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It wasn't long before Gray led the crowd out of the city.

As soon as he walked a few steps out of the city, Thor turned his head and glanced at the city gate, as if talking to himself, and said, "The Earl of Lockton is a benevolent lord, and every time he gives a large amount of supplies to compensate the villages that have suffered the worst losses, but only the devil knows where these supplies have gone. Thor shrugged his shoulders as he spoke, as if mocking, but also as if he didn't care.

Gray listened quietly, and he could only listen.

Everyone was on horseback, and it was only in the afternoon that they had already arrived near the village where the incident farm, and the magician Thor calculated the time, a total of more than 120 kilometers, and it took about 6 magic hours.

Gray ordered the group to stop, but did not dismount, he sent a fairly clever cavalryman into the village first, Thor did not feel the need to be so cautious, but he did not stop it, he did not care to wait a little longer.

Nearly half a magic time had passed, and the cavalry came back to report that nothing was unusual, and Gray led the group into the village.

The village is not big, dozens of households, the village clerk is a middle-aged man named Mark, the village is called Zegasi Village, which is the direct territory of the earl, and the Earl of Lockton has to pay taxes every quarter, and there are a total of more than a dozen farms in the village, basically every farm has been plundered.

"It's finally your wait. Mark was a little anxious.

Gray stared at the piles of packed supplies in the village, and glanced at Thor with a slight frown, but Thor quietly signaled him not to do much, and Gray withdrew his gaze.

Mark also found a horse, and it was a good horse, and he didn't talk too much nonsense, and led everyone directly to a farm that had been destroyed.

"I'm done, take care of yourselves, here are the details of this time!" said Mark as he handed Thor a roll of parchment with the words recorded, and he didn't wait for Gray and the others to reply, and hurried back as soon as he pulled his horse's head.

Thor stopped Gray's obstruction, looked at Mark who was getting farther away and said: "This man has this temper, but he is very capable, he has more things to do than us, and the evacuation of these civilians and materials in the vicinity depends on him, so let's not disturb him!"

"These places are going to be abandoned?" Gray was a little surprised, this was a good supply depot if the main army was coming in.

Thor shook his head and said, "It's not that you give up, they will come back when they defeat the goblins." Rest assured, the army in the Herion Territory has been fighting these goblins for hundreds of years, and there are already better supply depots, and a proposed fortress has been built, but there are not many soldiers, and it will take time for the Earl to gather soldiers. ”

Gray asked, "Then why don't you station more soldiers so that you don't have to spend time and effort every time." ”

Thor was on his horse, his head spinning around as if looking for something, and instead of answering Gray's question, he asked, "How many soldiers do you think is appropriate?" There are at least 20,000 goblins here at a time, and 50,000 at the most!"

Gray was about to answer, as if he had thought of something, but he opened his mouth but did not speak.

"You're smart, and you're not hypocritical, at least you didn't mention any stupid words like honors to me!" Thor said something inexplicable, and then continued: "At least a thousand people, haha! These thousand people don't have to do anything for more than ten years, and the training wear and tear alone is an astronomical amount, and even if you don't train, the cost of just raising nothing for more than ten years is not small." ”

Thor's words made Gray feel a little uncomfortable, but he was right, the troops can't just be raised, they have to train, otherwise they won't even be able to hold their swords steadily in the war when the time comes.

To put it bluntly, the money and materials consumed to raise a thousand-strong army for more than ten years, even a year is too much more than the money and materials lost each time, it is not cost-effective at all, even if the earl is merciful, as a qualified lord, he still knows how to choose, he can only sacrifice the interests of a few civilians here.

"Why don't these villages move away?" asked Gray again.

Thor smiled mysteriously and said, "You'll find out soon!"

"Look at the ground, the footprints are still there, these goblins will always be so stupid. Thor didn't want to dwell on these issues anymore and immediately diverted the subject.

Gray looked down when he heard this, and there were indeed many small footprints, densely leading to many directions, very clear, and the goblins had no intention of covering it up at all.

Thor immediately said to Gray, "Let the cavalry search separately along the footprints on the ground, and you should be able to find a large force of these goblins." Seeing Gray frowning, Thor said again: "Don't worry, these cavalry sent by the castle are stronger than you in terms of reconnaissance, let them play on their own, better than following you and me." ”

Hearing this, Gray pulled out a very small command sword from his waist and handed it to Gangde, saying, "Tell them that before the sun sets, whether or not they find a gathering place of goblins, they must rush back to Zegasi Village." ”

When he had just spoken to Thor, Gray had the cavalry on guard behind him, and he didn't let them follow.

Gonder took the command sword and drove the horses in the direction of the cavalry, he spoke very directly, and in a few words he said Gray's request, and the ten cavalrymen quickly assigned their own routes and disappeared into the eyes of Gray and Thor in a burst of horses' hooves.

"Why don't these goblins go straight into the village? "Gray found himself having a lot of problems today.

"They're not the treacherous goblins of the Clarkley Islands, these goblins are so intelligent that they only grab what they can see, so these guys are just a minor nuisance, and exterminating goblins doesn't even count as a feat! ”

Gray nodded in understanding.

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It was already getting dark, and Gray had raised a bonfire in the square of the village of Zegazi, and now only nine horsemen had returned, and one had not returned.

Moreover, all nine cavalrymen encountered goblins, and they dealt with the lone ones casually, and when they encountered large troops, they took a detour, or took advantage of their speed to open up the distance.

Gray listened to the cavalry's reconnaissance report, and looked at the sky from time to time, there was already a little starlight, but he still didn't see the last cavalryman come back.

"Can you go out and look for it now?" Gray asked the magician next to him.

Thor shook his head and said: "Goblins live in the dark red rain forest all year round, and their night vision is extremely strong, and they are used to night activities, at night their combat effectiveness is probably at least twice as strong as during the day, plus we don't know the terrain here at all, it is easy to go the wrong way when it is so dark at night, not only can you not find anyone at that time, but you will also put yourself in it if you are not good!"

Gray looked at the crackling bonfire, listened to Thor's analysis, and already made a decision in his heart, he actually didn't approve of going out to look for it now, but the expressions on the faces of the remaining nine cavalrymen couldn't be more obvious, and the inquiry he just asked was just to tell the truth through Thor's mouth, which was better than what he said.