Chapter 17: The Kobold in the Hollow of the Tree
Leaving Black Fat and a few female goblins to look after the house, and bringing the dry food and equipment that had been prepared for a long time, a campaign to exterminate the demonized goblins began.
After the main combat power is assembled, Terrence has begun to contact the magic of the two-ring combination, Bill, the dragon beast who has recovered from his body, Palaya who likes to touch fish and make soy sauce, and sixteen male goblins, including the two-fish man and old Jill.
"Come with me! Master Terrence and Master Paraya will lead us to reclaim our lost lands and homeland! Let the souls of those demonized people rest in peace! ”
Goblin carried Old Jill on his back, and after a short speech before leaving, the goblins took the lead to open the way, followed by the Three Fishes and the Three Dragons.
The persimmons are picked and pinch soft, and the first place to clean up is where they first met Old Jill: a hillside overgrown with wild vegetables.
According to Old Jill, there should still be many lone demonized goblins in the forest over there, and the number is small, and the threat is relatively small.
In this way, it is also a good practice session.
After a two-hour journey that started early in the morning, the sun grew stronger, but we finally arrived.
"Oh! Is this where Old Gil caused the landslide? ”
Palaya had already heard about the old Jill's experience.
Because I don't go out much, I came here and immediately came up curiously to take a look, after so many days, the soil down the landslide began to glow with some grass-green shoots of unknown plants, the source of which was some goblin corpses exposed after being drenched by the rain.
"The direction should be this way."
Terrence gestured in the direction of the forest where Old Gil had fled.
"All of you move forward carefully! Jill and I will go first and take a look, Palaya, you stay in the team, and you will shoot when it's time to shoot, and try not to let the goblins have any casualties! ”
After saying that, Terrence took the drake Bill and plunged into the forest, and soon disappeared without a trace, and then a burst of frightened birds flew in the distance from time to time....
"Lord Pallaya?"
Bai Lang was waiting for the next order, but he didn't expect Terrence to leave first! Looking at the unreliable Palaya, it was inevitable that he was a little unsettled, but Zilan beside him was much calmer.
"See what I do? Keep me going! ”
It's rare that Terrence is away, and Palaya is planning to enjoy the pleasure of commanding and giving orders!
Soon, a large number of perched and alarmed flocks of birds appeared in front of the goblin team led by Palaya.
"Stop! There is a case ahead! ”
Palaya immediately ordered the advance to stop, and then began to have the fishmen command the goblins to set up a trained defense and stand in line.
Ten seconds later, Terrence's voice traveled across distances.
"I've brought them all!"
"This time you can serve it in one pot!"
Palaya even heard Terrence seem to have a bit of smugness in his words?
This madman!
This is not the fight she wants at all!
Didn't you say that it was good to move forward slowly!
A minute later, Palaya led a team of more than a dozen goblins to fight with the demonized goblins attracted by Bill the drake, and then the drake Jill actually ran away again!
This damn stupid drakemon!
Palaya glanced around with her dragon's eye, and glanced at the number of demonized goblins on the opposite side, roughly after more than twenty.
Terrence is a madman who fortunately didn't attract too much, even if he still has a bit of a weight and conscience in his heart.
Although it is a female dragon, its combat power is still fierce online.
Palaya roared into the fray, her sharp dragon claws slicing through the flesh of the demonized goblin with ease, and in the blink of an eye, she cut off the head of a demonized goblin.
"Humph! A swarm of ant scum! ”
The flight of flesh and blood excited her, and the easy, crushing victory gave Palaya a boost of confidence, and the hand-to-hand combat became more skilled and ferocious.
On the other side of the forest, Terrence slammed the last demonized goblin who was still struggling to get up.
Near Terrence, lay the corpses of fallen demonic goblins.
"It's hard work, I'll leave it to you here, Bill, it's delicious, there's a lot more to come."
Terrence uses soul magic to deliver this message to Bill, the drake beast who has just returned.
"Good..... Eat. ”
Terrence then unleashes a self-centered circle detection magic.
Because of his mental power, Terrence's detection range is not far, and he can only cover the nearby area of about two hundred meters from the center of his body.
"Huh? How can there be? ”
Terrence wondered how the movement just now failed to attract these demonized goblins who acted instinctively?
Especially since the distance between them is not that far.
It shouldn't be!
