Everyone is a hero, but I am a second-year player.

Shiloh opened his eyes slightly.

This skill...will definitely come in handy when infiltrating the demon tribe!

The smell-changing powder definitely has flaws, but if you exude the scent of other demons and use the demon language at the same time, you can perfectly disguise yourself as a demon!

We have to find a way to get this kid to the fortress!

"That's perfect." An Yi said, "The smell of humans is too obvious in the forest, it would be much more convenient if we could change the smell.

How long does the change in smell last? "

Nuoer closed her eyes and frowned, as if she was thinking about something, and spoke after a while;

"If it's about 30 mana, it can last for an hour."

Were you asking the system just now?

"Then, prepare two portions of food for each of us that can change our smell for 12 hours.

Also, can the smell be eliminated? There may be creatures in the forest that are hostile to goblins." An Yi continued.

Nuoer thought about it for a while, then nodded: "Okay!

There is a skill that can remove negative status!"

Shiloh: "Negative status?"

……

[Negative status: foul smell

You are emitting the stench of [Goblin]! 】

Shiloh: “…”

So changing the smell means adding negative status?!

"Lord Sword Brave and Lord Knife Brave stink so much, it's the smell of goblins!" Noer said, pinching her nose.

Shiloh raised his arm and sniffed: "Does it stink?! I don't smell anything at all!"

An Yi also said: "Me too."

"Smell yours." Shiloh came up to An Yi and sniffed his clothes. He sniffed around him and then stood up. "I can't smell anything!"

"If I could smell it, I would be intoxicated by it myself," said An Yi.

"Oh! That's true!" Shiloh understood.

“By the way, using goblin meat to cook dishes seems to provide additional enhancement.

I just used the flesh of the Goblin King's servant, which seems to increase 5 points of strength, 2 points of agility, and 2 points of toughness." Nuoer suddenly said.

"Not bad." An Yi nodded.

Strength is the highest attribute of a goblin, so the bonus is relatively large.

5 points of strength is already as effective as [Encouragement].

If you activate [Encouragement] again, you will gain 10 points of strength attribute.

Can it be said to be a degraded version of "double encouragement"?

Seeing Noer's magic power running low, Anyi and Shiloh left with a backpack full of "Goblin Meatballs" each.

Since it is already noon, they will not explore for long and will probably be back before evening, so they don't actually need that much food.

But Nuoer said that it was for safety reasons that she asked them to bring more.

After giving instructions to the other heroes, the two entered the forest.

Compared to the town outside where corpses were everywhere, the forest was much cleaner.

The bad thing is that the carnivorous creatures in the forest, which used to be able to feast on the food, now have nothing to eat.

The good thing is that there won’t be any goblins hunting them for a while.

The first place they arrived at was the goblin camp in the forest in front of the town. After searching for a while, they found only three brave heads and a blanket stuck in the ground.

Perhaps because there was the scent of the Goblin King's servants in the camp, carnivorous creatures did not dare to approach, and the heads of the three heroes were not taken away or eaten.

Shiloh took off the head, wrapped it tightly in the blanket, and continued on his way.

It’s inconvenient to carry it with you on the journey, so you can come back and bring it back to town later.

The brave warriors of the reconnaissance department did not come here. Their mission was only to find living goblins. They could not perceive any living creatures here, so they skipped it.

The two of them moved at a speed of 10 points of agility. About an hour and a half passed, but they didn't see a single living goblin in the forest.

However, what surprised Shiloh was that he could see many traces of primitive tribes in the forest.

Although goblins do not eat cooked food, they can build simple houses and forge stone weapons.

Continuing to go deeper into the goblin territory, Shilo discovered that there was a city in the goblin territory.

but……

That's not a goblin building.

It is a human construction.

A large number of dilapidated houses remained without being destroyed. They only liked to kill people and had no interest in destroying houses.

Rather, the purpose of destroying the houses is to drive the humans hiding inside into despair.

You can see human bones almost every few steps you take in the city, either on the ground or half-buried with some parts exposed.

How long have they been lying here?

