That being said, but they didn't know where to run at all - Oliver was still injured, and instead of the two returning unarmed to the depths of the forest to face unknown monsters, it was better to face a known kind of race. Since the other party has a way to find them, it is not very useful to change places slowly.
"Teach me a few more spells, Bagmoru. Just for defense." Nemo stood up and threw the parchment to Oliver. "Even if you're not a high-level demon, you can do this."
"Defense?" Aside from the identity issue that he was too lazy to refute, the grey parrot was still very dissatisfied with the disobedient contractor, "Why don't you just hug the woman's thigh and cry for mercy."
"She'll find us sooner or later unless she flees back to the forest. Oliver can't fight now, and you're of no use." Nemo said firmly, "Do I have any other options?"
"It doesn't work? I'm recovering a bit now, and if I try my best, I can kill with one blow." The grey parrot tutted loudly, "But look, everyone has to leave a way out for themselves, right? After all, the two of you are useless, this power has to be saved until there is no way..."
"Spell," Nemo insisted.
"You can think about attacking spells, and I guarantee that woman's life. I hate to admit it—but I'm going to have a headache if you die now."
"Defensive spells." Nemo continued, "If you taught me anything else without telling me, don't expect us to believe another word of you."
"It's like a word you've ever believed," the parrot grumbled.
"Wait," Oliver finally couldn't hold back, "Nemo, aren't you good at using spells?"
"What if." Nemo was still staring at the parrot, as if to scrape the spell out with his eyes. "I learned something important last night - dying works."
"Incorrigible idiot." The parrot snorted contemptuously. "Listen, I'll demonstrate once - you can see for yourself whether it's an attack or a defense."
The mantra is short. A palm-sized translucent shadow stood up in front of it slowly, turning into a grotesque shadow shield whose edges kept wriggling.
"Only block spells," it said. "Higher demons can't defend against ordinary slashes, you know."
Nemo repeated the spell, and as expected, there was no sign of the spell being activated. This time he didn't give up, he kept repeating, grabbing a stone in his hand by the way.
To be honest, he was at a loss. But on the bright side, Nemo thinks bitterly, at least he's used to the feeling of uncertainty.
"That lady doesn't seem like the arrogant type." Oliver stood up with the trunk of the tree, his injured leg still shaking a little. "Perhaps we have a chance to clarify the facts..."
Before he could finish speaking, the lightning flashed past and directly scorched the tree trunk he was supporting. Oliver coughed dryly and moved his hand away silently.
The other party came faster than they thought.
The female warriors rode white horses, and the hunting spear in her right hand pointed at them from a distance, and the tip of the hunting spear was wrapped with blue-white electric light. Just when Nemo felt like she was about to be knocked away by the rushing horse, she restrained the horse and raised her eyebrows at Nemo, who was almost sitting on the ground.
"I can't even see wrong." She gestured to the spear, the sharp tip of the hunting spear was against Nemo's throat, and the electric light was even more intense. "You two little guys are both 'dangerous'. The acting skills of young people nowadays are really amazing."
Nemo swallowed hard, trying to explain as he repeated the incantation frantically in his head. The stone in his right hand has long been forgotten by him. "It's not like that, ma'am, we actually..."
Before he could finish speaking, the spear slammed back and stabbed him in the shoulder. Nemo was so frightened that he stopped talking quickly, rolled on the spot, and avoided the tip of the spear. The electric light brushed across his back, causing him to scream in pain.
"Do I look like the kind of fool who waits for the enemy to tell a story?" The female warrior-An Chi laughed, flicking her hunting spear, and swam out like a lightning snake along the trajectory of the swing. Nemo's "what if" didn't mean anything, he watched as the electric light blasted at him.
Oliver dragged his injured leg and tried to grab the spear with a clumsy surprise attack, but Anri quickly turned around to dodge it. The hunting spear drew a half-circle in the air, the tail of the spear hit him in the chest, and Oliver was abruptly knocked back two steps.
Nemo, who had just escaped the electric light, took the opportunity to throw a stone, and the reinforced physique was finally useful, and the stone shot towards An like a cannonball - and was then knocked away by the swept spear body.
This woman is more difficult to deal with than the wolf hunter, Nemo rubbed the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, thinking in a daze.
"Are you two really 'dangerous'?" She threw a question suspiciously, but the movements of her hands did not stop. The spear stabbed Nemo in the shoulder again.
The ominous purple-black radiance lit up again, and Nemo turned around abruptly.
"Stop!" he shouted, "Baggarmoru, she didn't kill her!"
It was a pity that it was too late, and the brilliance was about to pass over his head and hit the female warrior's head.
Nemo's mind went blank, the old water bag was still hanging from his belt... She shouldn't have died like this.
He didn't dodge, instead he raised his hand instinctively, ignoring the point of the spear that pierced his shoulder—
A dark shadow instantly flashed from the air, and the formed dark curtain almost extended beyond his line of sight. Unlike the translucent shield demonstrated by the parrot, it is thick and thick and completely invisible to the other side. It seemed that something hit it, and the ripples were negligible, like water droplets falling into a lake.
The female warrior and Nemo froze together.
"Is this... you made it out?" Oliver limped to the thick black shadow, reached out and poked, but found nothing.
"I don't know," Nemo answered dryly, his eyes straightened. "I think-"
Then came the pain of being hit by a blunt object from the back of his head, and at that moment he instinctively opened his eyes, and finally lost consciousness.
