Act 22 Expansion

It was getting late, and the sunset radiated across half of the sky, and the wisps of cirrostratus clouds seemed to be on fire, passing from a glimmer of bright gold on the horizon to a bruise overhead, and then to a deep blue, until the easternmost part, into a dull cloud.

The clouds seemed to indicate good weather for the next few days, so that nature fell silent, and the whole forest became much quieter at dusk with the chirping of birds and birds in the forest.

Akane stood alone beside Brando, her eyes reflecting a faint twilight, and she looked in the direction of Mount Grajar, the 'root' that stretched north from the Kalanga Mountains that surrounded the entire fir barony, and was also the easternmost point of the blade that stretched out of the southern civilization of Eruin into the black forest. Legend has it that the mountain was the source of the land's wealth, and that its beneath it contained innumerable treasures, such as silver—and in a few days she had heard rumors of a vast vein of silver, and although only a small part of it was in Tonigal, it was enough for the Gruddin to squander.

But the mountain, which seemed sacred and silent to the locals, seemed to her to be a great beast lurking in her eyes, and while the towering rocks exposed the canopy of the trees reflected in the sunlight with a golden glow, the shadows of the forest hid untold secrets.

The sawmill in the forest resembles a small round spot in the golden red canopy of autumn trees, and there don't seem to be many cavemen down from the top of the hill. However, this is not the case, these inhabitants from Jorgandegan have hollowed out the entire mountain, and there may be large and small pit entrances and exits in the crevices under the rocks.

To enter the valley, it is difficult to avoid passing through these closely monitored areas by cavemen.

The red-haired girl looked back, hours had passed since Brando had confirmed the plan, but they had made no further move other than a few hundred feet down the valley - in fact, it was only at her repeated urging that the young lord reluctantly shifted his position.

Staying here motionless for a few hours, but Brando didn't explain why, and often just answered with a slight smile.

"This guy."

The red-haired girl didn't react on the surface, but she turned around and gently kicked the intricate roots of the black pine on the side, thinking to herself that since the plan had been confirmed, what were you waiting for. Whether it's 'capture the thief and capture the king first', or assassination, in short, when will it be......

She frowned, not at all liking the feeling of wasting time.

She turned back and saw that the cavemen in the forest below were coming out of the surface one by one, this was the second group, and the first group she had seen earlier had already entered the forest: "Are they going to meet first, or are they going straight to the horseshoe sawmill?" ”

The troglodyte army in front of them numbered in the thousands, and if they went straight to the horseshoe sawmill, they would probably be even earlier than they had planned, so would those mercenaries really be able to hold out until the second half of the night?

She was skeptical.

"I don't know." Brando's answer was concise and to the point.

He really didn't know, he wasn't a military genius, he just knew a lot about the habits of cavemen, and as for what the other party would decide, he really couldn't say.

"Then my lord, the sun is already going down, didn't you start saying to wait for the evening?"

Brando was stunned: "Have I ever said such a thing?" ”

"Of course, you said ...... at that time"

"Oh," Brando interrupted her, "that's because I saw that you were impatient to wait and let you relax." ”

The red-haired girl stared at him with amber-like eyes, and even if her temper was good, she couldn't help but show her snow-white tiger teeth.

"I'm sorry." Brando smiled.

Akane kept her mouth shut, and looked back - after all, Brando was a lord, and she regarded herself as a subordinate, and of course her subordinates could not question the lord's intentions. Therefore, although there are doubts, they can only be kept in mind.

It's just that Brando explains her thoughts to her own people most of the time, and today seems a bit unusual to her.

But it's not that Brando doesn't want to say it, but he can't say it. He smiled as he tapped Richard's bazaar in the space he had constructed, and 6 points of wealth were immediately transferred to all his resources, and since that night's squandering, his wealth had risen to 98 points in three days.

However, compared to what has been consumed, the drop in the bucket of this recovery still makes him feel a little twitching in his heart.

"Are you going to go down there to find the other chief?" He thought about it for a while, and replied like this: "I'm afraid that the caveman's tunnel has already hollowed out this mountain, and if we go in, we probably won't be able to find each other next year." ”

"But we can't just wait." Akane grumbled.

"Don't worry, this is just a small tribe, and the patriarch of a tribe of about 3,000 people is often a witch doctor." Brando replied, "To deal with the official wizard of the human race, he has to do it himself." ”

"When will that be?"

