Chapter 785

The trail left by Randall expedition through the forest is particularly obvious. This trace does not refer to the heavy claw prints of alchemical dragon lizards or the feces left by war dogs, but the impact of disturbing the environment.

Every forest maintains a balanced ecology, and the arrival of Randall expedition inevitably breaks the ecological balance of the forest. The forest birds fly, and the beasts retreat. Even if the expeditionary army leaves a forest, the predators in the forest dare not come back until the breath of the invaders dissipates. During this blank period, the number of herbivores in the forest will increase and attract stray beasts. When the original owner returns to the territory, he must use sharp teeth and claws to decide who is the king of the forest.

The monster's abnormal fighting howl is as eye-catching as a lighthouse in the night to an experienced tracker.

The actions of Randall expedition in the forest are like a giant beast swimming through a calm lake. Even if it does nothing, it will leave conspicuous ripples on the water surface.

In view of this, Victor avoided the ant Man March and chose to go from the primitive forest in the north to the ruins of the Assyrian Empire. Thanks to the strange walking stick of the oak barrel of the great adventurer brought by Bobo and Tiantian, otherwise the Randall expedition could only trek in the forest near the march at the risk of being found by the ant man.

Through the forest outside Silver Eagle City, Victor considered that the elves would send scouts to track Randall's expedition. However, the thread of fate has been wrapped around him, and it is meaningless to escape contact with the elves. Victor doesn't really care about the tracking measures that Silver Eagle City may take.

After all, the elves can communicate, and the ant man is his mortal enemy.

In recent months, Victor learned elf language from the halfling brothers and had a clearer understanding of the Silver Eagle City through communication with them, including the war duty inheritance system and life level system of the elf empire.

During his investigation of the undead creatures in the black forest, he found the Scouts of Silver Eagle City 120 kilometers behind. They have 15 people in total, 10 war beasts, including 5 wild elves and dancers, 3 tree elves popular shooters, 4 dwarf ridge guards, 1 dwarf prophet, and 1 halfling adventurer.

The Dwarf Warrior took eight bighorn sheep as mounts and camels. The halfling adventurer's animal partners were two ferocious black wolves. Elves soldiers are walking. Victor knows one of them. She is a wild Elf Female rescued by Victor in the wild bee valley. Now she has become a third-order war dancer with war patterns on her cheeks.

With the strength of this team, they are unlikely to catch up from Silver Eagle City to near the desperate forest. The orc lords along the way dare not provoke lanvictor, but they will not be soft hearted to the small elves. They were well dressed and had few traces of battle. Victor thought there was at least one real strong man among them. She is mostly a good friend of Bobo and Tian Tian, the general of Silver Eagle City, the fifth order wild elf and dancer - ELUS Moon Song.

According to Victor's understanding, the bottian brothers and Ilus Yuege is a group. At least Bobo and Tiantian go to the azolta temple to find the holy thing of the elves, Ilus Yuege is the insider.

At first, Victor sensed that ELUS had the strength of the golden class in the wild bee valley Yuege, she can now avoid Victor before he finds his companion. With this keen intuition, she can lead her men safely through the territory of forest monsters.

Iris Yuege should not plunge into the dangerous forest of despair. Victor asked the halfling brother to leave the elves to express his goodwill to the general of silver moon city. But as a human noble, Victor was not kind to the elves.

The alchemy tower Rune crystal desired by the alchemy ant queen is on victor. His initial idea was to use the rune crystal of alchemy tower 7 to absorb and control the Queen's crystal. At worst, he could use himself as a bait to attract the attention of the ant Legion and help the human coalition obtain the initiative on the battlefield.

When the news of the abyss devil came back to the man horse hill, it was unknown whether Sylvia could organize a powerful mobile Legion. Then, if necessary, Victor can only hide in the sphere of influence of Silver Eagle City, drag the elves into the water and force them to send troops to destroy the main force of ant people.

Victor won't be ashamed of it. He helps eluse Yuege is actually helping himself. The problem with Randall's expeditionary army is that there is no backup, and the strength of the wild elf generals is enough to protect themselves. They are qualified to become Victor's backup without involving the energy of the expeditionary army.

If there is no fundamental contradiction between the two sides, Victor can exchange the holy things of the elves for ELUS Yuege's cooperation.

He doesn't want to touch that thing at all.

The emergence of the desperate Lord made Victor feel the pressure, because the undead creatures were fearless and would take the initiative to attack the passing creatures. If azolta experienced the accident 1500 years ago, it would become the nest of undead creatures. The good days of easy "travel" for the Randall expedition should come to an end.

Frequent fighting will compress the activity space of explorers and even cause casualties. Whether it's Randall's expedition or Ilus Moon Song's scouts were unable to safely explore the ruins of the Assyrian Empire.

If the genie general is smart enough, she will soon join Randall's expedition with her men.

Of course, Victor would not take the initiative to come to the door. They had to ask Randall's expeditionary army for protection.

For the purpose of caution, Victor asked the team to maintain sufficient material reserves. The transformation of Randall expeditionary army became slow. It had to stop for ten days every half a month to investigate the environment and see if there were undead creatures nearby. He also had to collect resources and set up hidden supply points to prepare for the next rainy and snowy season.

