Black Rock Castle is a medium-sized city located west of the Neutral Zone, and its specialty is the leather of the Rock Iron Beast, and it can be said that it is a dynamic city that relies on hunting, breeding, and primary processing of the leather of the Rock Iron Beast.

When it reaches adulthood, it is more than 5 meters long, with short legs and a height of 3 meters, and its body is bulky and feeds on rocks containing minerals.

Of course, the Rock Iron Beast does not eat rocks, but lives by devouring rocks and absorbing the earth elements in them. This is a magical beast that is gentle in nature and conducive to breeding.

The skin of an adult rock iron beast is not weak compared to ordinary iron armor, and it can even be immune to the damage of magic below level 3, even if it is holding a delicate weapon, if it does not have a certain strength, don't want to leave a mark on them.

The leather on the Rock Iron Beast's body will automatically fall off once in two to three years after reaching adulthood, and at the same time, it will grow harder leather again after half a year, and the leather that falls off becomes the raw material for the best leather equipment, generally speaking, the leather that can be obtained more than 10 times is enough to be used for the equipment of the Imperial City Guard, and if you can find the leather that has fallen off more than 20 times, it can even be used to make epic equipment.

On his way to the City of Light, Lei Zhe passed through such a neutral city, which was not under the command of the Eastern and Western Empires, and each city here was similar to an independent city in the Greek city-state system, with no absolute leader, but other cities would help accordingly when encountering foreign enemies.

"Yo, isn't this Lei Zhe's little brother? How, do you think the mission of the mercenary group is a bit boring? It's just transporting goods, and there are no monsters attacking or robbers along the way, so it's different from what you think, right? ”

Lei Zhe, who was sitting in the carriage from Black Rock City, suddenly put a hand on his shoulder, and sat together like a good buddy and chatted.

"No, that's what I want, Sister Casey!"

The one Lei Zhe called Casey's sister was a member of the mercenary group hired by the cargo caravan with which Lei Zhe was traveling, a female mercenary of the Cat People with cat ears, cat tails, and combat form.

Strong muscles full of strength, coupled with a keen intuition like a civet, the female cat man Casey is not only the eyes and ears of the mercenary group, but also the most sensitive danger perception device, it is precisely because of the existence of the female cat man Casey, this mercenary group has a good reputation in Black Rock City.

"Huh? I thought that an academic school like you was the kind of person who would misunderstand the life of a mercenary because of knights, I have also been in the mercenary group for a few years, and some of the young children who have just left school are really natural, Lei Zhe, little brother, you are a little different, by the way, where do you want to go, or follow my sister's mercenary group, take you on a ride! ”

Don't look at the cat-woman Casey so enthusiastic, but the way her tail wags around, anyone who knows her well knows that she wants to fight ghosts.

In fact, when the female cat man Casey knew that Lei Zhe was from the St. Black United Academy in Holy Dragon City, she intentionally or unintentionally wanted to win over Lei Zhe, and it was simple to be able to become a student of St. Black United College, as long as Lei Zhe could join their mercenary group, then the entire mercenary group would probably become one of the new top ten mercenary groups in Black Rock City and even the entire neutral region in the future.

"Thank you, Sister Casey, for your kindness, but I'm afraid we won't be all the way next, I'm going to use the teleportation array to transfer to the Holy Light City, where there is one of my relatives, this time it's a family visit...... Wait a minute!! ”

While Lei Zhe was chatting with Cat Girl Casey, Lei Zhe suddenly stood up from his seat, and at the same time, the Alliance ran to the parking space and stretched out half of his body to look at the left side of their team.

Lei Zhe, who was a little uncertain, repented, hooked his hand at the cat-man Casey, and pointed to the left of the convoy.

"Sister Casey, we may be targeted, I feel a wave of malice coming from the direction over there, your eyesight is stronger than mine, can you observe!"

The direction Lei Zhe pointed to was a dead forest that had lost its greenery, and although it was far away, it was still possible to see a crow-type demonic beast hovering in the wind of the dead forest.

Hearing Lei Zhe's words, even the female cat man Casey was stunned. Their mercenary group may not be very strong, but the 30-person mercenary team protects 10 carriages, even if the remaining 20 people are not able to fight, but in the end, they are by no means soft persimmons that can be manipulated by others, and there are still people who will do it on this road?

Although the cat-woman Casey herself did not perceive the danger, she did not dare to be careless, and leaned out of the carriage and looked in the direction of the dead woods like Lei Zhe.

Orcs generally have stronger senses than humans, but even so, except for a few types of orcs, it is impossible to see things in the dead forest from a distance of more than five kilometers, and this is also true for Catwoman Casey.

"Hmm...... I can't see through it, but those birds don't want to fall, it looks like there is something entrenched in that dead forest, I'm going to remind the regiment commander to be careful, thank you, Lei Zhe! ”

With that, Casey, the cat-woman, suddenly jumped out of the carriage, and a gust of wind swept across Lei Zhe's face.

"This speed, I'm afraid it's 23 or 24 points of agility, and sure enough, the advantage of the cat people in agility is still above that of humans, but it's ...... I don't really want to do something, right?,Malicious perception LV.3 perceives the malice intermittently.,Is there no decision? ”

Through malice sensing the power of LV.3, Lei Zhe was sure that there was something on the other side of the dead woods that had an idea about their team, but at that time, the intermittent malice was like schizophrenia, and it was completely uncertain whether he would do it.

Hula~Hula~Hula......

Just five minutes after Sister Casey left, there was a sudden dust in the direction of the dead woods, and at the same time, a growing roar came from Lei Zhe's ears.

"Enemy attack! All on alert! ”

The dust approaching in the distance was still more than 2 kilometers away from the caravan, and the entire convoy had stopped, and the accompanying mercenary group and the caravan's own escorts had all concentrated on the side of the enemy's attack, looking ready to meet it at any time.

Small Kodo cavalry?!

Compared to Kodomon, which are often more than 10 meters long, these small Kodomon are not the size of rhinoceros even when they reach adulthood. And even so, these small Kodo beasts can have the strength of LV.3 and LV.4 when they become adults, and I am afraid that even the elite of the city defense army of medium-sized cities dare not say that they have mounts of this level.

The comer is not good!

The number of people on the opposite side is roughly 50 people, although not everyone has a small Kodomon, but just 20 small Kodomon are enough to make the caravan and mercenary group in front of them suffer huge losses.