Can you withstand the power of this sword strike, which has been used twice in the game?

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It is precisely because everyone has their own ideas that it is difficult to reach a consensus.

In this situation, a leader becomes extremely important.

If the Saintess Squad were here, they probably wouldn't have to worry about it anymore.

After a meeting, everyone finally decided—

Keep exploring!

Not only should we continue exploring, but we should also occasionally reveal ourselves to the goblins.

This is a dangerous thing to do, because the other side might send out more agile goblins to kill them.

But it doesn't matter.

Because their presence in the forest can distract the enemy and lighten the burden on the expedition team.

They are brave people too, not overgrown babies who need someone to plan everything for them step by step!

……

Today's stats: Killed five Goblin Centurions

"Still haven't found the Goblin Centurion... Is it really that hard to get more experience?"

At noon, the heroes rested by the stream. One hero lay on the ground and complained.

Previously, goblins relentlessly attacked cities, and it seemed that finding a goblin centurion wasn't so difficult.

But in reality, the forest only has a lot of goblin centurions, and finding a level 5 goblin chiliarch is much more troublesome than imagined.

Many of the heroes in the expedition team had already reached their experience limit, and further grinding wouldn't increase their experience much further.

"The enemy has already realized that we are hunting high-level goblins, so it's normal for them to send the goblin centurion back to defend, right?"

"Yes, in the battle fought in the town, the enemy even sent out the Goblin King's servants, but they didn't bring many Goblin Centurions."

In other words, a goblin centurion is already a very strong fighting force within the goblin empire.

"Sigh... today is already our sixth day out here, isn't it?"

Fortunately, we didn't encounter the Goblin Centurion, so we didn't expend much physical or magical energy, and the food was still plentiful.

The problem is that they didn't meet the Goblin Centurion, so they couldn't achieve their goal of leveling up.

"Anyi, everyone seems tired."

Lycorina stood barefoot in the stream, holding up the hem of her somewhat tattered robe with both hands, letting the cool water wash over her delicate white feet.

The forest has a complex terrain, and clothes are always getting torn and dirty. After wearing and washing them repeatedly, the once pristine white warrior's clothes are now in a very sorry state.

"And you?" Annie asked, sitting by the stream and looking up at Lycorina.

Lycorina stood in front of An Yi, intending to turn her back to the sun to shield him from the sunlight, but since it was noon, she could only keep her face in the shade.

"I shouldn't be tired," she smiled. "We didn't do anything, just followed behind everyone."

"Yes," An Yi replied calmly.

I haven't encountered any goblin centurions in the past two days; all the goblin centurions were killed by other heroes.

However, killing them wouldn't grant much experience, since these people were all high-level warriors who had survived that battle and were already close to level 50, having already broken through level 40.

There is no way to level up except by killing goblin centurions.

"Shh, shh, shh, shh—"

The sound of washing clothes came from the side. Ling was squatting by the stream, washing the black cloaks that the heroes would wear that night.

A huge pile of cloaks stood to the side like a small mountain, and Bell was very thin, making it look like child labor was being exploited.

The heroes instinctively turned their gaze to Ling, watching her brush and wash each cloak one by one, then wring them out and set them aside.

“This can’t go on.” Layton stuck a branch into the ground and then picked up the cloak from the ground and hung it on the ground to dry.

“Really?” Annie replied casually.

In his previous life, he had spent a long time like this, wandering aimlessly in the forest.

As long as you don't venture deep into the demon realm, you won't encounter higher-level demons, and you won't risk your life.

So for a long time, they moved laterally in the forest.

If you encounter demons, kill them. After that, continue on your way. Once you reach a high enough level, venture a little deeper into the area.

Logically speaking, moving laterally from our current position should allow us to find the Goblin Centurion.

However, the enemy may have withdrawn the Goblin Centurion to preserve their strength, which is why the heroes have been unable to find him.

Actually, if you go in the opposite direction, you can reach other goblin empires and kill their goblin centurions.

But that would be much riskier.

