Chapter 253 Hidden Darkness

Chapter 253 Hidden Darkness

It's approaching evening.

Another detachment arrived at Forsbarrow.

This team is small in number, only eight people, but each one is well-equipped and looks powerful, wearing shining armor from head to toe.

The horses under his crotch are all gray-skinned horses, with broad shoulders and strong bodies, at least seventeen hands high, and are wearing the same cobalt blue horse clothes.

The leader of the group carried a sword behind his back. Golden handle, blue scabbard.

It is a very representative weapon.

"Your Highness the Prince? Lux?"

The cavalryman's voice came out from the helmet, which sounded a little low. As he spoke, he took off his helmet, revealing a head of black hair and a resolute face.

"Galen?"

After seeing him, Lu Qi and Lux ​​both sounded surprised.

Lu Qi walked forward and hugged Galen: "I didn't expect to meet you here."

Since the war on the border was over, the number of times I have met Galen can be said to be very few. He has been running around on missions of the Dauntless Vanguard, and rarely even returns to the Crown Guard's home.

A smile appeared on Galen's calm face and he said, "I'm quite surprised too."

Lux's voice sounded from the side: "Didn't you say you wouldn't come if something happened?"

Galen then looked at her. It had been a long time since he had seen his sister. A touch of tenderness flashed deep in his eyes, but he hid it well.

"I just completed a nearby mission and received a letter asking for help. The ancestor worship day is just around the corner, so I thought of coming to take a look."

As he spoke, he looked at Lux with a subtle smile on his lips: "It's you who actually came here."

Lacus hugged her arms and said with a cold face: "You are all looking for reasons to refuse. Besides, why can't I come?"

"Okay, let's not talk about this for now."

The two brothers and sisters always get a bit angry when they meet, and now Lu Qi can see that they are not actually on bad terms.

After interrupting them with words, he welcomed Galen's team into the city.

On the way, Galen and the team members looked at the situation of Forsbarrow and noticed something strange. They couldn't help but ask aloud: "What's wrong with this town?"

So Lu Qi told the story of the town again. After the demon was involved, Galen and the members of the team became more serious.

Naturally, his team members are also from fearless vanguards, and none of them are simple, they are all strong men who can stand alone.

With their participation, Lu Qi's confidence and confidence have become a little stronger.

From the current point of view, their only solution is to fight the missing demon first. After all, anyone with bad intentions has plenty of time to hide, let alone a demon with great supernatural powers.

It is basically unrealistic to find it directly.

However, during this time, Lu Qi and others can also make more preparations.

Lu Qi originally thought that this would be a protracted battle, but he didn't expect that after only two days, the demon had already lost patience.

February 10th.

As the sky gradually darkened, the temperature at night was a bit cooler than during the day, and the townspeople in the concentration camp gathered together to chat as usual.

In the past two days, they were no longer troubled by nightmares. Both their mood and state were much more relaxed and less tense.

Some people have begun to speculate that the devil may be afraid of His Royal Highness and the others and has left the town.

But in the past few days, Lu Qi has been confirming that the demon has not left.

At the other end, a bonfire was lit. Lu Qi and others sat around the bonfire, watching the flickering flames and chatting.

Several of Galen's team members drank beer and told stories about their experiences and adventures. Each person's experience could write a novel.

Lux had a headache hearing these stories. She didn't know how many times she had heard them since she was a child.

At this moment, he was sitting sadly on the side, boredom written all over his delicate face.

However, Lu Qi heard it for the first time and found it quite interesting. Besides, there was also Poppy sitting next to her who was very supportive, so she became even more interested in these stories.

For example, Diadoru once bravely fought against an entire Noxian army, and another example is Sabator who killed a giant maggot of the abyss.

Varya was an extremely brave female warrior. She once rushed onto the deck of a group of pirates' warship and burned their ship on fire. She almost died that time, but she returned alive in the end.

