Late at night, everyone began to sleep and rest. Livia watched Caius and the other four get up and walk towards the mountain roads on both sides, and he also closed his eyes. He had consumed a lot of energy today, so he had to use this time to recover.

He entered a light sleep, or rather a state of meditation. A ray of cool energy flowed from the silver ring on his finger into his mind, helping his mental recovery a little faster.

Despite this, he still remained alert and ready to wake up at any time. He did not forget the mission instructions and what his intuition told him, that tonight would not be as peaceful as it seemed.

In fact, like him, except Paros, everyone else just closed their eyes to rest or had a shallow sleep like him, and they would wake up quickly when they felt any movement. After all, under the threat of possible attacking bandits, no one would let down their guard and rest assured.

Of course, with the exception of Paros who was snoring softly at the side, they all found it difficult to understand Paros. How to put it, he gave people the feeling of being weird and crazy, and it was hard to figure out what he was thinking.

In this way, most of the night passed and it was time to change shifts.

Anders, who looked tired, yawned, walked to Pierre and woke him up. The guard Randy gently woke up his companion Dennis. Jonathan next to him had already opened his eyes and woke up when he approached. Only Jeffrey walked towards Paros who was lying on his back with an ugly expression. Caius looked at him coldly from behind. Waking up Paros could not be asked of Caius, who had a deep conflict with him, so the task naturally fell on Jeffrey. Jeffrey, who didn't like him to begin with, became even more disgusted with him after seeing his "interrogation" methods, so he didn't want to get close to him.

"Let me call him."

Seeing that Jeffrey looked a little unhappy, Honasan stood up, patted the dirt on his armor, looked up and whispered to him.

Jeffrey stopped, looked at him, then turned and walked back to the trio's resting place.

Caius looked at her and walked back to Livia with light steps. Feeling someone approaching, Livia woke up from her "meditation", opened her eyes and looked at Caius who was walking towards her.

"How is it, did you find anything unusual?"

While asking the questions, Livia spread out her perception and sensed the surroundings.

Caius stretched his arms and moved his body, which was stiff and numb from standing in the cold wind. "There's nothing unusual. There are just a few roars from the distance from time to time. Everything is normal."

After that, he sat down cross-legged next to Livia, rubbing his arms with his hands.

"Rather than worrying about things that we don't know whether they exist or not, it's better to worry about the increasingly cold weather. Although I know winter is coming and I put on two layers of lining clothes, I still feel very cold."

Is it cold?

Noticing his words, Livia turned to look at the others, but she could only see that the older hunter was curled up slightly, as if he was resisting the cold in this way.

After all, I'm old and my resistance to cold is not as strong as before.

Livia didn't feel very cold. Although there was a cold wind blowing in the forest from time to time, it was still one or two levels lower than the coldness on the Cohen grassland. After getting used to the cold nights on the Cohen grassland, he didn't feel much about this cold.

Coming back to her senses from this question, Livia turned her head and looked at Caius who was already half lying down. There seemed to be nothing unusual.

It was already early morning. According to Natalia's arrangement, Honasan and others would guard for four hours in the first half of the night, and he and the old hunter would guard until the last two hours at six in the morning. If he were the enemy, he would definitely catch them between two and three in the morning when most people were most tired.

He trusted his instincts, tonight was definitely not going to be a peaceful night.

By this time, Honasan had also woken up Paros. On the other side, Pierre and Dennis had already gone to guard the northern mountain road. Honasan took Paros, who was still grumbling in dissatisfaction, and quickly walked towards the southern mountain road.

As they left, the clearing returned to silence, leaving only the sound of light breathing.

Livia withdrew his gaze from the figure that disappeared at the entrance of the mountain road and retracted his perception. There was a period of time during their shift change when no one was guarding the mountain road, so he emitted perception in order to avoid being caught by possible enemies during the time difference.

Livia withdrew his perception and closed his eyes again, but this time he really closed his eyes to rest. His mind was not completely relaxed, and he paid attention to the movements around him.

In the dense forest not far from the mountain road, light footsteps sounded rhythmically and continuously, and then stopped.

"Did you find it?"

"My Lord, I feel like they are not far away. Although they have covered up their tracks, it is impossible for them to escape the perception of the tree spirits."

"very good."

The voices disappeared, and then the sound of dense footsteps sounded again in the dense forest, gradually fading away.

On the southern mountain road, on a steep road that could only accommodate two people, Paros was boringly grinding the blade of his half-man-high heavy axe with the rock next to him, making a rustling sound.

Honasan sighed helplessly, his eyes not leaving the dark woods below the mountain road, "Can you please stop grinding, are you trying to attract something else with this noise?"

Paros stopped, grinned at Honasan behind him and said, "I wish there were more of them to play with me."

He didn't seem to be worried at all. Honasan frowned as he looked at him. If it weren't for the lack of manpower and the lack of thorough investigation beforehand, he would never have let Paros join the mission. But it was too late to say anything now.

Shasha~Hmm?

Honasan instantly looked towards the dark forest below where the subtle sound was coming from, and grasped the hilt of the knight's sword with his right hand. Paros, who had just been nonchalant, also stood up quickly, grasped the axe handle with both hands, and raised the heavy axe.

Although he just said that he didn't care and even wanted to have a few more, he would not let his guard down at all when dealing with them.

The two of them looked closely at the forest where the subtle sound had just been made. "Nothing, it seems to be the wind."

After a while, Paros loosened his clenched hands, held the axe handle in his right hand and said indifferently, but suddenly he gave Honasan a look.

"Yeah, yeah."

Honasan responded expressionlessly, while secretly giving him a serious look.

"It's almost time for the shift change, Paros, go call them."

Paros gave him a deep look, and Honasan looked at the dark woods below with an expressionless face, "You go."

His lips were slightly parted, but he whispered two words without any trembling.

Paros shook his head and yawned, then turned around and walked slowly upwards.

Watching Paros pass him and walk upward, Honasan shifted his gaze from the dark woods below and looked around aimlessly.