Volume 1 Feathering Chapter 37 Kobold Camp
After dealing with the little flower fairies, Levi replenished his troops. This time he didn't have much time to select carefully, as long as they didn't affect the morale of his team and their strength was acceptable.
Not counting the two temporary mercenaries Donna and Sam, his team had 1 level 2 half-elf longbowman, 1 level 1 elite spearman Zhou Miyin, 1 level 1 volunteer, 10 level 1 half-elf hunters, 6 level 1 half-elf soldiers, and 1 level 0 militiaman to make up the numbers.
He is now level 3, with a total leadership limit of 40 points. Each level 0 soldier requires 1 point of leadership, each level 1 soldier requires 2 points, and each level 2 soldier requires 3 points, which just perfectly uses up all the leadership.
After leaving the village, the other God-chosen heroes all rushed towards the Rocky Highlands, but Levi was not in a hurry, because the gnolls were not goblins or kobolds.
Not counting the hyenas and coyotes they domesticated, any jackal would start at level 1 at the very least. But how many of the God-chosen heroes in the village now are like him, with their main force being level 1 troops?
If you run over so rashly, you'll probably get a bump on your head soon.
Even with the strength of Levi's team, if they encountered a team of werewolves head-on, he would not dare to guarantee that he could win intact. After all, the level 2 soldiers in the werewolf team were not particularly rare.
So now, he still needs to strengthen his strength a little bit, for example, go and find trouble with the little BOSS, the ogre wizard. If he can drop one or two kinds of magic, that would be great.
They encountered another group of goblins on the road, and were easily killed by them as they had become much stronger. Several of the big goblins had no power to fight back and soon turned into corpses on the ground, leaving behind two military weapons specially made for the goblins.
This also made Donna once again confirm that these hobgoblins were most likely some scattered vagrants, because in a normal hobgoblin army, not counting the slaves or servants under command, the number of hobgoblins must be at least more than 20%. The hobgoblins believe that this is the only way to ensure the overall combat effectiveness of the team.
But the hobgoblins they encountered now were basically two or three hobgoblins with nearly thirty or so goblins. The proportion of hobgoblins was too low.
But despite what Donna said, Levi didn't have any idea, because there were so many goblins in the wild, just like rabbits and voles in the prairie, they could be seen almost everywhere, and they had not found any pattern so far.
Soon, according to the information provided by Stump, they gradually entered an extremely lush forest and began to move in the direction of the kobold wizard that Stump had mentioned before.
But when they really arrived at the destination, Levi was a little stunned. Even Donna couldn't help but chuckled: "Levi, are we going to attack a kobold camp head-on?"
Yes, although it was rough and simple, what lay before them was indeed a wooden camp with considerable defensive capabilities, and it was not small in scale.
There were at least two or three hundred gnolls they saw, and they were busy reinforcing the defenses of various parts of the camp. In the very middle of the camp was a stone building that was obviously different from the others and looked unfinished.
A special kobold holding a staff, wearing a headband and a relatively clean robe, was shouting and directing his fellows to work. It seemed that he should be the kobold wizard mini-boss mentioned by Tree Stump before.
At its feet there was an ugly little animal, which looked a bit like a dog at first glance, but looked a bit like a mouse at second glance. It was not known whether it was a hybrid or some other mutant. It should be the pet of the kobold wizard.
But what Tree Stump said was too conservative. The number was dozens of times more than what he said. Even if the average strength of the ogres was weak, if they didn't run away when hundreds of them rushed over, they would have no way out unless they ran. After all, the combat effectiveness between them was not so different that the number could be ignored.
According to previous experience, at least more than one-third of the kobolds are kobold slingers. Their simple slingshots have a low hit rate and pitiful damage, but they are outnumbered. He can also use wizard armor to protect himself, but ordinary half-elves will definitely be killed in one round.
Especially on both sides of the camp gate, there are actually two wooden arrow towers. Although there is no one on them now, once a war breaks out, the ranged units will be able to launch attacks from a high position, which will definitely have a good bonus.
