Finally the horses had enough water to drink, and the various containers were filled with water, and the team set out again.

With the Fountain of Immortality as a coordinate point, Jacques quickly determined the location of the group, which happened to be in the center of the Umatak meadows, and the nearest river would take three to four days to walk northwest.

At night, when Lily and Jacques finally had a chance to be alone, Lily hurriedly asked the question that had plagued her for the day: "Why did those beasts let us drink water?

"I didn't even dare to say that we stole the Beastmaster's water today!" Jacques scared Lily.

"Stealing a drink? means we're not allowed to do it?"

"Yes, we also have the beastmaster to lead the team, and the lions dare not stop us, but they still reluctantly let us drink the pool water. The main thing is that the Beastmaster happens to be absent. ”

Lily had palpitations, "I didn't expect the fat orange to be able to bluff them, the Beastmaster's sphere of influence on the geography doesn't say that there is a Beastmaster in the Umatak Meadow! ”

Jacques comforted: "Maybe this Beastmaster is very low-key, and the Beastmaster will not be careful to trouble us for a little water." It's no wonder that the strange beasts by the dry spring are so orderly, it turns out that there is a beast king in charge. ”

The two continued to talk for a while, and then gradually fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, Fat Orange heard some sounds, so he ran out of the camp following the source of the sounds, and disappeared into the night of the grassland.

The next day, in the morning.

There was no sunrise, the sky was cloudy, it seemed like it was going to rain, and the dry season was coming to an end.

Not long after, the rain finally fell, and the dripping rain fell for more than an hour, soaking the earth and bringing the grassland back to life.

Sanders and Duane, who are familiar with the grasslands, said the rain seemed to come too soon, and that the first rain of the rainy season in previous years should not arrive until a month later.

Jacques wasn't very interested in climate change, as long as it rained, it was a good thing, even if it was earlier, and what bothered him was that Fat Orange didn't know where to run and didn't respond to the call, this was the first time this had happened.

The distance between the two sides was too far away, and sensory sharing and telepathy were ineffective, and Jacques finally realized how dependent he was on the chubby orange-white cat.

Jacques didn't leave, the team didn't leave, and everyone just had a little rest.

Lily notices Jacques's anomaly, and when she learns that Fat Orange is missing, she becomes helpless, so she can only sit with him in a bundled tent and wait for Fat Orange.

After about two hours, the mercenaries also realized that something seemed to be happening, and Nameless couldn't help but run over to ask when they would leave.

Jacques was about to explain that he had lost his cat and needed to wait for it to run back, when the grass in front of him shook, and Fat Tangerine came out of it.

Jacques hurriedly stepped forward, hugged Fat Orange, and telepathically asked where it had gone.

Lily's eyes lit up, she stood up, and walked past Jacques into the grass, where another delicate cat's head poked out of the grass, and then Lily grabbed her, and the other cat was dragged out of the grass.

The cat has a slender body, four are also slender, a small head, large ears, an earthy yellow background with black spots, and a short tail.

"Ah, it's a prairie cat, huh...... It's a she-cat!" said Lily, taking the prairie cat into her arms.

Nameless also understood, and said, "It turns out that Fat Orange is on a date! This is his girlfriend!"

Fat Orange threw a roll of his eyes at Nameless and left a sentence to Jacques: "These days, help the emperor serve it well." ”

Ignoring Jacques, he took the she-cat, who had come out of Lily's arms, and found a pack horse, and the two cats nestled comfortably on their luggage and went to sleep.

The team continued to set off, treading on a slightly muddy meadow, towards the city of Betio.

......

Meanwhile.

A team of knights dug up more than twenty hastily buried bodies by the river where the Jacques horses had once been stationed. One of the headless corpses and a slightly decomposed charred skull were recovered.

"Captain, confirmed, it's Master Donnie. ”

"You can take two people and send them back. ”

"Yes, Captain!"

