Along the way, except for the group of goblins he encountered at the beginning, Lu Yu encountered no resistance and easily explored the boundary of the map.
Going forward, there is already an area that is not recorded on the map provided by Duke Guy.
Similar to Lu Yu's expectation, the structure of the underground palace has undergone some changes in the past half month.
Unless you compare these changes with a map, you would never be able to identify them just by relying on your memory.
For example, at a certain corner, a large groove disappeared and was replaced by compacted loess.
Another example is when a new road suddenly appears where there was a dead end.
It was indeed too quiet. If the first group of goblins they encountered were responsible for guarding and passing the message to their companions, then after they were wiped out, other goblins should have taken their place and set up an ambush.
But no, the entire underground palace only echoed with the sound of their footsteps and the roar of the wind blowing from the depths of the underground palace and blowing through the corridors.
Lu Yu, who was well prepared, opened his backpack, took out charcoal pens and a piece of white paper and handed them to Lulutis, who asked her to record the area they walked through next.
After walking for a long time with his head down, Lu Yu already felt hungry. Although he was deep in the underground palace and could not confirm the time, he still judged by this that it was at least noon.
The map drawn by Lulutis illuminated a large number of unknown areas, but both Sigrid and Lu Yu were becoming more and more confused.
If they didn't encounter goblins for a period of time, it was possible that the other party was planning a trap or attack. It was obviously abnormal for them to go shopping in the underground palace for nearly half a day without running into a single goblin.
"It always feels so peaceful. It seems like there are no goblins in the underground palace. It's very different from what I thought before." Sigrid, who was leading the way ahead, suddenly sighed with emotion.
Not only did Lu Yu feel hungry, Sigrid's stomach also growled, and Lulutis even performed ASMR in the chat room.
Two sunny dolls floated around under the power of Lu Yu's magic power, acting as sentinels.
After asking Sigrid to extinguish the lighting crystal, Lu Yu used basic fire magic to light a picked wooden stick to serve as a temporary lighting tool.
The exploration will continue, and the lighting crystals need to be used sparingly.
Since we are exploring in the wild, there is nothing particular about what we eat.
Some bread made by Lu Yu himself, spread with some jam, eat three or two slices and drink it with a sip of juice, it is considered a meal.
Lu Yu and Lu Lutis were guarding Sigrid, the strongest combatant, to eat first to prevent the goblins from attacking, and they were all in a hurry.
However, Lulutis has more hands, so she can spread out a few tentacles and take advantage of the opportunity to eat.
Lu Yu didn't have that many hands, so naturally he had to eat last.
While eating, everyone whispered about the current situation.
To sum it up in three words, something is wrong.
Underneath the entire Lotan Plain are underground palaces dug by Goblins, and these underground palaces are interconnected, so there are Goblin sentries everywhere. Once an intruder appears, Goblins will come from all directions to support them, and even place bets on them.
Ground entrance, surround and kill intruders.
Now they can't touch any of them, which can't be explained by luck at all.
"Did the Goblin mobilize the people here to go to other places?"
Sigrid's words made Lu Yu subconsciously want to pick up something.
What Lu Yu didn't expect was that Sigrid's guess was correct.
Across the ever-flowing Lotan River, which has given birth to many races on this land, in an underground palace near a swamp on the other side of the river, a brutal fight is going on.
Maroni was hit by four or five blow darts on his shoulder, and the wounds had begun to fester. He could feel that his arms were getting weaker and weaker, and his breathing was getting faster and faster.
The auxiliary magician at the rear of the team ran forward and cast a healing spell on Maroni, finally suppressing the spread of the poison. However, as soon as he took the medicine, screams from the front started to sound one after another.
The three shield guards in front flew back and knocked over several of their companions.
Their shields were deeply dented by the blow, squeezing the palm of the shield holder, and the entire arm was probably wasted.
Maroni had previously laughed at the goblins for making most of the underground palace so spacious. Only those dead ends with traps were built to make them cramped and narrow. It was completely unnecessary.
Because Goblins are short in stature, they can dig a dog hole to survive without any need for an underground palace.
In response to the joke, three adult-sized goblins appeared.
The powerful muscles bulged slightly as they exerted force. Every time they wielded metal sticks, the shield guard in front of them would be shaken to the point of numbness in their hands.
Under the fierce attack of the violent wind and rain, the shield guard who stepped forward to defend was exhausted and had no time to retreat, and was hit in the face by an iron rod.
"Goblin Berserker, no, this is already a monster that only adamantium and mithril can deal with!"
The adventurers hired by the team quickly found Maroni and asked him to order a retreat.
The area where the goblins fought with Maroni and others was located at a crossroads in the underground palace. The place was very spacious, so a big melee started after entering.
Now if you want to retreat, you must abandon the elite family members who have been involved in the battlefield, which makes Maroney hesitant.