When he opened his eyes again, the sun was still hanging high in the sky, with no intention of setting.
"Ouch, you're awake." The white horse was grazing freely not far away, and its owner was squatting in front of him. Ann touched her chin, her eyes full of curiosity. "You're in good shape, boy—the one behind you is still dizzy."
Nemo is horrified to find himself bound into a watertight cocoon. Oliver was tightly tied behind him, looking at the strength of his body leaning up, he should still be in a drowsiness. Oliver's body temperature seeped through the thin cloth, still a little hot, Nemo sighed slightly in his heart.
"Now we can talk." Ann raised her left hand and pointed her thumb back at the grey parrot poking its head on a branch in the distance. "What's the matter with you two?"
Nemo glanced at the hunting spear in her right hand, then looked down at the shining silver ornament on her chest.
"What is this?" he cleared his throat nervously. "What the hell are you trying to do?"
"It's me who asked the question first... Forget it." Ann didn't let go of her weapon, "That's the magic seal, it will only make you weak. Don't worry, I didn't do anything too much." She added the word too much. pronunciation.
Nemo didn't feel weak, but he wasn't stupid enough to share this discovery with the female warrior.
"We are innocent!... Maybe not so innocent, but there is a reason for it." He stopped talking nonsense and explained it quickly like a bean. "You saw the charge on the wanted warrant, that's actually—"
"You're that Nemo Wright, demon believer, aren't you. That's your demon? The first time I've seen a demon of this breed." She glanced back at the grey parrot and waved her hand casually. "I'm not interested in your crime. The army usually makes up one, and it will kill you both horizontally and vertically."
She raised her chin in Oliver's direction. "I'm more curious about that one."
"That's what his father told him to do," Nemo explained. He raised his head and looked at Ann without any guilt. "The reason... The reason I don't know, I was standing a long way. But one thing is clear - his father looked like he was dying at that time."
"It's more than that." An undecided tutted, "This is at best an 'abnormal'. I can understand that the demon believers are directly 'dangerous', the emperor of Alban seems to be allergic to demons. But Killing just one civilian can't be considered 'dangerous', little one."
"We also wounded a hunting wolf." Nemo could only think of that.
"Then he was implicated by you?"
"Well, to be precise, he wounded a hunting wolf."
"It was killed!" The grey parrot interjected loudly in the distance.
Still no one cares about it.
"Interesting." The female warrior stood up with a spear. "A wolf hunter in Alban's army? To be honest, I can only run away with confidence in front of them. Did your friend steal some powerful weapon—"
"The sword was picked up on the road. I couldn't see anything when I ran away with him, it must have fallen." Nemo replied quickly, not thinking that the dirty sword had any great background - otherwise they would have been caught long ago. Adventurers who are keen on forest treasure hunts took it away.
Ann raised her eyebrows.
"What about you, why are you summoning a demon?" she said, "I don't think you're that kind of..." She paused and chose the words. "Unscrupulous people."
"...I picked it up on the road too. No, I'm definitely not kidding you! I didn't summon it, it wanted to attack Oliver at the time." Seeing the female warrior's face, Nemo was a little flustered.
"You better find out, I didn't ask you this out of curiosity." An pouted, "There must be a dozen bounty hunters waiting for you at the gate of Noe City, and no one wants to bother when facing the 'dangerous' level. Captured alive. But you... how do you say it, it doesn't seem to have reached that point."
Nemo looked at her a little moved.
"I've killed enough 'dangerous' wanted criminals, and I know exactly what they are." She rolled her eyes, "If you are really 'dangerous', what just happened should be a robbery, not a deal. But of course you guys could be acting too, I'll have to make sure - so stop talking shit about me."
"I'm not lying," Nemo whispered, bowing his head.
"If you hadn't blocked it for me just now, I should have been waiting for the money with your heads in hand."
"...I really didn't lie."
Ann suddenly burst out laughing, she weighed the hunting spear in her hand, raised her hand and stabbed at Nemo. Nemo froze in place, he didn't dare to hide, for fear of accidentally using Oliver as a meat shield. The grey parrot came rushing towards it, screaming loudly.
However, the next moment he felt a slight tingling of blood rushing back to his limbs. The rope was scorched to brittle by the electric light and scattered to the ground. Instead of stabbing him, the hunting spear cut the rope on him neatly.
The grey parrot's screaming came to an abrupt end, and it flapped its wings awkwardly in mid-air.
"I don't think you're one of those scumbags." Ann shrugged and gave a bad smile. "If you were, your friend would have been stabbed in the face just now."
"Ann Savage, bounty hunter." She thrust her spear into the ground and stretched out her calloused right hand.
"Nimo Wright, library staff." Nemo scratched his head, but slowly got up. "Uh, ex-library employee. My hands are pretty dirty, so don't—"
Ann laughed and retracted her right hand. "Let go of your friend's rope first, he won't wake up for a while. The medicine is almost ready."
"You..." Nemo was a little uncomfortable. "You trust us?"
"Of course not, I'm not an idiot." An Qing snorted, "I just think you are very pleasing to the eye. If you really see it wrong, it can only show that your deception is very good - in short, my decision, see I'm unlucky to walk away."
"… thanks."
"Don't thank you too soon, I haven't officially decided to let you go." An boldly patted his shoulder, his face calm. "Three thousand gold coins is not a small amount."
"… "
,Wonderful!
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