Magic Apprentice

Chapter 43: reconnaissance

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After pouring some water on the fire and extinguishing the bonfire, Enleco flicked his fingers, and the soil automatically split to both sides, burying all the remaining bones of Gange into the soil, and Enleco tightened his grip again. The wristband tightly tied to his left wrist was made by him under the guidance of Most. In a sense, it was an artifact that only he could use. Compared with the original cloth scarf, , much more useful. Not only can it store a large amount of magic energy, but when storing magic power, you no longer need to do it as before. It has to be done at a special time, in a special magic circle, and through a special meditation method. Now you only need to concentrate. Mental power can gather magic power. This method can be said to have completely solved Enleco's innate deficiency of being unable to condense magic power. Now Enleco is no different from an ordinary magician. It's just that the time it takes to gather magic power is shorter than relying on magic. The spell is much longer to use magic through special meditation, so Enleco is still used to storing enough magic power in advance to prepare for emergencies. However, his mental power is extremely strong anyway, and he does not feel tired at all.

After breakfast, Enleco walked up a nearby high slope as usual. On the one hand, he needed to clarify the direction of travel, and on the other hand, he also needed to use his unique reconnaissance method.

Through the magical emerald in his arms, Enleco had a panoramic view of everything around him, the slowly stretching green grass, the insects crawling quietly on the grass stalks, and the field mice that had not yet woken up. , freedom in heaven! A flying bird... nothing alive can escape the search of Enleco's mind's eye.

As usual, except for the strange life fluctuations of the evil mage Trode, there was nothing else worthy of Enleco's attention. To be honest, Enleco has always been very strange about Trode's life fluctuations. Ordinary people can only have one kind of life fluctuation, but Trode's body is exuding strange and completely different fluctuations, as if this guy is a messy biological combination made up of seventeen or eight completely different creatures. This is What made Enleco feel the strangest.

However, whenever Enleco wanted to take a closer look at this weird evil mage, the guy would definitely suddenly become aware.

Another thing that made Enleco feel extremely strange was that he had never seen Trode eat. This guy never seemed to eat or drink water. Although he still needed to sleep, he had very little sleep time. , it was only a short hour after dawn and before early morning, but he never seemed tired, which was not clear why. Enleco watched Trode sitting there from a distance, mumbling something in his mouth, and drawing circles on the ground with his right hand. Enleco knew that Trode had his own way of reconnaissance. His magic was extensive and profound, and there were many aspects that he could not fully understand. But Enleco knew at least one thing. It would take Trode at least half an hour to complete his reconnaissance work.

Enleco led his horse and wandered around, looking for fertile grass so that the horse could also enjoy a hearty breakfast. Enleco rode a horse instead of using flying skills to search for traces of the thieves in the air. This really made other Those magicians felt extremely strange, but when they heard that the evil mage Trode also said that he did not plan to search from the air, they were not only surprised.

In fact, the reason is extremely simple. Enleco guessed that Trode also chose this more laborious reconnaissance method for the same purpose, because although the reconnaissance magic they are good at is extremely accurate, its range is limited after all. Enleco It is not clear how far the magic used by Trode can spy, but he at least knows that the range he can detect is definitely not as far away as the distance that the eyes can see. If he has Joe or Milinda's subordinate, If he had the sharp eyesight of the monkey knight, he might be able to use aerial reconnaissance, but unfortunately he does not have this ability, not to mention that there might be someone with such ability in the Blood Fox Thieves Group. This does not mean to tell him that there is The magician scouts from the air. According to the results of the reconnaissance conducted by the magicians of the Magic Association some time ago, the opponent must have the means to deal with the eyes from the sky, such as wonderful camouflage techniques, special psychedelic magic circles, or simply hiding in the jungle in time. .

There are so many places to hide in the densely planted Strayer County.

Of course for Enleco and the others. He also has many concealment methods. In Joe's mercenary training camp in the Sophie Kingdom, Joe taught Enleco many concealment methods. Of course, he also taught Enleco how to follow various clues to find specific targets. The goal. Therefore, Enleco is definitely an expert in camouflage and reconnaissance techniques, and the Blood Fox Thieves Group is a big target anyway. It is absolutely impossible to completely hide the traces. Enleco is absolutely confident about this. So far, they have not found any traces. This does not mean how clever the thieves are in hiding, but they are always on the move. Whenever Enleco and the others find the "footprints" of these guys, they have already wandered far away. .

