The west side of the oak prairie.

It had been almost 20 days since Randall's expeditionary force set out from its temporary station in the steppe, and the convoy had not been delayed all the way, the vast and gentle sea of grass had been left behind, the trees in front had changed from sparse to dense, and patches of primeval forest were faintly visible.

The ground began to become rugged, and only a shallow layer of grass remained, and black dirt could be seen. Because it had rained a little the night before, the fertile black soil looked slippery and muddy, and the wheels of the cart would sink into the potholes and mud from time to time.

Fortunately, the strength of the alchemy dragon lizard is amazing, and it can easily pull the heavy carriage out of the mud pit, but the bumps in the carriage are an unavoidable problem. The wagons made of logs by the Alchemy Militia were sturdy enough, but without an elaborate shock absorption system, the wagons were simply jumping and jumping. Those who are eligible to ride can endure it at first, but after a long time, everyone can't stand the endless bumps, and they would rather walk than continue to stay in the carriage and suffer.

Victor sat in the carriage as usual, and the person who lit the fire of the mind could adjust the balance of his body according to the vibration of the carriage to eliminate the impact on his internal organs and brain, but it was also quite difficult to overcome the bumps for a long time. Only the deep-seated psychic fire will automatically adjust its body to the changes of external forces, and can sit effortlessly on a carriage that has been bumping all the time.

Of course, it wasn't any more comfortable than walking, and even a seasoned knight couldn't practice the idea of a three-headed lizard in a bumpy carriage. So, Charlotte and the Dragon Maid were also walking outside the carriage.

There are only a handful of people who can keep their minds in a bumpy carriage, and Victor is one of them. But his three-headed lizard visualization had already filled up his energy, and he was taking advantage of the bumpy environment to find a unique combat breathing method.

The matter of Silver Eagle City had been decided to be settled by Sylvia, and Victor had nothing to do, so he sat in the carriage and studied the breathing method of the halfling brothers. The two dwarfs didn't seem to have ignited a fire in their hearts, but they had an extraordinary sense of balance, and they could stand firmly on the back of the bear dog with their sturdy bear dogs, and they wouldn't fall off no matter how they ran.

Victor believes that in addition to the dexterity of the halflings, this level of balance has a lot to do with the breathing methods they practice.

Breathing, the latent change between active and passive, is also the only latent force that humans can control autonomously. You can control your breathing rate and you can hold your breath, but no one can suffocate yourself. If the internal potential, external force and mind of human beings are regarded as a precision machine, then breathing is a gear connecting external force and internal potential, which will directly affect the operation of the entire machine.

In fact, Victor's Soul and Blood Secret Method also has a breathing method used to adjust the body and mind, and this is the first time that the breathing method has been systematically applied to daily activities and even used exclusively in battle.

In the carriage, he used the wind element insight to observe the subtle changes in his own internal potential, and at the same time constantly adjusted his breathing to adapt to the irregular up and down bumps of the carriage, and deduced the effect of the combat breathing method on the human body bit by bit.

After a period of experimentation, Victor gradually found the principle of the combat breathing method, and he was pleased with the results of the deduction.

Those who master the combat breathing method can mobilize some of the internal latent power, which can make the body instantly tougher and take more damage, can burst strength, jump farther, run faster, and stimulate the spirit, make the mind clearer, and shoot more accurately.

In fact, the Combat Breathing Method does not have much effect on the people who ignite the Spiritual Breath, but the people who ignite the Spiritual Fire are very small after all, and those who make up the majority, including the Trainee Knights, Psychic Warriors, and ordinary soldiers, once they master the Combat Breathing Method, each of them will have varying degrees of combat effectiveness.

All in all, the combat breathing method can infinitely approach the state of the Psychic Fire, which can be called a pseudo-Psychic Fire. Although it is not as simple as the real fire of the heart, it is easy to learn, suitable for a wide range of people, and can be popularized on a large scale.

This is where the combat breathing method is most valuable.

If you practice the combat breathing method to the extreme, your skin and internal organs will also learn to "breathe", and you will enter the level of blending external and internal breaths, and you may have all kinds of miraculous effects.

Thanks to Victor, who is the only one who is able to autonomously "turn off" the fire of the mind, he tests the breathing method at the level of an ordinary person. If you change to other legendary powerhouses, it is not so easy to get a glimpse of the mystery and potential of the combat breathing method.

