It was just a massacre.

Sean let Vamis go, but not the slave catchers he brought. Seventy-two people, in the end, left about sixty corpses, and about five or six escaped, this number is insignificant to Sean, anyway, the reason why he is ruthless against this slave hunting team is purely to give the kingdom of Dabiang a shock and show determination, if you really want to explain, it can only be said that the luck of this slave hunting team is really bad.

As for whether the duke will send another slave catcher to sneak in, Sean doesn't care, because William will be in charge of the next thing. If William can't even solve these stowaways, then he will be ashamed of what Sean expects of him. What's more, if Panda Town is successfully rebuilt, then the entrance and exit of the entire Gorge Rift will also be completely included in its monitoring and inspection scope, and if you want to be lazy, you can even set up checkpoints, anyway, it will only take about ten days to go back and forth.

The biggest problem with Sean's territory at the moment is that his military strength is starting to be a little stretched.

With a force of 6,000 troops, it is definitely more than enough for him to stick to the Panda Territory, and he can even deter the two surrounding baronies. However, after annexing Ruud's viscounty and Lonnis's barony, Sean's actual territory is basically equivalent to the territory of an earldom, as long as he annexes a normal-sized barony, his territory will be truly equivalent to Asuna's Tonys.

A knight with an earldom is unjustifiable no matter what, at least he must be officially promoted to a real nobleman, and if he is lucky, the title of an earl cannot run. It's just that nominally, he is still a retainer of Asuna, so it is impossible to obtain the prefix of real power or strength, but he has laid such a foundation in a year. I'm afraid that the other nobles of the Duchy of Lane will definitely not dare to underestimate Sean.

So the real problem that Sean is facing now is that his military strength is seriously insufficient.

Because of this, Sean asked William to go to the trade capital again, and this must be supplemented with regard to the military strength of the territory.

As for this trip to the Savage Lands, Sean really didn't come to capture slaves.

After passing through the No. 1 Fire Cave, the knife wind became more violent, and the marks of the knife cutting on the land and mountain walls here became more obvious. But this has absolutely nothing to do with smoothness, not to mention the ravines in the ground, the edges and corners of the mountain wall are only lightly touched. The skin was immediately broken, but if it wasn't scratched, the injury would not be very serious, and the bleeding would be easily stopped.

And after a day's journey, we finally arrived in front of the No. 2 fire cave. The timing was very accurate, just at nightfall.

Just when entering Fire Hole 2. Sean could clearly feel the colder temperature.

If the temperature in the No. 1 Fire Cave is only around zero degrees. Then the temperature of the No. 2 fire cave is minus three or four degrees, there is a relatively obvious ice gas in the cave, but there is no dry and wet reaction, only when you touch the mountain of the cave, you can feel the bone-chilling cold, but it is not like the ice cave will have a moist breath. Even if you put your hands on it for a long time, your hands will not get wet after leaving the mountain.

Cecilia looked at Sean with some curiosity: "Is there anything special?" ”

"Yes." Sean nodded, "I have a suspicion at the moment. ”

"What is it?" Cecilia is a magician, and she loves magic from the bottom of her heart. Otherwise, they would not have shown such amazing natural abilities, so naturally they have been contaminated with many mages - of course, for mages, this is not a problem, but for ordinary people, this is the weirdness of mages - their thirst for knowledge has completely surpassed the scope of normal people can imagine.

"These caves are definitely not naturally formed." Sean took out the dead bones and tried to knock down a stone from the mountain, but found that this thing was unexpectedly hard, and it couldn't be knocked down with the sharpness of the dead bones. ”

Cecilia's eyes widened in disbelief.

Dead bones are an epic-level weapon, she knows it, Sean did not hide it from her, although the epic-level weapon is not necessarily the sharpest weapon in the world, but any piece of equipment above the legend has a very special ability, under normal circumstances, unless it is a high-quality weapon that is specially refined for sharpness, otherwise the epic-level weapon in terms of sharpness can definitely be proud of all weapons, but it can't leave any traces in the cave?

"Try it outside the cave!" Cecilia reacted immediately.

Sean immediately understood when he thought about it, and immediately walked towards the outside of the cave.

At this time, it had been night for a while, and Sean was not in the habit of carrying a pocket watch, but according to the normal situation, it should be around ten o'clock now, and the knife wind outside the cave seemed to become more violent. In this case, Sean has already asked Tini to test it with the Ice Armor Technique, which could have lasted for about an hour or let Sean blow with all his strength to shatter, but in an environment like Dao Feng, it can only last for about twenty minutes at most, which shows that the degree of energy consumption is extremely high.

