In the study of Silvermoon Manor, Victor is working the writing table.

The study was actually a writing room, filled with all kinds of parchment scrolls, quill pens, ink, fire paint stamps, and ornaments, but there were no books in the real sense.

Book-making is often the task of monks. In the clerical room of the monastery, the monks had to copy the books themselves on parchment. These parchments are made from sheep, goat, or calf hides and cut to the right size. The parchment paper making process is extremely complex and extremely expensive, and each calf skin is carefully selected to ensure that there are no cracks before proceeding with the following process. The finished parchment paper is soft and smooth and can last for thousands of years.

The copying of books was also a time-consuming and labor-intensive undertaking that took several months for the monks of the monastery to work in groups of a dozen or so. Monks often decorate books with expensive metals and precious stones, and make elaborate book bags to prevent books from being damaged.

If a nobleman wanted to own such a book, he might have to donate a large sum of money or material to the monastery, which was equivalent to five years' harvest for a village. At the same time, it depends on whether the church is willing to reward the lord with books.

The book collection became a symbol of the family's heritage. Victor had seen walls full of ancient books in the Augustian family's kite, and Sylvia's Rose Manor was home to hundreds of hand-copied parchments.

The Randall family is only four years old, and they are as immature as babies, so naturally they will not have a book collection. The beautiful crystal chandeliers and the crystal windows that cost more than gold make the study look shabby and hollow.

Victor has a knack for memorization, and the Yorke family's collection of books has long been etched into his mind through X-3's memory function. However, most of these books are troubadours' travels, historical biographies, epic legends, and literary works that praise the Most High, mainly promoting the virtues of knights and clergy, and have little practical value.

Victor often wondered if it was the books that inspired Sylvia in her childhood to build her belief in protecting her family. If it was just window dressing, Victor could have asked the alchemy auxiliaries to copy the books, but he didn't think it was necessary. He has the values of a modern person and pays more attention to practicality.

Illustrated books of animals and plants, monsters, potion recipes, training secrets, and all kinds of design drawings are all hidden in the secret room of the mountain fortress. In the study of Silvermoon Manor, there are only account details, work logs, meeting memos, deed papers, and various rules and regulations.

Victor is writing the statutes of the Golden Regiment right now.

The goose quills are drawn on the parchment scrolls, rustling, and the handwriting is flowing and smooth, which is very artistic.

Dotting a full stop at the end of the fine print, waving the breeze that lingered around the quill, Victor nodded in satisfaction.

Since comprehending the activation talent in the Dark Forest, the Moon Elf bloodline seems to have been further released. As long as Victor enters the state of concentration, there is no need to expend mental strength, the breeze naturally lingers, and the time to condense the Void Wind Element is much faster, from the original 15 seconds to the current 10 seconds. Although it is not as good as the instant mastery of high-level knights, it greatly increases the frequency of wind elemental shooting. Victor's physical strength reached an unbelievable level, Victor ran with all his strength in the mountains on the west side, covering a distance of 210 kilometers in three hours, which was of course beneficial to the natural lingering breeze and made him as light as a swallow, but he did not trigger the activation, and surpassed Gillian with his own physical strength.

Well, this has been verified by Victor himself countless times.

Victor's facial lines have become softer, his complexion is as smooth as jade, and he looks like a handsome 16-year-old boy, his dark eyes are as deep as the night sky, and he always exudes a natural and fresh atmosphere. Every time Miss Chebman saw him, her eyes lit up, and she couldn't wait to swallow it in her stomach. Not to mention Nicole, even Sylvia expressed "jealousy" of Victor's current appearance, jokingly saying that if she "lent" him to Queen Seuss, she would definitely get an interest-free loan of 5 million gold soles.

Viscount Randall angrily threw the Goddess Spirit Knight on the soft bed, allowing her to appreciate the activation talent again.

In fact, the High Knights are otherworldly, not dominated by sensual pleasures, they value blood and emotion. And ordinary nobles can only face the popular archer of the silver rank with a posture of looking up, and they dare not have the slightest rudeness.

