A baby dragon has built a nest outside the Novice Village

Chapter 49 Homecoming
Farui saw that outside his lair, a patrol of goblins was pouring oil on the corpses.

They divided the corpses into two piles, one of which was the undead, and the other was the goblins who died in the battle.

Many ordinary goblins gathered in front of the pile of goblin corpses. Some of them were wearing simple armor with uncleaned blood stains on them, obviously having just experienced a battle.

Under the command of the goblin with elven blood, two mutant goblins led several other goblins, carrying two wooden statues and walked to a place not far in front of the corpse.

If Farui saw it correctly, the image carved on it was his own.

The wooden statue was placed on the ground, and then the goblins jumped up, led by two mutants.

What they were doing couldn't even be called a dance, they were just twisting their bodies randomly. Then, the goblins behind the mutants threw the torches in their hands onto the pile of goblin corpses.

The flames rose fiercely.

The goblins slowly stopped dancing and stared at the burning pile of corpses in silence.

"Is this a funeral?"

"Reinhardt hasn't come to pick them up yet?"

This is much slower than Ferry expected.

Krigo and Lania were sitting on the roof of the cottage, watching the funeral not far away.

"May the great and wise master grant them meat to eat even after death."

Krigo stood up, noticing Farri's return.

"He wasn't killed either?"

It knelt on the ground respectfully and presented the tribute to Fari during this period.

Fari was ready to take the initiative and let the goblins try to find Reinhardt and get rid of Lanya as a burden as soon as possible.

Fari is now very skilled at landing, and the noise is not loud. At least Lania didn't realize that he had returned.

A lot more than last time.

If the soul contract had not still been responding, Farui would have thought that he had been killed by the undead.

There is a three-story hut in the goblin camp, which is where they hold meetings.

Even the most common of these goblins can maintain basic formations in battle with the undead under the command of the mutants.

Not long after, Faree saw Krigo at the entrance of his lair.

"That's not okay."

These goblins were different from any other goblins she had ever seen. Except for some remnants of cunning habits, they looked more and more like humans.

Krigo translated the goblin dialect into the common language of humans. Lanya looked at the goblins not far away. They were surrounding the burning corpse and praying in low voices. It was not only a funeral, but also a sacrificial activity for the goblins.

"Master is back?"

Fary saw Krigor and Lania on the roof.

Farui didn't see many adventurers on his way back. The undead were very efficient, and only a few adventurer teams were still struggling to deal with them. Reinhardt was a level five warrior, and even with his trump card, his strength was only level seven or eight.

Farui couldn't understand the goblin dialect and could only guess their behavior.

“Those villages have signed contracts to purchase our security services, and their revenue has increased recently.”

Krige reported recent events to Farri.

"We have reinforced the defenses of those villages and set up sentries at the nodes of the roads. For the time being, we can still deal with the wandering undead."

It seemed that the undead had not yet set their sights on this side, but from what Farui had seen along the way, if there were no other forces to hold them back, his goblin servants would be overwhelmed by the undead once they had dealt with the adventurers.

"As long as we can return to my sphere of influence, my people can contain those undead spirits."

Lania spoke up.

She saw a powerful ally. She had been evaluating these goblins for the past few days.

They started with a force of just over 500, but after the skirmishes with the Undead over the past few days, their force has increased to over 800.

The goblins were dying in battle at a rate that could not keep up with their reproduction in the camp.

These 800-plus goblins, most of which are mutants of the second or third order monster level, have a combat power roughly equal to that of three Shadow Crows’ “wings”.

Moreover, as the goblins reproduce, their numbers will grow rapidly, and it seems that apart from food and gold, these goblins have no extra pursuits.

They didn't even try to take the village from those villagers.

This would be a force to be used well.

"We have a common enemy. Perhaps we can form an alliance to fight the enemy together."

Allies are exactly what Fari needs.

"Dispatch some personnel to search the surrounding area for an adventurer named Reinhardt."

But Fari did not respond to Lannia's invitation to form an alliance immediately. An alliance is also a kind of contract, which has considerable binding force. There are many examples of people being betrayed by allies. He doesn't know much about Lannia in front of him now, so he needs to observe her.

It won't be too late to decide after we find Reinhardt.

The goblins quickly received the order and sent out several teams to start searching outward in a fan shape.

But what Fari didn't know was that his order slowed down Reinhardt's progress.

Reinhardt and Ella hid in an abandoned hut, waiting for the goblins searching the abandoned village to leave.

"What's going on? There weren't these goblins last time."

Reinhardt didn't know that these goblins were servants of Farrell.

He had witnessed the battle between these goblins and the undead before, and considering the fighting power shown by these goblins, it would be difficult to eliminate this goblin search team quietly.

There are a lot of undead pursuers behind him, and it will be troublesome if he gets entangled.

"Walaka."

The goblin walked to the house where Reinhardt was hiding and suddenly shouted.

For a moment Reinhardt thought he had been discovered, but soon the goblins bypassed the house and rushed forward.

A group of undead pursuers ran into this group of goblins.

While the two sides started fighting, Reinhardt sneaked away with Ella.

"You said the princess is really in this direction?"

When Ella and Reinhardt were hiding from the undead creatures, she noticed that Reinhardt's route was highly purposeful.

Under her questioning, Reinhardt did not hide his destination, which was to save Lania.

Ella was smart enough not to press the issue further as to why Reinhardt seemed to know where Lania was.

"If you really want to follow me to rescue the princess, with our current strength, you will most likely be courting death."

Reinhardt once advised Ella to leave, but Ella just shrugged.

"Where can I go now? Not to mention that my father has already surrendered to the vampires. Even if he hasn't, I will be asked to leave in a few days."

This is the case with the descendants of minor nobles who cannot inherit the title. Most of these descendants either become adventurers or can only work as thugs for certain forces.

"Just let me join your team."

This was the third time Ella asked Reinhardt to form a team.

(End of this chapter)