Lord of Hyranza

The sweet-looking female magician continued to ask: "So... Baron Suldak, what I want to know is... how do we get merit?"

She deliberately elongated the tone of her speech, so that she could use her nasal voice to make her voice more magnetic.

Suldak pointed to the note below the merit list, and explained to everyone: "Killing an ordinary worker ant is a point of merit, killing a ghost-pattern soldier ant is [-] points of merit, and killing a giant ghost-pattern soldier ant is worth [-] points. Five hundred points of merit, killing a ghost pattern male ant to get [-] points of merit, killing an ant queen to get [-] points of merit, and this merit list is about a week ago, the new round of merit list is yet to come. Not counted."

The sweet-looking female magician covered her mouth and asked in surprise, "That means we need to kill six queen ants in order to exchange for a queen's high-grade leather?"

"To be precise, the feat gained from killing six ghost-print ant queens should only be exchanged for half an ant queen's magic skin," Suldak said.

The surroundings suddenly became quiet, and the young magicians stopped talking.

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"Why don't we hunt the ant queen ourselves? I think this kind of thing is a bit unreliable no matter how you say it. If you want me to say that the few of us simply pooled money to hire some mercenaries or adventure groups or something, everyone go directly It's better to look for the traces of the queen than to be in the cavalry camp!" A voice came out from behind several magicians, and the person who spoke was the outsider who pursued the female magician all the way, everyone called him Hanji s.

According to Lance's introduction, they met this colleague in Bena City.

He is a magician registered in the Magic Union of Bena City. He rarely speaks out, but just follows the female magician named Colina, courting her all the way.

"Of course, if you plan to do so, I have no objection." Suldak said generously: "There happens to be a mercenary union in Dodan Town, where you can hire a mercenary team."

Hengis looked at Suldak very disdainfully, feeling a little agitated, strode up to the female magician, and said in an impassioned tone: "Colena, why don't we hire some trustworthy soldiers in the town of Dodan?" Mercenary group, I brought a sum of magic crystals with me when I went out this time, and there will be absolutely no problem in paying them."

"Hanges, stop talking, you go to the hired mercenary group, then go by yourself, don't drag me, I want to be with my friends." The female magician shouted dissatisfied, her face became pale A little flushed, obviously very annoyed.

Hengis has a thin face and a high nose bridge. When he talks, he likes to blow his two big nostrils at people: "Why are you willing to do this? He is exploiting your interests. We are magicians and aristocrats. He has no right to do this." Do……"

He was very provocative when he said these words. Obviously, two young magicians were moved by Hengis' words, and among them was the sweet-looking magician who kept asking Suldak about things.

Standing beside Colina, she murmured softly, "I think what Hengis said is right."

Suldak and Lance did not speak any more, but stood quietly beside the merit exchange list, listening to the generous speech of the magician of Hengis.

Colina looked at Lance with some embarrassment, and stood there with her lips pursed without speaking.

"Mages, it doesn't matter what you choose. Lance will bring you to the town of Dodan to practice. No matter what, I will show my kindness to the landlord. I invite everyone to taste the local specialties." Suldak said .

"I don't think it's necessary, Baron Suldak, I'm going to leave right now... Thank you for your hospitality, goodbye!" After Hengis finished speaking, he turned gracefully to look at Colina...

Chapter 814 Encirclement and suppression

Colina rolled her eyes a little speechlessly, and said firmly, "Hanges, if you want to go on your own, don't pull me in."

"Who wants to go with me?"

"At that time, we will share the monster materials obtained by hunting the ghost pattern ant queen equally."

Hengis said loudly, looking at the other two magicians who seemed a little moved.

Sure enough, the two magicians stood up after a little hesitation, and one of them was the sweet-looking female magician.

They whispered to Lance apologetically: "We want to go out with Rungis for a try, Lance, don't be angry!"

Then he went straight to Hengis' side.

Seeing the three magicians walk out of the barracks without looking back, Lance held Suldak's shoulder helplessly.

