Chapter 118 Burning Blade in Danger (2/2)

”Ah…”

After drinking half of the water bag, the mercenary sighed deeply. After that, he turned around and look at Rhode.

”Thank you, thank you for saving me. If not for you guys, I might have already…”

”No problem, it's what we're supposed to do.”

Rhode waved his hand and stopped his words. After that he stretched out his hand to hand over the badge.

”This is yours, right… I'm really curious, as a member of the Burning Blade, how could you be so badly injured here?”

”This…”

Looking at the badge, that mercenary was surprised for a moment. After that, he seemed to have remembered something and suddenly jumped up.

”That's right, we encountered an attack! Damn it!! I need to go back quickly, ah…”

But just when he woke up, he could felt an intense pain in his body. His face turned green and sweat fell from his forehead. It could be seen just how severe his injury was. Lize quickly held him and helped him lie down once more.

”You cannot move; you have suffered a very heavy injury which hasn't fully healed yet…”

”But but I cannot waste my time here. I need to quickly go back to the Mercenary Association and ask for their help… Damn it…”

”Did something happen to the Burning Blade?”

After hearing what he said, Rhode frowned. It seems like it was just as he expected. However, Rhode was still very curious. In Twilight Forest, what could injure such a strong mercenary group until they asked for the Mercenary Association for help?

”That's right, Lil—Mister.”

After carefully looking at Rhode, the man quickly corrected his sentence, lest trouble befall him.

”If I remember correctly, you are the Starlight mercenary group leader, right?”

”That's right, it's me.” Although the sentence from before made Rhode frown, since he managed to quickly rephrase it, Rhode would just pretend that he heard nothing. ”Can you tell me what happened? If you need, I think I can help you.”

”It's like this…”

After hearing until here, or maybe because he knew that he was badly injured and unable to finish his mission, he could only sigh and quickly started to explain what happened.

After the Mercenary Joint Meeting has ended, Hiller brought his mercenary group to the Twilight Forest. First, because it was on to their way back to Lightwind City, and second, because he has the same idea as Rhode. He wanted to train his subordinates. Although the prohibition was one month, as a mercenary, it was important to keep fighting from time to time.

At first, things went pretty smoothly. However, something suddenly happened, and the Burning Blade entered Wind Snake territory and was attacked. In the beginning, they didn't really care about the Wind Snake, since it was a magical creatures that was often seen. But the things that happened next were beyond their expectations, and the Wind Snakes kept increasing. When they realized it was that bad, they had already been surrounded by the Wind Snakes.

Since it was difficult to escape from that situation, Hiller decided to send a small group to break out of the Wind Snake encirclement and look for help.

However, their luck wasn't very good. No matter how weak ants are, but hundreds or even thousands of them was enough to make people die. Same goes for the Wind Snake; although they managed to break the Wind Snake encirclement, but they were still heavily injured. As the last survivor, this mercenary fell off the cliff when the Wind Snakes chased after him. Luckily, he was saved and survived.

”Encircled by the Wind Snakes?”

After hearing it, Rhode found it somewhat unbelievable. A group of Wind Snakes numbered only in the hundreds; it might be strong enough to attack a small mercenary group. But it wasn't supposed to be strong enough to attack a fully-armed mercenary group, right?

”How much do they number?”

Upon hearing this question, the mercenary that was originally calm exposed a frightened expression.

”Thousands! It's thousands of them!”

After hearing this, Rhode's heart sank.

He lifted his head to look at Lize. At this moment, she was clenching her hand as if she thought about something and glanced towards Rhode.

It seemed that they guessed it.