Chapter 403 Lost

"You only need to know that Lord Steele is a bastard. If he hadn't insisted on chasing us, so many of our brothers wouldn't have died."

"I thought old Magnus was the commander." Eugen rubbed his head, treating his injuries skillfully, and muttered to himself.

"Your Majesty is of course our supreme commander, young man. The war cannot be ended by fighting in a village. We are fighting in countless villages, and each village has its leader and commander." An old knight behind the Knight Commander heard Eugen's complaint and laughed so hard that his beard trembled three times.

Therefore, Lynch still couldn't figure out where the main force of the empire was. There was no doubt that it must be around the emperor.

"We made sincere suggestions to Count Hotep Anderson, and the Count responded to us enthusiastically with the halberd of his personal guard." Another younger knight teased.

"He's just a jerk!"

"Now everyone knows that anyone who gives him military advice will break the law, and no one knows why one sentence can make someone a traitor."

"It was this bastard who killed little Brendel!"

The knights were angrily denouncing the earl who was far away, while Sorian was still thinking about the orcs who understood tactics.

The little episode did not affect the group's journey, and after drinking and chatting happily, the two sides passed each other.

The merchants traveling back and forth found a very good backer. Most of the caravans that did not have sufficient guards chose to travel with the Knights, while a small number of merchants from the town of Sakaar relied on the carriage driven by Eugen.

Perhaps it was because the carriage's slow pace allowed mortals to see the driver's confidence, or perhaps it was because they were approaching the central mountains and everyone wanted to huddle together for warmth.

The notoriety of the Shadow Forest was spread to Lynch by the locals. Without exception, they mentioned that there were countless monsters hidden in this forest, which had a history older than the empire. This was indeed the case in Lynch's perception.

There were so many of them that Lynch was too lazy to visit them one by one. They were like ants on the ground. It would only be a waste of time to eliminate them without addressing the source.

Even Lynch has to face up to some of the older ones.

Tal's will permeated the wilderness, so Lynch would not be surprised even if a few extraordinary beings with divinity jumped out at this time.

Human beings have never been the masters of the forest. The forest itself is alive and will even attract other creatures to serve as its servants.

Lynch could find a fork every few hundred meters on the road, and with his eyesight he couldn't see clearly what was at the end of the fork.

The vendors often mentioned the rumor that "the forest eats people", and maybe it is true. This forest really knows how to lay bait.

Lynch didn't find the next hotel until the evening, perhaps because Eugen drove too slowly, or perhaps they took the wrong road and were no longer on the Middenheim-Erengrad Avenue.

The dense forest interferes with mortals' sense of direction and time. It always looks the same under the shade of the trees. Only Lin Qi can identify the direction by sensing the sun.

They did seem to have deviated from the route, but Lynch couldn't be sure whether humans had built roads here. Anyway, they would always reach Middenheim if they walked to the end. The White Wolf City was in the southwest, and the direction would not lie.

In Lynch's opinion, Eugen did not choose the wrong direction, the straight line between the two points was indeed the shortest.

Maybe this guy himself doesn't even know that he has chosen another path.

None of this matters, even if trouble arises Lynch can handle it.

"Brother, where is the north?" Eugen, who was followed by various caravans, asked the dwarf beside him.

It looks like this guy is really lost.

Lin Qi looked back curiously at the merchants who were following Eugen's carriage, hoping that these people would never find out that the leader was unfamiliar with the local road conditions.

Faint sounds of discussion could be heard from the back. Those who dared to leave their hometown to trade were generally very capable, and many of them had noticed something unusual.

The dwarf was speechless after being asked by Eugen. He opened and closed his lips as if he was about to speak. After the carriage had traveled nearly a hundred meters, he suppressed his anger and said, "I thought you knew."

Even Teclis put down the crystal ball and added maliciously:

"It looks like everything is under your control. I think you should remain as confident as before. Great prophets can always see revelations."

Perhaps it was a good idea to keep Eugen in the dark at this time, so Lynch gave up giving the direction.

Anyway, it was too late for him to turn back now. The road behind had been deflected by an unknown force. If he turned back now, he would most likely drive into the depths of the central mountains instead of the town of Sakaar.

What's there? Lynch didn't know, he only knew that the central mountains were a place of pilgrimage for mutants.

Some abandoned people who were driven out of human society due to physical deformities would huddle together in the wild for warmth. This might be the prototype of the herd of horned beasts. When they were completely deformed into horned beasts by the radiation of chaos, a battle group was born.

If the later mutants were not killed by the wilderness, they would most likely join a certain war group, which is the current beast group.

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Everyone in the Empire knows that the beastmen in the forest are extremely rampant. They are a group of robbers who are greedy for money and are dominated by hatred and desire for destruction.

It was obvious that these unfortunate people were now facing the malevolence coming from the shadows of the forest.

Lynch noticed the sporadic peeping. They were probably afraid of the number of humans, so they did not take action for a long time.

At this time, Lynch only saw less than a hundred beastmen and some ragged mutants.

After Eugen drove nearly a thousand meters westward, he already had hundreds of prying eyes.

The merchants and their guards numbered no more than three or four hundred people. If Lynch was the leader of the horned beasts, he would have boldly prepared an ambush by now.

Obviously, these mobs have no unified leader, and they can even be split into hundreds of war groups. After all, it only takes two people to form a small war gang.

Even when there were thousands of prying eyes, no beastman took the initiative to attack.

It was almost nightfall, but the dusk had no effect on the pedestrians under the towering ancient trees because they had lit oil lamps from the beginning.

There was no change from pitch black to pitch darkness. If a light was seen outside the main road of the Shadow Forest, an experienced merchant would immediately be on guard.

Humans are not the only ones who know how to harness fire. Something in the forest also relies on fire for light.

Lynch is now fortunate enough to learn this useless knowledge, and he still has good vision in the dark.

So it wasn't until the humans stopped uneasily and built makeshift defenses around the convoy that he realized it was indeed strange to see uninvited lights in the darkness.

He was only focused on those green eyes and ignored a carriage coming from the end of the road, which was not normal.

(End of this chapter)