Chapter 9 Worry
However, sometimes, being too dazzling is not a good thing.

As a student who received nine years of compulsory education in a flower-growing family in his previous life, Locke was well aware of fables such as "a tall tree attracts the wind" and "the first bird to stick its head out is often shot down".

If you start to make trouble before you have enough power to protect yourself, you are probably thinking too much of your life.

Whether it is the Frost Empire or the Temple of Light, Locke does not hesitate to speculate on people's hearts with the greatest malice.

He didn't think that after his death, he would have enough luck to fight his way out of the underworld's undead world, ascend to the realm of gods and live a second life.

As the caravan moved forward, everyone was quite relaxed.

After all, they haven't left the sphere of influence of Lord Bidiya yet, and the bandits can only send scouts to gather information about the caravan.

If those bandits dare to rob within a hundred miles of Bidiya City, it would be a provocation to Bidiya City.

By then, the army of Bidiya city will teach these bandits how to behave.

However, not only the guards in the caravan, but even the scattered caravans following behind the caravan have discovered that the number of scouts around them is gradually increasing, and some of them, who had been hiding in the dark at the beginning, now no longer hide and are following openly.

Obviously, the bandits have already formed an alliance and will attack the convoy once it leaves Bidiya city a hundred miles away.

Maybe, right now, the bandits are already ready a hundred miles away, waiting for the convoy to arrive so they can start unloading the goods.

At this moment, seeing the dozen or so blatant scouts around him, even President Lu Qi felt a little panicked.

However, as the organizer of the caravan, President Luchi also knew that if he showed any sign of anxiety at this moment, without waiting a hundred miles away, these caravan presidents who paid protection fees and followed him would definitely divide up everything they had as soon as possible to make up for the losses they had suffered.

Now, President Luci could only pray in his heart that Captain Locke was strong enough to intimidate those bandits.

The expressions of the individual merchants following the caravan also changed.

Some people have begun to hesitate whether to continue following the caravan.

For individual merchants, they do not have enough money to hire guards, so they are very likely to be attacked by bandits and monsters on the road.

In order to make a living, they usually follow some large chambers of commerce. In this way, after the large chambers of commerce defeat the bandits and monsters, the danger they encounter will be much smaller.

However, if we encounter a situation like the current one, we need to weigh the pros and cons for ourselves.

If the Chamber of Commerce ahead had the strength to repel the bandits, they would be able to make a fortune.

But if even the Chamber of Commerce in front was looted by bandits, they would not be able to escape.

Of course, death is impossible, and the robbers still hope that they will continue to pass by and deliver goods to them next time.

If the bandits kill merchants, once the news gets out, this trade route will either be destroyed, or more merchants will quickly raise gold coins and issue a bounty, sending mercenaries to eliminate the bandits on the trade route.

In the end, none of the individual merchants withdrew.

After all, there aren't many opportunities like this to follow a large caravan.

Once or twice a year at most.

If they missed this opportunity, who knows if they will have the chance to leave the city today?
With such complicated emotions in mind, a group of nearly seventy carriages continued to move slowly along the trade route.

At night, the caravan found a relatively spacious place to stay.

That day, the entire caravan traveled about forty miles.

If the caravan continues at this speed, the day after tomorrow at the latest will bring it into contact with the first powerful force.

"Lord Locke, I've brought you dinner." In the gorgeous carriage, Locke was about to take out food from the space ring when he heard the voice of President Luchi.

Locke opened the curtain of the carriage and saw President Luci holding a red square plate with three stacks of side dishes and a bowl of rice on it.

"Oh? Thank you so much, President Luchi."

"That's right, I'm a little hungry too."

Locke smiled and took the square plate from President Luqi's hand. However, to Locke's surprise, because President Luqi did not let go, he was unable to take the square plate from President Luqi's hand.

"President Luchi?"

Confused, Locke looked up at President Luci.

President Luqi looked a little embarrassed and anxious. He opened his mouth and finally squeezed out a few words.

"Well, Lord Locke, today alone, the guards discovered more than seventeen bandit scouts..."

"Look..."

"Hahaha, don't worry, President Luchi."

After listening to President Luqi's words, Locke also understood what President Luqi was worried about, and chuckled: "President Luqi, no matter what, I am also a military magician who has participated in nearly a hundred wars in the Fifth Legion."

"As long as there are no strong men above level seven among these bandits, it doesn't matter how many come to me."

"Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, I overthink it."

"Master Locke, please have a good rest."

After hearing Locke's words, Luqi felt relieved.

Although he was skeptical about what Locke said, at this point, Luci had no choice but to believe Locke.

After watching Luci leave, Locke returned to the carriage carrying the square tray.

With a thought, the square plate in Locke's hand suddenly disappeared.

The next moment, a pancake appeared in Locke's hand.

With his eyes closed, Locke took small bites of the pancake in his hand.

In terms of taste, the pancake in Locke's hand was definitely not as delicious as the exquisite meal that President Luchi had just brought.

However, this is dry food made by Locke himself, so its safety is guaranteed.

When he is out, Locke will not eat anything given by others.

It would be good if nothing happened. If something really happened, it would be too late to regret.

With a wave of his hand, Locke released a third-level water defense magic around himself, then closed his eyes and began to meditate and refine his magic power.

Recently, as long as his mental strength is restored, Locke will maintain a state of "harmony between man and nature" to slowly comprehend the mysteries of the laws, and let the mysteries of the laws between heaven and earth temper his mental strength.

In this way, Locke's mental power improvement speed naturally far exceeds the speed of meditation.

In order to prevent his magic power from lagging too far behind his mental power, Locke did not cultivate his mental power during meditation. Instead, he accelerated the recovery of his mental power and then captured more water elements between heaven and earth and refined them into his own magic power.

(End of this chapter)