Chapter 565: A real war of attrition?

Finding plant essences is actually quite troublesome. Not to mention cutting them down for use, those tall trees that have been around for a long time, in addition to affecting reconnaissance, will also become hiding places for some monsters.

In an environment where killing and fighting are everywhere, trees that are too tall will generally be destroyed and cut down by both humans and monsters.

For some tree plants with shorter physiological characteristics, it is not easy to distinguish the individuals with longer survival years in the wild.

Mu Hua asked Tricia to go out for a ride, the main purpose of which was to collect plant essences.

There was no clear target for the time being, and a rough search in the area south of the hot spring town yielded nothing, so Mu Hua switched to a magic dragon summoned beast and flew to the Goblin Kingdom.

The evil dragon that originally carried them continued to search for and hunt wild monsters in the Snow Ridge Ranch area.

The war in the Goblin Kingdom was really intense. Above the forest, which should have been damp and smelled of decay, there was a burnt smell in the air.

This smell permeated a large area of ​​the Goblin Kingdom. It was not because there was burning killing in these areas, but because the wars in some areas were too frequent and lasted for a long time, which eventually formed this spreading and difficult to dispel burning smell.

Looking down from a high altitude, one can see battlefields in the distance with smoke and flames rising.

Mu Hua did not approach the war-torn areas for the time being, but instead looked for places with lush trees and vegetation in areas that were under the complete control of the Goblin King.

Although the human adventurers... Oh, no, although the Goblin Rebellion has not yet reached these places, the monster gathering places in the entire Goblin Kingdom are almost all in a state of war preparation.

Fireworks filled with the breath of life were lit in those gathering places, and the goblins in the gathering places were feasting on a variety of foods, including dishes of dwarf orcs stewed in an iron pot. This was probably a war mobilization on the part of the goblins, right?
Feed the people, train military formations, manufacture crude weapons, add magic traps further outside the gathering place, and so on.

There was no large-scale troop movement from the Goblin King City in the east. It seemed that the Goblin King was prepared to deal with the rebellion caused by the Goblin General through defensive attrition.

More giant bats than usual were circling in groups in the sky over some areas of the Goblin Kingdom. Their regular flying altitude was much lower than that of the magic dragon.

Some of these giant bats carry goblin mages, but more of them carry archers and pitchers. Archers shoot arrows, while goblin rider pitchers often throw magic scrolls.

Because he was riding a magic dragon, when he encountered these goblin riders who were confused about Mu Hua's identity, these riders would take off into the air and intimidate him.

As a result, they are often greeted by dense bone teeth and swarms of white bone souls.

Mu Hua was holding a demon skull in his hand. The skull with soul fire floating in its eye sockets seemed like a living thing. It was a magic prop made from a real demon head. Its greatest function was to allow Mu Hua to foster the enhanced bone soul he had refined.

Mu Hua was not here to fight with the goblins. If the goblin riders did not come looking for him, he would generally ignore them. And when those riders who came looking for him avoided him, Mu Hua would not chase them.

Seeing that the opponent didn't seem to have any ill intentions, the flying cavalry attacked by Mu Hua usually wouldn't get entangled with Mu Hua. Only after discovering some tall trees would the dragon swoop down, perhaps disturbing some goblins who were "blooded" nearby.

"Whoosh~~~!" A wave of flames emerged on a mountainside. The pure magic flame drew a fire line that spread for thousands of meters. The fire wave rolled down from the mountainside, igniting everything along the way.

This is another place that did not receive any plant essence. There should have been a few ancient trees here that could collect plant essence, but unfortunately they were probably chopped down by goblins, leaving behind a few half-dead tree stumps.

Mu Hua released flames as if to vent his anger, and whoever he burned would be unlucky. This orange-red flame consumed less magic power than the white flame. It was easier for Mu Hua to swing it, and it didn't make Tricia beside him feel any burning discomfort.

Goblins build wooden chariots pulled by giant wolves, and also make some retro slingshots.

Probably because the war is approaching, these goblins in the Goblin Kingdom have been destroying trees everywhere. Mu Hua is not angry that he can't find the ancient tree, but isn't it a bit too much for you to leave us a tree stump?
Riding on the dragon again, Tricia looked at the fire all over the mountain, then looked at the angry Mu Hua, and shrank her neck. She had slept with a man with a bad temper. For the sake of other people's safety, she should not flirt with other men casually in the future.

Of course, she hadn’t seen the family rules drawn up by Samantha, otherwise, she probably wouldn’t be thinking about the safety of other male compatriots. . .

After flying around the sky above the Goblin Kingdom for nearly three hours and getting a bunch of plant essence equivalent to that of a thousand-year-old tree, Mu Hua felt that he had miscalculated.

There is a lot of vegetation in the Goblin Kingdom, but there are also a lot of monsters here, and they cut down trees everywhere indiscriminately, which is really unrespectable!

Changing direction, Mu Hua prepared to go to the Mechanical Forest area. The demand for minerals there was high, and the monsters would use the trees as cover, so they would not go after the big trees to cause trouble.

An ogre cave was discovered at the foot of a mountain along the way. Where there are ogres, there are often trolls. Out of his love for trolls, Mu Hua threw it under the mountain with an earthquake wave.

