The age of great voyages

Chapter 285
There were about seventeen or eight kobolds in this group, but Lin Chen didn't do anything. Instead, he asked six farmers to wait here, and he took two of them to go around from the other side of the mudflat.

A kobold is a humanoid creature, about the size of a child, and its combat power is weak. Even a farmer can poke a few to death with a dung fork if he is brave enough. Any small group can kill a small kobold tribe.

Of course, the premise is that this kobold tribe does not have a kobold warlock who has awakened dragon blood. It is said that kobolds have dragon blood. Lin Chen knows that this rumor is true. There are powerful kobold awakened dragon veins in certain planes in the void.

It is almost impossible for this group of kobold tribes to awaken the dragon veins, otherwise the early trialists would not be able to get along at all.

This group of kobolds seemed to live by the river. Under the cover of the half-deep weeds by the river, the kobolds patrolling along the river from time to time did not notice them, and they came to a simple village not far from the river.

The kobold village is located on a highland by the river, surrounded by wooden fences, about 1.5 meters high, inside are all kinds of messy animal skin tents and simple dwellings built with branches. The village is not very clear, and the kobolds inside look pretty There are about thirty or forty kobolds. If you add those who went out to look for food, there are probably hundreds of kobolds in the whole village.

The most luxurious looking thing in the whole village is undoubtedly a stone hut in the village. Lin Chen observed carefully for a while and counted the number of kobolds. Combined with the kobolds he saw just now, he already had a count in his mind.

Back at the camp, he used all the remaining ten gold and exchanged them into ten wood-splitting axes through the simulator. The simulator cannot be exchanged for weapons but can be exchanged for farm tools. The wood-cutting ax is also a farm tool, which is a small It's a loophole, it can be regarded as a preferential treatment at the beginning, it just depends on the trialist's mental agility.

The axes were all gold, and only ten were replaced. The rest of the farmers gathered shovels, sickles or other sharp tools, and even Lin Chen took a fork.

There is not a single piece of gold left, this is basically a wave of flow, if it fails, it will be over.

However, observing the situation of the kobold village, Lin Chen still feels confident that as long as the kobold village is broken, not only will there be a safe place for development, but it is estimated that he can collect some gold.

It was obviously arranged by the Tower of the Highest or the Pantheon. He could feel that there must be something good in the stone house in the center of the kobold village, which is the so-called monster-killing and explosive equipment.

He led sixteen rabble with woodcutters and dung forks along the small river, and soon came to the previous mudflat. With a wave of his hand, several farmers surrounded him from the other side, and he ordered a nest Feng rushed into the mudflat, and the kobolds who didn't know what to catch in the mudflat were stunned for a moment, and the next second they yelled and swarmed towards the village, but they were blocked.

The battle ended very quickly. Sixteen strong men dealt with more than a dozen kobolds who were only 1.1 meters tall. They killed them all in one go, and none of them ran away.

After simply cleaning up the battlefield, there was nothing. Kobold corpses were not considered food, which made Lin Chen a little disappointed, but the loach they carried in their small pockets was a surprise, although it was not much, it was delicious.

And what surprised him was that these loaches are also a kind of resource in the simulator, a kind of delicacy counted alone, which can be used as a trading item to exchange materials with other trialists, provided that someone likes to eat and is willing to exchange it with you, but The trade between trialists is not available for the time being, and the crystal simulator must be upgraded to the second level to have it. Now you have to eat it yourself first.

After a short rest, the group continued to move forward along the river. When they saw the kobold patrol team, they rushed to kill them. When they reached the destination, the kobolds hadn't found them for a while.

The next step was to attack. Lin Chen didn't play any tactics, and just led the team to kill in one go, heading straight for the gate of the village.

A few kobolds guarding the door were lazily basking in the sun. They were startled when they heard the sudden shout of killing. When they got up, they saw a dozen big men covered in blood killing them. They wanted to escape subconsciously. The village was in chaos. into one piece.

Lin Chen kicked open the wooden door that was about to be closed, stabbed a kobold to death with a fork, and his men swarmed in and chopped down several kobolds at the door, raised their forks and shouted:
"Kill them all!"

