Following the signposts left by the scout team, the team trekked for two days and one night in the depths of the rocky, snow-capped mountains as fast as Pope Clement could bear, but still failed to meet Conral and the others. Thanks to Victor's tracking instincts and extraordinary vision, he was always able to find the signposts left by the paladin Conral, so that everyone didn't waste time.

The shadows of the ridges spread slowly as the sun set below the mountains, and the cold wind with snow seemed to pour the cold into the skin armor of the people. Victor decided to camp for one night and wait until the next morning to continue tracking the scout team, so that the two priests could regain their strength and energy, and maintain a good spell casting condition for any unexpected situations that might arise later.

Victor chose a sheltered col as a stop, and Tournans led Nelson, Caligula, and the Paladin, along with five alchemy soldiers, to carry the stones, build a low wall to protect them from the wind, and prop up canvas and animal skins to serve as a roof. The two priests, Clement and Carlomon, took refuge in their makeshift residence and began to meditate with their eyes closed.

After doing this, Tournans had time to spare, so he asked Nelson to learn martial arts with the alchemy soldiers, but he seemed to have missed Caligula.

Acre was still a little scared of Tournans, and he had little interest in fighting, cooking was his passion.

Taking out his beloved small stove and a set of cooking utensils from the special back rack, Aka hummed a children's rhyme, lit a charcoal fire, and ran to the mountain stream to wash the wild vegetables he had collected along the way, and by the way, he scooped a large jar of water back, poured wheat grains, nuts, dried mushrooms, pickled venison, and sausages into the jar, and cooked them on the stove.

The Turnans and Randall House Arcane Guardians competed, and the martial arts they used were also based on the Gripen and Blue Wolf skills, but each took a different path of fusion. The difference is that one is a fusion practiced by a legendary paladin, and the other is an alchemy tower loading fusion. Victor observed the competition between the two sides and felt that he had benefited a lot, and secretly figured out a new way to deduce the source blood warrior.

Everyone else watched with relish, but Master Ron didn't care. He stood by the stove with his hands behind his back, staring at Caligula cooking.

Aka raised his head, glanced at Victor quickly, lowered his voice, and asked, "Big teacher, do you like to eat the wheat porridge cooked by Aka?"

Ron was Tournans' teacher and master paladin, and Caligula called him "the Great Teacher". Although he is simple and dull, he also knows how to please people of high status. The holy warrior in front of him has a high status and has good intentions towards him, so of course he should be curry favor with the best meat porridge. It's just that the master doesn't like him to get too close to this master plus teacher, so Aka must be very careful when it comes to currying favor with the "big teacher".

Ron could feel that there was a glorious seed in the depths of Caligula's pure heart, and the more he looked at the silly big one, the more he liked it, and Wen Yan asked, "Brother Aka, who taught you how to cook?"

Caligula lowered his head to prevent Victor from seeing that he was talking to Ron, and replied softly: "The master said that those who love to eat must learn to cook well, and the chef of Silvermoon Manor said that Aka is too big and occupies a place in the kitchen, and refuses to teach Aka to cook, Aka peeks out of the window and learns to cook wheat porridge and barbecue. Acre barbecue is better than boiled wheat porridge...... There are only stones here, no grass grows, and without grass there is no meat, and Acre can't invite the big teacher to eat barbecue. ”

"Simple. ”

Ron nodded, turned and left the camp alone. Caligula watched the barefoot "big teacher" go out, he didn't dare to ask, he didn't dare to hide, he wanted to tell his master, but he was afraid of being scolded, and after a long time, he still ran to tell Victor.

The Church gathered the top powerhouses of the human kingdom to behead the goblin lords, and Ron came specifically to hunt the manticore, so he didn't need anyone to worry about him at all. Victor ignored Caligula, the stupid big man was ignorant, he didn't know at all, his master was afraid that Ron would trick him into going to the church and becoming a holy warrior.

