It was towards the end of dusk that the weather started to take a turn for the worse.
The sky, which has become cloudy since three o'clock, has not yet dropped rain. The gray-black clouds are rolling up and down like a witch's soup pot, as if there is something indescribable hidden in it, but there is nothing else.
Apart from the cold wind, not even the tiniest drop of rain fell.
For the three Henrys, this was a blessing in misfortune.
They couldn't find any suitable caves or abandoned huts within ten miles to take shelter temporarily. Although the shelter they found was fairly good and had easy-to-build tree trunks, they still had to build a camp that could accommodate three people. Small shelters also take some time.
Not to mention that the two war horses they were riding on lacked food and their bodies could not generate heat on their own. Although the weather in March is warmer than before, it is based on the premise of clear skies and high sunshine. When the wind blows or rains, if there is no cover, the horses will catch cold and get sick.
Even though the stable was relatively simple to build, a total of two simple shelters had to be built, and they had to hurry up.
The one-handed sword in the hands of the Luoan girl is Suomir's civilian weapon. Compared with the long sword that is more elegant and specialized in combat, it is also more earth-friendly. Slightly shorter than a one-handed sword, its blade is relatively wider, and its center of gravity is forward, so it is not as easy to stab at gaps in armor as a sword, but because of this, it is very useful when used for rough work.
In fact, after her long sword was completely damaged and replaced with a small shield and one-handed knife originally intended for Galeva, Mira quickly fell in love with this simpler and plainer design.
The equipment of mercenaries is different from that of noble knights. In many cases, the consideration is not specificity but generality. The mainstream long swords of nobles in the world of Rigar are mostly piercing swords that become thinner towards the front, but mercenaries prefer chopping swords that are slightly wider at the front. Of course, mercenaries who are equipped with their own weapons usually also bring a slender dagger to deal with enemies whose armor is too heavy to slash.
It has great achievements in dealing with armor. The piercing sword type is better at targeting the gaps in the armor to penetrate the vital points with its center of gravity. It is true that it is more efficient than chopping weapons when encountering opponents with full plate armor, but there are many mercenary professions. In most cases, the enemies they deal with are not armed to this extent, and more often than not, the weapons in their hands have to double as cutting tools.
For the mercenary profession, which has no attendants or servants to help carry things, and basically has to carry everything by itself, multi-purpose items are a great secret to reducing the load.
It is true that the length of a one-handed sword is not as long as a long sword, but sword weapons - except for the big sword - belong to the range of sidearms, and when paired with a small shield, it is actually slightly better than the long sword to some extent.
Coupled with the advantage of versatility, the Luoan girl feels that the more she uses it, the more she likes it.
The appropriate length and weight made it easy for her to use a one-handed knife to cut off the excess branches and leaves on the small tree trunk that was chopped down by Claymore as a sage and used as a shelter frame. Henry, who had gone further to collect other denser leaves, made three trips back and carried back all the coverings needed for the stable and igloo.
At first, Sakura watched from the side as the two of them covered things with ease, but when the two shelters were nearly halfway completed, the wind suddenly became biting. Henry and Mira, who were worried that they would not be able to make it in time, asked her to come over and help tie things up. .
It is constructed with eight small elastic tree trunks, and then five horizontal ones on each side are used as a frame, and then covered with leaves from top to bottom. If you are all experienced, this kind of dome-shaped thatched house made from local materials is not only quick to build, but also has the largest internal accommodation space.
After the three of them finished, they moved the only supplies carried on the horses into the thatched house. The inside of the thatched house covered by leaves was dark. Mira took out the fire that she had collected before and put it in a waxed tarp bag, and then Knocked several times inside the thatched house with a flint.
The roof leaves are built from top to bottom one on top of another. Even if the rain falls later, it will not fall into it because of the layering. And because it is not completely sealed, the gaps between the leaves can also allow the smoke column of the bonfire rising inside to shine through, so that it will not accumulate inside and become too choking.
Some more cushions were laid on the ground to isolate moisture. Apart from not having much food to eat, the three of them were able to settle down for a short time.
All this took them less than an hour to complete. After that, before the rain fell, the sage found two squirrels nearby and the uneaten pine cones they had hidden for the winter, and without hesitation turned them into dinner.
For ordinary Kazuto, squirrels are not included in home-cooked meals. Sakura, who used to be the second most popular person in Swamp Village, even looked embarrassed when the two of them dealt with it. But when the flames rose, the barbecue without any condiments and just the fat began to emit a charming aroma, which immediately caught her eyes.
Hunger is the best seasoning. During the winter, the squirrels that had eaten enough pine cones and hazelnuts had a nutty fragrance when roasted. After the processing, the roasted meat was still hot and steaming, and was expertly cut by the sage with a small knife. The remaining skeleton was dug into a small pit and buried in the ground.
Henry gave most of the food to Sakura and Mira. He just picked some leaves from unknown trees nearby and made a cup of tea. The sage's physical strength is stronger than the other two. Even without the permanent strengthening magic of the druid, he can still go without food for two days without becoming immobile.
The bonfire burned slowly, making the temperature inside the shelter much higher than the outside. Mira and Sakura finished the food, even if Henry gave it to them, the hungry two were only about seven percent full. But the delicious meat and nuts combined with the warm campfire made me regain some strength and my face became rosy.
