Chapter XXII
Richard sighed and commanded, "Burn all those trees." Think of them as the coffins of the warriors!"
A moment later, more than a dozen torches burst into flames. The trees in the flames screamed in pain, and they writhed their branches to escape. But without the impetus of the elven wood repellent, they would not have been able to leave the land at all. It was only the pain of the burning fire that forced them to react.
The humid environment of the Green Forest Plane is not easy to catch fire, but it cannot completely block the flames of magic. A few angry howls rang out from the depths of the forest, and it was clear that the elves hiding in the shadows had lost control of their anger.
Richard stood silent for a moment before waving, "Okay, let's all go back." Continue cutting down trees today. โ
Today, the strength of the soldiers was extraordinarily great, and they cut down nearly 20,000 rock trees before they could be considered to stop. The warriors spontaneously piled up the rocks and slowly lit them, and then a dozen huge fires appeared around the city. It burned from evening to night, and the flames were still not extinguished.
In the middle of the night, Richard knocked on Lina's door and said to Master Dragon, "Let's go, come with me to see the walking forest." โ
Two men came to the city wall one after the other. Richard directly blessed himself with a feather fall technique and jumped out of the city. It was an extremely dangerous move, and the dragon mage was taken aback, and immediately followed.
The two walked side by side until they reached the edge of the forest before stopping, silently waiting. The night and the forest are the world of elves, and the forest at night is even more dangerous. However, neither Richard nor Lina was afraid, and the elves were no mortal threat to them.
There was a strange noise from the depths of the forest, a strange grinding sound. The sound grew louder and louder, and the ground began to shake slightly. A large black shadow moved out of the depths of the forest, it was a large tree. Its roots had been pulled out of the ground, moving slowly forward like a multi-legged beast. But it wasn't a treeman, because it didn't have the humanoid face of a treeman.
The ancient tree walked right in front of Richard and Lina, walked out of the forest, chose a place that it thought was appropriate, and began to dig its roots deep into the soil.
Behind this ancient tree, countless more giant trees were removed from the forest, until they reached the clearing outside the forest, and then took root one by one. After about a few hundred trees were removed from the forest, the forest fell silent again.
Hidden deep in the forest, the druids seemed to have run out of magic. The number of trees removed in these two days is far less than the number that has been cut down. Druids also drove the forest in several other directions, but together they drove up to a few thousand trees out of the forest.
"Going to slaughter that druid?" said Richard.
Lina was quite moved, but when she thought about it, she shook her head and said, "Night and the forest are their world, and we can't find him at this time." Don't bother with it. โ
"There's never a harm in trying. Richard laughed, and then plunged headlong into the forest. The dragon mage hurried to follow, she was not afraid of the elves and druids of the forest, but worried about Richard's danger. Even at the peak of their power, the mages had a suppressive advantage over the warlords, but on the battlefield, the white-bladed junction was still the place where the mages were buried.
Gradually, however, the dragon mage found it difficult to keep up with Richard. Richard's movements are coordinated and stretched, and a slight touch on the ground will slide far away. He seems to be at one with the environment, and every movement is just right, without spending a single extra effort. The more Lina looked, the more frightened she became.
This is the footwork that Richard learned from Bai Ye in the Peerless Battlefield, and it is gradually merging with his Dark World Combat Skills and Divine Officer Fighting Techniques. He couldn't do anything like White Night without the slightest superfluous movements, and every movement was concise and effective. But in Lina's eyes, it was enough shock.
However, the two men walked around the forest in the middle of the night for more than an hour, but found nothing, and finally had to face the dew on their heads, and the wolf bรจi came out of the forest with great difficulty. Elven druids are the children of the forest, and it is extremely difficult to find them. Since Gordon occupied the Green Forest Plane, he has not been able to kill a single elven druid, which can be seen.
Richard and Lina looked at each other, and saw that each other was like a wet soup chicken, with a few leaves on their heads, and there were as many wolves as they wanted, so they were relatively embarrassed, and then turned into uncontrollable laughter. After laughing, Lina felt much lighter, and the shadows of the day had faded.
She suddenly turned to Richard and said, "Thank you!"
Richard shrugged and said, "I'm just helping myself!"
The two of them walked towards the city, a distance that was not long or short.
On the way, Richard: "Lina, I have a question for you. Do you think, if it is...... Well, Gordon is here, how will he handle the situation?"
"It should be the same as you do, cut down trees! If he thinks this forest is an elven lair, then he will cut it down. Lina said.