Enleco looked at Trode who was sitting in the distance. With nothing to do, he suddenly missed his companions who stayed in Chengdaville City. I wonder how Bertina is doing these days? She, who is responsible for organizing and coordinating the rescue work in Strayer County, is busier than usual. She has replaced her father to coordinate all aspects, and has been promoted to Milinda's adjutant. Is Kaz, who is responsible for raising supplies and combat equipment, now being replaced by that person? The charming young lady was so dominated that she was dizzy. As the spokesperson of the society, what happened to Xiaoyun, who was entrusted by herself to maintain the affairs of the mercenary training camp Rui before she left

Enleco had no way of knowing all of this. In fact, because of Milinda's plea, he served as a scout to detect the whereabouts of the thieves group, which was beyond Enleco's own expectations. Although, in retrospect, this was indeed The wisest decision, but it really shocked me at the time, but looking back and thinking about it, instead of putting two powerful magicians like myself and Trode in the city to guard the city, it would be better to let myself Free movement to find the enemy. Compared with Kaoqi's cavalry regiment, the two-man magician team composed of himself and Trode is more threatening. Although he has never encountered the Blood Fox Thieves Group during this period, However, some scattered thieves groups have encountered a few. With the cooperation of himself and Trode, these thieves groups have no chance of escaping. This makes Enleco more confident.

As the contact with Trode deepens, Enleco feels more and more powerful. This evil mage is proficient in many strange magics. These magics are not limited to necromancy magic, spiritual magic, and some low-level dark magic. He also dabbled in some magic, and even some magic Enleco couldn't tell which series of special abilities it belonged to.

Enleco didn't know that he was also an extremely strange figure to Trode, and his strength was also a mystery in the eyes of the evil mage. Trode also didn't know where Enleco learned all kinds of strange magic. Although he could see that the source of Enleco's magic came from the wrist guard on his wrist, but the ability to use magic It should not be given by any kind of artifact. This should be the ability of the little Sophien magician in front of me. What's more, when he saw Enleco actually using the necromancy magic he taught to fight, the shock was unprecedented. Trode never thought that the simplest skeleton summoning magic could be so powerful. With such power, those skeleton warriors whose bodies are burning with the flames of hell, shooting balls of flames at the enemy, or wielding five or six meter long flaming sickles to cut people in half, are simply extremely terrifying killing machines. For such a murderous battle formation, Trode himself was unwilling to confront it head-on.

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What's more, as a master of necromancy magic, Trode himself has never heard of such powerful necromancy magic. From this point of view, this is an improvement and innovation made by this little magician on the basis of what he taught. special magic. Being able to improve a kind of magic at will, and it is the most elementary magic, which in itself proves the super strength of this little magician.

As they get along for longer, Trode and Enleco's understanding of each other deepens. Now the two are a bit like a pair of friends who talk about everything, rather than two powerful enemies in a hostile position. Magician.

Seeing Trode recovering from meditation, Enleco led the horse forward. When passing Trode, Enleco never rode a horse because he always thought that riding high on a horse would look right. Trode was not respectful enough, and Trode also limped on the grass with two wooden legs.

"By the way, Mr. Trode, why do you never have to eat, drink, or even have so little time to sleep?" Enleco finally asked the question that had been confusing him.

"I can directly absorb the life energy I need from the living bodies around me. This method is much more efficient than eating. As for the substances needed to maintain life, most of them are taken from those corpses and directly used Their cells replenish the parts of my body that I constantly consume, but as a necromancer, my body’s mechanism is somewhat similar to that of a zombie, so the materials I need to consume are quite scarce, and I replenish them almost every three months.”

Enleco did feel a little disgusted when he heard Trode's explanation. He was not a guy who was good at hiding his emotions, so Trode clearly read what Enleco was thinking from his expression.

