Chapter 80: The choice of route

It didn't seem to mean that Alan should stay for a while, and after he had cured Allen, Earl Tyron instructed his servants to inform the men to prepare for Allen's trip to Samuel.

Alan actually still wants to stay in Reef City for a while, after all, he has not returned for such a long time, and he will inevitably miss all kinds of things in Reef City, but he knows that now is not the time to think about this, when the orcs are besieging the city, the most important thing is to go to Samuel to move the rescuers.

So with his cooperation, all the preparations before the trip began to be carried out in an orderly manner.

First of all, food, it's not okay to travel without food for more than a week, and Alan and the others are not those adventurers who live in the wild all year round, and they are not very skilled in skills such as using local materials, if they accidentally eat something poisonous, it will be worth the loss.

Therefore, the food along the way must be prepared in advance. You don't need something too good, brown bread with plenty of water is fine, black bread has a rough texture and a hard taste, but it is very hungry to eat, and it is not easy to spoil, it is an excellent ingredient for going out on an adventure, usually the taste is as hard as sawdust, but as long as it is baked with fire for a while, it is completely edible.

If it weren't for the urgency of the matter, Alan actually wanted to bring more things, after all, as a Chinese person, his requirements for food were much higher than those here, but now he can only come, after all, going to Samuel is to ask for help rather than to enjoy, and before the task is completed, all minor things can be abandoned.

After the food was prepared, the second was the mount, and unlike the previous situation when Alan came here from Reef City, although there were several roads to Samuel City, most of them were on the plains.

Traveling on flat ground is not the same as in the forest, and it is much easier to ride a horse than on foot, so they also need to prepare horses.

It can't be a simple horse yet, it must be a war horse. There are too many magical beasts in the wild, and ordinary horses can only lag behind in the face of those things.

The preparation of the war horses is not difficult, as the lord of Reef City, it is impossible for Earl Tyranny not to even have a few idle war horses in stock, Alan ordered to go down, and it didn't take long for the servants to bring more than a dozen horses.

This trip is mainly for Allen, who is Tarron's son, to go to Samuel's rescue, but the probability of reaching Samuel is very low with his own words, although the relationship is a little discordant, but Taryn can't let Alan go out of the city alone to take risks, so he gave Alan a team of Golden Flame Guards.

Dressed in pale gold full-body plate armor, the helmet mask is tightly closed, revealing only two tiny gaps in the eyes. With a two-handed long sword of excellent quality on his waist, the eight Golden Flame Guards stood quietly in front of Allen, standing tall and looking very imposing.

Although the secret techniques of the Free Federation are forbidden to circulate in the territory of the stars, the objects of the prohibition are only ordinary residents, and it is impossible for the nobles to let go of this method that can be practiced by ordinary people without using it.

Earl Tyranny's Golden Flame Guards are no exception, each practicing a secret technique called Burning Golden Flame, and all of them look full of energy.

Alan was still very familiar with them, and he could even guess who was among them by the heavily armed armor, and although the nobles' private soldiers were relatively mobile, Alan had not been away for long, and he knew almost all the people standing here.

It's just that unlike the servants in the castle, the Golden Flame Guard doesn't mean to greet Eren except for the initial handover, not because he has an opinion about Alan, but about discipline.

It's nothing to say hello and reminisce in private, but on a formal occasion like this, no one would be so idiotic that they can casually be close to the earl's youngest son regardless of the situation or venue.

And every time they go out of town, they have to take it seriously, and to be honest, they are not in the mood to get close.

Food, water, horses, other miscellaneous items, and ample supplies of weapons, it took about an hour for Alan and his party to prepare these things, gathered on the first floor of the castle, and under the watchful eyes of the passing servants, they were ready to set off.

Before they set off, however, they disagreed again over the route.

The main reason is that Andrea Andrew, the two brothers assigned to Allen by the earl, disagree, and Allen has not been out of town much, and he is inexperienced, so he does not express an opinion on this.

The Andrea and Andrew brothers are Tyron's two other Blood Knights assigned to Allen in addition to the Golden Flame Guard.

Compared to the Golden Flame Guards, the blood knights are much rarer, these knights who use the blood of the Apocalypse Knights to give birth to secret methods, each of them is the right-hand man of the noble lord, during the war, they often act as the nobles' subordinates, assisting the knights in battle.

Compared with the Golden Flame Guard, the combat power of the Blood Knight is much stronger, although it is not as strong as the Apocalypse Knight, but there is no problem for one person to challenge a whole team of secret technology guards, and it may inherit some characteristics of the Apocalypse Knight, the blood knight grows older, the combat power also doubles and becomes stronger, the older he gets, the stronger he becomes, and the secret skill guard is much happier than the hard haha seems to have to cultivate.

