After walking out of the mansion, Richard was led by his men to his temporary residence in the Reef Castle. It was said that Sauron had specially arranged it before he came.
After entering the temporary residence, Richard took a brief tour and found that it was even more luxurious than the residence he originally arranged in Xia Oscar.
Complete sets of silverware, chairs with gold ornaments, beds inlaid with jewels, furniture made by master craftsmen, ancient cultural relics and ornaments that are rare in the market...
Although some of them seemed to have strange styles, after asking about them, I found out that they were part of the ransom sent by the Kingdom of Sika to redeem the officers and nobles who were defeated and captured by Sauron. But no matter what, it can be seen that this mansion is indeed thoughtful. Sauron does not show perfunctory treatment to this sudden appearance of the command advisor, and has the respect he deserves in name.
Considering that Sauron also accepted his suggestion at the previous Supreme Military Intelligence Conference without any rebuttal, he seemed to have greater power than imagined.
To put it simply, what he said seemed to be of some use.
Maybe the purpose of the Alliance Emperor and Oscar is not to make him a simple puppet
Richard sat on the chair in his temporary residence, tapping the gold armrest while thinking about this issue.
From what I have seen and heard so far, he does not look like a puppet, but having said that, this may also be to make him more competent as a puppet, so everyone cooperates with his acting, but in fact his words are not implemented.
So, this needs to be verified.
Verify it.
Soon it was dinner time. After a sumptuous dinner, Richard walked to the bedroom and seriously told his men that he wanted to have a good rest and that no one was allowed to disturb him before he left the room.
"Yes." The subordinate responded solemnly.
"Very good." Richard nodded and closed the bedroom door with a bang.
The space inside the door is a full seventy or eighty square meters. It is a suite. In addition to a resting place, there is also a bathroom and a study room.
Richard checked it over and made sure there was nothing wrong. He carefully arranged a few warning spells, walked to the bed and lay down on it.
The body sank into the soft mattress, the eyes closed, the body sank, and the consciousness rose.
A familiar tremor appeared, like dandelion seeds leaving the stem in the breeze, and Richard's consciousness easily separated from his body.
He quickly penetrated the roof, reached the outside, and continued to rise. He glanced at the solemn guards at the temporary residence, at the dreary reef fort, and at the border between the two countries where troops gathered. With a thought, Richard controlled his consciousness. Go quickly to the north.
The conscious body moves extremely fast, because there is no obstacle from the material world, and it can easily break through the sound barrier and reach multiple times the speed of sound. Therefore, in a state of consciousness, one can quickly travel to any corner of the world.
Actually, this is not the fastest, the fastest is to use awareness markers.
Richard has experimented that as long as you are familiar enough with a place and can clearly construct the place in your consciousness, it will constitute a conscious mark. Then just think about this location and you can teleport to the corresponding location instantly.
The clearer the build, the more accurate the location of the transmission.
If the construction is vague, and you just heard about a location from other people's mouths or information, then the transmission will produce huge errors, and it is better to "run" there honestly like now.
Richard is not sure what the principles involved are. He roughly guesses that it is related to the soul and the current operating rules of the world. Maybe he can understand a thing or two after he can completely crack all the extraordinary factors.
Thinking like this, as he continued to move, Richard saw a red mountain range appearing below him. This was the so-called Bloodstone Mountain.
An important military city of the Soma Alliance is built here, as well as many logistics strongholds. It is part of the border defense line. Because the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Sika Kingdom rarely attacks here. Who knows, people from the Sika Kingdom will infiltrate from here this time. Although they did not conquer the military city, they destroyed a series of logistics strongholds, caused heavy losses, and broke into the depths of the country, continuing to wreak havoc.
According to the plan formulated by Sauron, the raging Sika Kingdom army will be annihilated in a short time. The tunnel that allowed the Sika Kingdom's army to infiltrate is also being searched for.
It can be seen that at night, countless torches are lit on the ground, and many soldiers are searching all over the mountains and fields, not sparing any corner.
If you get closer, you can still hear the soldier captain's loud roar: "I'm telling you weaklings, a death order has been issued from above, and the tunnel entrance must be dug out within two days, so you all keep your eyes open and search. If you don't work hard, , believe it or not, I will directly transfer you to the front line with just one sentence, so that you can resist the attacks of the most elite Sika guys."
A group of second-line army soldiers who had hardly participated in any battles could not help but turn pale after hearing this, and were as quiet as ice.
"Did you hear that? Give me a shout if you heard it!" the soldier captain roared again.
"Yes." The soldiers replied quickly.
"That's about right." The soldier captain nodded with satisfaction and directed the soldiers to continue searching forward.
Richard, who was conscious, watched all this in the air. After watching it for a while, he had an idea and headed further north.
Flying past countless second-line troops carrying torches and searching for the tunnel entrance all night, they arrived at the front of a mountain that looked like steamed buns.
This is Blue Water Mountain, so named because there is a special blue mushroom on the mountain that dyes the rainwater flowing down the mountain blue when it rains.
Richard saw that the same second-line army soldiers were searching with torches here. They climbed the mountain from the south, hacking at the dense grass with their long swords, looking for possible tunnel entrances with wide eyes.
Slowly they crossed the top of the mountain and walked towards the foot of the mountain in the north. When they reached the foot of the mountain, they stopped and stopped moving forward.
Li Cha looked at it and felt something moving in his heart.
If he remembered correctly, the scope of Sauron's search plan was as far north as Blue Water Mountain. For the purpose of testing, he proposed to explore another five miles north, and Sauron agreed.
But looking at the specific implementation, it seems inconsistent.
With his consciousness lowered, Richard reached a place about ten meters above the heads of the searching soldiers. He could clearly see the soldiers' faces and hear their words.
At this time, a tall and thin soldier turned to ask his captain: "Captain, are we done searching here?"
"Yes, that's it. This is the scope set by the above. It's enough for us to search the entire Blue Water Mountain. Anything beyond that is none of our business." The black and strong soldier captain said.
"Then what are we going to do next, captain?" the tall and thin soldier asked again.
"Nonsense, what else can you do? Just turn around and search again. You didn't listen to the previous order from above. It must be searched within two days. If you can't find it, just search again and again within the specified range until you find it." shouted the soldier captain.
"Uh, yes."
"Okay, let's search again." The soldier captain waved and directed a small group of soldiers to turn around and go up the mountain again.
Richard looked at it and sighed: It seems that his command advisor really only exists in name. There may be a group of subordinates and commander Sauron accompanying him in acting, but the order will not be conveyed to the army below at all.
With this thought in mind, he was about to return when he suddenly saw a fire coming out of a road to the east.
Then the sound of horse hooves came, and a large group of cavalry approached quickly.