Just listen to him continue: "Actually, you just need to think about it, those delicacies you like are also corpses, and those corpses have to go through various processes, roasted with fire and boiled in water, and then dismembered piece by piece by you. After eating it, all this is just to achieve what I did with my method, you should be able to understand."

"I think there is a difference." Enleco felt a little uncomfortable when he thought about Ge's stomach-churning words after breakfast. He said: "At least after food is digested, it is actually transformed into food in our body. Part of it, your absorption method should not be able to completely turn those substances into your own, otherwise, your body..."

"Are you talking about my terrifying appearance? In fact, it is very simple to be good-looking. Necromantic magic can absorb the cells of corpses and use them to repair my body. Of course, I can also add two more legs and change my face. , but what’s the point of this? For the necromancer, this is just a pure increase in material consumption, not to mention dealing with corpses all day long, why do you want to look so good?" Speaking of Trode's picture here The extremely ugly and terrifying face flashed twice. Only people like Enleco, who have been with him for a while and are more familiar with him, can understand that for Trode, that unusually hideous expression is called sadness. . Enleco secretly guessed what kind of person Trode would have been.

"By the way, look at Miss Milinda's arrangement, how successful is it in defeating Gorslow? After all, the opponent may be a paladin with the same strength as Duke Haguero." Enleco quickly switched to a topic.

"I'm not worried about that young lady. You don't know that that young lady is also a person who is as powerful as my employer, Mr. Hegeello, and is also a Paladin." Trode said.

"What?" Enleco shouted, he couldn't believe his ears.

"You haven't thought about it, but this young lady is secretive and clever." Trode explained: "Actually, you have heard of her reputation. She is the only one among the last three heroes who is not known to others. Zhi, the mysterious hidden sword Saint Mida. Zhi.

Only some people around her knew about this matter. You don’t know, many of the knights around her were her former colleagues.

Senior brothers, have been following her since a long time ago. "

"At the beginning, this lady transformed into Mida with the help of her brother and Hegeello, and became a disciple of the old swordsman Valon. She was also a disciple of Gorslow and Mr. Hegeero. The best among the rising generation. At that time, the Ying Swordsman's Moonlight Sword, the Shadow Swordsman's Sky Shadow Sword, and the Hidden Swordsman's Secret Sword of Seven Kills challenged countless swordsman masters without ever losing. Someone once said that these three

People have no rivals except among themselves. However, Gorslo suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from Vedsk. A few years later, when he reappeared in the Kingdom of Kaoqi, he had become the leader of the Shadow Thieves. Precisely because of the exposure of his identity, his identity was also somewhat confusing. The unknown Hidden Swordsman was also suspected. At that time, she had just obtained the qualification of Sword Master and was the youngest Sword Master in the history of the Kaoqi Kingdom. However, because of this, her identity was also revealed, and the title of Sword Master was revealed. Of course it had to be cancelled, but many people still knew that she was once a sword master. Those knights who were defeated by her, or who had always regarded her as a learning target, can imagine the disappointment in their hearts. You know, many of them look like that, so this lady actually has her own small army of knights. Don't underestimate those knights, they were originally the elites of the Kaoqi Knights. "

"So, what kind of person is Gorslow, who is likely to be the enemy we face this time?" Enleco asked.

"Gorslo? That is indeed a very strange guy. His skills and talents are definitely not inferior to Mr. Haguero, but the two people have never officially fought against each other. In fact, there was a time when Haguero My husband regarded Gorselow as his subject of study. You must have seen his paintings. Are they quite skillful? At that time, he was influenced by Gorselow and specially studied under the famous painter. Slow himself was an artistic genius, and his sculptures even reached a level that even his teachers could feel inferior to. At that time, his reputation in Vedsk was far higher than Mr. Haguero and Miss Milinda. That’s because of his sculptural talent. However, his works are extremely rare, but I heard from Haggero’s chat that Gorslow claimed that he had recently produced a masterpiece that reflected the highest achievement of his life.”

"Isn't Gorthro the leader of the Shadow Thieves? He still has contact with the Duke?"

"It's hard to say. Before this, the Shadow Thieves had never been openly enemies of Kaoqi. Different from other thieves, the Shadow Thieves have their own way of making money, so they don't rely entirely on robbery. Sometimes they even work as bodyguards."

