Looking at the stars shining in the sky, but the moon was only a crescent moon left, the general of one of the Elven Queen's two guards, Strilisa Magkhara, was waiting anxiously outside a small palace. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After waiting for a while, a tree elf with leaves on its head and green skin suddenly walked out of the palace, looking strange to humans, orc-eared people, and elves. This elf wears the clothes of an elven priest, has a noble posture, and has a high status among the elves.

Seeing the Dryad Priest coming out of the palace, Strixa immediately walked over and asked anxiously, "How is the situation?" ”

Unfortunately, the Dryad Priest shook his head and said, "My Phantom Archers didn't do what we wanted them to do. ”

"How so!? Didn't you say you would be able to turn the tide?!" Strixa grabbed the Dryad Priest's clothes and yelled excitedly.

The Tree Elf Priest who was caught by her smiled slightly and said, "I've never said anything like that, what I'm saying is that I'm doing my best." Moreover, you must know that the people of the Mirakesa Kingdom are not fools, and since they can think of relying on the Dragonspine Mountains to defend themselves against our attack by occupying the area on that side of the Dragon's Back Mountains, they will probably know what we will do. It is also normal for them to be vigilant in advance. ”

"Do you mean that your Dryad Phantom Archers can't even defeat the soldiers of the Humans and the Orc-Eared Clan!?"

The Tree Elf Priest shook his head and said with a smile, "Judging from the results obtained, they have proven that they are more than twice as strong as ordinary soldiers!" Just a hundred Phantom archers killed four hundred and fifty-seven soldiers of the Mirakaisa Army. This is something that is difficult for ordinary elven soldiers to do! ”

"But they didn't get the job done!! Isn't it!? Striisa asked angrily.

However, the Tree Elf Priest didn't care about the task in Strilisa's mouth, but persuaded him: "General, you must know that we have carefully prepared for the Mirakesa's counterattack this time, and the weapons and equipment, horses, grain and grass alone are the best in the Mirakesa Kingdom. Naturally, they will guard against possible counterattacks from all angles, and they will not give us a chance to counterattack. It is impossible to force it. Moreover, the current situation does not allow us to fight on both sides, and any illusion that we can divide our forces to defeat the army of the Mirakesa Kingdom until we clear up the trouble of the gloom is unrealistic! Think about it, if we divide our troops and let Yu Yu find an opportunity to assassinate the empress, won't we become Yu Yu's accomplices? ”

"You're arguing with reason!"

"General, think about it. Is it the land that can be recaptured anytime and anywhere that matters, or the whole country that matters? I'm sure you should know which is more important. The Tree Elf Priest smiled slightly, and with great ease, he broke free of Strilisa's hands, bowed, and left the place.

Looking at the back of the tree elf priest, Strilisa was so angry that she couldn't help but say, "Agomeras, don't think I don't know, you were also the elf who agreed to let Eldridge come to our Alpha Empire!" Now that you see that the dark forces do not listen to your tree spirits, you want to use our power. I tell you, one day, I, Stririsa Maggara, the general of the Empire, will wipe out you smugglers of the Dryads!! ”

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Early the next morning, the Alpha Empire was occupied by the Kingdom of Mirakesa, and in the area on this side of the Dragon's Back Mountains, almost all cities with teleportation magic stations used special magic devices to inform other cities and troops about the Phantom Archers.

Sitting in a secret underground room in the mansion, Winsland and Chimera watched Lu Ming and several magicians study the plant that inhabited the phantom archer's body.

Phantom archers are now appearing in every city with a teleportation station, and if there is no way to find out in advance that these elves are enemies, then work out a way to find the plant.

Now, relying on the seeds blessed by the god Kaeya, a special sense can be generated to find the hidden plant.

However, this does not work very well, the effective range is very poor, and only within 20 meters can this plant be sensitized, so more methods must be developed.

And now it's all you can do with this simple method.

Seeing the plant struggling and wailing under the magic of Lu Ming and the others, Winsland and Chimera gradually felt a little bored. But soon Lu Ming used frost magic to freeze the plant and walked over.

"How's it going?" Seeing Lu Ming coming over, Winsland immediately walked over and asked.

"It's not good. Now we don't have any other way than those seeds. Lu Ming shook his head and said.

"How can we only rely on these seeds?"

"Yes. Now we can only rely on this seed. Nodding, Lu Ming casually took out a very twisted fruit from his clothes, handed it to Winsland, and said: "This is the fruit of the fruit tree that has been blessed by the god of Kaeya, and it can be used to hold the festival of the god Kaeya, so as to get more seeds, which can be used to sense those evil things and find out the phantom archers hidden in the area we occupy." ”

Taking the twisted fruit, Winsland looked at the fruit carefully, and then said to Lu Ming, "I'll go to the priest now and start making these seeds." ”

With that, Winsland hurried out.

Seeing this, Lu Ming naturally left the basement with the Chimera, preparing to take a rest and listen to the report of the Yugsotus knights who were patrolling the city with seeds.

However, before leaving here, Lu Ming instructed the magicians who were his assistants to place the parasitic plant that had been frozen into a special enchantment for safety, so as not to cause anything.

The magicians felt that he was too cautious about the order. But they obediently put the parasitic plants in the enchantment. Who made Lu Ming their boss?

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Sitting in the office, Lu Ming listened to the reports of the knights, looked at a patrol map in his hand, and after a while, he raised his head, looked at his knights, and said, "You mean, you didn't find other phantom archers in the city, and you also found other parasitic plants, so you think they should be hidden?" ”

"Yes, Lord Viscount! The task of those phantom archers is to activate the teleportation magic station, so they who have not yet completed this task should be hiding in a hidden place in the city now, waiting for an opportunity, as long as we let our guard down, they will seize the opportunity, activate the teleportation magic station, and catch us off guard! The captain of these knights was a cautious person, so her answer was full of concern.

