In Wang Yu's imagination, the road to the Royal City should not be very far, because the descriptions he heard from Mira and Aviya mentioned before were about the manor outside the Royal City.
So he thought it shouldn't take long to get to the Royal City. After all, it was the "manor outside the Royal City" and should be quite close. It would only take a day and a half to get there.
When he actually got on the Goblin Chamber of Commerce's convoy, he discovered that this neighborhood was not that close. Because Alestle was indeed a very large kingdom, the concept of "nearby" also expanded accordingly.
It was about 800 kilometers, because it was a convoy dragging a lot of carriages. Wang Yu calculated that it would take three days at the fastest to reach the royal city, which was not a long time, but it was still quite long.
Life with the caravan was quite simple. The caravan only took over the business of Wang Yu alone. The savings of more than 2,000 gold coins were equivalent to the Goblin Chamber of Commerce's turnover for a month.
There was no more trading on the road, and he followed the route all the way to Wangcheng, delivered the money to the general meeting in Wangcheng, and then continued to do business.
Wang Yu is a person who can endure loneliness. There is nothing to do in the car, which can be considered boring, so Wang Yu studies wizard runes there.
Time flies by very quickly. Two days have passed. Overall, there is no progress. Wang Yu’s talent is here. He just optimized the spellcasting rune for the double jump and can use it twice more.
On the night of the second day, the carriage was driving through the night. The brilliance of the magic moon was much brighter than in the previous life. Wang Yu was not sure whether the blue moon was reflected sunlight, but it was quite bright anyway.
Considering that there are such things as vampires in this world, this magical moon probably also shines by some special mechanism. Otherwise, it would make no sense for vampires to be afraid of sunlight rather than moonlight.
The good thing about the bright moonlight is that the road at night is not that bad. The horses are rotated, one group gets on the car to rest, and the other group continues to pull the car.
Eamonn was already lying on the floor in the middle of the carriage, snoring loudly, while Elliot was sleeping as if he couldn't hear the loud noise, hanging half of his body on the wooden board.
Aviya leaned against Wang Yu, with two round gadgets exposed on her ears. They were earplugs that Wang Yu rubbed out with the void. Her gentle breath hit Wang Yu's shoulders, and she seemed to be sleeping well.
Wang Yu recovered from the meditative state of studying the wizard's runes. He sniffed twice, and the soothing smell of ling'er grass incense entered his nostrils.
This allowed the fatigue and tension in the mind to quickly disappear and enter the state of relaxation before going to bed. I have to say that Elliot looked stingy and was indeed a good boss.
There is no one driving the convoy now, and the trained horses will follow the road on their own. If Wenna is not seen, she should be on guard.
Wang Yu adjusted his posture to make himself more comfortable, and played with Aviya who was leaning on him, at least not so twisted.
Wang Yu also closed his eyes. He could ignore Eamon's loud snoring. As long as it had nothing to do with him, it was easy to fall asleep on the pillow.
The world of sleep enveloped Wang Yu's consciousness little by little, and he quickly fell asleep. Before falling asleep, the ripples gradually sank into his heart, and following the beat of his heart, began to spread outward like a radar.
Wang Yu has been trying to achieve what the protagonist in First Grade Cultivation said. Even without consciousness, the body can beat the enemy into slag driven by instinct. So far, he is still far from it.
But he can do some simple things, such as now, let the ripples follow certain independent rhythms of the body and spread outward naturally. At this moment, it is the heartbeat. This will be Wang Yu's best warning measure.
After taking the warning measures, Wang Yu fell into sleep. Sleep is Wang Yu's way to recover from fatigue. Mental strength is not linked to mental status, which also means that sufficient mental strength alone is not enough to prevent Wang Yu from being sleepy. Sleep is. An integral part of him.
The convoy was led by the leading horse on the business road to the royal city. The speed was not very fast, but the horses ran very smoothly. The long convoy was like a long, quiet snake, constantly scratching the ground and making sounds.