"ah!!!"
The miserable howl scared Maroni to look up.
A man from an unknown family was hugged by the thighs of a group of little goblins. He was unable to move his feet as more and more little goblins jumped on him.
The goblin stabbed him fiercely with a knife, but because the knife was not sharp, it could not quickly create a fatal wound. Therefore, Maroni was horrified to see that the goblin actually grabbed the wound with his hand and opened it with all his strength.
Grasp his flesh and blood and tear him apart bit by bit.
Maroni's stomach churned as he looked at the organs being thrown out one after another.
The first time he killed someone was on the edge of his family's territory, in the forest at the junction of the snowy mountains.
In order to consolidate the reputation of the Nott family in the territory, his brother would often spread false news, such as the territory being invaded by monsters and wild beasts, merchants being intercepted by thieves, etc.
Maroni, who accompanied the winter hunt, killed a lone adventurer with a knife under his brother's guidance, and charged the adventurer with being a robber.
Maroni felt very uncomfortable when he saw blood for the first time, and felt like vomiting just like now.
This feeling has disappeared with age, but now it comes again, and it is difficult to suppress.
He had personally killed many goblins, and had also killed criminals in his territory, but this was the first time he had seen such a tragic and uncomfortable death.
Watching the people around him fall into desperate situations, Maroni went crazy.
"What's wrong? It shouldn't be like this!"
After the results of the discussion last night, they were afraid of falling behind, so they took a short break and hired a large number of adventurers to leave the city together.
With the help of magicians, they guided the rushing water of the Lotan River into the entrance of the underground palace.
A large number of goblins were drowned in the river before they had time to warn or escape.
After an hour of river water pouring in, all the magicians who assisted were exhausted, and the effect was very obvious. Goblin corpses began to emerge from the entrance to the underground palace.
Just when Maroni and others were enjoying their beheadings, the water level in the underground palace dropped rapidly, and the corpses that should have overflowed to the entrance were brought back to the underground palace.
Having used so much manpower and expended a lot of energy, Maroni really couldn't bear to part with those heads.
In desperation, they had no choice but to form a team and break into the underground palace to look for the goblins who were carried away by the current.
When they found the location where the goblin corpses were piled up based on the water in the passage, the experienced adventurers in the team immediately reminded Maroni not to harvest the heads.
Because this group of adventurers suddenly discovered that there was no water behind the mountain of goblin corpses in front of them.
If the goblins have a mechanism to block the rushing river water and open the drainage system with all their strength to divert the water, then who started the mechanism?
Maroni, who sensed something was wrong, also wanted to retreat, but they inadvertently stood in the middle of the crossroads. Countless goblins suddenly rushed out of the three passages and surrounded them.
There was nothing wrong with his plan, and the goblin drowned smoothly. Why was he the one who was in a dilemma?
And when did the Goblins become so smart? The underground palace they designed actually had special mechanisms to prevent them from being flooded?
The iron rod held high by the Berserker Goblin forcibly chopped off the heads of another shield guard, and the bloody slurry sprayed on the people nearby. This horrific scene greatly reduced their thoughts of continuing to fight.
They came here to harvest goblin heads to gild themselves, not to die themselves.
Thinking of this, before Maroni gritted his teeth and said retreat, they were already running in the direction they came from.
The fleeing nobles abandoned their followers and allowed them to be torn apart by the goblins.
The goblins were not relieved. They chased after the nobles like crazy and kept throwing weapons.
The people running at the end of the team were covered by intensive attacks, and before they had time to struggle, they were overwhelmed by the swarm of goblins.
"Why, why are they still chasing!"
Maroni, who ran out of the underground palace, called on his companions stationed outside to take the harvested heads and retreat. However, the goblins actually rushed out of the underground palace.
The goblin suppressed the discomfort after seeing the sun, and shot at Maroni with red eyes.
In the past, goblins rarely left the underground palace where they were best at fighting, and took the initiative to come to the ground to pursue the enemy. Whenever they appeared, it was a sign that a war was about to begin.
The appearance of several Goblin Berserkers was also discovered by the Mithril adventurers on the Lotan Plains.
They are elite adventurers hired by Duke Guy to kill high-level monsters. Most of the time, they have to go deep into the underground palace to see such burly Goblin Berserkers.
Not to mention, they also found traces of Goblin priests and Goblin mages in the Goblin army.
"Is the Goblin going to take the initiative?" A mithril adventurer was stunned.
"But, that's why, it's spring now, food is plentiful, and it's far from being so bad that we have to raid to replenish food."
"Are these people that group of nobles? They are the recent focus of conversation in Black Shield City."
"Did these guys do something to make the goblins go crazy?"
"Captain, shall we save him?"
The leader of the mithril adventurer team hesitated for a while and sighed.
"Although I don't like nobles, since they come to kill goblins, they are my own people."