Early the next morning, the Silver Eagle scouts set off in full gear. It was the first few days of the Snow Moon, and countless snowflakes were flying over the trees, and the weather was very cold, but the snow layer on the forest ground was not too thick, which just froze the muddy ground formed in the rainy season, which was suitable for the rapid march of the team.

The Silver Eagle Scouts must climb the distant Azoreta Mountains before the snow covers the mountains, and Ruth Yuege worries that she will get too close to the other side when tracking the human expedition, causing the Silver Eagle Scouts to be exposed. Therefore, she chose to take a long detour, and asked her subordinates to march quickly, trying to find a place to camp in the mountains after four days.

In fact, her fears were unfounded, the distance between the abandoned camp and the Azores was more than 800 kilometers in a straight line, and the Randall expeditionary force could reach the base of the mountain in just one day and one night. Before, in order to replenish supplies, the expeditionary force only walked an average of more than 200 kilometers a day, and if it was a rapid march, the Silver Moon Scout would have been thrown off long ago. By this time, the expeditionary force led by Nelson and Charlotte had already begun to climb the mountain, and the Silver Eagle Scouts could not catch up with them even if they marched in a straight line.

However, Elus's choice of detour has given Victor one thing to be sure, that halfling adventurers can follow the hidden signposts left by other halflings. Silver Eagle Scouts have Qiqi, so they don't have to worry about losing Bobo and Tiantian's team.

Kiki sat at the head of the line with his ferocious black wolf, the elven warriors all walked on foot, they used a unique breathing method to save energy, their steps were light, and the speed of the march was comparable to that of a war horse, but they could not speak on the way, and the short-legged dwarven guards rode bighorn sheep, they were the most relaxed in heavy armor, chattering along the way, and their mouths never stopped, allowing Victor to understand the dwarves' words.

"Victor, Victor, Victor...... Your name is weird, uh, I mean weird pronunciation, and I'll call you Nightingale anyway. ”

"Nightingale, this is easy to call, and it may be a famous family in the future...... By the way, is your original tribe called Nightingale Village? Is there any writing? I mean, are you illiterate? Haha, I guess you can't read...... Oh, I'm not laughing at you, I'm happy. Yes, just happy...... Famous families must be literate, it doesn't matter if you are illiterate, I can teach you, so I laughed happily, haha, I can teach a famous family, praise the moon god, praise the hills, praise my beard ......"

Victor gave a cold look at the chattering Eglow Greybeard and said angrily, "Has anyone ever told you that you're really annoying?"

Agro patted the bighorn sheep's thick neck and continued, "This is the enthusiasm of the dwarves, like a fire in a furnace, warming people's hearts, like a spring breeze, hot sweat, and rage...... I can understand your irritability, but I'll teach you to read......"

With a grim face, Victor drew a bone arrow and stabbed it in the hind leg of the bighorn sheep with his backhand, and the chatty dwarf was taken away by his mount.

This trick will clear Victor's ears for 5 minutes. The other dwarves would then take Eglow's place and come over to talk to Mr. Nightingale.

Dwarves like to brag and show off, their big mouths are like unlocked doors, they can say a lot of things when they crackle, and they don't have the slightest sense of secrecy. Of course, they have taken Mr. Nightingale, who has the blood of the High Elves, as a companion, and apart from the worthless nonsense, Victor has a deeper understanding of the Elven Empire and the Elven city-state from the nagging of the dwarves.

Most of the people of Silver Eagle City are wild elves, and they are not as delicate, elegant, and love nature and art as humans think. In fact, more than 80 percent of the wild elves are illiterate, rough and warlike, and braver than human civilians. Victor felt that the style of the wild elf warrior was close to that of the fictional Amazonian warrior of the earth world, and liked to treat her prey and enemies cruelly. Of course, the ratio of men to women in wild elves is one to one, and the status of the family is determined by the strength of the husband and wife. Every year in March of the Water Season, adult unmarried wild elves compete in hand-to-hand martial arts, regardless of gender, with the winners choosing their partners and the losers choosing.

In this regard, wild elves and barbarians are very similar, and human beings are often united because of love, at least advocating romantic love. But wild elves will have a love life after marriage, and the so-called romantic love of elves is purely the imagination of human beings to live with themselves. The reason is very simple, the physiological characteristics of wild elves are different from humans, they reach adulthood at the age of 20, and their fertility is activated after marriage, and female wild elves conceive once every 2 years on average. Ordinary humans are 15 years old and have almost no restrictions on childbirth, and as long as they are mature, they will pursue their favorite objects in the name of love.

Compared with the tree elves and the moon elves, Victor pays special attention to the wild elves with the largest population base, and their survival conditions determine the overall strength of the elven empire, which can be compared horizontally with the human kingdom.

The average lifespan of wild elves is longer than that of humans, the population size is smaller than that of humans, and the individual strength is stronger than that of ordinary people. According to the life level standard of the Elven Empire, the wild elves are second-order intelligent species, similar to the gnolls, and humans can only be regarded as first-order creatures, and they are on the same level as goblins and fishmen. Specifically, ordinary wild elves are agile marksmen who are proficient in using a 1.7-meter-long elven longbow. Elite human longbowmen must undergo rigorous training, and their shooting skills are not necessarily comparable to those of ordinary elven hunters.

