Chapter 777

On the west side of the oak prairie.

It has been nearly 20 days since Randall expeditionary army started from the temporary station on the grassland. The convoy did not delay all the way. The vast and gentle grass sea was left behind. The trees in front were sparse to dense, and patches of primitive forest were faintly visible.

The ground began to become rugged. There was only a shallow layer of grass leaves, and black soil could be seen. Because there was a moderate rain the night before yesterday, the fertile black soil looked slippery and muddy, and the wheels of the cart would fall into potholes from time to time.

Fortunately, the alchemical dragon lizard has amazing power and can easily pull the heavy carriage out of the mud pit, but the bumpiness of the carriage is an inevitable problem. The wagon made of logs by the alchemist militia is strong enough, but it is not equipped with an exquisite damping system. The wagon is jumping and jumping. Qualified passengers can bear it at first. Over time, everyone can't stand the endless bumps. They would rather walk than continue to suffer in the carriage.

Victor sat in the carriage as usual. The person who lit the fire of his heart can adjust his body balance according to the vibration of the carriage to eliminate the impact on his internal organs and brain, but it takes a long time to overcome the bumps. Only the deep-seated spiritual fire can automatically adjust the body according to the changes of external forces and sit on the bumpy carriage without difficulty.

Of course, this is not more comfortable than walking, and even senior knights can't practice the idea of three headed lizard in a bumpy carriage. So Charlotte and the Dragon maid also walked outside the carriage.

Victor is one of the few people who can keep their imagination in a bumpy carriage. But his three headed lizard vision has filled his energy. He is using the bumpy environment to explore a unique combat breathing method.

Silver Eagle City had decided to leave the matter to Sylvia. Victor had nothing to do, so he sat in the carriage and studied the breathing method of the halfling brother. Those two dwarfs don't seem to have lit the fire of their hearts, but they have an extraordinary sense of balance. They can stand on the back of the bear dog with a strong bear dog instead of walking. They won't fall down no matter how they run.

Victor believes that in addition to the dexterity of halflings, this degree of balance is also closely related to their practice of breathing.

Breathing, an internal latent change between active and passive, is also the only internal latent force that human beings can control independently. People can control their breathing rate and hold their breath, but no one can hold themselves to death. If people's inner submergence, external force and mind are regarded as a precision machine, breathing is a gear connecting external force and inner submergence, which will directly affect the operation of the whole machine.

In fact, Victor's secret method of mind and blood also has breathing method for adjusting body and mind, and it is the first time that breathing method is systematically applied to daily activities and even dedicated to combat.

In the carriage, while using the wind element to observe the subtle changes of his internal potential, he constantly adjusted his breathing to adapt to the irregular ups and downs of the carriage, and deduced the efficiency of combat breathing on the human body bit by bit.

After a period of experiment, Victor gradually found the principle of combat breathing, and he was pleased with the result of the deduction.

Those who master the combat breathing method can mobilize part of the latent power, make the body become tough and bear more damage in an instant; Can burst strength, jump farther and run faster; It can stimulate the spirit, make the mind clearer and make the hand more accurate.

In fact, the combat breathing method has little effect on those who ignite the spiritual fire, but after all, there are very few people who ignite the spiritual fire, and those who account for the majority, including trainee knights, spiritual soldiers and ordinary soldiers, will improve their combat effectiveness to varying degrees once they master the combat breathing method.

In short, combat breathing can be infinitely close to the state of spiritual fire, which can be called pseudo spiritual fire. Although it is not comparable to the real fire of the soul, it is simple and easy to learn, applicable to a wide range of people, and can be popularized on a large scale.

This is the most valuable part of combat breathing.

If the combat breathing method is practiced to the extreme, the skin and internal organs also learn to "breathe" and enter the level of integration of external and internal breathing, there may be various magical effects.

Thanks to Victor being the only one who can "turn off" the fire of his heart, he tested breathing at the level of ordinary people. Other legendary strong men would not be so easy to see the mystery and potential of combat breathing.