There was also Rodion, who once led a team to sail north in winter and set fire to Frostport, a town in the Freljord, to serve as a warning and to deter any looters who dared to invade south.

Each story tells the story of the near-death experiences these warriors have experienced. These are tests for them and will only make them stronger.

This made Lu Qi feel a little emotional, the world is like this, everyone is the protagonist of their own world, and they bloom with different colors in various places.

Just as they were chatting in a pleasant atmosphere, a figure hurried over, his anxious look telling her how anxious she was at the moment.

It's Judge Giselle.

"Your Highness, have you seen Luca?"

She stopped panting, her brown hair was a little messy, and her expression was full of worry.

Seeing her anxious look, Lu Qi and the others immediately stopped smiling. He thought for a moment, then shook his head: "No, I only saw him in the morning."

The other people didn't speak, obviously they all answered in the same way.

Giselle was a little more panicked now. She said, "Luka is missing, and there are three children missing with him."

Lu Qi frowned slightly and asked aloud: "When did you find out that they were missing?"

"In the evening, when it was getting dark. Before that, they were playing hide-and-seek. I thought they just went to play somewhere a little further away, but I searched around a lot and couldn't see them."

The panic on Giselle's face became more and more obvious, and her eyes were filled with self-reproach, feeling that she had not paid enough attention to her children.

In this situation, she shouldn't be so careless, but just after taking a nap, they disappeared.

She had been too tired these past few days, and had been inexplicably sleepy just now, but Giselle knew that this was no excuse.

Now that she thought that her four children were missing, and that the devil might not have left yet, she felt very uncomfortable and guilty.

"Don't panic yet. You go notify everyone in the town and ask them to search the whole town." Lu Qi stood up and quickly started to make arrangements: "Let's go outside the town to search."

"I know." Giselle quickly ran towards the direction of the concentration camp.

Lu Qi and others did not waste any time, immediately mounted their horses and headed out of the town.

In this case, four children will be lost, and the probability of the devil taking action is very high.

Of course, Lu Qi couldn't keep an eye on everyone all the time. Now that the situation was happening, they had no choice but to take action.

"Galen, you lead the team to protect the town and prevent accidents from happening. The rest of the people should search separately, so that they can be found faster. Also, be careful."

When they arrived at the city gate, Lu Qi ordered.

After hearing his words, Galen and Vayne nodded solemnly and left.

There were nearly two hundred people in total, and they dispersed in all directions of Forsbarrow.

Luqi, Lux, Sona, and Katarina went to the forest on the right side of the town, going deep into the forest.

Riding on the starlight, Lux asked aloud: "Did the devil do it?"

"There is a high probability." Lu Qi nodded: "And it is very likely that it wants to lure us out of the town."

Before setting off, Vayne and Frey checked whether there were any traces of dark magic.

But it couldn't be detected, which shows that the devil was very careful this time.

In the town, everyone stayed together, and it had almost no chance to take action.

But it was different outside the town, and in such a scattered situation.

At this moment in the night, the road was not clear. A layer of dark clouds seemed to have condensed in the sky, blocking the bright moonlight. The dark clouds gathered together and were as dark as the devil's grin.

The further away from the town, the quieter the surroundings become and the fewer the sounds of people. In the end, there is only the sound of horse hooves moving forward, "ta da da", "ta da da", accompanied by the cold wind blowing through the leaves. The sound of "swish" can stir up goosebumps.

But there is a scent of pine and wildflowers in the air, a sign of spring's revival and a gift from the mountains of the north.

The next thing I smelled was an earthy smell, a little moist, like the smell after rain.

Several people continued to go deeper, and the winding mountain road continued to extend to the north.

There was no trace of human activity along the way. About half an hour later, a fork in the road appeared.

One road points to the southeast, the other points to the pure north, and there is a path covered with weeds in the middle of the branch road, which is only large enough for a single person to pass.

