Chapter 145: God's Warrior

  Whoosh! Whoosh! Three arrows flew, carrying the last reflection of the sun, accurately hitting the head of the leading earth spirit. A girl who had just swung over with a vine and was crouching on the tree that the two were leaning against, drew out an arrow from her leather quiver at her waist and shot it at the earth spirit below the tree using her short bow.

  The life of a hunter since childhood has made the girl's hands very stable, and her gentle eyes are now like those of an eagle, as if all targets cannot escape her shooting. This makes her arrows even in the dark forest where the light is already black, can accurately hit the ground elves under the trees, making them become corpses with a scream, without any empty shots. The sudden change made two boys feel surprised, and when they looked up and saw the girl, they became delighted from the heart, and it was their goal for this trip.

  "How did you people end up here?" Because of the girl's towering design, those timid goblins didn't last long and scattered. After all the goblins had fled in all directions, the girl jumped down from the tree with a flip, glaring at Charles in anger and asked: "How could you let Charlotte come to such a dangerous place! And you even got him hurt!"

  The girl's accusation made Charles lower his head, and the concern that had reached his lips was swallowed back. From small to large, no matter what they did together, it was always his fault. He just worried about her, why couldn't she understand his intentions? Oh... in her eyes, there was only Charlotte, and he was just a minor character attached to her.

  "Delia, don't blame Charles." Charlotte helped Charles up and said: "You haven't come to the village for so long that we thought something had happened to you, so we came in to find you. Charles was just worried about you. Now his ankle is badly injured, let's find a safer place to talk."

  "Charlotte, your arms are all injured." Delia glanced at Charles' slightly swollen ankle and walked to Charlotte's side with a painful expression. Looking at his arm that had already seeped out some blood, she said: "There is a cave ahead where we can temporarily rest and treat your wound. It must be very painful."

  After the three of them walked into the cave and lit a fire, Delia took out some ointment with a strange smell from the cave and ignited it at the entrance, saying: "Recently, my father got sick due to hunting, so he has been resting at home all the time. I have to take care of him at home, so I couldn't leave either. Originally, I planned to let Santos uncle, who came to collect medicine tomorrow, bring this news to you, but I didn't expect you to rush over here alone so anxiously."

  The ignited oil is a thing that hunters use the feces of magical beasts and some other materials to make, the smell emitted when it burns makes magical beasts unaware of the smell of humans in caves, such things are almost essential for camping outdoors.

  "Sorry." Charlotte, who was sitting by the bonfire, said with a somewhat embarrassed expression: "We didn't know it was for this reason, and we thought something had happened to you. As a result, not only did we fail to help you, but we also put ourselves in danger of being surrounded by monsters. If Diliria hadn't arrived in time, we might have died there."

  "This has nothing to do with you, Charlotte. It's definitely that Charles guy who instigated you to come." Dilia rummaged through the backpack in the cave and found a white linen cloth for bandaging, applying the freshly made herbal medicine to Charlotte's arm. After carefully bandaging Charlotte, Dilia threw the gauze and ointment at Charles, letting him deal with his own wound.

  "It's just not fair." Charles muttered, pulling up his own pant leg and applying the remaining - and not very much - ointment to his ankle. Although Delia had made a decent amount of salve, most of it had been used on Charlotte's arm, and what was left over had even leaked out from under the neatly wrapped bandage.

  "Stay here for the night, and I'll send you back tomorrow morning when it's light. We'll take a route with fewer monsters." Delia wiped her hands and sat down next to Charlotte by the fire pit, placing a deer leg on the fire to roast: "You two must have run away without your uncle's permission, right? I wonder what kind of state they're in now."

  The girl's words reminded the two reckless young men, and only then did they think of their parents. When they made up their minds, they never thought that when they worried about Delia's safety, their parents would also worry about their safety. This is a mistake that all young people will make, and only when they get into trouble will they remember that there are people who care about what they do.

  Guilt plunged the two into silence, for a time only the crackling of the fire in the cave broke the stillness. However, this silence did not last long, as the sound from outside the cave made Dilia, who was intently roasting the deer leg, suddenly stop her actions and put down the deer leg to pick up her shortbow.

