A strange world

Chapter 306 Section 159. A Prisoner

The scout emerged from the bushes and brought back a piece of fresh bark. The knight captain showed a complicated expression.

"This is the mark of the Knights... it means 'was' stationed here."

And this piece of bark is exposed with fresh fibers.

"Looking at the bright side, they might just be corrupted by the Ratmen. This is common on the southern battlefields."

"...There's no proof it's them yet."

Maybe they happened to be stationed here, maybe they were chasing the murderer, maybe they had no choice...

There are three knights stationed in the royal city: the Guards Knights belong to the royal family, the Golden Lion Knights belong to the nobles, and the Retinue Knights belong to the Holy Grail Knights.

When the fifteenth Holy Grail Knight Kleb Frankl Perkins went to the border, he took away nearly half of the members of the Retinue Knights. Only the Guards Knights and the Golden Lion Knights were still active. The cavalry squad that followed Annan came from the latter.

Those stationed in the forest are the former.

"Have you been discovered by them?" Annan received no reply from the scout, "Then let them discover you."

Annan asked the team to pretend to be passing by and did not notice them. As the protagonist of the first magical image from another world, Annan teaches the knights how to act and approach the cavalry station.

First, the scouts discovered each other, and then the other party's knight captain came out to verify. The cavalry proved the origin of Annan and the others, and Annan and the others proved the origin of the cavalry.

This team of Knights of the Praetorian Guard said that they had received a secret mission and were stationed in the forest for a period of time.

"what about you?"

"We accepted the mission and sent the nobles to Rongguang County..." Master Aemon answered. Annan is that nobleman.

"Go this way?"

"There will be rat-men outside..."

The young and handsome captain thought for a while: "The dark forest is not safe, and there are still ghostly elves. I suggest you guys set off again during the day tomorrow." Then he "kindly" gave them half of the camp.

Annan secretly instructed the knight captain Mo Lin to agree to him, and they entered the camp. There is no trace of corruption or any malice, and no one would associate them with the Corrupted Knights.

The knight captain breathed a sigh of relief, maybe it was just a coincidence.

"Everyone takes turns to keep vigil tonight." Molin paused slightly, "Keep your distance from the people of the Knights of the Guard."

As dusk fell, they made a fire and cooked the food, which was purified by Master Aemon and distributed among the knights.

Annan didn't rest. As the rat-man nemesis known to everyone in Planng's Gift County, he was searching for clues about the rat-men... but the knights of the guard were really clean.

In the quiet forest late at night, only insects chirped. Annan sat outside the tent, listening to the sounds of the forest.

At a certain moment, Annan felt the breath of nature in this peace.

Annan left his seat, and Master Aemon, who was sleeping, opened his eyes: "Where are you going?"

"I sense something outside the camp..."

"I'm with you."

"No need. Don't worry, the most powerful person in this team is me."

If the Holy Grail Knight's protection and teleportation scroll can't protect you, then just raise your hands and surrender to the Rat Man.

Annan held the magic lamp and followed the traces of natural breath to leave the camp, away from the gaze of the camp guards, and stood in the quiet forest.

The looming observation resurfaced. Maybe an elf, maybe a druid.

Annan first imitated the etiquette of the treant druid and gestured to the depths of the dark forest. When there was no response, he switched to the etiquette of the elf.

Hua Hua——

The wind blew the treetops, bringing an indistinguishable whisper: "Why do you know the etiquette of moon elves and druids?"

"My friends taught me, they are elves and druids."

"friend?"

"That's right, friend...do you know Yirelanze?"

"Then... why do humans with status want to break into our forest?"

"A group of corrupt knights have committed many killings in human territory. We have been pursuing this... No offense, have you noticed any suspicious existence approaching the forest?"

"you."

"Except for us...at least except for the knights who came first." Annan shook his head, drawing a clear line between them and the knights of the guard. "Beautiful and noble elf, do you really not know?"

"...I only know that you humans were stationed in the forest with a prisoner."

"You mean they brought prisoners with them?"

Annan couldn't think of the reason why they did this, but the prisoners should know something.

"Thank you, you helped me a lot!" Before returning to the camp, Annan reminded the elves: "You'd better be careful of the ratmen... they are not far from here."

A gentle breeze blew, and the surroundings were silent.

Annan returned to the camp and told the discovery to the knight captain and wizard Aemon who had woken up and were waiting for him.

"They didn't tell me anything about the prisoner," said the knight captain.

"So we should infiltrate... Is there any way you can keep me from being discovered?"

"Advanced invisibility. Their team, like ours, will not find out." The bad news is that Master Aemon will be extremely weak after forcibly releasing the advanced invisibility and will not be able to cast spells today.

"It doesn't matter."

Annan opened the first portal of the day: large elements appeared in the tent one after another through the portal.

"Leave it to me," said the knight captain. His reason was that he was better at infiltrating than Annan, but Annan refused on the grounds that "I am confident that I will deal with them when their whereabouts are discovered."

Master Aemon knocked off the blue spar on his staff, replaced it with a gray-white spar, and then released the advanced invisibility technique.

At the expense of Master Aemon's weakness and the crystal turning into powder, Annan's figure disappeared in the tent.

…

In the tent patrolled and guarded by guards, the old mage was restrained in a cage and covered with scars, his head lowered. Only the faint rise and fall of his chest proved that he was still alive.

salsa——

The slight friction sound did not disturb the guards sitting on both sides of the tent, but only made the old mage in the cage raise his head.

The dust in front of you formed an inverted vocabulary: "Who are you?"

"Foolish temptation..."

The old mage grunted inarticulately, showing his broken teeth.

The guards remained indifferent, as if they were used to the old mage's constant cursing day and night.

"Why did they arrest you?"

The old mage's ridicule gradually subsided. He didn't know what he was thinking, and wrote with the same inversion with his feet.

Annan suddenly caught a glimpse of the guard raising his head from the corner of his eye. He hurriedly wiped the handwriting. As soon as he covered the second line, the old mage raised his leg to cover the mark.

The strange movements attracted the attention of the guards. They came to the cage, stared at the old mage who bowed his head, pulled out their swords, reached into the cage and opened the mage's robe.

The words "Who Are You" were presented to them. His companion drew his long sword, the guard continued to push aside the mage's robe, and new words appeared on the ground: Idiot.