It's just that although it has inherited some of the advantages of the Apocalypse Knight, its flaws have also been inherited "perfectly", or rather, it is not only a perfect inheritance, but also exceeded.

The Knights of the Apocalypse have amazing combat power, but their shortcomings are also obvious, that is, their mood swings are large, and their personalities are often more paranoid, which they can't see when they don't use their bloodline abilities, but as long as they participate in battle, that special paranoia will make many people frightened.

Paranoia is not extreme, according to different bloodlines, the personality of the Apocalypse Knight is not very different, such as the golden flame of the Chrissy family, when it is used, it wants to burn everything when it is seen, this paranoia seems to be called impulsive, and it is like a subconscious instinct.

This can be regarded as a side effect of strong power, it is one of the few weaknesses of the Apocalypse Knights, but although the knights are usually affected by this, the impact is subtle, and there is a special bloodline suppression, so it can't be seen at all.

And as their derivatives, the Bloodline Knights don't have this kind of suppression, and it is very convenient for them to inherit the power of the Apocalypse Knights, but they have many shortcomings, and the emotional fluctuations that are usually uncontrollable are one of them.

For example, now, on the question of the route forward, Allen, who is an adventurous rookie, is humbly listening to the lecture, and the two brothers quarrel without saying a few words.

"I don't think it's a good idea to go around the source river canyon, the orcs outside the city have already fenced off the reef, and the time is short, you still want us to go far away?"

Bald, full of beard, burly figure, as a younger brother, Andre reprimanded his brother without the slightest politeness, his fists hammered the table hard, and the spat in his mouth splashed, spraying his eldest brother's face.

"You coward, if you delay the Earl's plans, can you afford to be responsible?"

As the eldest brother, Andrew was relatively calmer, but it was only relatively speaking, under the silent gaze of Allen and his party, he retorted with a blowing beard and glaring: "It is obviously much safer to start from the route of the Source River Gorge than from Heisongde, and you still don't know how many orcs are hidden on this road of Heisongde?

"Take the risk and go from here, Young Master Allen has a good one, can you afford to take responsibility?"

This guy didn't care about anything else, and Alan was a little embarrassed to hear it, but the two brothers were also good at it even in front of Tyron, and they weren't very smart in the first place, and they were even more brainless when they were affected by external forces.

The argument continued, and his brother Andre was disdainful of Andrew's rebuttal.

"The orcs have come here to besiege the city, I don't believe there are other orcs on the road, in other words, even if there are other orcs, are we decorations?"

"Come on, you, when did you take care of the others, if you hadn't been crazy and chased the gray stone last time, how could Cage get hurt?"

"It's ridiculous, I chase the gray stone and ignore it, as if you just care!"

"Why didn't I care, if it weren't for ......"

“......”

After listening to it for a long time, he found that the more noisy they became, Alan couldn't help but shake his head speechlessly, so off the line, I really don't know how the always mean and serious Earl Taryn can stand these two guys.

Ignoring the two brothers who were arguing, he picked up the map on the table, and Alan looked at it intently.

Under normal circumstances, it will not take long for Reef City to go to Semeil by land and water, starting from the port of Reef City and directly reaching the Scarlet Plains where Semere City is located.

But now because of the orcs, the port of Reef City is temporarily unusable, and Alan and his party can only take other routes if they want to go to Semeul.

Cutting out the uncultivated wilderness, they had only two routes to choose from.

One is from the edge of the burning wilderness outside Reef City, to the Black Pine Tripart, after crossing the three forks to the southern part of the Scarlet Plains, and finally across the southern plains to the city of Semere, deep in the plains.

This road is relatively close, and it will not take more than a week to reach Semere, but there are many orcs in the southern part of the Scarlet Plains, and it is inevitable to run into those barbarians from this road.

The other route is from the edge of the Burning Wilderness, and when it reaches the Black Pine Tripart, it does not cross the river, but continues eastward, following the waterway around to the source river gorge on the east side of the Scarlet Plains, passing through the canyon to the town of Candela in the eastern part of the plains, and then following the eastern plains to Semere.

Compared to the southern part of the Scarlet Plains, the Eastern Plains are much safer, there are not many orcs there, and the wilderness monsters are not too powerful, which is the preferred route for caravans when the port of Reef City is out of use.

And not to mention safety, you can also get some supplies in Candela town on the way, which can be described as safe and comfortable.

It's a long way, and a week is enough to get to the destination.

After thinking about it for a long time, Alan couldn't help but make a decision, in the face of these two guys with off-line personalities, he couldn't care about his rookie identity, pointing to a place on the map, he interrupted the quarrel between the two Andrew brothers.

"Let's go here!"