The Everglades are connected by water pools, and the islands are dotted. At ordinary times, there is a vast expanse of water, and there is almost no way to follow. It is very difficult for humans to trek in the swamp. But in the snow season, the cold air and continuous snow freeze the swamp into ice. As long as you move along the raised island, you can avoid the deep-water lakes in the swamp without worrying about falling into the relatively fragile lake ice.
At the moment, in the snowy swamp, there is a long line winding westward. They took the snow bags as the road signs, and twelve swamp dragon lizards opened the road in front. Each dragon lizard dragged a sledge, the size of a freight wagon, wrapped in waterproof oil canvas, and filled with goods, so that the thick flax rope used to tie the wagon was tight.
The dragon lizard''s nostrils spewed white fog, and its thick limbs easily plowed more than a foot of snow. The heavy sledge ran over it and pulled out a well-defined road. Hundreds of tough soldiers lined up in two lines and walked behind the dragon lizard sledge. They are symmetrical and agile. They are basically around 22 years old. Although everyone''s appearance is different, their glittering and bright eyes and calm demeanor are their common characteristics.
These soldiers have excellent armour but little clothes. It''s cold in the marsh. They only wear a set of six legged alligator skin armor. The sheepskin cloak on their back is the only warm clothing. Their muscular arms and thighs are directly exposed to the cold and biting air.
Most of them carried a wooden support frame with bulging marching packages. Special flat snow boots trampled on the snow path crushed by the dragon lizard sleigh, making a creaking sound and leaving deep marks. It can be seen how heavy the marching packages were. But they move as usual and are completely unaffected by the weight.
Well trained vassal soldiers are also good at marching with heavy loads, and can basically do so. Reverend Dane knew that these elite soldiers who were not afraid of wind, frost, snow and rain had walked for a whole day and trekked almost 150 kilometers at a uniform speed. They didn''t stop to rest on the way. They even ate and drank water during the March.
Are all the secret guards of the Randall family monsters?
Pastor Dane, sitting in the sledge, secretly felt sick. He suspected that these soldiers would have no problem walking for another two days and nights, and compared them with paladins,
At present, the church has nearly 100000 paladins, while the number of level 4 paladins is only 8000 or 9000. They are the backbone of the clergy''s armed forces, and their social status is equivalent to that of bronze knights. Each level 4 Paladin can assist the combat priest and lead a team of about 10 paladins.
In fact, Dane did not understand the combat effectiveness of these secret guards. He judged that they had Knight level physical quality from their crystal eyes and incredible physical fitness, and came to the conclusion that the personal strength of Randall secret warriors was similar to that of level 4 paladins.
Of course, the actual combat effectiveness of these secret guards is certainly weaker than that of level 4 paladins. Just as the clergy insisted that the fourth level Paladin did not lose to the middle-level bronze knight, but the knight aristocracy never admitted this. Dane also believes that no family''s Secret guards can compare with the fourth level paladins who master the strengthening magic.
However, he admitted that these soldiers were very powerful and had refreshed his understanding of secret law soldiers.
The arcane warriors trained in kite castle are unparalleled in modern times. It is said that some augustian arcane warriors can reach the level of early knights in strength and agility. They can easily lift more than 1 ton of items and charge faster than war horses. His highness Randall has a close relationship with the Auguste family. It seems reasonable for kite castle to train secret law warriors for him.
Dane doesn''t think so. At least these secret warriors in front of him are not trained by kite castle or York family.
When the team set out, he saw two Randall secret warriors lift a sledge full of supplies - it weighed four tons. The early Bronze knight can never easily carry a four ton truck, which can only be achieved by the Middle Bronze knight who resonates with 18 elements.
The strength of Randall''s Secret Law guard has exceeded the limit of ordinary human beings, similar to the extraordinary power of ferocious soldiers. Level 4 paladins who have undergone three body remodelling generally fail to exceed the general power limit, and most people only have the power level of primary bronze knights.