At this moment, an old kobold with a wooden staff walked out of the stone house in the center of the kobold village. The wooden staff in his hand looked weird, with a tree knot at the top, and a huge ruby ​​stuck on it, with a faint aura flickering on it. Lin Chen's eyelids twitched when he saw it, and something bad came to his heart, he pointed at the old kobold and shouted:

"Kill him first."

Fuck, how could there be a spellcaster?
He made a serious mistake in his calculations. He never thought that such a small tribe of kobolds, whose total number is estimated to be less than one hundred, would have spell casters. This is like a phoenix that really grew out of a chicken coop.

The old kobold yelled, and the kobolds who had been killed and turned on their backs rushed forward with great morale. The old kobold waved the wooden stick in his hand, and a faint red glow rose from it, and he began to cast spells.

Lin Chen was in a hurry when he saw that the power of spells at this stage is beyond their ability to block, no matter how weak the spell is, they can kill them. He wanted to kill the old kobolds first, but other ordinary kobolds rushed up to block them as if they had taken medicine , Even if the farmers were hacked with a few axes and suffered heavy casualties, they retreated steadily and did not collapse.

Seeing that the crystal on the staff became brighter and brighter, and a large amount of red light converged into the outline of a fireball, Lin Chen felt that he could not wait any longer, so he stopped his two subordinates and followed him to forcefully rush through the crazy kobolds, throwing the dung fork violently. He stabbed the old kobold's chest with a precise fork at a distance of five or six meters, and he fell back violently, but he unexpectedly hit the stone house behind him and stopped falling. A mouthful of blood gushed out and dyed the staff red, but The light didn't disappear, but was stimulated by the blood essence, and the fireball quickly took shape, hitting Lin Chen hard before sliding down.

Lin Chen, who had been paying attention all the time, felt his scalp numb, and he suddenly jumped to the side. A blazing fireball drew an arc from his ear to the other side, and the mountain shook with a 'boom' sound. A wave of air surged from behind, making him jump forward involuntarily. His back hurt and his clothes were burned, and his eardrums also stung extremely.

The first time he got up, a big hole was blasted out by the fireball behind him, and there were charred corpses all over the ground. A large number of kobolds and his farmers were blown to death alive, and the burning limbs were scattered all over the ground.

A total of nine of the sixteen farmers who were brought died under this spell, three were seriously injured, and the rest were all injured, and they were almost wiped out.

But the kobolds are even worse. The few kobolds in the village will soon die, leaving only a few wounded lying in the corner and twitching.

Lin Chen only glanced at it and didn't care to count the losses. He picked up the ax that had fallen not far away and took a step forward. He chopped off the seriously injured old kobold's head with one knife. The staff slipped from his hand and he picked it up.

Crude wand (fireball): a first-level magic item, which can store spells below the first level. It currently stores 2/3 of the spell 'Fireball', and it can be used again every three days.

Sure enough, the old kobold was able to cast spells with this magic wand, and he didn't know where he got it, which caused him a huge loss.

Most of the farmers who were finally summoned died, and only seven remained, and a few of them were disabled. Even if the summoned creatures could slowly recover from their injuries, the disabled arms would not grow back.

This fireball directly stunned him, but the corresponding kobold tribe disappeared. Killing one thousand enemies and self-defeating eight hundred, it is a lose-lose.

After killing the remaining kobolds one by one, the wounded gathered together, and Lin Chen began to search for the loot in the village. The first one was the central stone house, and the first thing he saw when he entered it was a fire in the house with a pot on it. They were still cooking something, some black and green paste, and a few loaches that had been cooked without opening their bodies. They looked disgusting.

The room was very dirty and messy, and there were all kinds of messy things. He only took a glance, and found the treasure of the old kobold, a small box under the simple wooden bed. When he opened it, several red lights came out. Inside turned out to be some rubies that were the same as the big ruby ​​on the top of the staff. Pick it up and look at it. The answer given by the crystal simulator is flame ruby, which is a precious magic material that can gather fire elements. The one on the staff is very large and of high quality. Ye Gao, the old kobold fiddled with it casually and even got a wand that could cast fireball, it was ruthless.

He didn't know where the old kobold got this thing from. Lin Chen guessed that it might have been found before the kobold was moved here.

He originally guessed that everything in this trial battlefield was arranged by the Supreme Tower and the Pantheon. The kobolds originally liked to live in mountains or mines. It is obviously abnormal for this tribe to live by the river. The place moved over, these gems were dug before.

