Night Raven Master

Chapter 20 The Forest of Melancholy
"What are they talking about?"

"It always feels like something's not quite right."

"Where did you see that pattern?"

Through the crow's perspective, Art saw the conspiracy of the members of the Gray Wolf Mercenary Group, but he could only see and hear nothing.

Therefore, the whole time, he was observing the pattern on the animal's fur.

If it was to discuss the route, they didn't need to wait for him to leave. They must have some ulterior motive in doing so.

Under simple inference, Yate imagined various conspiracies, and finally, it boiled down to one sentence——

Can't trust them.

He didn't have a good impression of the Gray Wolf Mercenary Group, so he never trusted them.

Now, even more suspicious.

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

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

After making a decision, Yate looked left and right, left in a direction at right angles to the gray wolf mercenary team, and at the same time gave instructions to the black crow.

"Follow them from afar."

Half an hour later, in the camp that was set up.

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

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

After deciding to use Yate as a sacrifice, the attention to Yate naturally increased, and Yate's disappearance for half an hour also made them irritable.

Norton said in a muffled voice: "The kid must have escaped!?"

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

"Maybe he ran into the Forest of Melancholy?" Hunter Loft continued, "You must know that the Forest of Melancholy is filled with fog all the year round. 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 Glora County besides the Glora Forest. Although the area is less than one-tenth the size of the Glora Forest, the scene of perennial mist is quite impressive. famous.

Many adventurous mercenaries would go to the Forest of Melancholy. I heard that even Earl Glora himself had visited the Forest of Melancholy.

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

The other adventurous mercenaries did not find any high-level monsters in the Forest of Melancholy, and the highest ones were only low-level monsters equivalent to the median. Most of the victims were lost because they were lost and lacked food and water. Kill the monsters that are not strong at all.

As long as you are fully prepared, let alone go in, it is no problem to go back and forth twice. If you are not prepared and you are not lucky, you can only die inside.

Hearing Loft's words, everyone believed it except Sheridan who was still a little puzzled.

"Damn it." Hope cursed in a low voice, this time, the sacrifice will not be easy to deal with.

His eyes turned to the others.

"Take them as sacrifices if you can"

Hope was frightened by his sudden thought, and hurriedly lowered his head. After all, they are also companions who have been together for nearly four years. He is not the latest to join, but he also stays in the gray wolf mercenary team. for three and a half years.

Rand, the sword and shield player who stayed the shortest, also stayed for three years.

"What's the matter with you? Hope?" Roft put down the pannier and asked aloud. He felt that this friend's reaction was a little strange.

"Nothing, nothing." Hope tried his best to show a normal look, "I was just thinking, we have to be prepared, we can't be like that kid who broke into the Forest of Depression without any preparation, I don't want to die in it."

"Don't worry, Hope, we are very well prepared." Roft smiled, although his teeth were not neat, but his white teeth made him look very bright.

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

As a hunter, he is usually responsible for the logistics of the mercenary team, and other things, such as catching wild animals. In the past three years, he has already become accustomed to various accidents, so he has long planned.

Although it was only the first time for them to come to the Forest of Depression, they had asked many caravans and mercenaries who would pass by the Forest of Depression. Even if they got lost, they could get out within two days at most.

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

Up to now, in the Forest of Depression, there is a road that can be left as long as you follow the signs, 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 whole team for two days, including Art.

Except for Loft, other people will carry some more or less on their bodies, and they can also hunt wild beasts and monsters in the Forest of Melancholy as food supplements.

There is no need to worry about not having enough food.

"You are amazing! Roft!" Hope raised his hands exaggeratedly, "If you are a woman, I believe you are a good wife."

"That's absolutely impossible!" Loft trembled all over. He remembered a man who was a wizard's experiment and was transformed into a woman with pointed ears when he met in Ludi County. Liuying Street is disgusting
Seeing his performance, Hope also remembered the story Loft had 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, it has been determined that he is dead.

One day passed.

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

From the perspective of Black Crow Glora, he has been hanging behind the gray wolf mercenary team. When he is hungry and thirsty, he takes something out of the item bar to eat. When he is sleepy, he finds a corner to hide and replaces sleep with meditation. .

While meditating, his mind was in a state of light sleep, half asleep and half awake.

And deep meditation can restore energy faster than sleeping, but he has only entered this state once.

He was lucky not to encounter any other beasts except for a creature that looked like a mongoose.

There are very few creatures in this forest.

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

There seems to be something dangerous in this forest.

After getting such a perception, Art also hesitated. Animals' perception of danger is far superior to that of ordinary people. Although he didn't feel it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

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

When the gray wolf mercenary team rested, Art also rested. If there was any movement from the other party, he would also react by retreating, and then continued to follow.

However, although the black crow was allowed to observe remotely through [Shared Vision], the swordsman Thorndike and the hunter Loft among the gray wolf mercenary team were very vigilant, and looked up to the sky from time to time, so that He had to control the black crow to go further away.

After continuing to follow for half a day, he found that the members of the Gray Wolf Mercenary Team had stopped.

This is a jungle full of rocks and trees.

In Colola County, this is not a common situation. The entire Colola County is mostly barren plains. In the entire Colola County, only the northern part has mountains. What is the situation with this stone?
Moreover, if it is an ordinary stone, forget it, but in the forest of depression, the distribution of these stones is high density.

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

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

In fact, the members of the Gray Wolf Mercenary Team were also a little shocked.

"team leader."

Roft walked to "Grey 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 not right.

It's not that they haven't been to the Forest of Melancholy, on the contrary, they left once two years ago.

Because of the legend that "the mist of depression will swallow the lost", they have always been very cautious and have investigated the information about this place.

The final result is - it's just 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.

Such a result finally became a conclusion. Travelers, caravans, and mercenaries gradually all thought so. After someone saw that Earl Glora came and left after a short time, such a statement became true. It's 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 regions.

From the mouth of an old hunter, they heard something different.

"Before the long winter comes, the fog in the Forest of Melancholy will become very thick." The old hunter, who looked like a beggar, said nervously, "In the forest, there is a tall castle. Those who enter, will die."

Hope and Loft walked around the woods, picking up stones from the ground.

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

"Wreckage? Where is it?" Sanger frowned deeply.

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

"West and north?" Sanger thought for a while, and then immediately made a decision, "Look for the west first."

(End of this chapter)