Chapter 679 Taking advantage of the situation

"What happened here?"

"Is there a giant bear in the world that can rival the size of an adult dragon?"

"There is a large poisonous centipede here. Kill it and protect Her Royal Highness the Princess and General Gavin."

"Don't mess around. Didn't you see that Her Royal Highness the Princess ignored it? It's protecting General Gavin."

"Could it be that it was captured by the lord? The lord didn't have such a pet before."

"You call this a pet? This is obviously not an ordinary centipede, but an animal companion carefully cultivated by a druid. It should be called a sword centipede. If it is In the case of a sneak attack, it only needs one full-round attack to kill you and me. "

"That's even more wrong. The lord is a spiritualist. How could he have a druid's animal companion?"

"You ask me, who should I ask? He is your lord."

"Whether it is the royal guards of Crown Princess Tynarasta or the general guards of Conqueror Gavin, they all couldn't hide their shock and confusion when they saw the scene in front of them. The amazing traces of battle here all showed that a shocking battle had broken out here, which was beyond their imagination.

After whispering for a long time, they couldn't figure out the reason.

The Crown Princess was very good at controlling people. She didn't explain anything more, but gave an order: "The troops will be divided into two groups. The general guards from the Conqueror Army will stay here to guard the safety of General Gavin. No one is allowed to approach. The Royal Guards will follow me. There are still Mala believers hiding in this forest. Find them all. Be careful of various traps during the search."

For things like this, to be frank, after everyone is shocked, they will form a specific concept. It is better to keep silent and let them guess based on the situation on the battlefield, which will make them appear more unfathomable.

In comparison, the gods are very good at this. They never show off their military power to others. They only leave horrible battle traces that ordinary people can't imagine, as holy places and holy relics for people to admire, so that they can guess the power of the gods themselves, and thus give rise to awe and worship.

"Since it involves traps, why not let Master Susi assist you? She is a pit maker and a master of traps. Although her abilities are more inclined towards rocky land, the principles are universal and should be able to provide considerable help." Veronica suggested.

She is the captain of the General Guard and Gavin Cormier's deputy. This is a special war, so the exclusive sacrifice of Lady Strategy is indispensable. Although Gavin is now a chosen one of the Crimson Knights, he is a latecomer and has very limited knowledge of the operation of Lady Strategy's original church. If you want to borrow strength from it, you need professionals like Veronica.

"Okay." The Crown Princess did not refuse.

The traps of the Mala believers did not cause them much trouble. In addition to the fact that this is the main battlefield of the Half Moon Colt, they can detect many natural traps, and because the defense of the equipment on the two is too strong, let alone ordinary traps, even most magic traps cannot cause them substantial damage, and many of them are directly cracked by violence.

The Royal Guards were not like that. During the battle, these traps did not cause them much damage. However, when they were chasing, they suffered casualties. That was a joke.

Before the Crown Princess and the others could take action, the rumbling sound of horse hooves rang out, and a tall figure rushed out of the jungle first, roaring: "Who dares to play tricks in my territory? Do you think I, Fairfa*Muyin, am easy to bully... Princess, why are you here? What happened here?"

This man is more than two and a half meters tall, with long arms and legs. Even if he is wearing heavy armor, you can clearly feel the terrifying muscle outline of his whole body. His big head is shaved blue, but his black beard is very long, reaching his chest, thick and thick, and you can't see his mouth at all. This makes him look ferocious, and his loud voice is enough to scare most people.

This man is none other than the Muyin lord who is famous for his brute force and bravery, the lord of the disappeared Luji Town.

"Before that, tell me first, what happened in Luji Town these days? Have there been a lot of casualties?" The Crown Princess had already vaguely guessed what happened in Luji Town, but guesses are just guesses, and must be confirmed in person.

"We don't know what happened either." The ferocious face of the Muyin Lord was full of confusion, "Our Luji Town has been completely shrouded in fog these days. At first we thought it was ordinary forest fog, but later all the spellcasters found that they had lost their ability to cast spells, and then they felt that something was wrong. This kind of fog obviously has a strong misleading effect. We sent several groups of explorers, and without exception, they couldn't go far and returned to the town. There were two times when I led the team myself. In the end, we could only hold on and wait for the fog to dissipate on its own, or for the royal family to notice the situation on our side. I didn't expect that this wait would take two days and two nights. We heard the sound of fighting here before, and as soon as the fog dissipated, I immediately led people to rush over."

