The Death Knight Became an Escort Knight for the Saintess

84. Beginning

84.

“…… First, let’s move. Because this is still the territory of the Lizardmen. It will be dangerous any longer.”

Ferien said in a reluctant tone. When Ecilia said she should move, she looked at Zerpied for a moment and felt the urge to close her eyes and tell her to walk. In order to move, the Death Knight inevitably had to wake up. Then, the ‘cool-looking’ outfits of the elven women would surely catch my eye. Ecilia thought of it and her head felt dizzy.

Of course, that is an absurd idea. Of course she has to open her eyes to move. Ecilia held back her tears a little and whispered softly as she clung to Zer Peed’s side.

“…… It’s okay to open your eyes. Knight.”

The Death Knight opened her eyes slowly at the words of her saintess and looked around her. She opened her eyes, which he had closed, revealing her face, and one of the women behind her stepped forward and gave him a quick glance.

Celia had to hold back her screams as she saw her breastbone exposed. It seemed that only the sight of those two soft flesh swaying inside the leather cover was visible, and that Zerfied was making a puzzled expression at all.

“…… Why is this kid so bloodless?”

At that woman’s words, another elf woman asked.

“What?”

“There is no blood. Her face is very pale. Have you ever been sick? I don’t think that’s the case when you look at the strength in the standing posture. Like…… It looks like a dead body.”

The elf woman scanned the Death Knight with a unique look of interest and suspicion. Ethilia felt her heart sink at the elf woman’s words. The reason why she has been able to hide the fact that Zer Peed is a Death Knight is because she has somehow covered her appearance with her long-brimmed hat. However, a long hat with a wide brim was rather a hindrance in the dense jungle.

…… And most of them only paid attention to Zerpied’s body and face, so things like extremely pale skin weren’t important.

The saintess of innocence vigorously shook her head to shake off her last thoughts. The important thing is how to get out of this situation. Zerfied also looked down at the woman who was staring at him with tension.

“What are you doing, Becarin? Do you have to move? I’ll do the skin taryeong later. He said he saw a lizardman flying in the sky, so he really drank during the day.”

Unexpectedly, the solution to the situation came from Ferien. Let her urge her. The woman called Bekarin turned her head away as if it were unfair.

“No…… ! Did you really see it? Lizardmen flew across the sky to the other side!!”

“Yes, yes. And not just one, but six. Rather say that a dragon appeared.”

Ferien nodded her head at Bekarin’s words and turned her body around. Bekarin pouted her lips as if she was still aggrieved at Ferien’s reaction to her.

“It’s true… ….”

Ferien didn’t pay attention to her Bekarin’s words, she spoke to the Death Knight party.

“Follow me.”

The move was very careful. It was a very natural process for her to turn her head and be wary of her surroundings every few steps. Freiggit wanted to bring up the conversation between Huchi and Perien, and how the situation was different from what she knew.

Originally, the patrol shouldn’t have been here. But her demeanor was so serious that she couldn’t take it out easily. He went almost 40 extra before he could open his mouth.

“I…… You know, Ferien.”

“Shh!”

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Ferien put his finger to his lips as he was afraid to speak. The Death Knight and the saint soon learned the identity of what Ferien was wary of. A large lizardman’s head popped out from the side of a tree about 30 cubits away.

The body color of the lizard man was very colorful, and there was a large scale membrane on the side of his neck. Esilia stared blankly at the lizard man, who was thought to be splendid, but she was startled by the sudden opening of the scales and blocked her mouth when she was about to scream. The Lizardman immediately poured out a sharp roar. Seeing the sight, the frigate murmured in bewilderment.

“…… Frill Lizardman? Why is that here? Aren’t you the one who lives further upstream than here?”

“I wasn’t Lauren before you left. Prigit. The Lizardmen tribe has greatly expanded their power. Almost all of the upper reaches have been expanded, and some are sneaking up to the middle. It’s no longer difficult to meet such an action-captain-level guy on a regular basis. The Gorgons also have a relationship with the Lizardmen and eat each other, so the number has increased along with the Lizardmen who have been called up.”

“Is that why you all came this far?”

“Yes, I haven’t crossed it yet, but some guys have tried to cross the Varun River.”

Frigit reacted to those words like someone who had heard something crazy.

“You said you were going to cross the river? By swimming?”

“No, by making a raft. It was a very sloppy structure.”

Frigit still couldn’t believe that the Lizardmen were trying to build a raft.

“No… …. When I was here, why did these guys, who had been silent for decades, in such a short period of time….”

“Shh, talk later. There are a few more.”

Another lizardman approached the scaled lizardman. They clung to and held, two by two, a white-furred gorilla and a large babirusa.

After confirming the prey, the action leader nodded and muttered something with a sharp roar. Following the leader of the action across the grass on a quadrupedal walk, four Lizardmen followed. After confirming that the Lizardmen were gone, Perien signaled to her party that it was okay to move.

-Quaaaaa…… !

What we met at the end of our borderline-filled movement was the sound of pouring water, that is, a large river. Ecilia frantically looked at the huge Barun River. She hadn’t had much experience of seeing such a wide river, but many animals and vegetation, such as hippos, giraffes, and monkeys, lying down on the riverside and enjoying a leisurely rest, came to me very strangely.

Unfortunately, however, the time to retain that miraculous aftertaste was short.

“But what are you guys going to do? I didn’t expect you guys to be there, so there’s only three of us on the raft…….”

