Goblin Village

It was his first day off in October. After hearing the Knight Commander's report the other day, Allen had come to the foothills of the White Dragon Mountains. Strictly speaking, this area was already part of the mountain range's foothills.

The White Dragon Mountains began at this forest. After walking for several days, the slopes gradually grew steeper, and the scenery changed into a barren mountain range.

Goblin and Orc villages could be found all throughout this forest. The Armored Ant nests lay a little farther on, on the slopes of the barren mountains, where the ants lived in large burrows.

Today, he planned to wipe out one Goblin village. He had chosen one that the Knights would likely reach in a few days. He had no intention of letting them have the EXP.

For the time being, he planned to focus on clearing Goblin villages.

The boss who ruled a Goblin village was a C-rank monster known as a Goblin King. Since it was C-rank, he expected to defeat it with ease.

However, the boss of an Orc village was an Orc King, a B-rank monster. Allen had decided he wasn't ready for one yet, after his game of tag with Murder Garsh. He planned to take one on only after clearing a Goblin village and gaining more experience.

The Armored Ant nests would be extremely difficult, too. There were apparently over a thousand Armored Ants and their queen inside the nest. The queen ant was said to be a B-rank monster.

If he defeated the Queen Armored Ant and wiped out the rest of the ants, he could claim the nest. Their sheer numbers and the need to enter the nest made it even more difficult than an Orc village.

But there was a major benefit to clearing an Armored Ant nest. The tunnels the giant ants used were enormous, and they might even lead to mithril veins. If he exterminated the ants, he could gain access to mine shafts in the mountains that were large enough for people to move through comfortably. In fact, two of the four existing mining sites had originally been Armored Ant nests...