The sun was setting, and before the curfew in the barracks, Shen Hao carried the statue of "Sword in the Stone", which was twice as tall as himself, back to his barracks. Although he attracted the surprised eyes of countless soldiers along the way, he didn't care in the slightest.

The Holy Crusader was treated well in the army, and despite being only a squad leader at the lowest level, he still had a separate room, albeit one room that only had room for a marching bed and a simple wardrobe.

Finally freed up a piece of space, put down the huge statue in his hand, Shen Hao clapped his hands with satisfaction, grabbed the kettle on the side, poured a glass of water, sat on the edge of the bed and drank it. As the name suggests, the statue is a sword that has sunk deep into the rock, almost reaching the hilt, and the rock below it is a single body.

However, Shen Hao knew very well that the hilt of the sword exposed above the rock was not just a decoration, there was really a sword body deep into the rock under it, he had gently tested it with his hand in the shop before, although he pretended to be unshakable on the surface, but in fact he had pulled this sword slightly upward.

Heavy, this is Shen Hao's only impression of this sword. The statue is 12,000 pounds together with the base rock, but although the rock below has been carefully carved for beauty, it can still be seen that it is only a very common limestone, and from this volume, it is only about 5,000 pounds at most. Then it can be seen that the blade of this sword in the stone has a terrifying weight of 7,000 pounds. It is this unimaginable weight that no one else can shake, so much so that it is mistakenly believed that the hilt above is just an ornament carved in one piece with the base.

Stroking the hilt of the sword, it feels rather rough to the touch, and this quaint shape of the hilt seems to be carved from blue-gray stone, which is one of the reasons for misunderstanding. However, Shen Hao pinched it hard with his hand, and the sword handle that seemed to be carved from ordinary bluestone did not leave any traces, you know, with Shen Hao's current grip, let alone a stone, even the fine iron used to forge the city gate will be kneaded into a discus raw.

Holding down the bluestone base with one hand and holding the hilt of the sword with the other, the muscles on Shen Hao's arm bulged slightly, and an unpleasant friction sound was heard, and a stone sword was pulled out of the bluestone inch by inch with Shen Hao's movements.

The sword is four feet three inches long, slightly longer than the average one-handed knight's sword. Shen Hao gently blew away the stone chips and dust at the blade, revealing a sword body that was as black as ink and as smooth as jade. This is indeed a stone sword, but I don't know what kind of stone it is made of, not only is it extremely heavy, but it is also extremely strong, at least Shen Hao held the two ends of the stone sword with both hands, and broke it a few times with a slight force, and the entire sword body was not damaged at all.

With a wave of his hand, the limestone base where the sword had been buried before suddenly shattered, and the position where it was directly hit was even more shattered into powder. Although the epee has no edge, this kind of destructive power is quite good. Shen Hao nodded with satisfaction, this stone sword is estimated to be able to exert its greatest value only in his own hands.

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The news that Shen Hao had overturned an entire squad of the Seventh Brigade alone caused quite a stir among the soldiers at the bottom. However, the upper echelons of several brigades have not made any moves, and the Judge Advocate General's Office has acted as if nothing had happened at this time.

Of course, Shen Hao would not be naïve to think that this matter would be over, he knew that among the twenty people who were injured by himself, there were six people with aristocratic backgrounds, and in the eyes of those high-level officials, he was just a commoner who had made some achievements because of luck. The reason why it was not launched for the time being was just that I didn't want to involve those noble children in this limelight, after all, twenty people were seriously injured by one person at the same time, and this kind of thing, whether it was right or wrong, was a very humiliating thing.

So Shen Hao still led his subordinates to practice and patrol every day, the only difference was that his original exquisite standard knight's saber was replaced by a rough and ugly stone sword, and the scabbard that carried the stone sword was also tied with iron chains several times, which looked nondescript and had no beauty at all.

A week later, a letter of appointment arrived. Under the pretext of changing guards, the military department transferred Shen Hao and his squad to the Hai Ruian Fortress, and after entering the fortress, Shen Hao was also incorporated into the scout team, and before he could familiarize himself with the environment in the fortress, he was sent into the dangerous wilderness.

The standard equipment of the Crusaders was a pale gold suit of heavy armor, and the helmet was so heavy that it wore only one pair of eyes. The second is a knight's sword and a round shield, both of which are made of fine steel, which are sturdy and durable, and can be used with battle formations, and can even face the knight's charge.

With such equipment, carrying weight has always been a difficult problem to solve, not to mention that the round shield and war sword on Shen Hao's body are thickened and heavy, although such weight will not affect him too much, but in the process of marching, even if it is a hard mountain rock, it will occasionally be crushed by him.

