Traveling through the heavens from swallowing

Chapter 390 I don't want to listen, I want it! Liu Sanguang in the Xueluo World, the Unbelievable Immortal Palace!

Liu Mang shook his head violently and said to himself, "No, I'm here for the rewards, not to complete the mission. What the hell is this mission?"

The original novel mentioned that there were good things, namely the Blood Luo World and the Demon Mountain, a Blood Luo Crystal, and the inheritance of the Demon Sound God.

However, apart from the Blood Luo Crystal, the Demon Sound God's inheritance did not mean much to him.

Even if the soul amplitude can reach 10000, it doesn't matter much when you reach the immortal stage.

It is still more economical to use something like Blood Crystal. After all, it can at least temporarily increase the gene multiplier and enhance the combat effectiveness after becoming immortal.

Of course, it would be better to use the blood of the beast god directly, but it is not available for the time being, so we can only make do with the blood crystal.

The fusion of three Blood Crystals to become a "Blood Warrior" can double the gene multiple; the fusion of ten Blood Crystals to become a "Black Warrior" can increase the gene multiple by 3 times.

Of course, 10 is not the limit, and they can continue to fuse upwards. When it reaches the limit of 100, the genetic multiple can theoretically be increased 100 times.

However, this improvement has its limits. The genetic multiples are already very high, and even if thousands of blood crystals are fused, the genes cannot be multiplied several times.

The limit of Blood Crystal fluctuates greatly depending on the degree of compatibility of the fusionist with the Gold and Sky Beast God routes.

For those with a high degree of compatibility, the limit can reach 100 times the genetic limit below the perfect gene. For those with a low degree of compatibility, the limit may be times the special life limit.

Liu Mang's current gene multiple is 32 times. When he fuses 100 Blood Luo crystals and activates the power of Blood Luo, the gene multiple can theoretically reach 3200 times.

But he knew that his original Earthling form was not a race that could form a bond with the Metal Sky Beast God, so his increase could not reach 100 times. It could probably be at most to times like Luo Feng's.

"However, fifty or sixty times is also a lot. I already have 32 times the genes. Even if it is increased by 50 times, after activating the power of Blood Luo, my genetic level can reach 1600 times, which exceeds most of the special life in the universe." Liu Mang said with a smile.

His advanced clones can allow all clones to share the original body's genetic multiples, so the clones all have at least 32 times the genes.

If all the clones fuse 100 Blood Crystals, that would mean at least 1600 times the genes per person!
That is, the increase in gene multiples by Blood Crystal is equivalent to the effect of equipping an item. It cannot be directly shared with clones through higher-level clones, and each clone needs to integrate it by itself.

Although it is not difficult for him to obtain Blood Crystal now, it will be troublesome to deliver it to his clones throughout the universe.

"Forget it, these are just minor issues. Let's just go to the Xueluo World and get the things first."

Liu Mang opened the cultivation page and accepted the mission of the Xueluo world without hesitation.

"drop!"

A red font warning appeared on the screen.

"Warning! Warning! Your Highness Liu Mang, this is your first time accepting a training mission. According to the probability calculated by my Virtual Universe Company based on many examples in history, the mortality rate of accepting a "dangerous" training mission for the first time is as high as 78.2%. Please choose carefully. If you continue to choose, please click OK, otherwise cancel this training mission."

The first training mission was a dangerous one, with a mortality rate of up to 78.2%?

Liu Mang sneered and said, "Don't mention that your mortality rate is only 78.2%. Even if it is 99.99%, it is equal to zero to me. Even the Lord of Tianshi Palace can't kill me personally!"

He clicked OK without hesitation.

Then the introduction pops up:

"The Xueluo World is a vast continent suspended in the void that was born from the Taichu Secret Realm. The cosmic secret realm was born when the universe evolved, and this Xueluo World is a powerful world that was born in the very early days of the Taichu Secret Realm. Its ancient , the oldest cosmic country beyond humankind.

In the world of Xueluo, countless powerful humans live, and they have formed their own language, culture, and cultivation civilization.

They worship power extremely much.

"

Liu Mang quickly skipped over the nonsense and went straight to the key information, which he organized as follows:
1. The diameter of the Xueluo world is close to 1 light year, or 9 trillion kilometers.

