Old Captain Barrett led hundreds of followers to break away from the Bears and return to Randall's Territory, marking the end of the old era. Just as Her Royal Highness Princess Roland August incarnated as the ranger Octavier, the new Grand Master of Vile led the bear regiment north in line with the new trend of the Great Pioneer Era.

Thousands of members of the bear group acted collectively, and it was certainly not easy to travel thousands of kilometers to reach the pioneer territory of the Sassang Empire. But the Duo Lords and Resident Priests at the Wraith Forest Frontier are willing to help.

Captain Vill made a drastic adjustment to the membership structure of the Bear Regiment, she abandoned most of the outcasts and hired labor gangs that depended on the Bear Regiment's arms, reduced the number of the Bear Regiment from more than 8,000 to more than 4,500, used the reserves left by the old Captain Barrett to purchase a large number of ox carts and material supplies from the Duoduo, and led the real mercenary subordinates to march to the northwest of the Wharton Prairie.

All the forces in the Ghost Forest to open up the fortress are satisfied with the Bear Regiment's moves. It is not a glorious thing for the Lord of Duoduo to use the bear group mercenaries as bait to annihilate the forest gnolls. Octavir took the unruly armed mercenaries with them, leaving behind a group of honest and obedient hired laborers. The lords who opened up the fortress were really relieved, and they did their best to meet the various procurement requirements put forward by the bear group, and even sold them a batch of high-quality armaments, which also included ten military heavy crossbows and components for a small ballista.

The bears were able to buy contraband thanks to the priest who opened up the fortress.

This is because the security situation in the United Territory of Sassan-Neville is not good, or very bad.

At the beginning, the centaurs of the Sidon Khanate had a head cramp, which brought forward the pioneering war of the northern lord group by at least 5 years. The northern lords, with the support of the entire human kingdom, defeated the Sidon centaurs and seized a land the size of the Sassan Empire, but they were not prepared to open up their territory, and the main contradiction was the weak garrison to maintain local security.

His Royal Highness Randall proposed the tenant system and mercenary legions a long time ago, but only the House of York has built mercenary legions effectively, and the mercenary corps of other forces are not even perfect.

Without idle land, you can't turn displaced people into tenants, and where can you get mercenaries without tenants?

The main armies of the Sarsanians and Nevilles cooperated with the Knights of Radiance to defend the eastern defenses of the Pioneer Territory, and the garrison behind the Pioneer Territory was empty, causing countless goblins, kobolds, gnolls, and ogres to compete with human civilians for living space. The bloodshed caused by the orcs ranged from a dozen to dozens a day, and the Pioneer Lords and Radiant Paladins were overwhelmed by the endless attacks of monsters.

The worst thing is that the infiltration of the orc rogue has seriously reduced the scope of activities of the lords and tenants, and opened up space for the reproduction and development of the orc race.

In this situation, the Holy See of Radiance asked the priests stationed in each diocese and church to call on the rangers and mercenary groups to go to the East to open up the territory, and to provide convenience to the mercenary rangers who were willing to accept the mission, so that they could leave as soon as possible.

The Bear Regiment is huge, and it has experienced the test of the Five-Day War, so it can be said that it is the most famous mercenary group at the moment. Lord Dodor wanted to disband the Bears, but the Pioneer Lord's resident priest tried his best to obstruct it, and he repeatedly hinted and explicitly stated that Barrett accepted the mercenary mission of the Eastern Pioneer Lord, but unfortunately the old leader never responded positively. The priest was disappointed with the old man, and Octavir approached him and offered to take the bear to the east. The two sides hit it off, and the resident priest very simply changed the name of the Grand Master of the Bear Regiment to Octavier, although this did not conform to the rules of the church to manage the mercenary group, but the eight deputy leaders of the Bear Regiment had no opinion, and it didn't matter if the resident priest crossed out Barrett's name.

Roland took the bear group from Victor's hands, and all the tens of thousands of gold sol he had invested in the early stage were lost. The problem she faces is that Grand Master Octavier's entry into Randall's field of vision may reveal her true identity.

However, in Roland's opinion, these are all small things. The secret of the eldest princess of Gombis, Sylvia is one of the few people who know, she has expressed tolerance and support to Roland, and the Raging Wind Sword Saint may have been aware of this, with his close relationship with Roland, he will never destroy Roland's attempt to reforge his belief in freedom and look forward to the top legendary powerhouse.