"It depends on the other party's prudence." Brando replied, "No later than a short period of time after the moon has risen." ”

"Can you hold off the cavemen for so long?" Akane couldn't help but ask.

"I trust Antitina," Brando looked up, "I've already given her the solution, and the rest depends on whether the mercenaries are really willing to stand with us." But if not, they had a way to protect themselves - but it didn't matter whether they gave up the horseshoe sawmill or not, and the skirmish had already been decided in the afternoon battle. ”

"What do you mean?"

"Look." Brando smiled: "I want more than just victory. ”

……

The moon soon rose into the sky.

There seemed to be a smell of silence in the air in the horseshoe grass lumberyard at night, but it was not hidden from an experienced mercenary, and Yuta had already keenly sniffed out the unusual smell hidden in the wind as she patrolled the wooden walls.

The troglodyte scout may have arrived.

She frowned and subconsciously raised her hand, inserted her fingers into the long fiery red hair behind her right sideburn, and combed it back against the wind, which was getting cooler in the night. Then he beckoned down with his left hand and called a few mercenaries to let them go into the forest to reconnoitre.

But her actions clearly caught the attention of the rest of the camp, and the leader of the Rose and Wine Mercenary Regiment, Crensia, looked up at this side, then quietly turned back, and continued to silently supervise his men digging a ravine in the camp with one hand behind her back - not a trench, but a preparatory measure to prevent the cavemen from attacking from underground.

As for the burly Grand Master Fern, he was equally silent, gesturing for his men to climb the wooden wall.

The mercenaries were well-organized and experienced, much to the relief of Antitina, who was patrolling the camp. After inspecting the lumberyard around the ring, the aristocratic daughter, accompanied by the two wild elf sisters, walked up the wooden wall with her skirt on her shoulder.

She first looked at Yuta, who was standing under the moonlight.

"Did you find anything?" Antitina asked.

Juta turned her head and didn't seem surprised to see that it was the young lady, but she didn't seem to be cold, and turned her head away: "There is something in the forest, maybe a caveman, or some other beast, and I have let people see it." ”

"Cavemen?" Antitina was slightly shocked in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face: "So fast? ”

"Perhaps." The female mercenary captain emphasized.

"What if it is?" The noble daughter took a light breath to calm herself down and asked, "Does this mean that the cavemen are moving quickly, Captain Yuta?" Also, can you tell how fast they react? And the situation between the armies? Although she was well-read, she had only been following Brando for a while that she had come to realize that she had learned a lot from being able to experience and knowledge in the face of these seasoned mercenaries, so Antitina asked with an open posture after glancing at Yuta.

Juta also glanced at her, and for the first time felt that the little girl was not so annoying. Although she was a little more thoughtful at a young age, she had seen too many descendants of the so-called nobles, and once she accepted it, she didn't think it was strange.

"There are many changes on the battlefield, and there is very little definite information," the female mercenary leader shook her head, her long red hair swaying like a flame, "It may be the caveman who stayed behind to monitor, or it may be the scout who came from behind, if it is the former possibility, it means that the other party's combat quality is very high, if possible, I will not be willing to entangle with such a guy more; But the latter shows that the opponent's overall reaction and coordination ability are superhuman, so the battle in the next few days is expected to be very difficult......"

"And at least it says," Yuta added, "that the scouts were able to cross the forest in such a short time, and the individual was not ordinary. ”

"What do you think it is, Captain Juta?"

"As a rule of thumb," replied the mercenary leader, "I prefer the latter. ”

"Experience."

"Experience is important, Miss Antitina, especially when you're not sure of anything, it's like an intuition that is more reliable than your knowledge-" Juta replied as she licked her lips and looked ahead, and a finch arose in the forest, indicating that the mercenaries had exchanged hands with the cavemen and were expelling each other. She narrowed her eyes: "It seems that my guess is not wrong, and your lord is not an ordinary person. ”

"How?" Antitina looked back for a moment.

"If the scouts are at this time, it means that the great forces are near," replied Juta, "but the time of the attack will be delayed, and the real fierce battle will continue until the second half of the night, the little fellow...... Oh, I'm sorry, my lord, I seem to know a lot about these underground guys. ”

"He's got more than that." Antitina looked at the moon and replied faintly.

"Oh?"