Don't call me evil god

Chapter 442 Time waits for no one

Goblins have a very typical "reckless and cowardly duality".

When Ceylon County was first plunged into the disaster of eternal night, ordinary people were terrified, but the goblins were not afraid at all. Instead, they were ecstatic.

Because they saw a business opportunity.

The goblin captains at the airship dock all offered extremely high prices for "escape tickets".

Buy a ticket and board the airship. They will take the passengers away from Ceylon as soon as possible and to a safe place.

As a result, when the airship reached the border of Ceylon, it found itself blocked by an invisible obstacle and was unable to sail out.

The goblins immediately became as cowardly as ordinary people, and even more cowardly.

After flying back to Ceylon City and landing, they immediately went to the refugee camp and hid in the camp, refusing to come out even if they were beaten to death.

When the eternal night ended, the goblins seamlessly switched back to their wild form and started selling "evacuation tickets" in the camp again!
The air routes were quickly restored and the industry was one of the fastest to return to normal after the disaster.

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When Pete asked for flight information at the airship dock, he was answered not by a goblin but by a human.

The other party is responsible for ticket sales on duty.

The green-skinned little guys are all restless, and making them stay in the same place and do the same thing for a long time is tantamount to torture.

Goblins, who are good at outsourcing, often transfer these low-skilled jobs to workers from other races.

Especially humans.

Smart enough, hardworking and numerous!
The dock worker on duty rolled his eyes when he heard Pete's question:
"Do you even need to ask?"

“Friends, it’s October and the Harvest Festival is coming!”

"It is the custom of the dwarves to have a carnival in October every year and hold a festival called the Wine Festival."

"During this period, the price of grain shipped to Stone Castle will skyrocket, and the dwarves will buy large quantities of grain to brew fine wine for them to drink next year."

"The airships have all gone to the grain-rich areas west of Reyak, transporting grain back and forth for resale."

"If you want to get to Stone Castle, forget about taking the Goblin airship."

"Before the end of the Wine Festival, I can assure you that every airship heading to Stone Castle will be filled with food according to its carrying capacity, and there will be no room for passengers."

Pete was dumbfounded.

He knew that the dwarves had a tradition of celebrating Brewfest.

During the festival, the dwarves would drink the fine wine from their cellars and hold various carnival activities day and night to celebrate and reward themselves for their hard work throughout the past year.

The whole family worships their ancestors together to prove to them that their descendants have not buried their glorious bloodline.

Pray to the gods who gave the dwarves magma, minerals and fine wine, and thank them for their protection.

But Pete didn't know that the goblin airship would temporarily stop flying during this period!
After all, he had never been to a place like Stone Castle by airship before.

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There are no airship flights that can reach Stone Castle directly.

Things are getting a little troublesome.

Theoretically, the fastest solution becomes:
First take the goblin airship to the royal capital Starosh.

Then buy a ticket for the underground tunnel.

Take the underground train jointly invested and built by the goblins and dwarves to the Stone Castle.

However, this plan was also rejected by the human airship ticket seller on duty.

"Take my advice, my friend."

"During the entire October Wine Festival, tickets for the two main routes to Stone Castle, the airship and the underground train, were basically hard to come by."

"Not only do we have to carry a lot of cargo, but the few passenger tickets were also snapped up by big businessmen when they went on sale."

“You can’t buy a ticket.”

"My advice is that you just wait here obediently." "If there is nothing urgent, wait until the Wine Festival is over and passenger routes are restored before going to Stone Castle."

Something about the underground trains.

Miranda, who also planned to go to Stone Castle to track down clues about the man in black robes, confirmed what the ticket seller said.

Miranda said first:
"October is indeed a popular month for the Royal Capital Underground Train every year."

“It’s almost impossible to buy ready-made tickets.”

After recalling it, he suddenly said:
"Oh, yes! There's more!"

"No wonder in September there were a large number of caravans from the capital planning to cross the Spirit Wing Wetlands from south to north recruiting guards."

"They must be businessmen who didn't get tickets and had to take the slower and more dangerous land route in advance."

Brandon next to him looked a little annoyed.

"Crossing the Spirit Wing Wetlands... that place is not easy to walk through!"

Although he had never experienced it in person, Brandon had heard the bards in the tavern brag about it.

The Spirit Wing Wetlands is located outside the border of the Kingdom of Reyak. In other words, it is not protected by [Past Glory].

In addition to the threat of monsters, there are also a large number of swamps, depressions and mudflats.

Especially those muddy swamps that are difficult to distinguish.

If you step into empty space and fall into it, you may never be able to climb out and eventually be swallowed by the swamp.

Every year, some people stay in the swamp of Lingyi Wetland forever.

Even with an experienced guide, it would take at least half a month to cross it.

If we take this half month into account, by the time they arrive at Stone Castle, the Wine Festival will have ended and the route will have been resumed.

It would be better to just wait quietly in Ceylon.

During the waiting period, you can also regularly clean up the Dark Crypt [shallow layer], or explore deeper into the Dark Forest to earn rewards from Noven.

"How about... we wait until November?" Gail, who was also planning to go to Stone Castle, hesitated and asked.

Pete frowned but said nothing.

He was thinking about something else.

"I'm a little worried."

Reina, who was wearing a purple-black cloak, leaned over curiously and asked, "What are you worried about?"

Pete motioned to his familiar companions to stay away from the conductor on duty, and found a place where they could not be heard, then he explained in a low voice:

"Those black-robed men, I have a feeling that if we don't hurry up and reach the stone fort as soon as possible, the clues might be lost."

"Don't you forget that those hexagonal gems dedicated to the Lord are related to the black-robed people? They are obviously a large-scale organization."

"Didn't the Countess also mention that she had seen different looking black-robed dwarves? This means that there must be more people involved in the Ceylon Eternal Night incident than just the two guys who blew themselves up last time."

"What about the other black-robed dwarves?"

Pete asked and answered his own questions.

"Will they be hiding in the darkness of Ceylon Territory all this time, and evacuate as soon as they find out something is wrong and their companions have died?"

"The Stone Castle is the only clue at the moment, and the Brew Festival is a very special opportunity."

"It's difficult for us to get to the Stone Castle, so it must be the same for those people in black robes."

"Time waits for no one. What if we let them reach the Stone Fort first and the clues are destroyed and covered up?"

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