Not long after they left the mountains, they came across a river that happened to be heading in the same direction as they were heading.

Carl used the wood in his backpack to make a small boat, and he and Hope drifted along the current for three days.

Unexpectedly, after crossing a hill, a small city built with stone appeared in their sight.

This should be the location of the goblin tribe in Salamander's memory.

Whether it was the slightly dilapidated city wall or the moat surrounding the city, they were exactly the same as Salamander remembered.

On the other side of the city, an active volcano is steadily sending lava into the city.

This is obviously not the work of nature, but the result of human intervention.

It seems that the goblins in this tribe are much better than the group who just muddle through outside the woods. At least they know how to use the surrounding environment to provide convenience for themselves.

When they were still some distance away from the goblin tribe, Carl and Hope got off the boat in advance and dismantled and stored the boat.

The two continued forward along a not very obvious cobblestone road and soon arrived near the city wall.

There were not many goblins on the city wall, and most of them looked lazy and sleepy.

This is consistent with Carl's inherent impression of the goblins. There is a goblin security guard like this at the port where Akanix goes to Breland.

After all, for these ordinary goblins, even if they work hard, the bear goblins and hobgoblins will just think that this is what you deserve.

The reproduction rate of ordinary goblins is comparable to that of mice. If an ordinary goblin dies, the worst that can happen is that they will continue to reproduce! As long as a pair of goblins of the opposite sex survive in a tribe, it will soon develop into a tribe again.

Looking at the goblins blatantly slacking off on the city wall, Hope poked Carl on the back and asked in a low voice:

"Why are these guys so lazy?"

"Maybe there's nothing to do in life. Let's go this way. It seems there are no goblins guarding this place."

Carl found an unguarded spot on the city wall, waved to Hope, then threw out a climbing rope and quickly climbed up the city wall.

The wall is barely 5 to 6 meters high and is full of cracks, making it very easy to climb.

Even though Carl and Hope were very careful, it only took them more than 2 minutes to climb up.

Following the climbing rope down to the inner side of the city wall, Carl used the command to retract the rope.

Looking around, this goblin city is full of buildings made of adobe bricks.

They are neatly distributed on both sides of the street, as if they were carved out of the same mold.

Although it doesn't look very high-end when viewed alone, it looks quite impressive after it has grown to a certain scale.

"Why is it so quiet here? Looking at the size of this city, even if it's their sleep time now, it wouldn't be this quiet, right?"

Leaning close to Carl, Hope whispered his doubts.

Carl quickly released his psychic energy, and the result of the psychic energy's feedback was: within a radius of 300 meters, there were no other goblins except those on the city wall.

After telling Hope the results of the psychic investigation, the two looked at each other, a little confused for a moment.

"Go forward and check again!"

Helplessly, the two had to go deeper.

One hundred meters, two hundred meters, until the two men had advanced a kilometer, they finally found signs of life around the city walls near the inner city.

Compared to the goblins guarding the outermost city wall, the ordinary goblins here have more standard equipment.

But when the two climbed in again, the signs of life inside were still not much different from those in the outer city area.

"Where did all these goblins go? On a spring outing?"

The continuous exercise made Carl quite tired. After hiding in an empty house, he complained to Hope in a frustrated manner.

"Is it not good that there is no one here? Are you planning to join me in hacking and slashing our way all the way to the center from the main road here?"

After playing with the battle axe in his hand for a while, Hope gestured twice towards the air in front of him, as if he was imagining the scene of fighting against the army of goblins.

"There must be something fishy going on when things are out of the ordinary. I have a feeling something has happened. Let's go! Let's take a look deeper into the inner city!"

Feeling that his strength had almost recovered, Carl stood up and called on Hope to continue exploring the inner city.

After going deeper for more than two hundred meters, Carl's psychic power finally detected dense signs of life.

"This is probably the breeding ground and nursery for the goblins."

The goblins in the DND world are different from the teddy-like goblins in Japanese fantasy adventures. Although they have a strong desire to reproduce, they are reproductively isolated from other races.

Therefore, it is impossible for them to complete the genetic upgrade within their race by capturing women from other races.

Goblins have an extremely weak concept of mates, and female goblins are considered "public property" within the goblin race.

Because even if two goblins reproduce, there is a high probability that their offspring will be ordinary goblins.

Therefore, apart from venting daily desires, the main task of reproduction is completed by ordinary goblins.

This would free up the labor of female hobgoblins and female bear goblins, and allow ordinary goblins to play more roles.

At present, the only race that can cross the reproductive isolation barrier and reproduce with all races is the dragon race.

However, there have been no goblins with dragon bloodline in Khorvaire so far.

After all, no matter how idle the dragon clan is, they would not look for a goblin to spread their bloodline.

As descendants of the ancestor dragon, the dragon clan attaches great importance to their own words and deeds.

Therefore, even the evil dragon clan who worships the underworld dragon Khyber at least retains some bottom line.

Upon hearing that this was the breeding ground of goblins, Hope immediately showed a look of disgust on his face.

"Let's go! Keep going forward. That should be an important building in this city. Let's go over there and take a look!"

Pointing to a building similar to the Roman Colosseum in front of them, Hopp pulled Carl and quickly left.

…

While Hope and Carl were exploring the city of the Traveler Tribe, in the forest, the goblin coalition finally achieved a good result under the influence of the earth elemental plane.

Due to the influence of gravity, all functions of the Nautilus spacecraft declined in all aspects.

The goblin coalition seized the opportunity and cut off the three tentacles on the Nautilus spacecraft, but many of them were killed by the Mind Flayer arcanists or had their brains dug out.

The residual influence of the Dagon Empire made the cooperation among the goblin coalition gradually develop in a good direction. As one side gained strength while the other lost strength, the life of the Mind Flayer Arcanist became more and more difficult.

But all this has nothing to do with Carl and Hope for the time being, because they found what they need most in the "Roman Colosseum".

(End of this chapter)