The situation in azolta is not clear. If there are powerful undead creatures there, the Randall expedition must prepare for the worst. Once a high-intensity confrontation breaks out, these hidden material supply points will be the key to the survival of the expeditionary army.

In February of the water season, the expeditionary force made a detour of more than 3000 kilometers from the periphery of the desperate forest, and the mountains, forests and highlands pointed by the pathfinding stick were clearly visible.

Klaus, commander of the right-wing scouts, sat on the ground with his legs crossed, shoulder to shoulder with Molina, a maid with a sword, and his back against a towering tree embraced by five people. He dictated his adventure diary, which was written on parchment by Chong Ji.

"It has been almost a year since the expeditionary army started. Except for a fight with the half dragon people in the Everglades, we have hardly encountered a decent battle, nor have we been reduced. This is a miracle. It is a miracle brought to us by my master, his highness Randall."

"The primeval forest is full of dangers. There are powerful monsters, ferocious beasts, sinister poisonous snakes and terrible undead creatures, but the most terrible thing is the boundless darkness. It erodes people's mind and will all the time, and makes people lose in the dreamland bit by bit. Finally, it is swallowed by the darkness and becomes a part of the endless forest."

"Yes, the endless forest has a will. Its vastness and shadow will assimilate any intruder. Even if a senior Knight like me can't find a direction, he will either die of loss, hunger, or be mutilated by monsters and beasts; or adapt to the will of the forest, forget his faith as a rider, lose his family's glory, deviate from the glorious road, and become a humanoid beast in the forest What's the difference between this and death? "

"People's perception of the forest will gradually form a terrible impression in their hearts, 'where am I?'," am I lost? '"this place is still safe. I don't know what danger lies ahead. Just stay here?' these thoughts in my mind are negating myself... Fortunately, the noble master led me and my companions to conquer the terrible forest in my heart."

"It's very important that ferocious soldiers and dogs can predict the danger, but what is the danger? Can we take the initiative to attack, defend in place, or retreat back to remove the danger? Ferocious soldiers and dogs can't answer the most critical question. If we choose the wrong way to deal with it, the result may be fatal."

"Always discovering the enemy in advance is the advantage condition for victory, and intelligent decision is the key to victory. What we see in the forest are trees, humus, birds, animals and insects, while the master sees the traces of changes in time and space, and the light of his wisdom illuminates the whole black forest."

"The expeditionary army moved from the edge of the forest of despair. Because powerful monsters or beasts fear the undead creatures in the forest of despair, the edge of the forest of despair is very safe. We don't know where the edge of the forest of despair is, but the owner knows. The forest with the same trees is a clear area in the eyes of the owner, and he can accurately calculate the rule of the undead creatures The scope, if someone else had to explore and test to determine the route. It was precisely because of the master's extraordinary wisdom that the expeditionary army created the miracle of trekking tens of thousands of kilometers in six months without casualties. "

"The halfling adventurers Bobo and Tian Tian Call Master Randall a ninth order demigod. I don't think they exaggerate..."

Footsteps rustled in the woods. Klaus stopped dictating and turned to see Rogers's majestic figure. Wearing a full set of leather armor and carrying a small pocket, he came up and said, "Klaus, are you writing a diary again? What's the use of writing this thing? With this time, it's better to practice the concept taught by the master or Randall's combat breathing."

Another harvest of the black forest March is the deep friendship of their companions. Rogers and Klaus, who were born in the mountains, were originally people from two worlds, but now they are like brothers.

Klaus sat on the ground, raised his head and said with a smile, "in the future, I will revise my diary into a biography, which is a valuable wealth for future generations. If my biography can improve the family's heritage and be included on the shelf of the secret library by the Lord, it will be the glory of Klaus Randall knight."

Rogers shook his head. He couldn't understand what the knight brothers thought. He threw his small pocket to each other, sat down on the ground and said, "well, this is the treasure I'm going to give to my master. When he rewards me, I'll give you half."

Klaus opened his pocket, took out a handful of green amber from inside and said in surprise, "so many green amber should be worth a lot of money?"

"When Uncle hammer and I smuggled mountain goods, green amber of this grade wanted to sell this number." Rogers stretched out three fingers and said proudly.

"30 gold sols?"

"Ha ha, it's 300 gold sols. There are 76 gold sols, worth 22800 gold sols."

Klaus was startled by the price of green amber. He quickly put all the amber in his hand back into the bag, scratched his head, hesitated and said, "the master asked us to only collect food, herbs and useful resources and don't do superfluous things. I'm afraid the master will be unhappy if you offer amber."

Rogers grinned and whispered: "I took people to hunt wild boars and forest deer nearby. Just after catching four wild boars, Mrs. Dili ran over and asked us to pick up treasure in the forest... It's amber. We searched under the leaves for a long time and found hundreds of purple amber I've never seen before. I took it all to Mrs. Dili. I picked up some green amber she didn't want and planned to give it to her master."