2. Because we are in the secret realm of the universe, a large amount of dust and various obstacles make it impossible to accelerate to the speed of light for cosmic travel.

3. The natives of the Xueluo world hate outsiders, so in principle, you are not allowed to bring any technological items.

4. If you have a weird look, please have plastic surgery to avoid being exposed as not being a local and being surrounded and killed.

5. You need to learn the local language of the Xueluo world.

Next, look down to the two cultivation tasks in the Xueluo world:

1 Obtain a Blood Crystal (a specialty of the Blood World, there are no Blood Crystals anywhere else in the universe), and you can get 1 points if you succeed.

2 Obtain the title of "Blood Warrior" and get the "Blood Luo Medal". Success can earn 10 points. (Reminder: 99.5% of those who accept the Blood Luo World Mission have completed the first mission.)
As long as one of the two tasks is completed, it means that the training task is successfully completed.

"drop."

"Please confirm to accept the training mission in Xueluo World."

"Accepted successfully."

"Please fill in the departure time, and Virtual Universe Company will arrange a spaceship to take you to the Xueluo World."

Liu Mang filled it out for an hour.

Just as I finished the operation and started to learn the language course of the Blood Luo World, Shi Fan came running over in a hurry.

"Your Highness, you are being impulsive!" His impatience was visible on his face, and he almost jumped up.

"What's the impulse?"

Shi Fan's face flushed. "Your Highness, you just arrived at the Primordial Secret Realm today. You are not familiar with the various things in the Secret Realm yet. Many things that can greatly improve your strength have not been used yet. It is too dangerous to rush into a dangerous level training mission!"

"Besides, didn't you apply for a nutrition chamber? Why don't you use it to soak in the nutrition chamber if you are in such a hurry to do the training mission?"

Liu Mang was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that he had also applied for a nutrient tank.

"It's okay. Wait for the nutrition tank to arrive and prepare it for me. Keep the water hot and I'll soak in it when I get back."

Shifan was choked. What do you mean? Do you still want to warm the wine over Xueluo?
"Think twice, Your Highness. It would be best for you to improve yourself first and accumulate enough potential before undertaking training tasks to transform that potential into strength. If you directly undertake training tasks like this, it will do you more harm than good!" Shifan said earnestly.

This is not to interfere with His Highness's choice of cultivation, but rather a safety reminder that he should give as a guard. If someone dies without a reminder, he will be held accountable in the future.

If the other party insists on doing what he wants after being reminded, then you can't blame him.

Of course, he didn't want Liu Mang to act on his own. He had finally gotten such a job that allowed him to practice in the primitive secret realm, but he didn't expect to be kicked out in less than a week because his own prince died.

Unfortunately, he can never do whatever he wants.

After driving Shifan away, Liu Mang spent 5 minutes to completely master the listening, speaking, reading and writing of the Xueluo world language. He even learned a few dialects by the way, ensuring that he sounded more local than the locals.

He had no good preparation for entering the Xueluo World. The Realm Lord-level Moyun Vine and Star-eating Grass he brought with him were enough for him to roam the Xueluo World.

What restricted him from completing the training task quickly and collecting a large amount of Blood Crystals was actually finding out which people or places had a large number of Blood Crystals gathered.

First of all, you don’t need to go there to know that there must be a large number of Blood Luo Crystals in the Immortal Temple, as well as the Blood Luo Medal used to complete Task 2.

However, Liu Mang didn't have the ability to break in and steal things. The Immortal Temple was the highest power center in the entire Xue Luo World. There were many immortals and even kings inside. Even the Virtual Universe Company did not choose to completely conquer them.

The mission of the Lord of Tianshi Palace in guarding the Xueluo World is to prevent anyone from sneaking in or out or breaking in by force, and to guide those who have broken through to the Venerable level in the Xueluo World to join the Virtual Universe Company. Those who do not join will be killed directly.

Also, by the way, I can suppress a group of immortals in the Immortal Temple.

This shows that the Xueluo world can produce Venerables. As the highest authority, the Immortal Temple still has some people who are only one step away from becoming a Venerable.

The genetic multiples of Martial Ancestor Liu Mang's clone is only 32 times. Without using the dual scriptures and the secret art of will, its combat power is only at the level of a marquis, which is still far from enough to snatch the Immortal Temple.