And the number of Randall''s Secret Law guards. The expeditionary force organized by count golden eye has more than 200 members, divided into four teams, and the main team has hundreds of secret law guards.
How could the augustian royal family get more than 100 Knight level secret guards and send them to his highness Randall as ordinary soldiers?
If the relationship between the two sides was cooperative and borrowed, Dane didn''t see any high-level Knights leading the team, either from kite castle or York family.
Obviously, these powerful soldiers are the secret law guards secretly trained by his highness Randall.
In fact, Dane has guessed the origin of Randall''s Secret Law guards, the ferocious fighting dogs and 11 dragon and lizard fighting beasts cruising outside the team, as well as strange and strange dissimilated beasts, especially the four beautiful dragon maids with two horns. Their inadvertent power is even more terrible than the Golden Knight. All these show that the Randall wizard imosen can transform creatures, including humans.
Dayne was surprised that the hunting manager imosen was a wizard kept by his highness Randall. What shocked him was bertina. Like most people, he also liked this innocent and lovely child, but he knew that Pope Clement had examined Bell''s soul with true vision, but had not found her wizard essence.
Perhaps the Pope knew the truth. He deliberately pretended to be deaf and dumb because of Lord Miller''s will.
Of course, if Lord miller wants to protect imosen and bertina, I''m afraid no clergy can detect their essence. Dane is still unable to determine bertina''s wizard identity. His highness Randall allows him to move freely, observe freely and communicate freely with others in the team, but his highness will not provide any answer.
The original words of the angry wind sword saint are: you are not qualified to discuss the action plan with me, so there is no need to ask me about unimportant things.
It''s understandable that his highness Randall is trying to maintain Lord Miller''s prophecy. No matter what Dane guesses, he can''t hinder his judgment. Unless Dane can touch the mystery of the power of fate and become a real golden transcendent.
However, Dane believed that bertina was the key layout for Lord Miller to deal with evil gods.
Now he has no intention of peeping into the secrets of Lord Miller and his highness Randall. His observation and thinking are out of curiosity.
As a scholar and priest of the Pope, Dane thought he knew more about witchcraft than witches. After his observation, he found that there were many things in the team that could not be explained by witchcraft - there were too many secret law soldiers, fierce war dogs and swamp dragon lizards in Randall''s family.
There are many kinds of witchcraft. After a long time of research, Guanghui church classified witchcraft into three categories: Elemental witchcraft, mental witchcraft and deformation witchcraft. Because elements, souls and material forms are closely linked, wizards'' talents and witchcraft are basically mixed, but their witchcraft will not go beyond these three categories.
The hunting manager imosen is obviously the most common deformed wizard, but the root of witchcraft lies in magic and spiritual power. When imosen transforms life form, he must first use magic to control the transformed target.
In other words, the life that imosen can transform and control is limited. Emerson could not believe that he could control so many transformed humans and animals at the same time.
His highness Randall, who has extraordinary wisdom, has analyzed imosen''s Witchcraft rules and developed a set of secret methods to cultivate extraordinary soldiers, which is the answer Dane can think of. Church and secular lords have many similar examples. Paladins reshape their bodies with dragon potion also originated from witchcraft.
In any case, with hundreds of Knight level secret warriors guarding around, Dane felt very safe. His royal highness Randall''s Dragon maid made him full of confidence in the expedition.
The procession slowed down and finally stopped on the flat ice in the middle of the three snow covered islands. Dane poked his head out of the sledge and saw Charlotte jump off his highness Randall''s sledge and come towards the back of the team.
"Mrs. Randall, what happened?" Dane left his sledge and saluted the blonde knight.
Mrs. Randall''s address raised the corners of Charlotte''s mouth and said briskly, "Lord Dane, just call me Charlotte."
The high priest laughed and said: "... Are all companions. Mrs. Randall should call me Dane."