Victor was complacent and named the battle breathing method Randall breathing method. As he prepared to further study Randall's breathing, the carriage gradually stopped. Nelson shouted excitedly through the window, "Sir, Todd and Marcy's scouts have summoned that there is a trace of ant man ahead!"

Victor's pupils contracted slightly, dodged and jumped out of the carriage, left the whole team, and Nelson took the lead in running forward.

Before long, they came to a highland where the forward scouts commanded by Todd stopped. Todd and Marcy first saluted victor and then said, "Your Highness, the woods under the highland are strange. I think it's a sign of ant tide."

With a little effort on his legs, Victor flew up a huge rock eight or nine meters high. When he looked down, the scenery in front of him suddenly opened up. Below the steep and steep hillside was a green forest. With Victor's extraordinary vision, he could not see the end of the forest. There were winding rivers like jade belts and towering mountains, but they were just patches of the forest, like undercurrent and islands in the sea.

Boundless forest, endless forests... Victor couldn't help sighing in his heart. He soon found a strange "road" in the forest. It was a forest belt 4 or 5 kilometers wide, with sparse and low trees, which was obviously different from the surrounding green and dense forests. Ordinary people can distinguish the differences of forests at a glance. There are ancient virgin forests around, and the sparse forest belt is full of new trees, which are generally no more than 20 years old.

This is the road gnawed out by the ant army!

Charlotte and the Dragon maid followed, followed by aka, bell, Reverend Dane, imosen, and the halfling brother riding the bear dog.

Everyone admired the magnificent forest sea for a long time. Pastor Dane sighed: "I didn't expect that we could find the trace of ant man so easily... We must be able to reach the ant man's nest along this road."

Charlotte took hold of victor who jumped from the stone and said with a smile, "honey, thanks to Bobo and sweet, their walking sticks are amazing."

With the half man's walking stick, the team chose a direction and came here. The marching path of the ant monster was nearby. Victor turned to the halfling and shouted, "Bobo, sweet, come here."

The two dwarfs urged the bear dog to ride to victor, turned over and jumped down, and said in unison, "master, what can I do for Bobo?"

"Throw it again with your pathfinding stick." Victor nodded.

"I'll throw it."

"You threw it last time. It's time to throw it away this time."

"No, no, I threw it last time. Bell grabbed it, so I'll throw it this time."

"I should throw it..."

"I should throw it..."

The halfling brothers had a quarrel. The tall aka easily took away the walking stick in their hands and handed it to bertina behind them.

Bobo and Tiantian are so angry that they jump up and step on aka's big boots. Aka smiles foolishly.

The proud bell held the walking stick, closed his eyes, walked around in the same place, recited the "spell" she invented, and then threw the walking stick into the sky.

Everyone's eyes chased the walking stick rolling in the air, watched it fall and bounce on the ground, and finally the tip of the stick pointed to the northwest of the forest.

This result was beyond the expectation of most people. The ant man's March generally went east-west, but it circled from the south of the forest sea. Visually, the ant man's nest should be somewhere in the southwest of the forest, just opposite to the northwest direction pointed by the wayfinding stick.

Dane stepped forward and looked into the distance, frowned and murmured, "bell can't be wrong? Would you like Bobo and Tiantian to throw it again?"

The pathfinding walking stick is the legacy of the oak barrel of the halfling adventurer. It records the places he has explored, including the temple sites of the Assyrian Empire. Bobo and Tiantian want to go to the temple sites of the Assyrians, not the nest of ant monsters.

Victor also went to the ruins of the Assyrian Empire to look for elemental Rune crystals, but he was not optimistic about the search for elemental runes at first. After all, time is too long apart. Finding a crystal made by an ancient alchemist in the jungle is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Besides, Victor was not sure whether the elemental Rune crystal was damaged.

Therefore, Victor put the task of investigating the ant nest in the first place, and the search for the ruins of the Assyrian Empire was a secondary task. However, since the abyss devil has penetrated the material plane, it is unknown whether the elite cavalry of the human country can come to the oak grassland to destroy the ant man army. Finding elemental Rune crystals has become the primary task of Randall's expedition.