The change in appearance didn't bother Victor, but he was particularly annoyed by the 1-point reduction in his physical stat. Fortunately, the bloodline talents have been increased, so much so that the duration of the Apocalypse has been extended to 12 minutes. Victor faintly felt that if the Moon Elf bloodline was sublimated again, Fengxing would become a passive talent like super-sense and blindness, and the duration of the apocalypse would reach 20 minutes, which was exactly the duration of X-3's overrun.

Light footsteps could be heard in the distance down the hallway, and Victor's mind sketched out of Lilia's appearance.

Without waiting for the guards to knock on the door, Victor commanded, "Lady Lilia, please come in." ”

Lilia walked into the study and smiled sweetly at Victor, her waist was twisted, her pale yellow skirt fluttered, her well-proportioned leg lines loomed, and her chest trembled slightly, inadvertently revealing a charming and moving style.

Victor wrapped his arms around his stunningly elastic waist, kissed his partner's pink cherry lips in accordance with his partner's tradition, and graciously pulled out a chair for his lover.

"Is Barol leaving?" he asked.

"Hmm. Just gone. Lilia rolled up her skirt and sat on her lover's lap, wrapped her arms around his neck, and took a deep breath, her pretty face showing a smug look.

"Balor took 3,000 gold soles, 50 people...... My dear, Uriel and they are all excellent craftsmen, and you let them join the mercury and fight against the masquerade...... I don't think it's appropriate. Lilia hesitated.

The underground war between Mercury and Kamen has begun, and in order to secure the advantage, Victor orders Fermi's Kestrel Mercenary Regiment and Barrett's Bear Regiment to suspend their missions and support Mercury's operation at any time. Balor also has 18 alchemy militias in his hands, plus the manpower of the kestrel and the bear group, and Mercury can use 45 alchemy militias and 11 alchemy mastiffs. But there was a problem in front of Victor.

The Alchemy Militia and the Shadow Warriors are similar in strength, and it is impossible for either side to retain their strength. Even with the cover of the Bucks and the Southwind Merchant Group, there is a risk of exposure to each other. Therefore, the high-end forces of the two sides will not fight in a big way, and can only hide underwater and wait for an opportunity to move. However, the Kamen Brotherhood also has a group of elite soldiers and well-trained thugs, and if the Shadow Warriors adopt a strategy of striking back, Mercury will be in an awkward position.

The villains controlled by Mercury are no match for the Masked Mercenaries, and if the Alchemy Militia does not fight back, Mercury will be defeated, and if he does, his whereabouts will be exposed, and the Shadow Warriors will follow one after another, launching assassinations, or diverting the attention of Dordor Agents to the Alchemy Militia.

In view of this, Victor arranged for a group of alchemy auxiliaries to join Mercury.

Alchemy Auxiliaries have 10 Physique, 7 Spirit, 7 Perception, 3 Health, 500 Gold Sol to make money, 7 Soul Fire consumed, and 3 skill slots, Victor has loaded them with a production skill, Spirit Monkey Secret Form and Ranged Weapon Mastery, only one less melee weapon mastery than Spirit Monkey Militia.

The physical fitness of the alchemy auxiliaries has reached the level of elite soldiers, loaded with the spirit monkey secret form and long-range weapon mastery, they are all first-class crossbowmen, they can shoot the escaped hare with a hard bow from 80 meters away, and the cultivation of the spirit monkey secret form makes them agile, and the alchemy human beings have their own learning ability, so that they can quickly master the use of various weapons. In terms of strength alone, the alchemy auxiliaries are not lost to the fanged soldiers of the York family at all. Of course, individual strength does not represent combat effectiveness, twenty fanged soldiers can entangle with ogres, and twenty alchemy auxiliaries will only be torn apart by ogres. However, alchemy auxiliaries are not afraid of death and pain, and for that alone they are the most feared warriors. As long as there are enough of them, alchemy auxiliaries can crush any enemy head-on, just like Ant-Man.

Compared with the Alchemy Militia, the Alchemy Auxiliary has a low cost, consumes less soul fire, and has the same lifespan, learning ability and fearless characteristics, and is the most cost-effective alchemy creature, and it is not easy to expose the secrets of the Alchemy Tower. At the beginning of the development of Randall's territory, Victor originally planned to make a large number of alchemy auxiliaries as the basic troops, but during the outbreak of the ant plague, the alchemy tower suddenly became a local tyrant from a poor egg, and Victor produced alchemy militia in large quantities.