What the Muyin Lord said was basically not much different from what the Crown Princess guessed.

From the beginning to the end, Luji Town was just a bait to lure them into the trap. The Mala believers of the Secret Hunting Cult simply trapped them with the projection of the Kingdom of God. They did not create any further troubles, but focused their attention entirely on her and Gavin. When the Plundering Bear, Mala's anchor point in the material plane, was severely damaged and the projection of the Kingdom of God disappeared, Luji Town naturally escaped.

Tynarasta explained concisely and concisely: "It was the evil organization called the Secret Hunting Cult who completely surrendered to the God of Hunting, Maura, and tried to launch the Supreme Hunt against me and General Gavin. You were only affected, and the culprit has been arrested. General Gavin has killed him, and the crisis here has been completely resolved."

"The Secret Hunting Cult? Joining forces with Maura, the God of Hunting? They are really crazy." Lord Muyin said angrily, "They just do things in the wilderness, but they dare to do such outrageous things in our Cormyr We must not let them go so easily, we must find them out and eradicate them completely.”

"Wait a minute, I will go back to the Purple Dragon Palace. Your Majesty will definitely not sit idly by and ignore this matter!" The Crown Princess did not mention that King Asan and the Palace Archmage were not in the Purple Dragon Palace. Will cause unnecessary disturbance.

The situation here has been broken. I wonder if they will get out of trouble like Luji Town.

"Your Highness, you don't need to go back to the Purple Dragon Palace. I have already brought your Majesty's royal order." Lord Siobo rode down from the sky on his griffon mount and respectfully handed a royal order scroll to the Crown Princess.

King Asan’s royal decree?

So King Yasang and the others have returned to the Purple Dragon Palace. No, they have even visited this place in person, but they just don't know it.

After Tynarasta received the royal order scroll, she knew it was true without any need to check it deliberately, because it not only had the magic king's seal belonging to King Asan, but also the mage's mark belonging to the palace archmage. This kind of spiritual imprint is difficult to fake.

"According to the king's order, the True Silver family, the Urus family, and the Archer family secretly supported the Secret Hunting Cult and colluded with the evil god Maura in an attempt to attack and kill the kingdom's crown prince, Princess Tenarasta, and shake the country's foundation. This is considered treason. From today on, the Secret Hunting Cult will be completely expelled. Every citizen of Cormyr has the responsibility to report the members of the Secret Hunting Cult, take back the fiefdoms and properties of all Secret Hunting Cult members, and arrest all direct members of the three major families. Anyone who dares to resist will be arrested. Kill them on the spot and authorize the Crown Princess to mobilize the military forces of all the towns in the King's Forest to launch a large-scale siege against all the illegal forces in the King's Forest."

After reading out the newly signed royal order, which was not even completely dry on the ink, Tainarasta knew that this matter was not just a conspiracy of the Secret Hunting Cult. King Asan and the court archmage did not think of it themselves. They were so clean, there must be some element of trickery in it, including their disappearance. Was it because they were lured away by Ma La's conspiracy? Or they deliberately avoided it and pushed themselves to Luji Town, then only they themselves know.

For a moment, the Crown Princess didn't know how to describe her feelings. From the perspective of the country's interests, there was no problem with their approach. After all, it was for the overall interests of the entire Kingdom of Cormyr and to uncover the worms within the kingdom.

But from a personal emotional point of view, being used as a chess piece is definitely not a good experience. Although they are probably fully prepared, if one day they are in their position, will they be harmful to their children and students? Do such a thing?

And this is what Tainarasta is least willing to think about, because she is afraid of getting a 'yes' result.

This is the helplessness of being in an imperial family. Family love often has to give in to the interests of the family and the country.

