As soon as the messenger team left an hourglass, Crane began to turn his head in the direction of the forest.

After the second hourglass, Byron and Adolf, who had a real understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Andrarui soldiers, also began to become uneasy.

The task of the courier team is simply to deliver information, and they must travel much faster in the jungle than the hunting party. A thousand-strong hunting party couldn't hide itself in the forest, and it shouldn't have taken much effort for the courier team to catch up with them. However, they still failed to return to the camp safely after setting off the two hourglasses, which seemed to the three of them to be a very unusual taste.

"Should we send some more men into the forest to find out what the hunting party is doing?after all, our enemies have incredible hidden abilities in the forest......" In addition to Adolf, who was already on the same side as him, Crane wanted to enlist the support of more leaders to make the whole camp really take Andrari's warnings seriously, but his efforts were ridiculed by the other leaders.

"Yes, with incredible hidden abilities! What is it about a team of thousands of people, our men are vigorous in the forest, and the enemy can be silent?" one of the leaders pretended to ask the other leaders for answers, showing that he was very suspicious of the news that Byron and Adolf had brought back.

Among the leaders of the adventurers who supported the continued plot against Andrari, such a statement caused many to laugh. Obviously, there were quite a few leaders who were skeptical of the enemy's strong combat effectiveness, and before the vote was made, their words and deeds were relatively restrained, and no one thought to refute Adolf's face. But after the vote is over, and it is clear that they represent the "vast majority of people", some people have not had so many scruples about what they say.

Reaffirming that no one else supported his idea, Crane was very sensible and did not say anything more. He would not insist on anything like him being isolated for the sake of others, neither the hunting party nor the messenger team.

And the leader, who thought that he had blocked Crane's mouth with sharp words, became a little complacent, as if his personal will was enough to fully represent the "army of ten thousand" of the entire camp in the effort of the sentence just now.

However, the leader's good mood lasted only until late afternoon, when the hunting party, which had been defeated by head-on attacks in the forest, finally escaped back to the adventurer's camp.

"There are a lot of them!" "At least close to 2,000 heavily armed enemies!" "We can't defeat them at all!"

"Have you been defeated by the enemy's sneak attack again!?" There are still many who believe that the enemy was able to achieve small victories not because they were too strong, but because the decision-makers they were facing at the time were too stupid to take advantage of the enemy's tricks and ambushes again and again.

The expression of the defeated man was very excited: "At first we were really caught off guard and lost some of our brothers. But we soon held our ground under the command of our leader and engaged the enemy head-on......"

'It didn't last long before our formation collapsed. The brothers didn't have any chance in the face of the enemy's steel armor! It was difficult for ten of us to pull down an enemy! When the completely unequal attrition lasted less than half an hourglass, the brothers in front of them became cowering because of the heavy casualties...... By the time the enemy began to advance in an advanced way, everyone had no intention of fighting again, and so the team began to rout. "I managed to find a guy with clear logic and straightforward language, but the conclusion I gave was something that all the adventurer leaders didn't want to hear - they were directly defeated by an enemy equal in numbers on the frontal battlefield.

Although the current result seems to a small number of discerning people, it has long been predestined.

......

Andrari, Council Chamber.

"In this battle, the enemy suffered heavy losses in a head-to-head battle with our army, which they could not bear, and finally collapsed due to the collapse of morale. After this battle, we annihilated more than 340 enemy men, and the remnants of the enemy were scattered among the forests, and according to your request, no prisoners were left. Forty-three of our men were slightly wounded, and seventeen others were in serious condition, fourteen of whom were treated in a stable condition and are now beginning to be transferred to Andrarui through the Guards port, including two wounded who had been cut off after being treated by the Divine Spirit, and were finally rescued by CPR. In addition, three fighters still died of their injuries. Livia's face was complicated, and she read out the battle report ahead under the eyes of everyone.

Generally speaking, such an excellent result is enough to call it a big victory. But for some reason, this kind of victory, which was enough to invigorate the entire clan in the Demon Realm, was now completely unhappy for the young lord attendant.

If it were for Livia to speak for herself, the problem would most likely lie with her Highness - this was the first time she had had her own sacrifice since following the Children of the Abyss.

