Volume 2 The Beginning of the Legend Chapter 31 Mutual Temptation
It was a thin kobold who observed the movement of Baron Albert's army in the bushes.
Originally, the kobold was as tall as a human youth when he was an adult, but this kobold was an anomaly, and his stature was only the size of a human child.
Because of this, the kobold were bullied by their fellow members of the clan in the village where they grew up.
Coupled with the stunted growth of the kobold, and the absence of parents, he grew up in the cynicism of the clansmen since he was a child.
Under the influence of the clan, the kobolds have always considered themselves a superfluous member of the tribe, and survived very, with great difficulty under the humiliation.
Until the day he was twenty years old, he remembered very well that it was the day when the girl next door who he had liked since childhood got married.
All his peers in the clan taunted him, but this girl treated him equally, treating his wounds every time he was beaten by his clansmen, and helping him solve his problems after he was insulted by his clansmen.
In the eyes of the kobold, this girl who can be regarded as a childhood sweetheart is the only sustenance and comfort in his heart.
He knew that he was not worthy of her, and that her future husband would be the son of a very brave patriarch in the tribe, so the kobold would only sincerely wish the girl, and he would be deeply pleased as long as she could be happy.
But on that very day, the village where the wedding was bustling was changed by a sudden attack.
A group of bandits of many races swept through his village, and the girl's husband died to protect the village from the enemy, and the girl was burned alive by the robbers.
Except for him, who was devastated by the news of the girl's marriage and hid in the next hill, the rest of the people were all killed by the thieves.
The kobold who returned to the village erupted in anger at the sight of the scorched earth houses, and then he clung to the charred corpse of the girl and swore to the thieves who swore to do evil as he looked at the ashes that littered the village.
It's just that when the kobold with the machete wants to fight to the death with this group of robbers, he is shocked to find that the robbers have been wiped out by a much larger group of bandits.
The first half of his life was so simple, in order to be grateful to the thieves who avenged the girl, he took the initiative to join the team in the eyes of the thieves who looked at the fools, transporting things for them, keeping vigil.
However, when the kobold wandered around the kingdom with the team, he found that his team would also burn and loot, bullying men and women, but he didn't have too much resistance to this, probably because he was also used to this exciting and thrilling life!
Recently, their troops had plundered the territory of a baron, and the royal family of the kingdom had been outraged by their excessive behavior, and the royal family informed the Church that a special aphar knight had been sent to hunt orcs and had been chasing them from thousands of miles in the north of the empire, and many of their companions had died at their hands.
However, the Guardian Knights overestimated themselves, and in order to exterminate the thieves in the rest of the place, the Guardian Knights actually only divided a squad of Guardian Knights to pursue their team of hundreds of people, which was really audacious!
The orc thieves, who had been fighting with the cathar knights for a long time, knew that it was a very troublesome thing for the church to train a qualified cathar knight, so the church cherished the life of every cathar knight, so after their companions set up an ambush and killed a young cathar knight, the knights immediately gave up the pursuit.
Seeing that the threat to the church had gradually faded, the thieves simply decided to stay in the mountains and regain their vitality for a while before making plans.
Unexpectedly, they hadn't been quiet for a few days, and the nearby human lords actually sent an army of thousands of people to encircle and suppress them, which was really a headache!
This battle report is very important, you must go back quickly, otherwise if the camp is attacked by the human army, the consequences will be unimaginable!
The kobold was not on his way back from scattered scouts sent by the baron, and he found that most of the traps set by his companions had been torn down by the scouts, and it seemed that these humans were not very stupid.
With the help of his nimble legs, the kobold ran quickly towards the camp in the distance.
At this time, in the ranks of the church, Sister Marlene noticed that Russell's expression seemed to be amiss.
Sister Marlene rode up to Russell and asked, "Your Excellency Russell, what's wrong with you? Why did your face suddenly become so weird?"
Russell pondered for a while, but then whispered to the nun: "Sister Marlene, I always felt something was wrong in my heart just now, as if someone was hiding in the bushes to spy on us!"
When Sister Marlene heard this, she hurriedly looked around at the bushes on both sides and asked, "You said there is someone around here, and where is he hiding now?"
Russell waved his hand to stop the nun's blind probing, "Sister Marlene, you can't find any trace of him with such a cursory observation, my weird feeling has completely disappeared, even if someone is spying on us, he is probably already far away from here!"
Sister Marlene was still uneasy, "I'd better use my reconnaissance technique to observe the situation around me!"
Sister Marlene then folded her hands to her chest and uttered a phrase that Russell did not understand.
There was no strange light, no amazing divine power, and after a few seconds, Sister Marlene opened her eyes, as if she had identified the situation.