Hearing the knights under his command say this, Lu Ming pondered for a moment, and then said, "You go and inform the magicians in the army and let them establish enchantments at various intersections in the city. In addition, the teleportation magic station in the city needs to build an enchantment! The plants in the body of those phantom archers go berserk as soon as they are disconnected from their owners. So it's a passive way to find out about them. ”

Hearing this, the knights immediately saluted Lu Ming and shouted, "Yes!" Then he strode out of here and went to complete the task given to them by Lu Ming.

After the knights left, Lu Ming directly climbed onto the table. In the past three days, he basically didn't close his eyes, he was already tired, and now the only thought in his mind was to lie down on the bed, hold his wife, and sleep well.

Unfortunately, the reality is so cruel.

Before Chimera could help him back to his room, a knight arrived in his makeshift office with a cloaked child.

"Lord Viscount, this child wants to see you. She says she has a way to find the Phantom Archer hiding in the city! ”

The knight's words made Lu Ming, who was already too tired, suddenly come to his senses, and hurriedly sat up straight and looked at the little child wearing a cloak.

Out of politeness, the little child lowered the hood of his cloak and revealed his face.

"Dryads? Interesting! Seeing that the child's hair had a lot of leaves in it, and the color of his hair and skin was green, Lu Ming couldn't help but feel a little interested.

"What's your name, kid?" Lu Ming glanced at the knight who brought the tree elf in, motioned for him to bring a chair over, and then asked the tree elf.

Sitting down on the chair brought by the knight and thanking the knight, the little girl said to Lu Ming, "I am Jukana Mandela, and I am the priest of the Mandela tribe among the tree elves. This time, I came to Lord Viscount because of the appearance of the Phantom Archer. ”

“......”

"As a human, you may not know anything about us tree elves, after all, we and the rest of our fellow elves don't know much about us. But I can tell you that not all Dryads like the cruelty of Phantom Archers! At least we, the Mandela tribe, are very opposed to this. ”

"Just because you oppose the use of Phantom Archers, you Mandela Clan Dryads have decided to choose to help us Mirakesars who have taken over the lands of the Alpha Empire?" Lu Ming frowned and asked with some suspicion.

"We Dryads are not part of the Alpha Empire, and the Alpha Empire has never considered us Dryads to be part of this country. In the eyes of those white elves, we tree elves are similar to the Darkk elves. It's just that we're more easy-going and non-aggressive, so we don't need to clean it up. Rukana smiled faintly and explained to Lu Ming: "In this form, just like before your country chose to accept those nomadic tribes, we didn't get the slightest assistance from the Alpha Empire, and we also wouldn't do anything for the Alpha Empire. Except for the Mandala tribe. ”

"Mandala tribe?"

"Yes! Mandala tribe. They are outliers among the Dryads, lacking interest in peaceful life and more interested in war. In order to participate in the war, all of their tribes pledged allegiance to the Empress of the Alpha Empire, and encouraged her to launch attacks on the surrounding countries. In addition, the invasion of the Alpha Empire on your Mirakaisa was also persuaded by them to the Empress of Alpha! ”

"Are the only of the Dryads who do things for the Alpha Empire? And what is the attitude of the Dryad of their tribe towards something as evil as the Phantom Archer? Frowning and thinking for a while, Lu Ming opened his mouth and asked Rukana.

"As far as we in the Mandela tribe know, the one of the Dryads who works for the Alpha Empire is this evil tribe. The other Dryads who worked for the Alpha Empire did so out of their own own will, not the will of the clan. As for the matter of the Phantom Archer, in fact, such an evil thing as the Phantom Archer was researched by the Mandala tribe! ”

Hearing Rukana's answer, Lu Ming paused slightly, and then, as if he remembered something, he flipped through a notebook in the drawer, and then began to flip through the pages one by one, and finally stopped at the page that recorded a white flower that he called a mandala flower.

Looking at his research notes in the book, Lu Ming frowned and thought about it, then said to Rukana: "Since your clan is willing to help us, then please ask the elves of your clan to live in the city temporarily." After all, it's wartime, and we Mirakesa must be careful. ”

"There's nothing we in the Mandela tribe don't understand about this. It's just that seeing what the Viscount did just now, it seems that you have something in mind, can you tell me about it? ”

"Actually, there is nothing, just thinking about what that evil thing in the Phantom Archer's body is." Lu Ming smiled slightly, picked up a pen, wrote and drew in a blank notebook, and finally handed it to Jukana.

Although Rukana did not know the writing of the kingdom of Mirakesa, she could tell from the two very direct drawings that it was the kind of plant that the tree elves of the Mandala tribe had implanted into the body of a normal elf in the body of the elf, and what it had originally looked like when it had grown in its natural environment.

"What are you doing researching this?"

"This flower, in our Miracaisa, is used as a painkiller and anesthetic. However, it was a little strange that the tree spirits of the Mandala tribe were able to turn such a poisonous plant into such a monster. However, now that we know what it is, we should be able to find a way to suppress it, so that we can take out this plant in advance of saving the lives of the Phantom Archers! ”

Looking at a hint of excitement in Lu Ming's eyes, Rukana asked with a slight worry, "Lord Viscount, do you really want to suppress it, and not want to use it like the Mandala tribe?" And what do you want those phantom archers to do alive? ”

"We in Mirakaisa have a more useful puppet technology, and we recently got the Golem technology, so what do we want to do with something like a phantom archer that is not human and too evil? In the end, why those phantom archers are alive is just to get information. Lu Ming glanced at Rukana a little strangely, not knowing what she meant, but still answering the latter question that gave her a question.