The sudden surge in the panel's attributes left Li Meng dumbfounded.

  The Hardeone Skin skill not only advao Hardeone Body.

  It also gained a powerful skill called "Heart of Stone."

  The ability to be immuo all ive effects made Li Meng drool with envy.

  With this skill at his side, only a direct frontation could kill him.

  "No wonder you could bring baany Ogres, Benben, you've gotten stronger!"

  It was clear that in the past few months, Benben had gone back to the mountains to fight.

  He had bee strohrough battles with his own kind.

  The battered armor was the best proof.

  Ordinary attacks couldn't cause such damage.

  Only an Ogre's fist could leave such marks.

  "Boss, my armor is broken, I 't wear it anymore!"

  Benben looked down at the armor on his body.

  He reached out his right hand and poked the chest pte.

  With that poke, the chest pte immediately fell to the ground.

  Li Meng grinned, feeling quite pleased.

  "No worries, I'll make you a new one. Let's go inside!"

  Benben got up and stood.

  He turned and roared a few times at his panions behind him.

  The Ogres all stood up one by one.

  They followed the boss and the Goblins into the Iron Cave.

  Before long, the outside of the Iron Cave quieted down.

  Uhe moonlight, the forest returo its previous silence.

  In the following days, Li Meng focused oask.

  That was crafting armor tailored for Benben and his underlings.

  The daily life of a bcksmith began with Benben's return.

  From that day on, the g sounds of metal in the cave became even louder.

  It was another new day, iernoon.

  In the Iron Cave, by the underground riverbank.

  Li Meng stood by a massive iron anvil on the riverbank.

  Holding rge tongs, he pced the red-hot armor parts.

  Benben used a specialized giant hammer to pound them repeatedly.

  The Ogres watched curiously from the side.

  Ogres liked warm enviros, so they could withstand high temperatures.

  "Benben has bee s yet still be killed by humans. Humans really 't be uimated!"

  Looking at Benben's massive body, a trace of worry fshed in Li Meng's eyes.

  The Principality of Ilysis was invading the Goblin Forest to expand its territory.

  The future of human invasion into the Goblin Forest was iable.

  To humans, they were merely developing the wilderness.

  Eliminating the Barbarians was just a trivial task.

  The future path of flict with humans was unavoidable.

  "Boss, boss!"

  At this moment, a Goblin Soldier came running over excitedly.

  When it saw the massive figures on the riverbank.

  The shouting Gobuchai quickly stopped in its tracks.

  It looked at the group of Ogres on the riverbank with a face full of uainty.

  Could it be that the Iron Cave was invaded by Ogres?

  Where did so many Ogres e from?

  "What is it?"

  Seeing Gobuchai hesitant to approach, Li Meng asked.

  The boss's inquiry brought Gobuchai back to its senses.

  It looked fervently at the figure f by the anvil.

  The boss was truly amazing.

  He had recruited so many Ogre underlings again.

  Gobuchai was no longer afraid and quickly approached the riverbank.

  "Boss, I entered the Pigmen tribe in the eastern forest. They attacked us, but we drove them away."

  Gobuchai's report made Li Meng's expression ge slightly by the anvil.

  The turning point predicted by the simuted life had finally appeared.

  This flict led to a massive attack by the Pigmen tribe.

  The Pigmen tribe robably already preparing to advance westward.

  "Boss, it's not my fault. They ambushed us first!"

  Gobuchai shrank its neck, cautiously looking at the boss.

  "How far was the battle site from the Gobu Di tribe?"

  The Gobu Di tribe was about twenty kilometers west of the Pigmen tribe.

  Not too close, but not too far either.

  Gobuchai ted on its fingers.

  "About five Iron Caves' distance from the tribe."

  The Iron Cave was about two kilometers from the throribe.

  Five would be over ten kilometers.

  "I uand, go ahead!"

  Seeing that the boss didn't punish it, Gobuchai grinned.

  It turned and ran out of the cave excitedly.

  Listening to the departing footsteps, Li Meng's face showed ption.

  It seemed the Pigmen tribe was expandiward.

  "Gobu Ge!"

  Li Meng suddenly called out.

  Gobu Ge, who was cooling down by the water, shivered.

  It quickly got up and looked at the boss.

  "Boss, I'm here!"

  "Start mass-produg Goblin armor from today."

  Due to the stantly ging size of Goblins.

  Full-body armor was out of the question.

  But simple armor could be made to protect vital parts.

  The iron produ in the Iron Cave could now suppe-scale Goblin armor produ.

  It was time to arm his Goblin underlings.

  With armor prote, even ordinary Goblins' survival rates would increase several times.

  In the era of cold ons, having armor and not having armor were two pletely different matters.

  Gobu Ge's eyes lit up, and it ran off excitedly.

  "Boss, I got it!"

  Gobu Ge, who had been f arrowheads and spearheads every day, was already bored.

  Finally, it could fe something else.

  Li Meng looked up at Benben and grinned.

  "Benben, speed up. month, we'll go trouble the Pigmen tribe!"

  Benben ughed heartily and hammered even harder.

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  Goblin Northern Forest.

  In the depths of the endless forest, green was the only color.

  A tributary split from the Goblin River aended northward.

  On the riverbanks over twenty kilometers away, a tribe had appeared at some point.

  Wooden buildings stretched across both banks.

  A rge area of the surrounding forest had been cut down, leaving no stumps behind.

  Iernoon, the Goblin Forest was bathed in bright sunlight.

  In the rgest wooden house of the tribe.

  "What a bunch of useless fools, 't even handle a few Goblins!"

  An angry roar echoed in the wooden house.

  In the hall, over a dozen Pigmen tribe members dressed in animal skins sat on the ground.

  On the mai sat a Pigmen tribe member nearly 2.5 meters tall, resembling a giant.

  Its chubby, robust physique was a size rger thaher Pigmen tribe members.

  Fag the chieftain's gaze, all the elders lowered their heads.

  "Chieftain, Goblins frequently appear in the western forest. There should be a Gobli."

  "Nonsense, we've only been here a short while, and we receive reports of Goblin sightings almost every few days."

  "The Goblins we entered this time were unusual. They seemed to deliberately avoid us."

  "That's right, several times Goblins turned and rahey saw our hunting party."

  "But we're the Pigmen tribe. Isn't it normal foblins to flee when they see us?"

  "No, foolish Goblins have never been aware of their own strength."

  "That's true, as long as Goblins gather together, they would even dare to bite a dragon a few times."

  The elders in the hall began discussing oer another.

  As they talked, they seemed tet about the still-angry chieftain.

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