There was no movement in the surrounding jungle, as if they were silent spectators, maintaining a tacit understanding with the passing snakes that they would not offend the river.
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In the darkness, Wang Yu suddenly opened his eyes. The feedback of the ripples was abnormal, and his body's instinct immediately woke Wang Yu up from his sleep.
Several fragments of pictures flashed in Wang Yu's mind when he suddenly woke up and his mind was still a little unclear. Because he could not control it while he was awake, the investigation of the ripples also became somewhat intermittent.
In the broken picture, some short figures suddenly appeared in the grass on the roadside. Because he was not awake, Wang Yu could only see a few silhouettes with ripples.
"Goblin?" Wang Yu muttered in his heart, without waking up anyone in the carriage. He placed Aviya, who was leaning on him, against the wall. Ripples restrained his voice, quickly climbed out of the carriage door, and climbed up. Get on top of the car.
As soon as he got on the roof of the car, Wang Yu saw the cloaked figure standing on the car in the distance. Although the distance was beyond the detection range of Ripple's omnidirectional vision, the clear eyes under the elf's hood reflected the bright moonlight. He and Wang Yu looked at each other.
Wang Yu looked at the grass beside the road and then looked in Wenna's direction again. The elf ranger nodded and took off his hood without making a sound, but his mouth shape changed a few times.
"Brother, Bu, Lin..." Wang Yu checked the female elf's mouth and squinted his eyes. Sure enough, it was a goblin.
Worthy of being the best ranger in Elliot's words, Wenna had already noticed the unusual movement on the roadside, started investigating and identified the target.
However, how could there be goblins nearby... Wang Yu was a little confused. Logically speaking, this area already belonged to the area near the royal city, and most of them were the fiefdoms of nobles.
The private soldiers of the nobles would not let these ugly and barbaric things enter their territory, so where did the goblins come from?
He glanced at the surrounding grass. The bright night light provided Wang Yu with a good field of vision. Although it had exceeded the detection limit of ripples, with his keen five senses, the changes in the surrounding grass could not escape his eyes.
The road below us passed through a wilderness road. There were some small villages nearby. It should be the fiefdom of some lazy lord. There was neither farmland nor hunting grounds. The grass was quite strong and the waist of an adult could be completely covered. .
And these waist-high grasses were shaking abnormally, sometimes falling down, sometimes standing up again.
Wang Yu looked attentively and found that under the protection of the green grass, some figures with skin colors that were more dark green were running wildly after the carriage.
These grasses are not too tall for humans, but just right for these short guys. This is their best camouflage...
"Do you know how to disguise yourself instead of rushing up all at once? Goblin raiding team? How could there be such a large number of goblins? It's crazy." Wang Yu was somewhat surprised.
Creatures like Goblins are very weak individually. Basically, when they see an enemy, they will just scream and rush towards them while waving anything they can hold in their hands, and then they are easily killed because of their too weak physique.
But once the number increases, some intelligent units such as Goblin Barbarians and Goblin Mages may suddenly appear.
In this case, these mentally retarded things will become capable of some crude tactics after having slightly smarter members, such as disguise, and they will become the Goblin Raiding Team as they are now.
But this must reach a certain number. There are no goblin habitats in the Kingdom of Aleister. Wherever there is a goblin camp, it will be demolished by adventurers.
The number of goblin raiding teams must be at least a hundred. Wang Yu was a little confused as to why there were so many goblins.
But this shouldn't be Wang Yu's consideration. At present, it seems that these goblins are obviously eyeing their caravan, and being prepared for a battle is the top priority.
Under Wang Yu's gaze, the swing speed of the weeds on both sides of the business road has become significantly faster. Although these short guys are weak, their running speed and agility are very good, and it is not difficult to keep up with the speed of the carriage. .