The emergence of a fork in the road meant that Lu Qi's team had to separate again and move forward separately to avoid missing those children.

Catalina took the lead and said, "I'll go in the middle."

She didn't know why she wanted to do things for Demacia and this guy, but since she followed them, she had to do something.

It just so happens that I haven't had a fight in a long time. If I can encounter that demon, I want to test its ingredients.

After saying that, she waved the horse rope and ran out regardless of whether Lu Qitong agreed or not.

"Then I'll go look for it on the right."

Sona's voice came into Lu Qi's mind.

After Lu Qi nodded, Sona set off towards the fork on the right alone.

Lux looked at the road on the left: "Then let's go to the left?"

"Well, let's go."

Lu Qi nodded again and headed to the left.

"Do you think we can find them?" Lux said with a worried tone as she rode on her horse.

"Try your best." Lu Qi could only reply.

"And do you have the feeling that Giselle is hiding something from us?" Lux said about her discovery on the road, "It's about Luca. She doesn't seem to want Luca to appear in front of us too much."

Lu Qi replied: "It can be seen that she loves her children very much. This is also a kind of protection."

"Is Luca the same as me?" Lux doesn't have the ability to perceive magic, so she is just guessing at this moment: "He is a mage. The way he looked at us that day was a little scary."

The activities related to the ban on demons in the royal capital have been very relaxed, and the appearance of demon hunters is not that frequent. However, after all, Fosbarrow is located on the border, and the affairs of the royal capital have not yet been reflected here.

So for Gisele, it was terrible news that her child had become a demon.

In order not to be discovered by Lu Qi and the others, Luka had deliberately avoided them in the past few days.

Lux didn't know what to say to Giselle. At this moment, she couldn't help but think that even if the third generation really intended to lift the ban on demons.

But except for the royal capital which was slightly affected, mages elsewhere seemed to be still in dire straits.

This made her couldn't help but think about it more. She looked down and saw a glimmer of light quietly hidden at her fingertips.

Apart from relying on a layer of identity, how is she any better than them?

Lu Qi glanced at her sideways: "Don't think so much. The matter of banning demons will be solved sooner or later. Now let's get those children back."

"Um"

Lux nodded, adjusted her mentality, and quietly glanced at Lu Qi's side face. The uneasiness in his heart gradually dissipated, and he looked forward.

With him here, she would no longer feel confused.

Another half hour later, a new fork in the road appeared.

This time there are only two left and right ones, but one goes up and one goes down.

Lux and Lu Qi looked at each other, and she said first: "I choose the right!"

After choosing, the girl set off directly. Under the dim light, her back was full of perseverance and bravery.

Lu Qi believed that she now had the ability to take charge of her own business, so she headed to the left road.

Lux kept riding in the forest. In her field of vision, the color of the forest was actually different. It was not just dim, but colorful.

As magic fills her senses, it lights up her world, and the colors in the forest become unusually bright and vibrant.

She could see small balls of light floating in the air, and heard the breathing of the trees and the sigh of the earth.

The world in front of us is so incredible, and all living things are full of vitality in the runoff of energy, whether it is nameless grass or thick iron birch trees.

People say that the roots of the Iron Birch tree go deep into the ground and can even reach the heart of the world.

This is the world in her eyes, beautiful and colorful.

In this way, she kept riding forward in the forest, following the slightly muddy road, and jumping over steep roadblocks, while she listened quietly in her heart.

Listen to the sounds of this forest.

At this moment, her perception far exceeded that of most humans. The colorful forest was dancing with flickering light. She felt the distant starlight coming like mist. These starlights were spread in other worlds, shining on other people. s life.

Finally, she felt something. The light in the depths of the forest trembled slightly, as if it was shrouded in shadow, which made Lux frown.

Lux's intuition kept warning her that there was definitely a dark place hidden there.

"Go over there, Starlight!"

Without a trace of hesitation, Lux waved the reins, letting Starlight accelerate towards the depths.