Lord of War

It's just a massacre.

Sean let Vamis go, but he didn't let go of the slave catchers he brought. Seventy-two people, in the end there were about sixty corpses left behind, and about five or six people escaped. This number is irrelevant to Xiao En. Anyway, the reason why he ruthlessly attacked this slave hunting team was purely It was just to intimidate and show determination to the Kingdom of Dabion. If you really want to explain it, you can only say that the luck of this slave hunting team is really bad.

As for whether the duke would send a slave hunting team to sneak in secretly again, Sean didn't care, because William would be responsible for the next thing. If William couldn't even deal with these stowaways, then he would be ashamed of Sean's expectations of him. What's more, if the reconstruction of Panda Town is successful, the import and export of the entire Xiadi Rift Valley will also be completely included in its monitoring and inspection scope. If you want to be lazy, you can even set up checkpoints. Anyway, it only takes about ten days to go back and forth. thing.

The biggest problem with Xiao En's territory at present is that his military strength is beginning to be a bit stretched.

With a force of 6,000, it is definitely more than enough for him to stick to the Panda collar, and he can even deter the two surrounding baronies. However, after annexing the Viscounty of Rudd and the Barony of Langness, Sean's current actual territory is basically equivalent to the territory of an earldom. As long as he is annexing a normal-sized baronie, the territory of his territory will be reduced. It is truly equivalent to Asuna's Tonys collar.

A jazz with an earldom is unjustifiable in any case, at least he must be officially promoted to a real nobleman. If he is lucky, the title of an earl cannot be escaped. It's just that in name, he still belongs to Asuna's retainer, so it is impossible to obtain the prefix of real power or strength. But to lay such a foundation in one year, I am afraid that other nobles in the Principality of Ryan will never dare to underestimate Xiao En.

So the real problem Sean is facing now is the serious shortage of military power.

It is also because of this that Xiao En asked William to go to the trading capital again. Regarding the military strength of the territory, this point must be supplemented.

As for this trip to the wild land, Sean really didn't come here to capture slaves.

After passing through the No. 1 fire hole, the knife wind became more violent, and the traces of the land and mountain walls here became more obvious. But this has absolutely nothing to do with smoothness. Not to mention the ravines on the ground. Just touching the edges and corners of the mountain wall will immediately break the skin, but if it is not scratched, the injury will not be serious, and it is easy to stop the bleeding.

After a day's journey, I finally arrived in front of the No. 2 fire cave, and the timing was very accurate, which happened to be nightfall.

It's just that when he entered the No. 2 fire hole, Xiao En could clearly feel the colder low temperature.

If the temperature inside the No. 1 fire hole is only around zero degrees,

Then the temperature of the No. 2 fire hole is about three or four degrees below zero. There is obvious ice in the cave, but there is no dry or wet reaction. Only when you touch the mountain of the cave, you can feel the bone-chilling coldness, but it doesn't feel wet like an ice cave. Even if you put your hands on it for a long time, your hands will not get wet after leaving the mountain.

Cecilia looked at Sean curiously: "Is there anything special?"

"Yes." Sean nodded, "I have a suspicion right now."

"What is it?" Cecilia is a magician, and she loves magic from the bottom of her heart. Otherwise, he would not have shown such an amazing talent, so he would naturally be contaminated with many magician's problems-of course, for magicians, this is not a problem. But for ordinary people, this is the weirdness of magicians-their desire for knowledge has completely surpassed the scope that normal people can imagine.

"These caves are definitely not formed naturally." Xiao En took out a dead bone and tried to knock a stone from the mountain, but he found that this thing was unexpectedly hard, even with the sharpness of a dead bone. , You must know that unless it is a high-quality weapon, otherwise any weapon and dead bone will be cut off mercilessly, "Look. So it is definitely the funniest joke in the world to say that these caves are man-made .”

Cecilia's eyes widened with disbelief.

She knew that the dead bone was an epic-level weapon, and Sean did not hide it from her. Although an epic-level weapon may not necessarily be the sharpest weapon in the world, any piece of equipment above the legendary level has a very special Under normal circumstances, unless it is a high-quality weapon that is specially tempered for sharpness, otherwise, an epic-level weapon in terms of sharpness can definitely disdain all weapons, but it can't leave any traces in the cave?

"Try outside the cave!" Cecilia responded immediately.

Xiao En immediately understood as soon as he thought about it, and immediately walked out of the cave.