According to the values of the young succubus, whether it is to plunder others for the sake of expansion or to resist for the sake of self-preservation, casualties are inevitable, and the ratio of 1:100 killed in battle is enough to be told by the world as a legend no matter where it is placed. But today, when facing the children of the abyss, elves, and dwarven elders, Livia couldn't be happier.

As she thought, Andrei, sitting in the position of consul, was equally frowning, as if he had not a victory to celebrate, but an unacceptable defeat in front of him.

"The three of them...... After that, you can privately give me the details of the three victims. The Son of the Abyss looked a little excited, "Let me preliminarily draw up the amount of pensions and burial rites for the heroic dead. Also, give the order to Mora. Let her and her centurions work out new battle details and precautions as soon as possible regarding the casualties in actual combat. It is important to reduce the casualty rate again and further improve the efficiency of post-injury treatment and rescue work!"

After the emergency meeting, as the Ranger General's Wind Chaser, Lady Sidney Bailang stopped several elven elders, including Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, at the door of the council hall.

"Your Highness, I would like to send an army of three thousand rangers to the banks of the Emerald River as a general of the kingdom!" said Lady Wind Chaser's expression was serious. She made this request only while several elders with decision-making power were all present, and she did not shy away from anyone.

The princess regent was a little unsure of what the other party meant, and couldn't help but ask: "Sidney, with the command of three thousand rangers, what do you want to do?"

"Your Highness, Elders. I think it is very necessary for the kingdom as a friendly nation to take the initiative to intervene in this war, even if it is just as an additional deterrent!" Sidney expressed her thoughts very bluntly, although this kind of remark seems very abnormal in the mainstream concept of elves - elves rarely take the initiative to intervene in the battles of other friendly nations, and even if Andrari takes the initiative to ask for help, they will be cautious and think twice.

"What prompted you to make such a decision?" even the Druid Elders, who rarely participated in the discussion of the war, asked curiously.

"It's the Silent Realm, Elder Catrion. I think you all had a vague sense of it when you reported the three victims in Livia. ”

The Silent Realm is an advanced ability derived from the Bard's and Sacrificial Soul Singer's talents. This phenomenon usually occurs in funerals and various memorial ceremonies, and the soul singer who sings a sad song will subconsciously put the surrounding crowd into a state of silence, even those sad cries will make people feel empty and very unreal under this wonderful power.

"Although it was very faint, and it was briefly realized because of the inner resonance of everyone in the council hall at that time, there is no doubt that the center of the realm is His Highness Andrew. Only the initiator's own voice in the realm will be completely unrestricted by silence!"

If the Children of the Abyss had the heart to investigate, he would have found that Sidney, who was not outstanding in physique and agility, was very close to thirty points in terms of perception and spirit. This means that this lady who is not known for her use of force has reached a level close to three times that of ordinary people in these two aspects!

"So ......"

"So I think it's necessary to help a lord like Andrei win the war and reduce casualties! He and his demons were not complacent about the victory, but they were overwhelmed by the loss of three warriors. ”

"But about the deployment of the army and the issue of supplies......"

"I believe that with the shrewdness of the Children of the Abyss and the wealth of Andraria, all of this is perfectly fine without us having to worry about it!" said Lady Sidney with a decisive half-kneeling salute towards the eldest princess of Roseanne.

In the Elven tradition, such a solemn etiquette is usually performed only when the general is about to take over the military power from the queen, which means that even if he is no longer able to stand up, he must take on the task of guiding the kingdom's army on both shoulders.

......

Emerald River Bank, Adventurer's Camp.

It had taken the night to gather the rout of the hunting party in the forest, and as the number of people returning safely increased, the leaders' faces did not become any more relaxed.

It was only because all the defeated companions were determined that the enemy was very strong and completely invincible in equal numbers.

While most of the leaders still felt that the defeated were shirking their responsibilities, they had lost the courage to lead a team of about 1,000 men into the forest anyway.

"They sent more than 1,000 troops to stop our hunting party, and they must have left an unconcealable trace of march in the forest, if only we could find out more than 1,000 people...... We're a huge army of 10,000 people!"

On the morning of the fourth day of Andrari's ultimatum, the idea of annihilating the enemy's few forces with superior forces began to spread through the adventurer's camp.