The knight removed the felt mat from behind the horse and wrapped the corpse and placed it on the horse's back.

The three horsemen broke away from the group and headed south.

"Rita-sama, what should you do with that person?" the captain asked a masked man beside him, judging by his figure, it should be a young woman.

The only surviving subordinate of Otis, who led the knights to the place of battle, waited with trepidation for the verdict of fate.

The woman spoke, but her voice did not match her figure, and she looked very old, "Lord Lord, no one can fool Wharton, it's no one! ”

After saying that, he flicked his black cloak, turned around and got on his horse and left.

The captain of the knights looked at Otis's men who were standing still, shook his head, and waved his men to get on their horses and leave.

More than twenty horsemen marched north, gradually moving away.

Otis's men were still standing in place, their eyes blank and their bodies motionless, and if they approached him at this time, they would find that he had already stopped breathing.

The grandmaster's use of "stiffness" is indeed to kill people invisibly.

......

Castile, the capital of Rand, on the outskirts of the city.

Bang!

Bang!

The sound is endless......

The sky was cloudless, and a puff of white smoke rose from the ground.

A knight galloped from a distance, dismounted and said, "Report to Lord Duke and Lord Shousuke, all the targets at a hundred meters have hit, eighty percent of the targets have been hit at three hundred meters, more than sixty percent have been hit at five hundred meters, forty percent have been hit at one thousand meters, two percent have been hit at two thousand meters, and less than one percent have been hit at three thousand meters." ”

Duke Castilla smiled: "Robert, the long-range hit rate of your imitation cannon seems to be insufficient, but the range is much longer than the Legion's scorpion crossbow." ”

Robert replied, "Lord Duke, so I still insist that the most suitable location for artillery at present is ships at sea, and we need more equipped and more powerful artillery than the Stuarts on our ships, and then dominate the seas." ”

The Duke sighed: "Hey, I didn't expect Brother Aichendorf to be killed by such a mortal weapon. Robert, if the one-man cannon you studied succeeded, do you think the transcendents are going to be ruled by mortals in reverse?"

Robert explains:

"My lord, I think you are overthinking, not to mention that the gunpowder used by the Stuarts to kill the head of Echendorf is enough for us to fire here for a day.

As you can see in the experiment just now, the artillery has limited lethality against the transcendents above the Plasticizer, and a direct hit will only cause minor damage, and it will take continuous hits to inflict fatal injuries.

But the transcendents can run, the frequency of artillery firing is low, and the attack range is also small, and it may be difficult to hit a single shot when it really hits.

If it is miniaturized and can be operated by a single person, then the power will be even less. ”

Robert went on to say:

"In fact, with the appearance of artillery, it is the royal family and the legion that are really to be feared.

The dense queue of the legion happens to be the target of the artillery, and if they are scattered, the legionnaires who can't use the synergistic source energy skill are still a big threat?"

The Duke said, "You can get the artillery technology from the Stuarts, and I'm afraid the royal family will get it too." ”

Robert hurriedly bowed down and said: "Lord Duke, this is also what I want to ask you for, I judge that the royal family should also get the technology of artillery, the royal family's factories in the northern region have recently increased the demand for coal, iron, sulfur, and nitrate. I've used my connections to cut off their supply, and I think if it goes well, the factories in the Northern Regions should have stopped working by this time. ”

"That's a good job, about equipping ships, you go and equip a fleet first, in the past two years, Stuart's privateers have often robbed our merchant ships, you can use them first, just to train the team, and test the actual combat ability of artillery at sea. ”

Robert commanded, "Yes, Lord Duke!"

The duke got on his horse and left, and before leaving, he remembered something: "By the way, I received news that next year, the Bright God Council will stop the trade of source stones for grain, and you must prepare in advance." ”

Watching the duke go away, Robert said to the knight beside him, "You go and find out why the Kingdom of Light stopped trading, and also check the source of the old guy's information." ”

"Yes, you will grow!"

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