Although Roland's method seemed ordinary and far less effective than the small rain pit that the six magic apprentices made, Andonara and Jerry both knew that Roland's method was much better.
But both Andonara and Jerry knew that Roland's method was indeed much better.
The magic apprentices had to work together to build such a pit, but in most cases, there were no Mages in a mercenary squad, and even if there were, there would only be one. After all, most Mages wouldn't act with "vulgar" mercenaries unless they were truly in trouble or needed to complete a special mission.
Also, a rain pit of such a scale couldn't be completed by a magic apprentice.
Even if they managed to complete it, they would exhaust all their magic power.
In the wilderness, Mages were only slightly stronger than ordinary people without magic power, and it would be troublesome if they ran into an emergency.
For example, the magic power of the six apprentices had been exhausted, which was a minor mistake. If Roland and Andonara weren't around, a few hungry wolves could've hurt them.
In comparison, Roland's method of digging a hole to hide in was much easier and more convenient.
However, Roland still praised the apprentices. After all, they were all young masters and young ladies, and it was already quite good that they could come up with ideas on their own on their first trip.
"I'll keep watch tonight. You guys take a rest."
Roland said with a smile from the pit and returned to the stone pavilion to rest.
Andonara fetched her blanket from the carriage and followed Roland back to the stone pavilion. She spread the blanket on the floor, lay on it, and looked at Roland, who was only an arm's length away, before she closed her eyes and rested.
Very soon, she fell asleep.
If it were someone else, Andonara would've taken a nap at best, but with Roland on guard, she could sleep in peace.
Roland dropped three magic spiders and quickly left the camp, patrolling and monitoring the periphery in a triangle formation.
It was still raining.
Except for Roland, everybody else was gradually getting sleepy.
Generally speaking, night watch was a tiring and boring job.
But Roland could browse the forums and watch videos, and the night watch was left to the three magic spiders. If the three spiders with specialized vision and night vision couldn't detect the enemy who was ambushing them, Roland couldn't either.
Therefore, he calmly 'cultivated'.
Very soon, the coachmen fell asleep on the blankets with their clothes still on, and the magic apprentices were sleeping under the canopy, either sitting or lying with their eyes closed.
The rain was still falling, rustling on the leaves.
This time, Roland found a lot of interesting posts on the forum. For example, a merchant talked about how he shipped goods between Hollevin and Uganda, as well as the interesting things that happened.
In addition, the author of another post said that he had unintentionally saved the only daughter of a small noble during a mission. Now, he had married into the family and became the lord of a small territory.
Of course … according to the customs, their future children would have to follow the woman's surname.
But even so, there were still a lot of people below the post who were grumbling.
This was because she was the only daughter of a noble family, and she was quite pretty.
Posts with gossip content like this were easy to kill time, and it was fun to read.
Time passed quickly … Soon, it was midnight. At this time, although the rain was a little lighter, it still did not stop.
He estimated that he would be able to continue until dawn.
Roland rose and warmed up his body. He paced around the pavilion and was about to sit down, when he was suddenly stunned.
Standing where he was for three seconds, he walked to Andonara and woke her up.
Andonara immediately got up and asked in a low voice, "Is there anything wrong?"
Roland nodded and shook the coachmen awake, before he said to them, "Please lead the horses to the pavilion. Be quiet."
The coachmen did as he was told.
Andonara, on the other hand, woke up the apprentices and brought them from the pit.
After looking around and making sure that everybody was there, Roland snapped his fingers.
The soil outside the pavilion began to boil. Then, the thick soil was pushed upward and finally turned into rocks above Roland's head.
Just like that, a four-meter-tall circular enclosure surrounded all of them, leaving no gaps.
Roland heaved a sigh of relief.
It was truly exhausting to build such a huge building in one go.
Andonara leaned close and asked, "What did you see?"
"Something weird is chasing a couple of mercenaries." Roland thought for a moment and said, "They're coming in our direction."
"It was the strong light that attracted them." Andonara looked at the luminous ball above her head. "They must be looking for help."
Roland nodded. That was why he made this impenetrable rock dome that looked like a secret chamber.
"Then how should we know what's going on outside?" asked Vivian.
"I've left three magic spiders outside for scouting purposes."
In Roland's head, a picture was transmitted by the magic spiders every second or two.
Seven or eight mercenaries ran in the rain in a sorry state, stumbling on the ground one step at a time.
They were running in a hurry, looking back from time to time. Furthermore, a few strange humanoid shadows were also running in the distance.
However, their running postures were rather weird. Now and then, they would lower their bodies and accelerate with their forelimbs. When they reached a certain speed, they would stand up and let out weird roars.
One of the fleeing mercenaries, a bearded man, suddenly shouted, "Where's the strong light just now?"
"They must've intentionally made it disappear. Their scouts must've seen us and kept running," shouted one of the mercenaries, panting.
They sped up and soon reached the place where Roland and his companions were staying.
Then, they were stunned.
Because it was night and raining, their vision was very dim, but they could still see a weird, enormous rock dome before them.
He ran around the rock tent but didn't find any entrances or windows.
"Nobody's here?"
The few of them did their best to look around, and their hearts gradually grew cold.
The bearded man cried in grief and fury, "Those cowards must've run away. They all ran away when they saw the danger."
The group of mercenaries' faces became very dejected, mixed with fear and despair.
Behind him came the sound of a large number of running creatures stepping on water, splashing loudly.
Leaning against the enormous rock dome, the mercenary who seemed to be the leader roared, "Don't think too much. Let's just fight them and kill as many as we can."
The mercenaries immediately raised their weapons against the rock dome and aimed at the creatures who were running.
A dozen humanoid shadows stopped when they were fifteen meters away from them. Then, they dispersed and surrounded the mercenaries in a semicircle.
In the end, a cluster of black bats descended from the sky and turned into a glamorous human woman. She was wearing a black, off-the-shoulder dress, and the rain was blocked by her magic shield.
"Hehe. Why aren't you running anymore?"
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