He said casually, "I haven't eaten breakfast yet. Let us try something delicious in the canteen of your military camp."

"Broth, wheat cakes, roast meat, almost every day..." Suldak replied.

A group of people walked into the cafeteria.

Colina followed behind, glanced at Lance, and asked in a low voice, "Didn't you remind them that you don't need to hunt the queen to get the queen's skin?"

"You didn't say that! Besides, since they want to try to hunt queen ants by themselves, why should I stop them?" Lance whispered, then walked into the cafeteria and followed Surdak to pick up the dinner plate, and received a Serve breakfast and sit down wherever you want.

Corianne only wanted a piece of wheat cake, but didn't choose anything else.

When leaving the ordering counter, the cook who distributed the oatmeal quickly took out a pear and handed it to Colina.

Colina looked at the cook in astonishment.

The cook smiled honestly, and said very respectfully: "There is one person in our camp who doesn't eat these monster meat, but only likes to eat smoked fish and fruits. The fruits here are all for her. I think you may only like them." eat this..."

Colina came back with a plate.

Sitting next to Lance, staring at the fruit on the dinner plate with big eyes, he asked Suldak, "There are still elves in your cavalry camp?"

Lance explained for Suldak: "Samila is a half-elf, a follower of Dak. I remember it was brought back from Vozmara."

Another male magician pushed the thick monocle lens on the bridge of his nose, leaned forward with a confused face, and asked Lance and Colina, "Hey, what do you all know... How do I feel like I'm the only one? People are kept in the dark!"

Lance tapped the wooden dinner plate with a spoon, stared at the glasses magician, and said:

"Maley Wolin, tell me why you chose to stay?"

The glasses magician looked a bit introverted, and he was shy when he spoke, and the pimples on his face turned red.

He couldn't wait to take a sip of the broth first, then squinted his eyes, and stammered, "We all came out with Lance, everyone came to the Bailin plane, even if it was for the ant queen's skin, In order to enjoy the scenery of the Bailin plane..."

Lance raised his fist in protest at him.

Colina rolled her eyes at him.

The monocle magician interrupted his preaching, then showed a wretched smile, and said to Lance:

"...Well, I heard that magic herbs can be found here, but what! Since there is no large number of adventure groups here, it means that the magic herbs in this monster forest are only in the hands of a few people. Since Lance The magic herb was taken out, and it must be right to follow Lance."

Suldak glanced at this man who was obsessed with magical herbalism, and said to him:

"Magic herbs are probably impossible to find. Now that the entire Invercargill Warcraft Forest has encountered a beast swarm, it is estimated that there is almost nothing left in the forest. Cross the World of Warcraft Forest and explore the unknown area north of the Dark Insect Valley!"

"It doesn't matter if you can't find it, I'll just come out to relax!" After the monocle magician finished speaking, he buried his head and drank the broth.

Lance said to Suldak: "Dak, tell us about the ghost ant queen you've seen!"

Suldak didn't hide anything either, telling out the information he knew about the ghost-striped ant queen.

"Baron Suldak, so you hunted a total of five ghost ant queens, but only four managed to skin the devil's skin?" Gelena asked Suldak with her eyes wide open.

She is the kind of pretty girl with fair skin and doesn't like to smile very much. It can be seen that she has a little ambiguity with Lance.

"That's it, as long as you get [-] merits in the barracks, you can do whatever you want, even if you kill those ghost-striped worker ants, as long as you kill [-], I can give half of the ant queen's magic skin to you." Everyone." Suldak said with a smile. "Of course, you are all outstanding magicians in Hailansa City. I believe that your abilities must be more than that."

"Then follow what I said before, we will join your cavalry battalion temporarily, and go out with you to hunt ghost-striped red ants, and then see what we can do to help you with our current capabilities, such as... Customize a batch of magic scrolls." Lance put down the spoon in his hand and said.

Suldak asked Mrs. Luna of the Town Hall to rent a small building for Lance in Dodan Town.

In the afternoon, Mrs. Luna delivered the key to the small building.

