After five days of march, Lawrence and the others have arrived near the largest volcano on this small island. This made Lawrence and the others involuntarily brisk.

　　 After another hill, Lawrence and the others raised their heads and looked forward. In front is a huge, black cone-shaped volcano. Piles of white smoke emerged from the crater, proving that the volcano has been in an active state, not the kind of dormant or extinct volcano that has fallen asleep.

　　 On a high ground at the foot of the volcano, a kobold tribe’s camp was firmly established there. This camp has a wall made of stone and wood, and kobolds with red scales holding pocket bows and arrows on several commanding heights are looking around.

　　 Kobold doesn’t have a dog’s head, but looks like a lizard with a crocodile head upright. If you don't hunch over, it will be about the same height as the Rats. Lawrence felt that the reason they were called might have something to do with how barking they were called dogs.

　　The average kobold likes to live in shady areas, underground or forested areas with lush foliage. The reason why these kobolds live on the edge of the forest is obviously because the dragon veins in their bodies come from red dragons, so they naturally like places with high concentrations of fire elements near volcanoes.

　　 In addition to this reason, creatures like kobolds like to mine various minerals, and the active volcano behind them contains a lot of minerals for them to mine.

　　 After discovering this camp, Lawrence and the others did not leave the jungle out of caution. But at the edge of the jungle, under the cover of various plants, he took out a telescope and carefully observed the camp.

　　 "The opponent has at least one Bronze caster." John was the first to find the problem. "Otherwise, based on the IQ of ordinary kobolds, even organizations with awakened bloodlines. They can only form several small tribes with no more than 100 in each group, and at most a few tents, instead of building such a place with reasonable defenses. Large base."

　　 As we all know, ordinary kobolds have very bad IQs, and they don’t take the initiative to learn. However, as dragon-veined creatures, when they gather in large groups, they will always wake up their dragon-type bloodlines and obtain the knowledge transmitted in the bloodlines at the same time.

　　According to experience, most of the kobolds who are awakened are only physically and mentally strengthened. The body has been strengthened from the level of an ordinary farmer to the level of a trained soldier, and the intelligence has been strengthened from the level of a child to the level of a somewhat dumb ordinary person. And once such kobolds appear, some organized kobold tribes will be established.

　　 But if you want to build a stronghold similar to this kind of simple fortress, it is not enough to rely on the kind of low-level awakened kobolds to organize it. Only by further awakening the bloodline, the kobolds who become dragon vein warlocks have enough IQ and appeal to gather enough kobolds to build such a fortress now.

"The proportion of awakened kobolds in this group of kobolds has surpassed the common kobold tribe. I think it may be related to the special environment formed by the volcano." Lawrence directed the phantom of the fire bee to penetrate into the front stronghold. Speaking later. "On average, 1 out of 10 kobolds is more burly than other kobolds. It should be a manifestation of activating blood."

　　 "10:1?" Cogg put down his binoculars and looked at Lawrence. "I think it should be around 20:1. Look at those patrols standing on the wall and the tower guarding a guy, it's obviously 20:1—"

　　 "This is just the proportion of the group of patrols." Lawrence, who closed his left eye while manipulating the phantom of the fire bee in the kobold tribe, explained. "Because of the magical defense factor, I couldn't detect what was in the largest room in the center of the tribe. However, I found a group of kobold warriors who also awakened blood power in the big house around."

　　 "A group of kobold warriors." Cog turned his head to look at Lawrence. "Is it like the blood-awakened guys on the wall wearing leather armor and a bronze dagger?"

"No, there are still some differences. I think the kobolds in the room are better than they wear." Because there are some strange runes on the outer walls of the houses where the kobold warriors live, Lawrence did not dare to manipulate The phantom of the burning bee entered those rooms. But fortunately, the kobold warriors who lived in it didn't stay in it honestly, so Lord Lawrence looked at most of the situation in the room when they came in and out.

"For example, the kobold warriors in that big house wore leather armors, but there were large areas of bronze on the armors for protection. In addition, the weapons they used were an axe and a small axe. A round shield and a dagger on it. The most important thing is that the leather armor, weapons and body of this group of kobolds have some gold ornaments inlaid with shiny gems or semi-precious stones."

　　 "But the strange thing is that I didn't find a bronze smelter or a weapon workshop in this tribe, and I didn't even see the little dog head." At last Lawrence said what he was confused about.

"That's because-this is simply a kobold fortress." John looked at the target of his group on the wall of the volcano, said the reddish cave entrance and the kobolds entering and exiting the cave. . "There is a problem with the information we got before entering this space. It is not at all that several kobold tribes are distributed around the volcano. It is that the two thousand kobolds are all from the same tribe, and the so-called mine is not. Just a mine, it should still be the most important smelter for these kobolds."

　　 Just as John was talking, a dozen kobolds came out of the cave carrying several baskets. Through the lens of the binoculars, Lawrence clearly saw that the baskets were filled with bronze castings.

　　 "Why did the organizers of the game lie to us?" Raqqa frowned. Everyone knew that there was more than an order of magnitude difference between the 2000 kobolds belonging to the same tribe and the difficulty of dealing with multiple tribes.

"They shouldn't lie to us." Lawrence's side thought for a while and said, "The organizers hold this competition to unite the next generation of civilized countries in the New World~lightnovelpub.net~ cheating in this regard will only make Everyone suffers losses but cannot see who can gain benefits."

　　 "As for intelligence errors, this is probably due to the lack of proficiency of the people who entered here before." Finally Lawrence concluded. "This astral plane can enter the most apprentice-level staff. At their level, if you don't want to alarm the monsters here, it is normal for a lot of information to be inaccurate."

　　 "So this time it is very likely that this wrong information has caused us to encounter an unprecedented trouble in this place." Raqqa quickly finished the sentence like a tongue twister. "If we rush up now, we will never get close to the mine above."

She pointed to the ground of the volcanic hillside and the kobolds who stood on the high platform holding bows and arrows and said, "Look, there is some black volcanic ash all around here. Even if we use stealth methods, it is difficult to avoid these soft ones. There are marks on the ground. At the same time, the arrows used by the kobolds are very small, and they can hurt us by shooting at the fragile seams of our armor."

　　 "But the needle-like arrow is no problem as long as it doesn't hit the point." Kogg asked curiously. "The vital parts of our body will definitely focus on defense. These arrows will leave some small wounds on us at most."

　　 "You are right, but I found that the color of the arrow is not just the golden yellow of pure bronze, it is likely to be smeared with poison." Raqqa said. "If we pass on that flat flat ground, we can hardly guarantee that no one will be injured by the concentrated shooting of poisoned arrows."

　　 "So, let's go around and find other people first." Lawrence finally clapped. "See if you can focus as many people as possible to solve this problem."