Southwest border of Cangshi Kingdom

The grassland was replaced by woods here. The dense bushes made it impossible for the nomads to use their proud war horses. In the mouths of these herdsmen, this forest standing in the south of the grassland is called the Endless Forest Sea. It is said that even the most brave and good warriors

Even warriors who step into this forest will lose their way. The dense leaves cover the sky. Those who are lost in the deep forest will not get the help from the ancestors from the sky, and will eventually be turned into nutrients for the tall trees.

Of course, this is just a legend born out of the grassland people's fear of the unfamiliar forest. For the people of Cangshi, they know very well that this forest is not endless, and its area is only half the size at best.

It is equivalent to a kingdom. However, this does not mean that this forest is safe. All countries adjacent to this forest prohibit hunters from entering this forest. At the same time, any form of logging is strictly prohibited, and violators will be punished immediately.

Only a few people know the reason for this. They may be herb collectors who have lived on the edge of this forest for generations, or they may be adventurers who have ventured into the forest and left by chance, but more often than not, they are related to this forest.

People who have communicated with the real owner of this forest. These people all know very well that although this forest does not belong to any country on the map, it is not an ownerless land. This is the territory of the elves.

Elves, this is one of the few intelligent races recognized by humans as equal to humans. Their human-like appearance and calm personality are at least much easier for people to accept than orcs or other creatures. But in fact, the reason why humans are willing to go

The recognition of the status of elves may simply be because compared to the dwarves who compete with them for minerals and the orcs who compete for food, the living areas of elves have the least interaction with humans.

But what’s interesting is that while humans can face elves on a more equal footing, these long-eared people don’t like humans. In other words, they hate humans very much. This disgust is not because of the appearance of humans and the differences between the two races.

To the elves, the short-lived and warlike humans are a completely unreasonable species. Compared with the children of the forest who value the future more, humans are eager to transform, destroying the original appearance of the world, forcing nature to become more

Obey yourself.

So, to sum up, a human-like elf is a very incredible existence. But there happened to be one in front of Leon.

"I said, your wound has been bandaged. And with your healing ability, it's not like the eye can't grow back. Is it necessary for you to look so sad?" the blood lion said to the elf beside him who kept curling his lips. After a brief process,

He introduced himself, and he already knew that the long-eared man who saved him with two swords was named Buckham. As he guessed, he was a ranger who had just grown up.

Facing Leon's somewhat contemptuous face, Buckham pulled the hood down on his head. Although he also knew that he was a little embarrassed because of his appearance, the pain he had never experienced before and the fear of losing an eye made him

He could not face the human being in front of him calmly. The elf sullenly slashed open the tree vines in front of him with his knife. There was no trace of the composure of the long-lived race in him.

The blood lion tilted his head. As a rescued person, although he felt that Buckham's condition was very problematic, he couldn't say much. If nothing else, he still needed the other party's help to leave the forest. If he said something wrong,

It would be too unfair to be left deep in the woods to die.

Leon's injuries are actually not very serious. The main reasons that affect the blood lion's activities are hunger and fatigue. The hunger problem has been greatly alleviated by the food supplies provided by Buckham. For the elves, there are many places in the forest.

It's all food. Although it did make Leon hesitate to swallow those strange-tasting tree fruits. As for the problem of fatigue, I'm afraid it will have to wait until he finds a place to rest.

The two of them walked forward for a while in such silence. During this process, the blood lion noticed something, which made him quite uneasy.

"Are we really walking out of the woods? Why do I feel like we are walking deeper and deeper?" the knight commander said with a frown as he looked at the denser tree canopy above his head.

"I said I would send you out of the forest, but that has to wait until I bring this thing to those old men." Buckham raised his hand, and what he was dragging was the corpse of the rat man. This

It was his mission originally. As a forest ranger, it was their bounden duty to ensure that unclean things stayed away from the woods.

"What?" Leon immediately became anxious when he heard this, "Do you know how many Cangshi people were being harmed by the monster you were dragging when I followed you to see the old man you talked about!"

Who knew that after hearing the blood lion's words, the elf turned around and put the long knife in his hand on the former's neck.

"Shut up, human. I don't care what your country has become! Besides, even if I send you out, what can you do alone?"

Facing the elf sword shining coldly beside his neck, the knight captain remained silent. He was silent not because he was afraid that the other party would really kill him, but because he knew that what Buckham said was right. With his own strength,

For this rat plague, it was really a drop in the ocean. Thinking of this, Leon once again began to look at the elf in front of him.

This is not the first time that the blood lion has seen elves. In fact, the relationship between humans and elves is like that between humans and humans. Small-scale wars and crossfires under the table, this kind of thing happens every few years.

Above. As the most elite knight in the Cangshi Empire, Leon's hands have naturally been stained with the blood of a lot of elves. Therefore, he still has some knowledge of these long-eared neighbors.

"What, you want to kill me just because you can't tell me?" Maybe he noticed the knight commander's gaze. Buckham said as he took back the knife on the opponent's neck, "I advise you to save your strength. I don't want to kill."

A person who was just rescued."

"It sounds like you don't like me?" Leon is not a person who is good at observing words and emotions, but even he can understand the irony in the elves' words.

"Humph." Buckham snorted coldly, turned around and continued walking deeper into the forest. After walking a few steps, he said, "There is a scar on the back of your right hand, which is left by our arrows.

traces."

After hearing this, Leon looked down at his right hand. He had too many scars on his body, so many that sometimes he couldn't remember when a certain scar was left by who. Now that the memory was recalled by the elf, the knight commander was indeed

I found a mark on the back of my hand that was different from the scar left by an iron weapon.

"If this makes you feel better, the elf who left me this wound is an opponent worthy of respect." Blood Lion said.

"But you still killed him, didn't you?"
Chapter completed!