Chapter 9: Kobolds

The more spells in the mana pool, the better, because the mana generated by the mana pool every day is fixed, which will inevitably cause many used spell models to not be infused with mana and unable to form spells.

In the case of Morey, he now regenerates 12 mana per hour, which is 288 mana a day. Level 1 spell infusion requires 50, level 0 tricks are much less but also 10, which means that you can infuse up to 5 level 1 spells in 1 day, or infuse 28 level zero spells with mana. It seems to be much stronger than the mages of the Betsy plane who only cast spells from spell slots, but it is not as luxurious as Morey imagined that he can use spells as fireworks.

What's more, after Morey's level is high, he will also learn some skills or secret techniques that directly use mana, and the mana in the mana pool will only be less and not more.

Therefore, some wealthy mages will spend money to equip their mana pool with a spell spirit, and set a priority spell sequence for it, so as to ensure that their usual spells can always be used. And those bankrupt mages are forced to do so, and they have to personally distribute the infusion objects of mana like assigning spell slots every day, wasting a lot of time and energy.

As a powerful (former) artifact, the Blood Moon is naturally difficult to overcome with these small tasks of mana distribution.

After such adjustments, Morey, as a first-level mage, has an unprecedented 5 first-level spells (Ice Spear, Mirroring, Enchantment, and Greasy Spell*2) and 17 stun spells (3 spell slot memories and 14 spell pools) for a total of 22 spells. The level 1 spell position alone is comparable to a level 5 mage, not to mention the stun technique that is so much that it is speechless, and the strength can be seen.

Although the stun technique has a wonderful effect, it is only a level zero spell after all. In the future, what Morey has to do is to continue to study new first-level spells and increase the number of spells, and these zero-level spells can only be used as a transition.

Because it is a greasy spell learned from the Spell Codex, this also gives Morey the bonus of "Spell Identification +1".

It was at this time that Doro's men finally arrived at the Murray mine, where Morey, accompanied by Hyde, met him in a larger tent.

"You said you came with Doro's kindness?" Morey sat down and asked curiously.

As the son of the current patriarch, he is the patriarch of the next generation of Faist de jure in law, and his reputation for waste materials over the years is outside, and the so-called occupying the pit and not is himself. The young man in the family who has the right to inherit is eager to die by himself, how can there be a person who has good intentions towards him, and this person is still Doro, who is very popular among young people. Faist.

"Yes, I know that Young Master Morey doesn't believe it, but I have something to prove that Young Master Doro did let me come with sincerity." With that, Vess's hand came into his arms.

As soon as Bivis put his hand into his arms, the atmosphere at the scene suddenly became a little tense. Although he has searched his body before and removed weapons and magic items, there are many poisons in this world that cannot even be compared to spells, which cannot be underestimated. So Hyde stepped forward to cover Morey's figure, and there was also an undetectable shadow moving slowly in the shadows, it was Balta, who had been hiding here for a long time.

"This is Borg. Faist's men corresponded with those pointy-eared men, in which they agreed on the time of customs clearance. Seeing that Bivis took out a letter, the scene suddenly calmed down.

Hyde examined it carefully before handing the letter to Morey.

After a moment's scrutiny, Morey set the letter aside.

Regardless of whether the person who calls himself John in this letter is Borg. Faist's men, even if they were, how could it be proved that he was secretly communicating with the Dark Elves on Borg's orders, and not deliberately framing Borg, as instructed by someone else.

Not to mention a letter, even if John was recorded in the Shadow Stone and said that it was Borg who asked him to take these "underground workers" through the secret passage of the family, it would be questioned whether someone had conspired against the suggestion.

Borg's father is one of the elders of the Presbyterian Church, and because of his family background, he is the best at messing around or something. Growing up, Morey has not been bullied, but it is this Borg who has the most preconceptions about himself.

He did most of the work, and every time he instructed the other kids to bully him. Even if he is caught, he will take out the treachery of a child and mess around, so on the contrary, he will be punished the least number of times.

But this time, the methods of the mine attack are obviously not his style.

Looking at Morey, who was clearly lost in thought, Bivis nodded secretly.

Bivis didn't want Morey to believe his words right away, he just had to show Master Doro's kindness to Morey, as for believing it or not, Borg's involvement in the plan to assassinate Morey was dispensable.

As for the young master Borg, after experiencing this incident, Bivis had some contempt for this young master of the Faist family, who was known for his resourcefulness. He thought that he had put a chess piece next to Young Master Doro, and he thought that he could provoke Young Master Doro to take the initiative to provoke Morey, so he could sit back and wait for both sides to lose, how could there be such a good thing.

