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At night, around the campfire, savor fresh game

If this scene is placed on the earth in the previous life, and the big men who wear armor and put weapons in their hands around Rhodes are replaced by beautiful women, it is quite an enviable thing.

But now Rhodes is surrounded by big men, and the fresh barbecue also makes Rode, who has been eating all kinds of barbecue for almost two months, not have much novelty, only the idea of chewing and swallowing the food quickly.

Well, Rhodes should actually be glad that as the person with a special position in the entire combined caravan and the highest status in the escort team sent by Baron Ernst, the level of dinner enjoyed can be described as the best in the entire temporary camp!

If you change to the lowest-ranking scattered mercenaries in the makeshift camp, it would be nice to be able to get a bowl of broth with some solid ingredients for dinner, and two pieces of low-quality black bread that can be used as bricks. Like Rhodes, who has a choice of exquisite black bread, fish soup, grilled fish, barbecued meat, and broth, but those hard-working mercenaries can only dare to think about this kind of extravagant treatment in their own dreams!

Originally, the leaders of the combined caravan came to run around very diligently, but after seeing that neither Rhodes nor the Tamon knights paid much attention to them, these eight-faced merchants were very interested and did not come to bother again.

However, every time at the meal, these leaders were very respectful and let the best prey be sent in advance, which made one have to sigh that these merchants did know how to please people in some ways without annoying them.

"Huh? Looks like it's going to be a bit lively tonight."

When Rod, who was bored and trying to eliminate the food in front of him, swallowed the last bite of broth, an enemy appeared in the constant alert range of the gods' game space (Note 1) from the beginning of the road, causing Rhodes to divert his attention for a moment.

When Rod heard the gods game space warning him and the reconnaissance situation given, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, tonight the whole camp will probably be lively again.

However, even though he received the information in advance, Rhodes did not alert the rest of the camp to his thoughts. After all, not to mention how Rod would explain that he knew the enemy in advance, the size of the incoming enemy according to Rhodes's estimation would at most make the camp a little noisy, and it would not threaten the combined caravan that was quite vigilant in the wilderness.

With this mentality, after indifferently eating dinner and saying hello to the Tamon Knight, Rod entered the tent and began to prepare to watch the big scene that would be staged in the evening.

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At nightfall, the purple glow of Dylanmets (Note 2) in the sky overshadowed the light of the silver Mitter Andil (Note 3), allowing the purple moonlight to shine on the entire earth.

Under the purple moonlight, the combined caravan that defended the entire camp with horse-drawn carriages, wooden improvised fences, traps, mounds, and trenches also made dozens of sentries vigilantly pay attention to the movements around them, and the guards and guards in the entire combined caravan camp did quite well.

There is no way, there are too many dangers in the wilderness in this world, and if the caravan that comes out to run the merchant is not vigilant enough and is not lucky enough, it may be destroyed at any time due to an accident. Especially camping in such a difficult place to manage at the junction of two provinces, the leaders of the combined caravan did not dare to let their guard down.

In fact, now in the jungle less than a thousand meters away from the combined caravan camp, one by one the gnolls with red eyes are crawling in the jungle, looking at the combined caravan camp that has fallen silent in the distance, these gnolls who are quite ferocious have been drooling from time to time.

However, even if they drooled again, without the order of the ferocious and abnormal leader of the gnolls, these weak gnolls tried to curb their thoughts of rushing out to fight, and could only look at the joint camp with red eyes.

At the edge of the woods, the number of lurking gnolls was almost more than two hundred and close to three hundred, and even after deducting the old, weak, sick and disabled, there were more than a hundred adult gnolls of the black iron rank. For a combined caravan camp with more than five hundred people, it was enough to cause considerable trouble and even heavy losses in the event of a surprise attack.

As for why this tribe of gnolls around the camp came over at night?

Well, the monsters in this world are not stupid, and the relatively "safe" place at the junction of the two provinces will of course be discovered by the monsters who are hunted down and expelled by the nobles of the territory from time to time. As a result, the gnoll tribe spent two years "safely" in this place, and even ate a few small caravans camping at night.

So when the previous leader of the gnoll tribe "cleverly" discovered that human caravans often appeared near the river, the gnolls regarded this place as a place where they could come at any time to make a profit.