Charlotte''s smile became more and more bright. She nodded and said, "the master ordered the team to rest here. Now you can go to the island in front of him... I''ll go to the back of the team and arrange the camping. Excuse me."
The oath female Knight bowed her knees and walked towards the rear of the team with four ladies holding swords. Dane looked up at the still bright sky, frowned slightly, and, accompanied by the guard, walked to the snow covered Island ahead.
On the island, more than a dozen secret law soldiers are busy cleaning up the site. They shovel away the snow, quickly dig out several fire ponds, wave sharp machetes, harvest the low vegetation pressed in the snow, and soon clean up a large flat land. Victor took bertina by the hand and stood aside with some of his entourages talking and laughing.
After a little hesitation, Dane went up and saluted, "Your Highness..."
Before he finished, a burning look came from Victor''s left. It was the Dragon maid named alexsta. She stared at the priest''s chest, and the greed in her eyes was like a burning flame.
Dane would never mistakenly think that this exotic beauty favored him. Under his breastplate is the holy power crystal given by Lord Miller, which is the priest''s artifact and a ray of glory of the Supreme Lord. Dane would rather sacrifice his life than abandon the holy crystal, which is a belief that priests must have.
Because the Dragon maid coveted the holy crystal, Dane had to take the last sledge alone and try to stay away from the count''s car. Today was his first meeting with the count since he left.
Dane covered his chest and hesitated, like being frightened by a vicious dog when visiting a neighbor. Victor laughs to himself. Lyra is clearly a stunning beauty. She can''t be associated with a vicious dog. Even if everyone is a little afraid of her, she is also a beautiful and vicious dragon maid.
"Dong"
The head was flicked by the master. Lyra blinked her beautiful eyes. A pair of narrow vertical pupils turned into round pupils like pure ruby. She looked at Victor in confusion.
"I''m going to camp here for two days. I''ll take some ferocious dogs, patrol the surrounding areas and mark the territory."
Delimiting territory is one of the Dragon maid''s favorite things. Lyra bowed her knees and said in a charming voice, "as you wish, my dear master."
These days, Victor, Charlotte and Lyra share a sledge. The Dragon maid imitates Charlotte''s coquettish tone to her master, but she doesn''t know the scoring occasion.
His highness Randall was a little embarrassed and ignored the Dragon maid. Instead, he waved to Caligula and said, "aka, take bell to the lake to dig ice and catch fish."
Caligula touched the back of his head and said blankly, "master, aka can''t..."
"Emerson can catch fish. Let''s find Emerson."
Wearing thick winter clothes like a ball, bell skillfully climbed onto Caligula''s shoulder, grabbed his ear and shouted excitedly, "let''s go, let''s go... Let''s find imosen to catch fish."
The only two remaining alchemists led three Gripen militias, following Caligula. These alchemists have followed Victor to participate in the Centaur war, and have enlightened their wisdom. In particular, alchemists have the fighting instinct of spiritual connection, and their personal strength and emotional intelligence are stronger than the three-level blood militia. Victor released the command authority of the five alchemy units to bertina. They are now the personal guards of the little patrol envoy, responsible for protecting her and doing chores for her.
Seeing Victor''s entourage walking away, pastor Dane put down his right hand protecting Shengli crystal, took two steps forward, greeted and asked, "Your Highness, it''s still early today. We''ll set up camp here?"
Victor nodded and said, "I''ve walked for 12 days and only rested for 4 hours a day. My soldiers are energetic, but those antelope camels need to rest."
The expeditionary force brought hundreds of antelope camels. These camels have strong bones and amazing endurance. They are two circles larger than the antelope camels in the Neville mountains. Each antelope camel carries about 400 pounds of goods. Dane thought that these antelope camels did not play a big role, but were a burden to the team. The expeditionary army could have gone faster and farther. It was these antelope camels that slowed down the marching speed of the team. They carried only one more bag than Randall''s Secret Law guard. More than half of the weight was the feed they needed. In fact, there were not many really useful materials.
