Summoning the Holy Sword

“Ugh…!!”

The fierce, wild wolf rushed forward. The hidden trap in the bush activated and trapped its paw, but the wild wolf didn’t back down. To the contrary, it roared and kept rushing forward, its sharp claws passing through Randolf and the others, heavily scratching the ground.

Randolf rolled to the side to dodge the attack and then shot an arrow towards it.

The wild wolf that had already been trapped simply couldn’t escape as the arrow flew towards it. It struggled to dodge, but the arrow still shot its leg. This made the wild wolf feel even more pain and it stopped struggling, opening its mouth to vent its anger. However, a second arrow that easily pierced through its head completely sealed the incoming howl.

“Haa…”

After pulling the Fire Blade out from the last wolf’s body, Shauna wiped the sweat off her forehead then turned around.

“Is everyone okay?”

“There’s no problem.”

“I’m okay.”

Shauna immediately jumped and ran to where the voice located while holding her sword. The others also followed from behind. Soon, in the bushes not far from them, they found an injured mercenary.

He looked like a swordsman, but there’s no weapon inside his sheath and his body was covered in wounds. Judging from the heavy injuries on his back, it looked like the mercenary had fallen from the cliff. If not because of the thick bushes, most likely he would have already become a wild beast’s meal.

“What should we do, Big Sis?

The mercenaries that surrounded the man were all worried. They quickly looked at Shauna. After all, she was the current commander of the team.

Faced with their inquiries, Shauna didn’t answer immediately, but took a closer look at the mercenary. After looking at the badge on his chest, Shauna’s eyes lighten up.

“Bring him back. Maybe Lize could save him.”

Shauna no longer hesitated and quickly gave an answer. After that, another person walked forward and carefully carried the injured man for the journey back.

Shauna silently stared at everyone’s back, then lowered her head to look at the badge in her hand.

It was exactly the badge that she took from that mercenary.

They could only imagine just how surprised Rhode was when they brought back an injured person from the forest. He wasn’t clear on what happened: why did they bring a person back, instead of what he had asked for? However, Rhode still told Lize to heal that man. After that, he walked towards Shauna and asked.

“What happened? Who is he?”

“I’m also unclear.”

Facing Rhode’s question, Shauna shook her head.

”We followed your instructions and arrived at the spring. We found him nearby, and it seems that he had experienced a very violent battle. If it’s not because of his luck, he wouldn’t be alive until now. And… I found this on his body.”

Shauna stretched out her hand and gave Rhode the badge.

After he took the badge, Rhode’s eyes narrowed.

It was a red-colored badge. On the top, there was a round, burning flame symbol and in the center, a blade as if born from flame.

Rhode was familiar with this badge. A few days ago, he had seen something similar at the Mercenary Joint Meeting.

It was “Burning Blade” mercenary group symbol.