Chapter 403 Lost

"You just need to know that Lord Steele is a bastard. If he hadn't insisted on pursuing us, so many brothers would not have died."

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

"Your Majesty is of course our supreme commander. Young man, the war does not end with one fight in a certain village. We are fighting in countless villages, and each village has its leader and commander." An old knight behind the knight captain heard Eugen's complaint, and his beard trembled three times with a smile.

Therefore, Lynch still failed to know where the main force of the empire was. There was no doubt that it must be with the emperor.

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

"He's a bastard!"

"Everyone now knows that anyone who advises him on military affairs will break the law. No one knows why one sentence can make him a traitor."

"It was this bastard who killed little Brende!"

The knights angrily denounced the Earl who was far away, while Thorion was still thinking about the orcs who knew tactics.

The small episode did not affect everyone's journey, and they passed by each other after drinking and chatting.

The merchants who came and went found a good backer. Most of the caravans with insufficient escorts chose to go with the knights. A small number of merchants from Sakkar Town relied on the carriage driven by Eugen.

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

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

There are so many of them that Lynch doesn't even bother to visit them one by one. They are like ants on the ground. Eliminating them without solving the source will only waste time.

Even Lynch has to face up to the older ones.

Tar's will permeated the wilderness, and Lynch wouldn't be surprised if several 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 even attracts other creatures to be its slaves.

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

Traders often mention the rumors about "forest cannibalism". Maybe it's true. This forest does know how to lay bait.

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

The thick forest interferes with the mortal's sense of direction and time. It always looks like that under the shade of the trees. Only Lynch can identify the direction by relying on the perception of the sun.

They did seem to have deviated from the route, but Lynch was not sure whether human roads had been built to this point. Anyway, they could always reach Middenheim in the end. The City of White Wolf was in the southwest, and the direction was not deceiving.

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

Maybe this guy himself didn't even know he had chosen another path.

It doesn't matter, Lynch can handle it if trouble arises.

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

It seems like this guy is really lost.

Lin looked back strangely and glanced at the merchants following Eugen's carriage. He really hoped that these people would never find out that the leader was unfamiliar with the local road conditions.

Faint sounds of discussion came from behind. Most of the people who dared to leave their hometowns for trade were capable, and many people discovered something unusual.

The dwarf was left speechless by Eugen's question. He opened and closed his lips as he hesitated to speak. After the carriage had traveled nearly a hundred meters, he suppressed his anger and said:

"I thought you knew."

Even Tigris put down the crystal ball in his hand and added sinisterly:

"It seems that everything is under your control. I think you should maintain the same confidence as before. Great prophets can always glimpse revelations."

Perhaps it was a good idea to keep Eugen in the dark at this point, so Lynch gave up on hinting at the location.

Anyway, it was too late for him to turn back now. The road behind him had been deflected by an unknown force. If he turned back at this time, he would probably drive deep into the central mountains instead of the town of Sakal.

What's there?

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

Some abandoned children who were kicked out of human society due to physical deformation would huddle together in the wild to keep warm. This may be the prototype of the horned beast group. When they are completely transformed into horned beasts by the chaotic radiation, a war group is born.

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

Everyone in the Empire knows that the beastmen are particularly rampant in the woods. They are a group of robbers who seek wealth and murder, and are dominated by hatred and desire for destruction.

It's clear that now these hapless people have to face the evil coming from the shadows of the forest.

Lynch noticed sporadic peeks. They were probably afraid of the number of humans, so they didn't take action.

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

After Eugen bravely drove nearly a kilometer west, there were already hundreds of prying eyes.

There were only three to four hundred people among the merchants and their guards. If Lin Qi was the leader of the horned beasts, he would have boldly prepared an ambush at this time.

Obviously, these ragtag groups do not have a unified leader, and they can even be split into hundreds of war groups. After all, it only takes two people to join together to form a small war gang.

Even when there were a thousand peeping glances, no beastman took the lead in attacking.

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

There is no change from pitch black to pitch black. If a light is seen outside the main path of the Shadow Forest, an experienced trader will immediately be on guard.

Not only humans know how to use flames, but some things in the forest also rely on flames for lighting.

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

So it wasn't until the human stopped uneasily and built temporary defense measures around the convoy that he realized that it was indeed strange to see uninvited lights in the darkness.

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