The Eagle's Nest is a striking sight to behold, standing alone in the middle of a primeval forest like a giant mushroom made of rocks. The tall trees resemble clusters of grass at her feet, and people only see her strange and majestic figure at first glance.

Legend has it that dragons once roamed the top of the mountain, arrogantly overlooking the weaker creatures, and the forests at the foot of the mountain were their territory, and the monsters that lived in them were all their slaves. Anyone who covets the dragon's treasure must first break through the monsters of the forest, and when they defeat the dragon's servants and try to climb the cliffs, the dragon will send them into the arms of death with its wings and breath.

Relying on the natural danger of Shizhu Mountain, the ancient dragons without worries unscrupulously attacked the city-state villages of humans, elves and barbarians, stealing and looting, extorting and extortion, and transporting the plundered wealth back to their lair.

The dragon's greed and domineering anger angered the ancient Chosen One, and the legendary wizards, elves, and barbarians attacked one of the largest dragon nests of the time, triggering the mythical and epic Dragon War. In the end, the Chosen One won the war, forced the dragons to sign an alliance, and built the most prestigious human city-state, Dragon Burn, on the dragon's lair.

If the legend is true, the giant rock pillars of the northern wilderness can support a human city-state, which shows its enormous friendlessness.

Eagle's Nest Mountain is obviously a small point compared to the legendary Dragon Flame City, but it is also more than 300 meters high, covering an area of nearly 4 square kilometers, and the almost vertical cliff wall makes even nimble mountain apes unable to climb to the top of the mountain.

The silver moon hangs high, the moonlight shrouds the four fields like a veil, Victor seems to be a tangible and intangible ghost, the dragon lizard skin combat boots are lightly on the cliff wall, the air flow supports him to float more than ten meters, the trees under the mountain quickly become smaller in the field of vision, only a few dozen blinks, and he climbed to the top of the Eagle's Nest Mountain.

Victor's heart is full of the joy of freedom, his light body and wind travel, most obstacles in the world can't stop him, and he can enjoy the scenery that ordinary people can't see.

The area at the top of the hill was much larger than that of Randall's hill camp, and it was mostly made of rocks, and the soil was relatively sparse, with only a dozen shrubs with shallow roots, and small pale flowers dyed silver white by the moonlight, which had a quiet beauty. There is a pool of water on the west side of the middle of the mountain, it is the height of summer, the water level is low enough to see the rock formations, but the area of the pool is more than 2,600 square meters, and the water volume is enough for 300 people to drink until the arrival of the rain and snow season.

It's a natural reservoir where life can thrive when there is a stable source of water. There are a considerable number of bird's nests along the waterhole, which are scattered on raised rocks or artificial stone walls, which are obviously the work of the kobolds, except that the kobolds have moved away from the Eagle's Nest and become a habitat for birds.

Victor did not alarm the birds who stayed overnight, and made a quick circle around the top of the mountain, and found no trace of the kobolds digging the pit.

This disappointed him, the alchemy tower was built in the place where the four elements were balanced and intersected, he didn't understand what the elemental intersection was, only that there were water sources near the alchemy tower. There was water on the top of the Eagle's Nest, but he didn't find the excavation pit left by the kobold, and there was not even a trace of excavation, indicating that the strange crystal was not unearthed here.

X-3 has subtle insights, there are no traces of man-made digging on the top of the mountain, and no new discoveries will be made by Victor no matter how many times he turns.

Where are the remnants of the Alchemy Empire?

Victor sat on the highest rock, took out the strange crystal in the pocket of his leather armor belt, and with the help of the cold moonlight, while carefully observing the characteristics of the crystal, he secretly thought:

Its shape, hardness, and size are strikingly consistent with the strange crystals of the Mist Mountains, and the red beads inside seem to be the blood of some kind of creature, and the color is metallic...... Is it a sealing crystal?The dragon vein kobold have the treasure hunting talent given by the dragon, and they collect this crystal, which means that the strange crystal is equivalent to the treasure that the dragon loves, and in order to get it, the kobold will not hesitate to expend physical strength and dig a big hole in the ground. The point is, the collecting habit of the dragon vein kobold has prompted them to wander around, and this strange crystal may not have been dug up near the Eagle's Nest Mountain.

However, the ruins of the Alchemy Empire are hard to find, and I may not be able to find them if I want to find them, but I will definitely encounter them! It is no accident that Caligula found strange crystals among so many treasures and brought them to me to offer treasures!

Here's how things are going...... The Radiant Knights don't use the Great Prophecy to deal with the Blackhoof Centaur Clan, King Ryan won't die, the little baron won't go to the Centaur Hills, and I naturally can't get a new life in him, and there will be no activation of the No. 7 Lianjin Pagoda.

