But he had already advanced dozens of kilometers last time, and it was not deep enough. The results of the search were naturally nothing. While walking in the forest at night, both Nereus and Agamemnon tried to locate the druid on more than one occasion, but to no avail.

Scheer, the Sanctuary powerhouse brought by Neris, once went deep into the forest alone, but almost didn't come back.

He found that about 100 kilometers away from the city, a mysterious force appeared in the forest, which would greatly weaken the perception ability and suppress the will, and strictly affect the sense of direction. If it weren't for his rich experience in the wild, he would have been lost in the forest forever if he immediately retreated if he noticed something was wrong.

The results of Scheer's exploration made everyone vigilant, and 100 kilometers became a temporary forbidden line. However, there is still too much white space to explore within a hundred kilometers. As soon as you leave the city for 10 kilometers, the variety of trees increases dramatically, and many of them can be sold at a good price in Norland.

Now, every few days, Richard organizes a heavily guarded logging team to go deep into the forest to harvest these famous trees. Agamemnon sent a message to the family domain and began recruiting a large number of craftsmen to make high-quality bows and crossbows.

What Nereis wanted to fight for, that is, to sweep in an area of 100 kilometers. He knew that it was almost impossible to achieve anything, he just wanted to move his muscles.

Richard also knew his thoughts, and said, "Wait, there should be progress soon." ”

After sending Nereth away, Richard returned to the dragon mage's residence. Lina lives on the top floor of the Magic Tower, which is actually quite small, but has the advantage of being able to overlook the forest in the distance. As a ranged attack unit, the Mage and the Archer are similar in some way, and vision is very important. Lina monitored the elves' movements in this way. When Richard entered the room, Lina was lazily curled up on the couch, not moving.

"You'll have to wait, huh?" asked the dragon mage, gloomily. The scene of a dozen old subordinates being devoured alive by trees still flashes in front of me occasionally.

"The results will come soon. The patience of the elves is dwindling day by day. ”

Lina's eyes lit up and she asked, "Really, how do you see it?"

Richard smiled, "It's a walking forest." The druids driving the forest were supposed to be seven or eight, but as we have logged more and more, the number of druids has increased to ten in the last week. However, the two new Druids are significantly worse than the other Druids. In addition, the number of trees that the druids drove has increased considerably. You understand what that means. ”

"They've done their best. A gleam flashed across Lina's face.

"Yes. This shows that the progress of our logging has touched the bottom line of their tolerance. They should be on their way soon. ”

"Nereus killed a lot of elves last time, do they dare to show up this time, if they do, they must have found another way!" Lina reminded.

Richard nodded, "I think so too." It's a pity that we don't know much about the elves, so I can't think of any way they're going to attack us. But it doesn't matter, if they attack once, won't we know?"

"You mean ......"

Richard said slowly: "Give them the opportunity to let the elves attack our warriors, as long as important personnel are not lost, then we will win this battle." ”

Lina frowned, she wanted to ask the warriors what they should do, but she didn't really ask. She knew that she was a talented mage, but she was just an ordinary general, let alone a qualified commander. All she could do was control herself and not let herself affect Richard's judgment.

"I'm going to start the redeployment and regrouping of troops in the afternoon. Richard said slowly.

Lina nodded, her face a little unpleasant.

Richard was silent, patted Lina on the shoulder one end, and left the room.

Lina lay on the couch and looked out the window in a daze, tears streaming down her cheeks. In fact, something like this has been repeated for so many years, but she still hasn't gotten used to it, and she still can't help but feel sorry for the fighters who might be attacked. But this is a dimensional war, and if you want to win in a war, you have to sacrifice something.

On the other hand, she was actually quite young, not yet thirty years old, and she was only a sixteen-year-old girl when she began to fight with Gordon. Whether it was Gordon at the beginning or Richard now, they would pat her on the shoulder.

This is how comrades-in-arms and brothers are treated, not a woman.

In the afternoon, Richard reorganized his troops into six logging units, which took turns to cut down the forest. But this time it was an elite humanoid knight who led the team. And a qiē important person, including Agamemnon and Neres, were forbidden to leave the city.

When the group of logging troops left the city, the officers at the head of the city felt a little weird, mainly in the dimensional environment, the elite humanoid knight's scarlet armor was too eye-catching. This is simply a live target for the elves. But the elves haven't appeared for a long time, and these humanoid knights are indeed powerful, usually taciturn, and don't communicate with anyone. As a result, no one reminded them to change their armor livery.