Moreover, with the Palace Master of Tianshi Palace watching from above, how dare Liu Mang kill the immortal directly with his first-level cosmic-level cultivation?
Wouldn't this shock the universe?

Well, if you want to quickly obtain Blood Crystal, you have to look for the major Blood Gods.

The Blood God is at the Realm Lord level. He has the perfect Realm Lord-level Mo Cloud Vine and Star-Eating Grass. He can kill quickly without exposing his own strength. It is a good resource point.

"Boom~~" A spaceship in the distance slowly descended on Liu Mang's territory.

Liu Mang understood that the spaceship that was coming to take him to the Xueluo World had arrived.

"Congratulations, Your Highness!"

Amid the respectful voices of over a thousand guards and tens of thousands of servants, Liu Mang entered the spaceship sent by the Virtual Universe Company, and soon the spaceship left and disappeared.

Shifan looked desperate in the crowd, as if he saw the scene of himself being driven out of the original secret realm.

The Xueluo World is in the Taichu Secret Realm, quite a distance away from the Original Secret Realm.

"Your Highness, we are heading to the Xueluo world. Our speed has reached 50 times the speed of light. We are expected to arrive in 9 days." said a beautiful and noble woman with long golden hair and white wings like an angel.

She was only wearing a gauze dress with not much fabric on, revealing her smooth arms and belly, and her slender white thighs were faintly visible under her skirt, but her whole body was as cold as ice.

"I will inform Your Highness after 9 days. Your Highness can rest now."

Such contradictory attire and temperament slightly attracted Liu Mang's attention. He observed for a while and asked in confusion: "The Mengluo Wing Clan?"

The blonde woman said coldly: "Your Highness, the Mengluo Wing Clan is not the only one that has such wings."

"What tribe are you from?" Liu Mang asked curiously.

"The Dream Wing Clan."

Liu Mang was speechless. You are good at chatting.
Nine days passed quickly while chatting with the blonde woman.

"Your Highness, start the space shuttle immediately and return to the original universe." Suddenly, the blonde woman interrupted the conversation and said coldly. At the same time, the shuttle countdown echoed in the spacecraft control room. Ten seconds later, the entire spacecraft began to vibrate slightly, and soon everything returned to calm. The spacecraft had arrived at its destination.

After staring at the woman for a while and seeing that she had no intention of ordering the outdoor simulation, Liu Mang coughed twice to remind her.

"Your Highness, if you need an exterior simulation, please tell me directly. I don't quite understand what you mean by coughing."

You can understand this! Liu Mang roared in his heart.

His eyes lit up and the surrounding scenery changed, revealing the empty scene of the outside world.

The outside world was filled with mist, and all kinds of void dust fragments seemed even more dreamy. In the distance, there was an extremely tall palace floating in the void.

"This is the Sky Eclipse Palace. Some super powerful people from our Virtual Universe Company are meditating here, and they are also responsible for monitoring the Xueluo World. Not far from the Sky Eclipse Palace, there is a large cleared area, which is enough for spacecraft to accelerate their space travel." The blonde woman introduced coldly.

"Anyone who flies out of the Xueluo World will be discovered. If they are our people, they will be taken away safely; if they are natives of the Xueluo World, the luckiest outcome for them is to die directly."

The blond said as the cold air from his body shot straight up into his body.

Liu Mang was shocked. Has he ever suffered oppression in this way?
The Mengluoyi tribe is not like that. As far as he knows, this tribe has been a tribe with a relatively high status among humans since ancient times.

"I'll take you here. It's not far from the Xueluo World. Your Highness Liu Mang will have to go there by yourself. If Your Highness is really poor and doesn't have a spaceship, you can spend thousands of years flying there by yourself."

Liu Mang glared at the blonde and had the urge to take out his F-class spaceship and smash it in her face.

But he was a magnanimous man and didn't bother with her.

Even if he didn't have his own spaceship, his status as a member of the original secret realm allowed him to get an E-class spaceship for free for his own use. When the blonde woman said this, she was actually reminding him to be prepared for the mission.

After all, I haven't gotten off the spaceship yet, so it's not too late to turn back. Applying to do a training mission right after entering the secret realm, and it's still a "dangerous level" mission, the risk is huge.

She had been with this prince for 9 days and felt that he was a nice person, so she gave him some reminders in a roundabout way, but since it was not necessary, she let it go.