Now, the Randall family's stalls are getting bigger and bigger, and the gap in alchemy creatures is also highlighted. The Grand Legion plan, the smuggling caravan, the development of the Lizard Swamp, and the Southern Continent exploration plan all require the support of alchemy creatures. As a result, Victor readjusted the manpower structure of the Alchemy Tower. On the one hand, by introducing camel antelope, enslaving goblins and lizardmen, liberating the alchemy militia of the mountain fortress, and on the other hand, creating alchemy auxiliaries.

In fact, as early as two years ago, Victor began to create alchemy auxiliaries for military purposes, one is a shooter who is proficient in gathering, spirit monkey secret form and ranged weapons, the other is a spearman who is proficient in gathering and barberry secret form and long weapons, and the third is a heavy soldier who is loaded with gathering, barberry secret form, construction or forging. Victor referred to them collectively as soldiers.

After more than a year of working among the homeless mercerees, these soldiers were recruited by the first spirit monkey militia Jack to be trained as a militia, and when the time was right, Victor would arrange for them to join the mercenaries and private traders.

Barrett has 15 alchemy militia and 40 soldiers under his command, who are the backbone of the bear regiment, and can also become the backbone of the smuggler group and mercenary army.

As Nelson said, the capabilities of elite soldiers should not be underestimated. Alchemy warriors may not be as flexible as the masquerade mercenaries, but in terms of will, the alchemy warriors are as far as eight streets away from the masquerade mercenaries. In the case of similar strength, the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, if they want to fight for consumption, who can fight Victor? A soldier is only 500 gold soles, and there are still people who pay, and if you want to fight with a mask, then you will fight.

You can't tell Lilia about this kind of thing.

Victor pondered for a moment and said, "Honey, you don't think I only have elite guards, do you?"

"Could it be that Uriel and they are your men too?" exclaimed Lilia.

"Hmm. Victor nodded and said, "Not everyone can become an elite guard, Uriel is not talented enough, and they were eliminated in training and turned into a logistics staff...... Remember Buts? Let me tell you, Butz actually survived the ant plague and was placed in a secret camp by me to produce armaments. Don't tell anyone about it, one day, I'll take you and Nelson there to see. ”

"It's great that Butz isn't dead?! Lilia covered her small mouth, her eyes were slightly red, and she said with a slight cry: "My lord, Butz is loyal to you, why did you rather sacrifice them than protect our retreat?"

"There are some things that can't be chosen, everyone has their own destiny, we just have to do our best. Victor was silent for a moment, then smiled, "Who made you my wife? ”

"Uriel are excellent craftsmen, they are all valuable talents of the family, how can they be handed over to mercury? No, I will send someone to chase them back. ”

Lilia jumped, but was pulled into Victor's arms.

"Uriel is a warrior first, and a craftsman second. ”

"But ......"

"Baby, you don't need to think about it that much. Warriors have a home for warriors, and if the elite guards are exposed, I will be in great trouble. ”

Victor reached into his skirt and rubbed against his smooth and supple skin. Two red clouds flew up on Lilia's fair face, delicate and delicate, her eyes were like silk, and she couldn't say anything in a daze.

What the little baron learns is not useless.

The two of them stayed warm for a moment, and Lilia said faintly: "Victor, if we fight the mask, Lady Sophia will not join Randall." Is it really good for the family to lose a few knights for a little profit?"

Victor froze suddenly, pulled out the hand that was looking for a victory in his skirt, frowned and asked, "My dear, who told you that Sophia would join Randall?"

When Lilia saw Victor's grim expression, she panicked and said, "Yes...... It's Mrs. Uriel. ”

"Lady Uriel?"

"Lady Urriel is the head lady-in-waiting of the Rose Manor and the wife of Lord Mortis, the steward of the estate. ”

"Rose Manor?"

Victor scoffed, "When did you get so close to the House of York?"

Lilia looked up at Victor and plucked up her courage to say, "My lord, I have been following you. Whoever you come near, I will come near. ”