Under the moonlight, more and more grass began to sway abnormally. Among them, several tattered helmets flashed through the weeds and were caught by Wang Yu's eyes.
"Wearing a helmet, what's going on? Where did these guys get the equipment..." More questions appeared in Wang Yu's mind, but his movements were not slow.
The horses pulling the cart have begun to become restless. This group of keen animals has noticed something wrong with the smells and sounds around them. The pace of pulling the cart has slowly slowed down, snoring constantly, and trying to stay away from the grass.
Wang Yu leaned down and knocked hard on the carriage door. The loud snoring stopped instantly. Soon a rough orc face poked out from the carriage door and looked at Wang Yu on the roof. Wang Yu was very useless. A loud voice pointed to both sides of the road, "Goblin Raid Team..."
Eamon glanced at the grass on the roadside. Orcs have better night vision than humans. He should be able to see everything Wang Yu can see.
A few seconds later, the orc nodded to Wang Yu and retracted into the carriage. There was a sound of chickens and dogs jumping around, and Elliot's scream came from the carriage, but it stopped suddenly as soon as it started. It was covered by Eamonn.
Immediately afterwards, Aviya's worried face popped out of the carriage. Wang Yu made a gesture to tell the girl to stay in the carriage carefully. The girl nodded and retracted.
After a few more seconds, as the carriage shook, the orc's huge figure also rolled up from below, holding Elliot under his arm. The goblin was now wearing a full-length clothing that was just right for his size. The armor is too thick and looks like a small statue made of iron.
The orc put his boss on the roof of the car. Elliot immediately took out a few scrolls from a cloth bag carried on his armor, tore them open and gave them to Wang Yu. Eamon and himself took pictures of them.
"Magic shield, this thing is not cheap..." Wang Yu glanced at the thin film of light emerging from the body surface, and said casually, this all-purpose magic shield scroll is indeed not cheap, one piece is about forty gold coins. , because it is very useful and the demand exceeds supply.
"A life is more important than money." Elliot's voice sounded dull due to the echo of the armor. This money-grubbing goblin was unexpectedly open-minded in this regard.
Nodding, Wang Yu looked in the direction of Wenna. The female elf was jumping in the carriage room to touch the horses pulling the carriage.
The horses seemed to understand what the ranger meant, and soon slowed down under Wenna's touch. The two leading horses also naturally slowed down after the horses behind them slowed down.
The convoy crawling on the commercial road began to slow down. Elliot and the others were slowly adjusting the speed of the convoy to a speed suitable for close combat...
It seems that because the convoy has slowed down, the goblins running behind the convoy no longer need to work hard to catch up, and this group of guys has become more manic.
They started jumping around and no longer tried to cover up their whereabouts. No, they probably thought they were not exposed to Wang Yu and the others, because this was what Wang Yu and the others wanted, so that these guys with no IQs would think that they were so. The "disguise" was quite successful.
The movements of this group of goblins began to diversify as their running slowed down. You could even see a short green figure jumping up from the waist-high weeds on the side of the road. Occasionally, a few even had bloody heads on their heads. Iron helmet.
"These guys are getting excited, get ready, they won't be able to hold it any longer." Wenna's cold voice came from behind the crowd.
Although Wang Yu had long noticed the arrival of the ranger with his inner eye, he still couldn't help but admire Wenna's concealment skills. If he didn't use ripple detection, it would be impossible to detect the approach of the female ranger.
"Damn it, Wenna, you are still so elusive, it scares me to death, but these damn goblins are even more hateful. They are obviously the same size as us goblins, but they are as savage as a bunch of damn purgatory brats!"
Elliot was startled by the sudden appearance of Wenna and shouted curses, but the target of more curses was the group of goblins who were running with the convoy and appearing and disappearing in the grass on the roadside.
It is true that some people confuse goblins and goblins because of their size. It is no wonder that Elliot hates these little greenskins so much.
Eamonn didn't show any reaction to Wenna's sudden appearance. This seemingly rough orc was actually very careful and cautious unlike his appearance.
