Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair

"The paladin doesn't know, but I have been warned several times," Victoria snorted with a half-smile, extending her hand to ask Driver to come over, "Come and see if you can find this corpse on the ground. Ghost footprints."

"Where did they come from?"

"There are rocks up and down, left and right. Where can I follow the footprints?" Dreyfudou leaned down reluctantly and used his fingers to pick up some loose soil on the surface of the stone. "No, this is brought in by giants from outside. , I’ll try again to see if the mice can find anything.”

The wild animals living here are indeed more perceptive than the goblins. They have easily detected the six giant spiders and four giant centipedes that have been close to here in the past two days, and even traces of multiple mosquito bats.

"It's strange," the goblin hunter muttered, "When we first came here, we didn't encounter a swarm of mosquitoes. Otherwise, these big mosquitoes that only suck the blood of living creatures might cause us some trouble. ”

The hill giant may have been harassed by this creature, but he was rough-skinned and fleshy, and the stirge's bite was no different from that of a real mosquito.

"Aren't there any other clues?" Ron looked at Drayford who had finished concentrating on the spell and came back to his senses. "For example, a ghoul?"

"This is the strange thing," Driver stroked his chin, "neither the nocturnal nor the daytime rats noticed the existence of the ghouls - of course, it may be that the undead were not there in the first place. Among the lists they pay special attention to - anyway, the final conclusion is: no trace of the appearance of ghouls was found. "

"Then where did this corpse come from? He even took a bite." Ivy leaned the tower shield against the wall and sat down against the inside of the shield. "You can't say that not only what we saw was It’s an illusion, even the giant’s taste buds are defective, right?”

"Don't worry, it's just that this method failed, it's not like we can't catch them completely," Dreyfus glared at the half-elf, took out four arrows from his quiver, and inserted them into the surrounding ones. In the cracks of the stones, "I asked, did you just say that they would come and steal the stones you dug out?"

"Yes," the hill giant nodded innocently, "as soon as I start working, they will appear around me."

"What about the quantity? Will there be a lot?"

"There were three or five of them," the giant checked with his fingers. "When you turn around, they run away. It's hard to catch them."

Even if the hill giant is the weakest member of the giant family, it is not something that a ghoul can easily tease. The ghoul can know this without the control of the demon ghost, so it is not very helpful in judging its composition.

"This is the first time I've heard that ghouls are interested in ores," the goblin hunter inserted the last arrow. As he cast the spell, a flash of green light lit up on the four arrows. "How much will they steal, all of it?"

Seeing the hesitant look on the hill giant's face, Sera answered for the other party: "Does it need to be said? Of course, you can take as much as you can before being discovered by the stupid big guy. If you discover it early, you will take less. If you discover it, you will take less. Get more late.”

Regarding Sera's "translation", the hill giant nodded in agreement, and added: "The thief makes the ore less, and if the dwarf cannot complete the task, there will be more work."

"The ghoul is simply his nemesis," Sera looked up at the giant sympathetically, "When we first saw him, he was eaten by the ghoul. Now even the ore he mined All stolen."

"But I don't understand one thing." The barbarian looked curiously at Dreyfudo, who was busy and preparing for his hiding place. "Dreyford, are you setting a trap? Four arrows can catch It doesn’t live with ghouls.”

Not to mention the short bow that Dreyfuddo is accustomed to, even the long bow with more penetrating power can hardly simply incapacitate the ghoul.

"You don't understand," before Ron and Sylvia could explain, Driver raised his head proudly and waved at the two mages to stop them from talking, "This is not an ordinary arrow, this is magic. !”

"For the next eight hours, any creature that enters this area will trigger an alarm and be attacked by arrows!"

"So that's it!" Sera showed a very cooperative expression with a look of realization, "So now we just need to let the stupid guy start mining and make noise to attract the ghouls to come closer, and then wait for the alarm to be triggered and swarm them all, and then we can catch them all! "

"Catch them all? No, no, no," Driver waved his hands repeatedly, "They will probably run away after being frightened. We will follow them without showing up!"

"Ore and meat are different. Ghouls certainly can't use them directly. That's because there's something behind them that's instructing them. We'll follow the clues and catch them all in one fell swoop!"

"Yes, Drivedo!" Sera was immediately amazed by the goblin's wisdom, "But regarding this spell, Ron and Sylvia, why didn't you two think of it?"

Ron and Sylvia looked at each other helplessly: "The Alert Arrow spell requires arrows as materials. Neither of us can draw the bow, so what are we going to do with arrows?"

In addition, the spells that mages can prepare through memory every day are also limited. Alert Arrow is not a particularly commonly used spell. Unless they are sure that it can be used, the two of them will never consider it.

"Okay, come here and find a place to hide!" At this time, Driver had already built a hiding place and called everyone to hide. "Big guy, just start mining like normal, we will help you solve this problem!"

"As for you guys, don't make any noise - especially Ivy, you have the most iron slices on your body!"

"If I don't have many iron slices on my body, then you have more slices on your body." The half-elf snorted lightly and carefully found a posture to ensure that he would not make any unexpected noises.

After receiving the gesture of the goblin's preparation, the hill giant picked up the pickaxe that Rurik had tailored for him from the ground and chiseled it hard on the stone wall. The collision between the pickaxe head and the ore immediately made a loud noise, and the echo continued in the empty mine for a long time, from the third floor to the outside and the bottom of the mine.

In just a quarter of an hour, the rustling sound gradually penetrated the eardrums of Ron and others, followed by the creaking sound of nails and bone ends scraping against stones.

These sounds are not difficult to detect under normal circumstances, but under the cover of the huge noise caused by the giant mining, the opponent's actions can almost be said to be unnoticed. It was not until the pale and translucent figures approached the range of the warning arrows that Ron and others finally discovered their existence.

"Here they come!"