Dane smiled and said, "Your Highness, I don''t think it''s necessary to bring these antelope camels. Randall''s soldiers have to take time to take care of them."
Victor shook his head and said, "in winter, the Everglades animals are dormant and the plants wither. There are not many resources that can be collected. These camel antelopes are also goods. Although their meat is rough and tastes bad, my dragon lizards and war dogs are not picky about food. Moreover, the surplus Camel antelopes can be used to buy off the half dragon people in front."
"Buy half dragon people?" Dane''s heart moved and asked, "Your Highness, are there any animal language wizards in the team?"
"Isn''t Emerson?"
Dane was stunned and murmured, "it turns out that he is the wizard of the main mental body... He can transform large alienated creatures. I thought he was the main body... Lord imosen''s Witchcraft talent is really strong."
Victor said with a smile: "the church has a mature mental body magic system behind its back. To be exact, it is the inheritance of mental body magic, which can improve the casting ability and magic level of mental body wizards. However, I don''t like to see imosen become too powerful. Do you know what I mean?"
"This... I heard it for the first time." Dane said with a bitter smile, "Your Highness, I promise you that I will never reveal your secret to anyone unless I get your acquiescence."
Victor smiled faintly and said, "the common secret makes our covenant strong. I sincerely hope you can understand the magic inheritance of the secret development of the church one day. Lord Miller chose you to accept the test of fate, and I will help you in the future."
Dane leaned down and said, "I thank your highness."
Victor nodded, turned to the west of the island and said with deep eyes: "The path through the Everglades in the ancestral notes of trigowar has long been useless. A few years ago, I sent several scouts to endless forest to investigate ant man''s nest. The path we choose now is the only one that successfully crossed the lizard swamp. According to their information, there is a lizard tribe ahead."
"I''ve recalled three guards. We''ll stop here for a while to recharge our energy. I hope imosen can negotiate successfully... If not, we can only choose to fight..."
"The most glorious Lord is with us." The high priest recited in a deep voice.
Victor patted him on the shoulder, smiled and said, "I''ll pick up someone in the back first. That guy has been following us for twelve days."
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More than ten kilometers away from the expeditionary army station, Nelson inserted two gold decapitation swords into the ground. He knelt in the snow, took out the dried meat from his backpack and chewed it carefully. It has been his habit for many years to cherish every food. Sleeping in the wind, lying on the ice and tasting the snow is engraved into his bone marrow. He is like a lonely war bear who never hibernates. He lets the snow sprinkle all over his body and the frost knot in his body Eyebrows and eyes, just taste the food carefully.
Nelson grabbed a handful of snow and stuffed it into his mouth. When he looked up, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a slender figure standing in the wind and snow not far away.
With a laugh, he grabbed the long sword and swept forward. The thick snow layer was torn apart under his boots. The snow on his shoulders and the frost on his eyebrows turned into fine white fog. It was steaming and winding. The snow flakes carried by the cold wind could no longer get close to his side. In the blink of an eye, he rushed to people''s face.
"My lord... I''m here to see you off." Nelson half knelt in front of Victor and said heran.
Victor looked at his number one confidant, raised his slender and straight eyebrows and said teasingly, "it''s been sent for twelve days. Oh? You use your life to hide on your way. You think you can hide it from me?"
Nelson habitually touched the back of his head, but smiled and didn''t speak.
Although Nelson acted without authorization, destroyed Victor''s arrangement and put Nicole and Lilia at a disadvantage, he had no scruples about his sister and family, which fully reflected the most valuable loyalty quality of a follower.
Victor felt a warm current in his heart, held out his hand to Nelson and said, "let''s go... You haven''t had a good meal for many days and took you to drink a bowl of hot fish soup. Then, the task of emergency support of the team will be handed over to you."
Nelson was overjoyed and said loudly, "thank you, count! I, Nelson Randall, would like to follow my master and live up to my trust."