The scout team consisted of eight men, including four crossbowmen and three pikemen, in addition to one of his crusaders. Scouts occasionally have horses, but the direction they want to explore is the wooded area where the orcs live, and bringing horses with them will do nothing other than increase their target and increase their chances of being spotted by the enemy.

Since the elven kingdom Aveli sent troops, Crulod was forced to fight on two fronts, so he could only withdraw most of the troops near the Helion Fortress, and the remaining troops were scattered in the nearby mountains and forests and stationed on the spot, which could not only reduce the pressure on the logistics baggage, but also continue to cause a certain amount of pressure on the Helian Fortress.

Therefore, the defenders of the herion also made adjustments, on the one hand, slightly reducing the garrison of the fortress, and on the other hand, sending a large number of scouts into the opposite mountain forest, so that they could not only monitor the movements of those orcs at any time, but also randomly annihilate some lone orc warriors, which in turn put pressure on the army left behind by Krulord.

Although they are also a mountain and forest race, the mountains and forests where the orcs live are different from those of the elves, and the mountains and forests where the elves live are mostly dense forests and ancient trees, with beautiful scenery along the mountains and rivers. The orcs live in a rocky area with dwarf shrubs. And their way of fighting is not to rely on the natural environment to sneak up on their opponents like the elves, but to use their strong physique and flying posture between mountains and rocks to launch wild strikes against the enemy.

Shen Hao was very helpless, those nobles really had no lower limit to their means of harming people, not only did they let themselves go out of the city as scouts, but even the few soldiers assigned to him were actually new melon eggs who had just joined the army. Coupled with his own recruit captain, none of them had experience as a scout in the vicinity. Just a small group of less than ten people like them was thrown into Mt. Esquire, which was simply an act of giving human heads to those murderous orcs.

Fortunately, Shen Hao is not a recruit in the true sense, he is also very handy in mountain and forest warfare, and in the Terminator world, it is easy for a person to silently touch a team of heavily armed bandits. Looking at the few recruits behind him who would be out of breath when they climbed the mountain in simple leather armor, he shook his head helplessly.

"You guys are waiting here for me, and if there's any emergency, I'll shoot arrows into the air." Finally found a suitable place, and Shen Hao arranged for the recruits to rest on the spot. This is a mountain cliff with a very wide view, and what is even more rare is that the cliff side is not bare rocks, but is full of large bushes. As long as these recruits stay honestly in the bushes, they can easily observe the situation in the few mountain trails below, and they can also effectively hide themselves.

Finally able to rest, several recruits cheered in a low voice, and they all found cover to hide, Shen Hao shook his head, stepped forward to guide the concealment actions of several recruits, and after looking at it that seemed not so conspicuous, he took his weapon and turned around and walked in the other direction.

The hunter likes to lie in ambush by the river, so that any animal that needs water can easily get into his trap. Orcs are also creatures that need water, and the river is an ideal place to ambush them.

Shen Hao hid behind a bush, the pale gold coating of the armor on his body had been finely ground off by him with sand and gravel, and after being smeared with earth and grass juice, it could barely become a protective color like a camouflage uniform.

Soon, a few birds were startled in the forest on that side, and after a while, the trees parted, and several tall orc warriors led a few gray wolves out of the forest.

The orc warriors of Korulod are generally stronger and taller than humans, almost all of them are more than two meters tall, and their muscles are as hard as iron under their rough blue-brown skin. They can't make armor as good as humans, but their physical defenses alone can outperform those of humans in leather armor. Coupled with their bloodthirsty and fearless fighting style, the same number of orc warriors can completely abuse heavily armed humans if they fight without obstacles. Of course, such a law does not apply to the two ace legions of humanity - the Silver Heavy Knights and the Holy Crusaders.

Shen Hao quietly observed the three orcs, and his eyes were quickly attracted by the giant wolf they were leading. These giant wolves are similar to the timberwolves in the real world, but they are much larger, the size of a bull, with thick and powerful limbs, and two pairs of fangs in their mouths that are slightly out of their lips.

The strength of the orc wolf cavalry, Shen Hao has also heard of it, although these wolves are slightly inferior to human war horses in terms of endurance, but the short-range explosive power is very terrifying, and as mounts, they also have the ability to attack with their masters, their strong limbs and sharp fangs and claws are not just decorative things.

Not far out of the jungle, the three wolves stopped in confusion, their big noses snorting something, but unfortunately Shen Hao had the foresight to smear his body with grass juice, these wolves sniffed for a long time and couldn't determine whether there was really an enemy lurking nearby, hesitated slightly, or obeyed the master's pull, and walked towards the river.