Chapter 14 Going to the Deep in the Forest
Baron Rons' Castle.
Baron Rons glanced at the setting sun, then looked at the Knight Det, who was standing at the table waiting for orders, and couldn't help but gently stroke his forehead.
Just now, the Knight Det came to report that the deputy squadron leader Chester had been taking people into the Thorn Forest for four days, and there was no news. Not only did Chester not come back, but the people he brought did not come back.
At the same time, according to Det's understanding, the mercenaries suffered many casualties, and the goblins could no longer be found outside the forest. Now the mercenaries no longer go to the Thorn Forest to carry out the mission of extermination of goblins.
But the abnormal situation also comes from this. Compared with the total number of goblins, the number of goblins that were wiped out was far less than that of goblins that could not be seen outside the forest. Something must have happened in the depths of the forest, which led to the fact that the figure of goblins cannot be seen now, let alone the disappearing deputy squadron leader Chester...
"Send people to learn about the situation with the mercenaries who received the goblins, and the Knight Det gathers people, and we need to send people into the forest again to check the situation."
After thinking, the Baron added: "We need help from druids who understand the forest and who can communicate with animals. Have we sent people who invited Jason Druids back?"
The butler next to him turned around and looked at the direction of the castle gate outside the window: "Sir, there should be news soon. I saw that Fansen sent out was about to reach the castle gate, but there was no one next to him. I will go and find out the situation now." After that, he turned around and walked out of the door to find Fansen.
The Baron nodded, then turned to Det: "Knight Det, you'll arrange for the people who go to the forest again. If Jason Druid doesn't go, then hire the newly promoted Brandon, and the reward will be more generous."
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Brandon was stopped by Dart, the army's army on his way back to the hotel.
"Say hello to you, Lord Baron." This was not the first time Brandon saw the Baron, but it was the first time he communicated with the Baron.
"Branton Druid, I believe you already knew when you came. The situation in the deep forest is very strange now, and the mercenaries have not sent back complete information, so the territory needs to send people to the deep forest to find out the situation and confirm the current situation of the goblin tribe."
The Baron didn't need to explain to Brandon, after all, he had just sent him the documents of the Freeman, but considering Brandon's teacher Jason Druid, the Baron still made an explanation: "The team led by Deputy Squadron Captain Sack and Turner's mercenary team, together with nearly 20 people, are not to hunt goblins, but to figure out the situation. It's better to find and bring another Deputy Squadron Captain Chester back."
When the Baron said this, Brandon had no room for rejection. If his level reached level 5 and had powerful magic, it would be fine to find a better reason to refuse now, but now compared to a Baron, his strength is still too weak.
Although he had plans to hunt in the forest, he was only on the periphery and was also away from the tribe of the goblins. However, he had to accept a clearly dangerous task, and his heart was mixed...
"Thank you for your trust, I am willing to accept this task!" Brandon's face changed a few times, but he still took on this task. Although this was completely inconsistent with his plan, in the current situation, if he did not agree, he would be the Baron's hatred, so Brandon had to agree.
"Go, your reward will not be less!" The Baron saw Brandon agreeing, and felt a little happy inside, and signaled to the butler beside him. At this time, Mr. Housekeeper took a purse from the side and handed it to Brandon.
"These are 200 silver coins. If the mission is completed well, there will be more rewards!" The Baron was also expressing his importance to this mission.
"Thank you for your generosity!" Although Brandon was unwilling to accept it, he still took the purse and saluted the Baron.
On the way back to the hotel, Brandon considered whether to bring Andrew with him in this mission, but in the end he gave up. Andrew was a professional soldier and he needed to fight in close combat when encountering situations. The danger was too great.
Andrew is still growing rapidly and has not encountered any bottlenecks that require fierce battles to break through. He cannot go deep into the forest to experience such unknown adventures.
As for Alber, such an adventure, Alber's force and experience are not needed to be considered, and can be directly ruled out.
Back at the hotel, Brandon greeted the Turner mercenaries who lived in the hotel. After arguing the next day, Brandon returned to the room and began to check the equipment entering the forest, bows, arrows, daggers, ropes, prepared food, water bags, and borrowed healing potions from Klein Druids, curing minor injuries, and antidote potions, and put these in the space.
After doing this, Brandon sat on the bed and entered meditation, and his strength always increased little by little.
The next day, it was dawn in the space. Brandon put the antidote, food, water bags that he put in the space last night in the space, and took out the bow, arrow and dagger from the space and equipped it.
Although he has space to store enough supplies, the existence of space is a secret, so how can it be leaked casually?
When the people who went to the forest to perform the mission completed the assembly at the gate of the town, Brandon's originally nervous heart finally let go. Not to mention the mercenary squad led by Captain Turner, even the team of people led by Deputy Captain Sack were all soldiers in the Baron's army, and there were no weak people.
As the leader of this mission, Deputy Squadron Captain Sack arranged tasks for each person before departure. When it was Brandon's turn, Captain Sack's expression became a little kind: "Branton Druid, try to listen to the sounds of forests and animals along the way, hoping to discover danger in advance. In addition, try not to use aggressive magic, and try to retain spell positions to heal the wounded."
"Okay, Captain Sack." Brandon smiled and expressed his agreement.
There was no cloud in the sky, there was a scorching sun above my head, and there was no wind, and the trees in the forest stood there listlessly.
It had been 4 hours since I set off and had a rest in the middle. I did not encounter goblins along the way, but the animal I just met just now attacked the team a little crazy, and then killed the animal and looked at the blood-red eyes.
Brandon had to whisper to Captain Sack what he was most worried about now: "These animals are mutated by unknown influences."
Sach nodded silently and looked around at the same time, "The hottest time has passed now. Everyone can take a short rest, and then take advantage of the cool weather to catch a while."
A brief cheer sounded around, and then everyone ate food and drank water in the shade of the trees in three or five.
Chapter completed!