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Noel thought for a while, then nodded: "Okay!"
There's a skill that can remove negative status effects!
Shiloh: "Negative status?"
……
Negative status: foul odor
You are reeking of [goblin] stench!
Shiloh: “…”
So changing the smell actually adds a negative effect?!
"The Sword Hero and the Blade Hero smell awful! It's the stench of goblins!" Noel said, pinching her nose.
Hilo raised her arm and sniffed: "Does it stink?! I can't smell anything at all!"
Annie replied, "Me too."
“Smell yours.” Shiloh moved closer to An Yi and sniffed his clothes, then circled him, sniffing around him before standing up straight. “I can’t smell anything!”
“If I could smell it myself, I’d be overwhelmed by the stench,” Annie said.
“Oh! That makes sense!” Hilo understood.
"By the way, cooking with goblin meat seems to provide an additional boost."
"We just used the meat of the Goblin King's Servant, which seems to increase strength by 5 points, agility by 2 points, and resilience by 2 points," Noel suddenly said.
“Not bad.” An Yi nodded. Nine
Strength is the goblin's highest attribute, so it receives a significant bonus. 4
Five points of Strength is enough to match the effect of [Inspire].
If you activate another [Encourage] skill, you will gain 10 points of Strength attribute.
Could it be described as a degraded version of "Double Inspiration"?
Seeing that Noel's magic power was almost depleted, Annie and Shiloh each left with a backpack full of "Goblin Meatballs".
Since it's already noon, they won't explore for long and will probably return before evening. They don't actually need that much food.
But Noel said it was for insurance purposes that they brought more.
After giving instructions to the other heroes, the two entered the forest.
Compared to the towns outside, where corpses littered the ground, the forest was much cleaner.
The problem is that the carnivorous creatures in the forest, who used to feast on meat, now have nothing to eat.
The good thing is that for a while, there shouldn't be any goblins hunting them.
The first place we arrived at was the goblin camp in the forest in front of the town. After searching for a while, we found only three hero heads stuck in the ground and a blanket.
Perhaps it was the scent of the Goblin King's servants in the camp that kept the carnivorous creatures away, and the three heroes' heads were not taken away or eaten.
Hilo removed the head, wrapped it carefully in the blanket, and continued on his way.
It's inconvenient to carry it while traveling; let's bring it back to town later.
The reconnaissance heroes didn't come here; their mission was simply to find living goblins, and since there were no living creatures in their senses, they skipped it.
The two maintained a speed of 10 agility and moved for about an hour and a half, but they still didn't see a single living goblin in the forest.
To Hilo's surprise, he could see many traces of what appeared to be a primitive tribe in the forest.
Although goblins do not eat cooked food, they do build simple houses and forge stone weapons.
Continuing deeper into the goblin territory, Hilo discovered that there were actually cities within the goblin lands.
but……
That's not a goblin building.
Rather, they are human-made structures.
A large number of dilapidated houses remain undestroyed; they only like killing people and have absolutely no interest in destroying houses.
Rather, destroying houses is simply a way to drive the people hiding inside into despair.
In the city, you can see human skeletons every few steps, either on the ground or half-buried with a section sticking out.
How long have they been lying here?
To this day, no one has been able to help them recover their bodies.
“Next time, when more heroes can come here, let’s bury them all together,” Hiro said solemnly.
“Okay,” An Yi replied.
Chapter 1 Beast-Eared Tribe (4k)
Looking at the ubiquitous skeletons, Shiro couldn't help but sigh...
They had fought before.
But humans are far too fragile; they can barely fight against a giant goblin, let alone a goblin centurion.
In fact, she had thought about it for a long time: how could humans survive from the demons if they didn't have divine powers?
That's obviously impossible.
Judging from the data alone, a single goblin centurion could easily slaughter an entire town.
If you can kill it, you must use ranged weapons to wear it down.
However... given the opponent's agility, ranged weapons are practically ineffective against them.
“Anyi Karl, there’s something really strange.”
"The demons could easily wipe us out, so why do they have to wait ten years?" Hilo asked, puzzled.
"I've discussed this issue with Her Highness..."
As she spoke, Annie recounted what she had told Lycorina before.
That is--
The demons had to wait ten years before they could exterminate humanity.
The enemy could have conquered an entire human territory in just a few days, yet they've only managed to slowly erode it at a steady pace.
That "ten years" was the time it took for the demons to slowly conquer all human territory.
"Is there some special reason why we can't conquer human territory in one fell swoop...?"
"So what is the reason?" Shiloh asked again.
Annie: "I don't know."
Even though he had already fought the Demon King once, he still didn't know why the Demon King had to wait ten years to conquer all of the human territory.
However, based on my own experience as a "player," there is a simple explanation, which is...
Background settings.
The premise is that humanity will not be destroyed for at least ten years, without any special reason.
Based on this setting, players then follow the storyline to conquer the demon's territory.
If this were still the world of that game, there would be players everywhere, all over the place.
The player is not a hero, but more like a demon hunter who can allocate skill points.
The hero is a powerful NPC who grows stronger as the story progresses.
Interestingly, none of the heroes An Yi encountered actually appeared in the game.
Just like Her Highness, who isn't called Lycorina Aldrich in the game.
However, in both of An's lives, she was the saintess.
In other words, this is a world derived from the game, but it has deviated from the original story in the game.
Therefore, An Yi concluded that the Demon King must have a special reason for not attacking human territory.
Or perhaps they simply look down on this small territory and allow the surrounding low-level demons to slowly erode it? That's not impossible either.
After discovering the city, the two ventured a little further in and found another abandoned city.
Hilo suddenly realized that these demons had occupied more than just one city!
This place once housed a human nation!
So they changed direction and searched horizontally, and sure enough, they discovered a large number of cities one after another.
Hilo suddenly discovered something terrifying.
“Anyi Karl…the border between demon and human territories isn’t all ruins like this, is it?” Hilo asked.
An Yi shook her head: "No."
In other words, goblins don't live in houses; other highly intelligent demonic races have already converted human cities into their own.
Hilo was taken aback and immediately thought of the Sword Demon City.
Yes, that used to be human territory, but now it has completely become a city of demons!
Walking among the ruins, Hilo couldn't help but feel a little melancholy.
"Even if we conquer these territories, how can we make them our own?"
I suddenly realized...aren't there a few too few heroes?
"If ordinary humans were to occupy these territories, they would be completely helpless against the demons if they were to return," Hilo said.
Annie nodded: "It is indeed a tricky problem."
However, things will work themselves out; let's take it one step at a time.
"So even you couldn't solve it..." Hilo sighed with a wry smile.
Annie: "What do you take me for? Someone who can create a million super soldiers out of thin air?"
Hilo: "No, no, I just always felt like you might have some way out?"