Roland has the power of the people, and this is the key.

In the population structure of the kingdoms, freedmen will always be the majority, and it is impossible for a lord to convert all freedmen into tenants, as long as the population grows, even tenants will have children and nephews who leave their families and fend for themselves. The mercenary group is part of the free people group, and no one knows how many free mercenaries there are in the human country, but judging from the demand for free people armed forces in the Eastern Pioneer Territory, there are always hundreds of thousands of mercenaries.

With such a large base of mercenaries, it is more than enough to cover the true identity of Captain Octavier. There will always be clever mercenary captains who will come out on top and gain a reputation no less than Octavire's. Moreover, they are difficult to digest by the lord and will maintain a relatively independent status.

The traditional mercenary group with three or four hundred people is considered a large mercenary group, and their ability to bear injuries is actually very poor, and the casualties of young and middle-aged mercenaries exceed one-third, and the whole regiment basically loses the ability to continue fighting, otherwise there will be no one to feed the old and young in the regiment. Therefore, the traditional mercenary regiment is unable to cope with the combat mission of the Eastern Development Territory, and it is inevitable to unite and form a large regiment with a scale of more than 1,000 people.

Not many lords could digest so many armed mercenaries, preferring to select young men from tenant families and raise a professional family army.

There is no doubt that the priests of the Eastern Frontier must have been introducing the Bear Regiment experience to the mercenaries. Barritt's desire to bring the Bears back to the Centaur Hills is a pure pipe dream, and if Roland doesn't come forward to be the head of the Bears, others will rush to do it. In fact, the resident priest of the Ghost Forest Pioneer Point is the mastermind behind the change of ownership of the Bear Regiment, at least he will not give the credit for integrating the Bear Regiment and promoting its northward journey to the female ranger Octavier.

Tea parties held by the nobles of the pioneer lords occasionally mentioned the reputation of the bear group. When other large mercenary groups begin to emerge, the popularity of the bear group will naturally subside.

The arrogant knight nobles only thought that Grand Master Bear was a lucky female ranger, and no one would associate her with the "fallen" princess August.

Don't underestimate the mercenary industry. Transcendents of Roland's level can always see the traces of "power" and try to exert influence to snatch the favor of the power of destiny from it.

The High Clergy treated mortal believers as lambs, and so did the High Knights. The power of mortals is as small as dust, but after all, they are the thousands of thoughts divided by the Creator, and the condensation of the people's thoughts and beliefs can turn the sea into a mulberry field and create god-like miracles.

The eldest princess Auguste inherited the legacy of her predecessors, and also walked on the path designated by her predecessors, many of her ideas could not be put into practice, and the so-called suppression of nature was reflected in the identity of the eldest princess.

Now, Octavir has broken into the no-man's land of the mercenary group, and God knows how much power the free mercenaries will burst out in her hands?

She will stir up the situation in the northern kingdom for sure.

If Roland lurks in the southern country to cause trouble and rain, Sylvia and Victor will not be able to agree. Since Roland is developing in the north, the two of them are happy to see it.

Grand Master Vile is ambitious and ready to write his own legend. But if she knew that there was a god who could rival the first Pope with an unspeakable purpose, secretly following the bear group, and even using the Great Prophecy to protect her and Mary's mercenary career, I don't know how she would feel?

Because of this, after Barrett returned to Randall, he reported to Lady Lilia what had happened to the bears. Although Lilia is angry, she cares about the friendship of the War Bear mercenaries and points the finger at the priest stationed at the Ghost Forest Pioneer Point, begging Lady Nicole to forgive Barrett for her mistake.

Nicole suppressed the matter and did not report it to Rose Manor. In the final analysis, the loss of the bear group is due to the fact that the Randall family is still young and there are not many talents available, but this is an internal affair of the Randall family. Nicole is now just like the High Knight Lord of the Centaur Hills, not happy to be laughed at, and even more opposed to the Duke of York taking the opportunity to install "talents" in Randall, she is especially wary of Lady Caterina.

In this way, Captain Octavir was not immediately exposed to Sylvia's field of vision.

Of course, His Highness Randall, who was thousands of miles away, didn't know that Roland had snatched his bear group.

