Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair.

Chapter 122 Return
"Good teamwork, Ivy!" Leah encouraged her daughter and turned to explain to the family members, "Did you see that? They must have experienced a lot of adventures and battles, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to seize such a good opportunity!"

As the most capable fighter among all the ladies in Rose City, and the most popular elf among the capable fighters in Rose City, Leah's words are quite credible among them.

"That barbarian is also very powerful. Even in the army, I have never seen anyone who can wield a huge sword like this!"

"Oh my God!" When Sera cut off the tendon of an ogre's left leg with a sword, a guest was so scared that he dropped his wine glass on the ground, "Blood! So much blood! I can't--"

With a bang, the man's eyes rolled back and he fell straight back to the ground.

"Interesting. This is the first time I know that one of the people who despises you the most here is actually afraid of blood." Hendricks put a candy in his mouth. "The Carolina slaves his family bought are the most miserable in the Rose City."

"I'm so shocked, sir." Sylvia's eyes widened, but there was really no trace of "surprise" in her eyes.

"Probably the blood of the cannibal." Constance told a pun and was then chased into a corner by her adoptive father.

"This thing has really thick skin and tough flesh!" Sera once again left a half-meter-long wound on an ogre, but even though the Grasp of Canglan could prevent the ogre from healing its own wounds, the physical fitness of these giant creatures could still support them to continue fighting to the death for a short period of time without falling down.

After several rounds, the three men looked like they were fished out of a pool of blood.

"Can we chop off their heads? It will take too long to wait for them to bleed out!" Sera spat a mouthful of blood foam. These ogres hardly cared about Sera and Victoria. All they wanted to do was to dig her out of her armor and eat her.

The high intensity of the impact made it difficult for her to continue.

“It’s not that easy!” Sera turned the Grip of the Blue Wave upside down, and took advantage of the opportunity when an ogre was charging to rip open its belly, and finally knocked one down. “Unless I can jump down from a higher place and give them a sword!”

"Luckily I changed to a short spear," Victoria rolled on the ground to avoid the ogre's huge club. After getting up, she took the opportunity to stab the short spear into the opponent's ankle. "If I had used a hard hammer, I'm afraid I wouldn't even be able to break the skin!"

After all, without the assistance of magic, it would be too difficult to deal with such a big guy by melee combat alone.

But no matter what, with their cooperation, the two ogres fell in a pool of blood one after another, and the last one had his calf cut off by Sera, and it was obvious that he was dying.

"It seems that even the ogres are not enough to hinder them," Hendricks said with a smile, "Many friends had doubts about their strength before, so what about now? Who else has questions?"

After the last ogre fell to the ground, no one had any doubts. The guests generously gave Ivy and the other two applause and cheers, while the half-elf was surrounded by a group of reporters and editors. It seemed that her name would be in the newspaper tomorrow.

"Although the Fernando family still won't stand on your side, at least you have won over the majority of people," Hendricks said to Ron with a smile after the banquet, "You can now deal with Carolina with peace of mind. The Rose City will never interfere."

"As for the other city-states, if they see that Rose City is indifferent, they will not be willing to be the first to take action - our deal is over." "Thank you for your generous assistance," Ron shook hands with Hendricks, "I believe we will have opportunities to cooperate in the future."

"Of course, I look forward to that day."

A few days later, Ron and others, who had obtained definite results, no longer stayed in Rose City and immediately rushed back to the land of delusion.

During the more than one month of traveling back and forth, the name "Karad" appeared from time to time in the mouths of passers-by around them. It turned out that it was a waste of talent to let this hobgoblin stay in the Delusion Land. These days, his title has changed from captain to general and then to warlord. People who are partial to Carolina are afraid of his growing army, while those who dislike Carolina admire the discipline and glory of his legion.

"It's hard to imagine that he can manage the goblins so well. I don't think I heard any news of his goblins burning, killing and looting along the way," Ivy said vaguely while eating breakfast in an unknown town. "I am ready for our reputation to be completely ruined."

"Karad is very strict with his subordinates, and I heard that he has recently recruited a lot of bugbears and hobgoblins," Victoria drank a sip of milk, "and it is said that many adventurers have also joined his team."

"I heard there are wargs and orcs!" Driver added, "His team is becoming more and more diverse."

"How does he control his men?" Sylvia asked curiously, "I really can't understand it."

"Let's find a common goal," Driver called a mouse to the table and tore off a small note tied to the mouse's leg when everyone was avoiding him. "I recently had contact with the scouts. They slaughtered a group of gnolls a while ago because they refused to surrender to Karad."

"So what Ivy said is right. Our reputation is indeed quite bad, but it is not felt among the city-states."

It can be imagined that when Karad failed to find Carolina's weakness, the nearby monsters suffered, but probably only Driver cared about his reputation among the werewolves.

"If it continues to expand like this, will it eventually be unstoppable?" Ron said with some concern. "If the snowball turns into an avalanche, it will be a disaster."

"Let Karad find a hard rock to hit it." Even for breakfast, Sera didn't delay eating meat. "Oh, I mean Snowball."

To the hobgoblins, their subordinates were basically consumables, so they would not feel bad even if they were all killed. Ron made up his mind to attack Carolina when the time was right, and it didn't matter whether he won or lost.

"Well... they also said that when I was away, a group of bandits entered the Delusion Land and began to... establish themselves as kings?" Driver was still reading the news sent by his compatriots. "It's really strange that Seymour and his men couldn't defeat them."

"What?!" Ron almost spit out a mouthful of water, "Don't tell me our house was robbed while we were out!"

(End of this chapter)