It had only been a short time, but these kobolds had developed so quickly? Or was it that Tree Stump had seen it wrong?
Looking from a distance at the ogre wizard shouting and showing a certain degree of wisdom, he further dispelled the idea of attacking.
At the same time, he couldn't help but wonder: "Why does no one seem to have discovered a camp of this size?"
How can I allow others to snore under my bed?
Although this sentence may not exist in this fantasy world, with the wisdom shown by the high elves, they are definitely aware of this problem.
Donna shrugged. "Because there are too many different tribes outside the wilderness, and too many enemies of the high elves. Although your army is elite, it is small in number. Apart from maintaining the safety of villages and main roads, you are powerless in many other places."
"What's more, even the most powerful humans, such as the Cathay Dynasty or the Sigma Empire, can only control a few places other than towns and villages. After all, the wilderness is the habitat of more barbaric races."
Levi couldn't help but rub his eyebrows. Is that so? It's not hard to understand.
After all, there weren’t so many God-chosen heroes to help clear out the various monsters in the wild. Unless they were regular troops, ordinary villagers or militiamen would be useless if they left the village.
So now I have to launch a tentative attack to determine the opponent's strength.
Or should we make a strategic shift first?
At this moment, with a cheer, dozens of obviously stronger kobolds lined up and carried some stone slabs out of the building in the middle of the camp.
Levi's pupils suddenly shrank: "Donna, dog-headed people are actually lizard creatures, right?"
"Yes, you can tell by looking at the scales on their bodies. Many kobolds even claim to have dragon bloodlines, and a very small number of high-level kobold wizards can even breathe like dragons. So even though it sounds incredible, it is indeed possible."
Although she had lost a lot of memory and even power due to an accident, a lot of knowledge was still firmly engraved in Donna's heart, because they, the Amazons, made a living by hunting and fighting, and this was also their innate talent.
Levi further confirmed: "Whether it's a dragon or a lizard, most of them like to live underground, right?"
At this point, Donna understood what he meant: "Do you suspect there is an entrance to the underground world under that building?"
In addition to the other dimensions where angels, demons, various elements and gods live, the world itself is also extremely vast.
Needless to say, there are many races on land and in the sea. There is even a world under the earth, the so-called Underdark.
To ordinary people who have never known it, it may be just a larger cave, but in fact it is an extremely vast world.
The Underdark often has more than one layer. Although it is not as exaggerated as the Eighteen Layers of Hell, it is very common for an Underdark to be several miles or even more than ten miles high.
Races including the gray dwarves, drow elves, troggs, skaven, and deep gnomes mainly live there.
Because there is no sun in the underground world, only some luminous moss and other things serve as lighting, so most of the races in the underground world have evolved the ability to see in the dark.
And I don’t know if it’s the special environment there that has affected them, but these races are basically evil.
The dwarves including Shudun often like to dig underground, so they often come into contact with various alien races. The conflict between them and the Skaven is especially serious. He has told Levi about this more than once.
If there really is an entrance to the underground world here, then the future may be a large-scale mission that is no less challenging than the one on the Rocky Highlands.
Levi nodded: "It is very likely , because these stones are too regular, and they don't look like they were mined by the kobolds at all. Instead, they look more like the work of the dwarves."
It is known throughout the world that dwarves and their many subraces are the best at mining and forging.
But Donna had a different opinion: "No, besides the dwarves, there are other possibilities, such as the God-given building - the quarry."
Levi's eyes widened instantly.
The indigenous people call these buildings "God-given buildings". They believe that those buildings that can recruit soldiers out of thin air are actually made possible by the power of God, and those summoned soldiers may have once been in other worlds.
Similarly, there are also God-given buildings that can summon all kinds of materials out of thin air, and the quarry is one of them.
If it is really as Donna guessed, then the importance of this place is much higher than he had previously guessed. Even for the indigenous people, this kind of God-given building that can produce resources continuously is very precious!
