"Are you alright?"

In the wounded barracks, Richard slightly supported Elena, who was obviously overconsumed and a little weak, although Elena's magic power supply relied on magic crystals, but the use of magic was not only a consumption of magic power, but also a consumption of spirit, fortunately, Elena's spiritual attributes were not low, so she carried it.

The magic power contained in a magic energy crystal was naturally not enough to treat the wounded soldiers of this battalion, and Elena could only control the use of it and try to save the lives of some seriously injured people.

But even to this extent, the doctors and soldiers in these wounded barracks are no different from miracles in their eyes, in the case of magic extinct for hundreds of years, these ordinary people have no concept of magic at all, and even most of the nobles actually don't know much, only some big nobles with a long heritage or great power will understand that they are half claws, and some top nobles or royal families will have one or two magic items that can still be used are kept as inheritance objects.

"Long live Lord Richard!"

"Long live Lord Richard!"

I don't know who started it, when Richard helped Elena to stand upright, the soldiers in the wounded barracks began to cheer loudly, but the object of their shouting didn't seem to be right, maybe in their opinion, since Elena is a subordinate of Lord Richard, then naturally everything is due to Lord Richard.

However, Richard was not unashamed or impatient to that extent, after listening to the cheers of the soldiers around him, he held Elena's hand and raised it, and after raising it high, the other free hand pressed it and signaled the soldiers to stop.

These soldiers of Hunter's family could almost understand the meaning of Richard's gesture, and soon his voice became quieter, and Richard waited until it was almost time, and the leader shouted:

"Long live Lady Elena!"

In fact, everyone saw the scene of Elena's treatment of the wounded soldiers just now, and they also had gratitude and reverence for Elena, and at this time, after Richard took the lead, the cheers sounded again, even no less than the shouts just now.

"Long live Lady Elena!"

"Long live Lady Elena!"

"Long live Lady Elena!"

“……”

"The Dragon of Light..."

Elena, who enjoyed the cheers, was a little uncomfortable at this time, and subconsciously wanted to pray to the dragon of light but was interrupted by the shouts of the soldiers, and stopped in the middle of the conversation, and finally could only smile and nod to the soldiers, but his left hand grabbed Richard tighter and tighter, and Elena, who was brave and not weaker than men on the battlefield, was a little nervous at this time...

"Lord Marquis, there's news of the Magic Energy Crystal."

"Are you sure?"

The main tent is brightly lit, compared to the big tent of the ogre chiefs, Richard's handsome tent is not as good as the ogre chieftains' big tent in other aspects, except that it is more spacious and can accommodate many people's deliberations, and even Richard's handsome tent can be called simple.

After returning from the wounded barracks, Richard flipped through these papers in the marshal's tent, preparing to take a few looks before resting, but at this moment he heard Coren come in to report an important news.

"Tell me about the situation?"

Richard put the scroll back on the table, looked up at Coren and asked.

Cologne, as the intelligence leader of Yusidu, can be brought by Richard in the battle, and it does have an important task, because the early intelligence exploration of the wilderness has always been handled by Cologne, although Cologne's ability is not excellent, but after Richard's teaching and practice, he has become a qualified intelligence leader, and the work in the early stage is quite satisfactory to Richard.

"Lord Marquis, this is the news we just got from interrogating the kobold captives,

There were a few kobolds from the tribe of servants who were once directly attached to Grugsh, and had dug similar red ore for Grugsh, and after a few inquiries and comparisons, we were almost certain that they were digging the magic crystals we had been looking for. ”

"Interrogating kobolds?"

"Well, those kobolds are out there."

"Let them in."

"Yes"

"Bring those kobolds in."

As soon as the words fell, a few doggy heads came out of the handsome tent and looked inside.

"Come in, my lord will let you in."

Just when the dog-headed man hesitated, there was a burst of very strange words outside, and the words that must describe this voice are like the kind of foreigners who can speak a little Chinese in Richard's previous life, but do not use the tone and pronunciation is not standard, and the voice is still a little sharp, and it is actually a little awkward to hear.

"Wang..., hurry up, what are you hesitating about!"

"Wow... Don't kick me, they're not moving. ”

After being urged again and again, this group of kobolds walked in one after another, and a total of four kobolds came in the handsome tent, three of them were ordinary kobolds, unkempt without clothes, but the last kobold, even wearing a well-fitting blue coat, the hair on the body was washed cleanly, and it was not the same kind of dog at first glance.

"The Great Marquis."

Upon entering, the kobold, dressed in blue, bowed to Richard in an exaggerated manner, patting Richard's horse in broken human language.

Although the words were quite lame, they managed to attract Richard's attention, and he looked at Colon with some confusion, and Coren began to explain the ins and outs of the matter to Richard after he understood.

"We all began to try to communicate fully with the kobolds when we began to explore the wilderness, and since the kobolds could understand the ogre's commands, there was no reason why they could not understand human language.

We tried to select some clever minds from the kobold captives to deliberately teach them human language, and so far it has worked well, and Huba is the best learned one of them, and although the tone is ridiculous, there is no problem with basic communication. ”

"Haba is willing to play for you."

Hearing Coren mention his name, Haba straightened his chest and headed back towards Richard.

"Tell me about the red crystals."

Speaking of magic energy crystals, the kobold's little head may not be able to understand it, so it is better to describe it intuitively.

"My lord, they've dug up that red crystal for Grugosh before, and they've all survived the excavation."

"Survived?"

"What's going on?"

In the midst of their conversation, the three kobolds clearly remembered something terrible, and as they spoke, they looked terrified, obviously leaving a shadow on them as they thought of something.

"Great Marquis, the three of them were all digging for the red crystals for Grugosh before, but there are huge humans in the place where the crystals are excavated, and if they encounter those huge humans, they will be eaten as food, and the only unlucky people who participated in the excavation with them are the three of them."

"Huge humans?"

After a little thought, Richard understood what the kobold was describing, a creature next to the snowy fields in the northernmost part of the wilderness, a snow giant who could have the strength of a great knight when he became an adult.

Although the kobold escaped quite quickly, it was still impossible to run past these snow giants who were at least six or seven meters high, and once they were targeted, they could only become food in their stomachs.

It's a bit tricky, although the snow giants have weak fertility and a small population, but that's also relatively speaking, according to the limited information Richard has obtained so far, the snow giant tribe generally has its own hunting grounds, and the environment close to the wilderness doesn't seem to be comfortable for the snow giants.

The snow fields are not a desolate land, there are large herds of cattle and mammoths, which are the objects of snow giants, and the snow giants tribe should be relatively weak if they place their hunting grounds on the border with the wilderness. However, in the weak snow giant tribe, there must be dozens of members, excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled, at least a dozen young warriors can be pulled, that is, the combat power of more than ten big knights.

It's no wonder that Grugash would rather force the kobold to die to try his luck than drive away the nearby snow giants, it is not easy to expel the snow giants with more than a dozen great knights' combat power, and he may also suffer certain losses, anyway, Grugash's demand for magic energy crystals is not large, and there is no need for large-scale mining, sending some kobolds to try their luck is the most cost-effective approach, anyway, the kobolds' lives are not worth much.

But this matter is different here in Richard, Richard's demand is more than a little bit bigger, from the consumption of his subordinates, to the construction of buildings, and even the recruitment of troops in the later stage, he has to use magic energy crystals, and then the scattered mining points like Grugash's before will definitely not satisfy Richard's appetite.

He must drive the snow giants out of the vicinity, and he is bound to obtain the magic crystal mine.

"Cologne."

"The subordinates are here."

Send someone to figure out the route to the vein, I need a detailed route.

"Yes, sir."

……