NOVEL NEXT Chapter 56 - Fox Tribe's Call for Help!
This morning, Richard woke up very early.
After getting up, he had just finished breakfast when he heard a scribe requesting an audience outside the small castle.
Richard went out.
“Lord, there’s a fox girl asking for an audience, she seems very urgent.” The scribe said.
“A fox girl?” Richard looked behind the scribe.
There stood a fox-eared girl with a heavily fatigued face.
Seeing Richard, the fox girl spoke urgently, “Excuse me, are you Lord Richard?”
“It’s me, what’s the matter?” Richard asked.
“Dorothy sent me to seek help from you. The kobolds have found us, kobold warriors are chasing our tribe, the people are exhausted and hungry, and can’t hold on much longer!”
Richard asked, “How many kobolds are there?”
The fox girl replied, “It’s a large force of kobolds, at least eight hundred of them.”
Richard asked again, “How far is your convoy from here?”
“I’ve been walking for six hours, but the tribe still needs at least a day to arrive.”
After a moment of thought, Richard said, “Alright, we’ll depart immediately.”
The fox girl expressed her gratitude, “Thank you, Lord Richard.”
“Miwei, you stay here on the estate. Mia, come with me.”
Richard acted quickly. This fox tribe was related to his plans for expansion and development. Naturally, he wouldn’t stand by and watch the entire tribe be wiped out.
The Minotaurs arrived just in time.
It was a good opportunity to test the combat effectiveness of the Minotaurs and Richard’s warriors.
With eight hundred kobolds, Richard’s two hundred-plus warriors alone might not necessarily win.
However, with the Minotaurs, it was a different story.
The combat effectiveness of these Minotaurs themselves was not bad. Previously, they didn’t have good weapons, but now that they had received Richard’s two-handed axes and large shields, their combat effectiveness had undoubtedly increased significantly. They were also well-fed, and their strength was more abundant.
Moreover, there’s Mia with Richard too.
‘Just in time a new batch of crossbows arrived…’ With this in mind, Richard quickly entered the castle and cleared out some space in the storage area, then loaded fifty new crossbows inside.
Richard planned to equip all fifty crossbows with arrows during the journey and store them in the storage space. This way, by constantly swapping out the crossbows, he could achieve 80 consecutive shots!
After loading them, Richard also packed 200 bows and plenty of food. He could distribute them to the fox people later, and as long as each fox person could fire a shot, they could kill quite a few kobolds.
Next, he brought Mia and went to the town to gather the army.
“All able warriors, follow me to battle!”
It happened that these soldiers had not yet gone out for training so early in the morning, and the Minotaurs were still around.
The over two hundred warriors quickly assembled.
On the Minotaur side, Richard selected fifty strong Minotaurs to accompany him. Then he gave each of the remaining tribe member a double-sided axe and a shield.
These dozens of Minotaurs were enough to defend the home. After the last wave of bandits was killed, there were no other bandits nearby for the time being, so they would suffice.
Moreover, this time Richard wouldn’t be gone for long.
“Mia, can you ride a horse?” Richard asked.
Mia replied, “Master, I can!”
Richard brought over a horse and handed it to Mia, saying, “You take Gazia with you.” He already knew the fox girl’s name.
Mia said, “Master, you should ride instead. Whenever I ride a horse, it never listens to me.”
“..” Fine.
Richard mounted a horse and said to the fox girl, “Gazia, hop on.”
“Oh, okay!” Gazia reached out her hand, allowing Richard to pull her up.
This horse was captured by Richard from the bandits during the last encounter.
He naturally wouldn’t know how to ride a horse properly before, but over ten days ago, he drew another prize and got an increase in advanced horsemanship and physical fitness.
Horsemanship wasn’t a particularly sophisticated skill, so he immediately got advanced horsemanship in one draw.
Now, his physical fitness was 2.5 times that of an ordinary person.
After mounting the horse, Richard set off with over two hundred warriors and fifty Minotaurs in a grand procession.
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On the other hand, after Dorothy’s delay, the distance between the kobold army and the fox tribe’s convoy had widened considerably.
Dorothy followed the kobold army from afar. With her stamina running low, she didn’t dare to approach too closely to avoid getting trapped.
‘I hope the tribe can arrive soon.’ Dorothy thought.
She took out the last piece of chocolate to eat and then went to harass the kobolds again, but since it was daytime, her efforts were not very effective.
“Get moving, all of you!” The chieftain kept urging the kobold warriors.
The sun gradually rose higher.
When they reached a riverbank, the kobold warriors couldn’t resist any longer and began to drink from the river.
Dorothy struck again, killing several more kobold warriors, and then quickly retreated.
“When I catch up to your tribe, I’ll turn them all into minced meat!”
The kobold chieftain roared.
“You’ve been drinking for so long, get up and continue the chase!”
After the remaining seven hundred kobolds finished drinking and took out some food to eat, they resumed their pursuit.
After chasing for several more hours, the outline of the fox people’s army finally appeared ahead, with only a dozen kilometers separating them from the kobolds.
This distance could be covered in less than an hour!
“Hahaha, your tribe is finished! No one can save your tribe!” The kobold chieftain roared at Dorothy in the distance.
“Oh no!” Dorothy’s face changed dramatically.
“The kobolds are coming!”
Meanwhile, all the fox people in the front saw the kobolds behind them and were both shocked and terrified. However, after traveling all night, many of the weaker ones were tired and thirsty, making it difficult for them to walk, let alone escape!