Knight and Wand

Chapter 183 "Old Friend"

They followed the direction of the earth vein spirit lamp, occasionally stopping to search the rugged mountains near the earth vein. After a whole day, as expected, they found nothing.

However, I didn't expect to find the location of the mineral vein as soon as I went out.

But there were nothing but trees around, not even a bird could be seen. The exploration process was even more boring than Leon had imagined.

This forbidden land of life that was once shrouded in a curse had obviously not regained the vitality of an ordinary forest in just a few short months. The people on the road could only chat about all sorts of things.

The good news is that there are no animals to be seen in the forest, and there is no harassment from mosquitoes, snakes or pythons along the way, so Leon and the others simply treat this exploration as an outing.

At least you can occasionally see gurgling streams and rolling hills. Without the "hell filter" of the cursed land environment, the nightmare forest is already beautiful.

Perhaps after dozens or hundreds of years, the Orland people will rename this forest to a more secular place.

We found an open space just before sunset and set up camp to rest.

After setting up the tent, Leon snapped his fingers at several bonfires, and the magic power instantly ignited the firewood.

Looking at the flames rising up, he couldn't help but recall the hard experience of making a simple straw rope bow drill while on the run, and huddled together to block the cold wind in the wild and worked hard to start a fire.

At that time, they were so poor that even eating bran and drinking porridge was a luxury. Now, even if they are in the wilderness, they have enough energy to eat until their mouths are full of oil. It feels like a lifetime ago.

Lohak's servant set up the iron pot on his back and boiled water from the forest stream. Leon stirred the stew in the pot with spices, and the delicious aroma spread throughout the temporary camp.

There's stew here, and Olivia has vegetable soup.

The bonfire crackled, and in the dim light and firelight, everyone sat together enjoying an outdoor picnic.

Leon was not afraid of attracting wild animals, not to mention that there were only a few animals in the huge forest. Even if he attracted some, it would only be an extra dinner for the knights present, which would add some hunting fun to this boring hike.

"Leon, do you think we will come across the place where the knight's remains were buried as we go east? That must be Lord Elifer's father, right?" Lohak asked while eating.

"The possibility is very small. We seemed to have encountered the previous baron in the area near Selva at that time, but the time and space in the cursed land are disordered. Who knows where the baron was buried after the spirit-like field dissipated."

Leon shook his head: "In the future, we will post a reward in the counties surrounding the forest. Perhaps the pioneers who are developing the forest land will accidentally discover it."

He remembered that before leaving, he simply inserted a wooden stick in front of the pit where the bodies were buried as a tombstone mark.

Of course, even if he found the remains, Leon didn't want to seize the armor that he couldn't carry away because he didn't have the strength to do so. He didn't lack that little money now.

Handing over the relics and remains to his son Elipher was a way of thanking the sword for the opportunities it brought to the three of them.

Fortunately, he didn't say that it was the sword he got from the battle with the zombies. Otherwise, if Elifer saw the body that was chopped into pieces by Lohak, even if he didn't blame him, it would still be embarrassing for everyone.

Waiting for the night to fall, everyone chatted about family matters. When they saw that the time was almost up, Corvis stood up, took out the bottles of materials, and set up warning spells around the camp.

Olivia volunteered to keep watch, so Leon arranged for himself and her to watch the first half of the night, while Lohak and his servants would watch the second half.

After everyone lay down in their respective tents to rest, Leon sat next to Olivia and looked at the three tents they brought.

"I should have brought one more if I had known." He said regretfully, leaning against the tree trunk that was used as a bench after Olivia kicked him down.

Now it's Lohak and his servants on one, himself and Corvis on one, and Olivia and Treya on one.

No matter what other combinations he makes, as long as he wants to sleep with his lover, Miss Theresa will have to team up with the other three men, which is really awkward.

Travel tents of this era were not very big.

Olivia, who already knew all about Leon's immorality, immediately heard the hidden meaning. She raised her hand and gently pulled her lover's earlobe, muttering softly: "What are you thinking about? This is the wild, everyone is here, I won't let you do whatever you want like at home."

Leon couldn’t help but turn around and blinked at the girl aggrievedly: “I didn’t say anything.”

"But you must be thinking about it~" Olivia snorted, not believing that this guy didn't have any bad ideas.

"Unfair, I was just thinking about how to retell the story of the Three Kingdoms for you, and I've already made up quite a few. Do you want to listen?"

"Huh? Really?"

Olivia was immediately surprised.

She threw away her previous doubts and leaned over.

"Of course it's true. Listen to me. It is said that the first Lord Verti entrusted his son to the White King's Castle and was about to die. Suddenly he opened his eyes and found himself standing in the crowd with a straw mat on his shoulder. Suddenly he saw a familiar black-faced man with tiger eyes glaring at him, saying angrily, 'A real man should not work hard for the country, but sigh here instead. What kind of man is he!'"