The spaceship turned into a stream of light and disappeared, leaving only Liu Mang floating in the void.

The F-class spaceship was released, Liu Mang entered it, and controlled the spaceship to fly towards the Xueluo world.

In the distance, there is an extremely large and almost endless continent floating in the void. The entire continent is shrouded in a layer of clouds. This is the Xueluo World.

Three hours later, the spacecraft, whose appearance simulated a meteorite fragment, finally rushed into the outermost cloud layer of the Xueluo world.

In the Xueluo world, there are eighteen layers of clouds in the sky. The higher you go, the greater the pressure will be. Only the cosmic-level beings can pass through these eighteen layers of clouds on their own.

However, the natives of the Xueluo world can only fly to the 18th layer at most and dare not fly out any further, because they all know that there are powerful and invincible aliens outside the sky who will kill anyone who leaves the eighteenth layer of clouds.

However, as long as you don't go beyond the 18th floor, you won't be hit.

This means that even in these 18 layers of clouds, it is possible to encounter the Xueluo people.

Everyone knows Liu Mang's luck. He had just entered the 18th layer of clouds when he met a native leader of the Xueluo world who might be looking for an opportunity.

He looked at the extremely sci-fi F-class spaceship and was shocked by the powerful aura it emitted. He was about to send a message to warn that a powerful alien was coming.

Liu Mang acted decisively and used electromagnetic shielding to cut off their backward communications, then the muzzle of the gun lit up and a torrent of destruction gushed out.

Even though the indigenous leader tried his best to stop it, he was still vaporized by the cannon.

The key to the Lord of the Realm is the prokaryote. As long as the prokaryote is not destroyed, the Lord of the Realm will not die.

However, the F-class spacecraft's light cannon was much thicker than the entire body of this Realm Master. No matter how he moved the position of the nucleus, he still couldn't escape the fate of being killed by one cannon.

Liu Mang put away the spaceship and changed into the native clothes that had been prepared long ago. Once he put on the distinctive decorations, no one could tell from his appearance that he was not a native.

In addition, there has never been an alien below the 9th level of the universe descending, and he, who is at the 1st level of the universe, will naturally not be suspected.

He fell all the way down from the 18th floor like a meteor from the sky. After falling for about fifteen minutes, he finally broke through the first layer of clouds at the bottom.

On the endless land below, there are extremely vast mountains and forests. This ancient forest is at least tens of thousands of kilometers in area. In the distance outside the forest, some very small shadows can be vaguely seen. They are some cities.

Liu Mang landed in the forest and felt the difference of this Xueluo world.

"The gravity is very strong, almost 1000 times that of the Earth. Moreover, the air is rich in the origin energy of the universe, but it is also filled with a bloody aura." Liu Mang reached out and grabbed a handful of air to feel it.

The gravity is 1000 times that of the Earth, which means that even ordinary people in the Xueluo world who have not practiced can have planetary-level physical fitness. In addition, due to being in a high-concentration cosmic energy for a long time and passively absorbing energy and converting it into original energy, ordinary people may really be able to have strength close to the planetary level.

Moreover, the strong gravity and high-energy environment will inevitably lead to the extremely high strength of various materials in the Xueluo world. An attack in the outside world that can cut a ten-kilometer canyon with a single sword may only be able to affect a few hundred meters or even tens of meters here.

Even if you are an immortal at the military lord level, don't think of destroying an area of ​​10 kilometers with one strike in this environment.

"The 9 trillion square kilometer continent has existed for so long without being broken up. It seems that environmental factors have played a big role." Liu Mang's lips curled up into a smile.

A high-intensity environment is good, as it means that everyone's perception will be greatly restricted, and the probability of committing murder and robbery without being discovered will be greatly increased, which is of course extremely beneficial to him.

Just as Liu Mang was observing the surrounding environment, a huge wolf-shaped monster suddenly emerged from the ground. Its white solid exoskeleton completely covered its vital parts. Its mouth was big enough to swallow a large mining card and was full of fangs. It bit towards Liu Mang fiercely.

Liu Mang didn't move at all, and a vine extended from his red and black armor.

The vines grew in the wind, becoming more than ten meters thick and stabbed into the monster's mouth, then went straight into its belly along the throat.