"So why did they attack Strayer County this time?" Enleco asked

"The reason for this is not something we can understand. What's more, we still don't know whether Gorslow really intervened in this matter. Those are all our own speculations. Maybe there really is a blood fox. There may be military geniuses, or it may be that other countries are secretly manipulating the Blood Fox Thieves Group. Among them, the Leding Kingdom is the most suspected. That place is rich in resourceful military strategists. After a hundred years of peace, if the smart brains are dedicated to another less bloody struggle, the first powerful country may not have Kaoqi's turn at all, but even so, the Kingdom of Leiding still cannot be underestimated. It is a country that is good at creating miracles and is also good at making strong men fall off their horses suddenly. Neither His Majesty the Emperor nor Mr. Haguero are willing to take the initiative to provoke this country with indescribable variables."

"So, you originally planned to target Sophie?" Enleco said cautiously.

"Maybe that's because Sophie is too orthodox," Trode said.

"Too orthodox?" Enleco asked in confusion.

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"The Kingdom of Sophie has always maintained the same pattern as it was hundreds of years ago. Everything in your country continues to operate in a fixed way. Therefore, Sophie has a powerful cavalry regiment and many magicians, but The land has never been expanded. In the eyes of the Kaoqi people, Sophie is an aging country that lacks vitality. However, this country has a magical civilization that makes all countries salivate. Therefore, not only Kaoqi, but also the Kingdom of Leiding and The Montita Kingdom reached out to the Sophie Kingdom. Leiding set up a wide-ranging intelligence network in Sophie. It cost them a lot to operate this intelligence network. The Montita Kingdom simply dispatched the original princess. ──The current Montitas Cilia went to Sophie to study as a teaching assistant. During her time in Sophie, she bribed many magicians and learned many skills. After returning to her country, she was awarded the title of Grand Magician The title of knight.

Sophie's generosity certainly made Kaoqi very interested. "

"Then will it happen now..." Enleco asked more cautiously, "Probably not. At least Mr. Haguero doesn't have this idea, because your arrival this time has changed many people's views on Sophie. , first of all, Mr. Qiao, he was originally the target of Mr. Haguero's attention. This is a character who does not act according to Sophie's tradition, but originally we thought he was just a unique outlier among Sophie, but we did not expect that you You and your companions have proved that all countries, including Kaoqi, have insufficient understanding of the Kingdom of Sophie. Sophie is not just a tradition, she also has many strange people, but these have special talents. Most people are unwilling to pay attention to those secular affairs that are not interesting to them. Your two teachers are such people. We originally knew that the intelligence center of the Leiding Kingdom was located in your hometown. Originally, we wondered why it was not like in Ca'ao. It was strange that it was located in the capital, but it was placed in such a remote place. It wasn't until you showed up that we realized that the intelligence center was probably located there to facilitate monitoring of your teacher. Your teacher is a bit puzzling. But he must be as secretive an expert as Mr. Qiao. As for your other teacher, we have already known her interesting behavior. Sophie has so many hidden characters, it is just because of you As for the masters who have surfaced, we don’t know how many truly hidden strangers there are. Perhaps this is the special way of survival in the Kingdom of Sophie.”

Enleco never expected that Duke Haguero and the others would investigate him so carefully. At the same time, he did not expect that they would so overestimate his shameless teacher Victor who was just waiting to die. Just think about it. It’s funny. Uncle Todd’s hotel existed before the teacher came to his hometown. It can even be said that the hotel is one of the earliest buildings in his hometown. The reason why the Kingdom of Leiding set up an intelligence center there is probably because it is a transportation hub. The flow of people leading to the three major areas of Sophien all pass through there. Unexpectedly, the Kaoqi people would blame Teacher Victor for everything because of themselves.

"Why, you told me so much, aren't you from the Duke's side?" Enleco asked, "Mr. Haguero is my employer, that's all. He can ask me to get rid of you, but he You can't stop me from saying something to you, not to mention that there is another person asking me to give you some guidance when you are not yet mature enough."

"Another person? Can you tell me who it is?"

"The High Priest Meron" Trode said

"Mr. Meron? This is incredible!" Enleco exclaimed in surprise.