On the other side, the outside of Eagle's Nest Mountain was originally the territory of the Blackhoof Centaur, if the Radiant Knights had not borrowed the Great Prophecy Technique, they defeated the Blackhoof tribe, drove the centaurs, and turned this place into the Eastern Frontier Territory. The kobold lord would never dare to leave the Eagle's Nest Mountain at the risk of being killed by the centaur tribe, and he would not have migrated to the Calf Village with treasures, including the Strange Crystal.

Naturally, the Strange Crystal will not fall into my hands.

I got the Strange Crystal because of some kind of fateful force at work, a transcendent attraction trait that belongs only to the inheritors of the Alchemy Empire. Therefore, the chances are quite high that I will find the ruins of the Alchemy Empire near Eagle's Nest Mountain!

Victor clearly knew that his thoughts had fallen into the trap of fatalism, but he now had the confidence to get rid of the arrangement of fate, the strength of the Legendary Rank, the secret method of the Soul Bloodline, the power of His Highness, and the huge influence of the Golden Regiment could allow him to refrigerate the No. 7 Alchemy Pagoda. However, he suspected that if he rejected the legacy of the Alchemy Empire, there would be other beings who would accept the arrangement of fate.

Therefore, he can collect the relics of the ancient alchemists and not use them, but he cannot let others get the inheritance of the alchemy empire.

Victor gathered the crystal and walked along the perimeter of the mountaintop, looking out at the forest landscape below.

This primeval forest extends from the foot of the mountain to the surrounding area, from dense to sparse, in an oval shape, about 670 square kilometers. It was night, and Victor couldn't see the entire forest with his eyes, so he stood on a high ground and used X-3 to divide the forest into different areas, and then explore them separately.

If you aimlessly search for ancient ruins in the forest, Victor may not be able to find his target in half a year. He planned to follow the law of the alchemy tower's proximity to the water source, looking for traces left by the kobold digging the pit near the water source. The work was relatively simple for Victor, which could be completed in about half a night, except that the core of the earth had the magical property of accumulating mud and turning mud into stone. He didn't have time to spend in Eagle's Nest Mountain, so he could only identify the suspicious location first, and then leave some alchemy militia and let them dig one by one, which was really not possible, and he could also mobilize the mercenary group controlled by mercury to help.

A little fire at the edge of the forest caught Victor's eye, and he couldn't help but stop and watch.

The firelight is located on the east side of Eagle's Nest Mountain, 11 kilometers in a straight line from Victor. Randall's guards and battle priests were encamped on the west side of Eagle's Nest Mountain, and the light was clearly not the campfire they had lit.

Victor entered the Eagle's Nest Mountain Forest without hiding his aura, and if there were powerful and ferocious monsters, he would have been far away from the forest at this time. Whether it was a man or a monster who lit the bonfire, since Victor saw it, he would definitely go and investigate. He slid off the cliff, the air current supported the light body in the air to change direction, fell more than 10 meters and then adsorbed on the cliff wall, and so on, and soon fell to the ground.

With the map X-3 remembered, Victor silently swept towards the location of the firelight, and moments later, he approached the target for 2 kilometers and landed on a large tree, listening intently for the movement ahead.

The sound of conversation, footsteps, the grinding of armor from action, the sound of breathing and heartbeat reached his ears without missing a beat, and X-3 quickly sketched a picture, and the location of the dark stakes, the number of personnel, and the monster captives were clearly presented.

Is that her? interesting...... The corners of Victor's mouth rose slightly, and he sneaked forward for a distance, easily bypassing the dark stake, and saw the figure under the campfire in the distance.

Andrea Baselius stood by the campfire, quietly watching the wizard cast spells.

A man wrapped in black robes stood in front of two centaur captives, one of them a cold corpse, the other on the verge of death, a semi-open tube inserted into its flank, and blood gushing down the semicircular tube into a large jar.

The black-robed man's chest was surrounded by a circle of red mysterious runes, slowly turning in the void with a strange rhythm.

"What did you see when you followed the tribe to the east of the territory?" the black-robed man asked the centaur in human language.

The centaur let out a strange chirp in his mouth and replied to the black-robed man.

Its voice grew quieter, and after a few moments, its eyes froze, and its heaving chest finally subsided. The red rune then dimmed and dissipated, and the black-robed man's body trembled, as if he was about to fall to the ground.

Two warriors in leather armor held the crumbling black-robed man in time and helped him to sit down in front of a tree stump.

Andrea and the others in the black robe came to their senses and asked coldly, "Wood, is there a result?"

