Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair.

Chapter 290 comes at the right time

"Dragon cub, you! Don't you dare to spit blood on me!"

At that moment, the orc priest was shocked: "My lord, it is a black dragon. You can't believe its one-sided words. We really didn't do such a thing!"

"If your way of trying to get away with the crime is to reduce the credibility of your testimony, then you can die." Ron squatted down, held up the priest's chin with his hand, and looked at Zandia. "Now it has nothing to do with whether you did it or not. After you two groups came to my territory, bandits of the same race as you kidnapped my people. It has nothing to do with you?"

"Who believes it?"

This is a world where multiple races coexist, and Centaurs and Orcs are not the majority ethnic group here. How could such a coincidence happen?

"My lord, my lord, please listen to me! I have a guess!"

The orc priest glared at Zandia, who was crying almost to the point of suffocation. A few minutes ago, she would have been happy to appreciate the sight of the leader of the hostile tribe being so weak, but now they were on the same boat, and the old priest wished that this centaur could be brave enough to produce evidence to exonerate them.

But now, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and "argue the inarguable": "My lord, I did witness the soldiers attacking you. Miss Anne was rescued, right? You can prove this by asking me to confront her - at the banquet, they also told me in person that the dwarf named Rurik was kidnapped. At that time, they just thought he was an ordinary robber and were sending militia to hunt him down."

"But Zandia and the others also witnessed the orc attack... Is it possible that from the very beginning, two orc tribes and two centaur tribes entered the Delusion Land one after another?"

Ron looked at the old orc expressionlessly: "Go ahead and smash it yourself and see how it feels. I'm telling you this, do you believe it?"

"...But you see, you have captured us all, and we really don't have the person you are looking for!" The priest said helplessly, "The Centaurs may need a blacksmith, which is not outrageous; the orcs need women, which is reasonable - although we generally don't want disabled women - but neither of them is a disposable resource, so how could we not bring them with us?"

"I think there is only one explanation. Although I don't want to admit it, neither the Centaur nor the Broken Tooth did this. The murderer must be someone else!"

"Sir Ron," Gillianis, who had been listening, suddenly spoke up, "I think what she said makes sense."

"But let's think about it. If this is really the case, and the real culprit is still at large, if they still intend to continue committing crimes..."

"Almost all the residents here have moved away," Ron's eyes flashed, "Marsalino and the other two are tracking down the murderer again..."

No matter how you look at this script, it seems like a trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain, right?!

"Green Swamp Town! They may have gone there!" Ron stood up suddenly, "Gilliannis, I'll have to trouble you to use the teleport again, we have to go--"

"I'm sorry, I can't use teleportation anymore," the archmage said with a wry smile, "I'm not at my peak right now. I didn't sleep all night last night, so I don't have enough time to replenish my spells. You have to at least give me four hours of meditation time."

"Human lives are at stake right now, so where are the four little ones..."

Ron sighed. He never expected that his strongest force would fail at this time. Did they have to rush to New Green Swamp Town? I'm afraid it will be too late!
"Oh my, it seems I came at the wrong time?"

Suddenly, accompanied by a round of applause, a graceful figure with black wings and pointed horns on its head came out from outside the wall of the trading post, and the strong smell of sulfur immediately filled the nostrils of all creatures present. This smell was not something that a purgatory creature could possess. Behind this succubus familiar to Ron and others, there were several little devils and two or three Cambions, who were either carrying bags or pushing wheelbarrows, and did not seem to be here to fight.

"Are you... Khaoga?" Looking at this devil who was dressed gorgeously but seemed to be naked, Ron took a long time before he dared to recognize her - after this high-level devil got her heart back, her original succubus behavior did not seem to improve at all, but instead tended to get worse.

"Habits formed over many years are not so easy to change," Kaojia tilted his head, as if he had seen through Ron's heart, "I haven't seen you for a few days, why is your place so deserted?"

"Could it be that they couldn't mine enough Yuanyin and ran away to avoid their debts?"

As expected, the lust demon came here to make a deal. No wonder the demons behind her, any one of whom could stop a child from crying at night, were dressed like nature's porters.

"If that's the case, it's such a pity," the demon said, conjuring up a heavy purse in his hand. "The Grand Duke even specifically told me to buy it with real money. Now it seems that I have to use your soul to pay for it."

The strength of the Lust Demon had been witnessed by everyone in the underground maze before. If the Chief Archmage was in her prime, she should be able to fight her for three hundred rounds. But if they really wanted to fight now, the biggest possibility of winning would be that Ron could "invite the spirit to possess him" again and let the End of Magic fight her for a few moves.

"I want to make a deal with you now," Ron sighed, "but you see, the current situation is that our consultant in charge of mining and metallurgy has been kidnapped, and now there is no sign of him alive or dead."

"Oh, dear, don't use your mortal civil servants' tricks to deal with me..." Kaojia was about to refute Ron's statement, but found that the other party did not seem to be lying, "Wait, are you serious?"

"I probably have some special physique. Every time I go away, my house gets robbed," Ron spread his hands helplessly. "That's the situation now."

"Well, maybe I can wait here until you solve the problem," Kaojia thought for a moment and decided to walk into the house. "Don't worry, I'll help you look after the house this time, and you can go and solve the problem boldly."

“This is a completely free service~”

Ron and his companions were helpless in the face of the devils' attitude of standing aside and watching - it seemed that they had no way to force a group of devils to help them unless they were prepared to sell their souls.

So, is there any reason not to pay such a high price?
"If you knew who this matter was related to, you wouldn't choose to walk into the house and sit down." Ron decided to take a gamble. Although the existing clues were not enough to support his conclusion, Ron was at least 80% sure. In order to catch up with those "robbers", this probability was enough for him to take a gamble.

"Oh, dear lord, what do you think?" Khaoga stopped and turned around with a smiling face.

"In addition to Rurik, who is in charge of Deepsilver, another person has also been kidnapped: the last queen of Falama," Ron said in a deep voice, "Let's think about it. Deepsilver and Falama, besides me and your Purgatory, what kind of force would be involved with both of them? Ordinary bandits and robbers would not specifically kidnap only the two of them."

The answer is already obvious.

"You scum of the abyss!" Khaoga's expression suddenly turned from spring to winter. "I take back what I said just now - it seems I came at the right time!"

(End of this chapter)