If you provoke two goblin empires at the same time, they will sandwich you like cheese in the border region, making it twice as difficult to subdue them.

If it were just An Yi alone, he wouldn't care about the Empire or the goblins; he would just kill his way through.

But there are twenty people and a puppet here now, and he doesn't want to make things too complicated.

Those who come here are all high-level elites among the brave, and they cannot be easily lost.

But... there are other paths besides going deeper or going to other goblin empires.

After realizing the current movements of the Goblin Empire, An'i had other ideas.

These six days weren't just spent wandering around; he had Milu do something important for him.

Just as she was thinking of Miluko, a flash of black light appeared, and she appeared beside An Yi, holding a notebook in her hand.

"Did you find anything?" Annie asked.

Milu shook her head silently and opened the notebook.

It has squares drawn on it, and each square has a number written in it.

The most common numbers are 3 and 4.

This is a record of goblin territories at intervals in the forest.

3 represents the highest-ranking Goblin Shaman in the territory, while 4 represents the highest-ranking Goblin Centurion.

Looking at the notebook, the page was completely filled, but there wasn't a single "5".

Lycorina leaned over to take a look, glanced at it briefly, and sighed, "Sigh... what exactly happened?"

"Good thing."

At that moment, An Yi suddenly spoke.

"Huh? They're all goblin centurions, what's so good about that?" Lycorina asked, puzzled.

Annie didn't answer Lycorina's question, but looked at Miluko: "You've already searched this entire area, haven't you?"

"Mmm." Milu nodded and gave a very soft reply.

"Such a large area is guarded only by the Goblin Centurion."

As An Yi spoke, she took out a pen from her pocket and drew a semicircle in the middle of the notebook.

"Excluding potentially dangerous areas on the edges, the only one in this area is the Goblin Centurion."

"Then, we can protect low-level heroes and have them slaughter goblin centurions in this area to gain experience points."

"Huh?!" One of the heroes jumped up from the ground. "That's right! Killing the goblin centurion is useless, and we can't find the chiliarch. Why don't we let the heroes whose levels aren't up to par kill them?!"

Leaving aside the first generation of heroes, there are definitely many second and third generation heroes whose levels haven't caught up yet.

Killing the Goblin Centurion was inherently risky for them, and even with thorough preparation, they could still be killed.

But here...

With so many brave warriors who could easily kill goblin centurions escorting them, and it was confirmed that goblin chiliarchs would not appear.

That goblin centurion can be killed at will, can't he?!

"That's right! We kept thinking that killing wouldn't make a difference, so we tried to avoid battle as much as possible."

"Thinking about it now, if we massacred a large number of goblin centurions, the Goblin Empire would definitely send out chiliarchs to deal with it, right?" The Bow Hero, Shara, exclaimed excitedly.

"Alright! Then hurry up and contact those newbies who are level 10 or 20! Let the goblins taste the feeling of being slaughtered!"

"Haha! I love mentoring newbies!"

The heroes had originally thought that killing the goblin centurion was useless, as they wouldn't gain any experience.

But things are different now. Killing the goblin centurion is useless for them, but it's useful for newbies!

“Miss Miluko, let’s go to the nearest city now and contact the Hero Alliance,” Annie said.

“Yes!” Miluko’s answer was very firm.

She was exhausted from searching the forest inch by inch every day! Finally, things took a turn for the better!

Lycorina seemed thoughtful: "So, it can be done this way...?"

She never expected this! Oh dear.

An Yi stared at the pebbles on the ground, seemingly lost in thought.

To be honest, not finding the goblin centurion was unexpected.

But it was precisely because he couldn't find it that it reminded him of something else.

In that battle, two Goblin Champions and one Goblin King's Servant died.

That is to say...

The goblin centurions are probably all gathered in the center of the goblin empire right now, where the selection of the goblin champion is taking place.

The Goblin Champion refers to the champion among the Goblin Centurions!

He had noticed this a couple of days ago, so he sent Milu to conduct a thorough search of the entire area.

All for this very moment.

……

The Holy Hero has been born for five months.