It's just that as soon as Xia Duo's words fell, almost everyone quieted down, and some of the team members were still chatting, but now they are no longer talking, and the atmosphere seems to have changed subtly.

"Captain Gibb?"

"Huh?" Gibb seemed to come back to his senses suddenly, "Master Shado, what's the matter?" ”

“……”

Xia Duo repeated the question he had just asked, but added a qualifier - "in the forest", and Xia Duo also thought about it at this time, if it is not specifically referred to, the general mention of undead creatures will be associated with the night watchman of the territory.

The Night Watchman is a taboo word in Savile territory, and even in other parts of Netheril, and most people will try to avoid mentioning them, which is also something that Xia Duo only learned about after joining the Mage Tower.

It's just that Xia Duo is an outsider after all, and it is really difficult to empathize with these taboos, and it is only after seeing the strange behavior of other people that he recalls.

Gibb's stiff expression only recovered after the qualifier was added, but even then, Gibb was reluctant to say the word "undead".

"Master Shado, I've been part of the Territory's army for almost eight years, and I've never encountered them in the forest, but I know of people who have encountered moving goblin skeletons."

Xia Duo nodded and didn't ask any further.

Soon everyone finished resting and began to continue to look for actual combat targets.

After destroying a wild boar, a herd of deer, and a nest of goblins, the crowd returned with loot.

The actual combat training was quite successful, except for two people who were hit by a wild boar because they did not dodge in time, the rest of the people were almost not injured.

Of course, this is thanks to the care of veterans and recruited former adventurer recruits, which allowed ten pure newcomers, including Xia Duo and Dean, to get a good experience.

And the situation on Sammy and Dewan's side is also very smooth, there are experienced veterans and former adventurers, and they don't go too far into the forest, so the actual combat training is still very easy.

In fact, their actual combat training is actually the daily task of the vast majority of adventurers in Savile Town, and of course, the tasks of the territory soldiers are similar, in addition to the guards in the town, more is to clean up the wild beasts and goblins that are overflowing in the forest.

Protecting and even expanding the range of activities of the people in the territory is, of course, essentially opening up the territory for the Saville lords.

In the next few days, Xia Duo would take people to the forest every afternoon to kill, and in addition to meeting the needs of actual combat training, the team members also received a small amount of money.

In this way, as the time got closer to the end of the month, the atmosphere in the barracks became more and more tense, and some squads even stayed in the field all day, trying to do as much actual combat as possible.

Of course, there are those who are happy, there are those who are lost, and it is better to say that there are Amanata radiant attendants in the camp, and these clerics who follow the path of Amanata's glory have extraordinary healing powers.

As long as there are no missing parts in the body, the injury can generally be recovered, but if the person dies, there is no way.

In addition, the team is short of people, and after replenishing people, it is very likely that it is an ordinary person again, and he will have to retrain again, and the orc tide is at the end of the month, how much time can he train?

At this time, Xia Duo was extremely glad that his team only had five pure newcomers, including him, and many other teams were simply two veterans with nine newcomers.

If the apprentice knows that it is good to advance and retreat, if he still wants to fight for command, it is simply a disaster.

……

In the afternoon of this day, Xia Duo took people to the Green Bead Forest again, and after the first few actual combat trainings, Xia Duo's good performance was seen by everyone.

Gibb and Captain Uke of Dean's team have completely acquiesced to Shado's command, behaving like two ordinary soldiers, and even Ava, who has always been elusive, can be deployed at will through Gibb.

Today, Xia Duo and the others were targeting a small goblin tribe, which Ava had detected when they came out for combat training yesterday, and because it was getting late, they didn't go any further to clear it.

So today I went straight to the goal.

Ava and Dean's Mavre were exploring the path in front, and Xia Duo and the others were slowly advancing behind.

"Captain Gibb, you said that this small goblin tribe is likely to have recently migrated?" Shado asked.

"Yes, although this distance has gone into the forest a lot, but in general, it is still within the range of adventurers and territory soldiers, if there was before, I would definitely know."

After saying that, Gibb added, "The goblin race is completely unproductive, and it is difficult to settle down in one place. ”

"Hmm."

Xia Duo nodded, now the goal of the team's actual combat training is mainly the goblin, not that other targets are bad, but the number of goblins is the largest, sometimes a nest has just been cleaned up the day before, and another nest will appear when it passes by the next day.

It's just inexhaustible.

It's just a dozen or twenty more, two or three at the lonely, and even a single one, as the recruits become more and more experienced, the effect of such training is getting weaker and weaker.

And the small goblin tribe discovered this time, there are nearly a hundred, which is the largest number of discoveries in these days, and Xia Duo still attaches great importance to it.

He was going to use this as his last combat training before the orc tide.

……

In the distance, Shado could already see some rudimentary fences made of dead branches and rotten wood, and seven or eight half-human-tall earth-colored creatures were standing motionless.

"Stop!" Xia Duo hurriedly shouted in a low voice.

He had heard the language of goblins with his own ears, and knew that goblins were also intelligent beings, but their intelligence was somewhat inferior compared to humans.

But a small tribe with nearly a hundred numbers will always be a little smarter.

"Captain Gibb, get Ava back."

"Yes."

Gibb pulled out his bone whistle and blew it long and short, and soon Ava appeared, and even called Mavre back.

"Ava, what's going on with the goblin tribe?" Shado asked.

"There are eighty or ninety goblins in total, and more than half of them are old and young goblins, probably formed by the merger of several smaller gangs."

"Marvre, what have you discovered?"

"It's similar to what Ava was probing, but I've been an adventurer before, and I've learned a little goblin language, and I've heard a lot of goblins talking about orcs."

Orcs? Xia Duo's eyes lit up, "Are you sure they're talking about orcs?" ”

"I'm sure."

In this case, without Xia Duo saying it, everyone had already guessed that these goblins were probably driven out by the orcs in the depths of the forest.

The orcs have already descended the mountain, and they have even entered the Green Bead Forest.

Now that Shado and the others are probably some way away from the orcs, this goblin tribe can escape.

Almost subconsciously, a thought appeared in Xia Duo's mind - lead the team back first!

However, this idea only appeared for less than a second, and it was denied by Xia Duo, and now it hurts morale to go back, do you have to face the orcs in the future?

"Ava, Muffle, you search for the direction where the goblins came, go check and be safe!"

After giving the order, Xia Duo was ready to report the situation found here to Sami and them, but he didn't expect Sammy's news to arrive first!