Chapter 380: The Law of the Jungle

"None left, they've all been cleared out. Besides, very few Goblins have crossed the border recently; even the wild beasts have become much scarcer," Ximeng replied. "What about further out?" Xia Duo asked.

"My Lord, further out, it still requires further scouting. We only know of three Goblin settlements, each with a population of over one hundred."

"Very good. Today's routine clearing mission is temporarily canceled. Call your team members to gather at the east village entrance."

Despite some confusion, Ximeng immediately responded, "Yes, my Lord!"

Xia Duo waved his hand, and Ximeng turned and jogged toward the Training Ground, shouting at the same time: "Gather, gather, Team Three, gather! Team Four, continue your training!"

Because he still had to put on armor and grab weapons, Xia Duo left first. When he arrived at the east village entrance, Mote, who had received Xia Duo's Sending in advance, had already arrived.

"My Lord, you called me here to—"

"There is a Goblin settlement nearby. There will be many corpses later; you can try whatever you like!"

"Yes, my Lord!"

Afterward, Xia Duo asked about some details regarding the creation of Undead, and Mote answered them one by one, though Xia Duo could tell he was reciting from a book.

While the two were talking, Ximeng arrived with his team, fully armed.

"Snap!"

Xia Duo snapped his fingers and summoned a Forest Horse. He hadn't used 【Summon Mount】 for a long time and felt quite rusty. As he learned more and more Spells in the future, such situations would become more frequent.

Fortunately, he hadn't forgotten it this time, or it would have been embarrassing. Perhaps he should create a real Spellbook!

This thought flashed through Xia Duo's mind as he flipped onto the horse. "Ximeng, let's go! To the nearest Goblin settlement!"

"Yes!" Ximeng signaled, and one team member left the group to scout ahead, while the other members quickly spread out in a defensive formation, shielding Xia Duo and Mote in the center.

Xia Duo drove his Summon Mount forward slowly, and the entire ten-man team moved in a chain reaction.

Before long, the group arrived at an area with sparse trees. There were few tall trees, mostly shrubs, and many had been ravaged by unknown creatures.

Very clear signs of biological activity.

Xia Duo sat on the horse, performing Focus Training while observing the surroundings. It was all forest here now, but before long, this might become farmland! "Hmm?"

Ximeng suddenly stopped, causing Xia Duo's horse to stop as well. Just as he was about to ask, a "squeaking and wailing" sound suddenly came from ahead.

Xia Duo turned his head to look; the scout ahead was pulling his sword from a Goblin that had stopped struggling. So that was it, were they there already? At this moment, Ximeng stepped forward to report: "My Lord, the Goblin settlement is ahead. Shall we attack now?"

Xia Duo watched him and issued the order, "Attack. Let me see the effect of the 【Dragon Roar】 Scroll in actual combat."

When Ximeng learned to use Magic Items, the large groups of Goblins near Linshui Village had already been cleared out. With only occasional border crossings, there was no need for a Magic Scroll.

This should be the first actual combat for the 【Dragon Roar】 Scroll, and Xia Duo was very expectant.

Ximeng gave a solemn salute, "Yes, my Lord, Ximeng will not let you down!"

Then he called out to his team members to prepare for the attack.

"Let's go over there too," Xia Duo said to Mote, who had been following beside his mount. As they moved, Xia Duo asked, "Mote, have you ever studied combat?"

"No."

"..."

As a Lord, what else could Xia Duo say? But not having studied combat wasn't bad; he was a blank slate. If he could trick him into learning Magic, perhaps he could be trained into an Astral Mage in the future.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo couldn't help but want to reassign the Cleric Laidun, but once he remembered that Laidun was now the chief steward of the Territory, this thought temporarily faded.

Just as he was calculating how to recruit more Clerics or Mages to the Territory, a huge, low-frequency roar suddenly came from ahead—

"Roar—"

Even though that Magic Scroll came from his own hands, Xia Duo still felt a hollow sensation welling up from the bottom of his heart. It was unclear whether it was the Resonance of his internal organs with the low-frequency roar, or fear.

It seemed the potential of this Spell was still quite great!

Mote, however, was trying hard to maintain a calm expression, which surprised Xia Duo. But thinking that he was a believer of the Lord of Death, perhaps this bit of fear didn't count for much.

So he didn't explain and continued to drive his mount forward, and Mote hurriedly followed.

In an open space surrounded by shrubs and stones, several misshapen wooden huts stood crookedly. At this time, a large number of Goblins had already fallen around the huts.

And in the slightly further outer perimeter, near the stones, near the simple sheds built with branches and dry grass, patches of Goblins had also fallen. If not for the rising and falling of their chests and the occasional movement of their eyes, they would almost look dead.

But they were not much different from dead now. A member of Ximeng's team was going one by one to deliver the finishing blow. Many Goblins saw this scene and wanted to get up and run, but they couldn't stand up no matter what.

Only a few Goblins were not paralyzed by the 【Dragon Roar】, but they were like headless flies at the moment, scurrying around, only to be stabbed to death by Ximeng and the others.

Before long, Ximeng came before Xia Duo's horse to report, "My Lord, only two Goblins escaped, the rest have all been killed. No traces of Bugbears were found."

"Very good!" Xia Duo nodded with satisfaction. Ten against a hundred—although it was humans against Goblins, the problem wasn't whether they won, but whether they were cleared out completely.

Ximeng and his ten men might be able to rout a hundred Goblins, but if the Goblins scattered and fled, they might not be able to catch them. This was actually the dilemma of clearing the forest in the Savile Territory.

If there were too many people, the Goblins would run; if there were too few, they might not win. Even if they could win, they might not be able to kill them all. Added to the Goblins' reproductive speed, this led to the Goblins in the Green Pearl Forest being impossible to kill off, with more appearing the more they were killed.

And the 【Dragon Roar】 Spell Xia Duo created—because there were no tigers in Netheril, these Goblins had never heard such a sound before. They only knew it was a powerful creature and were directly paralyzed by fear.

This brought great convenience to the clearing.

It was almost like cutting melons and vegetables.

However, Xia Duo thought that while 【Dragon Roar】 was effective now, after a long time, perhaps the Goblins would become immune to this sound. If he could get a 【Dragon Roar】, that would definitely be more useful than 【Dragon Roar】.

Perhaps even ordinary wild beasts could be scared unconscious!

"Ximeng, have people pile the Goblin corpses together! Mote, you go over too; tell Ximeng exactly what needs to be done."

"Yes, my Lord!"

After the two left, Xia Duo also dismounted. Watching the Goblin corpses being skewered by Ximeng and the others with Long Spears and tossed together, he couldn't help but feel some emotion. This was the world of the law of the jungle!

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