Chapter 268: Kobold
In the dark tunnel, the four of them killed two more groups of patrolling kobolds, and finally came to the corner not far from the exit.
Adès stuck out his head and glanced out, it was a small hole, maybe it was just enough for them to go out alone, it was too far away to see what was outside, it could only be found that it was the surface, and it would definitely not be a dark area.
He poked out his thoughts and found that there was no one guarding them outside the cave, and his thoughts were extending outward, but he found that the place outside the cave entrance was not the imaginary ravine or foothills, but the result of the detection feedback was a sealed space surrounded by rocks.
How can there be light? How can there be wind?
* Suddenly, Adès remembered a kind of terrain, which made him realize that there was a sinkhole outside the entrance of the cave.
He poked his head out and squinted carefully, and yes, the light was shining from above, and this was a sinkhole.
After a while, he retreated to the corner and said to the three followers: "Outside is a sinkhole formed by the collapse of a karst cave, and the kobolds live in holes in the stone wall, I can't find out anything, but after a preliminary analysis, there will be no more than a hundred kobolds living here." ”
"Is there a Warlock?" Kobold Warlock is the most difficult class of the race to deal with, and this is what Yunny cares about the most.
Ades shook his head and said, "I don't know, there are any professions I can't find out, but I think there should be none, if there are legal positions, they don't need to live here." ”
The sinkholes formed by the collapse of the karst caves are large and small, but obvious. The kobold doesn't live in a big one now, because Adès has detected it. The kobold planted some berries in it, as well as some bracken. These should be the foods that kobolds need for their daily lives.
If there was a priesthood in the kobolds, whether it was a warlock or a priest, or even as long as there were professionals in this kobold tribe, the tribe would not hide in a closed area as it is now.
Because on the other side of the tunnel, there are infinite beasts and land, and it may be difficult for a kobold to kill a beast, but it is not difficult for a kobold warrior to kill a beast.
They can also organize in small squads to kill wild beasts to replenish the tribe's meat. That's no problem.
Evis said with some concern: "The kobold tribe that has fallen into such an environment is difficult to say if there will be a seed of the City Tree, or whether this tribe is the same as the tribe discovered by the magicians before. ”
As soon as she said this, the other three fell silent.
Adès suddenly pointed in the direction he came in and said, "It must be the same, you can remember the idol." ”
Mia was the purest in thought, and was immediately appeased by Ades's words, yes, the statue of the god with green gems on the outside is proof of this, if the ordinary kobold tribe has such a luxurious god?
Yunni thought of it. If there were any tree species, they would probably have been eaten by kobolds as food, right?
Seeing everyone's thoughtful looks, Ades smiled and said to everyone: "It's all here, if you go out to catch the leader of this tribe and ask, you will know." Besides, kobolds love to mine, and they and dwarves are the most skilled mining races on the continent, so I think they must have some precious inventory. Let's hope we don't come in vain. ”
Evis gave him a blank look, this man was not comforting at all. Traveling thousands of miles to rob the ore of a kobold tribe on the verge of extinction?
But he was right. It's all at this point, and you just know if you still haven't gone out to arrest someone to ask.
Yunni suddenly asked, "Then let's rush out directly?"
"What else can I do?" I don't know where their leader lives, and they dig holes, so who knows if there is another tunnel in the cave. ”
Sister Evis waved the magic bow in her hand and said, "Then go out and find a kobold to ask, don't alarm too many people." ”
Ades simply beckoned to everyone, turned around the corner, and walked towards the entrance of the cave.
Out of the tunnel, came to the sinkhole, everyone found that the sinkhole should have been formed for a long time, although the surrounding cliffs are straight, but there are not a lot of weeds on it, when the rain washes the soil and grass seeds into the rock crevices, this phenomenon will appear.
In addition, the accumulation layer under the cliff and the weathering on the rocks can fully prove that this sinkhole should have appeared for a long time.
The inside of the sinkhole is very small, no more than a hundred meters in circumference, and it is all flat ground, and there is no shelter, so when the four humans appeared in the sinkhole, they were instantly discovered by the kobolds, and after seeing strange creatures appear in their own places of residence, after a short period of calm, the kobolds were confused.
There are those who shout and gather against the enemy, there are those who cry and dodge, and there are those who are in confusion and don't know what they are doing.
Adès could understand what the kobolds were saying, and this was one of the reasons why the kobolds said they were dragonborn, and that was that they spoke dragon language.
Adès carefully distinguishes the dragon language they speak, because the structure of the mouth is different, so it does not mean that others can understand the dragon language, and even if they can understand it, they must carefully distinguish the accent, which is a headache for the entire multiverse race.
Suddenly, Ades pointed to a kobold with a short spear not far away, and said to Evis, "Shoot it." ”
Evis didn't hesitate at all, she didn't have a good impression of this creature with yellow, brown, and green scales on its body, and when she heard Ades' command, she bent her bow and arrow, and with a "boom", the kobold dozens of meters away was shot in the head by her arrow.
A burst of screams rang out, and a few soldiers following the kobold with the spear raised shouted something, and then began to charge towards the Ades.
Ades rushed forward with his shield, first slapping a relatively strong soldier away, and then activating the dragon power on his body, which immediately scared those soldiers into a flutter. Two of them were even directly stunned, standing there motionless. If she hadn't been standing, Yunni behind her would have said that she was stunned.
Adès did not continue to kill kobolds after casting his dragon might. Instead, he took a few steps back, waiting for the kobolds to return to normal.
After a few breaths, the kobolds who were so frightened that they ran backwards seemed to have recovered to normal, and several kobolds gathered together and didn't know what to say, and then one of the kobolds hurriedly ran backwards.
Evis said to the Ten Thousand Years Ades, "Do you want to attack it?"
