Chapter 49 48 Next Level Lineup
Chapter 49 48. Next lineup
Black Shield City is the territory of Guy, one of the three lords in the east of the Kingdom of Yas.
If Lu Yu hadn't arrived in person, it would have been hard for Lu Yu to believe that this Black Shield City was not just a military castle, but a large city-state no less large than the Royal City of Yas.
The kingdom's supplies are continuously imported into Black Shield City from the rear, and then transferred to the other two cities through Black Shield City.
Running such a huge city, which is also an important border area and a material transfer center, Duke Guy is definitely a die-hard loyalist of Yas III.
It took five days for the nobles who participated in the competition to arrive in Black Shield City. Guy did not even come forward to meet anyone, but casually sent his men to give them accommodation.
The only person who was received by Guy was Lu Yu.
A group of cavalry escorted Lu Yu and Lulutis to a tower on the outer city wall.
In the tower, a burly man in black armor saw Lu Yu's arrival. He waved his hand and dismissed the people around him, leaving only a few close friends.
The large, horrific scar on the left side of Guy's face was burned by the flames, making every expression on Guy's face full of ferocity.
Guy spent more than a minute looking at Lu Yu and Sigrid while looking at the letter in his hand.
Lu Yu said nothing, looking at him calmly, and even looked at the scars on his face with interest.
"Are you interested in my scars?" Guy put down the letter in his hand and raised his head.
"I once heard that Duke Guy's scar was caused by a Goblin Archmage. Just before departure, His Majesty told me that there was also a Goblin Archmage near the area where the noble competition was held."
Guy waved his hand, dismissed the remaining guards, and closed the tower door.
Sigrid became alert and slowly retreated to a position against the wall.
"Marquis of Seris, if you don't mind, I will call you by your first name."
"please."
Guy sat down, touched the scar on his face lightly, and said, "His Majesty stated bluntly in the letter that if you are willing to find the Goblin Archmage, let the Black Shield Knights cooperate with your actions."
"If you don't want to do anything, I have sent people to prepare a safe place in Black Shield City. What happened the night before departure will definitely not happen again."
Lu Yu smiled and said: "It seems that the news spreads very quickly. Is there a storm in the city of King Yasi now?"
"No, His Majesty has no intention of pursuing it and asked me to apologize to you in the letter."
"It doesn't matter, I also know the final result will be this."
On the night before setting off to the east, Lu Yu was attacked.
Late at night, four assassins sneaked into Lu Yu's mansion.
Holding a compass that could scan out magic traps, they dispelled several magic circles arranged by Lulutis along the way, and climbed into the house through the window in the backyard.
With the help of the compass, everything went smoothly. As long as they reached the bedroom on the second floor, they could kill Lu Yu and Sigrid in their sleep.
If they don't step on the bear trap used to hunt giant bears.
After the assassins learned that the target of the assassination was a magician, they focused all their attention on various small magic traps.
The traps set by Lulutis are on both sides of the wall, basically at the eye level of normal adults, and are very easy to detect.
The assassins who were focused on these traps would not have thought that there was a bear trap lying on the dark ground that was set to be triggered only when the magic trap disappeared.
The bear trap that Sigrid brought back was specially used by the Adventurer's Guild to hunt large monsters and beasts. The lethality caused by the trigger is enough to crush hard boulders.
No matter how dedicated the assassin is, he will scream when his legs are cut off by a trap.
Lulutis woke up and held the magic core in her hand, opening all the traps on the second floor.
The assassin rushed to the second floor and planned to kill Lu Yu, but what he faced was a flow of magical light that was like light pollution.
The unlucky guy whose leg was broken was the only survivor and was taken away by Duke Buckman who arrived after dawn.
The occurrence of the attack made Yas III furious, and he even went into the dungeon to interrogate the assassin himself.
However, the only unlucky guy who survived just got paid to do things through an agency and had no idea who the employer was.
As a result, Lu Yu witnessed a burning ceremony when he left the royal city, which was the wrath of Yas III.
"No, I plan to give it a try. I am very interested in the corrosive fluid of the giant salamander."
Seeing that Lu Yu was resolute, Guy told Lu Yu some information about the goblin underground palace outside Black Shield City and Luotan Plain in advance, and gave Lu Yu a map with the goblin active areas.
Before leaving, Guy reminded: "Although I heard that you have traveled a lot and are rich in experience, I still want to warn you... With your injured body now, you cannot deal with the Goblin Archmage. It is very strong."
Lu Yu naturally knew that he did not want to take action against a monster that might already be at the gold level. In order to prevent him from accidentally bumping into the opponent, Lu Yu also asked Lulutis to prepare a speed-enhancing potion to run first-rate.
