Chapter 20: The Enemy Emerges

"Mighty mage, Brun has felt your surging power from afar, and I don't know what you could ask for!" a leader-looking goblin in torn armor stepped forward cautiously, his nose twitching, clearly fascinated by the smell of burning powder. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Dawn looked at the creature in front of him, the scarlet eyes and greedy face, and the tattered armor that had been pulled from the poor man for nowhere, which had already been worn out. He couldn't relate the creature to the image of the elves in his mind, and the constant rancid smell of the goblins made his so-called pride seem ridiculous.

"Three standard parts of hallucinogen dust, clean up this place. And tell me where the owner of this house has gone?" Lorraine said in a very formal manner.

The goblin looked at the long-abandoned house and thought about it for a while: "Clean the house, there is no problem." We can also provide food or anything during your stay. But as for the information about the owner of the house......" Dawn saw him tremble unnaturally, although the amplitude was very light. “...... We don't know anything about it, it wasn't our area before!"

Lorraine nodded, and took out three paper bags from his bag and handed them to the little leader who called himself Bren. The other party enjoyed sucking through the paper bag, showing a satisfied look, and then beckoned a dozen or so of the same kind behind him to enter the house and start cleaning up.

"They ......," Dawn said and stopped.

"As a former High Elf, even if he is exiled, he is still not to be underestimated. They'll take care of it!" said old Lorraine. "When they were exiled, most of their power was sealed, which caused them to live a very depressed life. But the racial honor of that year still remains in the depths of memory, and I longed for the day when I returned to my homeland. ”

"Is it possible? I mean their reputation or something......" Dawn really doesn't have a crush on goblins.

"Relax, kid. There are no absolutely evil creatures. Goblins have a lot of respect for the strong, and have always adhered to the laws of antiquity. They used to just follow the wrong master, but the essence is still trustworthy. Political orientation should not be the criterion for judging a person's good or evil, although people are always used to doing so. ”

Dawn was skeptical, but she didn't say much. "So what are we going to do next?"

"You can try to get along with them, we'll need their help in the future!" Lorraine said, pulling a small crucible from her pocket. "As for me, I need to boil another potion for you, I originally wanted provincial materials so that you can slowly cultivate. But things have changed, and you have to have the strength to protect yourself as soon as possible. ”

Dawn nodded in agreement, and seeing that the old druid had realized the danger of his situation, he didn't say anything more. Maybe the goblin race really has their merits, and in the depths of this strange forest, if you can get the help of these natives, it will undoubtedly increase the odds. The giant bear's friend will never be a rabbit, I think Leon should also be a strong man, and he is fighting in a familiar area, but he has not even left a little information, and it will not be too easy to come to this originally easy and pleasant trip to find friends.

The old druid casually took out a variety of medicines from his medicine bag, many of which looked to be a little older. Looking at his cautious appearance, it is extremely precious. Unable to see why, he turned his attention to the goblin team with confidence.

Dawn looked suspiciously at the goblin construction team, which was more like a vagabond, trying to find a shadow of elven elegance from them. But they just helplessly watched them reluctantly leave the handful of burned powder. That appearance reminded Chenxi of the big smoker at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Bren caught a glimpse of him early, but he didn't have the respect he had for Lorraine. He was accustomed to the distrustful and suspicious look in Dawn, and the so-called emotions such as humiliation or anger seemed to have long since left him.

"Brother Sorens to deal with the roof, Brother Alenzo to deal with the trees that get in the way...... Let's all move, we need to get the job done before dark, it's not a good money!" Bren made a very lame voice, arranging his apparently malnourished companions in a language that Dawn had never heard. But Dawn can understand the meaning of these sentences, and is even more handy, it seems that this language has the same origin as the goblins, and it is inseparable from the ancient elves.

The sound of "squeaking" caught Chenxi's attention, and he was surprised to see that the huge trees around the house slowly shrank as if dehydrated, driven by these creatures about a meter tall, while the house gradually glowed with a woody luster. Broken roofs, broken floors...... It didn't take long for the whole house to be renovated, the surrounding trees that shaded the sun were cleared, and there was even a small garden in front of the door.

