnes and said: "In short, that's pretty much what I meant. Anyway, I did want to kill that prince before. After all, I have some personal grudges with him... But

I just received an order from a certain goddess, so the mission objectives have undergone some changes."

"So...since you can't take action...can we?" Agnes obviously wanted to use some crooked brains to find loopholes in the mission's goal, but Erica didn't think that the kind goddess of disaster would be

Such a careless character. And after what happened to Desmo before, Erica was actually a little wary of those goddesses who looked very gentle on the outside, because they were unexpectedly angry or angry...

...Unexpected. And although this mission of the goddess of misfortune is for herself, but actually think about it, since she doesn't want that prince to die at this time, doesn't it mean that the goddess will protect him from death? And there is also something in the scroll.

The magical name "Tree of Destiny" was vaguely mentioned. It seems that Aledo's inability to die at this moment can be regarded as some kind of expression of "destiny".

Erica had thought of this earlier, so she took over the task more decisively. After all, it involved matters that extraordinary people could handle. No matter how dissatisfied it was, it would not help. It would be better to follow the gods' arrangements happily.

Go down.

However, Erica didn't know how to explain this kind of thing to Agnes, because she was not her official companion, just a temporary member accompanying the passage, and the information about gods and the like was limited to unnecessary information.

On the other hand, if it involves some more sensitive information, Erica will not tell the outside world. But this matter and the classification of the intelligence were also done by Erica herself. In fact, neither Severna nor

Neither Hex nor Hex has ever told Erica such a thing, so Erica is not sure what to say and what not to say. At most, she can only judge these things based on her own intuition. So at this moment, Erica

Rika didn't quite know how to explain the reason for the mission to Agnes, and she was even a little unclear about the origin of the "mission" herself.

After all, the original "mission" planned by Severna was just an excuse to prevent herself from being too homely, but the two subsequent missions seemed very casual, as if she was just looking for an excuse to perfunctory. Erica also noticed it at the beginning.

This, because she also felt that this kind of thing seemed a bit too perfunctory, but she did not expect that her third mission would suddenly become so serious, and the difficulty would also rise a lot. Although this kind of challenging mission

The mission goal is indeed very suitable to her taste, but due to various uncertain factors, Erica is unable to have enough confidence to face this challenge as she seemed in the past. Let’s not talk about anything else.

Without the support of a supporting combat system, just relying on her and two or three kittens to intervene in two national wars, this is quite nonsense even based on Erica's past standards.

"Hmph... I'm just an ordinary mercenary... not Rambo..." Erica muttered thoughtfully.

"What did you say?" As expected, Agnes, who has good ears, heard Erica's whisper, so she leaned on the edge of the driver's seat again and asked: "Who is Rambo? Which goddess's name is

?"

"No one!" Erica knocked Agnes on the head with dissatisfaction and made her shrink back. Then she started the car engine and drove the armored vehicle towards the entrance of the bridge where the number of pedestrians had begun to decrease.

The reason why they didn't rush to drive across the low stone bridge before was because they felt that there were too many pedestrians at the bridge entrance. If such an armored vehicle suddenly drove over, it would probably cause panic. After all, most of the pedestrians looked

They should all be local residents, and their residence should be the settlement next to the huge pass in the distance.

The terrain of this so-called pass is really strange. It is called "Kasan Canyon". Looking from a distance, it is not so much a natural stratigraphic fracture canyon as an artificially cut rectangular channel, because the so-called

The edge of the canyon is so flat that it doesn't look like a natural scenery at all. Moreover, the terrain on both sides of the so-called canyon is like a highland that suddenly protrudes from the horizon. Looking at it, there are occasional landslides.

In addition to the slope structure, other parts are as smooth and flat as the cliffs inside the canyon. And this rectangular highland, which is nearly 4,50 meters high by visual inspection, is very abrupt and spreads on this plain, and it spreads almost from east to west.

It is several kilometers long and stands directly on the edge of the mountains on both sides. It is like a man-made wall blocking people on both sides. Only the gap about 30 meters wide is the only passage for this wall.

.

Looking at the pass built in the canyon from a distance, it feels like a dam, towering and majestic. But based on the information I heard from Chris earlier, His Royal Highness Prince Aledo’s second plan is

After capturing Marienfort, he would occupy this place and use this to block the principality's troops from the north. After all, his original plan was to set off an unusually large-scale collective rebellion in the central region to delay most of the principality's troops.
To be continued...