But the guess is just a guess. Anyway, these are all cheaper for him now. There are eleven rubies of various sizes in the small box. The largest one is only as big as an egg and the smallest one is only as big as a little finger. The purchase price of the smallest crystal simulator is also 250 rubies. One gold coin, the price of the largest egg is as high as 1500, and it is estimated that there are five or six thousand gold coins in total, which is definitely a huge sum of money at the beginning.

Therefore, opportunities and risks coexist, and Lin Chen felt that he had made a lot of money by risking huge risks and losing most of his subordinates in exchange for this huge sum of money.

Apart from this, there are no other good things in Kobold Village, let alone food. The biggest advantage may be that the terrain of this village is not bad. The fence with the sentry tower was removed and moved here to build a base.

Lin Chen didn't sell all the gemstones, but six of them, for a total of [-] gold coins.

The remaining gemstones, Lin Chen, are going to be used as magic props. He chose mage meditation before. In addition, he learned magic pattern construction before he learned magic item making. He can start making magic when his mental power reaches the apprentice level. Arm yourself with equipment.

The old kobold almost wiped out his group with just one fireball. If he made all these flame rubies into magic props and hung them on his body, he could immediately become a magic fort. Don't be too powerful in the early stage.

Especially the magic staff, the estimated value of such a large piece of ruby ​​in the simulator system exceeds [-] gold coins. The power of a piece of flame gem is fully released.

Opening the crystal simulator and looking at the remaining food, Lin Chen recruited a total of twenty farmers in one breath. He spent a total of one hundred gold and one hundred food. Ten of the 27 farmers went to cut wood and five to fish. , five of them went back and took down the original tent guard tower fence, and the remaining seven cleaned up the kobold village and threw away all the garbage inside. It was too smelly.

Now that I have money, I don’t need to be stingy with tents. I summoned ten tents and put them in the camp. The original fence was not high enough and all were demolished. The wood was recycled and rebuilt, but the central stone house was not used. I asked my staff to clean it and go to the river to get some water. Rinse for self-occupancy.

When it was dark, the village had taken on a new look, a bonfire was lit, and Lin Chen fell asleep peacefully.

When he got up on the third day, several injured farmers looked after the house, the remaining half went hunting, and the other half felled trees, while he stayed in the village to meditate.

Now that he has money, he doesn't have to do everything in person. The old kobold taught him a lesson. This world is really not safe, so let's let him have some strength first.

Looking up at the sky, he breathed out the attribute power panel softly, but there was no response, so he relaxed, his eyes skipped hundreds of subjects that had been promoted to the intermediate level, and finally landed on the basic meditation. Some potential energy turned into invisible energy and disappeared, a layer of light waves flashed across the panel, and the basic meditation technique flickered, but there was no change, but he knew that there was a change, his spirit was a little stronger, and a little mana was born in his mind.

This mage meditation is different from the meditation method of the wizard world. The meditation method of the wizard world cannot be strengthened through potential points, and this meditation technique can be strengthened, but it is only strengthening. There is no upgrade setting, only strengthening, strengthening once is equivalent to depth Meditate once, and the increased mental power and spells are ten times more powerful than ordinary meditation.

This is the auxiliary ability of Rubik's Cube Space. Although it can't help directly, it can become a strong person faster with this assistance.

It took two days for the farmers to gather enough wood. Lin Chen immediately consumed [-] gold, [-] food, and [-] wood to unlock the crystal simulator system to level one, and the icons on it immediately lit up a lot.

For example, huts appeared under the tents, and thicker and taller wooden fences and wooden doors appeared under the wooden fences. The sentry towers are taller and larger, which can provide a higher view and guard space. In addition, they can be exchanged for butcher knives. Agricultural tools such as kitchen knives, various seeds, and agricultural implement buildings such as plows and windmills.

It's a pity that there are no cattle, and it is not easy to reclaim farmland.

Lin Chen did some research, spent one hundred gold and one hundred grains to recruit another twenty farmers, and then led them to plan a site on both sides of the river, burn the grass with fire and use the ashes as fertilizer to reclaim a piece of farmland. Each piece is exactly one mu, for a total of twenty mu.

(End of this chapter)