Intelligence

Cecilia was curious: how would Bai Xiaowen extract information from her given the language barrier?

However, in the next second, she saw four magic cards flashing in Bai Xiaowen's palm. Bai Xiaowen quickly selected a yellow magic card and threw it at an elite Elite Tier warrior.

"The ratio of enemy strength to Heart-Confounding Talisman is 33.33%."

"Target is critically Severe Injury; success rate of deception detection increased!"

"The Heart-Confounding Talisman failed to confuse the target! The target will be stunned for 3.5 seconds."

Bai Xiaowen shook his head and sighed. Li Shuyi, standing to the side, raised her sword and chopped off the troll's head.

"...What's wrong?" Cecilia asked, indicating she didn't understand.

"The first target failed. I need to rest for a while and prepare for the next spell," Bai Xiaowen explained briefly. The failure rate of targets that failed with the mind-controlling spell would only increase with each attempt. Since there were still four elite Elite Tier warriors as test subjects, it was better to just kill them.

After waiting for nine minutes, Bai Xiaowen cast the second Heart-Confounding Talisman. Unfortunately, it failed again.

Li Shuyi swung her sword again, killing the second troll warrior.

The third attempt also failed.

Seeing the third troll head fall to the ground, Cecilia couldn't help but say, "Are you alright, Dio? Your sorcery doesn't seem to have a high success rate. Should we take the remaining two prisoners back to Blackrock Fortress and try to find a scholar who can speak the Remnant Tongue to interrogate them?"

Cecilia said this while suppressing a laugh; it was the first time she had ever seen Bai Xiaowen's gloomy face after a series of failures.

Furthermore, she said these things not out of reluctance to kill prisoners, but because she worried that if all the prisoners were killed, the engagement would be a waste of time and no useful intelligence would be obtained.

Although Cecilia knew that even if there were scholars who understood the Remnant Tongue, they might not be able to get any information, it was still more reliable than Bai Xiaowen's witchcraft.

"... Next."

Bai Xiaowen cast Heart-Confounding Talisman on the fourth troll soldier, and this time it actually worked.

Li Shuyi habitually brandished her sword.

"Hey, wait a minute!" Bai Xiaowen quickly stopped her.

"It worked?" Cecilia leaned closer, intrigued.

"Yes, it worked. Let me go through his memories. Although I can only get some fragmented information, it's better than nothing."

Bai Xiaowen closed his eyes, activated the "Telepathy" ability in his Mind Link, and communicated with the troll soldier.

"So this is the Remnant Tongue? These incantation-like sounds are actually Old Latin words! And the Remnant Tongue structure and some of their catchphrases are really a bit eerie."

The Remnant Tongue is actually derived from Old Latin, and shares the same origin as the Common Tongue of the Kane Continent.

To give an analogy, it's like the relationship between a dialect from a certain region in southern China and Standard Mandarin. The written characters are the same, but the pronunciation is completely different.

Through his Super Brain's reading and digestion abilities, Bai Xiaowen quickly grasped the essence of the Remnant Tongue.

From the bewitched troll captive's head, he obtained some information about the main force of the Remnant Allied Army. However, after the bewitching was successfully detected, only scattered fragments of memory remained in the target's head, and the information was not yet complete.

Bai Xiaowen waved his hand, signaling the controlled troll soldier to stand behind him.

Seeing the troll soldier so obedient to Bai Xiaowen, Cecilia's blue eyes widened.

"This... is this the effect of witchcraft? It's so amazing?! Does it mean it will answer whatever you ask?"

Bai Xiaowen nodded slightly. "That's true, but there's no need to ask anymore. I've already reviewed all the information he knows, and although I've obtained some valuable information, it's still quite fragmented... I'll try the last one."

Li Shuyi said softly, "Your... witchcraft can only control one target at a time, right?"

"I know, I didn't intend to use witchcraft on the last one. I learned the Remnant Tongue from the fourth soldier's head, and I'll use that Remnant Tongue to interrogate the last guy."

In fact, after witnessing Bai Xiaowen kill three of his own people and then use evil witchcraft to control his last remaining comrade, the fifth troll soldier had already broken down. He answered whatever Bai Xiaowen asked. It seems that not all Trolls Remnants are tough as nails.

Bai Xiaowen didn't believe everything either; while asking questions, Yi-Yi information with the memory fragments in the fourth troll soldier's head.

The final result was reassuring; the fifth troll soldier had not lied.

After a long, drawn-out conversation, Bai Xiaowen waved his hand, ordering his knights to tie up the troll soldier and escort him back.

"What information did you get?" Cecilia asked, Li Shuyi also cast a curious glance at her.

Bai Xiaowen took out a military map of Northern Frontier and began to sketch on it. His expression was quite serious.

"The situation is more serious than I imagined. The Remnant Allied Army is huge, and it has many types of troops that have never appeared in the vanguard!" Bai Xiaowen said with a breath. "Their main force is only a day's journey away from the Blackrock Line."

Bai Xiaowen took out another piece of parchment and sketched images of various military units on it: trolls riding Raptor, archers flying low in the sky, dark-skinned, agile warriors, and enormous beasts capable of unleashing terrifying lightning...

Bai Xiaowen also noted the approximate number of each type of soldier.

"The drawing is excellent; it's almost as if the painting has come to life," Cecilia exclaimed softly.

At first, Cecilia looked at Bai Xiaowen's paintings with an appreciative attitude, but after seeing the numbers marked at the back, her expression gradually became serious.

"Is this scale... really true? If that's the case, the Remnant Allied Army are more than twice our size in terms of sheer numbers!"

As a commander on the front lines, Cecilia knew all too well that the individual combat strength of humans and the Remnants was no match, and now they were Suppression. How could they possibly win?

"A large enemy force isn't necessarily a bad thing," Bai Xiaowen quickly put away the parchment, mounted his horse, and said, "It means they are under tremendous supply pressure. Let's go back to Blackrock City and report this intelligence to His Highness the Prince."

Bai Xiaowen smiled on the outside, but inwardly he was cursing. This S-Tier main quest was truly extraordinary. The number of the Remnant Allied Army was more than double that of the Human Allied Forces; in terms of overall strength, it was probably close to ten to one! How was he going to defend for the next seven days?