Taking out a huge mallet from his back, the orc's eyes, which looked larger and more sinister than those of humans, glanced at the surrounding grass.
Wang Yu was also prepared. The long sword came out of his body and the witchcraft was activated. An invisible barrier was put on the outside of the magic shield, witchcraft·barrier.
The best way to deal with this group of little guys who are numerous but have poor strength and defense is not to fight with them, but to go in and kill seven in and seven out while ensuring adequate defense.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch, quack!" A sharp roar suddenly broke out at this moment. The Goblin raiding team, which had been waiting for a long time, finally couldn't bear their natural violence and madness.
They screamed and made meaningless sounds in the dark night from the weeds on both sides of the road.
Ugly green faces with hideous and weird smiles rushed out from both sides of the road without any order, shouting wildly, and rushed towards the convoy under the moonlight. The horses were disturbed, and they neighed and tried to start towards the convoy. Running around.
But amid the melodious singing coming from the female elf's mouth, the panicked horses actually calmed down and moved on the business road at a speed that required the goblins to run to keep up.
Wang Yu glanced at these goblins. There were many of them. Currently, there were more than a hundred goblins rushing out of the weeds.
He noticed that some goblins were wearing iron armor that was ill-fitting and obviously too large, and they also had blood-stained helmets that were too large on their heads. These were obviously military weapons, which made Wang Yu frown.
But what concerned Wang Yu more was the blood-stained shirts on some goblins and the bloody pitchforks, hoes and other agricultural tools with some gaps.
Looking back at Eamonn and Wenna, the eyes of the two caravan guards were full of disgust and murderous intent. Wang Yu understood that these things meant that this group of goblins had just looted a village. They were wearing Something from the villagers.
As for the villagers, Goblins are not afraid of eating meat. He sighed, Wang Yu couldn't care about this. He didn't have much emotion. He was just more curious about where these large groups of Goblins who were capable of looting the village came from. Come out, maybe those military equipment will have the answer?
Tightening the sword in his hand, Wang Yu was looking for an opportunity, and someone would create this opportunity for him.
Green frenzy-like Goblins rushed from both sides of the convoy. They were densely packed. Although they were as short as children, their huge numbers and ugly and ferocious faces were still enough to scare people. However, this chaotic but extremely tight formation was Give the mage the best space to play.
When this group of goblins excitedly rushed towards the four people who seemed to them to be extremely weak, just like the group of villagers they had killed before, two blazing fireballs flew out from the carriage to both sides.
The violent explosion instantly tore apart the dense formation. The goblins near the explosion were directly torn into charred pieces by the violent explosion. Some of the goblins outside flew upside down, spitting out a mouthful of green blood and died directly due to the rupture of their internal organs. die.
Those further outside were either swept to the ground by the impact and struggled for a long time before getting up, or they covered their ears and screamed ferociously, being dizzy by the violent explosion.
Before the group of goblins could recover from the sudden explosion, two figures had fallen on the roof of the car, Wang Yu on the left and Emon on the right.
The long sword easily tore apart the fragile bodies of the goblins. In front of Wang Yu, these green-skinned dwarves were no different from rag dolls. With one strike of the sword, two or more goblins might be directly chopped into pieces.
Goblins who had just recovered or those who were not affected rushed over and hit Wang Yu with random things in their hands. There were many of them. For Wang Yu's body, such an attack with such strength cannot be ignored. If Hits do cause wounds, too.
This is also a common trick used by this group of goblins. There are many ants that bite the elephant to death, but they cannot bite Wang Yu. All these complicated knocks are blocked by the barrier on Wang Yu's body.
A short ax also joined the killing quietly. The ax fell, and the skinny broken arms and legs flew everywhere, and the ferocious skull fragments rolled around. Before Wang Yu's entire barrier was broken, Wang Yu would Kill these goblins like chickens...