As Perien said, she and two other elven women took a raft out of the grass behind them. It seemed better to say that it was a small boat made of wood with sails attached, rather than simply a structure made of weaving wood. However, the size was not very large. As she said, it seemed too much for her to carry six of them.

But the frigate answered as if it was not a big deal.

“Oh, it doesn’t matter. We were going to make a raft and cross it anyway.”

“Really? Then the story goes fast. I will help you.”

The last elf woman, whose name had not yet been revealed, stepped forward with a nod of her head. Her long, rust-tinged hair gleamed. The other two elven women nodded in agreement with her.

“Well, when it comes to trees, Iserido knows the best.”

Iserido stretched out her body lightly and quickly scanned the tree near her. Then she stopped her gaze on a tree. It was a tree nearly thirty cubits long.

“Guests, come and help me. I will cut down this tree and make a raft.”

Unlike Zerpiede, Esilia approached Iserido with a slightly shy expression. She was completely ignorant of rafts and trees. She said in a tone that she was not confident.

“Well, what exactly can I do?”

“Well, let’s see. Just looking at it, it looks like this big guy is good at hard work, so you just help us with what we do. Private? What are you doing? It’s still a long way from seeing your face for the first time in a while, so hurry up and help me.”

At Iserido’s words, Frigate’s expression instantly turned gloomy. After all, she was out of the position of the most exciting onlooker in the world, but Iserido’s words were of course right, so she went right to her side. Her work was swift.

Climbing up the branch in an instant with agility, she stood at the top of the tree, entrusting the thick branch to Zerpied, while Frigate and her concentrated on trimming the tree’s twigs, directing what to do. By-products such as skins generated in the process were elements that the saintess had to deal with.

-Teouk – ! Teouk – !

The sound of stamping trees in the dense jungle adds to the density.

However, no matter how fast the work itself is, making a raft that can carry three people will inevitably take some time. It was the same at this point, when the pruning work was almost complete and the tree itself was about to be cut.

It was for this reason that Freight opened his mouth to the monotonous and silent task of knocking down a tree with a machete.

“Come to think of it, I think we talked about Manmajeon earlier. What is it?”

At Frey Git’s words, Iseri, as well as Perien and Bekarin, who were helping her with her work, all looked at him with an expression of absurdity. It was Death Knight who saved him from the situation where he would be delighted if he had a unique taste, receiving the sharp gazes of the three women.

“I mean literally. A temple where all demons are enshrined. That’s ten thousand horses. Just as there is a chronic battle where all the holy spirits are enshrined, there is a battle of ten thousand demons.”

Frigit was fortunate enough to catch what almost dropped the lumberjack he was holding on to.

“…… Is there such a thing in my hometown?”

“Rather, I want to ask you, my fiancé. What the hell could you do without knowing one of the most important things about your hometown? Adults have been telling me not to go near it for a long time…….”

“Leave it alone, Ferien. If he was interested in her hometown, would he have kicked the chance of becoming the next tribal chief husband and fled at night?”

At Iserido’s words, the saintess whimpered and set aside a bunch of eggplants, and made an expression of astonishment.

“The next tribal chief? She was the daughter of Miss Ferien?”

Bekarin also shook her head.

“I mean. So when she made it almost until her wedding day and suddenly announced that she was going to take Ferien out of Lauren to live, she was not kidding, almost the entire tribe objected. In particular, the tribal chief, that is to say, Ferien’s mother, of course, was strongly against it. Then one day she wrote a note and said that she would come back successfully, and she ran away at night.”

“Well, I don’t know if it was a lie when I said that I would be successful, but they sent me money all the time.”

“Okay, stop it. Becarin and Iseri too. Right now, it’s more urgent to make a raft and cross the river than that.”

At Ferien’s low words, both women fell silent. The saintess tilted her head as she listened to them, but she couldn’t speak out loud. It was because the situation had been quieted down again by Ferien. So she had to carefully go to Becarin’s side.

“Hey, um, Ms. Becarin?”

“What? What’s the matter, miss? Is there something blocking you?”

“No, not that…” …. You know, Mr. Freight sent some money. How was that possible? No matter how you look at it, well, Lauren doesn’t have a wagon, and transportation is…… It seems insufficient.”

At that, Bekarin let out a weak, kicking laugh.

“What, did you just wonder about that? She’s a weird girl Nothing special. It’s not that we don’t interact with the outside world either.

Mainly when you need magical items or get help from priests. Or when you need medicines or materials that are mainly produced outside of Lauren.

But that doesn’t happen very often, there are only a limited number of cities and shops that you visit anyway. Maybe that’s why, when I go there sometimes, there are often days when Freight has left money in his name.”

Bekarin replied as if it was not a big deal and handed her twigs to her saintess. As the saintess accepted her twig, she nodded her head vigorously, her eyes shining as if she understood.

“What an unusual girl. To be curious about something like that in this situation…… ?”

Her expression froze as she raised the corners of her mouth. Bekarin violently vomited out her words, mixed with emotions that were the exact opposite of her feelings just before. She roughly grabbed her saintess’ head and pressed her downward. She wanted to scream why a saintess would do that, but she couldn’t. She was pressing so hard.

“Damage – !”

-Peeing – !

And the saintess didn’t have to ask. She could clearly see an arrow passing by just where she had just been. As if the arrows had begun, in the next moment dozens of arrows flew over their heads.