The black-robed man shook his head, took the cup handed by the guard, took a sip of mead, and said weakly: "My lord, this centaur knows very little, it has been in the eastern part of the Sidon Khanate for ten days, and has seen countless of its kind gathered...... Nothing else. ”

Andrea nodded noncommittally, and said almost to herself: "These centaur scouts we captured in the Eastern Frontier are of low status and can't ask for valuable information...... Looks like I need to capture a ferocious centaur scout alive......"

"Clean up and camp here tonight. Tomorrow, we'll go further east and see if we can run into the Ferocious Centaurs. ”

Andrea raised her slender hand and brushed her hair, which had been tossed by the night breeze, her dark blue eyes suddenly fixed on the flickering campfire, which danced in the opposite direction of her hair.

The Tempest Knight unleashed her Mithril Bow with great agility, and her sharp Mithril arrows glowed blue and pointed somewhere in the forest.

"Sonorous"

The guards in the camp drew their swords one after another, scattered into a circle, and their sharp eyes scanned the forest with shadows, and a dozen sturdy red-haired war dogs, under the command of their masters, walked towards the woods pointed by the countess's bow and arrows from different angles.

The night wind whined the leaves, obscuring the rustle of the dogs' footsteps, and everyone was on alert, and after a while, the dogs returned to the camp one after another, and the horror atmosphere spread in everyone's hearts. Andrea's beautiful eyes turned ice blue, like a frozen storm, and she calmly commanded, "Call all the guards back, and we'll leave immediately." ”

A resolute-faced knight in the prime of life blew a whistle like a rock cricket, and in the woods, crickets chirped in response from different directions, and twenty-three guards in blue and black leather armor returned to the camp one by one.

"Everyone is here...... Are you waiting for me?"

A pleasant voice came from behind Andrea, and she sighed faintly, and the Mithril warbow and the Mithril sword at her waist were thrown to the ground, and she turned her body gracefully and ordered her subordinates who were facing a great enemy: "Put away all your weapons." ”

The guards obeyed the countess's orders, returned their swords to their sheaths, and lowered their bows and crossbows. They saw a slender and well-proportioned figure strolling from the east. He was dressed in delicate leather armor, with two long swords hanging from his waist, his appearance was handsome, and his eyes were shining with golden streamers, like mist and rainbows, looking mysterious and noble.

Andrea stepped forward and curtsied: "Your Highness Randall, good night." Unexpectedly, we would meet here. ”

Victor smiled slightly, and said politely: "Beautiful Countess Wimbledon, the encounter in the wild is really a surprise, why don't you come to my side?"

Biting her lip slightly, Andrea moved to Victor's side, half a shoulder behind, the two were less than 1 meter apart, and they looked quite close.

Tempest Knight's melee combat was sharper than their ranged attacks, and Andrea remembered the Golden-Eyed Earl's sword slashing the Tyrannical Ogre Overseer, a distance from which she had no chance of escaping or counterattacking.

A satisfied smile hung on the corner of Victor's mouth, and the golden streamer in his eyes quickly dissipated, returning to his dark golden eyes. His gaze swept over everyone in the camp, paused slightly on the black-robed wizard, looked at the red-haired war dog lying on the ground, kept quiet, and commented: "The dog is well tamed, and it doesn't bark indiscriminately." ”

Andrea snorted coldly, Victor turned his face sideways, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that you are actually a core member of the Barcelius family. ”

It is not surprising that the Barcelius family has a wizard, and Auguste also has a wizard, but none of the four princely families of Blinor City have access to the Wizard of the Kite Castle. Andrea was not yet the prince of Barcelius, and she wandered around the field with a wizard, which really surprised Victor and made a tentative speech.

Andrea said reservedly, "Each of them is my vassal, including the war dogs you praise also belong to the Earls of Wimbledon. ”

"That's going to be easy. Victor raised an eyebrow, turned his gaze to the black-robed wizard, and commanded, "Take off your mask." ”

The black-robed wizard visibly hesitated and looked at the guards on the left and right. Andrea furrowed her slender straight eyebrows, gritted her teeth and said, "Wood does as His Highness orders, otherwise, we will all die." ”

"Baby, it's everyone but you......" Victor glanced at Andrea, his tone was frivolous, but his eyes were cold and sharp, "If you speak again, I guarantee they will all die." ”

The vassal wizards who have been adopted by their lords since they were children are especially in awe of the system of knights and nobles, and they will not fail to understand the top figures of the kingdoms. Andrea, who claims to be the master, has already been arrested, and the black-robed wizard dares to look left and right in the face of Victor's order, which shows the strangeness in it.

