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

Effect: [Domination]

You can freely control all goblins below level 8!

Item Passive: [King Killer]

Using this item can cause an additional 15% damage to the [Goblin King]. 】

Just like what was written on the item description, using the [Goblin King Sword] was like the Goblin King himself.

Since the king is here in person, he can naturally control the goblin servants who serve him.

In addition to the Goblin King Sword, there is also a set of Goblin King series equipment, the effect of which is to [reduce damage from goblins by 20%].

If the normal progress is followed, this set of equipment is actually of no use to the hero.

Those who can conquer the Goblin Empire don't need these damage reductions at all. The brave will become stronger and stronger as they kill more. After the level is crushed, it doesn't make much difference whether or not they have this set of equipment.

However, it is very useful for today's heroes.

Because many heroes participate in dungeons at higher levels, with this set of equipment they can also defeat goblins that they could not defeat before.

On the second day after defeating the Goblin King, an exploration team led by the Saint Squad came to the capital of the Goblin Empire again.

I left in a hurry yesterday and there are still many things that have not been investigated.

The first thing is...

Where is the second Goblin King?

Since all the high-level goblins from the neighboring areas have come here, it stands to reason that there should be a goblin king among them.

It is impossible for a single king to remain in the neighboring area and transfer all high-level combat forces to the neighboring Goblin Empire.

No, first of all, the union of two Goblin Empires is already very strange.

In An Yi's opinion, this kind of thing is impossible.

What happened to the other Goblin King? Why did he suddenly lead a high-level force here?

In addition to investigating the whereabouts of the other Goblin King, we also need to investigate the whereabouts of the only remaining Goblin King's servant.

That was the Goblin King's servant whose arm was cut off by Anyi.

For some reason, all the Goblin King's servants chose to fight to the end, but it ran away.

An Yi wasn't quite sure about the reason. Maybe it triggered some special escape mechanism?

However, goblins are notoriously afraid of death, and the other party is a mutant individual, so he may have his own ideas.

In addition to investigating these two matters, there is the search for loot, and the recovery of the Goblin King's body.

No one wanted it since it was left in the palace, so I took it back and gave it to Noel and Ruby to play with.

Maybe you can create something surprising?

[Beast Hero: There is a strange smell in the square! ]

Soon, news came from the brave man who was in charge of searching for the "strange smell".

The brave men gathered in the square from all directions.

In the middle of the square, a brave man with a dog's head was lying on the ground. When he saw the brave men gathering together, he stood up.

The Saint Lady Team also arrived quickly.

"What did you find?" An Yi asked.

If you ask who cares most about the second goblin king, it can only be him.

Because the other heroes had no idea about the cooperation between the two Goblin Empires, only he knew that it was impossible.

So he was eager to find out what was going on.

"There's a very powerful thing buried here. It's been there for some time, but judging by the smell, it's a strong demon."

The "dog-headed man" beast hero changed his head back to a human head and turned into a young man with ordinary appearance.

Other heroes were also watching from the surroundings.

"There are indeed signs that the ground has been disturbed."

Soon a brave man discovered something was wrong.

The square itself had floor tiles, but in the area that the Beast Hero found, the tiles were laid out in a messy manner on the ground.

It's like the floor tiles were scattered on the ground and randomly pressed flat without being laid out neatly.

"Then let's see what's buried underneath!" The Beast Hero had been wanting to take action for a long time.

As soon as the thought came to his mind, his hands and feet turned into the limbs of a pangolin. His scaly hands and feet quickly dug downwards and outwards on the ground, pushing the soil in the hole out.

When the other heroes saw this, they also used various skills to dig up the areas where the ground had been disturbed.

Soon, a brave man dug up something.

That's a goblin skin!

High-level goblins are quite resilient, and it will take them a long time to rot if buried in the ground.

So even if it is buried for a while, it will not rot too badly. The higher the level of the goblin, the less likely it is to rot.

So it didn't take long for the heroes to see the full picture of the goblin's body below.