However, there is no upper limit to the life level of human beings, and there will be one naturally occurring fierce warrior in every 7,000 people, and ordinary warriors can also show violent characteristics after receiving arcane training. And the ferocity of wild elves is pitifully low, which can be described as rare.

Although the life level of the elven clan is highly barrierd, the elven empire popularizes the combat breathing method, and has a very complete power inheritance system, which even extends to the elven servants. The people of Silver Eagle City may be illiterate, but they must systematically learn the Combat Breathing Method and the art of combat.

The secret method of the soul and bloodline created by Victor is universal, but due to the limitations of divine resources, potion resources, food resources, and armament resources, it is almost impossible to achieve universal popularity, and it must be the privilege of the elite.

In terms of civilization, there is no generational gap between the two, and it is an indisputable fact that the Elven Empire is more dominant. The weapons used by the Silver Eagle Scouts can be called sophisticated, ordinary fine iron alloy swords are forged and hammered by dwarven blacksmiths, and their density and toughness are higher than those of human fine iron weapons, and the armor-piercing, sharp, and sturdy characteristics are not lost to the knights' pure gold weapons at all.

In terms of economy, trade, military and politics, the Elven Empire adopted a high degree of autonomy for city-states and villages, such as Silver Eagle City, which did not impose compulsory taxes and compulsory conscription on lower-level villages and towns. Since the inhabitants of the lower classes did not have to pay taxes or do military service, they lived in affluence and had private property at their disposal, which led to the development of trade in the city-state. Elven city-states use their own minted gold, silver, and copper coins as currency in circulation, but the Elven Empire uses amber as the basis of the entire monetary system. The notables in the autonomous city-states monopolized the market trade, and they controlled the shops in the city, and the residents of the villages and towns went to Silver Eagle City to shop and sell their products through these shops. The city-states would also form caravans and travel to and from the city-states for hiking trade.

Although the villages and towns of the Elven Empire are not required to pay taxes, they will take the initiative to consciously offer their goods and gold coins to the royal council, and pray to the noble moon god priest to give the seeds of the moon tree on time to ensure the normal operation of the moonlight wells in the villages and towns. They did not have military service, and when the Silver Eagle City Council mobilized for war, the autonomous villages and towns would also contribute troops.

The Sun Tree and the Moon Tree are the core of the Elven Empire's political system. Victor believes that the upper echelons of the Elven Empire do not levy taxes, and they do not levy troops because they are lazy, and what makes him angry is that the city-states of the Elven Empire can smoothly absorb excellent talents by doing nothing.

On average, the elven imperial capital of Elanta holds a sun blessing ceremony every 36 years, and the younger generation of warriors in each city-state want to participate in the blessing ceremony presided over by the elven queen. For example, the Silver Eagle Scouts summoned by Elus Moon Song are all young warriors of Silver Eagle City, and if they take back the relics of the Moon Goddess and make meritorious contributions to the Elven Empire, more than half of them will choose to stay in Elanta once they go to Elanta to receive the blessing of the sun. In the same way, the young warriors of the Elven Village also wanted to join the Silver Eagle City and receive the blessing of the Moon Tree.

The best warriors all flow to the famous city-states, and the elven villages and towns below do not have the strength to challenge the authority of the city-state council. Over time, Elanta formed a strong cohesive force towards the elven city-states, and the elven city-states against the lower villages, even though they adopted a policy of high autonomy that bordered on laziness, and instead of weakening the ruling power, it reduced the conflict between the ruling and ruled classes.

In the final analysis, the number of high elves is too scarce, there are only 16 adult moon elves in Silver Eagle City, they are at the apex of city-state politics and occupy the most city-state resources, but the elves can only give birth to one or two offspring every month, they have no need to fight for power and profit, and they don't have the energy to manage the villages and towns below, so they simply let it go, and they don't even bother to collect taxes. The political struggle of the elven city-state is limited to the middle class represented by the tree elves, which is also a small contradiction within the city-state, and it is definitely not as fierce and sharp as the political struggle in the human kingdom.

It is still unknown how many city-states and villages there are in the Elven Empire. Generally speaking, the fertility level of the elves and their servants is low, the population growth is slow, the mobility of people is poor, and the life at the bottom of the society is stable and rich, although the overall strength of the elf empire far exceeds that of the human realm, they do not have a strong desire to explore.

Victor believes that the possibility of the Elven Empire posing a threat to the human kingdom is low, but it is also very difficult to develop diplomatic relations with them and conclude offensive and defensive covenants.

However, if the Black Blood Demon is targeting the native humans, then the human realm is in dire need of the Elven Empire's strong support.

Even for such an important holy relic as "Freya's Tears", only Silver Eagle City sent an unofficial scout team to find out what was going on in the Elven Empire. With such a casual style of the High Elves, Victor suspects that he will not be able to promote an alliance between the Elven Empire and the Human Kingdom by washing himself and buying it for the Elven Royal Family.

