This is a dark era. The once glorious light of civilization fell on the ground. Iron-like divine powers and royal powers tied up the land and people like chains. There are demon tides in the wasteland and beasts in the wilderness nearby. Survival requires great courage and effort.

But this is also an era of "innocence" iron aristocratic order maintains the iron aristocratic spirit. The rule makers are immersed in their own "glory" and "orthodoxy", and stubbornly implementing those dogmatic morals and rules. The existence of the extraordinary laid the law of "strength is better than wisdom". Everyone is accustomed to using strength to distinguish between high and low on the front battlefield. The tricks and tricks outside this have become superficial and stagnant for thousands of years.

Therefore, people in this era are destined to be unable to deal with an old Yin who has been hanging in the sky for tens of millions of years.

Of course, Gao Wen himself thinks that every plan he has is quite upright...

Hetty has been studying with Gao Wen for two years, but she still can't keep up with the ideas of her ancestors. She hasn't turned around for a while: "You... are you going to do business with the East Army and the Kingdom Army at the same time?"

"They have gold coins and resources, and we have industrial products, which is a very profitable deal." Gao Wen said naturally.

Hetty hesitated a little: "But the Eastern Legion is very likely to have secretly colluded with the cultists... Will it be equivalent to helping those end-of-life churchgoers..."

Gao Wen looked at Hetty: "First of all, don't forget that some retailers of the Cecil Chamber of Commerce had already contacted Dongjing long before the Civil War broke out. Small-scale potion business has been in operation, but it has not been expanded. Secondly... Do you think they really get benefits if we sell the potion to Dongjing?"

After Hetilo thought about it, the disappearing faces of the "friendly trading partners" who had been dumped by Cecil's industrial products...

Ah, the grass on Viscount Carroll's tomb should be one foot high, right? Earl Hosman's body seems to have not been completely finished yet...

"Broaden your horizons and relax your mind," Gao Wen said slowly. Although Hetty is already an adult, I don't know if it is because he is called his ancestors all day long. He has become more and more fond of educating people recently. "Don't be obsessed with immediate interests. There is a lot of knowledge between gains and losses."

"I get it," Herty nodded seriously, "I will contact Padric."

"Let Padric organize a group of smart and relatively low-key businessmen to take charge of this matter. We have to do business with everyone, but some businesses cannot be done too much," Gao Wen nodded. "In addition, send someone to the weapon design office to study how to do 'foreign trade weapons'..."

...

While Gowen and Hetty were discussing the plan for the "foreign trade" of the Principal of Cecil, a special team was walking swiftly and cautiously between vines and bushes in the depths of the dense forest on the west side of Cecil.

In various stories, ancient forests that have been formed over thousands of years are often full of dangers. The deeper they go, the more they are. In those areas that have not been influenced by human civilization, there are countless terrifying legendary bloodthirsty wolf beasts used by parents to scare their children, strange wizards, moving ancient trees, and cruel witches. It seems that all things that can make ordinary people frighten will live in the heart of the forest, and are ready to swallow everyone in it at any time.

Of course, the depths of the real forest will not be absurd and bizarre as described in the story, but there are indeed many dangerous factors here. In the vast shadows hidden by towering ancient trees, wild animals and poisonous insects are the main residents. In some more special areas, such as the focus of magic, there are even monsters and spiritual creatures that can make trained soldiers and knights afraid of.

Therefore, you must be extra careful when acting here.

The warrior wearing black light armor came to the observation position while stepping on thick fallen leaves and dead branches. He pressed his hand on the side of the fully enclosed helmet and adjusted the mode of the tactical eyepiece. After a moment, the warrior gestured to his teammates behind him: "Safe."

One after another, the black-armored warriors walked out from behind the bushes, and then the one appeared Saldrin, who was also wearing light armor but not wearing a helmet. The one who came out behind Saldrin was wearing a short mage robe that was easy to move and carrying an iron staff in his hand.

"Ha" Rebecca stood on a rock protruding from the ground, and breathed while watching the situation in the distance, "I have never been to such a deep place..."