However, the moment they saw clearly, all the heroes were stunned.

Including Anyi.

It was the corpse of a large goblin, and there was no problem up to this point.

This large goblin died in a horrific way, having been skewered from head to crotch on a wooden stake, but it was still scary.

But if you look along the wooden pillar, you can see a Goblin Crown stuck on it...

"Is this... the Goblin King?"

"Is this the Goblin King?!"

"No way?! Wait, why would he die here?!"

"Killed by another Goblin King?"

The heroes began to discuss at once.

Why is there a corpse of the Goblin King here?

"Is it possible that a fake crown was made to impersonate the Goblin King?" someone asked.

"No, this should be true."

Unexpectedly, An Yi spoke.

He continued;

“That would explain why we didn’t encounter a second Goblin King.

Because the second Goblin King has died, the other high-ranking Goblins who have lost their king can only submit to the Goblin King of this empire."

"That shouldn't be the case. The second Goblin King was staying at home well, why did he come here?

And he was killed by the Goblin King of this empire?

And the senior goblin from another goblin empire is really careless. He wasn't angry even when his king was strangled."

"Yeah, that's weird."

An Yi lowered his head, looking at the body of the Goblin King in the big pit at his feet, and said calmly: "I didn't say it was killed by the Goblin King."

All the heroes were stunned.

Yeah, who said that this Goblin King must have been killed by the Goblin King?

When all the heroes were confused, An Yi noticed some details that they didn't notice.

That is, the Goblin King had almost no external injuries on his body.

At least there were no obvious wounds that could cause fatal injuries.

In other words, the opponent either attacked the brain and heart, causing minor wounds.

Either...

The Goblin King was pierced directly with a wooden pillar, destroying its internal organs from bottom to top and killing it.

Seeing the body of the Goblin King, many things suddenly made sense.

First of all, the Goblin King died, and then all the high-level goblins from the neighboring area would join here.

Then, the orcs from the next door area escaped before all the high-ranking goblins set out, helped by an unknown person.

Then the answer is obvious.

An unknown strong man appeared, saved all the orcs, and killed the Goblin King.

But...why did the other party dump the body here?

Deterrence? Provocation?

The most important thing is, who is the other party?

Are there any powerful heroes that I don’t know about at this stage?

It is stronger than the current Saint Team, strong enough to kill the Goblin King like a pig.

Oh, no, the other party may not be a hero either.

[[Private] The Hero of the Thorn: Someone wants to harm us...]

Seeing Miluko's message, An Yi subconsciously turned around and looked at her.

Miluko's eyes swung left and right, and she hurriedly explained in the chat group;

[[Private] Thorn Hero: Originally, the goblins here should be completely unable to defeat us...

Then suddenly reinforcements appeared.

Someone deliberately killed the Goblin King and caused high-level goblins from other places to come here.

If we hadn’t noticed that the enemy’s numbers had increased in advance… we might have died here…】

An Yi stared at Miluko blankly for a while.

She does have a point, but...

[[Private] Sword Hero: Then why save the orcs? 】

Miluko was stunned, then covered her head with her hands as if she was thinking hard.

Yes, why?

Kill the Goblin King and send high-level goblins for reinforcement. There is no need to release the orcs before they come to reinforce.

Letting them kill all the orcs would actually reduce humanity's combat power.

Why increase the combat power of goblins without reducing the combat power of humans?

Weird, so weird.

[[Private] The Hero of the Thorn: Is it possible... that the opponent who attacked is also an orc?

[Private] Sword Hero: Maybe. 】

That doesn't make sense.

Why only kill the Goblin King and not other high-level goblins?

Killing them all would be the best solution, right?

The more I think about it, the weirder it seems.

What is the correct and reasonable answer?

Before coming here, I actually asked the orcs if they had seen the appearance of a mysterious master.

All the orcs said no, at most they knew the other party was a human.

What exactly is the other party's purpose...?

I have no idea.