Nidhogg was stunned by this, then turned to the skeleton knight as if nothing had happened and said, "There shouldn't be any more invasions tonight, but just in case, let's set up camp somewhere else to rest."
The skeleton knight's ghostly eyes also looked at Nidhogg, ignoring the flying Puck, and replied:
"Alright. We'll set out again tomorrow morning. The 'west side of the old and new capitals' mentioned in the Book of Revelation is too vague. If it's west, regardless of the distance from each other, it's considered west. So we'll still need to search for a while."
"Hmm."
Nidhogg replied, ignoring Puck's antics—hopping left and right before him, waving his arms to get attention.
"The Hawk Company must be hiding somewhere. But as long as Griffith is in Windham City, they will eventually head there."
The skeleton knight also nodded and said, "There will always be a sign in advance. The Apostles will rush in from all directions. It's impossible to make no sound at all. Let's go and search."
So Nidhogg and the skeleton knight turned their horses and were about to ride forward.
At that moment, Puck finally couldn't contain himself. He flew over, and his entire body lunged, sticking to Nidhogg's face. His little head pressed against the tip of Nidhogg's nose, and he said to Nidhogg, word by word:
"I, know, you, can, see, me!"
Nidhogg simply peeled Puck off his face and placed him on Torrent's head, like tearing apart a piece of candy.
Torrent shook his head, feeling uncomfortable. Puck quickly turned and grabbed one of Torrent's horns to keep from being shaken off.
"What do you want?" Nidhogg asked with a smile.
"Didn't I tell you? I want to invite you to join the Fairy Dimension Stream!"
Puck said this, reached out and stroked Torrent's horns, then sat down on his fluffy mane and sighed. "From now on, this will be the throne of Lord Puck."
Nidhogg smiled. "We're not joining the goblin dimension stream. And you'd better leave now. If you follow us, you'll keep encountering monsters like just now, and you'll face even more terrible disasters."
Puck's goblin scale powder was certainly useful, but the place he was heading on this journey was fixed. Nidhogg didn't want an unprepared and unaware Puck to interfere.
"Disaster?" Puck simply lay down on Torrent's mane, put his hands behind his head, looked at Nidhogg, and said, "I really want to see it."
"By the way, it's fine if you don't join the Fairy Dimension Stream. At least tell me who you are, okay?"
"One is clearly a skeleton, but has a fairy aura on his body. The other is even stranger. I've never heard of the aura he emits. What kind of strange combination are you two?"
Before Nidhogg could say anything, the skeleton knight beside him, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.
"He is a Wind Fairy, also known as a Sylph. The Elemental Spirit of Wind is their ancestor." The skeleton knight was well-informed and said, "His scale powder heals wounds and could be useful after the Eclipse. Just don't let him on the battlefield."
Puck listened, rolled over, lay on his stomach on the mane, cupped his cheeks in his hands, swung his little legs, looked at the skeleton knight, and asked, "I'm a Wind Fairy? A Sylph? And the Eclipse—what's that?"
The skeleton knight hadn't expected there to be a goblin who didn't know his own origins or race.
He knew how unreliable Puck was, and couldn't help but regret his suggestion just now.
"Wind Fairies and Sylphs are your race." Nidhogg replaced the skeleton knight, who had fallen silent again, and explained. "You don't know anything? So you just flew out alone? Didn't your companions tell you any of this?"
Puck suddenly nodded, then hopped up a little angrily, put his hands on his hips, and said, "Everyone has things they know and things they don't know. I have things I know that you don't."
Nidhogg asked curiously, "What's that?"
"It's about Griffith and the Hawk Company you were just talking about. Griffith is no longer in Windham City. Your information is outdated."
As soon as Puck spoke, it immediately drew the attention of Nidhogg and the skeleton knight. They exchanged suspicious glances.
The little goblin saw that they actually didn't know about this and couldn't help feeling a little triumphant.
"You don't know? The Kingdom of Midland is in an uproar now. I knew it—since I am Lord Puck, the Wind Fairy, all information reaches my ears on the wind."
In truth, this was Puck's boast. He had only learned about it yesterday by listening to the private conversations of the troupe members.
Nidhogg understood that this was important and immediately asked. But Puck made him call him "Lord Puck" before he would say anything, and did so with a mix of anger and amusement. Puck happily obliged.
"Almost a month ago, I heard that Guts, the shock troop captain of the Hawk Company, led a team to secretly infiltrate Windham City and rescue Griffith, their leader, who was imprisoned in the dungeon of the Tower of Rebirth."
"After that, the Hawk Company vanished. The King of Midland went mad. He dispatched 70% of all the kingdom's troops to hunt down Griffith and the Hawk Company. The whole kingdom is in turmoil now."
Hearing this, Nidhogg couldn't help but be stunned.
This deviated from the original course of events.
But it was also reasonable. Since Guts had returned earlier, the Hawk Company, with two pillars like Guts and Casca, had no reason to sit idly by and watch Griffith be imprisoned in the Tower of Rebirth.
Combined with an insider like Princess Charlotte, the rescue operation was extremely likely.
However, the Eclipse had not occurred. There was no vision that the whole world could see, and no Apostles were moving in hordes. This meant that the convergence of time had not yet arrived—that is, the moment of the Eclipse.
But that didn't mean the Eclipse was cancelled. It just meant the time hadn't come yet.
The "cause" had already occurred according to the God Hand's plan. They would not allow the prophecy of the Book of Revelation, the 216-year cycle, and the "fruit" of the Crimson Beherit to be undone.
So, since Griffith had been rescued a month ago, what was the current state of the Hawk Company?
Logically, they should take Griffith and leave the Kingdom of Midland as soon as possible, flee to other countries, and make other plans. Perhaps they were no longer in the Kingdom of Midland.
Nidhogg thought for a moment, calmly accepted the fact that this had happened, and asked, "Puck, do you know where the Hawk Company is now?"
And indeed, Puck said:
"I got it... I heard rumors on the western border of the Kingdom of Midland that the kingdom's army was fighting the Hawk Company. It seemed the Hawk Company had routed the kingdom's army and fled to a foreign country."
Then Puck's big eyes widened, and he added cunningly:
"I told you, you should let me come with you, right? You're looking for the Hawk Company, aren't you? No one knows how to find people better than me. I can sense the breath and emotions of a large group of people."
"And also, you have to tell me what the Eclipse is, oh, and call me Lord Puck, hmm, and you need to learn the Goblin Dimension Stream..."