The large swamp is connected by water and is dotted with islands. It is usually a vast swamp with almost no roads to follow. It is very difficult for humans to trek in the swamp. But in the snow season, the cold air and continuous snow freeze the swamp into ice. As long as you walk along the

By following the raised islands, you can avoid the deep lakes in the swamp without worrying about falling into the fragile lake ice.

At this moment, a long team was winding its way westward in the snow-covered swamp. They used snow packs as road signs, and twelve swamp dragon lizards were leading the way, each pulling a sled.

The car, the size of a freight coach, was wrapped in waterproof oil canvas and was so packed with cargo that the thick linen ropes that tied it were stretched tight.

The dragon lizard spit out white mist from its nostrils, and its thick limbs easily plowed through more than a foot of snow. The heavy sleigh rolled over and dragged out a well-defined road. Hundreds of capable soldiers lined up in two teams and followed.

The dragon lizards were walking on foot behind the sleigh. They were well-proportioned and agile. They were basically all around 22 years old. Although everyone had different looks, their bright eyes and calm demeanor were their common features.

These warriors were well-armored, but wore a little little clothing. It was freezing in the Great Swamp, and they only wore a set of six-legged crocodile skin armor. The sheepskin cloaks on their backs were the only clothing to keep out the cold. Their muscular arms and thighs were directly exposed.

In the freezing cold air.

Most of them were carrying a wooden frame on their backs, carrying large bulging marching packages. Their special flat snow boots made a crunching sound when they stepped on the solid snow track crushed by the dragon lizard sled.

The deep marks showed how heavy the marching packages were. But they moved as vigorously as usual and were not affected by the weight at all.

Well-trained vassal soldiers are also good at marching with heavy loads, and can basically do this. Pastor Dane knew that these elite warriors who were not afraid of wind, frost, snow and rain had been walking for a whole day, covering almost 150 kilometers at a constant speed.

During the journey, there was no rest at all, and even eating and drinking were done during the march.

Are the Randall family’s arcane guards all monsters?

Priest Dane, who was sitting on the sleigh, secretly cursed. He doubted that these warriors would be able to walk for another two days and two nights. He also compared them with the paladins.

The church currently has nearly 100,000 paladins, while the number of fourth-level paladins is only eight or nine thousand. They are the backbone of the clergy's armed forces, and their social status is equivalent to that of the Bronze Knight. Each fourth-level paladin can assist a combat priest.

, leading a paladin team of about 10 people.

Dane actually did not understand the combat effectiveness of these arcane guards. He judged from the crystal eyes and incredible physical fitness of the arcane guards that they had knight-level physical fitness, and concluded that Randall's personal strength of the arcane warriors was similar to that of a fourth-level paladin.

conclusion.

Of course, the actual combat effectiveness of these arcane guards is definitely weaker than that of the fourth-level paladins. Just like the clergy insist that the fourth-level paladins are not inferior to the mid-level bronze knights, but the knight nobles never admit this. Dane also believes that

No arcane guardian of any family can compare to a fourth-level paladin who masters enhanced divine spells.

However, he admitted that these warriors were very powerful and had refreshed his understanding of arcane warriors.

The arcane warriors trained by Kite Castle are the best in the contemporary era. It is said that the strength and agility of some August arcane warriors can reach the level of junior knights. They can easily lift objects weighing more than 1 ton, and charge faster than war horses.

His Highness Randall has a close relationship with the August family, so it seems reasonable for Kite Castle to train arcane warriors for him.

Dane didn't think so, at least the arcane warriors in front of him were definitely not trained by Kite Castle or the York family.

When the team set off, he saw with his own eyes two Randall arcane warriors lifting a sleigh loaded with supplies - the vehicle weighed four tons. There was no way a junior bronze knight could carry four tons effortlessly.

Only an intermediate bronze knight with 18 elemental resonance levels can achieve this level.

The power displayed by Randall's Mystic Guard has exceeded the limits of ordinary humans, similar to the extraordinary power of the ferocious warriors. The fourth-level paladin who has undergone three body reshapings generally cannot exceed the limit of ordinary strength, and most of them only have junior bronze knights.

level of strength.

