Things about the female knight in black stockings

Even though Valenza had never used the magic to exorcise the undead curse before, the exorcism process went very smoothly.

Under the baptism of holy light, the injured quickly no longer suffered from pain and fell asleep comfortably.

Linglan wrote another prescription for them. The prescriptions were all herbs that could be collected near the village. Afterwards, the village doctor could nurse everyone back to health, and they would be cured after a few days of rest.

The treatment of the injured is now complete, and the next step is to investigate those strange goblins.

"Those goblins are undead? Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"

Faced with Valencia's inquiry, the villagers who had participated in the battle with the goblins were very sure:

"Those green-skinned little monsters are so weak that they can be killed with a hoe. If they hadn't often attacked lone people, no one in the village would have been injured."

Well, this is indeed in line with the characteristics of goblins, not undead at all.

Valencia nodded thoughtfully and asked again:

"What about the body of the goblin? How do you usually dispose of the goblin after killing it?"

"Throw them into the swamp and let the swamp swallow them up."

The villagers did not hide anything and enthusiastically recommended themselves:

"Want to take you to have a look, Lord Paladin?"

"Of course I have to see it."

Following the guidance of the villagers, Valencia soon arrived at the place where the villagers threw the goblin corpses.

This swamp is not far from the village, and seems to have been used as a garbage disposal site by the villagers. There is still a lot of domestic garbage floating on the swamp that has not completely sunk.

Valencia has no intention of digging up goblin corpses from the swamp... that would be too dirty.

It was two young villagers who came forward and said that the body of a goblin had been thrown away yesterday. It should not have sunk deep yet, and they could try to dig it up.

The villagers were quite comfortable working with this kind of living creature. It took two young villagers less than half an hour to dig out the body of a goblin whose head was obviously mutilated.

Valencia and Suzuran squatted down in front of the goblin corpse to inspect it.

Sure enough, it's a bit strange.

This goblin is not undead, but the undead curse still remains on the body. The injured villagers will be tortured in pain for a long time. There is no doubt that these undead curses are responsible.

However, because the goblins carrying these undead curses are not undead, the effect of the undead curse is much weaker, neither deteriorating nor fatal, allowing the injured to hold on until Valencia arrives.

"Hey, little fairy."

Valencia touched Suzuly's arm:

"You used to be a necromancer, right? Do you know if there is any way to make living monsters carry the curse of the undead?"

"There are actually quite a few ways...but I can't think of a reason to do this."

Suzuran frowned tightly:

“Controlling the curse of the undead to the extent that it can coexist with living creatures is a very delicate job for the necromancer, which is quite consuming.

If the curse of the undead was implanted into a powerful monster, it could also be explained as a certain necromancer trying to control it as a thug through the curse of the undead, but the goblin... no matter how you think about it, it has no value.

What's more, if you just need materials for thugs or undead magic, it would be much easier to completely transform the goblins into undead. "

"So we still need to find these goblins and beat them up... Oh, we need to investigate them carefully."

Valencia stood up and looked at the enthusiastic villagers again:

"You have been fighting goblins for so long. You must have thought about finding their lair and clearing out all the goblins in one go, right?"

"Well, of course. We will deliberately let go of the injured goblin and then follow it. We have tried it several times."

The villagers nodded and smiled bitterly:

“But every time we follow them to the end, those goblins will magically disappear, and we are completely lost... This should be impossible for us who grew up in the village.

That's why we asked the caravan to issue a mission to the Adventurer's Guild in the Royal Capital - those goblins most likely used magic to hide their lairs, which ordinary people like us can't find. We must have professional adventurers. Just come. "

"It's a very wise judgment. I came here because I saw the request in the Adventurer's Guild."

Valencia smiled, and then said seriously:

"So can you please take me to the place where the goblins mysteriously disappear every time?"

"Of course, it's our pleasure!"

The villagers readily agreed and started leading the way again.

This time we walked a little further. About half an hour later, the villagers leading the way stopped at the entrance of the woods below a hillside and pointed to the woods over there:

"This is it, Lord Paladin. Every time the injured goblin comes here, it will disappear, and we can easily get lost as long as we enter the woods."

"……Understood."

Valencia looked at the woods and quickly made a decision:

"Thank you for your hard work. There may be danger next. You should go back to the village first... Dr. Suzulan will ask everyone to protect you."

"I don't need protection, I want to go with you!"

Suzuran immediately protested dissatisfied.

"No, you need to. You are no longer the same as before... With your delicate body, you can't even defeat the goblins."

Valencia shook her head:

"I'm not yet confident that I can completely protect you in battle."

"...Yes, you are a very stupid woman. If I follow you, I might die."

Suzuran sighed helplessly:

"Okay, I'll go back to the village with them first."

Chapter 211 The strange goblin lair

After letting the weaker villagers and Lily of the Valley leave, Valensa took out her sword and shield and cautiously advanced into the woods.

