Lord of Arcane

Chapter 132 Suspected Black Hand
In the neat olive grove, Xia Duo rode behind Hank, looking at these evergreen olive trees.

Perhaps because of the early snowstorm last year, many olive trees had broken branches, and some of the broken branches even had blackened olive fruit left on them.

Thinking about last year's harvest should not be satisfactory, but now encountering the inexplicable attack of goblins, repelling them many times but not giving up, this inevitably made Xia Duo think of conspiracy theories.

What a coincidence, the goblins didn't come last year, but they came this year, and it happened just in time for the lord to be unreachable. If we spread the word, the news that the lord could not be contacted should be in a small area.

If it wasn't for Xia Duo who just wanted to increase the authority of the mage tower, then he would have no idea about it.

If there is really a conspiracy here, it might be related to the mage, and it is a mage with high authority.

With this in mind, Xia Duo entered a state of concentration in casting spells. He felt that maybe these goblins were so desperate to attack the olive grove, maybe it was because of the influence of magic.

The people who came before were all apprentices, so they might not be able to find out, but Xia Duo is already a formal mage, so maybe he can find something from it.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo was not in a hurry to go to the north to see the goblins. He stopped Hank who was leading the way, and said, "Go to the village chief, I'll check in the woods first."

"My lord—" Hank was about to speak, but Xia Duo had already driven his mount back, but Hank had no choice but to keep up.

After Xia Duo rushed out of the olive grove, he saw the somewhat bewildered village chief. He didn't explain, but ran along the forest, from east to west, line by line.

Due to the limited duration of the mount, Xia Duo could only use it as much as possible, hoping to find out the clues without needing to activate a scroll again.

……

Sitting on horseback, flying past olive trees, Xia Duo had no intention of paying attention to other people's opinions, and concentrated all his attention to "observe" the abnormality of the magic net.

If these goblins are really affected by magic, if there is such a magic, then it will definitely leave traces in the background of the magic net.

Soon, the first line was checked, and then Xia Duo skipped the second line and started directly from the third line. In order to detect the abnormality of the magic net more accurately, Xia Duo set the main perception range to 5 meters within.

This distance is almost the best range he can perceive, beyond this range, it may not be accurate.

On the first, third, and fifth, Xia Duo and his entourage quickly inspected each other. This olive grove covers an extremely large area, at least 1000 meters from east to west. It takes Xia Duo to ride a horse for about a minute.

In this way, after repeating it countless times, Xia Duo felt that someone was calling his name, but at this moment he put almost all his thoughts on observing the state of the magic net, but subconsciously felt that the voice was not hostile to him.

So they ignored it.

Until, Xia Duo felt the magical aura of the mount under him flicker inexplicably, and the speed was slightly slower than before. He immediately knew that the duration of the mount was approaching.

Xia Duo, who didn't want to fall off the horse, immediately instructed the mount to slow down, and when Xia Duo got off the horse, before he had time to move his hands and feet, in the dim light, the forest horse that saw it suddenly disappeared.

As if it appeared so suddenly.

"Mage Xia Duo!"

It's Uk!Xia Duo looked back, and sure enough Uke was trotting towards him, "Captain Uke, you are here!"

"Master Xia Duo, what were you doing just now? I have called you several times!"

"I thought of a situation that might be related to the goblin's change." Xia Duo didn't hide anything, and spoke out his speculation that there might be mysterious magic in the olive grove.

Of course, he did not disclose the news that the lord could not be contacted.

"Before, did anyone suspect that the goblins were attracted by magic?"

"Of course there is, but we put individual goblins in and found that they would only destroy the nearby olive trees, and would not look for anything. If it is really magic, wouldn't it be that the entire olive grove has been cast by magic?"

Uke obviously had a certain understanding of magic, and he didn't think anyone could cast spells on such a large olive grove.

In this regard, Xia Duo did not refute. Uke speculated from the existing results, but Xia Duo directly assumed a mastermind behind the scenes. If there is a mastermind behind the scenes who wants to achieve this effect, there must be other ways.

Magic is so amazing, how can you be sure that there is no such magic?

Xia Duo is still more inclined to his own speculation, that is to say, there may really be a mastermind behind the scenes.

Thinking about it this way, Xia Duo became suspicious of the people in the village. Although the lord ordered them to take care of the olive grove, if someone threatened them or used money to lure them, there was no guarantee that they would not commit betrayal.

And the one most likely to betray is of course the village chief. For a while, Xia Duo's brain was wide open, and everyone was suspicious, but in the end it was just a suspicion that stayed in his mind.

Seeing Xia Duo's sudden silence, Uke reminded softly: "Master Xia Duo, the goblins are almost gathered now. If we don't clean them up as soon as possible, it will become more and more difficult to clean up later, and it will also impact the olive grove. We Insufficient manpower is difficult to fully protect."

"Oh, yes, let's clean up the goblins first."

Xia Duo put away his doubts for the time being, and planned to take a good look at the villagers who came over later. Moreover, Xia Duo, the goblin, was full of malice. He was almost frightened by the goblin when he first crossed over.

Later, during the Beastman War, although he led the team to clean up a lot of goblin lairs, he never killed them with his own hands. Now, due to the awakening of his blood, his strength has greatly increased, and his desire to fight has greatly increased.

……

On the north side of the olive grove, there was originally a piece of shrubbery. During the previous cleaning of the goblins, it had been completely cut down, but the goblins seemed to have identified that piece of land, even if there was no obstruction, they still gathered there.

Xia Duo looked over from a distance, and there was a dense cloud. He couldn't count how many there were, at least dozens of them. I really don't know where these goblins came from.

"Captain Uke, there are a lot of goblins, there are only ten of you—"

"Master Xia Duo, don't worry, those goblins don't belong to the same tribe, sometimes when they fight, they even beat themselves, besides, there are still them."

As he said that, Uke pointed to the villagers who were following behind, and Xia Duo felt a little funny when he mentioned the villagers. The clothes of these villagers were still neat, and they were all linen clothes.

But there are all kinds of weapons, such as pitchforks, sickles, sticks, hoes, and machetes, and they can use almost anything they can find. Xia Duo seriously doubts their combat effectiveness.

But since Uke is confident and has cleaned up several times before, Xia Duo reluctantly believes them.

(End of this chapter)