It had been a while since nightfall, and Sean didn't have the habit of wearing a pocket watch, but according to normal calculations, it should be around ten o'clock now, and the wind of knives outside the cave seemed to have become more violent. Under such circumstances, Sean had already asked Tini to test the ice armor technique. The ice armor that could have lasted for about an hour or would only be shattered by Sean's full blow, could only be shattered in the environment of Daofeng. It can be maintained for about 20 minutes, which shows that the energy consumption is extremely high.

So even Sean didn't dare to expose his skin to this environment.

Hiding the dead bone under the cloak and thrusting it toward the ground, the tip of the sword penetrated unhindered until it had no handle, which seemed to be nothing strange. However, when Sean pointed the dead bone at the cave's shelter and inserted it, something that surprised Sean happened—the point of the sword pierced into the mountain about two inches away, and then it couldn't penetrate again, although Sean couldn't Seeing the specific situation, he could feel that there was a very strange force that stopped the dead bones from continuing to invade.

"How?" Cecilia asked impatiently after returning to the cave.

"It's tricky." Sean looked around the cave and said, "There should be no problem with the ground, but if you penetrate the cave's wall, you can only penetrate two inches. ... It feels like an air barrier to me. The magic, because I can feel the slight tremor of the long sword, obviously there is energy interference."

"How about cutting out a plane from the mountain for observation?" Tini put forward her own opinion.

Priests with swords are also magicians. Although they are not as eager for knowledge and learning as magicians, after all, they believe in gods and rely on the power of gods to strengthen themselves. However, as long as they are legal professionals, they must have something in common, that is, strong curiosity, and Sean and Cecilia's interest in these caves obviously also made Tini a little interested.

"I've tried it, but it doesn't work." Sean shook his head. "It can only be cut about an inch, and the remaining inch cannot be cut. It seems to be protected by the internal energy assimilation."

"It's really strange." Tini and Cecilia said in unison.

As soon as the words came out, both of them were stunned, and some kind of strange sparks seemed to burst out of their eyes.

Sean knew that the academic interests of these two guys had been completely detonated.

In the following whole day, Sean's conjecture was indeed confirmed. Tini and Cecilia almost included the entire cave in the scope of the investigation, so everyone had to slow down their schedule to accommodate the two people. Midway investigation. In this regard, it is naturally impossible for the northern barbarians, bearmen, Andre and others to help. They don't even understand what Cecilia and Tini are looking for, and the only person who knows the situation Sean was too lazy to make a move. He knew that the matter must not be that simple. He planned to investigate after going to the No. 3 fire hole.

As for whether there will be any gains, Sean doesn't have any hope, after all, no one discovered the secret in the game back then.

Therefore, the No. 2 fire hole was originally a one-day trip, and it took nearly three days to finish it.

After exiting the No. 2 fire hole, there was another gust of knife wind whistling. This journey will be a little longer, and it will take about three days. However, the general slave hunting team will speed up their journey here, so if it is faster, it will only take about two and a half days. After all, Sean had seen the knife wind after nightfall last night, and there was no leeward place to rest during this journey, so for food, he had to use compressed instant dry food to eat while walking.

So according to the rules, I usually leave the No. 2 fire hole at about five o'clock in the morning, and then rest on the spot for two to three hours when it is about to fall into the night. When the wind starts to get stronger, you have to continue on the road until noon on the second day before you can get a short break, and then repeat the situation on the first day. The experienced slave-catching team, through the grasp of the time rhythm, probably only needs to travel about two and a half days if they are on the road. In this regard, Andre is worthy of being a slave-catcher with five years of experience.

On the afternoon of the third day after leaving Fire Cave No. 2, Xiao En and others rushed to the entrance of Fire Cave No. 3.

According to Andre's explanation, the No. 3 fire hole is the largest one of the three fire holes. It takes about one and a half days to walk for the full length. If the journey is slower, it may take about two days to walk. over. However, this fire hole may be the largest one, so the temperature in the cave is lower than the previous two fire holes. It has reached minus ten degrees or even lower, and this time there has been a frost reaction in the cave.

Before entering the cave, Xiao En saw a thin layer of frost covering the entrance of the cave.

It was still Andre who led the team to enter. He was already an experienced old man, and the others also entered one by one. Sean, Cecilia, and Tini were the last ones in the team. Perhaps because he knew that the lord and his sister were interested in these fire holes, Andre would tell some legends about the fire holes and some hearsay from time to time along the way, but overall he couldn't help much.

Only this time, after Xiao En entered the cave, his face changed instantly.

And Tini also had the same expression change. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (m) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)

PS: I haven't slept all night. Continue to type.