In the misty forest, the frost and snow elves can perfectly hide in the forest with the help of their own characteristics and the talents given by Yalin. For such a long time, only Princess Luo Jie'an, who also has a bit of white dragon blood, and as a transcendent existence Rogge, the black dragon, noticed that no mercenary or adventurer could see through the disguise of the frost and snow elf.
The frost and snow elves followed the mercenaries easily along the way. There were only a few mages in the entire team who needed to pay attention. However, in order to save magic power, the mages did not cast a wide range of detection spells and only cast them on themselves. A little protective magic. Although as a mage, his perception is amazing, the frost elf scouts operating on the home field can still easily cover the ears and eyes of the mages. However, after following the mercenary group for a while, the scouts suddenly discovered that it seemed that not only their own people were following the mercenary group.
While advancing with the mercenary group, an elf scout discovered that two women dressed as warriors had been following the mercenary group.
This discovery was quickly reported back. If this mercenary group is followed by some scattered mercenaries who are ready to pick up the leaks, then they need to be rearranged. The elf scouts who received the new order immediately began to investigate whether there was anyone else behind the two female warriors. However, after waiting for a long time, no follow-up personnel were found. It seemed that there were only these two people from beginning to end.
In the end, Kim Bradley, who was in charge of the overall command, decided to continue to ambush the mercenary group as planned, and the two female warriors following behind could not be let go, no matter what their purpose was.
At this moment, the black dragon princess Celatia has not realized that her men have been discovered. Although the powers of these two female warriors are very special, most of them are used in combat, just like Celatia before in Clo As Seid promised in front of them, they were just soulless dolls. For this reason, these two female warriors who lacked some self-awareness were very poor in perception. If Celatia was also present, relying on the black dragon's powerful consciousness and perception, the frost elf scouts would never be able to hide it from Celatia's eyes and ears. But now Celatia is still far away. Although the perception magic is applied to the two female warriors, the magic can only transmit back the pictures and sounds so that Celatia can see and hear. As for using divine consciousness to perceive It can’t be done.
Not long after Kim Bradley decided to add Celatia's two subordinates to the attack target, the Soaring Eagle Mercenary Group and the Slave Catching Team finally found some important clues, some enough to prove that this forest is indeed There is evidence of elven life. This pleased the mercenaries and slave-catching teams who originally thought it would take many days to search. You must know that the cost of staying here for one more day will increase, and the ghost weather here is really uncomfortable. Although the snowstorm has miraculously stopped now, who can guarantee that there will be such good weather tomorrow.
Under the leadership of the old hunter, the scouts followed and searched for places where elves might live. Finally, at 11:00 in the afternoon, good news came. The scouts found the elves' habitat, and it was also a large town.
"Are you sure? How many people are there? Are there any defense forces?"
Ganat immediately asked like a barrage of cannonballs. According to the scouts' report, the location of the town was a relatively open area. He initially followed an elf to reach that location. Because the entire town seemed to be shrouded in an illusionary barrier, and nothing could be seen from the outside. The population was too hasty and I didn't pay close attention to it, but based on the size of the town, it should be roughly on par with my own team.
"Is there an illusion barrier!?" A mage looked a little solemn: "It seems that these elves are not leftover from the escaped elves. They should have lived here a long time ago."
"Of course, the hair of these elves is indeed the silver as rumored!"
The scout who went to the town to investigate said enthusiastically. Every time he thought of those silver-haired elves with beautiful faces, tall figures, and skin as fair as jade, the scout felt a sense of heat emerging from his lower body. Those silver-haired elves with cold looks. When the time comes, I don’t know how good it will be to press them on my body and listen to their cries.
"You weren't discovered, were you?"
"Of course!"
Garnet pondered for a moment and immediately ordered the team to stop and hide. Because he was worried, Garnet decided to go and check it out in person to make a final decision.
The mage with the highest magic level said that he was also going with him. Under the leadership of the scouts, the group quickly moved towards the location where the town was found. In order to prevent them from getting lost, the scouts had secretly marked the place with branches and stones. Even if the town was shrouded in an illusory barrier, they could roughly judge by the marks. The location of the location.
Suddenly, as if passing through a thick transparent gel wall, the dense forest in front of him disappeared in an instant and was replaced by a large open space and a town with a distinct elf style.