If we find the rune crystal that controls the queen ant, Victor can easily break the threat of ant man monster. To take a step back, the elemental Rune crystal was indeed damaged. Victor got the spirit holy thing collected by the Assyrians - "Freya's tears". Things may turn around.

Victor doesn't need to let others know about the secrets of the alchemy Empire and elemental Rune crystals. Dane always thought that the task of Randall expedition was only to investigate ant man nests.

Victor winked at Lord Nelson and nuzzled at the two dwarfs.

The bear in the North understood it, came forward, grabbed the back collar of the halfling, picked them up from aka's legs, bared his teeth and threatened, "if the master wants to ask questions, you must answer honestly."

Tiantian and Bobo are jumping happily on Nelson's big feet. They are suddenly mentioned in the air and want to lose their temper. It can be seen that Nelson is like a real fierce look, so they are scared to nod again and again.

Seeing that the halfling brothers were honest, Nelson put them on the ground.

Victor looked at the endless green forest and asked faintly, "Bobo, sweet, I believe every forest here has its owner. Tell me where the forest belonging to Silver Eagle City is?"

The halfling brothers pointed north almost at the same time. Victor thought for a moment, took a refined iron one handed halberd from the hands of the alchemical militia, drew a large square on the ground, and then divided the large square into different areas with horizontal and vertical lines.

Everyone gathered around and found that this was a simple map with ant man's March as a reference. There was a square in the north of the March. Victor wrote "Silver Eagle City", and the farthest square in the northwest wrote "destination". He lit the square representing Silver Eagle City with a one handed halberd and said: "Each forest has different forces, which represents the sphere of influence of Silver Eagle City... So, what forces do the three forests in the south, southwest and west close to Silver Eagle City belong to?"

"Halfling adventurer, don't tell me, you don't know these neighbors of Silver Eagle City?" Victor threw the one handed halberd to the alchemy militia, clapped his hands and asked.

"I know, I know..."

"There are ogre tribes, Goblin tribes and a fire claw bear clan in the three forests in the south, southwest and west of Silver Eagle City." Tian Tian answered first. Then Bobo added: "among them, a big goblin named 'green pimlock' is the most hateful. It often sends his men to attack small towns and villages south of Silver Eagle City."

Victor nodded and said to the crowd: "We certainly can't take the ant man's marching path, or even close to it. If we encounter the ant man monster, it will not only be fatal, but also expose its whereabouts and alert them. Therefore, the best way is to bypass the forest in the south of Silver Eagle City. The forest monster over there is relatively weak and poses little threat to the expeditionary force. Moreover, the ant man will avoid the moonlight tree in Silver Eagle City, I hope Once they encounter the ant man army, they can hide in the woodland controlled by Silver Eagle City at any time. "

Charlotte gently sipped her plump red lips. She knew that Victor had little threat. Victor chose the forest near Silver Eagle City as a way to explore for the consideration of most people, including herself.

Although Charlotte was not willing to Victor's sphere of influence, she saw everyone's expression become relaxed and acquiesced to Victor's decision.

Nelson obviously didn't think of this. He asked, "Sir, how do you know that the forest monsters outside Silver Eagle City are relatively weak?"

Victor didn't bother to answer such a simple question. Klaus whispered beside him: "The master may mean that Silver Eagle City will not allow the surrounding forests to have strong monster groups. Powerful forest monsters also don't like their territory next to Silver Eagle City. Therefore, any forest monster close to Silver Eagle City will either completely defeat Silver Eagle City or become weak under the continuous attack of Silver Eagle City."

Nelson suddenly realized, and immediately said excitedly, "so we may meet the Scouts of the elves on the way?"

Victor said in a deep voice: "it's possible, but I don't want to get into trouble... 'green pimlock' should be a weak goblin Lord. We have to pass through its territory quickly."

"If it dares to get in the way... Run over it directly“