Richard looked back at the dark forest and said, "This forest is so big that it can never be cut down." โ
"No matter how big the forest is, as long as it keeps being cut down, there will always be an end of sight. These are the words he said to us when he decided to cut down the tree. After Lina finished speaking, she looked at Richard and said with a complicated mind: "Actually, you are very similar to him, you seem to be anxious, but in fact, when necessary, you are more patient than anyone else." โ
"Really?" Richard was noncommittal. Under the cover of night, the dragon mage could not see his expression clearly.
Tree cutting is done every day, day after day, and never stops.
Richard became very patient, smiling at all times, and even walking a beat slower, as if he was planning to be a lumberjack for the rest of his life.
Oral has returned, and he has brought back ten elite humanoid knights. There was no other trouble except for the fact that the humanoid knight also encountered the unexplained delay in the portal pass, which caused Oral to be in a false panic for more than ten minutes, and the high cost of the passage. At the same time, he also brought back a lot of supplies according to Richard's list.
Originally, everyone thought that when Oral returned, Richard was about to go to war. But as before, the elven poets had arrived for a week, and Richard still didn't make any big moves.
Richard actually has a lot of things to do, even if he hides and draws the costume, he has Luoqi by his side.
As soon as the door of the real yร n room closed, who knows what they were doing inside. Quicksand wanted to smash the door of the room, but of course she wouldn't do it herself, but was ready to encourage others to do it.
But there were no fools in the ranks, and even Nereth would not step into such a trap. Quicksand suddenly found himself in an unprecedented predicament, as a god, to eat a maid and ** vinegar? Of course not. But is Luoqi the same as an ordinary maid? Quicksand suddenly found that Luoqi's positioning role for herself is subtle.
Since it was impossible to fight openly, it became the only option to give Richard some punishment in secret. As for punishment, the idea of not letting Richard go to his own bed at night came to me instinctively. However, Quicksand immediately denied this idiot's idea, and if he really wanted to do this, he would only cheapen Luoqi for nothing. Is it a punishment or a reward for dragging Richard to bed?
Quicksand held his little face, tangled in pain.
Others were not as laid-back as Richard, especially Nerith, who had been in the Green Forest Plane for a whole month, and he had only really fought one battle, which was not what he expected. In the past, when he participated in plane wars, when did he not immediately plunge into the endless war as soon as he entered the plane? The shouts and blood on the battlefield always made his blood boil.
In the blink of an eye, a month has passed. Richard was deeply prepared and unhurried, and completed two sets of barbarian barriers without hurrying. Due to the calmness of the zuรฒ, the set bonus effect has been slightly improved. In his spare time, Richard is studying the magic weapon, and there will be a breakthrough.
On the first day of the second month, Richard walked around the city with a leisurely pace, seeing what the soldiers were doing.
In the small square at the entrance of the armory, dozens of soldiers were spreading out their armor and smearing grease on the armor. In wet climates, this is an important means of preventing armor from rusting. Although magic is easy to use, the price is still too expensive, and when is it a good and inexpensive choice.
Richard had Orar purchase tons of premium grease from Norland to use to maintain the armor. There are many similar military supplies, and the overall cost is still huge. In the era when the dragon mage was supported alone, such a scene could not be seen. Gordon didn't leave her much military spending at all, and she didn't even have enough money for the regular renewal of weapons, so where could she have the luxury of paying so much attention to logistical supplies. In the concept of dragon mage, the so-called logistics, in addition to crossbow arrows, is dry food.
Richard was watching with interest as the warriors tended their armor, when Nereus hurried over, and when he saw Richard, his eyes lit up, and he exclaimed, "Hey, Richard, I've found you! โ
Richard turned to look at Nereth and smiled, "Why are you so impatient?"
"You see, we spent a lot of money, but we stayed in the city in a daze. Nereus knew that Richard was good at math and economics, and tried to convince him in this regard.
"Didn't we ship back a batch of rare timber last week? At least 100,000 in Norland! You see, we have a good income, and we can get 100,000 in the first month, which is not very common. Richard said with a smile.
Nereus was speechless for a moment, and finally said in a bit of a frenzy, "Tell me straight, Richard, I want to fight! โ
"Yes!" Richard readily agreed, and then asked with a smile, "The question is where is the enemy?"
"Ah, this .......," said Nereus, who was at a loss again, and had to bite the bullet, "we can go to the forest to find it, and those greenskins are no threat to us anyway." โ
"Didn't you look for it?"
"That...... Not deep enough into the forest. Nereus argued.