Saldrin glanced at the visor, but did not remind the other party to pay attention to safety. When he first entered the forest, he also reminded him that "the mage is weak in physique, so don't leave the protection of the warriors." However, after watching the girl knocking the timberwolves to death with one stick, he realized that the women of the Cecil family were indeed as strong as they were seven hundred years ago.

This girl who is suspected of a mage is probably able to beat everyone except him after wearing magic armor...

"Keep vigilant, switch to observe the shield and guard the hands." Saldrin gave instructions to his subordinates, then looked down at the surface of the amulet from his hometown, the magic item from his hometown, floating a slight layer of light, which shows that the team is very close to the focus of magic in the forest. At this position, the chance of monsters appearing will be much higher.

Then he looked at Rebecca's team and the action was initiated by the Viscount Miss, so the target of the action naturally had to listen to the other party.

"We are not far from the focus of magic, right?" Rebecca jumped off the stone and came to Saldrin. "Wow, your pendant is shining!"

"Strictly speaking, this is already an area of ​​influence for the focus of magic," Saldrin nodded, "the monster you are looking for should be nearby."

"Well, I also heard that it was in this area..." Rebecca nodded, and then sighed, "It's better to grow up... When I was a child, my father and aunt never let me run deep into the forest..."

"The deep forest is dangerous, not a place for children to come," Saldrin said seriously. "Even we silver elves do not allow children to run into the heart of the forest."

Rebecca curled his lips and walked forward and continued: "Anyway, my aunt made up a lot of stories for me to scare me, saying that there are things like this and that hidden in the forest... What kind of witches, male witches, ghosts, fallen elves and mages, and trees that can run and jump, bears that are bigger than houses... "

While ordering the team to continue moving forward, Saldrin looked at Rebecca who was walking beside him with a smile, and glanced at the descendant of Rebecca, who was a little bit independent, but his childhood was not much different from others. When he was a child, he was scared by adults with ghost stories. As an old friend of Gao Wen, when he saw Rebecca, he could not help but feel a trace of care as an elder. At this moment, he couldn't help saying, "You should be very scared after listening to those stories, right?"

"Ah?" Rebecca was stunned for a moment, then shook her head, "No, after listening, I went to the forest to play."

Saldrin staggered on the spot as a silver elf. He grew up in the forest and almost fell out: "Why?"

Rebecca looked at it for granted: "You think, so many strange people and animals live in the forest. What is the bustling forest that is so lively that I like to join in the fun the most."

Saldrin walked steadily this time, but an iron ranger soldier walking beside him staggered...

Saldrin glanced at the team member who was almost tripped by the dead branches, then looked at Rebecca in shock and found that he could not tell what was wrong with the girl's logic: "You... well, what about after you go to the forest to play?"

"I didn't run far, but I found a few wolf. I lost a fight and then was discovered by the knights in the castle and brought back," Rebecca said, unable to help but hissed, "I was beaten up that time... Later I realized that my aunt told me those stories not to tell me that the forest was very lively, but to tell me that the forest was dangerous."

Saldrin: “…”

I don’t know if this girl was beaten by a wolf or was beaten by her elders after returning to the castle, but according to rumors... it was mostly the latter.

After a while, the team arrived deeper, and the chat between Rebecca and Saldrin gradually stopped.

The air was filled with a humid breath, and there was a slight scent of the soil mixed in between. The steel ranger who was observing the situation in front made a careful gesture, and the entire team stopped secretly next to a dead giant tree.

Rebecca and Solderin moved forward carefully for a while, then poked their heads out from behind the bushes and looked at the situation opposite.

Deep in the dense forest, the dark areas of the year-round shade under the huge canopy, large areas of muddy puddles and ground covered with dead branches and leaves formed a hidden monster kingdom. Several large black beasts, like lions and tigers, were resting in the open space. They occasionally raised their eyelids to glance around, and in their eyes as big as copper bells, the glory of arcane magic was filled with the glory of arcane magic.

No ordinary beast dared to approach this place occupied by monsters. In the vast forest clearing, besides the dangerous demonized beasts, the only living creatures were only a few beaches of gray-brown mud monsters that were slowly squirming in mud and rotten leaves. They were devouring mud and rotten leaves. They were so low that they were almost natural that they were obviously not worthy of the beasts' expulsion.