In this world where computers haven't even appeared, Leon told Olivia, who had sparkling eyes, the story of historical rebirth and destiny-changing online novel many years in advance, telling this ridiculous story in a leisurely manner.

Anyway, it is to help the girl make up for her regrets. Compared with rewriting the famous novel, it is much easier to just write a cool story about the emperor's uncle playing the second round.
The night passes by minute by minute.

But the two people who were listening and speaking did not feel sleepy at all.

As he was talking, Leon saw Olivia's lively eyes suddenly changed, and turned his head to the darkness of the forest where the firelight could not reach. "Leon, there is a sound approaching, there are many footsteps, but... the stomping sound is not heavy." Olivia reminded while staring at the movement over there.

Leon stopped talking, stood up and put his hand on the hilt of the fake thorn sword.

Although there were not many things in the forest that could threaten their group, he would not take it lightly.

"Wake up everyone." Leon drew his weapon.

Soon, the four people who had just fallen asleep in the tent were awakened and left the tent quickly.

Not wanting to passively wait for something uninvited to approach, Leon gave orders to Corvis.

"Shine the light in the direction Olivia pointed, so we can see tonight's unexpected guest."

The young wizard stroked the blade, infused it with magic and activated the spell, and the rune blade instantly turned into a dazzling blade of light.

He threw the sword with his right hand, and it flew into the air, illuminating the darkness in the forest like a flare.

The dazzling magic light made it impossible for any of the newcomers to hide. All they saw was a large group of brown-skinned, dog-headed humanoid monsters, holding spears, short knives, and even pickaxes, sneaking towards this side.

But they who were hiding in the darkness were frightened by the light of the Sword of Friendship and screamed. Unable to bear the light, the monsters immediately covered their red eyes that were overflowing with tears, and turned around and fled, screaming.

“Kaaaah!~ Kaaaah——!!!”

As if realizing that they had chosen the wrong prey and target, the group of small monsters armed with blades and wearing armor fled.

Leon and Lohak couldn't help but raise their eyebrows, this was their "old friend" whom they hadn't seen for a long time.

".What is that?" Olivia frowned and looked at those ugly little guys in surprise.

It’s no wonder that even a girl who is always well-educated can’t help but have the idea of ​​judging people by their appearance.

The appearance of the wild goblin is really disgusting
The change in his mentality allowed Leon to have the leisure time to carefully look at the humanoid monster he saw for the second time.

He couldn't help but apologize for the comparison and the image of the goblin in his previous life.

It has a dog-like head with rat-like eyes, sharp teeth and claws, and its body is covered with numb bumps like skin disease, not to mention its shameless exposed private parts.

No matter from which aesthetic perspective humans look at it, wild goblins can be regarded as the most ugly of creatures.

In comparison, the goblins in the animation games of the previous life were all handsome and elegant.

When Corvis' flying sword reached the limit of its control distance, it turned back to the camp and fell into the hands of the young man.

Lohak slung the heavy steel axe onto his shoulder with a clang, came to Leon and asked, "Do you want to chase them and kill them?"

Things are different now. Even if he is alone now, Lohak is confident that he can easily crush hundreds or thousands of these harmful little evil creatures.

What's more, Leon, Corvis, and the powerful Olivia were also present.

Leon shook his head and retracted his blade.

"Don't worry about them tonight. It's not wise to chase them in the dark. Since they've been scared away, you can just continue to rest. They're no threat to us anyway.

However, these things actually ran to the vicinity of Avalon. It is estimated that they migrated here by accident recently. This time when we go back, we will organize an army to clear out the surrounding areas. "

Wild goblins are not good creatures. According to the records in the monster book mentioned by Azerien during the chat, this kind of humanoid monster is brutal by nature and has no ability to communicate with normal intelligent races. Moreover, once there is enough food, its reproductive capacity is extremely strong and its growth cycle is very short. Although it poses no threat to knights and the army, it is a disaster for civilians.

The Church of the Holy Sun had already cleared them out in the Kingdom of Serrian, but it seemed that there were still many groups of wild goblins left in the wilderness on the border between Orland and Kantadar.

After the camp became quiet again, there was no more disturbance in the second half of the night.

The next morning, after packing up their travel gear, everyone followed Leon again, guided by the light of the spiritual field, and trekked along the winding spiritual veins.

However, as he walked with the spirit lamp in his hand, Leon couldn't help but squat down and touch the dense footprints on the ground with his right hand.

Three-toed paws.
It seems to be the footprints of those wild goblins last night?

Leon looked up at the woods in the distance and could vaguely see broken branches of bushes.

The direction the spirit lamp is currently pointing matches the direction the wild goblins are fleeing.

Is it a coincidence?

I will update 3K first, and there will be another update when I come back tonight. I will try to write 4-6K in the early morning and -K at night, so that I don't have to cross the date to update the chapter. However, it may not be in the form of two updates. It depends on the plot content. If it is not suitable to divide into chapters, I will still publish it in a large chapter of -K after I finish writing it in the evening. Today, it can be divided into chapters, so I will publish one update first.

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