Chapter 424 Planning
"Let's look at the terrain of the entire swamp. It is a low-lying area surrounded by tall mountains and a central stone peak. The only thing connecting it to the outside world is the water network composed of small rivers, streams, and mountain streams between the mountains.
Although it is extensive and the remaining three-fifths of its border is long, the low-lying swamp is inherently at a disadvantage in terms of topography.
As long as we send out enough Rock Elf Summoners to surround the swamp, and quickly summon the Rock Elves to release the Stone Wall spell before the spider swarm can react, we can form a wall to trap the entire spider swarm inside.
Then let the Red Lotus Elf throw the Flame Slash in through the wall. As long as the number of magic flames is large enough and continues to increase, sooner or later the entire Demon Soul Spider Nest will become a sea of fire, because the spider web is the fuel for combustion.
Due to the contamination of dark magic elements, there is a barren land of 20 to 30 meters wide between the swamp and the surrounding mountains and forests. This is a natural firebreak, which allows us to easily find the location where the stone wall should be cast, and also allows any fish that may slip through the net to be detected at a glance, which is conducive to defense.
Of course, the corresponding thing is that if we appear at the edge of the forest, we will easily be discovered by the spider group.
Not only that, but the vibrations of the ground, the direct gaze, the sounds made, etc. are all very likely to attract the attention of the spiders, not to mention the presence of the elves!
Therefore, when we are encircling the swamp, no one can summon elves in advance before all members are in place!
In addition, we must move very quietly, walk slowly, make as little noise as possible, and never look directly at the spider web."
But it is easier said than done, accidents always happen unexpectedly.
If you want to wipe out the Demon Soul Spider's Nest, you must mobilize a large number of people. But with such a large team, how can you possibly meet the requirements that Liduo mentioned?
Moreover, although most of the forests near the swamp were bare, there were a few forests sandwiched between water networks where the vegetation was relatively dense, making it difficult to march.
So just based on the first point, it is extremely difficult to encircle the swamp without being discovered by the spider swarm.
I'm afraid that only the elite among the elites can be dispatched to conquer these mountains.
In this regard, Liduo's suggestion is to practice a few actual combat exercises first.
This three-fifths of the border is about ten kilometers long, close to twenty kilometers. In order to achieve the goal set by Lido, about two thousand Rock elves are needed, at least one thousand Red Lotus elves are needed, and the total number of Lilith elves and Wendy elves must not be less than five hundred.
This is just the most basic requirement. If you want to meet this requirement, the number of summoners dispatched is unlikely to be less than two thousand.
Although we can give priority to finding summoners who possess all these elves, how many summoners meet the requirements? There must be many summoners who only possess one of these elves, so the number of two thousand is still a safe estimate for Liduo.
How could such a large group of people travel quietly? Especially in the mountains and forests where no one was used to marching.
If we don't rehearse in advance, I'm afraid we'll end up delivering food directly to the spider swarm.
The Qingyan City Legion cannot gather so many summoners who meet the requirements. Moreover, although it is very important to destroy the Demon Soul Spider Nest, the daily attack and defense on the city wall cannot be slackened. The only option is to ask for external assistance.
So we are back to the original question. We need to send someone to verify what Lido said and then report it to the higher-level legion and the Elf Temple in the main city of Tianjing to get enough support.
Among these two thousand summoners, the Qingyan City Legion can only muster 500 to 800 people at most, and the rest will need support from outside!
But time waits for no one, and neither does the movement of the spider swarm, so the next day the legion sent another team to follow Lido.
In fact, after Liduo finished her report yesterday, Commander Fengyang and his men kept the other members of the special operations team and only let Liduo leave the meeting room.
Lido knew that the Legion's top brass wanted to interrogate the other members of the special operations team again to verify the authenticity of what Lido said.
Lido didn't care about this and just took the time to do what she should do.
This time, Lido didn't need to survey the terrain or draw a map, so Lido led her men straight into the depths of the Hengduan Mountains, and the speed was naturally much faster than before.
The only requirement that Lido had for this team was that they were not allowed to summon elves during the entire journey, and they just had to follow her all the way.
So it only took two and a half days for Lido to lead a group of people through the sky corridor to the forest next to the swamp.
When they got here, Lido didn't let them go down to the swamp, but asked them to go to the top of the mountain, climb to the top of the tree, and look down with a clairvoyance. They could see the vast black spider web from afar!
That’s right, clairvoyance, this kind of thing still exists in the magical continent, but the magnification and accuracy are not very high.
At such a long distance, and seeing through the glass of the clairvoyance, the other people's mental powers were also average, so naturally they were not noticed by the 'Spider Queen', so everyone saw the huge black spider web that Lido mentioned through the clairvoyance!
When everyone saw the black spider web, they were shocked.
In order to prove the authenticity of her information, Lido led them back to the middle of the sky corridor and waited until night.
Liduo looked at the position of the purple moon in the sky and estimated that the three-eyed demon soul spider had finished its daily patrol and was about to come out for training, so she led everyone back to the top of the mountain where they had seen the black spider web before.
Sure enough, after seeing the swamp glowing in the moonlight, everyone was shocked again! What Liduo said was true, these three-eyed demon soul spiders had mutated so terribly!
They hurried back to report to the Legion, and after receiving the news, the Legion immediately compiled a file of the whole incident and reported it to the main city of Tianjing and the Temple of the Elf.
However, it has been six days since Lido's last report. Although the spider swarm still did not move this time, Lido still felt a sense of urgency in her heart. She could only hope that the main city and the Elf Temple would move faster.
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