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  Within the western outskirts of the dark forest, hundreds of humanoids and green-skinned barbarians moved everywhere, setting up a huge camp full of armed warriors. Scouts began leaping into the forest and scouting the areas, looking at Elderbridge from a safe distance.

  They were looking from afar, but always making sure not to get too close to this area, they were preparing, moving provisions, ons, armor, and materials to tinue building camps, walls, and other things.

  More of their group kept ing in and out of the forest and the surrounding dark pins, the moon shining brightly above the night sky barely illuminating their pale green skin, and their leader, gigantid muscur, wearing bone armor, looking into the distah a strid serious gre.

  A small goblin walked to the side of his gigantic body, looking at him pitifully. The goblin was actually female, looking slightly more beautiful than the rest; she wore silver armor and had a huge sword at her back; her expression was quite more serious than the rest as well; and she was much smarter.

  “Boss Gordllion, the camp is mostly all set; a fortress shall be built here in the following day as you’ve ordered.” She said it with a serious expression. “Are we really doing this to go against Elderbridge iure? They have several powerful allies and even a dragon.

  “Hmmm…” Gordllion remained in silence as he gnced into the distance. “Stay out of Elderbridge’s way. We’re only here to set up the camps. We are merely one of the many that have do already. This invasion has been pnned for a while now; we ot hope to disappoint our t, alright? We’re meraries after all, Gofumina; you as a pyer should know these things quite well; you joined for the money, so you have to work hard. Even if the request is ridiculous, we have to do our best to carry it out.”

  “Y-Yes, boss!” Gofumina nodded, a bit intimidated by Gordllion’s immense size pared to hers. As some wind gusts waved her short white hair, she gnced back at the boss with her golden eyes. “But I still have to ask… Is this really okay? Won’t the Silver Moon Duchy just get some kind of terrifyialiation? It’s not as if they’re in the best ditions… I agree that money is money, but if we charge recklessly, many could die. It’s fine if Pyers do these reckless things; we revive yers, but most of you aren’t.”

  “We’ll certainly use your kind happily as meat shields, but you’re n,” Gordllion sighed. “We’re Green Skins anyway; we’re always getting shoved into dangerous jobs; we aren’t even respected in society. To be born a Goblin or an Orc is to gh a lot of this; you’ll have to get used to it. A Goblin is lucky they get to be a merary to begin with; most end up as street hoodlums, thieves, rogues, or they turn into bandits.”

  “Haah… I suppose you’re n, sir…” sighed Gofumina, her entire Pyer Background and appearance were decided by her, but she never expected that the Goblin Race would have it as tough. “Retly we heard from scouts that someoered the forest; they said they were potential adventurers. A knight with armor from head to toe, some sort of incubus, and a white-skinned blood or moon elf… Ah, there was also a dhampir girl.”

  “They e from Elderbridge?” wordllion. “Hmm, it could be an Adventurer Party. But if they find out about this and go back, it could prove to be troublesome.”

  “I was thinking the same…” Gofumina nodded. “What do you suggest we should do, boss?”

  “We are no bandits or thieves here, even less barbarians… So just killing them and robbing them doesn’t sit well with me,” sighed Gordllion. “Maybe intimidate them if they get too close? Beat them down ahem bae.”

  “Won’t this trigger aermination group to e after us assuming we’re bandits?” Gofumina asked. “I know it’s harsh but eliminating them would be the best way of doing things.”

  “What if one of them is a Pyer then? They’ll e bad spill the beans anyway,” sighed Gordllion. “Oh, I think I got an idea…”

  “Idea?” wofumina, as she noticed her boss taking out a rge bag full of special green-colored, very aromatic herbs. “Good thing I got myself some Frenzy Herbs, these make Monsters go crazy. Use the monsters of the forest against them. Predict the route where they’re going by analyzing them from very far away, thehese around the area where they’re moving. They’ll be ambushed by hundreds of monsters and die or survive and just escape. Nice, isn’t it?”

  “Oooh! Boss, you might be a genius!” Gofumina was surprised, her eyes sparkling, as she stole the bag from the old Hobgoblin’s hands.

  “Ah! W-Wait! Gofumina! Don’t use it all; that herb’s super expensive, you know?!” Gordllion screamed from afar.

  “I know, boss! I got this!” Gofumina jumped into a.

  “Haahh… If this girl wasn’t so good with the sword and couldn’t revive endlessly, I really wouldn’t even recruit her here… She’s too reckless and eager to do stuff,” groaned Gordllion. “Oi! Where’s my tea at?”

  “R-Right away, boss!” A gobli running to the kit area.

  Gofumina ran through the rge camp, finding the scouting group.

  “Guys, the boss gave us a mission! Anyone fident in their scouting skills, e with me, and I’ll expin it to you on the way there.”

  “Me! Gofumina! Me!”

  “No! Me! e!”

  “I do this job; I’m stealthy!”

  “I used to be a rogue.”

  “So what? I was a member of the Thief Guild of Elderbridge at some point! Before it got purged from criminals, that’s it…”

  “Okay, okay, I only pick like three at most, so calm down a me see.”

  Several Goblins offered their help, so she ended up choosing the ohat looked the stro. The fue, the Thief Guild former member, and stly, another female goblin, a bit older than her, but that had a slender body, and the Scouting Hunter Css.

  “Alright boys and girls, let’s go!” Gofumina smiled, grabbing her rge sword’s hilt. “We’re earning our bread today!”

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  Pach