At this time, almost half an hour had passed since she was discovered, and Brando saw Peya, who had just woken up, look at her surroundings blankly. There seemed to be a trace of confusion in her eyes, and the confusion in her dark eyes turned into a strong sense of vigilance.
She suddenly turned over and bounced up from the ground like a female beast, and her hand subconsciously reached for the short bow behind her back.
But she was destined to catch nothing.
Then Peya woke up, and when she saw Brando, she seemed to be stunned, "Ah! I, I'm sorry, Sir Knight … … I thought- "
But Peya's words suddenly stopped.
Brando saw a look of horror on her face, and she turned around and glanced at the surrounding forest as if she had seen a ghost.
"How could … … it's exactly the same … …"
Peya suddenly took a few steps back, ignoring everyone around her. She observed the surrounding forest as she retreated, retreating faster and faster, and then ran wildly, disappearing into the forest in the blink of an eye.
Peya's actions stunned everyone, and Brando was also slightly startled, and then noticed that the direction the hunter maiden had disappeared in was the exit to Milos' Breath.
"Brando?" Freya asked from the side, "What's wrong with Peya, should we go after her?"
Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what had happened, and Brando himself was also confused. Peya's previous behavior was not that of a reckless person. On the contrary, she could be called an excellent hunter.
And most of the best hunters had one trait in common.
Calm and collected.
Brando only hesitated for a moment before saying, "Follow her."
Faint starlight began to appear in the forest, indicating that they were leaving the range of the Evernight Forest. In the dim light, Brando saw the hunter maiden in front of him shuttling through the forest like a vigorous female leopard.
She was not stubbornly going deep into the forest, but instead seemed to be scouting the way, occasionally stopping to wait for them. This made Brando feel a little more at ease. What he hated the most in a group operation was to leave one's post without permission and put others in danger. Such an action was selfish and stupid.
But it seemed that Peya had not lost her mind, and Brando occasionally saw her stop and look around with a puzzled look on her face. This confirmed his conjecture that the hunter maiden must have discovered something in the dream. Sometimes dreams would reveal the future, and such a chance was extremely small, but if Peya's and her brother's dreams were entangled, it was not impossible.
Brando realized that Peya might have seen the direction in which Grand Duke Arreck and the others were heading in.
This was the only possibility that could make the young hunter girl lose her composure. However, this at least meant that her brother was not dead. At least, he was not dead when they passed through this forest.
In this way, the team moved forward for about two or three hours under Peya's leadership. During this time, the huntress never deviated from the direction leading to the glacier, which further showed that Brando's hunch was correct. If Arreck and the others had also passed through here, they would not have easily left the correct route.
And it was at this time that the hunter maiden finally stopped.
Brando parted the bushes with a crash and caught up with her from behind with everyone. He saw Peya standing blankly under a cedar tree. Brando walked over to take a look and saw that Peya was holding a dagger in her hand.
This dagger definitely did not belong to the hunter maiden, because her dagger was still clipped to her boots. Other than that, Peya should not be armed with any weapons.
"Is this your brother's thing?" Brando glanced at the dagger, which was just a very ordinary animal skin knife. Nobles would not use such a vulgar thing, and only hunters in this area would use it.
The hunter maiden turned her head, and Brando was surprised to see her red eyes. Peya rubbed the corners of her eyes, took a breath to calm down, and replied, "Can the dream be real, my Lord?"
"What's wrong?"
"I don't know, I was alone in the dream, and I dreamed of everything that happened that day. I dreamed that I was dead, frozen to death in the river, but my soul was muddled, and I seemed to hear a voice calling me. "
"I saw the pale Knight, and I followed them in a daze. I saw my brother, and I saw those people that day, they passed through this forest and moved forward slowly, and I saw my brother following them, behind a taller figure … … "
"I saw him pass by here and fall. I called him, but he didn't answer me, and I saw his dagger fall here … … "
Peya lowered her head and looked at the dagger in her hand with some fear, "It's here."
"What else did you see?" Brando immediately realized that this should be her brother's dream, and her brother should have also experienced the dream of the Lost Names, and then left part of his memory here. But he was a little curious, her brother's dream was so incomplete, and it seemed that he had passed through here, which was incredible, and he could not help but continue to ask.