Victor was complacent and named the Battle Breathing Method Randall's Breathing Method. Just as he was about to study Randall's breathing method further, the carriage gradually stopped. Nelson shouted excitedly through the car window, "My lord, Todd and Marcy's scout team has summoned me that Ant-Man has been found ahead!"

Victor's pupils contracted slightly, and he dodged and jumped out of the carriage, leaving the whole team behind, and running ahead with Nelson first.

It wasn't long before they came to a high ground where the forward scouts under Todd's command stopped. Todd and Marcy greeted Victor first, and then said, "Your Highness, there is something strange about the woods below the highlands, and I think it is the traces left by the ant tide. ”

Victor's legs were a little harder, and the whole person flew lightly onto a huge rock eight or nine meters high. He looked down, and the scenery before him suddenly opened up, and beneath the steep and steep slopes was a verdant forest, the end of which could not be seen with Victor's extraordinary vision, and between which were meandering rivers and towering mountains like jade belts, but they were only dotted with forests, like undercurrents and islands in the sea.

Boundless forests, endless forests...... Victor couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and he soon discovered that there was a strange "road" in the forest, which was a forest belt 4 or 5 kilometers wide, with sparse and low trees, and the color difference from the surrounding lush forest was obvious. Ordinary people can tell the difference between the forest at a glance, surrounded by ancient primeval forest, and the sparse forest belt is full of new trees, generally no more than 20 years old.

This is the path that the Ant-Man army has gnawed out!

Charlotte and the Dragon Maid followed, followed by Aka, Bell, Priest Dane, Emerson, and the halfling brother who rode the bear dog.

Everyone admired the magnificent Lin Hai for a long time, and Pastor Dane sighed, "I didn't expect us to find the trace of Ant-Man so easily...... Follow this path to reach Ant-Man's lair. ”

Charlotte grabbed Victor, who jumped from the stone to the ground, and said with a smile, "Honey, thanks to Bobo and Tiantian, their wayfinding cane is amazing. ”

With the halfling's pathfinding staff, the convoy chose a direction and walked here, and the march path of the ant monster was close in front of them. Victor turned to the halfling and shouted, "Bobo, Tiantian, come here." ”

The two dwarfs urged the bear-dog mount to run to Victor's side, turned over and jumped down, and said in unison, "Master, what do you need Bobo (Tiantian) to serve?"

"Throw it again with your wayfinding staff. Victor said.

"I'll throw it. ”

"You threw it last time, and it's time to throw it this time. ”

"No, no, I should have thrown it last time, and I snatched it for Bell to throw it, so I'll throw it this time. ”

"It's time for me to throw ......"

"It's time for me to throw ......"

After some tussle and argument, the tall Aka easily snatched the wayfinding staff from their hands and turned his head to Bertina, who was behind him.

Bobo and Tian Tian were furious and jumped up and stepped on Aka's big boots, and Aka smirked innocently.

Triumphantly, Bell hugged her wayfinding cane, closed her eyes, circled in place, and chanted her own "incantation" before throwing it into the air.

Everyone's eyes chased the cane tumbling in the air, watching it fall and bounce on the ground a few times, and finally the tip of the staff pointed to the northwest of the forest.

This result was contrary to most people's expectations, and Ant-Man's marching path was generally east-west, but it coiled from the south side of the forest sea. Visually, Ant-Man's lair should be somewhere southwest of the forest, opposite to the northwest of the pathfinding staff.

Dane stepped forward to look into the distance, frowned and muttered, "Bell can't be mistaken, right?

The wayfinding cane is a remnant of the halfling adventurer's oak barrel, recording the places he explored, including the ruins of the temples of the Assyrian Empire, and the ruins of the temples that Bobo and Tian Tian wanted to go to were the ruins of the Assyrian temples, not the lair of some ant monster.

Victor also had to go to the ruins of the Assyrian Empire to find the Elemental Rune Crystal, but he was initially not optimistic about the search for the Elemental Rune. After all, time has passed so far that finding a crystal made by an ancient alchemist in the reckless jungle is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack. What's more, Victor couldn't be sure if the elemental rune crystal was damaged.

As a result, Victor prioritized the task of detecting ant nests, while searching for the ruins of the Assyrian Empire was secondary. However, due to the fact that the Abyssal Demon has infiltrated the material plane, it is unknown whether the elite cavalry of the human realm can come to the Oak Meadow to destroy the Ant-Man army. Finding the Elemental Rune Crystal has once again become a priority for Randall's Expeditionary Force.

