Surrounded by the beast troop rescue force, Shirou had no choice but to fight, and with the help of Longsword of Light, he almost instantly killed all the opponents.
This was to be expected, after all, Shirou was a Sword Saint, and the skill of Longsword of Light was beyond compare for opponents of the same level.
As the secret skill of the Sword God Style, Longsword of Light was like a deadly move that could instantly kill opponents.
It doesn't strike unless it can achieve amazing results.
However, the weakness of Longsword of Light was also obvious, that was, when facing opponents of the same level or even higher, if the opponent could block Longsword of Light, it would be difficult to overcome them with pure swordsmanship, without a further killing move.
Especially when facing opponents of the Water God Style, when the strengths of the two were similar, it was difficult for the Sword God Style's swordsmanship to break the Water God Style's defense.
Of course, this was only when facing Water God Style sword masters.
The opponents Shirou was facing now were just a group of beast warriors. Even if the strength of this group of people was not weak, if an actual fight were to happen, they might even be able to defeat saint-level experts.
For example, a Water Saint, a North Saint, or a saint-level mage...
But they were the only ones who could not fight against a Sword Saint of the Sword God Style.
As said before, the Sword God Style doesn't strike unless it can kill.
Pure numbers meant nothing in front of Sword God Style. No matter how many people gathered, as long as they couldn't receive the skill of Longsword of Light, they were destined to fail.
"It's over."
After Shirou knocked all the beast warriors to the ground, he quietly sheathed his sword.
He didn't have any bad feelings towards the beast warriors. The reason why he attacked so hard was purely to vent his anger for that arrow earlier.
In fact, he still needed to find out the whereabouts of the mastermind from the beast troop.
So he looked at the leading beast warrior lying on the ground and said, "Who told you the location here? This place is so hidden, it's impossible for anyone to find it."
"Humph, why should I tell you!"
The beast man mistakenly thought that Shirou was the kidnapper and had no intention of cooperating.
Shirou didn't have a way to prove himself at the moment, so he could only start thinking about the possible situation with his mind.
First of all, this matter was originally a request made by Giles, who asked him and Ruijerd to rescue the children captured by the smuggling gang on the condition of crossing the sea.
However, Giles didn't have any benefits in this matter, and he didn't seem like a partner of justice. Shirou could feel this clearly.
Most importantly, almost at the same time that Giles gave him the request, he encountered the beast warrior group and had a conflict with them.
The time when both sides arrived was so consistent that it was hard to describe as a coincidence.
What if Giles's purpose was to make him and the beast warriors encounter each other and have a conflict, in order to achieve some kind of goal?
Thinking of this, Shirou immediately realized something. He looked at the beast man in front of him and said loudly, "Is Giles the one who called you here!?"
"How do you..."
The beast man's instinctive reaction revealed the whole truth.
Shirou made a judgment almost without hesitation, everything was a scheme set up by Giles.
The other party deliberately arranged a request for him, in order to make him and Ruijerd fight with the beast troop.
In particular, he also specially chose Ruijerd from the Superd tribe, thinking of using the Superd tribe's bad reputation to directly ruin the relationship between the two sides.
Fortunately, Ruijerd was now trying his best to hide the image of the Superd tribe, and his personality made it difficult for him to have direct conflicts with strangers.
But in the current situation, Giles's goal was still achieved.
Because Shirou replaced Ruijerd and defeated all the beast warriors.
Everything developed according to Giles's wishes!
"Giles...!"
After Shirou understood everything, he no longer hesitated. He directly uncovered the eye patch covering his right eye and activated the magic eye of foresight.
With Shirou's current ability to adapt, he was now able to slightly control the magic eye to observe any situation within a few thousand meters.
The only side effect was that it consumed too much magic power.
Therefore, Shirou hardly used it at all.
But this time, in order to deal with the schemer Giles and stop the evil he was about to commit, he didn't hesitate to bear the side effects.
"Pa!"
As the effect of the foresight magic eye was completely activated, Shirou's vision suddenly crossed thousands of distances.
From Zante Port to the great forest, all the scenes began to appear in Shirou's eyes in order.
However, with such a large range, it was obviously too difficult to find someone he wasn't familiar with.
Yes, the activation of Shirou's foresight magic eye also depended on how familiar he was with the target.