Sakura stared at the dim swaying campfire and suddenly smiled a little self-deprecatingly.
"When I was in Swamp Village, I had more than a hundred women under my command, and a security group of more than three hundred bandits and rogues. More than Saburo's."
"If I want to eat some pastries, someone will take the express boat back and forth and bring them to me from a famous fruit shop in the provincial capital of Northland."
"In the summer, there will always be people who bring cold drinks here. But now I feel that none of these can compare to roasted rat meat." She shook her head and smiled softly and said, "Human greed is invincible. To be satisfied, the more you have, the more you want.”
"When these things have been accumulated to a certain extent, the obtained items themselves can no longer bring happiness. Many times, we try our best to pursue them, but then throw them away after getting them. We just follow the inertia and continue to increase the number of things we own. ."
"Maybe the more people there are, the less happy they are." She said this and looked at Henry and Mira. It took the Luoan girl a while to understand the general content of what the other party said, and then clicked He nodded, then shook his head: "You still have to have money."
"Yes." Sakura laughed softly again, then turned to look at the scenery outside, which was not much brighter than the interior of the thatched cottage.
"I really want to take a puff of cigarette——"
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Time passed slowly, because it seemed obvious that bad weather was coming and their physical strength was indeed exhausted. Even though they knew there would be pursuers behind them, they could only stay and rest to recover their physical strength.
The camping site chosen by the sage will not be too high-profile and easy to be discovered. The building materials of the thatched cottage itself become a kind of protective color from nature. Although white smoke does rise when a burning bonfire hits the moisture-rich leaf roof above, fortunately the reduced visibility combined with the overcast sky prevents the size of the bonfire from being too large to be recognized from a distance.
Because the rain had not yet fallen, Henry and Mira turned around and ran outside to find a lot of stones, and then put them in the fire between two wooden sticks. This time, what they did was finally beyond Sakura's knowledge.
"Is it a kaiseki?" She used a word that Mira couldn't understand, but after explaining with gestures, the Luoan girl nodded.
In the winter, people in the Kingdom of the Moon will use something like a small bellyband, a small pouch made of cloth, put heated stones in it and put it in their arms to keep their bodies warm for a long time.
Stones burned in a fire can retain heat for a longer period of time, and what Henry and Mira did was naturally preparing for the cooling down at night.
The sky covered with dark clouds rolled over for three hours. It was not until the time of the devil came in the evening that something suddenly changed in the sky.
It was as bright as day for a moment, followed by a deafening thunder "boom--".
But this thunder was obviously different from the usual natural phenomena.
"What's going on?" The girl Luo An's face turned pale. She clutched her chest tightly, feeling that her heartbeat suddenly accelerated a lot, as if something was oppressing her heart.
Henry reacted immediately. He took out one of the dragon's treasures that he had obtained on the island in the middle of the lake from the pocket he had always carried, and put the stone engraved with runes into the hands of the Luoan girl.
"Don't leave the thatched hut." The sage said, and then took out a handful of small black stones that were only as big as a fingernail, walked outside and started placing them near the thatched hut.
"What's going on?" A warm current came from the stone she was holding. Mira, whose heartbeat gradually slowed down, still couldn't get rid of the uneasy feeling. She and Sakura ignored Henry's warning and walked out of the thatched hut. Walked out.
And it was at this moment that a red lightning flashed across the sky again.
"Boom--" The whole sky seemed to be torn open by something, and the dark clouds spread out, revealing a beautiful corner of the night sky.
But the two people who were staring at the sky noticed something after recovering from the beautiful scenery.
"The moon, the moon is red?" Sakura's tone was trembling, while Mira looked at Henry nervously.
"Neigh, neigh, neigh!" The two horses in the temporary stable nearby suddenly screamed. The three of them turned their heads and saw that they were trembling as if they were being weighed down by some external force, with all four legs bent. , and then fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth and rolling his eyes.
"Go back." Henry pushed the two people back to the hut without any explanation, then put the last stone on to complete the siege, and then lifted Kramer.
"Boom——!" The moment the big sword was inserted at the door of the hut, a subtle wave passed through the two people in the house, and then the sage himself walked in.
"Teacher, you are... glowing." The Luoan girl watched the Druid runes on the sage light up one after another, and Henry turned around, and Mira saw an unprecedented expression on the sage's face. serious expression.
"It seems that the rebellion in the North may be more serious than I thought." He suddenly said this.
"These guys know the secrets of New Moon Continent, but I didn't expect them to do it so brilliantly."
"This is not an ordinary situation where the bottom defeats the top. They want to completely reshuffle the cards."
"What are you talking about, teacher?" Mira suddenly felt that Henry was a little strange, and the sage looked back at the two of them and sighed.
"I'll explain to you later." He said in the language of the Moon Country: "Anyway, we are probably going to be trapped here for a while."
"Stuck here? The weather is indeed abnormal, but will it last that long?" Sakura's expression was as confused as the Luoan girl.
"It's not the weather." The sage turned around and said word by word.
"right now we."
"It's no longer in the original world."
"Roar----"
A slightly familiar voice sounded in the wilderness outside.
What followed was a sound like the continued flapping of insect wings, only densely packed and loud.
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