No one knows what Victor is confused about, and the followers of the Randall family are systematically surveying the grasslands, drawing maps, gathering resources, hunting prairie boars and shorthorned wildebeest, and using the scorching sun of the fire season to dry dried meat as a food reserve for the future.

The expeditionary force plans to enter the Endless Forest to search for the nest of Ant-Man monsters before the fall falls. The environment inside the forest is complex, and the Randall Expeditionary Force takes exploration and reconnaissance as its main task, and there may be frequent encounters, even if the forest is abundant in autumn, everyone does not have much time to gather resources, that is, take advantage of the current time to prepare as much food as possible.

The followers were busy, and the big fool was back to his old job as a butcher, and he was so powerful and skilled at slaughtering that he was in charge of breaking down the prey that Nelson brought back, and the four or five hundred pounds of prairie boars were handled cleanly in his hands in a matter of moments.

Acre has two helpers who can decompose and process hundreds of wild boars and shorthorn takins every day. Fortunately, there are countless wild boars and takins on the grasslands, and the hunting team sent out by Nelson can return with a full load every time, and the prey caught is enough to keep Acre busy from morning to night.

The abundance of prey on the savannah is a good thing, but it is certainly not good news.

The predators here are mainly wolves, spotted tigers, and black bears, and the active orc group is only a small group of gnolls, and the most common goblins and kobolds are not seen, not even ogres.

Fierce and cunning by nature, the gnolls are incapable of waging war, but rather weak goblins have the potential to fight against any army, often acting as the glue of the orc legions, cementing the scattered orc tribes into a single whole. There are no goblins in this grassland, so Victor's whimsical plan has completely failed.

He originally expected Emerson to conquer the orc tribes of the steppe, large and small, and control an orc legion to assist the human cavalry against the ant army. Now it seems that there is no hope, and the large populations of grassland wild boars and wildebeest can also provide food supplies for the Ant-Man army.

In addition, the fact that there is so much meat on the grassland that it does not attract ogres to hunt is a bit unusual in itself.

The ogres were stupid but sharp, they didn't move on the grasslands, perhaps sensing that the Ant-Man monster was coming. This further heightens the sense of urgency for Victor and his followers.

The plan to control the orc legion has been put on hold, and Emerson has not been idle, he has practiced diligently every day, and his understanding and due talent for witchcraft have made great progress, in addition to carefully cultivating Philip II, III, and 20 full-fledged razormons, he also used a large number of discarded prey internal organs to cultivate more than 200 semi-mature alien rats.

These small monsters alienated by witchcraft are about the same size as wild cats, although their combat power is weak, they are superior in number, and their individual demand for meat is relatively small.

Small alien rats also have the advantage of being bloodthirsty and sensitive to living things, making them excellent sentinels in complex forests. Once a small alien rat is killed, Wizard Emerson will know about it immediately.

Emerson scattered all 200 small alien rats, enough to guard a 20-kilometer radius of forest. Of course, controlling so many alienated creatures is also a big burden on the wizard's magic and energy, and through non-stop exploration and practice, Emerson finally found the trick and became more comfortable.

He has no shortage of secret methods for tempering his spirit and experienced instructors, and when he started to get serious, he was finally able to exert his legendary level witchcraft talent, and he also had the appearance of a top wizard.

The expeditionary force was about to enter the Endless Forest, and since Randall had been lying silently in the carriage hut, the entire team felt a heavy and invisible pressure, prompting Emerson to desperately tap into his potential, and everyone else was no exception.

On the one hand, Nelson hurried to train the blood militia in the team, and gave them as much practical experience as possible, and on the other hand, he studied various tactical plans and conducted drills with the knights and fierce warriors of the family, as well as the accompanying priests and wizards.

Every day after dinner, watching the song and dance performances of the halfling brothers around the campfire, listening to their bragging and telling stories is a common entertainment hobby for everyone. The expeditionary force's destination is the Endless Forest, and the halfling adventurers from the Endless Forest are naturally popular with everyone. In particular, Father Dane's attitude towards the halfling brothers has changed a hundred and eighty degrees, and he always tries to get close to Bobo and Tiantian to hear about the elves, ants, and abyssal demons.