The black-robed wizard removed his metal mask, revealing an ordinary face. Victor took note of his characteristics and asked, "What's your name, and who do you play for?"

"I ...... My name is Wood, and I owe allegiance to Lord Earl Wimbledon. The black-robed wizard replied a little nervously.

"When?"

"Recently...... Oh no, it was a year ago, when the orcs invaded the Pioneer Territory, and Lord Earl's men saved me and my family. Wood said honestly.

"What's your witchcraft?"

"My lord, I can ...... from the dying Or a monster temporarily gains an ability, and I can also get something I want to know. For example, if I perform sorcery on a dying owl, I can have the hearing of an owl for a large hourglass time, but I can't become an owl and fly in the sky. I can also ask the owl a question about what I want to know and what it knows. If the owl doesn't know, then there is no answer to the question. ”

Wood took a deep breath and spoke more smoothly, pointing to the centaur on the ground and explaining, "I just used witchcraft to temporarily understand the language of centaurs, but this is only incidental. I did as my master had asked what it had seen in the eastern part of the Sidon Wilderness. It answers my questions, and even if it can't speak, I can know the answers it knows. ”

Victor secretly watched the whole process of Wood's spell casting, and the facts he said were basically consistent with Victor's judgment.

Nodding slightly, Victor suddenly asked, "What nameplate are you using at the Kamen Brotherhood?"

"Masquerade...... What will?" Wood looked dazed, thought for a moment, and snorted, "My lord, I don't know...... I haven't heard of masquerade...... Target. ”

The absence of stress changes in heartbeat, breathing, and blood flow rate is not lying...... Victor was temporarily relieved, and turned to Andrea and said, "Duke Baselius also suspects that there is no orc king?"

The countess said with a cold face, "I don't know what His Highness is talking about, I'm just doing what I have to do." ”

The Sidon Centaurs would not have united to attack the eastern frontier of the Sassan Empire for no reason, and if it were not for the external pressure of the Orc King, then the biggest driving force behind this war would most likely be the Radiant Knights. Sooner or later, they will have to fight the Sidon Centaurs to the death, and sooner or later they will encounter the Orc King. To be precise, the pressure of the human army will give birth to one, or two, or three orc kings.

The centaur army seems to be aware of the inadequacy of the human defenses, but their raids seem to be precise, but they are in a desperate situation. The Knights of Radiance lit the flames of red smoke and mobilized the armies of the entire human kingdom to completely annihilate the Sidon centaurs in one battle, and the Sassan Empire became the biggest beneficiary.

Of course, the Iron Mountain nobles led by Barcelius also benefited, but they did not want to be deceived by the Knights of Radiance and become losers on the battlefield.

Andrea tried her best to find accurate information, but she would not deny the existence of the Orc King in front of His Highness of the Southern Kingdom.

In the case of Victor, he would do the same. Coincidentally, he ran into Andrea in the wild, and also caught her as a wizard, since the strength and weakness are clear, it is not easy to let her pass.

There are many people in this camp, and although Andrea can bring these people out with the wizard, they should all be her henchmen, but Victor is not sure about their relationship with the Duke of Barcelius, even if they are not secret guards cultivated by the Barcelius family, as long as they are human, it is difficult to really keep their mouths.

Mercury agents have more than one mouth to pry open with psychedelic potions, and only alchemist humans can never reveal secrets.

Victor follows the aristocratic style, concealing his true intentions with ambiguous private feelings, and even if Barcelius asks about Andrea, she has a high-sounding excuse.

Anyway, the Count of Golden-Eyed has a bad reputation, usurping the Viscountess of Buryatia and hooking up with the fiancée of King Gombis, all kinds of past can no longer be washed away, and it is not harmful to add another stain to seduce the knightess.

X-3 picked up the little baron's memory, pleasing women's body language and smile, Victor leaned over slightly, and invited politely and politely:

"I admire your beauty and nobility, Lord Earl, and I have the honour to walk and roam this forest with you, just the two of us. ”

His Highness Randall's manners were impeccable, but he walked into the woods on his own, waiting in front of him, and that gesture that could not be refused seemed tough to the point of rudeness to a noble silver knightess. It's just that his movements are like the tranquil moonlight, the gurgling stream, and the flowing breeze, natural and intimate, and it is impossible to feel evil.

A faint flush flashed on Andrea's beautiful and delicate face, and she disappeared without a trace, and turned back and ordered, "You are waiting for me here." ”

The Countess of Wimbledon, who usually has eyes above the top, followed Victor into the depths of the forest, and her well-behaved and docile appearance made her henchmen and guards look at each other.