Chapter 20: The Fish-Man
There are three ways to get from the city of Engels in the eastern province to the capital of the kingdom in the south of the kingdom, the first is to go to the city of Dallas, which is located further east of Engels, to take an airship, which is comfortable but not fast, one is to cross the two gorges, where a large number of fish people inhabit the nearby lakes, which are fast but not safe, and the third is to take the official road, although it is smooth but there are many detours, and the speed is the slowest.
In order to be able to reach Liminosi faster, Roy and others planned to go to Liminosi from Liangjian Gorge.
The so-called Liangjian Gorge is a canyon of great depth, and at the top of each side of the canyon, a waterfall almost the length of the canyon falls, and converges into the lake below.
In the middle of the lake, there is a rocky road that rises above the surface of the lake, which divides the lake in half, as if it had been carefully constructed.
There is a group of fishmen living in the lakes on both sides of the road, and there are many disputes between the two groups of fishmen on weekdays, and they often fight because of some trivial things, and they almost become feuds.
However, when these fish-men who are rubbing against each other face pedestrians on the road, they will unite and attack and loot pedestrians from both sides of the lake, snatching the supplies in the hands of pedestrians, even if they are useless at all, they will hoard and sell them to goblin merchants, which has become a hazard around here.
These fish-men will engage in a large-scale battle without discipline after snatching supplies, and the fish-men who snatch back supplies for the clan are recognised within the fish-people as well, which means heroes, but these heroes often do not survive a few battles, and fortunately, the fish-people have a strong reproductive ability, so they will not be exterminated under the premise of such internal strife.
In order to deal with this group of fishmen, the lords of nearby cities have sent their knights to surround and suppress them many times, and at this time, these timid and cunning creatures will all burrow into the depths of the lake, and it is difficult to find them, although some of the knights are good at diving, but still no one dares to fight the fishmen who live here in the lake.
After several rounds of encirclement and suppression, the lords gave up on this idea, and they posted notices on the notice board at the city gate to go carefully to the Liangjian Gorge, and offered a reward for the fishmen's head scales in the mercenary guild for a long time to avoid the losses caused by the fishmen.
Some shrewd mercenaries will send a small number of elite mercenaries to pretend to be merchants, deliberately attracting the attack of the fishmen, in order to obtain the fishmen's head scales and magic materials: the fishmen's foul-smelling lymph, but there are too many times, these fishmen also remember the appearance of the nearby mercenaries, and they are rarely fooled again, and over time, these mercenaries do not come, and only send some new mercenaries here as a trial.
Roy came this time, in addition to Lelia and Vivien, there were also two chauffeurs, both veterans who had seen blood on the battlefield, one cart was loaded with tent food, etc. and some necessary gold coins, and the other was sitting with Roy and others.
The alchemists who can make space pockets can only make a fixed number of space pockets every year, so there are still very few people who have space pockets, and most of them use carriages or horned camel carts to carry supplies forward, although Roy is a traverser, but he has not been able to get one so far.
In addition to this, there is also a fifth-order knight in the team, named Klein, Crane. Zute, because of his low background, was killed by Mani. Engels was taken in as a personal guard, and the trip was sent to protect Roy's safety.
Jones didn't come along, Mani's punishment for him made him have to rest in bed for at least a few days, and Roy asked Lelia to bring him some ointment to restore his injuries, which he should have suffered because of his own injuries.
Roy wanted to release a small golden ball for him to speed up the recovery of the wound, but Lelia would not let him, even Jones would not agree, and since listening to Master Angus's words, Lelia would not allow him to release the spell.
As soon as Roy moved the idea of treating Jones, Lelia didn't say much, stood in front of Roy and began to cry, tears came as soon as they were said, which made Roy very embarrassed, you must know that he had never made a girl cry, and he was at a loss for Lelia's crying, and finally could only raise his hand and surrender in Lelia's victorious smile, he really didn't know where a maid older than him got so many tears.
For this reason, Lelia also specially asked Vivian to follow Roy's side at all times, carefully watch Roy, in Vivian's words: "The young master's body is not suitable for too much fatigue now, not to mention the release of spells, if you have to release spells, it is not impossible, but I will see me and Aunt Lelia crying together in front of you and be punished by Count Engels." ”
Roy had no choice but to be an ordinary patient quietly, corrupted by the corrupt life of this maid.
As soon as the carriage entered the two streams, the air became cool and moist, and Roy lifted the curtains and looked out, a little nostalgic.
The fish-people near this in the game are simply a nightmare for lone players, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will be surrounded by the fish-people group, although the attacks of these fish-people are weak, but they can't stand the vast majority of the fish-people are good at a little water magic, a group of fish-people stand on the water surface and release water bombs on a person, under the overwhelming attack, unless it is a very strong individual, otherwise it will basically be planted under a single fight.
However, the fish-man's foul-smelling lymph is part of the cycle quest, and in order to get free life potions, many players appear here every day, and develop many routines to attract and deal with the fish-people.
When Roy set off, he specially prepared enough goblin bombs, a product of goblin engineering, which exploded in a short time after pulling the safety rope, although the power is debatable, but the loud sound it made was enough to scare off those timid fishmen, which is an effective method that players have discovered after many explorations.
Roy had already prepared to be attacked by the fishmen on both sides, but after walking for a while, the water on both sides was still stable, without the slightest trace of the fishmen showing their heads, Klein was also a little puzzled, he had also heard of the notoriety of the fishmen in this area who bullied the soft and feared the hard, this time he saw that there were too many people, so he didn't dare to start?
There was a black mark on the ground in the distance, Klein dismounted and stepped forward, touched it with his hand, rubbed his fingers, and said to Luo Iran: "Young Master Roy, there are traces of the release of fire-type magic here, it seems to be a fireball technique, it is still very new, no more than two hours." ”
Roy nodded, the fish-man does not know fire-based magic, obviously someone passed by here, attracting the attention of the fish-man, this fireball smashed on the ground is a demonstration to warn the fish-man of his actions.
As the carriage moved forward, there were more and more traces of magic, and it was not limited to fire magic, but also ice, earth, etc., Roy even felt the remnants of arcane energy in the air, the lakes on both sides were no longer quiet, and from time to time there were corpses of fishmen floating on the water, exuding a strong fishy smell.
A figure slowly cleared as the carriage moved, a female magician with long hair and a shawl and a magic robe, holding a magic barrier in one hand and a wand in the other, since most of her energy was used to maintain the magic barrier, the wand in her hand could only fire some low-level spells to attack those fishmen standing on the water.
Seeing this, Roy hurriedly said to Lelia and Klein, "Hurry up and save people, use those goblin bombs." ”
As the two of them threw out, the alchemy bomb fell into the water where the fishmen were gathered in an arc, and with a bang, a fishman at the center of the explosion was blown in two, and the other fishmen were startled by the earth-shattering sound, and hurriedly plunged into the water to dodge.
Roy Yile, this female magician he knew.