The vines carried the monster away and flew away. The farther it flew, the thicker the vines became, until the entire monster was crushed into pieces, turning into a terrifying vine that was dozens of kilometers long and thousands of meters thick.

"A cosmic-level wild beast wants to taste my food. You are so rebellious!"

Liu Mang sneered and retracted the vines, then shrank them again and attached his body to the Armor Mountain.

The Mo Yun armor transformed from the realm master-level Mo Yun vine will be of no use even if it is swallowed and chewed by a wild beast.

But after all, it's disgusting, there's no need to pretend to be such a hentai person, just beat him to death.

His 360-vine perfect world master-level Moyun vine has each main vine with a maximum length of 3 kilometers and a normal thickness of 300 kilometers, making it extremely tough.

Even if a ninth-level Realm Lord were to destroy it, the speed of destruction would not be able to keep up with its own recovery speed.

Even without Liu Mang's control, his hard power was enough to kill ordinary ninth-level human realm masters. Even if an ordinary military lord-level immortal was in front of him, his Mo Yun Teng could beat him 40% to 60%.

Moyun Teng Six, Immortal Four!

Although plant life such as Moyun Teng suffers a great loss due to its low IQ and lack of comprehension of the laws, its basic strength far exceeds that of humans and even star beasts of the same level.

The golden-horned behemoth at the realm master level is at most a few hundred or a thousand kilometers in size. Compared with the realm master-level Mo Yun Teng, which can easily be tens of thousands of kilometers in size, there is really no comparison.

No matter whether you are below immortality or above immortality, body shape is the foundation and the hard power!

"My perception is suppressed too severely. I have to go to the city to see if there is a map or something like that. Otherwise, it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack if I want to find the blood gods."

He turned into a streak of light and flew up, heading towards the city outside the forest at a very fast speed.

The cities in the Xueluo world are mainly divided into "territory main city" and "world city".

The main city of a territory is the core of the territory, and the lord of each territory must be of domain-level (domain lord) strength.

World City is the core of a world, and the city lord of World City must be world-class (world lord).

It is called a world, but in fact it is a place so big that ordinary people can never leave.

In the Xueluo world, each world city can rule over a territory with a diameter ranging from hundreds of millions to billions of kilometers, and govern a population of billions.

There are more than tens of millions of world cities in the Xueluo world, and above the world cities is the lofty Immortal Temple!
The city that Liu Mang came to was the main city of a territory, and the lord was a level 4 domain lord.

He skillfully blocked the signal and took it down in one move.

Fortunately, the lord actually had two Blood Crystals, and Liu Mang accepted them directly.

He also found some common sense and encyclopedia books about the Xueluo world in the lord's mansion, which contained all kinds of customs and legends, as well as a rough map of the surrounding area of ​​10 billion kilometers.

"Very good. There are 63 world cities on this map. If I visit all of them, I should have tens of thousands of Blood Crystals, right?"

Liu Mang didn't know how much the Lord of World City was worth, but according to the fact that a World City at least governed hundreds of territory main cities, and the Lord of each territory main city had at least two Blood Luo Crystals after fusion of one Blood Luo Crystal, it could be inferred that a Lord of World City probably had hundreds or even thousands of Blood Luo Crystals that he hadn't given away.

I don't know if this speculation is correct. We can only be sure of it after we have actually defeated some world city lords. It is also possible that they have basically given away all the Blood Crystals and didn't keep much for themselves?

"Let me see. The nearest world city is the Desolate World City. It's just over 1 million kilometers away from here. If we travel at full speed, we can get there in more than an hour."

In the Xueluo world, if Liu Mang does not use the spaceship and relies on his own strength to travel, thousands of kilometers per second is the limit.

However, he has the realm master-level Mo Yun Teng, which can reach sub-light speeds of tens of thousands of kilometers per second even in the Xue Luo world.

This is the limit. Even if an immortal were to travel, he would only be able to do so at this speed. In a space with a large amount of matter, sub-light speed is the limit, even for an immortal, unless he uses space means to travel.

An hour and a half later, Liu Mang arrived outside a huge city covering an area of ​​one million square kilometers.

This is the Desolate City, the core of the desolate world with a territory of hundreds of millions of kilometers around it.

There was no way of sneaking in quietly or in stealthily. Liu Mang flew into the city with a swagger and went all the way into the City Lord's Mansion without anyone noticing him.

