After leaving Sidney City, Gray appeared in the forest surrounding Sidney City.
The escape tunnel would not lead too far, so Gray estimated that the exit of the passage was probably in the forest surrounding Sidney City.
Although he should have left there by now, there would definitely be traces left nearby, and he wanted to try to see if he could follow them through the traces.
During the few days when he followed Rob Tracy with the Demonic Dog Mercenary Group, he asked the leader of the Demonic Dog Mercenary Group for a lot of tracking skills. He gained a little bit, but now he can put them to use.
"There are dense footprints here, and it shouldn't take too long, at most a few days."
After searching several forests in succession, Gray finally found a clue in a forest.
"This kind of footprints... should be left by boots, either by people who escaped from the Sidney family, or by people who were chasing them."
After carefully observing the footprints, Gray came to a conclusion.
This is a technique that Gray learned from the leader of the Demon Dog Mercenary Group last time to quickly identify the identity of the person making the footprints.
The boots are made of leather and are quite expensive. Hunters and commoners are reluctant to buy them, so people who wear boots are generally from well-off families.
He can wear boots and has appeared here in recent days. Although it is not certain, it is very likely that he is one of the two groups.
Following the direction of the footprints, Gray quickly followed.
Of course, this is only a general direction and not accurate.
Gray didn't know how to track scent, and footprints couldn't be left at any time. He could only try his luck to see if he could catch up.
…
"Take a rest first."
In a forest, a group of seven people stopped to rest for a while.
Among the seven people, there were old people, young people, and middle-aged people, but without exception, they all looked tired.
The fabrics on their clothes were not low-grade and quite high-end, but there were a lot of holes in them.
Some were scratched like branches, and some were scratched like blades, and there were even faint traces of blood on them.
Among the seven people, there was a young woman with blond hair. She had a delicate and beautiful face, but her expression was dull and her eyes were lifeless.
Next to her, a young blond man glanced heartbrokenly at the young blond woman with dull eyes. He felt heartbroken and handed her a kettle.
"Polly, it's like drinking water."
The blond young woman did not reach out to pick it up, but looked at the young man blankly and said.
"Brother, are both father and mother dead?"
“…”
The blond young man opened his mouth, wanting to speak out and give hope, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't come out. In such a situation, it was almost impossible for his father and mother to survive.
They have been being hunted for the past few days and have no chance to enter the city to find out the news.
"Father, mother..."
Not far from the two of them, there was a young man with blond hair. Hearing the words of the young blond woman, he murmured, with deep pain in his eyes.
These three people are the three siblings Saroyan, Pearly and Darren of the Sidney family.
"Why… "
An old sigh sounded from the mouth of the only old man among the seven, he was Dulu, the alchemy master.
He was deeply shocked and sighed that such a big change would happen to the Sidney family. Such a powerful family was ruined like this. Even if he experienced it personally, it still felt unreal.
Next to the four people, there are three more people, they are the guards of the Sidney family.
When they first escaped, there were originally more than ten people. Unfortunately, they fought with the chasing enemies along the way and fell one after another. Now only three of them are left.
"We can't go any further. The other party knows that we want to seek asylum from the Marquis de Tourt family and has sent people to intercept us on the way forward."
One of the three guards said.
After escaping from Sidney Castle, they planned to go to the neighboring Marquis of Tourt and seek asylum from the Marquis of Tourt family, which was friendly with the Sidney family.
Unfortunately, it now seems that the other party has guessed their plan and must have sent someone to intercept them on the way forward.
"But if we don't seek asylum from the Marquis de Tourt family, we will be found by them sooner or later."
Master Dulu frowned.
"The only option is to go to the Fergus family."
Saroyan said in a deep voice.
"Even if that one person doesn't take action again, the remaining enemies are extremely strong. Can the Fergus family stop them?"
Master Duru looked worried.
"The Fergus family has two magical weapons that can control barbarian blood beasts. One barbarian blood warrior should be able to block it. If there are two..."
At this point, Saroyan is a little unsure.
This is also the reason why they did not rush towards the Fergus family immediately after escaping from Sidney Castle. In their view, facing the current enemy, only families like the Marquis of Tourt family are the only ones facing them. Only then can we give them shelter.
Darren Sidney, the second son of the Marquis of Sidney, was pessimistic.
"Now that the Sidney family is being hunted by powerful enemies, the Fergus family may not be willing to protect us. After all, if they protect us, the Fergus family may also be implicated and exterminated."
"I can only give it a try."
Saroyan smiled helplessly.
Swish, swish, swish!