There is also the number of Randall's arcane guards. The expedition organized by Earl Golden Eyes has a total of more than 200 members, divided into four teams, and the main team has hundreds of arcane guards.

How could the August royal family obtain more than a hundred knight-level arcane guards and give them to His Highness Randall to be used as ordinary soldiers?

If the two parties were in a cooperative and borrowing relationship, Dane did not see any high-level knights leading the team, neither from Kite Castle nor from the York family.

Obviously, these warriors with extraordinary strength are the secret guards secretly trained by His Highness Randall.

In fact, Dane had already guessed the origin of Randall's secret guards, the ferocious war dogs and eleven dragon lizard war beasts wandering around the outside of the team, as well as the strange alienated beasts, especially the four beautiful ones, the first born with twins.

The horned dragon maids, the power they inadvertently reveal is even more terrifying than the Golden Knight. These all show that the wizard Imerson of the Randall family can transform living things, including humans.

Hunting Director Imerson turned out to be a wizard raised by His Highness Randall. Dane was surprised by this. What shocked him was Bertina. Like most people, he also liked this innocent and lovely child, but he

I know that Pope Clement used true seeing to examine Belle's soul, but did not discover her wizard nature.

Perhaps His Holiness the Pope knew the truth, and he deliberately pretended to be deaf and dumb because of Lord Miller's will.

Of course, if Mr. Miller wants to protect Emerson and Bertina, I am afraid that no cleric will be able to detect their true nature. Dane is still unable to determine Bertina's identity as a wizard, and His Highness Randall allows him to be free in the team.

Activities, free observation, free communication with others, but His Highness himself will not provide any answers.

The Stormrage Swordmaster's original words were: You are not qualified to discuss action plans with me now, so there is no need to ask me about irrelevant matters.

This is understandable. His Highness Randall is trying his best to protect Master Miller's prophecy. No matter what Dane's conjecture is, it cannot hinder his judgment. Unless Dane can touch the mystery of the power of destiny and become real gold.

Extraordinary person.

However, Dane believes that Bertina is Master Miller's key plan to deal with the evil god.

He has no intention of peeking into the secrets of Lord Miller and His Highness Randall. His observation and thinking are all out of curiosity.

As a scholar-priest of the Pope's lineage, Dane believed that he understood witchcraft better than wizards. After observing, he discovered that there were many things in the team that could not be explained by witchcraft - the Randall family's arcane warriors, ferocious war dogs,

There are too many swamp dragon lizards.

The types of witchcraft are all kinds of strange. After a long period of research, the Church of Radiance has classified witchcraft into three major categories: elemental witchcraft, mental body witchcraft, and shape-shifting witchcraft. Since elements, souls, and material forms are closely connected, the talents of wizards

Witchcraft is basically a mixed type, but when their witchcraft is subdivided, it will not go beyond these three categories.

Hunting Director Imerson is obviously the most common shape-shifting wizard, but the root of witchcraft lies in magic and spiritual power. When Imerson transforms life forms, he must first use magic to control the transformed target.

In other words, the life forms that Imosun can transform and control are limited. Imosun never believed that he could control so many modified humans and modified animals at the same time.

The extraordinarily intelligent His Highness Randall analyzed Imerson's witchcraft laws and developed a set of secret methods to cultivate extraordinary warriors. This was the answer Dane could think of. There are many similar examples among church and secular lords. Paladins were reshaped with dragon vein potion.

The body also originated from witchcraft.

In any case, with hundreds of knight-level arcane warriors guarding him, Dane felt very safe. His Highness Randall's dragon maid made him confident in this expedition.

The team's speed gradually slowed down and finally stopped on the flat ice in the middle of three snow-covered islands. Dane poked his head out of the sleigh in surprise and saw Charlotte jumping off His Royal Highness Randall's sleigh.

, walking towards the back of the team.

"Mrs. Randall, what happened?" Dane left his sleigh and saluted the blonde female knight and asked.

Mrs. Randall's address made Charlotte raise the corners of her lips and said in a brisk voice: "Lord Dane, just call me Charlotte."

The senior priest chuckled and said: "...We are all companions. Mrs. Randall should call me Dane."

