After giving Alice a lot of inspiration, Lind was quickly kicked out of the workshop by her, who said that she was inspired by Lind and had new ideas that she wanted to experiment with.
Before leaving, he gave Lind a long kiss, and Lind touched his own mouth... This guy is getting bolder and bolder.
Linde returned to his mansion, washed up, and immediately plopped down on his long-missed bed.
Ah, I miss it so much.
Nothing was said that night.
…………
The next morning, Linde, who was up early, was practicing his swordsmanship in the yard.
Large beads of sweat slid down his cheeks, soaking his clothes.
Linde kept swinging his training sword, increasing the speed until it became so fast that it left afterimages.
With the help of the vitality aura, Linde's swordsmanship and physical training became twice as effective. Even just a short workout in the mornings each day made Linde's physique more and more robust.
He was no longer the greenhorn he had been when he first came out of the Earl's house.
Lind now has well-defined muscles and exudes masculine charm.
Linde took off his sweat-soaked shirt, took the damp towel handed to him by Jero, and vigorously wiped his upper body to cool down.
Then, a cleansing spell flashed, and Lind was back to his pre-training, washed-up self.
"What are the plans for today?"
Linde asked Jero beside him.
"Master, this is the schedule for today. You have arranged for us to patrol the territory this morning and have magic training this afternoon."
Linde made a list for himself, which he called "The Lord's Week".
It's filled with my schedule, and of course, I can change it if something unexpected happens.
For example, right now.
A soldier rushed in from outside the mansion.
The manor's soldiers stopped the impetuous soldier and shouted:
"What's going on? This is the lord's residence; trespassing is prohibited."
The soldier who had been stopped was panting heavily and hurriedly said:
"There's urgent news. Go and inform the lord immediately."
At this moment, the commotion at the door had already attracted Linde's attention in the yard.
Linde walked over and asked:
"Tell me, what happened?"
As soon as the guards saw Linde arrive, they all stood at attention and said in a solemn voice:
"grown ups!"
Upon seeing the lord arrive, the messenger quickly reported:
"My lord, the exploration team we sent out earlier has returned."
"Um?"
Linde could clearly sense something was wrong from the soldier's tone. Had something happened to Weeks and the others?
"Jieluo, prepare the horses, we're going to the military camp."
"Yes, Master."
Soon, Tong Guang was brought over, along with two horses. Lin De, along with Jie Luo and the messenger, rode towards the military camp.
On the way, Lind learned a lot of things.
Weeks' exploration team was ambushed while they were out exploring.
Of the 10-person exploration team, only 6 returned, and almost all of them were injured.
Lin Deguang was furious when he heard this.
"My lord, you should ask Weeks for details..."
The soldier who came to deliver the order didn't know much either; this was all Linde knew.
However, soon Linde and his group arrived at the military camp.
The military camp was much more "lively" than before, and Linde went straight to the place with the most people.
One tent was surrounded by a huge crowd.
The soldiers were all outside the tent listening to the sounds coming from inside.
Soon, screams of agony echoed from inside the tent.
"What happened?"
"Wicks's back?"
"I heard they were attacked outside? Is it true?"
Lind heard the soldiers' discussion clearly.
Soon, soldiers noticed Lind's arrival and quickly called out:
"The...the lord is here, everyone make way!"
Upon hearing this, the soldiers immediately made way for them.
Linde rushed into the tent and was met with a horrific scene.
Six wounded soldiers were lying in bed, and one of them was screaming in agony.
A companion nearby quickly shouted:
"Dodge! Stop shouting, the lord is here."
Astaire was also in the tent, listening to Will's story.
When Linde came over, he saw that Dodge was missing an arm, and his ferocious expression looked extremely terrifying.
Upon seeing Lind arrive, Dodge stopped shouting, turned his head away, and hid his pained expression.
Linde stepped forward and used the effect of the Activation Aura to touch Dodge's wound.
Under the healing effect of Lind's activating aura, Dodge quickly calmed down and fell into a deep sleep.
Lind turned to Will beside him and asked:
"I remember your name is Will, right? What happened? Where's Weeks?"
Will said with a bitter expression:
"My lord, this time we took our brothers to explore the iron mine we had found before, but unexpectedly we encountered a group of trolls just yesterday."
"We don't know how these trolls appeared. By the time we found out, we were already surrounded."
"Three brothers were killed on the spot by the trolls. We were no match for them at all, and soon more people were killed by the trolls."
"When Captain Weeks saw that things were going badly, he used all his strength to wound one of the leading trolls, and that's how he led us to escape."
Will pointed to a bed covered in bandages not far away and said shakily:
"Wex risked his life to wound the leader of the trolls, but he also took a heavy blow from the troll's club. If he hadn't had healing potions with him, he probably wouldn't have made it back alive."
"Wex collapsed after leading us out, and several brothers took turns carrying him back."
Will glanced at the unconscious Dodge beside him and said:
"Dodge is really unlucky. His arm was smashed to pieces by the troll, but luckily he survived and didn't die directly at the troll's hands."
"Although it came at a rather heavy price..."
In an effort to save Dodge's life, they temporarily chopped off his entire arm and then used bandages and medicine to control his injury.
This cheap healing potion couldn't cure the horrific injury Dodge had sustained to his arm, so they had to resort to this as a last resort to prevent him from losing too much blood.
After hearing Will's account, Lind roughly understood what had happened to them.
A complete troll army, and it is very likely that it came from the original tribe of the trolls that occupied the castle before.
As we all know, trolls are not very intelligent creatures and often rely on their strong physique to hunt. The organized troll squads that they encountered, which knew how to surround and trap, were definitely hunting squads from some barbarian tribe.
There's no mistake. We found a flag with the tribal symbol on the troll we killed in the castle before, and at that time we guessed that this tribe was not too far from the Lind territory.
I didn't expect to encounter it so soon.
They even ran into their own exploration team.
The exploration team's combat strength was already very low, and they were even more vulnerable when they encountered trolls who were all top-tier bronze-level warriors.
Astaire, standing to the side, asked:
"Sir, what should we do now? Should we send men to wipe them out?"
"Clean up, of course we must clean up," Lin De said through gritted teeth.
"I reckon these barbarians are eyeing this iron mine..."
"We must take this iron mine, otherwise... in a few days, we may be facing a group of trolls wearing iron armor."
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