So even Sean didn't dare to expose his skin to this environment.

Hiding the bones under the cloak and thrusting them into the ground, the tip of the sword went deep unhindered until it had no handle, and there seemed nothing strange about it. However, when Sean aimed the dead bones into the cave, something surprising happened to Sean - the tip of the sword pierced the mountain about two inches away, and it could no longer be pierced, although Sean could not see the specific situation, but he could feel that there was a very strange force blocking the continued invasion of the dead bones.

"How?" Back in the cave, Cecilia immediately asked eagerly.

"It's greasy." Sean looked around the cave and said, "There shouldn't be any problem with the ground, but if you pierce the cave wall, you can only get two inches in." …… It felt a lot like magic like an air barrier, because I could feel the slight tremor of the sword, and there was obviously energy interference. ”

"What about cutting the mountain out of a plane to observe?" Tini offered her opinion.

Priests with swords, who were also priests, did not have the same thirst for knowledge and learning as magicians, after all, they believed in gods and relied on the power of gods to strengthen themselves. However, as long as they are lawyers, they must also have something in common, that is, exuberant curiosity, and Sean and Cecilia's interest in these caves obviously made Tini some interested.

"Tried, no." Sean shook his head, "It can only be cut by about an inch, and the remaining inch can't be cut, and it seems to be protected by the energy assimilation inside." ”

"It's really weird." Tini and Cecilia said in unison.

As soon as the words were spoken, both of them were stunned, and some kind of strange spark seemed to burst out of their eyes.

Sean knew that the academic interest of these two guys had been completely detonated.

And in the following day, Sean's conjecture was confirmed, and Tini and Cecilia included almost the entire cave in the scope of the investigation, so everyone had to deliberately slow down their trip to cooperate with the two men's investigation. In this regard, it is naturally impossible for the Northland barbarians and bear people, Andre and others to help, they don't even understand what Cecilia and Tini are looking for, and Sean, who only knows the situation of the Dao, is too lazy to do it, he knows that the matter is definitely not so simple, and he plans to wait until he goes to the third fire cave to investigate.

As for whether there will be any gains, Sean has little hope, after all, no one in the game has discovered this secret.

So originally the No. 2 Fire Cave was about a one-day trip, but it took nearly three days to complete.

After coming out of the No. 2 fire cave, there was another sword wind whistling in the wind. This journey will be a little longer, about three days or so, but usually the slave hunters will speed up the journey here, so that if it is faster, it will only take about two and a half days to travel. After all, Sean had already seen the knife wind after nightfall last night, and there was no leeward place to rest during this trip, so the food must be eaten while walking using compressed fast dry food.

Therefore, according to the rules, it is usually around 5 o'clock in the morning to leave the No. 2 fire hole, and then rest in place for two to three hours when it is about to go night, the specific rest depends on the day and night time of the season, and one hour after nightfall, when the knife wind starts to get stronger, you must continue on the road, until noon the next day to get a short rest, and then repeat the situation of the first day. The experienced slave catcher team, through the grasp of the time rhythm, only needs to walk about two and a half days in the case of hurrying, and in this regard, Andre deserves to be a slave catcher with five years of rich experience.

On the afternoon of the third day after leaving Fire Cave No. 2, Sean and the others rushed to the entrance of Fire Cave No. 3.

According to Andrei's explanation, the No. 3 fire cave is the largest of the three fire caves, and the total length will take about a day and a half, and if the trip is slowed down, it is likely to take about two days to complete. However, this fire cave may be the largest one, so the temperature in the cave is also lower than the previous two fire caves, reaching a level of minus ten degrees or even lower, and there has been a frost reaction in the cave this time.

Before entering the cave, Sean could see a thin layer of frost covering the entrance to the cave.

It was still Andre who led the way in, he was already an experienced old man, and the others also entered, and the three who fell behind in the line were Sean, Cecilia, and Tiny. Perhaps Lord Zhilu Dao and his sister were interested in these fire caves, so Andre also told some legends about the fire caves and some hearsay stories from time to time along the way, but in general it didn't help much.

Only this time, Sean's face changed instantly after entering this cave.

And the same change in face is Tiny. (To be continued.) )

PS: I haven't slept all night. Continue with the codeword.