Saldrin counted the number of those beasts and breathed a sigh of relief: this magic focus was recently formed, and the gathering of monsters was not very difficult.

The Iron Rangers soldier quietly raised their weapons in their hands, high-power thermal ray guns, arcane missile launchers, and small individual howitzers. These deadly weapons pointed at the monsters in the distance, and the beasts who were not good at perception were still ignorant of all this.

"Be careful, just kill the beasts, don't affect them," Rebecca said in a low voice, "Don't use howitzers."

The soldier who used howitzers regretfully put away his weapons and replaced them with a conventional thermal ray gun. Saldrin understood Rebecca's words: Don't use weapons with too much power, obviously to prevent the damage to this natural magic focus. Although Rebecca only knows how to rub a big fireball, she is still a mage and has a need for magic focus.

It seems that in addition to those beasts, Miss Viscount's target today should also include the magic focus here. What is she studying recently?

Saldrin decided to ask after the mission is over, and now... the first thing to do is to solve those beasts.

After a short and lowly fire command, the Iron Rangers fighters attacked.

The sound of thermal rays and arcane missiles slashing through the air suddenly broke the calm of the dense forest. Then came the angry roars of the demonized beasts and the dying howling that followed.

The battle lasted only for less than a minute or even for less than a minute.

The beast is indeed a dangerous monster, but it is for ordinary old soldiers and underprepared low-level knights. For steel rangers who are armed to the teeth, use magic weapons, and use sneak attack tactics, these powerful but slow-moving monsters only require one or two rounds of fire concentration.

The fierce and dangerous battle ended, and the sound of weapon shooting gradually calmed down. The last dying beast struggled to fall to the ground. A rapidly flying enchanted feather arrow penetrated its head and ended all the killings. Saldrin held the short bow (he was still used to using this weapon that had accompanied him for many years), led the soldiers out of the natural shelter and towards the clearings in the forest, and Rebecca followed closely behind.

A rustling sound rang around, and Saldrin looked in the direction where the sound came from and the frightened slumber monsters were trying to escape from the place, but judging by the speed of their squirming, it would probably take a long time to leave the warriors' sight.

"Wow, you are so awesome," Rebecca praised with satisfaction at the results of the scene, "Kill them all!"

"My warriors are well-trained," Solderin smiled reservedly, "Is it time to collect samples?"

"Ah yes," Rebecca nodded. The soldiers around him immediately came to the vicious beasts and were about to peel the samples according to the instructions, but then Rebecca waved his hand, "Go and catch those slime monsters."

"Go and put..." Saldrin was stunned as soon as he repeated a word, "Ah?"

"Catch the soft mud monster!" Rebecca blinked, "Why are you still standing there?"

Saldrin looked confused, but at least he ordered the same confusing steel rangers to quickly execute orders to catch the slime monsters that were still slowly squirming into the distance. After giving the order, he looked at Rebecca in confusion: "You brought us here... to catch those slime monsters?"

Rebecca nodded: "Yes."

For the first time, Saldrin felt that his brain was a little too weak: "What's the point of grabbing that thing?"

"As long as you use it properly, even a mud monster has its own value," Rebecca said mysteriously, her eyes fell on the steel rangers in the distance. They easily grabbed the low-level monsters crawling around the mud, but they looked quite embarrassed because they were covered in mud. "In your eyes, mud monsters are just a pool of moving mud, but in my eyes... they might be industrial raw materials."

"Is industrial raw materials..." Saldrin could not associate the useless slime monster with the magical magic industry. However, looking at Rebecca's shiny eyes, he inexplicably felt a persistent power, so he did not say any more doubts, "Okay, I look forward to your results. But the slime monster caught...what should do these beasts?"

Rebecca looked around the dead monsters (although they were extremely fierce, they died unjustly), and thought for a moment: "Can you eat it?"

"... Although I haven't eaten it, it is said that the ribs of the beast are good, and the bone stew is very nutritious."
Chapter completed!