Here's the second update. Looks like I've caught a bit of a cold!
Where are the recommendation votes? Where are they?
Lin Qi and the others waited in the pine forest for three full days.
Grennan had brought his attendant warriors to receive the person who had stolen the crown, but even they did not know when that person would arrive. According to the instructions of the temple priest, that person would certainly be able to reach the rendezvous point safely, where they would then encounter the Caesar royal family's pursuers. Grennan and his group's task was to eliminate every pursuer and bring the crown back to the Odin Icefield.
Early on the fourth day, Lin Qi had just woken up and was washing up under Ais Te's care when Bilibili furtively scurried into his tent like a burrowing rat and stealthily sidled up to him.
"Great and terrifying Master, the Abyssal Blood Elf scouts under my command have found strangers in the forest. Several Heaven-rank warriors, with several hundred subordinates. They also brought fifty Iron-Beaked Goshawks and are searching through the woods for something."
Lin Qi tossed aside his washcloth, put on Wan En Longshan's Phantom God Puppet, and strode out of the tent.
Standing on the small hill outside the tent and looking into the sky, he saw dozens of Iron-Beaked Goshawks circling high above, keeping watch over the Black Pine Forest for nearly a hundred miles around. Lin Qi's camp was also within the surveillance range of those goshawks, but the accompanying water mages had cast a large-scale strategic water illusion, concealing the entire camp. Those feathered beasts had not discovered Lin Qi and the others.
Lin Qi gathered his trusted men, and the group silently slipped into the dense forest under the protection of a