At this moment, there was a rustling sound of leaves shaking, and then they saw a dozen figures wearing black clothes and covering their faces in the distance, holding sharp knives and rushing towards them with murderous intent.
"No, we're chasing you again!"
The expressions of the seven people suddenly changed.
"I'll stop them, you go first."
With a look of determination flashing across his face, Master Duru stood up and stood in front of several others.
Swish, swish, swish!
His blood beast ability was a plant ability, and he immediately saw the plants around him swell up like crazy, turning into spears, and attacking more than a dozen people with great force.
"Don't even think about leaving..."
A cold snort sounded among the dozen or so people.
I saw one of the dozen or so people holding a long spear and stabbing the ground heavily.
Hooray!
A wall of flames appeared in front of him, spreading for more than ten meters and pushing forward quickly.
All the plant spears hit the wall of flames and burned violently, eventually turning into ashes.
The flames disappeared, and a dozen people broke through the charred ground and surrounded the seven Saroyan people.
"kill… "
Knowing that he could not escape without killing the other party, Saroyan roared, holding a long knife, and rushed towards the person who was at the front among the dozen or so people.
puff!
The man raised his weapon to resist, but the weapon was knocked away by Saroyan's fierce knife.
The long knife slashed across the man's chest. Blood splattered on the man's chest and he slowly fell down.
Just when Saroyan slashed through this man with a knife, someone from the left had already used the blood beast ability to attack him.
A water-colored sharp blade cut towards Saroyan, and all the plants encountered along the way were easily cut off.
This is the ability to control water, turning water into a high-pressure water blade, giving it terrifying destructive power that can cut through metal.
clang!
The water jet, which was strong enough to cut off metal, struck Saroyan, but there was a sound of metal hitting.
I saw that Saroyan's clothes were broken, and among the broken clothes, his skin turned out to be the color of black iron. It was this skin that was like black iron that blocked the sharp water jet.
Blocking the water sword attack, Saroyan rushed towards the man in black who used the water sword.
at this time.
A huge lump of khaki soil rose from the ground and quickly hardened into a rock, crashing towards Saroyan like a meteorite falling from the sky.
Saroyan had to stop and suddenly stepped back to avoid the violent impact of the rocks.
But the rock didn't stop there. It turned and hit him again.
He quickly used his metal ability, and a large amount of black metal powder floated up from the ground, turning into a sharp blade, piercing the huge rock and turning it into powder.
At this time, the man in black who used the water sword just now had distanced himself from him.
The ones confronting him were the man who used the rock attack just now and another man who was equally powerful. If nothing else, they should both be blood-crazed warriors.
"Four more people will join us."
The man who used the rock attack was still worried and ordered.
Immediately, four more people surrounded this side, and together with them, Saroyan was faintly surrounded in the middle.
Huge rocks, sharp water knives, blue-white thunder and lightning, black shadows... all attacked Saroyan.
Even though Saroyan was powerful, his body could be metalized to increase defense, and he had powerful magical weapons in his hands, he could not help but get into a tough battle with these two crazy blood warriors and four fierce blood warriors.
On the other side, Master Dulu encountered a mad blood warrior with the ability of fire. His ability was restrained and he was completely at a disadvantage.
As for Pearly, Darren and the three guards, they encountered twice as many enemies as they did.
puff!
A guard struggled to chop off the head of a man in black, but the next moment, a sword was stabbed into his heart. Blood flowed out, and he fell down with extremely unwilling eyes.
The other two guards were surrounded by four men in black. There were constant wounds on their battle uniforms, and they were eventually thrown away. They didn't know whether they were alive or dead.
Darren Sidney blocked the three fierce blood warriors alone. Even though he practiced special blood techniques and had powerful magic weapons in his hands, he was still at a complete disadvantage when fighting two people alone.
Under the siege of two men in black, Pearly was dodging left and right, and was extremely embarrassed.
Suddenly, five people rushed towards the two of them, four of them rushed towards Darren Sidney, and the other one rushed towards Pearly.
Bang, bang!
Although Darren Sidney escaped the sneak attacks of the two men in black, he was attacked from behind by the other two men in black. Although he used his metal power and hardened his body to withstand the two attacks, he still managed to withstand the attacks. Unable to stumble.
The two ferocious blood warriors who besieged him from the front slashed him with two blood beast abilities, and he immediately flew backwards covered in blood.
"snort… "
A man in black smiled ferociously, suddenly rushed out from the side, and slashed Pearly's right arm with a knife.
Immediately, a bloody mouth more than ten centimeters long appeared on Pearly's right arm, and the knife in her hand fell to the ground with a splat.
(End of chapter)