If he finds the Elemental Rune Crystal that controls the Ant Queen, Victor can easily dismantle the threat of the Ant-Man monster. Taking a step back, the elemental rune crystal was indeed damaged, and Victor got the Elven holy relic "Freya's Tears" collected by the Assyrians, and maybe things could take a turn for the better.

Victor didn't need anyone else to know about the secrets of the Alchemy Empire and the Elemental Rune Crystals, and Dane had always thought that Randall's expeditionary force was only tasked with scouting the Ant-Man Lair.

Victor winked at Lord Nelson and snorted at the two dwarfs.

Knowing this, the bear of the Northland stepped forward and grabbed the halflings by the back collar, lifted them from Aka's lap, bared his teeth and threatened, "If your master asks questions, you must answer honestly." ”

Tian Tian and Bobo were jumping happily on Nelson's big feet, and they were suddenly lifted into the air, and they wanted to lose their temper, but they could see Nelson's fierce eyes as if they were substantial, and they were so frightened that they quickly nodded their heads again and again.

Seeing that the halfling brothers were honest, Nelson put them on the ground.

Victor looked at the endless verdant forest sea and asked lightly: "Bobo, Tiantian, I believe that every forest here has an owner, you tell me where the forest belonging to Silver Eagle City is?"

The halfling brothers pointed north almost at the same time. Victor pondered for a moment, took a fine iron one-handed halberd from the hands of the alchemy militia, drew a large square on the ground, and then used horizontal and vertical lines to divide the large square into different areas.

Everyone gathered around and found that it was a simple map based on Ant-Man's marching path. In a square on the north side of the marching path, Victor wrote "Silver Eagle City", and the farthest square to the northwest wrote "Destination", and he pointed to the square representing Silver Eagle City with a one-handed halberd and said: "Each forest has a different force, this is the sphere of influence that represents Silver Eagle City...... So, which forces do the southern, southwest, and western forests that are close to Silver Eagle City belong to?"

"Halfling adventurer, don't tell me, you don't know these neighbors in Silver Eagle City, do you?" asked Victor, throwing the one-handed halberd to the alchemy militia, clapping his hands.

"I know, I know ......"

"The three forests to the south, southwest, and west of Silver Eagle City are home to the Ogre Clan and the Goblin Clan, as well as a Fireclaw Bear Clan. Tian Tian replied first. Immediately afterward, Bobo added, "One of them is the most hateful of them all, the Great Goblin called 'Green Pimlock', who often sends his men to attack the towns and villages south of Silver Eagle City. ”

Victor nodded and said to everyone, "We definitely can't walk the Ant-Man's marching path, or even get close to the marching path. If we encounter Ant-Man monsters, not only will we be in mortal danger, but we will also expose their whereabouts and make them alert. So, the best way is to take a detour through the forest south of Silver Eagle City. The forest monsters over there are relatively weak and pose little threat to the expeditionary force. Moreover, Ant-Man will avoid the Moonlight Tree in Silver Eagle City, and once we encounter an army of Ant-Man, we can hide in the woodland controlled by Silver Eagle City at any time. ”

Charlotte pursed her plump red lips slightly, she knew that Victor, the army of Ant-Man, was almost no threat, and Victor chose the forest near Silver Eagle City as a way to explore for the sake of most people, including herself.

Although Charlotte didn't want Victor's Silver Eagle City's sphere of influence at all, she saw that everyone's expressions became relaxed, so she acquiesced in Victor's decision.

Nelson obviously didn't think of this, and he asked suspiciously, "My lord, how do you know that the forest monsters on the outskirts of Silver Eagle City are relatively weak?"

Such a simple question, Victor didn't bother to deal with him. Klaus whispered beside him, "The master's meaning may be that Silver Eagle City will not allow the surrounding forests to have a powerful monster race. Powerful forest monsters also don't like their territory next to Silver Eagle City. So, any forest monster that comes close to Silver Eagle City will either defeat Silver Eagle City outright, or become weak under Silver Eagle City's sustained blows. ”

Nelson suddenly realized, and then said excitedly, "So, we may meet the elven scouts on the way?"

Victor said in a deep voice, "It's possible, but I don't want to get into trouble...... 'Green Pimlock' should be a weak goblin lord, and we need to pass through its territory quickly." ”

"If it dares to stand in the way...... Then just run over it. “