Unfortunately, halfling adventurers are clever ghosts, and the Botian brothers don't like to see the ill-intentioned priest, who always amused Dane with clever verbal art. Afterwards, the priest realized that the information he wanted to know was not revealed by the halfling brothers.

Language is a science, the truth can create lies, and lies can also reveal the truth, and if the listener can't confirm what they say from the side, how can they tell the truth from the false?

Dane doesn't have Victor's knowledge puzzle, his eyes will glow white every time he chats with his halfling brothers, and he doesn't mention how much effect the Lie Divine Technique can have on high-level halfling adventurers, so if Dane shows wariness, Bobo and Tiantian won't trust him.

However, Bertina's innocent and lovely spirit charm is almost unstoppable, and the halfling brother is happy to satisfy her curiosity, telling her stories of Silver Eagle City every night.

At this time, Bertina, wearing a small maid dress, with her chubby little hands supporting her round chin, sat by the campfire like a lady and listened to Bobo tell serial stories.

"Once blessed by the Sun Tree, Triig was the most handsome elf in Silvermoon City, and the moon well he illuminated would attract many tree elves and wild elves, who rushed to get the moon dew in the hope of attaining Triig's beauty. Unfortunately, most elf ladies are unable to own Triig, and the first, second, fifth, and sixth princesses of Silver Eagle City, as well as 12 High Elves, have already earned the ownership of Triig, and they take turns pampering Triig every month. If the other elves want to marry Triig, they must challenge one of his High Elf spouses and defeat her. Or, if a High Elf becomes pregnant and automatically relinquishes ownership of Triig, other elves will have a chance to compete for Triig's ownership. ”

Bertina maintains the appearance of a ten-year-old girl, but she has a girlish heart, and the marriage and love story of the elves always makes her listen to it with relish. Others can only obediently be passers-by and listeners.

“....... Triig, is she prettier than Brandon and Klaus?" Bell asked curiously, his eyes rolling over the two young family knights.

Klaus shook his head and smiled, while Brandon puffed out his chest, and his appearance was also first-class handsome. The halfling shook his head and said, "Klaus and Brandon are strong and handsome, but they are not the type of spouse that elves like. ”

Nelson, who had been listening, couldn't help but ask, "Don't female elves like strong and burly partners?"

Bobo shook his head like a rattle and said, "The wild elves are all strong and burly, and their strength is not as good as that of the handsome and slender elves. Could it be that human beings are also like ogres, whoever has more flesh has strength?"

Nelson was dumbfounded for a moment, he himself was not a tall and burly, muscular type, if you talk about the size of your strength, there are only a handful of people in the entire human kingdom who can compare with him. Nelson, however, knew that the power he was proud of was nothing in front of Victor. Randall's Highness is an existence that can wrestle with the Ogre Overseers, and I'm afraid that only the Barbarian Elder Harald and the stupid big Caligula can compete with him.

"I see, female elves like beautiful and powerful mates. Bell clapped his little hands and said happily, "Just like my master." ”

Bobo and Tian Tian nodded again and again, and Tian Tian corrected again: "Elf females are called high elves, elf males are called big elves, they have black hair, black eyes and pointed ears, those elves with green hair and blue eyes are called tree elves, and the other elves are wild elves." When Bell meets elves in the future, don't talk about female elves, they don't use human gender titles. ”

Bertina nodded, raised her head with a round chin, and said triumphantly and pretending to be reserved: "I also like my master, and when I grow up, I will serve my master like Lady Alina." Bell and the female elf are very similar, and when Bell meets the female elf and the male elf, he will become good friends with them. ”

No one will take Bell's childish words seriously, everyone can't help but laugh, Brandon even frowned and said: "Bell, you really make me sad, when you grow up, I still want to marry you as a wife." ”

Bell snorted, twisted his apple-like red face aside, and said tsundere: "I don't like Brandon's type, I don't like Brandon like a female elf." ”

Everyone laughed, the atmosphere was relaxed and cheerful, and Pastor Dane took the opportunity to ask, "The elf Cui Yige must be the strongest person in Silver City, how many abyss demons has he destroyed?"