In a few minutes, she completely passed through the woods and arrived at the foot of the hillside. She did not encounter the strange phenomenon of getting lost as the villagers said, nor did she encounter a goblin.

Valencia didn't think the villagers were lying, and she really felt that there was something strange about the woods.

...It seems that this is another area that I am not good at.

Valencia probably guessed some of the reasons. She sighed, took out the little bat that was sleeping comfortably in her clothes, and teased it awake with her fingers.

"Come and help me, Fran."

"...Um, what's the matter?"

Fran quickly responded, and the little bat flapped its wings and flew up, circled around Valencia's head a few times, and then landed on her shoulder.

"Help me see if there are any hidden mechanisms like magic circles in the woods."

Valencia told Fran what she had heard from the villagers.

"The target you are tracking will disappear when you get here, and people will get lost inexplicably when they come in?"

Fran pondered for a few seconds, and then the little bat took off again:

"If I guess correctly, there should be a magic barrier here for disguise... Just wait for me here for a while."

The little bat quickly disappeared into the woods. After about 5 minutes, it fled towards Valencia in a very embarrassed manner, calling for help while running away:

"Quick, quick...help me kill them!"

Following closely behind the little bat were several spherical wraiths the size of watermelons.

In addition to being good at scaring people, this kind of resentful spirit has very low combat effectiveness, but the little bat is just a magic clone used for communication, and has no combat effectiveness.

Valencia poured a little holy light into the alloy sword, then raised the sword and purified several spherical wraiths.

One of the spherical resentful spirits at the back not only did not run away when he saw this, but actually rushed towards Valencia. He bumped into the sword blade where the holy light had not dissipated, and dissipated in an instant.

"?"

Valencia looked curiously at the place where the spherical resentful spirit dissipated.

The last time I encountered an enemy like this that I sent to death, it was a monkey that was charmed by Meludi's shining sword dance. Could it be that this resentful spirit was also charmed by me?

After thinking wildly for a few seconds, Valencia looked at the little bat that was already lying on her shoulder:

"How is it? Did you find anything?"

"Well, there is indeed a magic barrier in this forest. The level is quite high. The magician who set up this barrier is probably at the level of Xingyao."

Fran's voice came through the little bat:

"It was because I triggered the barrier's automatic defense mechanism that I was chased by the spirit."

"The barrier of a star-level magician?"

Valencia was about to take a step but suddenly retracted it.

I just want to fight goblins, how can I meet a star-level magician?

I can't afford it, I slipped away.

Valencia immediately wanted to give up the mission, but was stopped by Fran:

"Wait...what are you afraid of?"

"Of course I'm scared. That's a star-level magician, and I'm just a weak Pearl."

Valencia is confident:

"If we don't retreat now, it may be too late to retreat later."

"Idiot! When did I say that the star-level magician was here too?"

The little bat flew up and flapped Valencia's head with its wings:

"Rather, it is precisely because the star-level magician abandoned this place that the barrier he left behind will gradually lose its effect, and the goblins who originally lived in the barrier will conflict with the villagers.

I just entered the barrier and took a quick look, and there was indeed a goblin nest there, which should have been raised by the star-level magician.

Now this place is abandoned, and all the goblins are starving... That's why they attack the villagers for food after running out of the barrier. "

"Flan, you mean... a star-level magician who secretly raised a nest of goblins using a magic barrier here?"

Valencia looked strange.

She really couldn't figure out what value a creature like Goblin had in raising animals.

"You think it's weird, right? I think it's weird too."

The little bat flew twice more over Valencia's head and patted her head:

"So, let's go take a look quickly... Let's go, I'll show you the way."

One person and one bat entered the woods again. Valencia still found nothing, but the little bat kept turning and flying in the woods, flying out a very strange path, and finally ended up in a low bush that seemed to have nothing. Stopped at the bush.

"It's here."

The little bat flew above the bushes:

"If you use the holy flame to burn this place down, this magic barrier will be completely useless."

"okay."

Valencia did as she was told.

As the bushes were burned away by the holy flames, the originally warm woods suddenly became much colder.

Valencia immediately felt that there were many pairs of eyes looking at her, and their eyes were very hungry, just like someone who hadn't eaten for many days looking at a barbecue buffet.

Whoosh whoosh!

Soon, the owners of several pairs of eyes couldn't help it anymore and rushed towards Valencia from all directions in the cold forest, drooling and biting her black stocking legs with their mouths open.

They are all goblins.

Valencia narrowed her eyes, and the alloy sword in her hand flashed with cold light. She easily killed several goblins on the way to her legs, and deliberately left one alive and stepped on it tightly with her boots.

The goblin was obviously so hungry that he lost his mind. His bones had been trampled to pieces, and there was no trace of fear in his eyes. He was still baring his teeth and claws, trying to bite Valencia's black stocking leg.

"...Well, these goblins are indeed a bit strange."

Like a scientist who pokes test materials with tweezers, Valensa used her alloy long sword to poke the body of the goblin under her feet and observed: