The farmers in the lakeside village hid in the weeds, and even gasped for breath carefully.

Dozens of black boats, large and small, filled the once-peaceful waters of Lake Santa Cana, and to the peasants, these strangely shaped black ships were huge sailing tools they had never seen before, and even the smallest of them looked like a monster in iron armor. The sail was painted with a sign of malice, a hideous cyan lizard's eye. Under the cross-winding walls of these dozens of black ships were circular holes, and in the black holes stretched out the black wooden oars like millipedes, and the black wood pulp of the paddling gradually slowed down, and these black boats began to slowly approach the shore.

"Look, Kroll, these ships are built rather strangely!" Youngor squinted, quietly raised his hand and pointed to the hull of the black ship, his tone was full of surprise, as if with admiration, "The black metal is firmly fixed to the ship's wood, and the black metal embedded in the impact angle looks as if it is indestructible, ah!" Have you ever seen this method of shipbuilding? And you see, the black wood doesn't seem to have been harvested for a long time, as if it was recently harvested. I once heard from my cousin from Lindis Falk that if they were to build a two-masted merchant ship, it would take at least two years for the ship's keel to dry naturally. ”

"Are you talking about the cousin who worked at the Lindisfalk dockyard who was a guest at your house last time?" Kroll was also amazed at the black ship that was docking, and he looked back at the pale-faced village elder, "Oh, father, uh, what's wrong with you, I just want to ask if you have ever seen a nobleman with such an ugly eyeball as a coat of arms or flag?" ”

"This ship is full of fine shadows, mountain shadows, and wood! I heard your grandfather say that! The Land of the Shadow Mountains is the only tree with a dark trunk, and there have been many smugglers who have wanted to fight this timber idea and have traveled down the river from the tributaries of Lake Santa Kana to harvest this timber in that cursed place, but not a single smuggling boat has ever succeeded in bringing it back, but a few small fishing boats have been lucky enough to carry it, and your grandfather is one of the lucky ones. But he swore never to go there again to harvest this precious timber, because when the timber was brought back, only your grandfather and your grandmother were left on the small fishing boat, and your grandfather's own brother and brother were killed by the goblins there, and later, the shadow wood that your grandparents smuggled back from the fishing boat was sold by them to the Entre and Sipranda nobles for a good price, so that our family is where we are today and the wealth of the lakeside village. The old man of the village struggled to recall every detail his father had told him about the black wood, and the feeling of listening to a horror legend suddenly came to his heart, and his face turned white, and a pair of old hands covered his chest, "I have never seen a nobleman with such an eyeball as a coat of arms or emblem, but I have a faint feeling that this sign terrifies me. No, it's a fear that comes out of my heart. ”

"Could it be that these guys are Goblins from Shadow Mountain?" Kroll felt his scalp tingle, and he immediately turned his head and continued to stare intently at the dozens of black ships that were slowly approaching.

The village chief stretched out five fingers and shook his head slightly, not so much in denial, but in his reluctance to mention this gray-skinned marauder by Kroll.

"Goblins don't know how to build ships," the peasants looked at the waving chief, and then unceremoniously sneered at the imaginative Kroll, and then said their sarcastic remarks even more imaginatively, "The priests say that the book of Arcana says that the goddess Arcana brought us to this world on the ark. If that forbidden place can bring goblins to it, only the banished Trian Demon Lord will come. ”

"I'm sorry, guys, I'm afraid you're half right, and lo and behold, what are those guys. Trian's minions? An accomplice of the Goblins? Scaly skin and long tongue still walking! Youngor pointed to the deck of the black ship that had landed first, and patted Kroll on the shoulder, and the strange crew members with rickety bodies looked around vigilantly on the deck, and then dropped the anchor at the edge of the string wall and then dropped several rope ladders, Youngor was finally able to see the true face of these strange crews, which were strange creatures he could not imagine, dozens of agile lizard-like humanoid creatures turned out of the string wall, and they quickly climbed the rope ladder dangling outside the hull one by one, In a few moments, they plunged into the shallow water of the lakeshore, and the deck was filled with evil creatures that the farmer could recognize.

"Humanoid lizard!? That's- goblins!? Kroll covered his mouth, only to see the goblins on the deck of the black ship lifted out the wood and planks and threw them into the lake, and those humanoid lizards began to set up a simple landing plank, these dozens of black ships approached each other one by one, and the goblin crew on each black ship also built a thick plank bridge on the string wall, and the black ships that were staggered together were like a maze between ships.

The farmers beside the village chief were almost frightened by the sight before them, and they and the village chief covered their eyes, silently praying in their hearts that the monsters that had landed on the shore would not be able to see themselves hidden in the weeds.

"Ahh This fleet is only the vanguard of them. Kroll's teeth kept colliding, and he pointed to the southeast level of Santa Kana Lake in the distance, and a large number of black ships were connecting the city with an ink line at the junction of water and sky, and were heading towards Santa Kana Lake, and he couldn't help but let out a wail in his heart, "O Arcana! What the hell is going on. What are they doing in Lakeside Village? ”

"Withdraw, go. Go and tell everyone in Lakeside Village. The chief sat down on the ground, and was immediately lifted up by the farmer beside him and dragged into the taiga behind him, looking at his son Kroll, but not daring to cry out out out of fear.

"Kroll, I think we should get out of here quickly. It's definitely not a good thing for these guys to appear on such a large scale, I feel like it's so cold here. Youngor finally looked behind him, but there was only a crutch that Kroll's village elder father had lost, "Your father has quietly left with the others, and it is obvious that there are only two of us now." ”

"Look, what kind of monster is in that big cage? What a big size! Kroll had clearly caught up in fear, and all he could see was the ten-foot-tall cage that the goblin crew had lifted from below deck and the huge monster in the cage that had never been seen before.

"I bet that's not a good monster!" Youngor grabbed Kroll's arm and slowly stepped back through the cover of the weeds, "We need to inform the Grand Commander of Yafin, our Earl Lord Cullosius!" ”

On the black ship, which continued towards the north shore of Lake Santa Cana, there was a very special ship of Shadow Wood Building, especially its three masts and hull size, which made it a stark contrast to the other black sloops.

On the spacious deck, the Tiki Torch formed a ring around it, and next to each Tiki Torch stood lizardmen dressed in black iron heavy armor, they looked with reverence at the lizardman standing in the center of the ring of the Tiki Torch Siege, undoubtedly their leader, only to see the lizardman wearing the black iron crown ring caressing the perfect lizard eye carved on the black iron crown ring, and then looked up at the sky, until he opened his forelimbs, the right forelimb webbed fingers upside down to carry the dagger, the left forelimb held a live fish, Standing on the bow deck let out a scream that almost neighed, and the surrounding lizardmen in black iron heavy armor raised their black iron spears and began to cheer, shouting, "Say, Samla the lizardmen, you are the father of our loving Tatabura, the chief who is closest to the god of heaven, Zakha Zakabutun!" ”

"I, Zaka Zaka Buton, say, Believers, our Heavenly God, our Black-robed Duke, tell us that the rise of our Tataburau Swamp is in this land. We belong to this land, and it is the two-legged humans who have driven us to the treacherous quagmire, who have slaughtered our people and the people of our allies, and now it is time for revenge. Use the finest equipment given to us by the gods from above, and the cave trolls we have tamed to destroy everything these two legs have to offer! Known as the 'Loving Father of Tatabura', Zakha Zakabuton was holding the black iron dagger that disemboweled the fish in a single stroke, spitting out a snake-like slender tongue and greedily licking, licking, and bursting the blood that burst from the fish's belly, "Kill them all, and leave not one behind!" It's like the fish in my hand that can be eaten raw, or fried in the fire. Crunch! ”

Kroll and Youngor, who had fled in the taiga, seemed to hear the sound of an eruption from afar but affecting them as if they had heard the sound of the wind in the distance, accompanied by the cry of the cold wind in their ears. The two of them had already been bluffed into staring wide, like two frightened birds that had already flown out of the sky.