Author: Arion's Dolphins

Hearing this, Andrea was stunned for a moment, and then sighed heavily.

Before last autumn, she knew about this matter when she was still making a living elsewhere, and felt deeply incomprehensible about it.

According to the royal family, the event organized by the third princess is aimed at finding "real warriors", but in fact, Andrea seriously doubts that such a grand event is just to add to the royal family's zoo.

The upper-class aristocrats always have this kind of activity, and she is actually used to it. Half a year ago, there were passionate young middle-class nobles who came to Luford, hoping to find some rare and exotic beasts and bring them back to the royal capital for them.

The love affair with the princess that I miss so much.

However, there are not many such people. The group of aristocratic children who really have ideas and actions are either joining the army on the front line to gain qualifications, taking risks in various places to accumulate experience, or gradually taking over the family business, or at the worst, they are busy improving themselves in the academy.

With his strength and combat command ability, he doesn't have much time to care about such things, and it's not a royal family recruitment, so the actual benefits it brings are not great.

In short, most of the people who responded to the call were noble children. To classify the noble children, most of them were playboys. Let’s put this kind of people aside for now, but 80% of them are the masters of Three Minutes of Heat. Cang Cang near the royal capital

It's okay to make some noise in Guan Forest, but it's a bit unnecessary to go to Luford across half the kingdom.

I just didn't expect that the young talents in the capital, which had been silent for a long time, have become lively again recently. The main reason is that they heard the news about Tang Zhao's existence.

In the early days, considering the preferences of most women, the creatures they subdued were basically cute, but they repeatedly ran into obstacles. However, those powerful and majestic creatures could be praised casually by the beautiful and noble princess, which was great for them.

Pointed out the direction.

Many mercenaries have witnessed Tang Zhao's form, and even hunters and adventurers who occasionally go into the mountains will sometimes see Tang Zhao. He will not hide himself in the forest unless necessary.

Animal princesses who are too weak cannot be looked down upon. Creatures that are too powerful, such as dragons and titans, are obviously unable to deal with them with their strength. Playboys are playboys. They have basically received an education consistent with aristocratic status and have no IQ.

The problem is, they definitely can't afford to offend a creature that the king and the five marquises can't deal with.

In this case, Tang Zhao, who seemed not weak but not completely unable to deal with him, was just right, neither strong nor weak.

After thinking about it, Andrea shook her head slightly: "Understood, pay attention to their movements, and arrange some businessmen to sell things in high-end hotels, slightly increase the price, about 20% will be enough, and the packaging will be more high-end, in line with those nobles

Business Identity.”

The subordinate responded and went to arrange the manpower.

Andrea looked around, quickly took out the paper and wrote a letter. After finishing, she whistled, and a pigeon flew down from the nearby eaves. She stuffed the letter into the pigeon tied to its feet.

After picking up the mailbox, he patted the pigeon's wings. The other party immediately understood, flapped his wings and flew away, heading towards Insula.

——

After receiving the news, Tang Zhao was a little dumbfounded: he had to leave because of these adventurers last time, and he ran into them again this time.

But this time he doesn't plan to run away, he has already taken root here.

Of course, he also had a headache on how to deal with this group of aristocratic children. These people were easy to deal with, but their background was too big.

In terms of the noble children themselves, they are not many in number, their coordination is basically poor, and their strength is not very good. At most, they have better equipment, but it is innocuous. The goblins equipped with poisonous arrows can deal with them without even having to take action from the elves.

However, most of them came from the royal capital, the center of power, and it was difficult for Tang Zhao to do anything to them.

Tang Zhao called Lilith and Elena.

[Recently, some humans will try to approach our settlement. Don't kill them. Use your magic to confuse them and let them come out of the forest. That's it. 】

A relatively safe method, first-hand preparation. It is not difficult for them, which is their specialty.

With his tail tapping the ground lightly, Tang Zhao thought for a while and came up with another idea.

[Take one-fifth of the reserve fund from the treasury and prepare to give it to Andrea next time Hermes’ people come again.]