"Alas, it's lonely at the top. It's just like playing a game with cheats. There's no challenge at all. After a few times, you might get bored." Liu Mang sighed in Versailles, but unfortunately no one listened to his pretense.

Following the scent, Liu Mang found the Lord of Desolate City and attacked him directly without any concealment.

The electromagnetic shielding was directly turned on. It was not until this time that the Lord of Desolate City discovered something wrong under the electromagnetic changes. Looking up, he saw several vines falling on his head with a terrifying aura.

"Do not--"

Before he finished speaking, the Lord of Desolate City exploded, and the Moyun Vine forcibly broke through the protection of the world power of the nucleus and entered his inner world. With a sweep, it directly rolled up the target and left.

The rich world power surged out from the nucleus, trying to rebuild the body.

However, Liu Mang stretched out his finger and pointed, and with a click, the nucleus of the Lord of Desolate City broke directly.

The world inside the body expanded suddenly without the suppression of the pronucleus and exploded like a balloon.

Various chaotic forces rushed out from the pronuclear cracks, tearing the cracks wider.

The soul of the Lord of the Desolate City in the nucleus shouted "I will not accept it" and was annihilated by the chaotic torrent.

The nucleus exploded with a loud bang, and the power of the Moyun vines bound and suppressed it, without any leakage.

Silently, no one in the Desolate City noticed that the city lord who had ruled them for millions of years had been reduced to ashes.

The vines retracted, and a blood-red scene appeared in front of Liu Mang.

The long crystals in the shape of a triangular prism are blood red all over and faintly transparent, with an invisible wave that makes people feel a bit like the beating of a heart, one wave after another.

This is the Blood Luo Crystal, there are more than two hundred of them!

"Okay, maybe I thought too much about thousands of them. More than 200 is not bad either."

He searched the City Lord's Mansion again and found a larger map, which not only showed the locations of millions of world cities in the surrounding area, but also the locations of important places such as the ruins of ancient gods.

"Very good. With this map, I will be able to obtain a large amount of Blood Crystals. I hope I can have better luck and meet a wealthy city lord or even a Blood God."

Ten days later, Liu Mang stopped hunting the World City Lord with a sour face.

I thought that as the master of the world city, the Lord of the World City should have at least one or two hundred Blood Luo Crystals, if not thousands.

Unexpectedly, the Lord of Desolate City that we found at the beginning was already the pinnacle. The City Lords in the following worlds were poorer and poorer. A hundred Blood Crystals were considered a lot, ten or twenty were considered normal, and there were even a few people who had only single-digit numbers!
He understood that it was not that these world city lords were really poor, but that his luck played a role.

No matter whether he chose randomly or in order, the ones he met were those who had just distributed a large amount of Blood Crystals and had not had time to find the Immortal Temple for replenishment.

It would be strange if you could become rich this way!
In 10 days, he killed 66 world masters, and the total harvest did not even exceed a thousand!
All in all, it was less than a hundred times faster than Luo Feng's average speed of killing one Domain Lord per day.

Damn, killing a realm lord is thousands or tens of thousands times more difficult than killing a domain lord!

"Could it be that I made the wrong choice? Should I kill the Domain Lord as a last resort?" Liu Mang murmured to himself.

Domain Lords and Realm Lords don't need it because they are easy to kill, and they basically have a Blood Crystal as a backup.

At his speed, it would be no problem for him to run through all the main cities in a domain within the world in one day. There are hundreds of domain lords there. Isn't it faster than killing the world lord without any guarantee to come to Xue Luojing?
Liu Mang nodded fiercely: "I've decided, let's go for Domain Lords, one by one, the rewards will be several times more than going for Realm Lords!"

He has some idea of ​​his luck. Things without a guaranteed return may even leave him with nothing in the end. Domain Lord is still the best.

One month later, in the Ancient God Ruins, Immortal Temple, an Immortal God was furious:
"It's been a month! The city lords of the main cities of 30 worlds have been killed in a row. Not only did you not say that you didn't catch them, but you also told me that you don't even have any clues?"

"Trash, it's all trash!!"

Oh my God, there were tens of thousands of city lords, and they were killed, robbed, and burned one by one!

The immortal couldn't believe that not only did they fail to catch the person, but they didn't even have any clues!
He was shocked at how useless his own men were!
(End of this chapter)