Since low-level reconnaissance was required this time, the following mage immediately cast invisibility and anti-detection techniques for everyone. At the same time, the mage also began to study the illusion barrier that he had just passed and determined the identity of the elf mage who created this barrier. Magic level and approximate manpower required. After all, he may have to face opponents who are also magicians during the next raid.
Then the invisibility ability quietly climbed up a big tree. Garnat observed the town condescendingly. Sure enough, the streets were full of silver-haired elves walking. Many of them were wearing leather armor and carrying bows and arrows. They were obviously very used to it. Excellent warrior in battle. From the number of people, Garant was sure that as the scouts judged, there were about four to five hundred people, which was comparable to the number of the mercenary group and the slave catching team, but everyone in the mercenary group and the slave catching team was a warrior. And the elves in this town have to exclude some old, weak, women and children, so the actual fighting force that can be mobilized is probably only about 200 people.
More than two hundred people! No wonder there are so many adventurers and mercenaries who never return after entering here. Garant feels that he has found the reason. God knows that there is actually a town where elves live in the forest of this far north.
Garnet made another observation to ensure that his judgment would not be wrong, but having said that, with the elves' delicate minds and pursuit of beauty, every building they built can be said to be the crystallization of art. Since many nobles liked to buy these things at high prices, when slave-catching teams raided elven towns and villages, they would even remove the carved windows and doors, take them away and sell them for money. But this time Garnat always felt that although these buildings were in the unique style of elves, there were no carvings and decorations on them. It was as if they were just built with bricks.
Perhaps these silver-haired elves don't have time to get these things because they have been fighting adventurers who broke into the forest for a long time.
Garnet didn't pay much attention to such small details. He probably didn't know that it wasn't that these elves didn't like fine carvings, but that there was a little bean who thought it was too troublesome.
In order to avoid being discovered, Ganat and others quickly returned to the team.
After learning that an elf town had been discovered, the entire mercenary team and the slave-catching team became excited. However, the leaders headed by Garnert were not as excited as the mercenaries below. An elf town of four to five hundred people could It is not easy to be captured. The opponent has at least two hundred combat personnel, and there must be mages among them. Even if they adopt a surprise attack, it will probably be a fierce battle. The most important point is that my group is here to capture elf slaves, not to fight. If they actually fight, they can win, but no one will buy a bunch of elf corpses.
"We can't just look at a treasure mountain and return empty-handed!"
"Your Majesty the Viscount! I didn't say not to attack this town, but we need to make some arrangements. Otherwise, even if we can capture the elven town, we will suffer heavy losses."
Garnet was talking to the leader of the slave-catching team. This leader was a Viscount named Damili, a descendant of a noble family from the Kingdom of Karut. It seemed that he was excluded because of being ostracized by family members. He was forced to serve as the president of the Family Slave Chamber of Commerce in the Free City, and Viscount Damili wanted to "make big news" so that he could obtain the capital to return to the family. And now the viscount learned that after discovering the elf town, he hoped to capture it at all costs, and quickly returned after capturing a large number of elves.
The viscount didn't care about the lives of his men, but Garnat had to care whether his mercenary group would suffer too much loss due to reckless actions. You must know that if a mercenary group suffers too much loss at once, it cannot be compensated with money. Yes, there are many backbones in the mercenary group who are close associates of Ganat. If they die in battle, it will affect Ganat's leadership position. There are also veterans in the mercenary group. If the number of these veterans killed in battle is too large, it will make up for the new mercenaries. The regiment will not be able to regain its strength quickly. Without the guidance and leadership of veterans, the running-in and adaptation period in the mercenary regiment will be greatly extended.
Of course, Garnat doesn't want to wait until the Black Wolf mercenary group comes here to snatch meat from him. Although there are more than a thousand Black Wolf mercenaries, it is absolutely no problem if they can get their help to capture this town, but if the Black Wolf comes If they don't, then their own Soaring Eagle Mercenary Group will only be able to drink soup, and maybe they won't even be able to drink the soup.
Not wanting to give up the huge benefits at hand, but also considering that the losses to his men should not be too great, Garant became a little distressed for a while.
"We will launch a night attack from three points at the same time and try to capture as many elves as possible." Garant drew a rough terrain map on the snow and studied it with several team leaders. Obviously Garant did not intend to capture the town. All the elves in it were wiped out in one fell swoop. (To be continued...)