Seeing the logging team out of the city, Richard went down the city and returned to his room. Luo Qi was alone in the real room, looking through a book on magic arrays, and was already in a trance, completely unaware that Richard had returned.

"Go and bring up the forest map. Richard commanded, and pinched a handful of Luoqi's ass.

Luo Qi opened the magic sand table and readjusted the magic map according to the number dictated by Richard. On the sand table, magical images show changes in the forest area around the city. Where it is cut down, it is patched up by the druids, and it is very clear.

Richard crossed his arms and stood in front of the magic sandbox, silently calculating.

After a few moments, Richard's eyebrows furrowed, and he said to Lucky, "Help me prepare a set of clothes for night operations." Be prepared before dinner. ”

Later, Richard consciously ordered Splash and Crimson: "Get ready, go out with me at night to kill!"

The splash and crimson were immediately jubilant, and they seemed to be suffocated.

At the same moment, in Norland's deep blue, Black Gold was holding a magnifying glass, carefully studying the pile of rock-like fragments piled up in the tray in front of him. That's the rock wood that is unique to the Green Forest plane.

Driven by curiosity, Black Gold studied for a while, but was at a loss. He was a great master when it came to ores and jewelry, and rock wood was actually a kind of tree, a realm that he didn't know anything about.

After pondering for a while, his curiosity finally ran out, so he pulled the magic bell and said to a young mage who came in, "Take that stone-like trunk and give it to the damned gnomes." Their goal is to find a way to light this wood simply and quickly. If they can do it in a week, they'll get 20,000 gold! and tell the damn arrogant elves that if their project doesn't progress, they won't want to get the 50,000 gold. I can wait for them for two weeks!"

The young mage was a little surprised, but instead of asking, he took the order. He summoned a magic puppet, picked up the heavy rock trunk, and left Black Gold's office.

After the young mage left, Black Gold's gaze fell on the report in his hand again. The list is densely packed with research projects, followed by a progress bar for the project. It can be seen that the research progress of many projects has suddenly advanced significantly.

The gray dwarf sighed and muttered, "Why didn't I come up with this idea? Richard, that kid, is simply a natural gray dwarf!"

In recent times, Richard has raised a number of topics for his own magical research, and is also interested in some of the realities that are going on in Deep Blue. Richard had a time impulse, so he set up a number of special bonuses. If the research mage and alchemist are able to complete the research within the predetermined time, they will receive an additional reward.

Of course, the money came from Richard's personal pocket, and it wouldn't go into the dark blue vault. But this is not the case with black gold, which means that mages who undertake the Richard project, or whose projects are funded by Richard, will have a corresponding increase in their personal income, and the increase is not small. This actually makes Deep Blue more attractive to mages in disguise, because everyone knows that Richard is a student of Su Helen, and he is also entrusted by the system of Guò Deep Blue, once he leaves Deep Blue, he may not be able to get such good conditions.

Black Gold suddenly slapped away a teleportation magic array on the table. When the magic array lit up, there was a deafening explosion from inside, followed by a violent cough. After the swaying image stabilized, an image of an old elven magister appeared. His robes were tattered, his face was covered in black ash, and half of his beard had been burned.

"Old fellow, failed again, hahaha!" the gray dwarf immediately burst out laughing.

The Elven Archmagister was furious and shouted, "Gray Shorty, if you just want to humiliate me, then you'd better try it on the magic field!"

Heijin smiled and said, "You think I'm going to be afraid of you?" But I now have a new tiì, a tiì that can give me more pocket money, what do you think?"

A layer of black gas flashed on the old magister's face, and he sneered and said, "I think you want to send me money! What are you going to bet on this time, you can say it!"

The gray dwarf jumped on his chair to appear taller and said, "Okay! I bet you can't double the power of the fire potions we dwarves make in a week's time. If I lose, I'll give you 50,000 gold coins!"

A hint of cunning suddenly flashed on the old magister's face, and he sneered and said, "I bet!"

The gray dwarf hurriedly clarified, "I'm talking about those high-grade goods brought back from the Alien Plane!"

"That's what I said!" said the old magister coldly. Before cutting off the communication, he added: "Get your gold ready!"

ps: Today's update. The time is around twelve. ~"