How far is my destination? Just follow this river that crosses the forest south and pass through the Glen Canyon. I squinted my eyes and looked at the setting sun. I had to arrive before midnight.

Wash the wounds and wrap the injured left arm. I have to say that Egrik's border guard is the most brave army on this continent. If I hadn't really had to arrive before midnight, I wouldn't have ventured through their defense zones so much. Even the first-class assassins who are good at hiding cannot slip under their noses silently. Besides, the arrest order from the royal capital had arrived long ago.

vigilance!

Just intuitive alertness.

Tighten the bandage, take a breath, take out some powder that can cover up the smell and sprinkle it on your body, and leapt up to a big tree with dense branches and leaves. On a branch that can accommodate half-lying, I gently leaned my left arm wrapped in bandages up, then slid down the other side, sneaked into a grass about 15 meters away from the tree, gently relaxed the bandage, took out the short dagger that I rely on for fame, climbed back to another tree on the bank of the river.

Three minutes later, a small team of soldiers passed by the river bank, 1, 2, 3, 4... I counted one by one in my mind, 12 people, a built-in search team. 4 archers, 1 light cavalry, 6 great swordsmen, and a beast trainer led a search dog. When I saw that it was just an ordinary search dog rather than a fighting monster, I let go of my heart. The strength of this team was not very strong. It should be that after I crossed the defense line, the ordinary search team. Just as I thought of this, the search dog had found the place where I had cleaned my wounds and began to roar softly.

The beast trainer walking in front had also noticed the strangeness of the search dog. He walked up and said something to the knight. After hearing this, the knight made a gesture. The team began to change its formation and began to check the traces around it with the fan shape. I leaned low on the tree and developed infinite admiration for General Goth of the Aegrik Frontier Army. Just an ordinary search team could react so quickly based on the gesture of the leader. Such an army was the backbone of the country. And a general who could train such soldiers was definitely not just a brave warrior.

"Sir, there are traces of blood here!" A swordsman discovered the big tree I chose. "It seems that it is a scar on the left arm, stained by the blood leaching from the bandage. It should have been stained inadvertently during rest."

"Left arm?" the knight pondered a little, "That's her! It seems that she had rested here. The woman who only heard her voice was famous."

"Sir, I heard that she is an assassin? An assassin who only appears once a year?" the trainer asked curiously.

"Yes, she only appears in November every year. The mission must not exceed 20 days, nor will it hurt the elderly and the weak. She is a strange assassin who only kills the people she wants to kill. No one knows where she is at other times. Many people say she lives in the Snake Language Forest behind Glen Canyon. Because she was there for the first time."

"Snake Language Forest?"

"That forbidden place for the exiled? Was she exiled?"

"How could it be there?"

The soldiers began to talk, and their words were filled with fear... but they also brought some admiration...

"She is the Duke's lover!" The knight said sadly. The soldiers around him began to be silent.

After a while, an archer said with difficulty: "Please be careful..." However, the knight severely interrupted his words, "No matter what those people in the royal capital say, we are soldiers, and an upright soldier will never forget the Duke! Whether he is not the duke recognized by His Majesty the King, he will always be the Duke in the minds of the people of this country. Everything about him will be engraved in our hearts, not on the monument..." The knight's tone lowered. The soldiers did not continue to discuss, but slowly checked. The swordsman who found the traces cut off the blood-stained bark and threw it into the river. The trainer let his search dogs circulate in the grass where I was buried, trampling all the grass around him.

"Okay, she probably has been away for a long time. It's already late today. The forest at night is too dangerous and there is no way to search without ignition. Let's go back." The Knight greeted his companions loudly. Soon, they lined up again and returned along the way.

I watched them leave, and the afterglow of the setting sun fell on them, making tears flow out from my eyes.

The night was low, and the Glen Canyon was already hidden in the hazy night fog behind me. The forest was not far ahead, and I had seen the light on the light guiding my way back. Under the yellow and warm light, there was a familiar figure waiting for me to return. Where there was his, my eternal destination.

Stepping onto the floor of the hall, buckle the door lightly, I'm back.

"Happy birthday, my dear."

I would like to congratulate my favorite Duke of Windsor for a happy birthday

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Chapter completed!