He paused and gave Klaus a vague look. Klaus was helpless, so he had to let his maid with a sword avoid first. When Molina went away, he heard Rogers say in a lower voice, "Mrs. Dili has taken away all the purple amber. Go and persuade her that the purple amber should be given to her master. Anyway, I won't hide the treasure. It's against the rules."

Mountain people's camps are divided into public property and private property. The prey captured by mountain people's hunters should be distributed to the leader, who will give priority to the most plump part of the prey to the hunters. Since Rogers joined Randall's smuggling caravan, he has always adhered to the mountain people's rules, which has been highly praised by the caravan leader. The simple mountain people's youth has followed this set of rules as the standard, and he is worried that Dili will hide it privately Amber fell out of favor in front of her master, so she asked her best brother Klaus to persuade Dili to change her mind.

Klaus is younger than Rogers, but he knows more about the world than him. He said with a smile and cry: "we can't talk about the relationship between the master and the four ladies. Even if Mrs. dilly is protecting the right-wing scouts all the way, we can't get involved in the Court Affairs of the count."

"Court Affairs?"

"Oh, it's the interior of the Lord's house." Klaus patted his forehead and told him, "you should remember that Mrs. Sylvia is the mistress and nothing else... If you don't listen to me, you will die ugly."

Rogers nodded and said, "OK, brother, I'll listen to you. By the way, when we dug amber, we found the remains of a spotted tiger, which had been dead for two months. I found a feather nearby. Look..."

Then he pulled out a long gray feather from behind, which was as long as an adult's arm.

Klaus took the feather, looked at it carefully for a moment, raised his head, looked at it solemnly and said, "this is... The feather on the wings of the serpentine vulture."

Serpentine vultures, a kind of widely distributed scavenging raptors, are named for dragging a serpentine tail behind them. Due to their heavy body, serpentine vultures are not good at flying. They rely on an amazing number to compete for food from the mouth of beasts, and they also spit out extremely smelly acid. If predators don't want to stick to the odor of serpentine vultures, they'd better give their prey to serpentine vulture robbers.

Rogers knew the snake tail vulture better than Klaus. He nodded and said, "I think it's also the feather of the snake tail vulture... With such a long feather, the snake tail vulture may fall to the ground as high as me."

Among the core members of Randall family, Rogers is second only to Caligula in size. He is a fierce soldier with a height of more than 2 meters.

According to the common sense of monster science, the size of birds will not be too large. The snake tail vulture is already the largest bird known to mankind. The average height standing on the ground is about 1.6 meters. If they are larger, they can't fly at all.

The feather Rogers brought back was very abnormal. Klaus thought carefully, stood up and said seriously, "you go and call all the scouts back. I'll find Mrs. dilly, and then go to the place where you found the feather."

Commander Klaus gave an order, and right-wing scouts, including dragon maid Dili, poured out. They were divided into seven teams to cover the suspicious forest land alternately.

In the water season, in February, the sky was covered with dark clouds, and even if the woods were sparse, the light was dim. As in the evening, the pale cold fog floated in the woods, adding a trace of gloom and terror. The scouts did not light a torch, and their boots made a creaking sound on the rotten branches and leaves. Klaus saw the remains of the spotted tiger mentioned by Rogers and made a gesture back to disperse the scouts Alert, he and rogers took four blood militia to inspect the wreckage, but found no more clues.

"Do you feel dangerous?" Klaus asked, turning his head, holding the long, unsheathed gold sword.

Rogers glanced at the fierce war dog sniffing everywhere, shook his head and said, "there is no danger... There are no living creatures nearby except insects."

Klaus listened and turned his inquiring eyes to Dili not far away. He saw that the other party shrugged her shoulders to show that she didn't feel the danger.

"Let's try an alienated mouse. Everyone step back."

Klaus waved his hand. A monkey militia pulled a stray mouse the size of a wild cat from the cage and whistled it to the woods to look for food.

The hungry alienation mouse jumped under the dead leaves to catch insects. Its arched leaves swam on the ground and ran a distance of 100 meters in a moment.

Suddenly, a large piece of thick rotten leaves protruded. A two meter high strange bird flapped its wings and drilled out of the ground. Its wingspan was more than 6 meters. It had a hairless neck and a snake like tail. It was a snake tailed vulture magnified three times. However, it flashed a white flame in its eyes, opened its dark beak and gave a harsh cry.

The dissimilated mouse, which was fleeing under the leaves, stopped at once when it heard the song of the strange bird.

"It's an undead!"

Klaus did not hesitate to launch a charge and sprint. The whole man was like an arrow off the string and shot at the giant serpentine vulture that had left the ground like thunder.

But someone moved faster than the senior knight. A slim figure flashed in front of Klaus. Ms. Dili had appeared in front of the undead. The huge moon axe blade shed three streamers, cut off the wings and claws of the strange bird, and sprayed black blood from the wound. Before the terrible strange bird could make a second cry, Dili had caught its beak and pressed its head under the fallen leaves.

Dili, the Dragon maid, changed her posture, stepped on the head of the undead with long boots and said happily, "bring a thick cloth and tie its eyes... The king will be interested in it."