"Godot will not come tonight, the inhabitants of the wasteland will always welcome you, traveler. ”

- Bandit Declaration in the Godot Wasteland.

Anyone who talks about "Godot Wasteland" will always be more or less disgusted. Whether it's personal experience or hearsay, Godot Moor gives a bad impression.

Barren land, barren soil, bad weather, and most of all, the Godot Wastes are infested with countless robbers—stinking goblins, tall ogres, desperate humans, mud-covered swamp merfolk, and demonic beasts that come out of the forest to fight the autumn winds, and everyone who sets foot in this land - traveling merchants, adventurers, Beamon soldiers - suffers from them.

Godot is named after a legend among ogres: two ogres once appeared on a dirt slope every night to wait for Godot to appear. But no one knows who "Godot" is. Under the influence of the two ogres, more and more people waited for "Godot" together, but "Godot" never appeared, and those who waited for "Godot" missed the hunting season and became robbers in order not to starve, so the bandits in the wasteland appeared from then on, and this wasteland was also named "Godot Wasteland".

The border between the edge of the Baiyue Forest and the Godot Wasteland is also the border of the Beamon Kingdom, where the Beamon Kingdom has set up a lot of sentry posts to guard the demonic beasts that have come out of the forest, and to monitor the humans who have entered or want to enter the Beamon Kingdom.

After Ouyang and the others left the forest, they decided to go to a nearby outpost to ask for help, first, to find out where they were, and secondly, to hope that the garrison could escort them through the wasteland full of bandits. As servants serving the god of war and guarding the altar in the kingdom of Bimon, they have access to the help of the local garrison when needed.

Located on a hillside at the edge of the forest, the Larch Sentry Post is not only a sentry post, but also a military camp for training new soldiers. The head of the sentry post is Baron Cullen, a Bill black bear man. Cullen had been a knight in his early days as a priest in the temple, and after his priest had advanced to the Scepter Priesthood and returned to the temple to serve the god of war, the Bill knight entered the military headquarters and was ordered to stay behind the "larch sentry" while training recruits.

On this day, as soon as Cullen had finished his morning march for the recruits, he received a report from his men that someone had come out of the forest and was coming towards the sentry post. As soon as Cullen heard this, he immediately put aside the new recruits, picked up two wheel tomahawks and went out to greet them, this sentry post has not been a "guest" for a long time.

Pulling up the huge wooden door of the sentry post, Cullen's chief of staff saw from a distance five men approaching on wildebeests, and a demonic beast flying over their heads.

When Kulen heard that it was a seventh-order golden dragon eagle, his face became heavy, and he immediately sent someone to call the priest who accompanied the army and ordered the crossbow to be prepared.

The highest-ranking sacrifice in this outpost is only the "War Sacrifice", and the "War Sacrifice" can't deal with the high-level demonic beasts at all, Cullen's heart sank, hoping that these people are not "good people don't come".

With a snort, Cullen led the people out.

Ouyang saw someone from a distance at the sentry post coming out, led by a stout man, shirtless, revealing a pair of huge wheel tomahawks on his shoulders.

So Ouyang slowed down and greeted him, and when he approached, he really found that this big black man was not ordinarily strong, his height was almost the same as the height of Ouyang sitting on the horse, looking at the height of almost two meters five or six, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and a horizontal look like a door panel, it was simply a big black bear standing up.

After the black bear man saw the identity of this group of people, he was even more surprised than when he saw the dragon eagle, he actually saw Beamon, humans and forest elves walking together, but the duty still made him put away his surprise and said:

"Good morning travelers, I'm Sergeant Major Cullen at the Larch Outpost, may I ask if I can help you?"

Hearing the Black Bear Man's question, Hogarth motioned for everyone to dismount and walked to the front and said, "Good morning, strong Bill warrior, I am Hogarth Lavigny, the soul priest of the kingdom, and the Mink Baron of Maple Leaf Village. We have returned from the Hundred Yue Forest, planning to travel through the Godot Wastes to your land to seek the help of Imperial soldiers. ”

"Obis Ratch!"

When the black bear man heard the word "Huo Jiasi", he jumped up in surprise, and blurted out a sentence of Bimeng Guo scolding, so excited that his black hair stood up, if he hadn't carried two rounds of giant axes, I really doubt that he would have held the ferret in front of him in his arms.

"Is it really you?Lord Huojiasi?Did you escape from the massacre in Maple Leaf Village?How did you end up here?"

Huo Jiasi was startled by the excitement of the big black man, nodded, and said, "Sergeant Cullen, do you know me?"

"Yes! Yes!" Cullen nodded, "It's great to see you safe! Lord Veena will be very happy to hear this!"

"Do you know my mentor?" Huo Jiasi's heart was sour, and tears couldn't help but roll in her eyes, "I thought I would never see my mentor again." ”

"I was a follower of Master Vienna in my early years, and she once wrote to me that she had received an excellent ferret disciple...... Hey, don't cry, don't cry!" the stout sergeant major tucked his wheel tomahawk under his ribs, leaving a large, rough hand but not knowing how to comfort him.