"If you knew that I was once Meron's only disciple, you wouldn't find it incredible," Trode said calmly.

"Disciple of Archpriest Meron, then you should be a divine warrior, how...how..." Enleco was so surprised that he was speechless.

"That's another story, a story I plan to take to the grave." Trode glanced at the ugly face again. But this time Enleco didn't feel terrifying. He seemed to be able to truly feel Trode's sadness.

"Let's check separately. As usual, if you find anything, don't act blindly. Send a signal first." Trode said, then it turned into a puff of smoke and went into the ground, disappearing in a flash.

Enleco was left alone to reflect on what Trode had just said. Suddenly, he felt confused about what real life was. For Milinda, she chose a path that was not suitable for her. In the end, she had to return to her origin, and at this time, she had even lost her origin, and Hagrid had always been living in an ancient curse that he could not get rid of, and it was destined that his ending would never be the same. Beautiful, and what path did Gorsloo choose

And what made the evil mage Trode give up his original identity and become a necromancer

Will he, Kate, Bertina, even Xiaoyun, Kaz and others take the same path? Thinking of this, Enleco fell into deep confusion. Little did he know that he had gradually reached a steep slope and cliff.

A sudden burst of horse neighing brought Enleco's mind back. Enleco looked at everything in front of him in astonishment. A cliff was right in front of him. In front of him was a deep trench a hundred feet deep. At a glance, Can't even see the bottom. This deep trench is about three or four miles long and more than ten feet wide. It suddenly appears on the flat wilderness and is hard to guard against. Enleco guessed that he does not know how many lives have been swallowed up by this terrible deep trench. If Either his mount was a well-tamed old horse, or he would become a pile of bones buried in the abyss. Thinking of this, Enleco couldn't help but feel a little scared. He slowly slid off the horse and led the horse carefully to walk on the edge of the cliff, intending to go around this wide cliff.

When Enleco walked to the end of the cliff and was about to go around it, suddenly he felt a strange fluctuation and a faint magical energy. Enleco was extremely curious about this. Is there any magic weapon or extremely rare magical creature hidden in this deep trench? This kind of thing often happens in some legends. Take the magical bow owned by Duke Hagriro. The legendary bow was the one after the legendary hero defeated an evil dragon in a cave. What was obtained, although Enleco knew clearly from that notebook, was that the heroic ancestor of Haguero dug out an ancient magical civilization ruins under the cellar when expanding his ancestral mansion, although there were indeed There is a dragon head, but that is just the skeleton of a giant dragon. Tens of thousands of years have turned this long-lived king of monsters into a pile of withered bones, and the divine bow is embedded in the dragon's skull.

Legends are always divorced from reality, but Enleco was not sure that there were no dangerous monsters inside, so he climbed down the cliff carefully. Enleco clung to the edge of the cliff and turned his head to look down. He was shocked. He quickly grabbed the rocks along the edge to prevent himself from falling. Once he fell, he would definitely die. This was not because of the cliff. How deep it is, but because the bottom is covered with sharp wooden stakes. Once you fall, your body will definitely be pierced. This cliff is simply a very cleverly arranged trap. The bottomless scene is simply a kind of A carefully arranged illusion, an effective large-scale illusion. Enleco never thought that illusion could have such a use. Now that he knew that the magic fluctuation was caused by this illusion magic, Enleco no longer worried about being harmed. The World of Warcraft attacked, and he used his rational heart to scan around carefully, and after confirming that there was no intelligent life, Enleco was about to use the flying technique to see clearly, but suddenly, Enleco remembered the special The matter that Rhodes had taken care of, he floated back to the ground again.

Standing firmly on the ground, Enleco took out the pen he usually used to draw magic circles and drew magic circles on the ground. After all, Enleco relied on the wrist guard to gather magic power and could not use it as freely as an ordinary magician. Magic energy, ordinary magic that simply calls the four series of magic, Enleco no longer needs to rely on the help of the magic array, but some more complicated ones, without the magic array, Enleco really can't do it.

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After everything was prepared, Enleco began to concentrate his mental power and activated the magic circle to emit special mental fluctuations in all directions. This was the contact method he had discussed with Trode. No matter how far away they were, Trode could respond according to the mental fluctuations. The strength of the direction determines Enleco's location.

