[1-200] THE EVOLUTION OF A GOBLIN TO THE PEAK

Chapter 162 - Planning

Souta and co. went to the caravan that the old man Jared prepared. They immediately departed as soon as they got inside the caravan.

Souta looked at the old man Jared who was driving this caravan. He had a lot of questions about the Fersch Dukedom and right now was the perfect time to question the old man Jared.

"Old man, can you tell me more about the Fersch Dukedom?" Souta asked the old man Jared.

Jared looked back at Souta. He slowly opened his mouth and asked Souta, "What do you want to know?"

"Hmm... Let's see." Souta rubbed his chin as he pondered what he should ask, "How about you tell me about your Duke?"

Old man Jared sighed before he began to tell everything he knew about his lord to Souta.

Caedmon Freindinjer II was the name of the Duke of the Fersch Dukedom. He was a benevolent and kind lord to his subjects. He treated everyone with a smile on his face and he was the one who personally trained his soldiers. He was also the most powerful person in their whole Dukedom. Even with the killings started in their Dukedom, Caedmon was still the same.

Old man Jared started to become suspicious of his lord when Caedmon didn't let the adventurers from the guild take any quest regarding the incident. He shut down any information regarding the incident and he personally took action to investigate the killings in their Dukedom. The result was the Duke couldn't find the perpetrator of the incident.

It's very suspicious. Why would the Duke shut down all the quest related to the incident? Anyone would find it strange why the Duke stopped all the quest related to the killings that were happening in their land.

There's nothing strange when Souta couldn't remember this quest. After all, millions of players were doing quest every day in the game so it was impossible for him to know every quest that they do. There were a lot of things that he didn't know in this world.

"Is it possible that the Duke is handling things because he doesn't want his subject to be involved in his situation?" Lumilia opened her mouth and asked.

Her questions gathered everyone's attention.

"What made you think so?" Souta asked her. He then added, "It's okay to tell your opinion. Maybe, we could guess the reason behind it if we all think together."

"I'll pass. It's making my head hurts." Bryan shook his head while waving his hands at the same time.

Lumilia nodded at Souta before she said, "If the Duke is really kind just like what Sir Jared said then there's a possibility that he's facing some kind of trouble. If he told anyone about it maybe the one who knew the truth will be forcefully involved in his problem. Let's just take a look at the adventurers that died. If I'm not wrong, I recall that Sir Jared said that thirty of them died?"

Old man Jared nodded at her words indicating that Lumilia was correct. Thirty adventurers died after they accepted the quest about the killings in their land.

Lumilia then looked at old man Jared and asked, "Sir, can you tell us what the Guildmaster did after he issued that quest?"

"The Guildmaster?" Old man Jared glanced at Lumilia before he answered her question. "I think that he left the Dukedom saying that he will try to contact the main guild to send some high-level adventurers."

"I see... I understand what you are trying to say, class rep." Souta nodded and said to Lumilia. He realized that something was happening in the dark and the Guildmaster also realized it after the adventurers that he sent died.

Normally, if the Adventurers Guild was facing some kind of trouble, the Guildmaster wouldn't leave the guild at all. He will stay there and sent out a messenger to the neighboring guild to ask for help.