This was not directly caught by the young master, and he stabbed Morey first. Even if Morey doesn't believe it, but believes that for him Borg. Faist will be more vigilant.

After leaving behind a blue communication crystal, Bivis left the camp after completing his mission.

"Doro, hehe." Morey picked up the crystal and shook it, but he didn't know what to think of, and suddenly laughed.

"Young Master, the Ponle family's transport team is in trouble." Early in the morning, Hyde came looking for him.

After his "patient persuasion", Sandru was "ashamed" to realize his mistake and moved his residence away from the large alchemy room. Morey excused himself and moved in, who has a big room and doesn't sleep in a small room.

"Oh? What's going on? "I received a summons from my father two days ago, so that he is more familiar with the operation of the mine, and this place may be assigned to him as an independent territory in the future.

Now the Murry mine is only managed by Morey, and in terms of distribution, it is also the lowest, only a little more than the Pomle family who took two parts of red, and the rest is naturally supplied to the city of Saganis.

I don't know how my Lao Tzu operates, this huge mineral Muli mine has to be allocated to himself alone.

Since he will become the manager of the mine in the near future, Morey will naturally be more familiar with the situation in the camp. Hyde also supports him, and now he basically reports to him on big and small matters.

"A convoy was supposed to arrive at the camp yesterday, but it wasn't until this morning that it was discovered that it had been attacked. Judging from the stone bullets and short spears scattered at the scene, it should be a good thing done by kobolds. ”

Kobolds have a cowardly nature, but they also have bloodthirsty and brutal tendencies, such as the scene of this attack, where many white bones were gnawed away.

"Last year was the year of good pregnancy, and the kobold cubs in the mountains gave birth to litters one after another. This year, there are so many mouthfuls at once, and they don't want to find a way, and in the winter they will have to gnaw their own fingers! So they hijacked the convoys that were transporting grain. Hyde continued, but already felt a headache.

In the year of good pregnancy, people love and hate it. On the one hand, it can continue the reproduction of the race, not to mention the kobolds, who give birth to a litter in their lifetime, is the most difficult dragon on the mainland to reproduce, and it can also guarantee to give birth to a vigorous dragon egg. It can be said that for many scarce populations, the year of fertility is the best reward from God.

But on the other hand, after the year of fertility, a large number of breeding beasts and barbarians will attack all civilizations, and there are too many similar beast tides to destroy cities.

"Isn't it still summer in May? Why is the beast tide ahead of schedule? "Generally, the wild beasts in the mountains and forests do not begin to migrate to the city in search of food until autumn, when food is reduced, and then form a tide of beasts, including kobolds, goblins, and barbarian tribes who have been driven down the mountain.

"No, I guess it's just preparing to collect food in advance." Although kobolds are not as civilized as humans, they are only compared to humans, and for those beasts that only have instincts, some kobold tribes that have a long tradition also have their own set of methods to deal with the tide of beasts through word of mouth.

The Muri mine was in ruins, and at this time, the kobold came to help, but the food was stretched. Food is the courage of the army, and once there is not enough to eat, the morale of the more than 1,000 elite militia drawn will drop greatly, not to mention the vast number of kobold coolies in the mine. I'm afraid that if there is no kobold at the time of the time, there will be a random kobold who will shout, that is, "the prince will have a kind of Xiangning".

"Let's go, take the people, we're going to kill them!" Morey couldn't sit still at the thought of this.

The army was quickly assembled, and because it was dealing with a kobold tribe living deep in the mountains, the number required was small but it had to be elite. Entering the mountains to pursue, you can't do without rangers and thieves, most of the priests of Sandakor are part-time rangers, and although the dark department is an assassin, the thieves are all familiar with their work, and there is no problem in this regard.

Feng Di and Morey then selected a total of 100 elite men from the garrison and the saber guards, respectively. In this way, a team of 5 rangers, 6 assassins, and 100 elite warriors began to follow the trail to pursue the kobolds.

Deep in the forest, Doru shrank in the hollow of the tree with a short spear, and looked out cautiously from time to time. There is always an instinctive aversion to being kobolds during the day, and some newborn kobold cubs can even hide in the depths of the crypt because the strong sunlight will pierce their young eyes.

The dark rust-colored skin indicates that he is just an adult kobold, and the kobold's skin will slowly become dark until it turns black as he gets older, so you can roughly tell the kobold's age just by looking at the color of the kobold's skin.