So far, no one has been able to help collect their bodies.

“Next time, when we can get more brave men here, we can bury them together.” Shiloh said solemnly.

"Yes." An Yi agreed.

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Looking at the skeletons everywhere, Xi Luo couldn't help but sigh...

They had fought too.

But humans are too fragile. It is already difficult for them to fight against a big goblin, let alone a goblin centurion.

In fact, she had thought about it a long time ago: if there were no God-given abilities, how could humans survive from the demons?

That's obviously impossible.

Judging from the statistics alone, a single Goblin Centurion could easily massacre an entire town.

If you can kill it, you must use long-range weapons to grind it to death.

But... considering the opponent's agility, long-range weapons are actually unlikely to be effective against him.

"Anyi Karl, there is something very strange.

The demons can easily exterminate us, so why do they have to wait ten years?" Xi Luo asked puzzled.

"I have discussed this issue with Her Highness the Saint..."

As he spoke, An Yi told Licorina what he had told her before.

That is--

The demons had to wait until ten years later to exterminate humans.

The other party could clearly take over the entire human territory in a few days, but they were only eroding it slowly at a certain speed.

And that "ten years" is the time it takes for the demons to slowly occupy all human territories.

"Is there any special reason why we can't conquer human territory in one fell swoop...?

What is the reason?" Shiloh asked again.

An Yi: “I don’t know.”

Even though he had defeated the Demon King once, he didn't know why the Demon King had to wait ten years to annex all human territories.

However, based on my own experience as a "player", there is a simple explanation, which is...

Background setting.

It is set that humanity will be destroyed ten years later, there is no special reason.

Then based on this setting, players follow the plot to capture the demon's territory.

If this is still the world of that game, there should be players everywhere in this world.

The player is not a hero, but more like a demon hunter who can add points.

The hero is a powerful NPC who will grow with the plot.

Interestingly, none of the heroes that An Yi had met actually appeared in the game.

Just like Her Highness the Saint, her name in the game is not Licorina Aldridge.

But in both of An Yi's lives, she was the saint.

In other words, this is a world that was born out of the game, but it is separated from the original story in the game.

That's why An Yi concluded that the Demon King must have a special reason for not attacking human territory.

Or maybe he just looked down on this little territory and just let the low-level demons around him slowly eat it up? That's not impossible.

After discovering the city, the two went a little deeper and found another abandoned city.

Shiloh suddenly realized that these demons had occupied more than just one city!

Here, there used to be a human country!

So they changed direction and searched horizontally, and they indeed found a large number of cities one after another.

Shiloh suddenly discovered something very terrifying.

"Anyi Karl... Aren't all the ruins like this at the border between the demon clan and human territory?" asked Shiro.

An Yi shook his head: “No.

That is to say, goblins do not live in houses, but other highly intelligent demons have already transformed human cities into cities for them to live in. "

Xi Luo was stunned and immediately thought of the Sword Demon City.

Yes, that used to be human territory, but now it has completely become a demon city!

Walking among the ruins, Shiloh couldn't help feeling a little melancholy.

“Even if we conquer these territories, how can we make them ours?

I suddenly realized...are there too few heroes?

If ordinary humans were allowed to occupy these territories, once the demons fought back, humans would be completely helpless against them," said Shiloh.

An Yi nodded: “It is indeed a difficult problem.

However, things will work out when the time comes, so let’s just take it one step at a time.”

"So even you don't have a solution..." Shiloh sighed with a wry smile.

An Yi: "Who do you take me for, someone who can create a million super soldiers out of thin air?"

Shiloh: "No, I just think you have a solution."

An Yi: "You think too highly of me."

Shiloh: "Who made you act like you can do anything?!"

An Yi: “……?”

What is omnipotent? He has always done what he can.

There was nothing worth searching in the city. Perhaps there were some valuables such as jewelry or luxury goods left behind by the dead, but they were of no use to them.

It was getting dark and the two prepared to return.

"Will you continue to come tomorrow?"

Walking in the forest, Shiloh asked An Yi.