"They always have a lot of capital reserves there. It seems unnecessary. Are they preparing to buy something important?"

Lilith was relatively familiar with Tang Zhao, so if she had questions in her mind, she asked them directly.

[It was used to deal with Earl Luford. Now I have reason to suspect that the reason why he has not contacted us yet is because of those noble children. He wants to see how we deal with this kind of thing. If we kill someone because of

The descendant of a great noble has caused dissatisfaction in the royal capital, so I think he won't mind being a vanguard, and if we handle it well and the situation doesn't get out of control, he probably won't mind helping us tie it up in the end, of course.

It’s the kind that requires a fee.】

After Lilith and Elena left, Tang Zhao was still thinking about some issues.

[Judging from the information Andrea gave me, it seems that the demons in eastern Oran have also been suppressed. There have been no major changes in food prices, and I have not heard of any major weapons orders being placed by the government. If there is such a thing

, I definitely can’t hide it from businessmen across the country.】

He believed that the hobgoblin must have made a careful plan by wasting so much effort to send the scroll in, and would not make too serious a misjudgment of Oran's combat effectiveness and reaction ability. But judging from the current situation, it seems that

The hobgoblin's plan had failed, and Tang Zhao was wondering if they had other plans.

[The purpose of disrupting the rear area has not been achieved, and the consumption of materials has not reached that level. All the troops used are directly under the royal capital and the major nobles, which has no impact on the defense of the border. 】

After thinking about it, Tang Zhao could not come up with a reasonable explanation. However, he was always very cautious towards the enemy. He still believed that he had not understood the hobgoblin's plan, and would not think that this was simply a failure of the plan.

While he was frowning, a kobold ran to the door, stamped his feet on the floor, and signaled Tang Zhao's arrival.

【What's the matter? Just say it, I can hear you.】

"Mr. Franz is looking for you. He just arrived here and said he came here specially."

Tang Zhao had a slight impression of the kobold in front of him. After all, the settlement was so large and he was not a kobold in the city. However, in view of Franz's behavior, after his story spread through the mouths of the city's kobolds, in fact, the forest

The kobolds in the village also respected him quite a bit and called him "Old Sir". His reputation among the kobolds was second only to Tang Zhao himself.

Tang Zhao nodded, then stood up and walked out of the crypt.

If you can make the other party come all the way, there must be something important.

——

Franz was not a person who liked nonsense either. He gave Tang Zhao a few brief greetings and then got straight to the point.

"How are the defense preparations going? Does the hobgoblin have any new moves?"

[Everything that should be prepared has basically been prepared. The hobgoblins are constantly sending out scout teams to test, and we have successfully intercepted them. But looking at the situation, they are not long away from officially launching an attack. 】

"In this case, although it is a little inappropriate, I think the swamp in the northeast of Insura needs to be guarded against."

Tang Zhao was a little surprised. After all, no one had mentioned this to him before. He only knew that there were vast swamps there. It was a harsh terrain that was extremely uninhabitable for most races. Together with the mountains, it successfully blocked the road.

The human world and the orc world.

[You have shared with me the recent situation of the hobgoblins and orcs. Apparently there is some kind of secret agreement between them, and they have even formed an alliance. We can all see that the road running through the Everlook Mountains is extremely critical to both of their races, not only

It can attack the rear of the elves, and it can also raid the undefended cities and villages in the west of Oran.

I have lived near here for a long time. Their defense of the swamp is quite haphazard. There is only a city wall and a few outposts, and the number of troops is only a few hundred. Once it is breached, there is no second layer of defense against orcs or hobgoblins.

The army can directly threaten Luford. Luford's city defenses are relatively complete under the supervision of the Church of Heim, but the number of troops is seriously insufficient. It is only enough to maintain public order and not enough for war.】

Speaking of this, Tang Zhao also understood what Franz wanted to say, which was that he was worried that the orcs and hobgoblins would attack together to defeat the humans first, or bypass the humans and form a double-sided attack on them.