Back at his residence, Lu Yu moved a cart full of medicines into the house and stayed behind closed doors.
Two days later, the goblin hunting competition officially began, and the noble children led their teams out of the city.
Before leaving the city, they searched the crowd for a long time, but could not find any trace of Lu Yu.
Maroni gritted his teeth with hatred.
Lu Yu was so excited that they had to come to the Eastern Frontier, but this guy shrank during this competition?
What a complete villain!
But Lu Yu could shrink, but they couldn't.
The adventurers and knights of Black Shield City were watching their every move. If they just waited for the people below to harvest heads while they enjoyed the fruits of their labor, they would still be despised when the news reached the royal city.
Moreover, at this point, it was no longer a competition with Lu Yu.
So many families were forced to participate, and killing goblins had become a competition of family background.
No one wanted to lose, and everyone wanted to take first place.
The reward was secondary, and the nobles' face was the most important.
A day later, some nobles who had set out returned covered in blood, with several goblin heads hanging on their horses.
Although the guards who went with him did not suffer any casualties, several of them were wounded and fell off their horses as soon as they arrived in the city.
Several of them had arrow wounds on their backs, and some even had their armor shattered by magic, leaving them bloody and mangled.
The team of more than 20 people only killed 17 goblins in total.
Several teams of nobles returned one after another, with the most bringing back 29 goblin heads, and the least bringing back only three.
The important thing is that among these nobles who returned later, Maroni, who had captured more heads, had already started to lose members in his team.
No family was not well prepared. Each of these nobles started with four or five vehicles of props.
People like Lu Yu who only transported one vehicle of potions were outliers.
Sigrid, who was doing the last shopping before departure, told Lu Yu the news. Lu Yu just thought about it carefully and then showed a look of understanding.
"So the biggest trap in the competition rules set by Yas III is buried here."
"Trap?" Sigrid asked curiously, "Master, are you referring to the goblin heads?"
"Yes, to prove that you have indeed hunted down goblins, you must submit the corresponding number of goblin heads, so the question is, how to obtain these heads?"
Sigrid didn't understand Lu Yu's question, and answered stupidly: "Isn't it obtained by killing goblins?"
"I mean, how should they behead them?" Lu Yu continued to explain, "According to the information Duke Guy gave us, although the entrances of most underground palaces are spacious, the passages will become narrow as they go deeper. The space limits the choice of weapons and forces the overall formation to be broken up into small teams."
"This also leads to the fact that in narrow areas, the only people who actually encounter the enemy are the warriors standing in the front. How much damage he can cause to the goblins means how much he can gain."
Sigrid recalled carefully that the most seriously injured in the noble teams that returned just now were indeed the shield guards and warriors carrying shields.
"In a narrow space, if you want to help the warrior in the front to finish off the enemy and cover his advance, the long-range output in the back must maintain high accuracy. Both archers and mages need to consider the problem of accidental injuries when attacking."
"You just saw many warriors with injuries behind them, most likely teammates..."
Lu Yu took a look at the powder under the pestle, it was not fine enough, and he needed to continue pounding.
"Let's continue thinking about the scene just now. In the underground palace with insufficient light, we experienced a fierce battle and barely repelled the goblins. Now it's time to chop off the goblin's head."
"The goblins are very familiar with the underground palace they built. You temporarily repelled the opponent, and the opponent will quickly gather reinforcements and return. And you beheaded a large number of goblins when cleaning the battlefield. These heads are not a big deal if they are one or two, but they will become quite heavy when there are a lot of them. If you consider the armor that everyone must wear for safety, everyone is equivalent to running a race with a load in the enemy's hometown."
"And don't forget that Black Shield City is far away from the location of the goblin's underground palace. If the goblins counterattack, the cavalry outside Black Shield City will not be able to rescue them in the first time."
Handing the pounded medicinal materials to Lulutis, Lu Yu drank a sip of water, sat aside, and admired Lulutis's tentacles performing multi-threaded operations.
Lulutis couldn't help but want to tease: "According to what you said, there are only three of us. Isn't it courting death to go down to the underground palace?"
"Who said that? I think our configuration is quite reasonable. Sigrid will be in the front row, and I will put a magic shield on her in the back, and make up for the fatal damage. You can wrap your tentacles around the two of us and control our positions at any time. The extra tentacles can also take the opportunity to poison us."
There are warriors and tanks, mages and summoners, and assistants and poisoners. This lineup is enough for going down the dungeon.
"Okay, but those nobles who hate you for setting up a trap to harm people may not want to do something to you. We have to deal with goblins and nobles at the same time. We are in big trouble."
"Also, we can't carry away the heads of goblins in large quantities. How do you plan to solve this?"
Lu Yu said calmly: "I have thought of a way to do this. You just wait and see."