Leaving aside these orcs, as well as whatever situation lay ahead.
Since there were traces of humans and even a road, it meant they were not far from leaving the forest.
"My lord, Little Gray says it's seven or eight li ahead!"
"Good!" Nalant immediately rose to his feet. "Everyone, pack up at once and set out with me!"
Though the battle ahead was unclear, Nalant did not want to miss this best opportunity to learn about the Sacred Continent.
Under Nalant's orders, the barbarian knights swiftly packed their equipment, then followed him onward.
When they were still more than a li from the place Little Gray had reported, Nalant faintly heard the sounds of battle drifting over.
He immediately halted the group, leaving the little girl, Vini, and the others behind while he led twenty subordinates to creep forward in secret.
Several minutes later, Nalant reached the site of the battle.
It was an open area beside a dirt road. At that moment, a convoy of several dozen people was locked in fierce combat with more than a hundred pigmen.
The pigmen were burly, thick-skinned, and tough-fleshed. Relying on their numbers, they had surrounded the convoy so tightly that not even water could seep through.
What surprised Nalant even more was that several pigmen among them seemed to be mages. They held meteor hammers in their hands, yet did not engage in close combat.
Instead, they stood far away and released glowing spheres crackling with electricity. It was precisely because of those light spheres that the human knights in the convoy could only defend passively.
Nalant could clearly sense that there was a Gold Knight among that group.
"My lord, those two pigmen should be priests among the beastfolk!"
"Although the beastfolk are united under the Beast King, they