The Kingdom of Cormyr's thunderous counterattack against the Secret Hunting Cult has begun. Although the True Silver family, the Urus family, and the Archer family are not the oldest families in the Kingdom of Cormyr, they are also out-and-out powerful families, and they are all It is closely related to the King's Forest. In particular, the True Silver family is a hereditary earl family and has been in charge of planned logging and hunting in the King's Forest for generations. The other two families are hereditary baron families and their industries are also inseparable from the King's Forest.

They have been operating in the King's Forest for at least a hundred years, and their penetration here is not ordinary. In addition to those well-known industries, there are also some relatively private ones. If you are deep in the King's Forest, it is difficult for outsiders to discover them.

When the Kingdom of Cormyr announced that it would take back all the fiefdom properties of these three families, it meant that the entire power in the King's Forest was facing a major reshuffle.

The Kingdom of Cormyr showed terrifying efficiency in military operations. When the Crown Princess sat in the road market town and summoned the garrison in the towns along the way to launch a military operation.

The First Legion, which was guarding the royal city of Susar, went north overnight and blocked all the passages south of the King's Forest. The Royal Navy followed the Pterodactyl River into Pterodactyl Lake and blocked the east side of the King's Forest, not to mention the various checkpoints. Having said that, a wanted order must have been issued immediately.

However, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is just an excuse for the Obaiskir royal family to take advantage of the opportunity to rectify the King's Forest. A blockade of this nature is only effective for ordinary people, but it is not effective for those noble families with extraordinary spellcasters. It's useless, a teleportation spell can make them jump out of the blockade.

The royal family of Obaisqil has been trying to tidy up the King's Forest for a long time, but there has been no suitable excuse. Although this is the strategic depth of the Kingdom of Cormyr, the complex environment is also an excellent place for hiding evil and evil. Monsters in the forest , forest bandits, kingdom fugitives, etc. Even if the Kingdom of Cormyr maintains a large number of purple dragon patrols here, there is no way to completely ban them, and tragedies will occur from time to time.

The command headquarters of Crown Princess is in Luji Town.

The Road Town was a frontline outpost built to resist the evil in the King's Forest. As the Kingdom of Cormyr became stronger, they had pushed this line of defense to the High Horn Castle in the Stormhorn Mountains, but its role as the main defense center of the King's Forest has never changed.

At the same time, it is also the most important transit center of the King's Forest. The reason why it is called Road Town is not the market next to the road, but the gathering point of the road. If you walk along any road in the King's Forest, there will be a fork leading here. It connects as many as eight large and small roads in the King's Forest.

It is the largest clearing in the forest of the King's Forest. Along these roads, there are as many as a dozen woodland horse farms. Most of the first mounts of the Purple Dragon Knights of the Kingdom of Cormyr come from here.

Half of these woodland horse farms belong to the royal family. When the war call is sounded, these royal horse farms will become the best gathering place for those horse farms.

Not only did the Purple Dragon patrols patrolling the King's Forest rush to gather, but even the militias and hunters in nearby villages and towns also began to gather towards Luji Town upon hearing the news. Those who gathered here one after another were not just young people from the King's Forest and surrounding towns, but even people from other towns in the Kingdom of Cormier also came here with their own equipment and food.

The propaganda slogan of the Kingdom of Cormier was simple and serious, "Luji Town is calling."

This was no longer just a mobilization. Gavin also felt the responsibility and honor from the young people who shouted such slogans.

"Your Highness, is it convenient for Fang to reveal your true purpose?" Gavin realized something was wrong the next day. This was neither a preparation for the encirclement and suppression of the Secret Hunting Cult nor a preparation for the comprehensive elimination of the King's Forest.

He had fought a jungle war with the drow elves in the Mir Forest before, and he was very clear about the particularity of jungle warfare. Human wave tactics were useless here, especially the Purple Dragon Knights, who had no place to use their skills. They could only patrol along the trade route and had no way to rush into the forest to fight.

There are two main points to fighting in the forest.

First, a large amount of intelligence collection. You must first lock on where the enemy is before you can send troops. You can't just conduct a carpet search of the enemy, right?

