Forests Don't Support Idle Goblins

"And the price?" Charles asked.

"I can give you two cores..." Agatha considered the price.

"One core and one healing potion." Charles picked up a healing potion from the shelf, jumped off the stool, and said, "How about it, old classmate?"

"Okay." Agatha thought for a moment, gritted her teeth and agreed. She didn't think the other party could successfully get the materials, after all, slimes were rare monsters in the forest.

"Alright, I'll come back in a few days." Charles looked at the potion and nodded.

"You don't think a few Bellani tree fruits are enough to deal with adventurers, do you?" Agatha thought it best to remind Charles, "Those fruits can explode, but there are just too few of them."

"You mean this?" Ciel took a kuang berry from the package on the ground. "Goblins usually call it a kuang berry."

"That's a vivid description, but..."

"I have several hundred," Charles said casually.

"A few hundred fruits, that's true..."

"There are hundreds of trees," Charles interrupted Agatha.

"Uh, that's quite a lot," Agatha said after a pause.

"I also plan to put an iron shell on the outside." Ciel placed the kuangguo on the long wooden table.

"Never mind what I said." Agatha pouted.

"Then goodbye, Agatha," Ciel said with a smile, holding up the healing potion. "Let me check the goods first. You can have that 'clanging fruit'."

"Wait a minute," Agatha called out.

"Hmm?" Charles gripped the healing potion in his hand, looking at the other person with slight wariness, afraid that the other person might change their mind.

"Did the Earl of Baxter and his wife really fall in love at first sight?" Agatha asked.

"Yes." Charles thought for a moment, "But it wasn't love at first sight, it was love at first sight. That old bastard dumped his wife's best friend, and then his wife stood up for her best friend and challenged the old count to a duel. Who knew the old count was a good-for-nothing, and he was stabbed down with a sword right at the start."

"As a result, that old bastard used the excuse that you had hurt an elderly person to morally blackmail her, so his wife had to visit him many times, and over time..."

Charles picked up the package, glanced back at Agatha, and said, "And a year after they got married, they both found lovers and started living their own lives."

"Don't overthink it, there's no such thing as love at first sight."

After saying that, he left the cabin amidst the other person's gritted teeth.

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"Get ready, the next one is coming out," Charles shouted.

The two goblins each held a sharpened wooden spear, ready for battle.

"Gurgle, gurgle," a translucent slime pupa appeared in front of them, gradually covering a piece of bloody flesh.

"Stab!" Charles shouted.

Two goblins rushed forward, thrusting their spears and piercing the slime through. Corrosive, acidic fluid flowed onto the ground, hissing as it did so.

Once the acid had completely drained, Shire had someone use two iron plates to clamp the kernel and soak it in a wooden barrel. After a few minutes, they took it out and put it in a bag.

"Next, open the door."

Several goblins pushed open the gate of the ruins, opening it only 20 centimeters wide, and then threw a bloody chunk of flesh onto the grass.

After waiting quietly for a few minutes, another slime larva passed through the stone gate, climbed the steps, and moved towards the piece of meat.

This operation has been going on for a long time; Sharl and his men are "nesting" here to capture slimes.

He had glanced inside the stone chamber before and found only moss and lichen. He knew that slimes reproduce by splitting their cores, but eating only those things would obviously slow their spread, so he used only a little bit of bloody flesh to lure them out.

He didn't rush into the stone chamber, nor did he consider throwing the banging fruit.

On the one hand, slimes falling from the ceiling are impossible to defend against, and once a slime explodes, it creates an effect of acid splashing everywhere.

Using the method of creating nests is safe, efficient, and allows Shire to clearly see the corrosive effects of the slime's bodily fluids.

The effect was truly remarkable; it could corrode wood, ironware, and sand. Xia Er even felt that the effect was similar to aqua regia. A large slime could corrode a pit half a meter deep, and a layer of hardened soil would form around the pit walls.

"This bodily fluid can't corrode glass." Charles looked at the medicine bottle in his hand.

These are two bottles of healing potion I got from Agatha. I've already given the potion to Nine Fingers, and the effect is very obvious; he's already awake.

He used the bottle for experiments.

According to natural history books and his own deductions, acidic substances generally cannot corrode glass products, and it now appears that his judgment was correct.

Charles also asked John to buy three glass tanks with a diameter of half a meter. He would throw the slime in, add some scraps of meat and offal, and that would be enough to raise slime. If all else failed, animal hair that had been shaved off, tubers and leaves that had been plucked off, and scraps that had been cut off would also be used.

He didn't know what use it was for yet, but judging from the corrosive effect, he could try digging a hole to see what it could do.

If feasible, Charles plans to make several hundred glass tanks, line them up in a row, and put a hungry slime in each tank. Once they mature, he will take them to a burrow, stab them, and corrode them to create a half-meter gap. In time, he will be able to lead a team to dig out an underground city.

"Chief, we have enough for a pair of hands and a pair of feet," Red Eyes reported.

"Very good, release another one," Charles ordered.

The cores of 21 slimes are enough to give to Agatha.

There was something else that Sharl hadn't told her during their previous conversation: goblins are actually quite easy to tame. If you feed them a couple of meals and make sure they're full, they'll be completely devoted to you.

Because their previous living conditions were so hellish, and they had been able to eat their fill for the past few days, Xia Er even felt that his subordinates were starting to gain weight, with Chi Mu seemingly becoming much stronger.

And one thing is obvious: the white hair has grown longer.

These changes made Sharl realize that, if properly managed, goblins could also develop into a powerful force.

What they lack is a leader.

"I've mastered everything from beginning to end, I'm a top student who graduated from the Royal Grammar Academy, and I'm also a gamer with nearly 10,000 hours of gameplay, a high-intensity short video learner, and the champion of all-nighters on social media. How could I not lead these goblins that I can't even count in the tens?"

Charles smiled confidently, kicked Red Eyes, and said, "Go and close the stone door."

Red-eyed boy eagerly went over and pushed the stone door.

After collecting 21 slime cores, Ciel led his large group straight to Agatha's cabin.

"This gives us another channel, and more importantly, it means our men can also get cheap medicine, which is something we never even dared to imagine."

"And the path to the Tower of Babel still needs Agatha to handle it." Charles was still clear about his knowledge of history.

"With the addition of John Jr.'s side, the intelligence system can be considered to be initially complete."

"Next, we'll prepare to deal with the Devilclaw Bear." Charles smirked and chuckled.