Chapter 73: Mutated Demon Horn Goblin

Chapter 73 – Mutated Horned Goblin
Without delay, Owen rushed towards the Devil Horn Forest with bringing along Char, the Teutonic warriors, a few ninjas, healers, and a hundred soldiers.

Considering that the situation was unclear, Owen didn’t go straight to the kobold tribe, but chose the wooden fortress as a landing point.

The Wooden Cottage was initially used as a hiding place for Owen’s soldiers, but because of the exposure and the increasing importance of the Kobold Tribe, it was transformed into a transit point. After continuous expansion, the Wooden Cottage was able to accommodate 200 people for a long period of time, and it also had a sizable warehouse to stock up on the pieces of Devil’s Horn trees and food that were transported over from the Kobold Tribe.

Luckily, thanks to the continuous logging in these two years, not only the construction of the wooden fortress has become more and more solid and perfect, there is also a large piece of open space around it as a buffer, so that any attackers can’t hide their traces, so the soldiers and people of the wooden fortress didn’t suffer too much damage in the first wave of the attack of the mutant creatures, and retreated to the wooden fortress in time, but instead, they killed quite a lot of the mutant creatures.

Now the crossbowmen are patrolling the wooden wall, the long swordsmen are standing by, and the mutant creatures that were killed or injured chose to retreat, so Owen didn’t encounter any trouble and entered the wooden fortress smoothly.

After entering the wooden fortress, Owen asked the healer to treat the injured with White Fresh, and then began to inquire about the situation, and the result made his face not look good.

It wasn’t that the situation was bad, but that he didn’t know the situation.

Although the system soldiers were loyal, their initiative was poor, and they had the appearance of being unconcerned, the lower the level, the more so, only knowing how to follow orders in a rigid manner.

In short, letting them die is fine, letting them take care of things is just hard for them, this let Owen can do.

Because the wooden fortress has never had a presiding officer, so after the attack will only be according to what Owen said before which will retreat to the wooden fortress, as for more situations do not know.

Owen can only send all the scouts of the wooden fortress to inquire about the situation, can’t just dive in headfirst without figuring anything out.

According to the information brought back by the scouts, the current situation in the forest is not bad, after the deaths and injuries of some mutant creatures, most of the remaining have regained their senses, and are returning to their original lives, eating grass and hunting, as for the other impacts, it is not obvious in a short period of time, therefore, Owen decided to set off to go to the Goblin Tribe immediately.

The road between the kobold tribe and the wooden cottage has not been repaired, but a large number of trees have been cut down, so the carriage can not go, but walking is fine, so that Owen saved a lot of heart.

In addition to two days of food and water, the group did not carry any extra supplies, because as long as they succeeded in entering the kobold tribe, they will have no shortage of food and water, and if they can’t, when they turn around and run away, of course, the lighter the burden, the better.

The scouts of Muzai were very familiar with the forest, they acted as the eyes of the troops to scout the way ahead, while the longswordsmen and crossbowmen were in charge of fighting the mutated creatures they encountered along the way, the Teutonic warriors sat in the center, the ninjas hid in the shadows, and Char guarded beside Owen, everything was in good order.

Just don’t know if the time is too short, or cause the fluctuation of the mutation is not as strong as imagined, although the road encountered some mutated plants and animals, but not as strong as imagined.

For example, the body size became bigger, the claws and teeth became sharper, more powerful and faster, which allowed the mutated creatures to obtain a better survival ability, but they didn’t last longer than ordinary animals under the long swords and crossbows, which let Owen’s heart that had been lifted up more or less relax a little.

But when he reached the neighborhood of the kobold tribe, the mutation was a bit outrageous. The original tamed magic horn kobolds were affected by the mutation, and became much larger, with red eyes and black skin, sharp horns, and hideous tendons and bones, just like ghosts and monsters, at the same time, they lost most of their sanity, and were replaced by enhanced strength, and were even able to fight with the longsword warrior.

If equipped with weapons, after training, the mutated magic horn kobolds may not be no match for the long swordsman, only that it is still questionable whether the little sanity they have left will allow them to master the use of weapons and training.

Nevertheless, it still made Owen very alert, because no one knew how many magic horn kobolds there were in the Magic Horn Forest, and how many magic horn kobolds had mutated.

“Clear out and have the scouts watch our rear and sides.” Owen knew how cunning the kobolds were, the low level of civilization didn’t mean that they were fools, traps, lures, roundups, had become their instincts, if you dared to be careless when facing the kobolds, it wouldn’t be long before you appeared in their pot.

Owen’s orders were perfectly executed, especially the ninjas, they were proficient in sneaking and assassination, with the high explosive breathing method, it was like a tiger with wings, the vast majority of the magic horn kobolds didn’t know how they died until they died.

When Owen and his team arrived at the Goblin tribe, the battle here was still going on, a large number of Demon Horn Goblins tried to rush into the Goblin tribe, but the Goblin General obviously carried out his orders very well, a large amount of timber obtained from road construction was used by it to build a wooden wall, resulting in the entire tribe being surrounded by meters high logs, and a large number of archery towers were constructed, so even though the individual strength and numbers did not occupy an advantage, it was still able to persevere down.

The reason why hundreds of Horned Kobolds gathered here was because they knew that there were weapons, food and everything they needed in the Kobold Tribe, so even if they were killed or injured, they were still unwilling to leave, and they continued to mutate during the constant battles, and even vaguely produced more powerful Horned Kobolds.

Now Owen realized that some taller mutants with longer horns had appeared in this group of magic horn kobolds, which made him feel very absurd.

What was absurd was not the appearance of the mutants, but the appearance of the Horned Goblins.

Magic Horn Kobolds didn’t actually have long horns, and their skin wasn’t black, but in order to adapt to the environment of the Magic Horn Tree Forest, they would apply Magic Horn Tree Root Sap, which was able to neutralize the toxicity of the Magic Horn Tree thorns, to their bodies from a young age.

This kind of sticky black sap with a slight toxicity, human certainly can not stand, will be seriously allergic to, or even death, but the kobolds through their own strong adaptability and rapid reproduction adapted to this toxicity, to obtain the ability to live in the magic horn tree forest.

As for the horns on their heads, they were the thorns of the Magic Horn Tree, the Magic Horn Kobolds would dip a thorn of the Magic Horn Tree on their heads when they reached adulthood, representing that they had reached adulthood, so the Magic Horn Kobolds weren’t really that different from the ordinary Kobolds.

Of course, this was all before, now they did turn into this appearance in front of them with skin as black as ink, horns on their heads, and a mouth full of fangs.

Although the Demon Horn Kobolds have become stronger, they have also lost some of their sanity, coupled with the fact that there has not been a leader that can lead all the Demon Horn Kobolds, the situation where the wandering soldiers are fighting on their own has resulted in a stalemate in the battle.

Relying on the wooden fortress and arrow towers of the kobold soldiers did not fall into the wind, not to mention that once the battle situation is unfavorable, the kobold general will bring the kobold magic goat cavalry rushed to kill to regain the disadvantage, within a short period of time can still support.

(End of chapter)