In the evening, the Silver Eagle scouts marched about 300 kilometers, and after asking Victor's opinion, Ruth ordered them to camp and rest. The elven warriors still retained their combat strength, but no one wanted to move anymore, so they sat cross-legged on the ground one by one and ran the breathing method to recover their strength. Energetic dwarven guards handle chores and guards. They are very good at brewing wine and iron, and their cooking is average, and the sweet soup of dried meat with dry dough is dinner, and joking, bragging, and singing loudly are counted as additional side dishes for the dwarves.

After everyone had eaten a lively dinner, the elven warriors all climbed the trees to rest, and the dwarves kept watch for the middle of the night. In the second half of the night, the elven warriors took turns to change the dwarves to rest, and several female war dancers quietly escaped into the depths of the forest, two of them were in charge of guarding, and the rest took off their battle armor and clothing, facing the cold night wind, and practiced the war dance breathing method with swords in the snow.

"Nightingale, you shouldn't be an adult, are you?" said Eluss Moon Song silently as she jumped up the branch and came to Victor's side.

Victor watched the dancers practice breathing carefully, and asked without looking back, "What do you want to say?"

Elus was a little discouraged, she wanted to follow the example of the dwarf and the nightingale to make a joke, but she knew that the nightingale couldn't be interested in a wild elf woman. Elves don't reach adulthood until they're 60 years old, and they don't know how to fall in love until they're married to a moon elf, and neither the wild elves nor the tree elves can attract the attention of the elves.

Estimating that Nightingale was not yet 50 years old, Ruth was interested in the elves' battle breathing, so she said, "This is the battle dance breathing method, it is best to practice naked in the moonlight, although there are clouds in the sky, it cannot hinder the connection between the moon and the elves." They are all adults, so they have to practice separately from their male companions, because none of us want to look for a partner now...... When an elf has given birth to a child, the Moon Tree or Sun Tree will greatly reduce her blessings. We won't talk about marriage until we are promoted to Tree Elf, or even to Moon Elf. If the promotion fails, then you can only choose a suitable partner to start a family. ”

"Nightingale, your people have inherited the Breath of the Moon God?" asked Elus, unable to contain the longing in her heart.

"Luna's Breath?" Victor turned his head to look at the wild elf general with heterochromatic eyes, raised his slender eyebrows, and said, "You might as well tell me about it." ”

Elus's spirits perked up, and she whispered: "The great sun tree gave birth to the first moon elves and the first great elves, and each of their elven descendants is a moon tree, which will breathe like a moon tree and absorb the power of moonlight. The earliest breathing method was passed down by the moon god Freya, and legend has it that the elves practiced that breathing method to naturally promote the moon elves, and we all called it 'the breath of the moon god'. ”

"Do you think I have mastered the 'Luna Breath'?" Victor stretched out his slender white fingers, stroked Elus's eyebrows, his movements were as gentle as the night wind, his palm rubbed her rough and firm, elastic cheeks, and asked, "Or is any breathing method that can make elves naturally advance be 'Luna Breath'....... what about your breathing method?"

The nightingale's demeanor was natural, and Elus, who was caressed by his cheek, was at peace of mind, as if bathed in the flawless moonlight, without the slightest resentment or affection.

"Would you like to see my original breathing method?" she asked earnestly, gazing into the nightingale's deep, enchanting eyes.

"If you don't mind...... Of course. Victor nodded flatly.

Elus suddenly had a sense of absurdity, obviously she was showing him the mystery of the breathing method, but the nightingale put on a gesture of grace, but it was so natural.

The inexplicable thought flashed away, and Yue Ge generously peeled off her armor, revealing her toned and slender body and mysterious war dance demon patterns, her muscles were well-proportioned and angular, like a female moonblade leopard full of strength and beauty.

Victor wanted to tell the wild elf general that she didn't need to take off her clothes, but she had already taken them off, and it would be embarrassing to let her wear them again, and it would damage the demeanor of the Angry Wind Sword Saint.

Erosy concentrated on the breathing method, and white mist erupted from her nose, forming a whirlpool of condensed flowers, as if only the breath was out but not inhaled, but the magic patterns on the surface of her body were faintly relaxed and rhythmic, as if there were living branches breathing air. She felt a soft, soothing wind rushing from her skin into her body, and at first she swam with the rhythm of her breathing, and gradually, the cool wind pushed her breathing rhythm and changed her breathing method.

With her eyes closed, Elus could stop the breathing demonstration, but her instincts told her to seize this precious opportunity. She relaxed, letting the wind carry her breath. With the change of breathing method, her spirit rose infinitely, and she broke through the dark and dreary dark clouds to see the bright and flawless silver moon.

The silver-white moonlight is like a mist of water, using the breeze as a bridge, seeping into her body, and continuing to nourish her heart and blood.

"This is my payment in advance to you...... You have to remember that every elf is a moonlight tree, but a moonlight tree and a moonlight tree are different...... The Luna Breath that suits you could be the poison of other elves. ”

The nightingale's voice was far away from her ears, and Ruth had no time to take care of it, her mind was completely immersed in the joy of cultivating the "Breath of the Moon God".