“@#*&!!!” Under the roar of a gnoll leader who was almost two meters tall and looked unusually strong, wielding a one-handed battle axe that was not light, more than two hundred gnolls rushed out of the bushes, making various roars or shouts of unknown meaning, and rushed towards the camp of the combined caravan.

Not to mention the extremely reckless actions of the gnolls, not to mention the caravan guards who were quite vigilant, even those who had fallen asleep in the camp were awakened, and then began to rush out directly with the weapons they had at hand.

"It's a gnoll ?!!!"

"!! to the South"

"All Rise Up and Assemble !!"

"XX mercenary group assembles here!!"

In the midst of a chaotic noise, the leaders of the mercenary groups and the captains of the guards, who were hired by the various small caravans, began to maintain order loudly and organize the gathering of personnel, rather than gathering together in a chaotic manner.

It should be said that the mercenary group and guards with the leader were pacified in a short time, and then, under the leadership of their respective regiment commanders and captains, they gathered their combat strength and rushed towards the camp where the battle had started.

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When the action of the jackals had just alarmed everyone in the camp, the camp of Rhodes and his party, which was located near the center of the combined caravan, was alarmed, and everyone reacted as quickly as possible.

After all, the members of the team escorting Rhodes to the Scarlet Canyon were extremely high, and they were basically the elite of the family who were selected from the garrison by Baron Ernst, and the people who were asleep were immediately awakened after hearing the warning signal, and then it took less than a minute to put on the steel armor and rush out of the camp directly with the weapon in hand.

- Of course, it's not unavoidable that most people will be a little confused in their attire, but it's still okay to go into battle!

"Master Rod???" When the Tamon Knight, who had put on the enchanted knight armor with the assistance of several knight attendants, came out and was about to lead the people out, he was a little surprised to find that Rhodes, who was wearing an enchanted leather armor, was already standing in the middle of the field.

"Just got up!" To the surprise of the Tamon Knight, Rhodes, who was standing aside in a black enchanted leather armor, explained slightly.

Of course, Rod's words are pure lies!

Rhodes, who had found the Gnoll Scout as early as dinner, seemed to be sleeping in the tent, but after the Gnoll tribe was dispatched, he returned from the space and was ready to come out and wait.

However, for the unwitting Tamon Knight, at most, he thought that Rhodes himself was more alert.

"Master Rod, please be careful!" Hearing Rod's explanation, the Tamon knight's brow under the helmet furrowed slightly, and whispered to Rod, who was ready to make do with the excitement of the night.

After seeing the skills that Rod showed along the way, the Tamon Knight was not too worried that Rhodes would drag his feet, but for the battlefield where anything could happen, although the Tamon Knight agreed to Rod to join, he still decided to wait for someone to protect Rode, and he definitely couldn't let Rod have problems!

"Let's go!" Seeing that in the center of the camp, the only bronze-ranked warrior in the caravan and the temporary leader of the combined caravan had already run over with people, the Tamon Knight directly led Rhodes and twenty dismounted cavalrymen to the front, and after talking to the temporary leader of the caravan, Tamon Knight, Rhodes and the others began to prepare for battle.

By this time, the guards on the periphery of the makeshift camp and the emergency response team at night had already opened fire on the gnolls, and the humans, who numbered less than fifty people, could not stop the gnolls who numbered several times their own. Even though the gnolls fell twenty or thirty under the sniper fire of traps and crossbows, they still broke through the blockade and directly fought face-to-face with the human guards who resisted with the help of carriages and fences!

Fortunately, at this time, the people in the combined caravan camp had almost adjusted, and the mercenaries and guards hired by the few small caravans closest to the gnolls knew that now was not the time for them to retreat, and the ragtag army of almost seventy or eighty was thrown into the front line of the battle against the gnolls who were trying to storm the camp.

In an instant, the outskirts of the camp became a tragic battlefield of blood and weapons!

(Note 1: In the case of maintaining cost performance, the alert range is a radius of five kilometers with Rhodes as the center, and threatening monsters and bandits that appear in this range will be alerted by Rhodes in space.) )

(Note 2: The name of the elves in this world for the purple moon means "the light of dreams", and later humans directly referred to it as the purple moon.) )

(Note 3: Same as above, translated as "silver laurel crown" in the lingua franca of mankind.) )

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