Sure enough, Enleco didn't wait long before a thick smoke rose from the soil. The smoke dissipated, and Trode's extremely ugly face was revealed.

"Have you discovered anything? Could it be this cliff? Yes, it's this cliff. It's a very clever illusion," Trode said casually.

After hearing Trode's words, Enleco had to admire that this evil mage was really smart and knew everything so well.

"You haven't gone down yet, have you?" Trode said, "How could I forget what you reminded me?" Enleco said, "Yes, that's true. Fortunately, you haven't gone down. Maybe there are other traps down there, or It's better to be careful. Although we don't have to worry about any accidents, there is no need to alert the snake, right, let me do my part next." At this point, Trode pointed to the ground with his incomplete index finger. Suddenly, a faint smoke appeared in the basket, and the smoke slowly gathered into a vaguely visible face and a pair of claws. If it weren't for the fact that the color of the smoke was light gray instead of thick black, Enleco would have thought it was Most. It's out.

"These are the demons I raised. I usually use them to collect intelligence and test materials. I originally made more than twenty demons like this, but when you were unconscious during the assassination, you absorbed them inexplicably. More than ten heads, you are really a strange guy." Trode waved his hand as he spoke, and the demon turned into a wisp of smoke and quickly drifted towards the fantasy, while Trode closed his eyes and stood there.

After a long time, Trod finally said: "This is the supply point that Milinda has been looking for. There should be many such supply points. Since we know that the opponent hides secrets, then all the secrets will be It won't be too difficult to find all the supply points. You seem to be particularly sensitive to magic fluctuations, so finding the same fluctuations shouldn't be a problem for you," Trode said.

Hearing what Trode said, Enleco nodded. Indeed, although it is not an easy task to find a specific target in such a wide piece of land, with the special mark of fixed mental fluctuations, I think It is not too difficult to find all other supply points.

"This illusion is extremely cleverly arranged. Is it Gorslow's handiwork? Or is there any magician who has such ability?" Enleco asked

"It's hard to say. This kind of illusion is not difficult, and how many powerful magicians are there? No one can tell. You should know this best. But looking at this layout, these illusions are created by a special The magic array provides energy, and the energy comes from the huge energy contained in nature itself. The location of this supply point is just above the so-called earth veins." Trode said

"Leyline?" Enleco asked in confusion.

"Oh, that's a magic theory popular in some principalities in the Kingdom of Montita and the Kingdom of Leiding in the East. Their understanding is not exactly the same as the generally popular orthodox magic theory of your Sophie Kingdom. They think Magic is part of the energy of nature. The flow of magic occurs through something called a pulse, and the gathering operates through something called a wheel. People have chakras, and everything in the world also has chakras. The use of various types of magic is just chakra passing through different natural energies. Magicians who practice this kind of chakra magic are indeed quite powerful, but this method of magic operation is difficult to master. Compared with the elemental invocation popular in Sophie Theory, there are far fewer magicians who can master chakra theory.”

"So are there any other magicians who know chakra magic?" Enleco asked curiously. He was strongly interested in this topic because he never thought that the magic he practiced was only two kinds of basics. One of the theories.

His teacher Chris is obviously a master of this theory, but she seems to know nothing about the other theory. Enleco really wants to know what the other theory is like.

"As far as I know, only Drakes next to Mr. Sommeret practices chakra magic. He found out about the chakra cultivation method in a deserted ruins," Trode said.

"Drekes? He is Somilet's subordinate. This matter should have nothing to do with him," Enleco said, "You are still immature. If my employer, Mr. Hegeello, is the same as Mr. Somilet, It won't surprise me at all that he is the mastermind behind this incident." Seeing Enleco's puzzled look, Trode explained: "If I can take the opportunity to get rid of you, I can imagine using any means. And all the responsibilities can be borne by the band of thieves. Kaaoqi himself also paid a heavy loss for this. Of course, your princess cannot have anything to say, not to mention that in this way, the two adults can Eliminate the bandits, strengthen the border defense force, and vigorously expand the armaments. This is a strategy that achieves multiple goals with one stone."