"The High Elves won't let the Great Elves participate in the battle...... Cui Yige is the best harpist in Eagle Wings, and he plays the tunes as bright and beautiful as the moonlight. When he started playing, even the stupid and bad dwarves would stop their ping-pong hammers and wait patiently for Triig to finish his performance. The halfling responded to Dane's temptation by saying neither about the great elf Triig's combat prowess nor about the specific information of the Abyss Demon.

Klaus said, "Why do I think the dwarves of Silver Eagle City are forced?"

Nelson didn't understand what Klaus meant, and asked with wide eyes, "What was forced?"

Brandon laughed beside him, "If a dwarf dares to knock on the anvil while the elf is playing the harp, he will definitely be beaten into a pig's head by the elves and halflings." ”

The crowd around the campfire burst into laughter again, dissipating the embarrassment of Pastor Dane. But he didn't give up, and after a while, he asked with a tentative smile: "Does the elf of Silver Eagle City have the beauty of our Highness Randall?"

"His Highness Randall is the most beautiful ...... we've ever seen"

“...... There are no elves who can compare to His Highness Randall. ”

"Randall is not an elf......

"His eyes are golden, and his ears aren't long enough. ”

Brother Halfling, you say a word, I say a word, praise His Highness Randall for his unparalleled beauty, and point out that he is not an elf. The followers of the Randall family were all smiling. Their allegiance, Lord Golden-Eyed, certainly can't be an elf.

Pastor Dane pretended to be calm and asked, "None of the elves have golden eyes?" Have you ever heard that more than 3,000 years ago, Elanta had a blonde elf named Ravin Wimbledon?"

Bobo and Tiantian looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time. The atmosphere of the bonfire was suddenly a little dreary.

Sword Saint Draven, even if he was an extraordinary figure three thousand years ago, his reputation is still spreading in the human realm, how can he be unknown when he reaches the elven race? Could it be that the sun elves have become the nourishment of the Elanta Sun Tree and buried in the ground?

Victor's mind was bordering on mischievous thoughts, he was actually making excuses for himself, determined to ignore the affairs of the Abyssal Demons and Elves for the time being.

He hadn't left the carriage hut for the past two days, but what was happening in the camp was something he couldn't tell.

There is a problem with Dane's method of testing the halfling brothers, those two dwarfs are not on their first adventure, they should not have been to the elven ancestral land of Elanta, and they know very little about the secrets of the elves and the situation of the abyssal demons.

Through the conversations of the halflings these days, Victor clarified the general situation of the elven empire.

The Elven Empire is a polity consisting of Elves, Dwarves, Halflings, and Forest Centaurs, and is a city-state. Each elven city-state is equivalent to an autonomous kingdom, but they rely on divine authority and blood hierarchy to surround the elven ancestral land of Elanta. The Elven Empress of Elanta actually relied on the extraordinary power of the Sun Tree and the Moon Tree to rule the entire Elven Empire.

The Sun Tree seems to increase the bloodline power and health levels of elves and vassal races, and has a magical effect. The Moon Tree inherits some of the Sun Tree's abilities, and they are the core of the Elven Autonomous City-State.

The elven kings and daughters of Silver Eagle City, also known as the sacrifices of the moon goddess, are able to perform the unique transcendent magic of the elves by virtue of their special connection to the moon tree. They are undoubtedly the rulers of Silver Eagle City, and they have the most authoritative voice.

However, the Sun Tree and the Moon Spell seem to have domain properties, and in the area covered by the Moon Tree Domain, the inhabitants of the Elven City-State automatically gain Spirit, Perception, and Life Attribute bonuses, and the Elven Princesses can also freely perform Elven magic. But outside the realm, their magical abilities disappeared. Therefore, the religious beliefs of the elven city-state are far from being comparable to the glorious churches of the human kingdom.

In fact, there is only a pan-belief similar to ancestor worship in the Elven Empire, and there are no devout believers, so naturally there will be no well-organized churches.

The benefits of the Sun Tree and the Moon Tree to the elves and vassal races are tangible, and they also create the unique social form and family relationships of the Elven Empire.

The elves can be divided into moon elves, tree elves, and wild elves according to the degree of bloodline awakening.

The Moon Elves are the ruling class of the Elven City-State, and every Moon Elf may have the strength of the Golden Rank, but their number is scarce, and the male Moon Elves are even more pitiful, with a male-to-female ratio of almost 1:10. The female moon elves call themselves the High Elves, and the males are called the Great Elves by them.

