Arcane Lord

Green Pearl Forest.

Bareiris led 500 soldiers as the vanguard and had marched for more than ten miles in the Green Pearl Forest. During this period, he encountered orcs no less than ten times, but each time he was discovered in advance by Master Sandur.

Nearly thirty orcs were killed in total, and at the end of each battle, Barelys would order people to collect the orc heads and take them with them. As they continued to go deeper, they encountered orcs more and more frequently.

When Barelys had collected nearly a hundred orc heads, Master Sandur found him and said, "Captain Barelys, I may not be able to take care of everyone if I go forward."

Do you want to evacuate? Barelys frowned. Before setting off, Keyan specifically told him that he could not retreat unless he encountered a large group of orcs that he could not defeat, or collected 200 orc heads.

At present, neither of these two conditions have been met, so how can we retreat?

"Master Sandur, just do your best. We were prepared for a bloody battle with the orcs before we came here. If the situation is very dangerous, I allow you to evacuate early."

When it came to this, Sandur didn't say anything anymore. He just prepared the magic to escape at any time. As long as he was sure that the situation would endanger his life, he would leave.

Even a lord cannot force an official mage to take risks.

…

The difficulty of the orc tide is not that humans cannot confront the orcs head-on, but that it is difficult to compete with the orcs in the same number or even with a smaller number.

Every year on Wolf God Mountain, orcs leave the tribe to venture, fight, and plunder outside. Their first stop is the Saville Territory in the north.

It can be said that if a large number of adventurers and soldiers did not enter the forest to clear out part of it, the orc wave that occurs once every ten years would be even more difficult to deal with.

While commanding the troops to march slowly, Keyan combined the intelligence from Barelys ahead and began to design how to guide the orcs to fight at the designated location, and the more the better.

This is the Lord's order, and it also has his desire.

He really wanted to kill all the orcs!

"Uncle Keyan!"

A crisp female voice came from behind. Ke Yaen looked back and saw a female mage wearing a gorgeous robe approaching him on horseback. The tall and strong forest horse made the female mage even more majestic.

Of course, in Ke Yan's eyes, this kind of majesty is just the forced maturity of a child. Seeing this look, he couldn't help but feel a little funny, "Miss Niya, what do you want from me?"

"Uncle Ke Yan, why don't you assign me a task? My father didn't ask me to come to the forest to play!"

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Ke Yaen was also worried that it would be counterproductive. When he saw the map of the Green Pearl Forest in his hand, he instantly thought of an idea, "Miss Niya, now I have a very important task for you."

"What mission? Uncle Keyan, please tell me." Niya immediately raised her staff and said, "I promise to complete it!"

As if feeling the master's will, the forest horse under Niya couldn't help snorting and kicked the dead leaves on the ground.

"I'm thinking about how to lure the orcs to this location -" Keyan pointed to a location on the map and continued, "We must lure all the orcs here as much as possible, even the orcs from Wolf God Mountain. Can it be done?"

In fact, Ke Yaen had already made a decision in his heart, and now he would leave it to Niya. He just didn't want her to be idle, as she would easily get into trouble if she was idle. Ke Yaen was entrusted by Master Aibok to take care of Niya.

But in fact, even without Master Aibo's instructions, he would not have let the lord's daughter come into contact with real danger.

Niya still didn't understand Keyan's plan, but she was quite happy to receive "such an important" task and felt that her work was not in vain.

Taking the map handed over by Keyan, Niya fell into deep thought. Her father did not tell her all the plans, but she could still analyze from various signs that this year's orc wave might be different.

Now hearing about Ke Yaen's mission confirmed her suspicions again, but Niya still couldn't guess what the difference was and what her father's plan was.

After touching the bracelet on her left wrist, Niya finally gave up her plan to ask her father.

She looked at the map in her hand again. Suddenly, she seemed to think of something. She quickly found Ke Yaen and asked in a low voice, "Uncle Ke Yaen, will my father not come over?"

Before Keyan could say anything, Niya said immediately, "Yes, that must be the case, because His Excellency Archmage Auron——"

Having said this, Niya lowered her voice again, "Do they want to attack Wolf God Mountain?"

The expression on Ke Yaen's face did not change at all, but he still nodded subtly.

"Then these soldiers-" Niya looked at the vivid faces around her, and she couldn't say the next words.

"They must have a close enough frontal battle with the orcs, and even attract the orc warriors from Wolf God Mountain. This is their destiny."

Keyan's voice gradually became lower. Niya couldn't bear it, but she didn't know how to speak. No one could object to her father's decision. Furthermore, compared with the complete elimination of the orcs, these people——

Niya couldn't weigh it for a moment. This was completely beyond the scope of her knowledge. Magic can solve enemies and solve problems, but it may not be able to solve everything.

Maybe this was the purpose of her father asking her to come here.

Niya was silent for a moment and returned the map to Keyan.

Afterwards, the two discussed how to design and guide the orcs in a decisive battle. The mage's keen insight combined with Keyan's rich experience, the two quickly enriched all the details.

Everything that follows will be left to time.

…

Saville Territory, the military camp to the southwest.

Since receiving the standby notice, Xia Duo has stayed in the camp for three full days.

In the past three days, even without the magic laboratory to suppress and balance the magic network, he had "touched" out all the elements of the [Water Making Technique] bit by bit.

Next, he will conduct the first complete [Water Making Technique] experiment. From theory to practice, he has a thorough understanding of all details. He is fully confident that this experiment will be successful.

In the camp room, Xia Duo turned his spell notes to the record page of [Water Making Technique]. Even though he was already familiar with it, Xia Duo still took the last step of insurance for himself.

Entering a state of concentration in spellcasting, Xia Duo felt that today's magic network seemed to be slightly different from yesterday, but if he was asked to point out what the difference was, he couldn't tell.

It can only be said to be an intuition. Of course, compared to directly, Xia Duo is more willing to believe that his will has become more sensitive through long-term contact with the magic network.

It's just that this level of sensitivity has not yet reached a level that can be described in words. (Insufficient perceptual accuracy?)

But no matter how the magic network changes, it will not affect his subsequent experiments.