As a sentinel of the Shiduobu, Doru's treatment was still good, a leather armor that had been repaired in many places, a spear with an iron spearhead, and most importantly, a black bread a day. This delicacy, supposedly stolen from humans, is fresh barley wrapped in delicious bran and is much better than the cauldron of the tribe before, at least you won't eat dirt and stones from it. Thinking of the black bread, Doru was a little hungry again, and he unconsciously glanced at the haystack behind him, which was where he usually rested and where half of his black bread hid.

A gust of mountain wind blew Doru unconsciously shrunk his neck, the mountain wind was very cold, even if it was summer, it was not something that could be covered by his leather armor that barely protected the vital points.

This reminded him of the wounded scene in the square in the center of the tribe two days ago, the warm bonfire, the enthusiastic dancing, and of course, the aromatic barbecue. The little hands of the melt-in-your-mouth baby gave him a long time to remember, and it became a little to brag about, a top-notch delicacy that only the big men of the tribe could enjoy.

At this moment, Doru's eyes lit up with a reflection, and he followed the light source to see that there were actually human troops marching along the mountain road.

The tribe must be notified quickly! Doru was stunned for a moment, then immediately remembered his duty, and touched his chest, where there was a bone whistle made of human fingers, and if he blew it, the tribe would naturally be warned.

"Whoosh!" Unfortunately, an ice spear came from afar and nailed Doru to death in a tree hollow, and the cold breath even froze him into ice, freezing his stunned body in it forever.

"+1 Soul Energy Gain"

Morey nodded, a level 1 kobold would probably provide so much soul energy. A kobold tribe is a little larger than four or five hundred, and after killing it, it is more than enough to upgrade and poke it yourself.

"Young Master Morey is really powerful, at such a distance, the ice spear pierced through his heart, and the kobold died directly! Even those magic shooters can't do that! Seeing that Balta's dignified Captain of the Secret Force could actually pat the horse like this, Hyde turned his head in disdain.

However, kobolds are generally low, only 2 feet to 2.5 feet tall (about 60 centimeters), and Morey's ability to hit such a small target from a distance is also commendable.

"Baron Morey, we've found the kobolds' camp." This time, it was not Pastor Mark leading the team, but a part-time ranger priestess, Vivien Hayley. Meliane. Vivien Hayley is a half-elf with sharper ears than humans, which is their most distinctive feature.

"Do you know how many of them there are?" Morey is interested, it's all experience!

"There are about more than 800 people, and there are probably less than 200 combat strength after removing the old, weak, sick and disabled." Vivien Hayley thought about it carefully and reported her estimates.

"Two hundred?" This number of combat power is not more, but less. Kobolds are naturally timid and fearful, and without more than twice the number, they simply do not dare to attack the human forces. Not to mention the well-equipped transport troops, the Pomlers were so wealthy that they wore leather armor and crossbows.

"Among them are kobold warlocks!" Kobolds have always claimed to have dragon blood, and in addition to the fact that they can speak dragon language with the sound of a puppy barking, it is these kobold dragon warlocks who awaken from time to time. Once a kobold tribe awakens the Dragon Vein Warlock, it represents the rise or prosperity of the kobold tribe.

Now that he had found out, Morey decided to attack immediately.

The attack was first launched by Hyde, who for the first time summoned his mount, the Four-Horned Rhino. This brute beast living in another dimension has four hooves on fire, and its straight sharp horns form a diamond shape on the bridge of its nose, the arch of its eyebrows, and the center of its forehead. White smoke gushes from the thick nostrils, and sparks flicker from them. Hyde rolled up, pulled out his fangs and pointed at the closed wooden door of the camp, "Rush! ”

As if he understood what Hyde meant, the demon rhino lowered his head, showed the four sharp horns on his head, and ran wildly. The kobold standing on the watchtower saw a flame approaching quickly, and then with a "boom", the mountain shook under his feet, and he was thrown out of the watchtower.

Hyde rode the four-horned demon rhino and crashed the camp gate and the watchtowers on both sides, and a small group of kobolds guarding behind the wooden gate were suddenly crushed under thousands of pounds of wood, suffering heavy casualties.

"Hiss, hiss......" Sharp bone whistles suddenly came and went in the kobold camp, and these bone whistles made of human fingers were no longer excited and cruel hunting signals, but miserable warnings.

The kobolds' forces were no threat to the human forces at all, and the iron spears and arrows they treasured had no effect on the real iron armor and steel helmets.

It is usually a kobold who throws the spear, and a feathered arrow passes through his chest and is killed. And the spear he threw with his life only scratched a mark in his armor or shield. The difference in strength was too great, and the human forces crushed the same number of kobold troops on the battlefield.

The strange thing is that the kobold, who should have fled in the desert a long time ago, is now trembling with a short spear and a short bow to delay the footsteps of Morey's troops.