She wiped away her tears, saluted Cullen, and introduced, "Standing in front of you is my newly recruited sacrificial apprentice, Luke of the Spade Clan, and the three behind you are Miss Mirien, the human mage Denise, and the forest elf Ranger Lalandia, all of whom are Luke's followers, and the dragon eagle in the sky is my pet. ”

Cullen felt that the words of the Mink priest had given him a blow to the head, and knocked him into a daze. Sea Clan?Human Mage?They actually came together?And the slaughter of Maple Leaf Village by human robbers is something that the whole country knows, and some time ago he was ordered to strengthen the guard of the sentry post. What surprised him even more was that after disappearing for more than 10,000 years, the Spirid spider-men, who had long been recognized as extinct, reappeared?

Cullen felt he had to figure things out.

"I am indeed the only survivor of the massacre in Maple Leaf Village, the bandits who committed the crime are from the desert country! The robbers tried to transport me and a few people back to the desert country by sea, but the robber ship ran into a tsunami at sea. With the blessing of the god of war, I rescued Luke. Luke is indeed a Spicer, a child of the god of war, and his ability to become a servant of the god of war is the best proof of this. Luke had lived on an isolated island overseas since he was a child, and he had never met his people. And Luke also awakened their 'racial ability'. ”

What Huo Jiasi said was all discussed in advance, and Ouyang didn't want to reveal what he had to do with Kadore.

Hearing Huo Jiasi's words, Ouyang reached out and popped out two strands of spider silk sticking to the two axes under Cullen's armpits, and pulled them with both hands to snatch the two axes.

Cullen only felt that the two white shadows in front of him flickered, and his armpit was light, and his weapon had already fallen into the other party's hands.

The weapon is the life of the warrior, but before Cullen was angry, Ouyang had already handed the axe back to Cullen.

Cullen let out a sigh of relief, took back his weapon, and spoke, "This is indeed the racial ability of the Spiced clan recorded in the Codex, since Mr. Luke is also an altar priest, then I believe in your identity for the time being." Did Lord Hogarth go to Witherton to report on Maple Leaf Village?"

"Yes, but I'm going to Witherton primarily to receive my mentor's promotion and the trial of the War Sacrifice. In the disaster in Maple Leaf Village, I advanced to the War Sacrifice, and Luke is also a War Sacrifice, he is a 'Born Soul Singer'. ”

A born soul singer who can independently comprehend the sacrifice of the war song?

The surprise brought by Hogarth had already bombarded the already dull-brained Bill Bears.

Cullen glanced at the dragon eagle in the sky, it should be normal......

The inhabitants of the wasteland did not wait for Godot, but the robbers of the wasteland always waited for the travelers who passed through the wasteland.

Bill's knight Kulen sent four soldiers to escort the two new priests of the Beamon kingdom to the imperial capital, along with Kulen himself. Faced with Huo Jiasi's question about his personal escort, the big black man smiled: it turned out that he received a new appointment letter from the military department, so he went with him. He was accompanied by two Bills Bear Warriors and two Houseman archers.

A group of ten, with the exception of a few women on horseback, Cullen and his soldiers walked on foot. The House are a strong race of horses and legs, and they are originally good at long walks, and it is not a problem for them to walk for a few days, while the Bill bears are too large for the average riding beast to afford their weight. For the impoverished kingdom of Beamon, the king had the heart but the power to popularize in the army the large mounts that could carry these big men into battle. Therefore, in the kingdom of Beamon, except for those knights with official titles, only the most elite troops of the empire have large mounts, and ordinary soldiers rely on their legs to walk or go to battle. But most of the Beamon were proud of this, because once the strong Beamon soldiers charged in a group on the battlefield, any soldier would dare and could hedge against the human cavalry.

Remote sentry posts such as the "Larch Sentry Post" also have mount configurations, but these flying mounts are all used to transmit information, and are not equipped for combat.

Along the way, the well-informed Black Bear Knight constantly tells everyone about the various things in the wasteland.

The most populous bandits in Godot are bandits, and with the exception of a few strong ogres, most of them are small, filthy goblin bandits.

Every time the goblins looted passers-by, they came in groups, armed with all kinds of weapons, hiding in the grass, and once the target entered their encirclement, they would scream, rush up, snatch the target and rush away.

Ouyang did not ride a horse, but walked side by side with Cullen, and while listening to the knight's talk, he could always see a few mouse-like heads popping up from time to time in the grass in the distance, observing their group of pedestrians from afar. As soon as they passed, the owners of these heads would follow them from a distance, and at the end of the day, a large crowd was already hanging behind them, and the stench was overwhelming.

Cullen told everyone that these guys were the goblins of the famous continent, the lowest and dirtiest race.

In Ouyang's opinion, these goblins are really worthy of the word "dirty", with short bodies, dirty hair like grass washed by mudslides, stained with mud, cemented into pieces, they are wrapped in large or small rags, these "clothes" are all gray and black, and they can no longer see the original color if they have not been cleaned for a long time, only the color of the mud can be seen.

Looking at these chaotic and timid things, Ouyang felt that the goblin robbers were not as terrible as they were rumored, but the non-stop harassment annoyed him.

These things are simply more annoying than flies, maybe this is their "terrible thing", Ouyang thought.

Facing the distress of Ouyang and the others, Cullen smiled and told them that when facing the strong Beamon warriors, these timid goblins would not launch an attack in small groups, and they would not organize a large number of goblins to attack at night. The hustle and bustle of the crowd following like the one now is a "harassment tactic" used only when encountering a powerful enemy, in order to make the target feel irritated and tired, waiting for the army to assemble and rush forward.

Maybe they'll see ogres at night.

ps：

The new chapter mainly tells about Ouyang's trials.