The smile on Charlotte's face became brighter and brighter, and she nodded and said: "The master ordered the team to rest here. You can go to the island in front to meet him now... I will go to the back of the team to take a look and arrange the camp. I'm sorry.

."

The oath-sworn female knight curtsied and walked towards the back of the team with four sword-wielding maids. Dane looked up at the still bright sky, frowned slightly, and then, accompanied by the guards, walked towards the snow-covered building in front of him.

Covered island.

On the island, more than a dozen arcane warriors were busy cleaning up the site. They shoveled away the snow, quickly dug out several fire ponds, and wielded sharp machetes to harvest the low vegetation that was pressed into the snow. After a while,

A large piece of flat land was cleared. Victor held Bertina's hand and stood aside with several of his entourage, talking and laughing.

After a slight hesitation, Dane stepped forward and saluted: "Your Highness..."

Before he could finish speaking, a scorching gaze glanced over from Victor's left side. It was the dragon maid named Alexta. She stared at the priest's chest, the greed in her eyes was like a burning flame.

.

Dane would never mistakenly think that this stunning beauty full of foreign amorous feelings favored him. Hidden under his breastplate was the Holy Power Crystal given by Master Miller. It was the priest's artifact and a ray of light from the Supreme Lord. Dane would rather

Even if you sacrifice your life, you cannot throw away the holy crystal. This is the belief that a priest must have.

Because the Dragon Maid coveted this holy crystal, Dane had to ride the last sleigh alone, trying to stay as far away from the Earl as possible. Today was the first time he met the Earl since setting off.

Dane covered his chest, hesitating as if he was frightened by a vicious dog when he was visiting a neighbor. Victor was secretly amused, Laila was obviously a stunning beauty, but she couldn't be related to the vicious dog, even if everyone was a little bit

Fear her, she is also a beautiful and ferocious dragon maid.

"Boom"

After being flicked on the head by her master, Laila blinked her beautiful eyes, her narrow vertical pupils turned into round pupils like pure rubies, and she looked at Victor with a confused expression.

"I'm going to camp here for two days. I'm going to take some ferocious war dogs with me to patrol the surrounding area and mark the territory."

Drawing territory is one of the dragon maid's favorite things to do. Laila curtsied and said softly: "As you wish, my dear master."

These days, Victor, Charlotte and Lyla share a sleigh. The dragon maid imitates Charlotte's coquettish tone and tone towards her master, but she doesn't understand the occasion.

His Highness Randall was a little embarrassed and ignored the dragon maid. He waved to Caligula and ordered: "Aka, take Bell to dig ice on the lake to catch fish."

Caligula touched the back of his head and said blankly: "Master, Aka doesn't know how to..."

"Imosun can catch fish, let's go find Imogen."

Wearing a thick winter coat and looking like a ball, Bell skillfully climbed onto Caligula's shoulders, grabbed his ears, and shouted excitedly: "Let's go, let's go... Let's find Imerson to catch fish."

The only two remaining alchemical warriors led three griffin militiamen, following Caligula. These alchemical humans once followed Victor in the Centaur War and have become enlightened in wisdom. In particular, the alchemical warriors have the fighting instinct to communicate with each other.

, both personal strength and emotional intelligence are stronger than the third-level source blood militia. Victor released the command authority of these five alchemy units to Bertina. They now serve as the personal guards of the little patrol envoy, responsible for protecting her. By the way

Do chores for her.

Seeing Victor taking away his entourage, Pastor Dane put down his right hand that was protecting the Holy Power Crystal, took two steps forward, and asked politely: "Your Highness, it's still early today, are we going to camp here?"

Victor nodded and said: "We have been walking for 12 consecutive days and only rested for 4 hours a day. My soldiers are full of energy, but those antelopes and camels need to rest."

The expeditionary force brought hundreds of antelopes and camels. These camels have thick bones and amazing endurance. They are two full times larger than the antelopes in the Nahuel Mountains. Each antelope can carry about 400 pounds of cargo. Dane believes that

These antelopes and camels are of little use, but are a burden to the team. The expeditionary force could have gone faster and further, but it was these antelopes and camels that slowed down the marching speed of the team. They only carried more supplies than Randall's arcane guards.
To be continued...