"A job has come in."
Herculean received an invitation from the Adventurers Guild early in the morning and took Imena to discuss the job. They only returned at noon, and as soon as they came back, they told everyone about the mission. "This mission is a Goblin extermination, and the reward is fifty gold. It's a pretty good mission." When talking about the mission reward, Herculean and Imena both looked very happy, indicating that they were quite satisfied with the Adventurers Guild's commission this time.
Tsukasa sat in his seat listening to them describe the mission. Fifty gold was not a small sum.
Gold coins are the largest currency in this world. For a villa like the Astrea Family's, excluding the furniture, just the land and the house itself could be bought for no more than a thousand gold.
Fifty gold as a reward for a commissioned mission was already a huge sum, which meant that this mission was not as simple as just exterminating Goblins.
Ordinary Goblins have a very low bounty value. Even wiping out a Goblin team would only get a maximum of one bounty from the Adventurers Guild.
The Adventurers Guild actually offered fifty bounties to deal with these Goblins, which indicated that these Goblins were likely from outside, from a place that was relatively dangerous for the weaker human race.
Most of the Goblins humans usually hunt are just the weakest Lesser Goblins, but above Lesser Goblins, there are also Greater Goblins.
A typical Greater Goblin possesses strength equivalent to a Mithril-rank Adventurer, not to mention the even more powerful special evolutions above these Greater Goblins, such as Goblin General and Goblin
King.
Therefore, don't think that hunting Goblins is a simple task. The weakest race in this world is humans; Goblins are much stronger than humans.
However, the Adventurers Guild entrusted this mission to their team, which meant that no Adventurer was willing to accept it. Adventurers are not suicidal; they will not accept missions they believe they cannot complete.
Although there are no higher-ranked Adventurers in this city, there are other Mithril-rank teams like their Four Sages team. However, they refused this mission for various reasons, which is why it fell to them.
"The Goblins we're going to exterminate this time are a tribe of over a hundred Goblins, and the strongest among them are the Goblin Leader and the Goblin General, these two evolved species.
"The Goblin Leader is skilled in support magic, and when the tribe is in danger, it can cast Group Frenzy magic to enhance the strength of the entire tribe, making it a priority target to eliminate. Astrea and I will be responsible for clearing the path, Imena and Arsye will handle sniping the Goblin Leader, and Ropatik will block the Goblin General."
"The Goblin General is very strong and can also use martial arts. If that guy goes into a frenzy, probably only Astrea among us would survive."
After hearing Herculean's introduction, everyone understood that this was an extremely difficult mission. No wonder the Adventurers Guild was so generous in offering fifty gold as a reward; this money would be hard to get.
"Do you have any other questions?"
Hearing this question, everyone shook their heads.
Although the mission difficulty was high, the Four Sages were already used to such a life.
As for the newly joined Astrea?
She didn't feel much.
She was also quite curious about the strength of Goblins in this world. In the previous world, Goblins could even evolve into rare monsters like Trolls and Oni. She wondered if the Goblins in this world were as strong as those in the previous world.
Moreover, she had never truly seen the famous monster, Goblin, with her own eyes, because in the previous world, she had not ventured deep into the Monster Mountain Range, and the Goblin villages were on the other side of the mountain range.
She had only seen Goblin images through monster encyclopedias. The Goblins of the previous world were quite different from the Goblins she knew.
Seeing that everyone had no objections.
Herculean then said, "Then it's settled. We depart tomorrow morning."
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At this moment.
In a forest cave, a man dressed as an Adventurer arrived at the dwelling of this group of Goblins.
Many tents could be seen in the cave. Although the Goblins living here lived freely, it was clear that their actions were regulated. These were well-trained soldiers, incomparable to the wild Goblins outside.
"That human is back! Quickly report to the King!" a vigilant Goblin soldier shouted loudly to the Goblins in the camp.
As soon as the man approached the Goblin camp, he was stopped. The Goblin soldier said, "You cannot enter. Wait here for the King and the General!"
The Goblins spoke a vernacular completely different from human civilization, but communication between them was unaffected. It wasn't that they were all fluent in two languages, but rather that everyone in this world had eaten an item called a Translation Konjac. The effect of this item allowed humans to gain the ability to communicate with all intelligent races, even languages from another world could be communicated without obstacles.
Most intelligent races in this world eat this item, so although the races in this world have their own unique languages and scripts, there are no obstacles in oral communication.
The man who was stopped had an unpleasant expression.
The Goblins' complete disregard for him made him somewhat angry, but just as he was secretly fuming, the Goblin King and Goblin General, having received the news, had already walked over from the tents. Their massive bodies, simply by moving, could cause a certain degree of tremor in their surroundings.
Stared at by the two, the man's expression changed, and he looked warily at these two giant Goblins.
They looked similar to ordinary Goblins, but ordinary Goblins were only about 1.4 to 1.5 meters tall, while the Goblin General was nearly three meters tall, and the Goblin King was four meters tall. Just standing there gave one a suffocating feeling, because they were simply too powerful.
Moreover, the man noticed.
Behind the Goblin King and Goblin General, there was also a Goblin Shaman, similar to an ordinary Goblin but wearing a long robe and holding a staff. The threat posed by this guy was not much lower than the former two.
This was a Goblin army capable of fighting human nations. Clearly, the Adventurers Guild's intelligence system had made a mistake and misjudged the strength of this group of Goblins. These Goblins came here by someone's command; that person told them to come to this city to find someone. However, that person did not tell them who that person was, whether male or female, merely instructing them to find this person, even if they were dead or alive, it didn't matter.
So they thought of
a method.
That is to slaughter all the humans in this city!
And the man before them was a pawn they had captured; he had been cursed by a Shaman.
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