Although the number of elves is scarce, their status among the elven city-states is low. The High Elves compete to determine who can have a Grand Elf companion.

Well, the moon elves, like the knightly aristocracy of the humans, practice polygamy. However, the elves have no other social responsibilities except for serving different wives, much like the male pet companions of high-ranking female knights, and do not hold the real power of the family.

Victor thinks that the elves are quite pitiful, but if you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to find that whether it is the earth world or the Tyrone world, it is not gender that determines the status of the family, but strength. If the wife is in a position of power, strong in strength, and skilled in martial arts, no matter how fierce the husband screams, it will also be knocked out by a punch. Several empresses in history cut off the heads of their lovers without blinking their eyes, and they did not see anyone dare to shout any husbandly spirit in front of them.

Iron also needs to be hard, and this principle is common everywhere.

Victor estimates that the strength of the elves in Silver Eagle City is only an ordinary golden level, and if he can be like him, he can choose his own mate.

The situation of the tree elves is a little better, the ratio of men to women is about 3:10, as the backbone of Silver Moon City, their individual strength is generally close to that of the Bronze Knight, and almost all of them have wind talents, including many silver-level powerhouses. Male Dryads wield some real power over the city-state.

Wild elves have the lowest social status in the group, with almost equal males and females, and adopt monogamy. Most wild elves live in small towns and villages outside of the elven city-states, relying on the moonlight wells in the gathering places to maintain the strength of their bloodline. The Moonlight Well, on the other hand, requires the Elven Lady to periodically give the Moontree Fruit Seeds in order to build and maintain it.

The enemies of the elven city-states are mainly goblins, gnolls, and bear monsters from the Endless Forest. Due to the territorial power of the Moonlight Tree and Moonlight Well, the orc tribes in the forest pose little threat to the elven city-states.

Victor speculated that Silver Eagle City's military strength was quite strong, even if it was not comparable to a human kingdom, it had the combined strength of three dukedoms. They include the Dryad Windswept Marksman, the Dryad Beast Cavalry, the Wild Elf Hunters, and the Light Infantry, as well as the Dwarven Shield Guards, the Dwarven Goat Heavy Cavalry, and the Forest Centaur Raiders. As for the total number of troops in Silver Eagle City, the halfling brothers never revealed.

It would be great if Silver Eagle could help Victor deal with the Ant-Man monsters. But Victor gave up on visiting Silver Eagle City, at least not to contact the elves himself.

The threat of the Abyssal Demon to Elanta does not seem to be serious, and the halfling brothers can run around the world, and there is no way to see how much the demon invasion has affected the elven city-state.

Perhaps, the Abyss Demons are just ordinary monsters, they can't be as powerful as they were during the Alchemy Empire, and Victor doesn't need to worry too much about it, but the main reason is that he doesn't want to put himself in it.

Of course, the value of Silver Eagle City itself is incalculable, it is an ancient civilization with a long historical heritage, and has mastered many technologies and knowledge that are not found in human realms. The halfling brother's breathing method made Victor salivate, believing that it was a very practical combat technique that could supplement the breaking content of the Psychic Blood Theory.

It would not be wise to give up diplomatic relations with Silver Eagle City, and Victor decided to let Sylvia handle the matter. He picked up the quill and wrote a long letter to his beloved wife, detailing the situation he had encountered, and then called the dragon maid Mei Wen over and ordered: "Send this letter, together with the grassland topographic map we have drawn, to the sentry camp in the Gray Rabbit Mountains, and give it to the commander of the sentry for safekeeping...... Tell him that when the Centaur Hills baggage camp arrives at the sentry camp, give the letter and the map to Lady Trisley, and let her take them back to Rose Manor. ”

"Wang, do you have any other orders?" Mei Wen asked softly after taking the letterhead and map, blinking her beautiful blue eyes.

"Let's go back quickly, we'll leave the day after tomorrow and head to the Endless Forest. Victor waved his hand, and when he saw that Mei Wen was still standing in place, he asked again, "Is there a problem?"

"Wang, you haven't even named this steppe yet......

Victor turned his head through the car window and saw the dwarf oak trees on the grassland, and said with a faint smile: "Let's call it the oak grassland." ”