Not long after, Ron returned to the camp, carrying a fat rock sheep in one hand and a dead tree in the other, beckoning Caligula to chop wood and roast the lamb together.

It's not uncommon to catch a rock sheep, and everyone in the team can do it easily. Victor distinctly remembers that the nearest herd of rock sheep was 19 kilometers away in a straight line, a 38-kilometer round trip, and it only took Paladin Ron 34 minutes to bring back a rock sheep.

In Victor's opinion, Ron's speed is mediocre, but his grasp of time is impressively accurate. From the time he left the camp to the time he returned with the prey and firewood, Caligula's wheat porridge had not yet been cooked, and by the time they had processed the prey and made a fire to roast the meat, the big ones could eat both the wheat porridge and the roast lamb.

This fully reflects Master Ron's perfect control of the interaction of time, space, self, and the outside world. According to Tournans, this is the exchange of time for space, space for time, transcending the shackles of life in the exchange of time and space, allowing rabbits to defeat wolves, and ordinary people to defeat ogres.

The founder of the Golden Toad Secret Form has another expression of this: Heaven and man are one, and there is no way to come.

It's a pity that the grandmaster of the earth world may not have been able to reach the realm of the unity of heaven and man in his lifetime, and in this world, Victor has seen more than one celestial. Sylvia is the pinnacle, and by mastering the elements, she has insight into all changes in time and space, and she has slain the leader of the ant-man in the ant-tide as if she were in a no-man's land.

With his huge computing power, Victor's grasp of time is accurate to 10 milliseconds, and he has also reached the realm of the unity of heaven and man, decapitating the Berserk Ogre Overseer is like a bag, but he still has no power to count thousands of Ant-Man on the battlefield.

Through their psychic intuition, Turnans and Ron grasp time and space, their own connection with the outside world, and the elemental perception of high-ranking knights and Victor's accurate calculations, all of which have reached the realm of heaven and man. It's just that Victor can't see which one is stronger or weaker than Ron?

The strong are always respected, especially Ron is from an ordinary person, and he can temper his spiritual power to this extent, I am afraid that he is close to the highest level of mortals. If humans are divided into knights, ferocious humans, blood-gifted humans, and ordinary people, Ron's path is the most popular and valuable. Victor had already begun to reverse engineer the soul talents that made up X-3, and he knew very well that his path was the narrowest due to the fusion of the Moon Elf bloodline.

Victor hates Ron, the paladin master who wants to poach Caligula, but he also covets Ron's experience.

Caligula ran to the other side of the mountain stream to deal with the rock sheep, and Ron chopped wood with his bare hands. When they set up the grill and lit the campfire, Victor sat down by the fire, and the flickering flames were instantly honest.

The Children of the Wind are legendary creatures.

Even the owner was looking forward to the food he grilled, and Acre was so encouraged that he took out his skills and concentrated on roasting the lamb.

The orange tongue of fire licks the lamb with skin, and the aroma gradually spreads. Victor asked sincerely, "Master Ron, my retinue Aka, is naturally timid and does not dare to face dangerous battles. How do you think he should overcome his weakness in the heart? ”

The paladin glanced at Victor, returned his gaze to the bonfire, and said earnestly: "Pious faith is the source of all virtues, and dependence on the Supreme Lord will find peace, contentment, and courage. He added with great certainty, "Our Lord will show Caligula the way forward." ”

Faith must be there, and pious faith is not much of a problem as long as it does not conflict with loyalty......; It's just that we can't talk about it anymore.

The three golden paladins seemed to be attracted by the warmth of the fire and the aroma of roasted meat, and they sat around one after another. Trigovar was the first to speak, relieving the awkward atmosphere of Victor and Master Ron.