Ades shook his head and said, "There's no need, I just want to see if I can lure out their elders, such a weak tribe, it's not interesting to kill." ”
The group of soldiers who wanted to rush up gradually came to their senses, and this time they did not dare to rush up again. Instead, they turned their heads to dodge, and the kobolds who were the first to wake up looked at Adès with awe in their eyes.
At this time, Adès was a little convinced that the kobold was a dragonborn.
After a while, a kobold came out of a cave under the leadership of a kobold soldier, and Ades could not tell the difference between a kobold and a kobold, and could only easily identify it by the color of his clothes and scales.
The kobold who came out later was dressed in coarse linen. It's said that it's clothes, but in fact, it's better to say that it's a few pieces of coarse linen wrapped casually around the body, anyway, Ades doesn't know how to appreciate the aesthetics of kobolds.
The kobold, dressed in coarse linen, didn't dare to get too close to Adès, and when it came to a distance of more than ten meters from Adès, it stopped. Speaking something unintelligible in the dragon's language with a distinct accent, Adès could only make out some of the simple words inside.
He held out his hand and stopped the kobold from continuing to speak. Then he himself said to the kobold word by word in dragon language: "Slow down, I don't understand what you're saying." ”
Linen kobolds. Well, that's how Adès identified kobolds.
The linen kobold roared excitedly. Then he slowly calmed down, and said to Ades word by word: "Your Excellency the Dragon Envoy, why did you come to slaughter the dragonborn of the Pit Tribe?"
That's right, that's what kobolds call themselves, their mouths are like hounds, some like crocodiles, some are long, some are like dogs, maybe not as big as dragons, they do have a gurgling sound, they have thin scales on their bodies, and the long tails and claws of lizards, and two small horns on their towering brow bones, they are authentic reptilian humanoids.
Adès frowned, although he was disgusted with the kobold calling himself a dragonborn, but even the dragon was silent about this matter, and he couldn't directly oppose it, but the kobold were not good creatures, most of them were from the evil camp, and only now that they were completely unable to fight in terms of strength, they would become docile.
The moment the linen kobold came out, his mind extended into the cave from which it came out, to see if there was anything he wanted.
When the kobold finished speaking, he had already finished his investigation, and listening to the kobold's questioning, he smiled contemptuously, and then said: "I am not here to slaughter, I am only here to plunder, just like your kind found weak dwarfs or dwarves and then did not hesitate to enslave them, I found you weak, and then this is the result." ”
"Your Excellency, noble dragon envoy, our pit tribe has nothing left to plunder, and you can see that our race is on the verge of extinction. ”
Adès didn't even smile contemptuously this time, he turned the recurve blade in his hand, pointed at the kobold and said, "I found your idol when I came in, it is inconsistent with the environment you are in now, so don't deceive me, or I will help you to exterminate as soon as possible." ”
"My lord, Lord Dragon, please do not trample on our faith, which is our only remaining pillar. The linen kobold seemed to panic a little, and the speed of his speech became faster.
"Then show your sincerity, I can assure you that I have no interest in slaughtering you as long as I receive the right gifts. Adès said impatiently.
The kobold forcibly calmed himself down, he was really afraid that the human on the other side who would exert his dragon might would slaughter his own race, and he said cautiously: "Your Excellency the Dragon Envoy, our tribe has been in decline for countless years, and now the tribe can't even guarantee daily food, I think there is really nothing worth asking for in the tribe." ”
After hearing this, Adès showed a fierce look, and rushed up to face the linen kobold with another dragon threat, and the poor kobold didn't have time to react at all, and was directly stunned by the dragon threat.
Ades retreated again, and yelled at the kobold soldiers who wanted to pounce on the rescue but were too late and more daring: "Wake it up, don't waste any more time, my patience is limited, you dozens of kobolds here, it's impossible to fight me, don't kill yourself!"
After saying that, Adès turned around and beckoned, asking Mia and the others to come up a little, and Evis came up and asked, "Are you going to war?"
Mia looked at Adès with a look of reluctance, and she felt that there seemed to be something wrong with bullying such a weak kobold.
The most surprising thing was Yunnie, not that she had any amazing words, but when she came over, the kobolds seemed to see some terrifying monster, and they retreated one after another, and some kobolds even wanted to run away.
Ades was a little surprised, but after thinking for a while, he knew the reason, it should be that the kobolds of this tribe were afraid of being killed by magicians before, and they told this humiliating and fearful history to their juniors when they passed it on, so when they saw Yunni wearing a mage robe and walking up with a magic wand, they all remembered the teachings of their ancestors and knew that this was the great demon king who slaughtered their ancestors.
"I just investigated, there are probably only about fifty kobolds in this tribe, and the cave of the kobold in linen hides some ore, and the other caves are basically nothing, very messy. ”
When Yunnie heard Ades say this, she thought for a moment and said, "If they really don't know what their ancestors have passed down, then push them aside, and I will cast a magical aura and take a look at each cave, the city tree is a super magic creature, and its tree species must have a magical aura, it is not difficult to find." ”
"What if they resist?" said Adès with a sneer.
"Then kill!" said Sister Evis at the same time.
When they discussed how to find the tree species and how to deal with the kobolds, Mia was silent, this was not what she wanted to oppose, because she knew that the biggest reason for coming here was because of her, although Yunni was also weak, but after the nourishment of the secondary Yuehua life potion, she was not so desperate to increase her lifespan of the transcendent artifact.
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The above is full of 4000 words, and then dear, the author has been busy to death these days, and he has been exposed to the sun and rain, and he has completely become a slime.
So I think the update will be a little later in the next few days, but the cliff will not break!
And then what......
Momoda...... (To be continued......)