Trode turned his head and glanced at Enleco, and continued: "In addition to Gorslow, my employer Mr. Haguero is also a commander who can easily defeat the county guard. Sacrifice Ha Sheriff Xiu can handle a lot of things by himself, isn't it worth it?"

Having said this, Trode paused for a moment, then looked up at the sky and said: "Of course, everything I just said is just a possibility, one of many possibilities. The riddle in front of me is not complete. Before solving it, only Demei knows what the answer is. What I just said is just to guide you to a clue that you can't find at all. Of course, what I said may be just conjecture, but if there is no such conjecture, you really So immature."

"I feel that the more I know, the heavier my heart becomes. The past time was happier. I was carefree and didn't need to know so many... so many terrible things." Enleco sighed.

"Before? It's a pity that you can't go back to the past. If you are in the current position, you must know all this. Those who are qualified to look back on the past and sigh about the past are those who have freed themselves from all shackles and can truly let go of everything. , you still have too much to let go of. Continue your work," Trode said in a gloomy voice.

Enleco looked at the ugly and terrifying evil mage in front of him. Looking at this person who was originally his enemy, Enleco felt incredible. What did Archpriest Meron make with his disciple? Why did he cultivate it so carefully? Someone who is likely to be hostile to them? All this is so confusing, even more elusive than the huge and obscure conspiracy in front of us.

But as Trode said, Enleco does have a lot to do in front of him.

After calming down, Enleco used the magic of rational heart to search around...

After leaving the rainy season in Strayer County, the days are gradually lengthening and the temperature is getting higher and higher. Although it is not like those places further east where the rainy season is followed by the scorching hot wind season, but walking on the vast grassland for a long time, Still feeling quite tired, Enleco had already dismounted from the horse. He led the horse and walked slowly, carrying heavy luggage. The horse was already a little tired.

And Trode was still limping, neither feeling particularly tired nor showing any impatience because of Enleco's slow movements.

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Enleco followed Trode and led the horse up a high hill. There was a wide open area in front of him. The grass had grown extra lush because of the rainy season. Now it looked a little withered and scorched because of the lack of sufficient rainfall. The leaves form a sea of deep yellow. This is no longer a mountain woodland with lush plant growth. Apart from knee-high grass, there are only one or two sparsely growing bushes. Going further east is the edge of Strayer County, where there is also an impenetrable mountain. A mountain formed by ancient giant earth magic. At the other end of the mountain is another desert, a vast desert. Beyond the desert is the Kingdom of Montita, which is known as the state prostitute's tent on horseback.

Standing on the hills, Enleco once again searched everything around him with his mysterious eyes. After tracking along the way, he was already quite familiar with the distribution characteristics of those supply points, and Enleco became more and more sensitive to that special magic fluctuation. Enleco had to admire the camouflage of those hidden supply points. None of the camouflages were the same, either a deep ditch, a pile of quicksand, or a large thorn bush... Anyway, that person The master of disguise has endless imagination and can always hide a large amount of matter in a place where no one wants to approach. No wonder those magicians who were conducting reconnaissance from the air were unable to detect the blood fox's whereabouts. Indeed, if one or two thousand men and horses hid in such a place, there would be no trace at all.

After searching for a while, Enleco found another target, and the next job was Trode's. Trode's kind of monster is so convenient to use. Enleco even had the urge to send the monster Most in the same way. Of course, this was just an impulse. If he really wanted to do it, he didn't have the courage. As for asking Trode to borrow a demon ghost for use, Enleco did consider this possibility, but when he learned that the demon ghost was really the favorite food of a dark spiritual body like Most, he also Sorry to ask Trode.

Enleco was really envious when he saw Trode dispatching demons and ghosts at will to complete the reconnaissance work. What's more, this thing is used to carry things, collect various materials, and explore the terrain. It has countless functions and is indeed extremely convenient to use. tool.

It didn't take long for Trod to come back to his senses from his meditation. It was different from usual. This time he said with a solemn expression: "It seems that we have indeed found the whereabouts of the blood fox. There are piles of blood in that supply point." There are a lot of looted treasures, and it seems that they have been distributed. The boxes containing the treasures have their own monograms painted on them. The last batch of treasures were put in in the past few days. The blood fox should be nearby."