"Conlar, they're going all the way west in the mountains...... Are they afraid of dragging Strange down and want to go back to the Boulder Fortress on their own? If that's the case, we'll have to take more time to catch up with them, and we may not be able to run into Strange. ”

"Probably not. ”

Howard Turstir used his sword to pluck the wood to make the flame even more intense, saying, "I believe that the clergy of the Inquisition will not give up on their mission, and Strange needs help. Assuming that Conlar really wanted to go back to the Boulder Fortress, they would have to leave a code mark, so that they would not only carve road signs along the way. ”

"There is no grass in the high parts of the Boulder Mountains, there is no water, no prey, no firewood. Conlar and the others have been wrestling with the goblin lord's men for more than twenty days at the foot of the mountain, and they don't carry too many supplies. Their hasty march must have had a purpose. ”

The high-level knights and the Void Elemental meet inside and outside, and they will not starve or die of hunger and thirst if they do not eat, drink, or die, but the Elemental Sea will discard human nature, and only the high-level knights of divinity remain. Besides, there are paladins by Conlar's side, and they will definitely starve to death without food for a long time.

The limits of a team lie in the weakest of them.

Victor nodded, "I can feel it, they've stopped...... We should see them by noon tomorrow. ”

Caligula untied the roast sheep from the grill and smug shouted, "The sheep is roasted...... The porridge is also good. ”

In fact, there was no need to greet Aka, everyone came over when they smelled the fragrance, and each of them scooped a bowl of hot wheat porridge and shared the barbecue. Sharing hot food around a fire in a barren and cold mountain terrain is a rare pleasure in itself, and it also brings each other closer, and everyone laughs and laughs, roast lamb and porridge are quickly swept away, and even the Pope praises Caligula for his work.

After eating and drinking, they slept peacefully, and the next morning, the team continued to move forward.

Towards noon, Victor heard a muffled sound of water, not deafening like a normal waterfall, as if it were a waterfall within a mountain.

The direction of the voice coincided with the archenemy's tracking instincts. Victor pressed the doubts in his heart and led the team to speed forward.

Turning two peaks, Victor heard the sound of human conversation and activity, he came to a mountain cliff, embodied the void wind element on the arrow, in the bowstring humming, an indigo streamer went straight to a thousand meters in the sky, bursting, the air flow was agitated and whistling, tearing apart a mountain cloud, the golden sunlight shot down obliquely, forming a brilliant pillar of light falling on the cliff.

The huge opening stunned everyone, and a tall figure in leather armor appeared in the pillar of light, waving his hands condescendingly to Victor and the others.

"It's Conral...... Let's go up. Trigovar breathed a sigh of relief, then frowned.

Strange didn't show up, he was clearly not here. So, where is the Tempest Paladins of the Testil family?

The cliff is more than 500 meters high, and it didn't take much time for everyone to climb it. Climbing to the top of the cliff, everyone couldn't help but widen their eyes and show a look of disbelief.

A huge building catches Victor's eye, its base is rectangular, with a total of 36 floors, each floor is 7.4 meters high, and the length and width are decreasing, similar to the pyramids on the earth, which are the most stable and simple architectural structures. However, the stone of this building has no joints at all, as if it grows naturally on the mountain peak, and it seems that some kind of giant intelligent creature has carved this mountain peak into a magnificent giant tower.

Who built this majestic spectacle in the depths of the Boulder Mountains?

"The remnants of the civilization of the ancient wizards...... The rugged architecture isn't as delicate as the wizarding city-states, could it be a remnant of the early days of the Chosen One?" said Howard, cheering up Conral.

No! is a relic of an ancient alchemical empire.

...... It's a lost alchemy tower!

Victor listened to the sound of the waves in the belly of the mountain, and his sharp eyes were fixed on the front of the ruins, where there was a weathered and broken stone slab. Although the characters on the tablet were blurred and illegible, Victor recognized that they were words belonging to the Alchemy Empire, and that they were exactly the same as the ancient characters he had received from the text when he activated Alchemy 7.

X-3 automatically completes some missing text, which reads:

...... Empire, Titan...... Clause...... Corps...... Alchemy Tower.