  "What's wrong?" Delia's unusual behavior startled the two who were immersed in guilt, they looked up and glanced outside the dark cave, then asked the girl: "Isn't the oil lamp already lit? And there aren't any monsters around here, are we going to be discovered?"

  A loud, thunderous bellow gave the two their answer. Such a massive roar was only possessed by one kind of creature in Carnas - the robust and towering Minotaur. Charles and Charlotte hastily grabbed their weapons, extinguished the flames within the cave, and slowly adapted to the darkness before tensely staring at the entrance.

  In the Karna without powerful demons, Minotaurs are the most powerful demons. These Minotaurs that even ten mercenaries in Zhongyuan country would have to handle with care, and even if only one came, it's not something three people can deal with, let alone from the roars, you can tell there's more than one demon coming.

  "The Minotaur, who had never left the depths of the forest, how did it suddenly come here?" Charles's arm trembled slightly as he grasped his long sword, biting his teeth and speaking in a low voice. The appearance of the Minotaur made his heart beat violently, as if it was about to burst out of his chest at any moment.

  "Hush..." Delia shook her head and didn't answer, now they needed to lower their voices as much as possible, hoping that those inexplicable cow-headed people who came here wouldn't discover them, otherwise the only thing waiting for them would be death. However, strange things often don't happen alone, these cow-headed people who had never left the depths of the forest seemed to know they were there, and ran straight towards the cave entrance, accompanied by a group of goblins.

  "Why is it like this!" Delia shouted loudly, shooting an arrow to kill the earth spirit that appeared at the entrance of the cave, looking at the giant body of the Minotaur that appeared at the entrance, a desperate expression appeared on her face, and her original expectation was not realized. After the Minotaur arrived at the entrance, Charlotte rushed to Delia's front and protected her behind her back.

  A Minotaur with scarlet eyes strode into the cave without hesitation. Delia, slightly calmer due to Charlotte's protection, continuously shot arrows at the Minotaur with her shortbow. However, it had little effect, as the Minotaur's muscles allowed the arrowheads to only graze its skin, and it was unable to advance further.

  As the Minotaur drew closer, Charlotte, at the forefront, swung her shortsword at it, but was met with a massive fist. Charlotte was naturally weaker than others, and even after training with Charles, she hadn't made much progress. The Minotaur, who wasn't even a match for regular warriors, effortlessly knocked Charlotte flying.

  He didn't stop until he crashed into the wall of the cave, and a mouthful of blood spurted out from his mouth. The Minotaur's massive strength had injured his internal organs. "Charlotte!" Delia rushed towards Charlotte in a panic, while Charles hobbled towards the Minotaur, trying to block its advance.

  Even an uninjured Charles was no match for the Minotaur, and his movements were not swift. He didn't even have time to raise the long sword in his hand before he followed Charlotte's footsteps and was knocked unconscious by the Minotaur's punch on the rock wall beside him. However, the demon had no interest in Charles, and they walked straight towards Charlotte.

  At this critical moment! On Charlotte's forehead, which had been wrapped in a headband all along, a thread of bright white light emerged from within, finally turning the obscuring headband to ashes. The birthmark that had once brought glory to Charlotte and also subjected him to humiliation was now shining with a glow, the mark on it that did not belong to any god slowly fading away, as the mark of the war god appeared on his forehead.

  A power that Charlotte had never experienced before burst out of her body, the internal organs that were just injured by Minotaur no longer hurt, and some green sparks emerged from the scratches on her arm. The wound under the bandage healed instantly. The Minotaur who had already arrived in front of them looked at this change with anger and roared loudly, slamming its huge arms towards Charlotte.

  Bang! The Minotaur's arm, capable of shattering rocks, was frozen in mid-air. It was caught by Charlotte's unexpectedly strong arms, and before the Minotaur could react, it was kicked flying away. Charlotte looked at her hands, which had suddenly gained immense power, then gazed up at the group of demons in the cave ahead, picked up her fallen shortsword...