Confused, Terrence flapped his dragon's wings and flew to the spot where the magic sensed.
It's an old tree, and there's a hole dug up by an unknown creature underneath, and the hole should be big enough for a goblin to crawl in and out.
Releasing the detection magic again, Terrence clearly sensed that there was a small space under the tree hole, and there were many lifeforms in it.
"Come out! I see you! ”
Terrence speaks towards the entrance of the cave, trying to force out the creature inside.
Then......
Nothing came out, which made Terrence Dragon's face a little embarrassed.
"Roar!"
Terrence slammed his tail into the old tree in the hollow.
The old tree that the two of them hugged was trembling by the dragon's tail, and the fallen leaves were scattered all over the ground.
“......”
"Great dragon, I beg you to stop!"
A not-so-standard dragon language came out of the cave, which made Terrence even more curious.
"Get out of here! I don't have the patience to stay with you here! ”
After Terrence uttered the harsh words, the Detection Magic could sense a lifeform moving towards the entrance of the cave.
Terrence took a few steps back, leaving some room for the creatures that were about to exit the hole.
"Kobold?"
Looking at the kobold who was crawling out of the hole in the narrow tree, Terrence was filled with emotion.
No wonder they speak dragon language, and it's so non-standard, this notorious creature is a common dependent of the five-colored dragons.
They are also Dragonborn, but most kobold Dragonborns have thin blood and none of them.
A few large kobold tribes may be able to produce one or two atavistic dragonborn kobold leaders, but kobolds tend to be responsible for mining and caverning under the five-colored dragons.
The kobold who climbed out of the tree hole immediately bowed his head to Terrence and knelt down.
"Why haven't you felt my dragon power yet!"
Most of the kobolds are attached to the five-colored dragons, and will even actively seek out them.
But the one in front of you is very abnormal, isn't it?
"The Great Dragon is above! My Wife..... She was given birth prematurely by the sudden shaking of the earth just now.... I can't help but go out to meet you! ”
"My wife is pregnant, and I was going to wait until the baby is born and hatch successfully, and then I will go to you! I didn't expect to be born prematurely now....."
Looking at some kobolds in front of him, Terrence didn't know what to say for a while.
Kobolds seem to be like lizards, both oviparous? Can eggs be born prematurely?
The shaking of the earth was nothing more than the battle they had just fought with the demonized goblins, so from this point of view, his wife's premature birth did have some responsibilities for his own dragons......
What a sin!
"Hurry back and take care of your children!"
Terrence turned away speechlessly, flapping his dragon wings off the ground as he left the talk.
"My dragon's nest is next to the lake to the east, and it will work if you meet my family and report my name!"
"But you haven't said what your honorable name is!"
"Blue Dragon, Terrence."
............... Dividing line ..............
PS: Kobolds
The average kobold uses hand-to-hand attacks to bite and fight in close quarters.
Kobolds, like lizards, are oviparous, and are 3 feet (nearly a meter) tall as adults, with scaly skins that range in color from dark rust to pale black, and smell like a soaked dog or a pool of stagnant water.
Its eyes resemble two bright red fires, with 60 feet of infrared vision, which is affected in bright sunlight. The two small horns on the top of the head can be anything from white to tan.
Most kobolds speak their own language, with 75% speaking orc and goblin languages as well as rough dragon languages.
Kobolds prefer to live in dark, damp underground or dense forests, and can be found in almost any type of climate.
Because kobolds are good at mining, any place where mining is possible is a suitable place to live.
At the same time, because they are good at mining, they are one of the dependents of many dragons who love and subdue.
Its social form is tribal, and it is divided into tribes based on different clans. 10 families can be separated as a tribe, and each tribe is responsible for a 10-mile radius of the nest.
The average kobold tribe has 40~400 adult males, and every 40 kobolds in the team have a leader and two guards.
Ordinary kobolds have low combat effectiveness, and even farmers can easily kill them.
Kobold diggers, long-term underground digging has greatly improved their physical strength and arm strength, but they are not familiar with combat skills, and their combat effectiveness is comparable to that of farmers.
Kobold Guards, a small group of kobold tribes dedicated to guarding the group, are often able to reach the first level of martial arts and abundant food, thus taking on the difficult task of defending the group.
The kobold leader, often the strongest warrior in the strongest kobold tribe, usually also serves as the kobold guard chief, responsible for the operation and management of the entire kobold tribe.