"Extremely subtle elemental use skills!" Bai Ze's voice came from his mind, "I have basically interpreted the detailed manipulation of wood energy to the extreme, but unfortunately it is only a low-level elemental life, and there is an extremely vicious curse on my body, it is already the ultimate to be able to do this!"

"Curse?" Dawn asked silently.

"This species itself should be a very pure light elemental life, which has been transformed by the wood element in the later stage. In the theory of elements, the light element represents the active side of the element, which itself is very easy to shape, and this transformation should be said to be very successful. The Cursed Releaser took advantage of this and planted a wood-based seed in them. The seeds grow deep within their bodies and constantly disrupt the elemental structure in their bodies. If the outside world has abundant spiritual energy, this is just a shackle that restricts their power. But in this end-of-law environment, this kind of elemental imbalance in the body that cannot be replenished by external spiritual power is enough to kill them. ”

"No wonder they all look like refugees, can they feel the powder they were reluctant to give up just now?"

"I can survive tenaciously every day after suffering from the heart, and my faith is really strong. Especially when casting spells in this state, every minute is dancing on the tip of the knife. Such a species should be treated with sufficient respect. Bai Ze's voice was rarely much softer. "That powder seems to be a hallucinogen, similar to an anesthetic to them!"

Dawn heard that she blamed herself for her behavior just now, this group may have done a lot of dishonorable things in order to survive, but the persistence of returning to the group alone is enough to make people recognize.

"Is there any way to save them?"

"The hardest thing about wood spells is that they are constantly growing, and they can change in many ways in the later stages, depending on the 'soil'. These seeds have been in their bodies for too long, and they are connected to their souls. I can only forcibly remove it in the scroll, but that ......"

Bai Ze didn't say it, and Chenxi also understood. This involves an exiled race. Even if the goblin family still retains a little sense of racial belonging and honor, the difficult survival of thousands of years has not shaped a good man and a woman, and their previous notoriety is not groundless. If the cost of curing them might expose Bai Ze's existence, at least Dawn wouldn't be willing.

"It seems that there is another way......" Bai Ze muttered for a moment. "The soul repair spell that the druid mage unleashed seems to have some kind of homology with this seed spell, and if we can get it, maybe there can be some good solution. ”

"Okay, it's back to the original theme," Dawn thought to herself. On the contrary, the purpose of allowing himself to obtain the Dharma seems to be nobler again.

"Human imp, our job is done. Don't bother the druid. "Brun and his party have done their job, and the old house already has a bit of a treehouse magic style, at least on the outside, it's a lot more comfortable. The "construction team" was piled up with some messy things that had been cleaned up at their feet, which were supposed to be buried by Bren, but were stopped by Dawn, hoping to find something out of it.

"Thank you for your hard work and apologize for my bias at the beginning. "Dawn is a free and easy person by nature, and if she is wrong, she will admit it generously. As for the curse, he was unwilling to build a false hope for this troubled race until there was a perfect solution.

Brun couldn't help but pause, thousands of years of suffering have made their entire group extremely sensitive to the sense of identity from others. He didn't expect that this human boy, who had just treated them a little unkindly, would apologize to him. It made him a little uncomfortable.

An unpleasant hissing of crows came from afar, mixed with the chaotic sound of flapping wings. Bren couldn't help but show a hint of panic, hurriedly gathered his subordinates, and led the team away. Just as his figure was about to sink into the gloom of the jungle, Brun paused with some difficulty, quickly turned back to Chenxi and said, "Young man, leave with your teacher quickly, the whole forest here is your enemy, be careful!"

The crow roared more urgently, and Brun quickly left, leaving no trace. Dawn looked at his back and thought for a moment.

"Child, what's the problem?" said the old druid, who had finished making the potion, and was rummaging through the pile of debris.

"I don't know, but Bren's words as he left sound familiar to me......" Dawn thought for a moment. "The whole forest is the enemy...... It's like I've heard it somewhere, déjà vu!"

"Forest, we'll talk about it later, and now we have a little trouble to deal with!" said Lorraine, looking at the crows approaching like a dark cloud. "It's this scene that makes me feel familiar, these Morrigan pets don't seem to be good. ”