Chapter 6: The Saulteaux Attack

  A month's time had passed, and Mo Yan hadn't felt anything substantial. If it weren't for the meticulously crafted walls that collapsed due to continuous heavy rain, and two batches of suicidal white idiot monsters arriving, then the biggest thing would be that Mo Yan had already started calling Aruba brother.

  Of course, this was also within Mo Yan's expectations. After a month of communication, Mo Yan had completely made Aruba believe that the attack and theft in the village a month ago were unavoidable, and in fact, Mo Yan was a Minotaur who had transcended lowly desires, with grand visions and a love for peace.

  What has puzzled Mo Yan the most over the past month is that a whole month has passed, yet no one has come to rescue Aruba! When did humans become as heartless as demons? From Aruba's mouth, Mo Yan knew that Aruba had many friends in the village. Didn't any of these friends care?

  "I even sped up the training pace." Mo Yan said in a low tone while taking a big bite of the roasted deer meat in his hand.

  "Training? What training?" Aruba, sitting across from Mo Yan, asked while roasting the deer meat in her hand: "Are those earth spirits? I've seen you having them form strange arrays recently."

  Compared with a month ago, Aruba's complexion has improved a lot. After all, for those who have already believed in Mo Yan's nonsense, Mo Yan doesn't need to be so vicious to him anymore.

  "Yes." Mo Yan lied without batting an eye: "This group of dwarves is really too difficult to manage, and they're weak. They're even somewhat unqualified for manual labor. But fortunately, there are a lot of them."

  "By the way..." Aruba picked up some roasted venison, looked at it, and then continued to put it back on the fire, organizing his words: "What do you plan to do next? Are you going to go to that village... uh... to get something?"

  "I don't want to either." Mo Yan looked at the fire spirits crowded in the cave and sighed, "I also need to eat, but without tools, I have no way to plant grains. Can't always eat meat. You know, as a Minotaur, plant-based food is more suitable for my stomach than meat."

  For this point, Mo Yan did not lie. If he always relied on taking things from the village, it would not only intensify the conflict with humans and let adventurers form teams to brush up on the Minotaur instance, but also be detrimental to Mo Yan's future development.

  After all, Mo Yan now has a rough development plan. Not to mention building a castle, at least he doesn't have to live in a cave anymore. And humans can provide many of the building materials and tools that Mo Yan needs, such as basic iron nails.

  "I should be able to persuade the village to provide you with the necessary tools." Aruba thought for a moment and said, "If you can really guarantee that you won't harass the village."

  "Not a problem at all." Mo Yan replied with relish: "With tools, I can not only plant grains but also collect minerals in the forest. Why do I need to go disturb human villages?"

  "Of course, none of these are free." Aruba shrugged and said: "Although I can privately provide you with a batch of tools for free, after all, that's not a long-term plan. Tools will wear out eventually."

  "There, I'll let you have it for free, good brother." Mo Yan's big, fluffy hand patted Aruba's shoulder as he said with a full smile: "Once I have the tools, I can pay those costs with wood and minerals. Just the other day, I found a pretty good open iron ore vein not far from the forest."

  "Not a bad deal." Aruba smiled and nodded, "In that case, I'll have more confidence in persuading the villagers. The iron ore is indeed a scarce resource for the village."

  Just as Mo Yan and Aruba were about to continue discussing the exchange of minerals for tools, a green-skinned goblin came running back from afar, shouting loudly. An arrow was stuck in its body, and the wound had been washed by the rainwater, turning somewhat white. However, blood was still flowing out along the arrow shaft, indicating that the arrow had a blood groove.

  "Heads! Men!" The green skin's sharp voice yelled in terror: "All men! So many men!"

  "Has it finally arrived?" Mo Yan stood up, stretched his neck and picked up the battle axe beside him, saying to Aruba: "It's probably those people who came to rescue you, they actually took a month to arrive, it's as if they didn't take you seriously at all."

  "In fact, I can roughly guess why they're coming now." Aruba said, putting down the dagger with the roasted deer meat on a wooden plate beside him: "Kuru is a big road fool, and every year during our rainy season, we hold a ritual to clean up a cave full of powerful demons. That cave is at the foot of the mountain peak directly opposite your cave, it takes some time to go back and forth, and here is slightly...hidden."

  "Is that so? Well, you guys do have some weird habits." Mo Yan said indifferently, shrugging his shoulders: "Number One, let the earth spirits take up their weapons and form up according to the previous drill."

  "Yes, sir." Number One nodded and turned around to give orders to several attendants behind him.

  Because the wall collapsed, Mo Yan gave up repairing the wall before the end of the rainy season and let No. 1 exercise how to respond if a large number of humans came to attack. Except for Huo Di Jing, all the earth spirits were practicing every day on how to quickly gather at the entrance of the cave and then hold up roughly made wooden shields in a phalanx formation.

  Although it has been trained for more than half a month, Mo Yan looked at the formation of 700 earth spirits gathered at the entrance of the cave and could only describe it as a mess. The shields held by the earth spirits in the phalanx were mostly hanging on the ground due to strength issues, and the large shield at the front was not even a shield wall. The only thing that made Mo Yan satisfied was that this group of earth spirits did not stand in the wrong position. It's worth noting that during the previous period, many earth spirits didn't even know where they should stand!

  "In fact, you don't need this at all." Aruba said, looking at the earth spirit formation in front of him: "I'll go and negotiate with them, they will give up their idea."

  "Vigilance is essential, Aruba." Mo Yan said, holding a stone and sharpening his battle-axe before the Salte warriors arrived: "Although you and I are already brothers, I don't know anyone in your village. What if you can't persuade them? Wouldn't I die with great resentment?"

  "Alright." Aruba sighed and said: "I just want to say, kill a few more goblins before I call them off later, hope you won't be angry then."

  "That won't work." Mo Yan smiled and said, "The land spirit is dead and that's it. Anyway, after a while, these land spirits will be everywhere again, and then we can catch some more."

  Just as Mo Yan was chatting with Aruba, a group of Sarte warriors appeared in his line of sight, crossing over the collapsed wall. What surprised Mo Yan was that the leader was a beautiful girl, and...

  "I'm going! This is different from what was agreed upon!" Mo Yan looked at the roughly two to three hundred Salute warriors in front of him, somewhat shocked.

  "It's probably because I was found missing, so they just brought everyone from the other villages who participated in the ceremony. Aruba looked at the front row of Salute warriors and said, "I have a good relationship with them, and my sister is also here."

  "Is that the leader?" Mo Yan pointed at the blonde girl wearing leather armor and carrying a crossbow, saying: "Your sister is really beautiful."

  "That's for sure," Aruba said proudly. "Emily is famous as a beauty in the nearby villages."

  At this time, the Sault people finally approached the cave and formed a formation against this strange earth spirit formation. Hmm... or rather, they just stood there casually. The Sault people had no concept of forming a battle array at all.

  "It's very strange." Emily's sapphire blue eyes stared at her brother in the cave, furrowed her brow and said: "He didn't get hurt at all, and he was actually chatting with a monster and a... Minotaur?"

  "I've never seen goblins behave like this." Sal said, observing the goblin formation: "Whatever is commanding these goblins, I've never seen them form up like this before."

  "If Aruba can talk to that Minotaur, then it seems the Minotaur can understand our language." Luke noticed the Minotaur's unusual behavior and said: "Perhaps we can let him go with Aruba, he doesn't seem to be mistreating him."

  "Let's take a look." Emily furrowed her brow and said, "Aruba is being strange. He usually hates the Minotaurs, but now he's talking to them. This isn't like something he would do."

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