Russell looked into the nun's eyes and found that Sister Marlene's energy seemed to be a lot weaker, her eyes were obviously tired, and it seemed that this kind of large-scale reconnaissance magic technique was also very consuming of the nun's physical strength.
Sister Marlene said tiredly, "If Russell's instincts are correct, then this man who was spying on us has left here, and although I have not found him directly, I have found frightened birds, so I am sure that a creature must have passed by just now!"
Russell heard the nun's report, pondered for a moment, and said his advice,
"I suggest that our squad stay a little further away from the baron's army, so that we can retreat in time if the baron's army is attacked.
Then I asked the nun to tell Baron Albert about the situation just now, the movement of the army is too loud, I guess the army will be attacked by the thieves before they reach the camp of the orc thieves!"
Sister Marlene shook her head and said with a wry smile: "It's not that I don't want to talk to Baron Albert about these things, it's just that according to what I know about him, he is a very conceited nobleman, and he shouldn't listen to me if I go to tell him!"
However, after that, for the safety of the entire army, Sister Marlene went to the Count herself, and sure enough, as Sister Marlene expected, the Baron superficially agreed to Sister Marlene's suggestion for the sake of the face of the church, and stopped the soldiers from continuing to quarrel.
It was only after a while that the disorderly soldiers quickly returned to their original ways and continued to do what they liked.
Seeing this, Baron Albert did not say anything to stop it, and the nobles reached a consensus after the last banquet that the group of thieves in the mountains was simply a group of lonely thieves.
I have been hiding in the mountains for half a month, and I don't dare to come out and loot the village once, and I deliberately hide my hiding place, which is obviously the attitude of not daring to fight with the soldiers!
Therefore, the baron didn't take this group of thieves to heart at all, his purpose was just to gain military merit for himself by annihilating this group of thieves who had been wandering for a long time, and then polish it by his aunt, then his aunt would return to the pinnacle of power, and his family would go further!
Now the baron who was walking in front on a war horse was already fantasizing about a beautiful vision of the future, and he didn't even pay much attention to the saliva flowing from the corners of his mouth, his attention was no longer on the aspect of annihilating the orc thieves.
Only the church squad in this army was aware of the danger that could occur.
But the baron did not pay much attention to the opinion of the church, but took the advice of a few members of the church as an attempt to compete with himself.
When Sister Marlene and Russell saw Baron Albert's lack of food, they knew that he had basically ignored their advice, and they gave up the idea of warning the Baron's army, this time with more than a thousand soldiers, and he was full of confidence that he could not listen to the opinions of others.
More than a thousand people formed a long line and continued along the dirt path to the camp ahead.
At this time, far away in the orc camp inside the mountain, the kobolds had returned here.
When the orcs guarding the gate saw the kobold returning, they immediately opened the gate, and suddenly a noisy noise entered the kobold's narrow ears.
The kobold listened to the familiar discussion, and finally let go of the breath in his chest, the most important thing now was to rush to the leader's residence and hurry up to report the human situation to the leader.
The kobold didn't bother to pay attention for a moment, and walked straight to the leader's residence inside the camp, but when he reached the door of the leader's residence, he was blocked by two pig-headed guards.
"So you guys came to the leader, tell me, what are you doing here?" said a pig-headed guard, seeing the kobold's appearance.
The kobold was accustomed to the discrimination of his accomplices, and he bent down and said loudly to the pig-headed guards: "I have a very important piece of information to tell our leader, and ask two friends to let me in!"
Another pig-headed guard rebuked, "Who is your friend of this little man? Do you want to enter the chief's dwelling for this unreasonable reason? Is it that everyone tells us that they have a secret to talk to the chief, and we are going to let him in?"
Just when the kobold was embarrassed, the leader's voice came from the house, "You just let him in, what if he really has information to tell me?"
The pig-headed guards couldn't help but shudder their legs when they heard the leader's scolding, they really knew that the leader was telling the truth, because they had seen the leader peel off the skin of a subordinate who had delayed military information, and they didn't want to repeat the mistakes of their previous subordinates.
The kobold received permission from the leader and quickly entered the leader's house.
In fact, it is said to be a house, but in fact it is just a cave with a wooden door outside the entrance of the cave, because they have only been here for a long time, so this is just a hastily built house.
When the kobold entered the room, he didn't dare to look into the leader's eyes, because every time he saw the leader's eyes, he had the feeling that he was being detected by a natural predator.
"Why are you keeping your head down? Look into my eyes!"
The leader's rugged voice came from in front of him, and the kobold could only force himself to look at the leader.
What a terrifying pair of eyes at this time! They were as bright as two torches in the cave! Sure enough, the lion man was a powerful race, and he was not a weak kobold who could easily resist it!
The kobold suppressed his fears and told his leader about what he had seen on the side of the road.
"Did the human soldiers come out of their way to encircle our team?
The lion man rubbed his chin and said thoughtfully.