Chapter 41 The Ambition of the Ogre Magician
For Lacy, as long as he can prove to the temple that orcs have appeared on this grassland, it is enough, and the temple will naturally send people to deal with it.
For the civil war in the human camp, the temple is unable to intervene.
They once tried to intervene and won. However, after the party opposed to the temple failed to seize power, they completely abandoned their faith and joined the tower camp.
This loss was too huge for the imperial camp. The loss of tens of millions of people and tens of thousands of knights made the victorious temple once abandoned by the God of War.
After such lessons, the successive popes of the Temple have repeatedly emphasized the iron law of the Temple's eternal neutrality.
The existence of the temple is not for any noble or king, but for the benefit of all mankind.
Beyond Middle-earth, other camps are always watching with eager eyes. Whenever there is civil strife in the human camp, other camps will always take the opportunity to invade.
Therefore, at this time, the temple takes on the work that originally belonged to various nobles, expelling foreign enemies and protecting mankind.
Since the people from the temple cannot arrive until at least the afternoon, Xu Lai naturally will not stay in Gram Village all the time. Before leaving, Xu Lai expressed his willingness to pay for two of the most common mounts.
Xu Lai clearly remembered that his ordinary horse was upgraded together with the trainee archer, so since ordinary horses can be upgraded, why would he buy a higher-level, mainly more expensive grassland horse.
Xu Lai's request shocked the village chief of Laqi. Apparently he had never met anyone who wanted the worst horse.
Village Chief Lachi glanced at Xu Lai, and after pondering for a while he said: "Brother Xu, this time we are fighting the orcs, I promised you that I would lead the village soldiers to fight with you.
However, this combat mission has been shouldered by you alone, and I feel bad about it.
Well, there are still some horses in our village. Brother Xu will pick two of them personally and treat them as me. Compensation for you.”
After all, Xu Lai has been in society for two years and is not very familiar with the ways of the world, but he is not stupid either.
Xu Lai felt bad when he heard the tone of Village Chief Laqi. The other party thought that he was looking for an excuse to fight Qiu Feng again.
Sure enough, as soon as Village Chief Laqi finished speaking, the eyes of the two young men behind him, including Pastor Rasha, changed when they looked at Xu Lai.
No matter how stubborn you are before the commission, it is a normal bargaining. If you have other demands after the commission, it is probably a problem with your character.
Xu Lai quickly explained: "I really just need two ordinary horses. If Brother Lacy is not willing to sell them, forget it."
After saying that, Xu Lai wanted to leave. He lacked experience after all and obviously didn't know how to deal with this kind of thing, so he had to simply give up the request.
Seeing that Xu Lai was really about to leave, Lazi felt that he might have really misunderstood Xu Lai, so he quickly grabbed his horse's rein and said:
"Brother Xu, don't leave in a hurry, I know you I'm sorry, but I really feel guilty.
Let me choose two of the most common draft horses. One is yours and the other is my own. . ”
The load-bearing and endurance of the pack horse are stronger than that of the grassland horse, but there is a huge gap in the key attribute of the mount, that is, speed.
On the other hand, pack horses are short, much worse than prairie horses. They are a little taller than donkeys, cannot charge as fast, and are shorter than others in fighting. They are generally only used to carry goods or people, so they are called pack horses. .
The price of a pack horse is cheaper than an ordinary horse, but Xu Lai actually wants to buy an ordinary horse. Who knows that this thing has been verified.
But I was too embarrassed to make such a request at this time, so I spent 30 gold coins to buy a packhorse.
Normally, the price of a pack horse is about 20 gold coins. Of course, that is in a horse-raising area like the grassland, and it is not this price in other places. Although 30 gold coins is not the price of two pack horses, the cost of village chief Lazi is fully recovered, and he does not need to pay privately to compensate the herdsman.
After buying the packhorse and adding the 50 gold coins taken out of the gold box after 12 o'clock, Xu Lai's gold coin reserves were only over 530.
He did not plan to spend this money again unless the two trainee archers wanted to advance to the Archers.
Because after gathering the hearts of the castle, he will have to change his home, and this place is really unsafe.
The orcs can meet him as soon as they climb Pingfeng Mountain. They can't just be the rookies like last night.
In fact, after the battle last night, the orcs on the mountain had already noticed it, but it was late at night and the distance was so far that the battle situation was really difficult to see clearly.
All they knew was that the torches of Yves's group were all extinguished outside the camp before they even entered the camp. The process didn't even take a quarter of an hour.
This also made them wary of Xu Lai's strength, so they did not rush down directly, but wanted to investigate during the day.
At this moment, the two-headed ogre mage riding a golden eagle was hovering above Xu Lai's head.
Condescendingly, Xu Lai couldn't notice the ogre magician at all. Correspondingly, the ogre magician couldn't actually see clearly.
The golden eagle he sat down could see clearly, but he did not have the sharp eyes of the golden eagle, so he could only take a general look at Xu Lai's situation.
The two-headed ogre magician saw all the cooperation between Xu Lai and his guards and Gram Village.
Although he couldn't see Xu Lai's team clearly, based on his understanding of the imperial soldiers, the cavalry in the imperial camp were basically middle and high-level existences, and Xu Lai had three people riding horses.
Although the other one is not riding a horse, his speed is not slow at all. He can keep up with the knight's speed. Judging from the experience of the ogre magician, he must be at least a 5th or 6th level warrior.
Of course, he didn't know that Xu Lai had a logistics bonus, and that he was followed by units like shooters that did not wear heavy armor.
In addition to his rough counting, Xu Lai had at least more than 20 warriors here, and there was a human village not far away that could provide support.
In a head-on battle, the ogre magician was not sure of victory, so he decided to wait until night before launching a sneak attack.
In fact, there is no need for him to stay here at this time. Yves has been killed by humans as he wished, and the stronghold has lost a hero for no reason.
Humanity is in the middle of a civil war. I heard that demons, undead and even monsters in dungeons have invaded Middle-earth. Humanity is at its most vulnerable at this time.
With both excuses and circumstances, the ogre magician could never think of any reason why Wang Ting would not intervene.
When the time comes, their tribe, which is closest to the grassland, will inevitably be reused.
It's just that he is unwilling to go back like this. It doesn't matter if he loses a hero for the sake of the overall situation, but this matter is related to him, and he has a responsibility that he cannot shirk.
Then, if you can get back the head of a human hero, your merits and demerits will probably be offset, and you may even get additional rewards.
How can these two cannibal magicians not be tempted?
(End of this chapter)