If he wanted to precisely locate a person, unless it was someone he was particularly familiar with and had a lot of contact with, it would probably be difficult to make a quick judgment.
Shirou's interaction with Giles had only been a few days in total, which was not enough for him to quickly locate Giles's position.
But Shirou quickly realized that he didn't have to worry about where Giles was.
Because when he used his foresight magic eye to observe the great forest, he found that a corner of the entire great forest was already shrouded in a raging fire.
Judging from the location, it was undoubtedly the beast settlement!
"Using us to hold back the main force of the beast troop, and then attacking the beast troop's homeland himself! Well done, Giles!"
Shirou showed a serious expression and completely understood Giles's plan.
Therefore, he didn't have any more thoughts and was about to rush in the direction of the fire in his foresight magic eye. As a result, he found that the white dog, that sacred beast, had also followed.
"Wait! Don't go!"
When the beast man saw Shirou's actions, he was so anxious that he got up from the ground with difficulty.
He was obviously the strongest of the beast people present. After taking Shirou's Longsword of Light head-on, he was still able to take action.
"If you can still move, then follow me."
Shirou didn't interrupt the beast man's thoughts, and he was too lazy to explain more, only planning to let him see the truth with his own eyes.
So, Shirou started chasing with the beast man.
Shirou didn't slow down, rushing towards the beast settlement.
The beast man tried his best to keep up, and even seemed to be beyond his limit. He was completely holding on with a breath, so that he wasn't left far behind by Shirou.
Shirou admired him a little for this, but he still didn't slow down.
After all, if he was one step slower, the entire beast troop might be in extreme danger.
Finally, after running for an unknown amount of time, a huge rain forest appeared in front of Shirou, along with a raging fire that was almost burning through the entire forest.
"Wh-what is that? What happened?"
The beast man behind Shirou was shocked.
He was already exhausted from the overload of running. Now that he saw his homeland in flames, he was immediately frozen in his mind.
"Did you do it?! It's all your plan!"
In his anger, he directly pointed the finger at Shirou.
Shirou didn't think of denying it, just trying to find Giles and the others.
Just then, a young child with cat ears appeared in front of Shirou.
Perhaps because he had accidentally inhaled black smoke, the child was coughing and rubbing his eyes while staggering towards this side.
At this time, a tree whose branches and leaves were already covered in red flames was slowly falling down.
Although the cat-eared child noticed and looked up, he was stunned because it happened so suddenly.
"Dangerous!"
The beast man exclaimed, but was powerless to change the reality.
Shirou didn't say anything else, he just activated reinforcement magic to strengthen his legs at the first moment, and at the same time wrapped battle aura, and exploded with an exaggerated speed.
"Boom!"
Before the tree fell, Shirou successfully hugged the beast child and brought him out of the danger zone.
"Th-thank you..."
The beast child looked at Shirou and blinked in surprise.
"It's okay."
Shirou silently shook his head and let him go to the beast man's side.
This scene stunned the beast man directly.
Even if his brain was numb, he finally realized the situation, and understood that the human boy in front of him was not his enemy.
"Wh-why... Could it be that Giles lied to us!"
"That's right."
Seeing that the beast man finally understood the situation, Shirou said silently, "Giles must have taken the opportunity to attack the beast settlement while we were fighting. We have to find him quickly and kill him!"
"But, but such a big fire..."
"This is your homeland, don't you even have this bit of courage?"
"..."
Shirou's words finally restored the beast man's reason.
The latter took a deep breath and showed a firm, respectful, and grateful expression, looking at Shirou: "Sorry, it's my fault, I misunderstood you, I sincerely apologize to you, human warrior."
"Apologies are meaningless. What we have to do now is to kill the culprit Giles!"
"That's right, you're right!"
The beast man looked at the burning forest and had completely understood the situation, "I am the beast warrior leader, Choustalf. May I ask your name, benefactor."
"Shirou Greyrat."
"Thank you, Mr. Shirou, I apologize again for my previous impulsive behavior!"
The beast warrior leader Choustalf apologized to Shirou again, and this time he no longer showed hostility to Shirou, but looked coldly at the burning settlement.
At this time, many groups of smugglers with weapons, who were chasing and killing beast common people, had appeared in the eyes of the two.
Neither Shirou nor Choustalf could restrain their killing intent!
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