"I saw them walk into an ice field, the wind and snow covered their figures, and I stayed there forever."
The huntress looked up, her eyes flashing with a strange panic, and she shuddered, "Am I dead, Sir Knight?"
She looked at Brando blankly and asked, almost trembling, "… … Am I, am I a ghost now?"
Brando felt that the huntress's question was a little absurd, but he could probably understand the panic in Peya's heart, not everyone knew the mysterious legends like he did, and most of the country people would attribute incomprehensible things to ghosts and gods.
He coughed to wake Peya up, "You're not dead, the dream is absurd, but part of what you saw may be true. Your younger brother might have survived as well. Just like what you saw, that part is actually the memory he left behind here. "
Peya heard this and trembled all over, "Really?"
"Of course, you understand, I don't have to lie to you." Brando replied.
Peya clenched her hands into fists with excitement, her chest rose and fell rapidly, she turned around and thought for a moment, then turned back and said to Brando with some embarrassment, "I'm sorry, Sir Knight, I was a little too reckless before."
Brando sighed, what else could he say. You can ask a soldier to abide by military discipline, but Peya was certainly not a soldier, nor an adventurer or a mercenary, she was just a hunter. But he still lectured her, "Just remember in the future, what you did before was very dangerous, not just for you, but for others as well."
"The Knight behind you, some of them are like you, have brothers, sisters, or parents of children, do you have the heart to let their loved ones lose them?"
"I'm sorry … …" Peya hung her head in shame this time. She knew that nobles had many rules, and people of her status did not need to ask why at all, they just needed to abide by them. But Brando explained it to her, which made her blush instead.
Although she was in awe of those high and mighty nobles, she did not necessarily agree with their values deep down, but Brando's words made her realize that people were actually the same, and the rules in a team were just to protect everyone in it.
For the first time, Brando accepted the hunter girl's apology, not for his identity, but for such behavior.
"Can you determine the route of Grand Duke Arreck and the others?" He asked again.
The hunter girl was slightly startled, then nodded.
"That's easy." Brando replied.
… …
Glacier of Despair –
Ever since entering this boundless ice field, Aloz had not stopped losing her temper for a single day. She felt that if she had known this would happen, she would have been with Brando instead of listening to him and going to meet up with Veronica with that dull Ash Sword Saint.
Of course, there were many things that made her dissatisfied. For example, the cold climate made her skin rougher, and the chattering ambassador of the Cruz Knight Order also pushed her patience to the limit. Which eye did that guy use to see that she was one of Erouine's people, and dared to talk to her with that kind of attitude.
If she did not want to expose her identity, she would have turned into her dragon form and swallowed the other party in one gulp, so that her ears would not be bombarded with fatigue all day long.
It was the same for the descendants of the arrogant Kirrlutzian nobles. Sometimes, she would secretly squint and stare at those annoying guys with her golden eyes, hatefully thinking about whether to cut open all these arrogant guys' stomachs after this matter was over.
But that was just a thought.
Although the dragons were arrogant, they were not stupid. The Holy Cathedral of Fire behind the Cruz nobles would never allow the dragons to mess around in human territory. Of course, the four Holy Cathedrals were not the key, the key was those annoying, self-righteous Bugas.
Every time she thought of the existence of the Silver Folk in this world, Aloz could not help but gnash her teeth in hatred. If it were not for the Bugas, who always boasted of being messianic craftsmen, the dragons would have already turned humans and elves into toys.
"How annoying."
Aloz cursed fiercely in her heart, cursing the smiling old man to crash his head and die as soon as possible, and for Onais and the other Floating Cities to fall into the sea as soon as possible. She curled a few curls of her platinum hair around her ears and muttered as she walked out of her tent.
If it were not for the news that Brando and his party had arrived, she would not have bothered to show up. It was so cold outside. The Silver Folk, who had ill intentions towards the dragons, called them big lizards. Aloz of course could not accept this name, but dragons were indeed cold-blooded animals, and there was no disputing that. Except for the White Dragons, most of the other types of dragons would feel uncomfortable in cold weather.
Aloz sneezed in the snow and rubbed the tip of her little red nose. She looked like a weak loli, not a scary little female dragon.
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