The Lizard Swamp is actually a large basin on the banks of the Jinshui River, and the western edge of the swamp is like the easternmost Skylark Mountains, and there is also a north-south trend, stretching for thousands of kilometers of highland mountain forests. Across this winding and rugged mountain forest, you can see the nameless prairie.

As is customary for adventurers, Randall's highness gave the mountain a vulgar name - the Grey Rabbit Mountains, where he first saw an animal as a Grey Rabbit. The poor rabbit undoubtedly died at the hands of Victor's arrows, and Nelson cut off the rabbit's foot and nailed it to the steep stone wall with a short thorn, hoping to bring good luck to those who came after him.

Caligula said that the rabbit tasted good, but it was too thin.

In the cold mountains and forests of spring, the snow has not completely melted, where there will be fat hares. Aka was purely showing off his barbecue skills.

However, this hapless gray rabbit did bring good luck to its kind.

The Randall expeditionary force did not rush into the nameless steppe, but stayed in the Gray Rabbit Mountains for almost three months. On the one hand, the expeditionary force needs to rest and recuperate, collect a large number of mountain and forest resources, replenish material reserves, and prepare for crossing the nameless grassland, and on the other hand, the complex terrain of the Gray Rabbit Mountains makes it an excellent hiding place compared to the endless steppes.

Victor presets the nameless steppe as the main battlefield to intercept the Ant-Man army, and prepares to gather the most elite war beast cavalry of the kingdoms, with the help of the terrain characteristics of the grassland, give full play to the mobile combat advantages of the cavalry, and realize the tactical concept of fighting more with less and encroaching step by step.

According to Ant-Man's weaknesses, X-3 weighed various factors, and deduced that 3,000 War Beast Knights, 8,000 Swift Bird Light Horses, and 30,000 elite cavalry could drag 400,000 Ant-Man monsters to death on the grassland battlefield.

Victor relaxed the total number of troops of the coalition army to 50,000, but the logistics supply points of these 50,000 cavalry could only be scattered and hidden in the Gray Rabbit Mountains, otherwise the tactical concept of mobile combat could not be realized.

War is not about winning whoever has more people, it is about logistics.

The combined elite cavalry of the kingdoms took the lead, and half of the war was won.

As the advance force, the Randall Expeditionary Force surveyed the battlefield environment and could be said to be the most important task of the expedition. The clan warriors followed Victor's orders and stopped at the Gray Rabbit Mountains, first searching the mountain forest passes for large troops to enter the grasslands from the swamps, surveying the terrain of the mountains by the way, recording the resource points available for use, and so on.

If a well-trained ordinary soldier wants to complete the survey of the Gray Rabbit Mountains, hundreds of people may not be able to touch the end of the mountain forest after three or five years of busyness. Even a psychic warrior loaded with gathering skills may be able to scout a 1,000-kilometer-long mountain range in more than half a year.

The job was very simple for Victor, who now didn't have to go out himself, just sent four dragon maids to explore the Grizzly Rabbit Mountains in the north and south directions. They survey 500 kilometers of mountain forests every day, and dragon instincts help them easily find all kinds of mineral resources, including the most critical salt mines and water sources. The Alchemy Tower's gathering skills give them the skill to draw topographic maps, and with the extraordinary memory brought by their high spiritual attributes, they can first memorize the terrain features of the mountains and forests, and then go back and draw them together.

It took only 15 days for the four dragon maids to put a detailed topographical map of the Grey Rabbit Mountains in front of Victor.

The Randall Expeditionary Force is now remaining in the Grey Rabbit Mountains to replenish logistical resources. The alchemy militia dug several large earth pits, burned them with fire, and then sawed the felled wood into planks and put them neatly into the pits, buried them with dry soil, and built earthen kilns on them to burn charcoal. The high temperature of the charcoal fire dries the wooden planks in the ground, and after they are removed, they can be used to make wooden trailers.

The other group was responsible for hunting and gathering, boiling salt mines, marinating salted dried fish, and preparing simple and practical potions.