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The third day in the town of Dodan.

In the morning, Lance and the other two magicians walked to the barracks, and found that the cavalry in the garrison were ready to go, and the front team had passed through the passage under the north wall.

The most eye-catching thing on the square is the two fully armed Thunder Rhinoceros.

There is no need to carry supplies this time, so all the shelves are filled with archers. The two Thunder Rhinos carried nearly a hundred archers in total, and they also carried two bed crossbows and a cabin on their backs, like It is a mobile siege monster.

Samira was wearing tight-fitting salamander leather armor and stood on the platform on Thunder Rhino's back.

Several city guards squatted aside to check the bed crossbow.

Suldak led the three of Lance to the platform on the Thunder Rhino's back. After a while, the two Thunder Rhinos walked slowly through the northern city wall and into the Dodan Canyon.

Lance and the others stood on the high platform, enjoying the north wind blowing in the canyon, and overlooking the mercenary groups in the middle of the canyon that were hunting ghost-striped red ants in the wild grass.

It's just that they can't understand what those aborigines are doing outside the northern city wall, but they see them erecting logs that have been cut into pencils one by one in the canyon, forming a wooden wall like a maze.

Seven or eight hundred cavalrymen marched through the Dodan Canyon, all the way north.

Only then did Lance know what it was like to hunt ghost-striped red ants with the army.

The vanguard battalion of the cavalry had already plunged into the ant colony, but they only opened a passage for the large troops. The entire cavalry team did not spread the battlefield, but marched northward along the pierced passage according to the military order.

It took half a day for the cavalry team led by Suerdak to arrive at the northernmost exit of the Dodan Canyon.

Just as Suldak guessed, the ant queen had escaped from the Dodan Canyon, and there were only some ghost-striped worker ants and soldier ants wandering around in the entire canyon, not even a ghost-striped male ant.

After all the cavalry arrived at the northern exit of the Dodan Canyon, Suldak ordered to block the northern exit of the Dodan Canyon. All the cavalry lined up in long rows and drove the ghost-striped red ants along the canyon to the south of the canyon.

Chapter 815 Canyon Hunting

There are two wooden platforms less than four square meters in front and back of Thunder Rhinoceros.

In order to prevent the crossbowmen of the city defense brigade from falling from a height of eight meters when carrying the giant crossbow bolts, Suldak set up a fence made of flax rope around the platform.

There are two platforms on the front and back of this armed Thunder Rhinoceros. The two platforms are mainly installed and can be rotated 2 degrees. The pitch angle of the bed crossbow bracket is 360 degrees, which can freely shoot from the ground to the air.

The body of the crossbow made by the Grimm Empire is engraved with three magic circles of 'Wind Control', 'Guiding' and 'Precise Hit'. There are three gem bases on the crossbow, and three pieces of magic spar need to be inlaid to Get started.

With the help of the magic circle, the range of the bed crossbow can reach about 1000 meters.

However, the actual distance that can guarantee accurate hitting of the target is only about 800 meters that Samira can control, and ordinary crossbowmen are even closer.

This kind of bed crossbow is very large, and the length of the crossbow body is about 1.2 meters. If a giant crossbow bolt is installed in the arrow groove, the length of the crossbow body will be nearly [-] meters. Four meters.

The bow string is made of the toughest dragon-necked snake tendon, and the bed crossbow cannot be pulled apart by manpower, so there is a ratchet winch mechanism on the crossbow body.

The bed crossbow operator is usually equipped with two assistants. One assistant is responsible for loading the arrows into the arrow slots and adjusting the pitch angle according to the operator's instructions. The No.2 assistant is mainly responsible for shaking the ratchet winch and pulling the bowstring to the preset position. Shooting position.

When everything is ready, the operator of the bed crossbow will fine-tune the front sight on the main position and strike the target with precision.

To operate a bed crossbow, three crossbowmen are required on a platform, one master and two assistants, and the main manipulator is sitting on the bed crossbow control position.

In the center of Thunder Rhinoceros is a wooden house about twelve square meters.