[The human heart is too big. Even if the west has always been peaceful, at least one or two troops should be deployed. My impression seems to be that there are troops stationed nearby. Is there something unexpected? 】

Hearing this, Franz was also helpless: "There was a secondary army of 5,000 people stationed on the border dozens of kilometers away from Luford. Theoretically, it could support Luford City at any time.

At the same time, it can also take care of the defense of the border. But recently this legion was transferred. According to my personal

A little inside information, this legion was sent to the east because of the conflict between the royal family and a certain marquis. The elite troops stationed on the border were transferred away, and they have to take over the vacancies. Although it is a secondary legion, it is also a regular army.

They are still perfectly capable of defending against enemies in a fortress."

Hearing this, Tang Zhao glanced at Franz in surprise: He didn't even know about this matter. Andrea did not focus on collecting information in this area, but there was no news at all in the city. In this case, Franz

Everyone can get information, either because he obtains information very quickly, or he knows something that others don't know, or both.

Andrea didn't even find out the information about the recent bad relationship between the royal family and which marquis, which explains the problem very much.

However, Franz obviously had no intention of explaining this matter. Tang Zhao also understood it and did not ask any more questions. The focus now is not on this kind of thing.

This matter is indeed fatal. If the orcs really take action, they probably don't know the information about the transfer of the human garrison, and they will most likely turn their spearhead and attack Tang Zhao and the others.

Even though Tang Zhao had done protective work on both the east and west sides, it was always a good thing to be more prepared. After all, you never know which preparation can affect the outcome of the battle.

[To be honest, I don’t know much about the situation there. If you have any suggestions or ideas, please tell me directly. I will seriously consider it while I still have some preparation time.]

"No problem." Franz took out a map from his body like magic and spread it on the ground. "You should know that the dominant race in the swamp is the lizard people. Unlike those cute little guys, they

Although they are also reptile-like intelligent creatures, they are much more ferocious than kobolds."

Tang Zhao still did his homework for the time being, and began to search for information about the lizard people in his mind.

From the perspective of humans, kobolds and lizardmen are very similar, but from the perspective of each other, they are still very different.

The size of the kobold is two sizes smaller, while the size of the lizard man is almost the same as that of an adult human male; the chest and abdomen of the kobold are very similar to humans, while the chest and abdomen of the lizard man are flat, like the belly of a crocodile; the dog head

Humans have five fingers, similar to those of theropod dinosaurs

Toes, while lizardmen only have four fingers, the same toes as normal lizards, and some even have webbed toes, making it easier to swim; lizardmen's tails are large and trailing, similar to crocodiles or monitor lizards, and the tails of kobolds

It is relatively short and slender, balancing off the ground like a dinosaur.

From this point of view, it is true that kobolds are closer to giant dragons than other reptilian intelligent creatures. There is some reason for them to say that they are descendants of giant dragons. Tang Zhao mistakenly blamed them before.

But generally speaking, kobolds and lizardmen are two species with not much difference. If there is any essential difference, it is probably that the thinking and habits of lizardmen are more similar to beasts, while kobolds are more similar to humans.

After all, people can still make exquisite and complex caves, but the lizard people are purely a more barbaric tribal model, and even have the habit of cannibalism.

"Originally, the swamp is not a suitable place for orcs to move around. There are several large lizard man tribes there. It stands to reason that the orcs cannot deal with so many lizard men as long as they don't dispatch tens of thousands of troops. But.

Recently, the situation has changed a bit.”

Speaking of this, Franz's expression became serious: "According to the reliable information I have received, the number of lizard people who believe in Seth Ynek has been increasing rapidly in recent times, and they are carrying out attacks on the surrounding lizard people tribes.

War, trying to unify them, once successful, the consequences will be disastrous."

Seth Ynek is also a demon lord with a reptilian appearance. He is not the orthodox god of the lizard people, but he has been trying to exert influence on the lizard people.

Let’s not complain about how Franz got this kind of news. When things got to this point, all fools knew that there was a conspiracy behind it. First it was Noi Gu and then Sesinike. The two demon lords took turns to fight. It was absolutely abnormal.
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