The aborigines of the Grey Rabbit Mountains were immediately overwhelmed with blood mold, and hundreds of outsiders invaded their territory, seriously destroying the ecological balance of the area, and there were many meat eaters among them. Take alchemy mastiffs and bear dogs, for example, they eat an average of 20 pounds of meat a day, and the expeditionary force's more than 60 fierce war dogs hunt on their own, requiring at least 800 square kilometers of territory to maintain the ecological balance of the mountains and forests. Alchemy dragon lizards are even more incredible, if they are real swamp dragon lizards, each such big guy has to occupy more than 400 square kilometers of territory alone.

Although the alchemy dragon lizard has a strong omnivorous talent, it is easier to accumulate physical energy by eating meat or meat.

Victor doesn't care about the ecological balance of the Gray Rabbit Mountains, and the alchemy militia hunts herbivores with restraint and shows no mercy to carnivorous beasts and monsters.

Nelson specially organized a hunting team of 120 people, once he found a monster community such as jackals, goblins, kobolds, ogres, etc., he immediately exterminated them, and the flesh and blood of the monsters were used by Wizard Emerson to cultivate his alien beast troops, and by the way, to fill the bellies of dragon lizards and war dogs.

The ferocious monsters above the Silver Rank had already run as far as the Dragon Maid had already run when they surveyed the terrain of the mountain people. The monster race left behind is not strong enough in mental intuition, just the Philip II, III and Razormon cultivated by Imerson, they can't parry, and when the four dragon maids appear, the dragon's terrifying gaze crushes the hearts of the weak, and the powerful fierce leader can't make any waves, so he can only become a prey.

It is foreseeable that in the next two years, the number of herbivores in the Gray Rabbit Mountains will increase significantly, and they will be the fresh meat reserves of the cavalry coalition in the mountain and forest supply points.

Surveying the terrain and encircling the monsters didn't require Victor to worry about, and he stayed in the wooden house built by the alchemy militia to perfect the secret method of Portanos wholeheartedly.

This spiritual secret method deduced from the mythical hydra is extremely high-level and has infinite plasticity. In fact, Victor borrowed the secret form of the Golden Toad and the meditation method of the church's collection, combined with the bloodline talent of the mythical hydra to deduce the secret method of Portanos. It can be said that this is the highest achievement that Victor has achieved since he became the master of the mind.

Tempering the spirit and breaking the limits of the spiritual attributes is only the basic general function of Portanos. Theoretically, anyone can practice this secret method, but it has a minimum threshold – a cultivator's spiritual attribute must reach 10 points.

When ordinary people reach the prime of life, their spiritual attributes reach the highest level of life, almost 6 or 7 points. Elite soldiers who have been trained rigorously since childhood can have more than 7 points of mental strength, but few people can reach 10 points of spirit.

10 spiritual attributes, representing the black iron and bronze water collars. For this alone, the Secret Method of Portanos excludes the vast majority of people.

Even if a cultivator has a spiritual strength of more than 10 points and less than 15 points, it is very difficult to visualize the image of the three-headed snake lizard Portanos, and it may take them more than ten years to construct a complete contemplation idea and enter the extraordinary realm of the 15-point spiritual attributes, which can be regarded as entering the hall.

Only legendary powerhouses with more than 30 spirit points can use the secret method of Portanos to create their own spiritual talents.

The Mystic Technique of Portanos was designed to change the fate of the Divine Knights, and its power was as simple as increasing lifespan and spiritual attributes.

Victor hibernate for 15 days, only laying the most basic common part of the secret method, and it took nearly 3 months to integrate the idea of the mythical three-headed lizard into the Sanctuary-level spiritual talent tree.

Charlotte pushed open the door of the meditation room, just in time to see Victor's dark golden eyes taking turns showing emerald green, dark blue, orange and yellow aura, she couldn't help but hold her breath, and stood at the door for a second, ready to leave quietly, but was stopped by Victor.

"Your Highness, I ...... I just knocked on the door. Charlotte pursed her delicate red lips and defended aggrievedly.

"Yes, I called you in. Victor smiled and nodded, and asked, "Baby, are you here to tell me that Nelson and they found a bunch of orcs?"

Seeing that Victor was in a good mood, Charlotte breathed a sigh of relief, pressed her slender hand on her full chest, and said quickly: "Yes, according to your orders, the Lord has surrounded a group of gnolls, about 40 of them, and more than 200 goblin slaves near the mountain forest about 300 kilometers to the north. ”

Victor's eyes flashed, and he said excitedly, "Okay, just use them to try my 'Chilling Wind'!"