The exquisite and compact structure separates the wooden house into two bedrooms and a bathroom. Each room can sleep four people, mainly for the rest of the crossbowmen on the platform. The crossbowmen have never had the chance to live in this exquisitely decorated wooden house.

Adult Thunder Rhinoceros is about 15 meters long and about [-] meters tall.

The Thunder Rhino Caravan has equipped these Thunder Rhinos with standard cargo wooden racks, and the current bed crossbow platform and exquisite wooden houses are also expanded based on the racks.

It is worth noting that these storage and logistics storage racks are not on the back of Thunder Rhinoceros, but on both sides of its body. This storage rack is a wooden frame structure, and there are two eight-meter-high columns in the center of the two sides. Closely connected with the wooden house, these four columns are also the main support of the wooden house.

Originally, the storage racks in the Thunder Rhino caravan were used to load goods. The overall structure of the storage racks is somewhat similar to a saddle, to be precise, it is a more exaggerated 'n' type frame. The wooden house and platform are on the upper part of the 'n' type frame. , all the shelves loaded with goods are hung on the two legs of the 'n' type rack.

Each thunder rhino has eight storage spaces on the left and right sides, arranged in three layers from top to bottom in a 'three three two' arrangement.

The wooden house platform on the back and the shelf are integrated structures. The bottom layer of the shelf is equipped with telescopic outriggers. When Lei Tingxi arrives at the destination, the outriggers are usually stretched out to lift the entire gantry shelf.

In this way, Lei Tingxi can relieve the burden on his body and have a good night's rest.

When setting off in the morning, Lei Tingxi got under the gantry-style shelves and lifted the shelves before setting off.

The armed Thunder Rhino that Samira was riding on was organized into the Archer Battalion, and each Thunder Rhino was organized into an independent combat formation in the Archer Battalion. It currently belongs to the first and second squadrons of the Archer Brigade of the Cavalry Battalion. She was riding a Thunder Rhinoceros of the First Squadron.

All archers are seconded from reinforcements.

Since there is no need to load too many supplies, each Thunder Rhino has three archers on its storage space. A Thunder Rhino has sixteen storage spaces, which can carry a total of 48 archers. There are six bed crossbow shooters, and each thunder rhino takes a total of 52 archers.

The two Thunder Rhinos carried a total of [-] archers.

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Lance and two other magicians are on the Thunder Rhinoceros of the Second Squadron.

Looking north from the north exit of Dodan Canyon, you can see the endless hills and mountains. Originally, this area was covered with a lot of weeds and low bushes, and it was also the favorite area for wild boars and wolverines. A monster that ran out of the Invercargill Forest.

But now the mountains and plains are full of wandering red ants, and they are looking for a way to go south.

It's a pity that what stands in front of them is the thorny mountains stretching for hundreds of kilometers. They can't pass through the thorny stone pillars, they can only look for the mountain passes and canyons between the mountains.

Dodan Canyon is a canyon located in the middle of the Thorn Mountains. The entire canyon is not wide, and the narrow area is less than 300 meters away.

However, it is a good choice for the ghost-striped red ants going south.

However, at the northern exit of Duodan Canyon, there are not many ghost-printed red ants that want to swarm into the valley.

It may be that they smelled the 'dangerous' smell left by the ant queen who escaped from the canyon, and they all stayed away before entering the canyon.

Tens of thousands of ghost-striped red ants wandered among the hills and mountains, and they basically gathered in large groups.

The number of these ghost-striped red ants makes one's scalp tingle at a glance, and they are everywhere in the mountains and fields.

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Eight hundred cavalrymen lined up in six rows in the Duodan Canyon, and the blades were aimed at the wandering ghost-striped red ants in the canyon.

The two Thunder Rhinoceros stood guard at the north exit of the canyon, responsible for breaking the rear.

Andrew led fifty first-turn cavalry at the front of the team. This group of cavalry was like sharp knives, unscrupulously charging towards the ant colony in the canyon, stirring up the ant colony to become active.