Chapter 42: On the Road
When she first set out, Anne asked Richard how he would make his way through the blockade of the other tribes and meet the dwarves.
The lord's answer was to just walk in.
"Because it is an encirclement of several tribes that are hostile to each other, it must be full of loopholes, so let's just follow the loopholes and walk in. He was afraid that Anne would not believe it, so he specially explained.
This statement seems fine at first glance, but when you think about it, it is a big problem - in order to be wary of each other, various ministries will inevitably send a large number of scouts to investigate. There are definitely vulnerabilities, but how to find them without being discovered by scouts is the real difficulty.
Anne didn't talk much about watching the joke, but instead of watching the joke, the more she watched it, the more she wondered.
She noticed something strange about Richard.
It is a sleeve made up of two iron cylinders of different thicknesses, with a white crystal lens at the front and a white crystal at the back. The middle is connected with a thread, and the left and right sides can be shortened or lengthened as a whole.
The lord himself often held this thing and looked at it, and then commanded the team to move forward and backward and turn to pause. When he is not available, he is occasionally taken on by Hurt or Gunther, who also watches and directs.
So the whole team's journey became very peaceful, and the vigorous barbarians, the strong centaurs, and the mysterious shamans seemed to be just travelers passing by in the vast wilderness. Ahead is always the same sea of grass and earth, where have you ever encountered half a scout to disturb you.
Anne can basically be sure after watching it for two days, and the secret lies in this sleeve.
Curiosity grows like weeds in the rainy season, until a moment when it is difficult to suppress anymore.
She took advantage of the fact that Richard had just finished using it and was about to put it away, so she delicately took the sleeve and couldn't wait to put her eyes behind the lenses.
The sense of distance was distorted in an instant, and a mossy lying cow stone appeared in front of him in the distance, and it was delicate.
She didn't say anything stupid like "why did that stone come over suddenly", but immediately grasped the subtlety that this sleeve could extend her vision.
Anne must admit that she was shocked that someone could achieve something that was difficult to achieve with expensive magical products through a combination of the properties of matter itself.
Most of the time, the half-elves thought that the Lord of Alpine Castle was a reckless man with a muscular brain, and his brain was shrinking as his muscles proliferated. But occasionally, when I see sporadic flashes of wisdom in the other party, I can't help but suspect that he is a philosopher who is good at hiding himself.
For example, the unique underground nest building, and the "eagle glasses tube" in the hand, the structure is not very complicated, but the mind contained in it is so ingenious.
"With this thing, it's easy to spot the enemy in advance. Anne watched as she tried to rotate the two sockets in opposite directions, and found that doing so could actually adjust the degree of extension of the program.
She quickly became addicted to the novelty, and looked around like a child.
"Don't break it. Richard was so angry that he wanted to snatch the lens back, and he had worn out a bunch of lenses before he could barely make up such a working treasure.
"Everyone is a grasshopper on a rope, what else is yours and mine. These were the words of the Lord the day before yesterday when she blew her nose with her handkerchief.
Richard rolled his eyes, angry and helpless.
"It turns out that I wanted white crystal to do this. Anne had enough of playing before she reluctantly returned.
Lake Bayeux is about three or four days away from Alpine Castle, and thanks to the tube, the first three days of the trip went smoothly. But the last few dozen miles were the most densely populated combat zone for the wilderness, and it was impossible to pass through safely by the lens barrel alone in any case.
"My shaman knows how to do it. Richard pointed to the robed troll, and took the initiative to explain it to Anne once.
Hum Ha two generals originally only had two intelligence, and after becoming a shaman, they were just in time for the turbulent season bandits to wander around, and their initial level was not high, and they followed the guards for a few levels, and now they have been ordered to four.
This level of intelligence is still mentally retarded by human standards. But by the standards of trolls, it's amazing.
There is also a degree of difference between the mentally handicapped and the mentally retarded, and the second general is at least a relatively smart mentally retarded now.
They have learned to be quiet, rarely to do anything out of the ordinary whenever and wherever they want, and they can barely grasp the orders of the lord. This is only a small step for them personally, but it is definitely a historic leap for the entire troll race.
After all, the Dawn Technique is not a higher-level invisibility technique, and it can only cover the line of sight and cannot directly achieve the stealth effect, so Richard put the timing of the last part of the journey at night.
The expedition hid in the grass and waited patiently until the sun set and nightfall.
God is very kind to them, and tonight is a dark night with dim stars, and a little rain is falling.
Ha of the two generals began to hold the spell with his clumsy lips and tongue, and as the preparation stage of the spell gradually drew to the end, looking out from the inside, it seemed as if a crystal cover was slowly descending from top to bottom.
This is the perfect smuggling plan - the concealment effect of the Shu Yun technique itself is good, and with the help of the night and the rain curtain, it is impossible to find the clue without going close and looking closely.
However, the area of the new troll shaman's spell blessing is very limited, and the number of people in the Alpine Fort expedition is inevitably a bit large, so the only solution is to squeeze inside.
"Come on, come on, don't be stunned, stand in line like you've practiced before. ”
The lord was very popular and took a deep breath. And the warriors who had never wavered in the face of the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood even seemed a little cringe.
Anne finally knew what Richard had said about the precise calculation of troops—the whole class was squeezing around the troll shaman into a circular area, and the barely empty space could barely accommodate a lanky half-elf.
"Forward!" Richard rolled his eyes at the elbows of the big men around him.
Only Anne received a little preferential treatment as a woman, and there was more space. In addition, even if others are as strong as Hurt or Gunther, they will inevitably have the illusion that their feet are off the ground. Everyone can only take small steps, inch by inch.
Fortunately, their pain did not last long.
The team had just finished halfway through their scheduled trip when they heard a sound of fighting in front of them. As we continued to move closer, the sound became clearer.
"There's a dwarf on one side, and I've heard the dwarves, and they're still holding on!" Anne was the first to judge.
She has a lot of contact with dwarves, so she can understand some dwarven language.
At everyone's strong request, the art was immediately canceled. Anyway, the war is already in full swing ahead, and no one will notice this group of outsiders who are secretly rubbing in a short time.
The Heavenly Regiment of the High Mountain Fort followed the lord in the dark, hiding in a particularly dense grass.
More than a mile ahead is the headquarters of the dwarven tribe.