Chapter 40 Blue-horned Hippo

late at night.

Richard put down the magic book in his hand. He only learned three kinds of magic in one day. It would take four or five days to finish learning.

Beside him, Margaret was also studying a magic book, but at this moment she had already started kowtowing.

I didn’t expect that Margaret’s family is so powerful and she studies so hard. It seems that I have to work hard too.

Richard took the book from Margaret's hand, and Margaret woke up suddenly.

"I've finished studying for today. Do you want to go back with me?"

Margaret was stunned, not yet awake from her sweet dream.

Richard stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Margaret. Margaret's eyes successfully focused and she looked at Richard in front of her with a slightly red cheek. "What did you say just now?"

"I said I'm going back, do you want to come with me?"

"Together?"

……

Margaret followed Richard step by step on the quiet street. Margaret could only feel her heart pounding as if a deer was running around in her heart.

"Where is your home? Let me take you back first." Richard asked Margaret.

"Send me back?"

"What else? Are you going to my house?" Richard was puzzled.

"Oh, it's okay. I live over there."

For some reason, Richard felt a sense of depression in Margaret's tone.

……

After sending Margaret home, Richard returned to his own courtyard.

Today is also the day when the Tiger Tribe arrives at the Qinghe Tribe. Richard has already agreed with Vic to enter the Qinghe Tribe in the evening.

At this moment, the Tiger God has arrived at the outskirts of the Qinghe tribe.

The Qinghe tribe was built by the water and had a population of over a thousand. Unlike the Menghu tribe, which built houses with stones, they had begun to use wood to build rows of houses. They also built simple fences with wood outside the tribe to prevent wild animals from entering.

Richard was completely invisible due to the effect of lurking in the dark night, and the people of Qinghe tribe didn't notice him at all.

At this moment, the entire Qinghe tribe was silent, without even a spark of fire, but there were still many people patrolling the tribe.

"Crash."

Richard suddenly heard the sound of water.

Richard looked towards the river beside the Qinghe tribe, and saw strange outlines emerging on the river surface, gradually approaching the Qinghe tribe.

There was also a group of people in the Qinghe tribe, each carrying a bamboo basket and walking towards the river.

What is this for?

I saw strange outlines in the river approaching the shore and bodies emerging from the river.

"That is?"

Richard was shocked.

Those strange outlines turned out to be giant beasts larger than the Earth Bear, with blue horns on their heads looming in the darkness.

“It turned out to be blue-horned hippos, and there were so many of them.”

The blue-horned hippopotamus is a special low-level magical beast in the wizarding world. Although this hippopotamus can live both on land and in water, it stays in the water during the day and only comes out at night.

As for combat effectiveness, it should be slightly inferior to the Earth Bear on land, but in the water, the Earth Bear cannot beat the Blue-horned Hippo.

It took Richard half a day to deal with a giant earth bear, let alone more than a dozen blue-horned hippos.

I saw more than a dozen blue-horned hippos coming to the shore, each with their mouths wide open, like pets waiting to be fed.

The group of people carrying bamboo baskets put the contents of the baskets into the mouths of the blue-horned hippos, and the blue-horned hippos made crunching chewing sounds.

Richard took a closer look and saw that there were various kinds of fruits in the bamboo basket.

Unexpectedly, the people of the Qinghe tribe were actually raising blue-horned hippos, which was consistent with the information Richard had learned in the past.

The blue-horned hippopotamus has a gentle temperament and rarely hurts people directly. The blue-horned hippopotamus' favorite food is fruit.

Unfortunately, in the wizarding world, people began to capture blue-horned hippos by taking advantage of their love of fruit, and then used magic contracts to tame them as mounts. In some watery planes, these blue-horned hippo mounts played a huge role. Because of this, there are no blue-horned hippos anymore near human gathering places in the wizarding world.

After eating the fruits, a dozen blue-horned hippos returned to the water, and their outlines gradually disappeared on the river surface.

"I don't know what the chief was thinking. He actually gave the precious fruits to these monsters to eat."

"If we don't feed them with fruits, our tribe will be in danger when they come ashore to look for food."

That's true. Given the size of the blue-horned hippopotamus, even if it didn't actively hurt people, it could easily break through the wooden fence of the Qinghe tribe and trample people to death.

"That's true, but if we secretly keep some fruit..."

"You are asking for your life. Last time, Ah Cai secretly hid the fruit, and when the chief found out, he was thrown to the monsters to be eaten."

A group of people holding empty bamboo baskets walked towards the Qinghe tribe.

From what he overheard just now, Richard also knew that these people fed the blue-horned hippos only to prevent them from coming ashore and hurting people when they were hungry, and they were not really able to tame the blue-horned hippos.

That's true. Although the blue-horned hippopotamus has a gentle temperament, the monsters will not submit to humans who are weaker than themselves even if there is a magic contract.

In this way, perhaps his hunting sect would have a chance to develop in the Qinghe tribe.

However, even if the people of the Qinghe tribe were taught the method of practicing fighting spirit, it would be difficult for them to get rid of this group of blue-horned hippos. Without equipment, it is unknown whether hundreds of level one warriors could defeat this group of blue-horned hippos.

Even if they could win, Richard would not let them go. After all, the warriors in this plane were all members of Richard's hunting sect, and they were the ones who provided the power of faith.

Richard jumped over the fence with a whoosh. This kind of thing can only protect against ordinary wild beasts.

Following Elsa's prayers, Richard successfully found the place where they were staying. Unfortunately, the narrow place prevented Richard from entering. It was probably because the house was not built big in order to save wood.

Richard made some noise, and Elsa came out of the room delightedly.

"Richard, you're here."

"Ah."

Richard rubbed Elsa's head and said, "I discovered some secrets of the Qinghe tribe. It seems that we can't force it."

Richard told Elsa about the Qinghe tribe feeding blue-horned hippos. Richard couldn't get rid of the blue-horned hippos at this stage, but the hunting sect still had to gain a foothold in the Qinghe tribe.

"By the way, didn't you say yesterday that you were going to be promoted to a full-fledged soldier?"

"Look." Elsa activated her own fighting spirit seed. The red fighting spirit seed was already the size of a fist, and she was just one step away from being promoted to a formal warrior.

"I have been fighting with my father recently, and my fighting spirit has increased very quickly. Unfortunately, my father is too weak to withstand the blow."

"..."

Richard nodded, "Then when you are promoted to a formal warrior, we will start recruiting believers."