The earthquake caused landslides and also startled the monsters in the undefended ogre caves. The dragon swooped down and glided, and the Thousand Needles created a large area of ​​stone spikes, impaling the ogres and giants on the stone spikes.

After roughly cleaning up the fallen and putting the giant monsters whose corpses were left behind into the Burning Source Furnace, Mu Hua took off again. Perhaps because of the delay, a group of goblin cavalry that looked more elite than the regular cavalry seemed to intend to intercept Mu Hua.

"Dragon! You... uh... retreat~!" A rough roar, in front of a large number of giant bats was a goblin general riding a lion scorpion. When the goblin general saw Mu Hua on the back of the dragon from a distance, he was surprised, grabbed the lion scorpion's mane, turned around and ran away. "..." Mu Hua was also confused by the goblin general.

A large group of cavalry retreated in all directions, but the goblin general was caught by Mu Hua's wizard.

"Crack~Bang~!" The lion scorpion under the Goblin General was strangled into several pieces by the soul tentacles. In an instant, a blood light spurted out in the sky, but the Goblin General was dragged in front of Mu Hua.

By the way, if these flying cavalry wanted to run away, Mu Hua had no intention of paying attention to them, but this goblin general aroused Mu Hua's curiosity, so he simply captured it.

Cavalry armor, war hammer, soul tentacles pulled off its helmet, hmm, it looks a little familiar.

"You are..." Mu Hua wasn't sure. After all, the goblin general he had seen in this courtyard before never seemed to take off his helmet, including when he was pinched to death by him.

However, this guy seemed to be the goblin general who led his troops to besiege him when he was still very young in his early years. Later, he seemed to have killed it once on the Star Patrol Battlefield.

Originally it wore heavy armor and led the elite Bear Goblins, but Mu Hua forgot what it was called.

"Dadarol!" The goblin general who was placed on the back of the dragon by Mu Hua tightly grasped the war hammer, staring at Mu Hua with some panic and fierceness.

"Oh, yes, it's you. Were you promoted or demoted?" Mu Hua, an old acquaintance, was quite kind. He pointed at the fleeing cavalry in the sky and asked Dadarol.

Regardless of promotion or demotion, those flying cavalry ran so agilely, it seemed that they were not too close to it.

"Hmph!" Dadarol looked fierce and snorted coldly, as if he was disdainful of talking to Mu Hua. However, Mu Hua's magician's hand had already released it, and it took a defensive posture, but did not attack Mu Hua.

"Okay, it's not easy for you either, take it off." Pointing at the war hammer in Dadarol's hand and then at the armor on his body, Mu Hua said uninterestedly, feeling that this guy didn't want to communicate with him more.

"Hmm?" Dadarol asked doubtfully, and the ferocity on his face became less intense.

"Take it off, leave all your equipment behind, and give me the space props, and I'll let you go. Or do you think I'm insulting you?" Mu Hua explained, and as he spoke, the mage's hand reached out to Dadarol again.

"Bang!" The warhammer was thrown onto the spacious dragon's back. When the warhammer landed, Dadarol remembered that the ground was not under his feet. He didn't know if it would cause misunderstanding from the dragon.

"No, no, don't, I'll take it off!" Dadarol spread his hands and waved them in front of Mu Hua, then pulled off his caged hands and gently threw them on the dragon's back.

Well, this goblin general looked quite stubborn before, but now he took off his armor very skillfully.

In the moment when Tricia was stunned and dazed, Dadarol had already stripped himself naked, with a loincloth wrapped around his waist and a necklace hanging around his neck. When Mu Hua looked at the necklace, he quickly explained that it was not a space prop.

It's very flexible. Although I don't know how Mu Hua treated this goblin general, this is still the most flexible projection monster Tricia has ever seen.

Seeing that Mu Hua was still looking at the necklace around his neck, Dadarol gritted his teeth, not daring to stamp his feet, and pulled off the necklace that had a certain lightening effect, and gave Mu Hua an insincere and forced smile.

"Well, go ahead. You won't die from falling from this height, right?" Mu Hua nodded with satisfaction, pointed to the side and said to the Goblin General who had completely surrendered.

Carefully stepping back and walking to the edge of the dragon's body, Dadarol looked at the height. His face looked a little ugly, but the wizard's hand behind him slapped him and pushed him off the dragon's back.

"Damn it!" Dadarol cursed, but when he spoke, he chose relatively harmonious words.

A fall from this height won't kill it, and the burst of blood and energy will at most leave it half-crippled. But if Mu Hua wants to continue to attack it, that's not certain.

"You're just going to let it go like this? It should be considered a general, right? Won't it be petrified?" Seeing Mu Hua taking away the Goblin General's armor and hammer, Tricia asked in confusion.

"No need. Zhang Jiao in Taibetha's hand is quite powerful. It might really be able to bankrupt the goblins here." Mu Hua smiled and waved his hand. He chose a direction with a beacon fire and let the dragon fly towards that direction.

Zhang Jue, the goblin general who led the goblins to cause trouble, Mu Hua gave a brief explanation and Tricia understood his plan.

Zhang Jiao was not only consuming the resources of the Goblin King's men. Mu Hua also wanted the Goblin King's men to consume the rebel forces that had joined Zhang Jiao.

The best thing is to use up the war until neither side can afford the projection sacrifice, so Mu Hua is still very harmonious in the Goblin Kingdom. . . (End of this chapter)