Even in the plains, this is an unrealistic thing, not to mention in the vast primeval forest. Many times, even if the enemy is more than ten meters away, you can't find it without the corresponding natural ability.

Second, it is to select professionals who are easy to operate in the dense forest, such as druids, rangers, hunters, archers, etc. It would be better if there are those natural races, to form an elite combat team to conduct special operations based on intelligence.

In this kind of primeval forest, the enemy's villages, associations, and strongholds will definitely not be too large, and there is no need to send out a large army.

However, the Crown Princess does not have these two things. What she has is to conduct emergency training for the assembled recruits according to the standards of the Purple Dragon Knight.

The Crown Princess is not like someone who has no military common sense and would make such a low-level mistake.

"Even if the general doesn't ask, I'm going to tell you about this." Tainalasta said seriously, "I believe that within a month, this news will spread throughout the entire Faerun continent. I wonder if you have heard of the Endless Wilds?"

"Endless Wilds?" Gavin was involuntarily startled when he heard the name. It was like a flash of lightning passing through his mind, tearing open the fog. The Kingdom of Cormier's abnormal behavior now found the most perfect reason in an instant. They were not preparing troops for the King's Forest at all. This was just an excuse that happened to be there.

The Crown Princess misunderstood Gavin's reaction and directly dragged Gavin to launch a teleportation spell, appearing in a combat meeting room with three huge military maps on it.

One of them was naturally the Kingdom of Cormier and its surrounding countries.

The other one is for the entire continent of Faerun. Gavin also has one, but the level of detail is simply incomparable to the other. This map is obviously updated in real time, because it has marks such as the Conqueror's Road, Blood Gorge City, Colossus City and City of Faith. The handwriting is beautiful but not lacking in strength. You can tell at a glance that it is from the hands of the Crown Princess.

The last one is the world map of the entire Toril.

The Crown Princess pointed to the upper right corner of the map of Faerun and said: "The Endless Wilderness is here. The size of this wilderness is beyond the imagination of most people. Only a small part of it is located in the continent of Faerun, and a large part is located in the continent of Karatu. It is said that it is larger than the entire continent of Faerun. In this endless wilderness grassland, there lives a nomadic people called Tukan.

This tribe is known as the race on horseback, and has the reputation of ten thousand tribes. Legend has it that there are 10,000 Tukan tribes living in the entire Endless Wilderness.

When some of these tribes unite, they will also be their neighbors. The beginning of the disaster.

Fortunately, such situations are rare. Unless there is a famine or a great leader appears in their tribe, most of the time, they fight each other for more fertile pastures.

This situation ended ten years ago. A tribal leader named Yamen rose with his tribe. After more than ten years of fighting in the south and the north, he destroyed and annexed countless Tukan tribes. He established his own royal court in the endless wilderness and was honored as Yamen Khan, the common leader of all Tukan people. All Tukan people would obey his orders.

Last year, when the gods came, although the main body was in Faerûn, the Endless Wilderness was also affected. Countless animals froze to death and starved to death, plunging this nomadic tribe into a collective famine.

Under the call of Yamen Khan, they gathered together this spring, went south on a large scale, crossed the Xianglong Great Wall of the Far Eastern Dynasty, and plundered, and then barely survived the crisis of collapse.

Although this year's Endless Wilderness has been good, and the supplies looted from the Far Eastern Dynasty at the beginning of the year have allowed them to recover part of their strength, it is still very difficult to survive the winter on their own, and it is very likely that there will be a large number of Tukan people. Will freeze and starve to death.

They were now hungry wolves who had tasted human blood, and they would no longer sit back and wait for death. When autumn just entered, Yamen Khan once again issued a call for war.

It's just that they didn't go south this time, because the Far Eastern Dynasty gathered hundreds of thousands of troops at the Xianglong Great Wall to prepare. Instead, they set their sights on the continent of Faerûn and us. Now hundreds of thousands of Tukan people are swarming towards us. Come. "

The Crown Princess finished educating Gavin about the ins and outs of the Tukan people in one breath. She seemed to be worried that he did not understand the world situation. She put the locations of Faerun, Karatu and the Endless Wilderness on the world map to help Gavin. Circled it.