"What should we do?" Enleco asked

"Why are you asking me? I am a magician, but I don't know how to fight. Instead, I want to ask you what you planned. Aren't you a military genius? Didn't you perform very well at the memorial ceremony?" Trode said.

"That time doesn't count. I have never fought in a war. You have been following Duke Haguero. You are already familiar with war. You should be able to make some ideas." Enleco shied away.

"I can analyze those plans and strategies very clearly afterwards, but wouldn't it be difficult for me to come up with suggestions?" Trod said with a frown on his face.

"Then, let's go back and report the situation to Miss Milinda. Let her decide what to do." Enleco said, "The blood fox moves erratically. It will take too much time for Milinda to get here, and it's so far away." , If you don’t do it right, you will make the same mistake as Governor Hasiu. Think about it again and see if there is any better way.”

Forced by Trode, Enleco had to think hard, while Trode continued to enter a meditative state, directing all his monsters to search around. Now that we know that the blood foxes are nearby, it shouldn't be difficult to find them.

Compared with a simple and mature job like Trode, Enleco found it much more difficult. To be honest, he had never received any decent military training. Although Joe taught him many mercenaries methods, but those things are simply not comparable to leading troops in a formal battlefield, and Kate only taught him how to dance with a gun and how to make plans, and even he himself had not mastered making plans, and Hagrid also only taught him how to dance with a stick. His skills in bow and arrow and his outstanding military strategy have not been revealed in front of him at all, and the tradition of the Kingdom of Sophie has always focused on the individual bravery and mutual unity of knights. We don’t appreciate the use of trickery to win wars. Therefore, in the legends of the Kingdom of Sophie, most of the heroes are powerful and charismatic knights or super magicians with profound strength who can single-handedly destroy large groups of enemies. There has never been such a thing. A hero who sits in a tent, waving a fan, and uses blueprints to dispatch his men and horses at will. He is a hero who can win the final victory of the war without having to do anything. Therefore, few of the Sophien know how to fight with cunning.

Enleco racked his brains and finally found two guys who could be called military strategists deep in his memory, as well as two battles that could be considered classic strategies. One of them was the disastrous defeat of Sheriff Hashu, and the other was the time when I saw Teacher Chris capture the Spinosaurus in the Magic Forest, and the two military strategists were undoubtedly the crazy teacher Chris and That rogue old wolf is gone. Although Haguero is also an outstanding military strategist, this guy has never shown his military talent in front of him, so he is not included.

Thinking of this, an idea suddenly jumped out of Enleco's mind.

"Think of something?" Trode asked.

"I just thought of something to scare people." Enleco said with a smile.

"Scary, well, it's very interesting, let's hear it." Trod added with the same smile, but his smile was scarier than any ghost in a nightmare.

"We worked together to put on a good show, using the most terrifying-looking magic to suddenly attack the band of thieves, forcing them to run away with the stolen treasure. Then we drove the thieves to escape like sheep, until they were tired... "

"When they are tired, let Milinda take care of them, right?" Trode interjected: "Why don't you use your forbidden spell magic? Can't you just deal with them all at once?"

"This... this... my forbidden spell magic is not that easy to use, and it will be life-threatening, so it is better not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary." Enleco thought for a long time and decided that it was better not to let others know about the so-called forbidden spell. The true image of the curse is better.

"By the way, don't you have any powerful poison? Just put some poison and kill all those thousands of people," Enleco asked.

"Thousands of men and horses, how much poison is needed? Besides, I am a necromancer and I am not specialized in poison extraction. Besides, if thousands of men and horses can be solved with poison so easily, they would have been used in large quantities in the war. But you heard that Have you ever experienced this kind of battle?" Trode said.

After saying this, he immersed himself in thought and said, "Just do what you said. But we need to plan how to scare people."

"You are a necromancer, you should be the best at this." Enleco said looking at Trode's face that could scare people to death during the day.

"Haha, that's right. This is something I'm very good at." Trode once again showed that absolutely terrifying smile.

A terrifying conspiracy was hatched under the planning of two powerful mages.