Chapter 52: Internal Meeting in E-Rantel, Overall Level 19lv

City Mayor Panasole raised his head, looking at the sunlight shining through the window, squinting briefly before speaking with an apologetic tone:

"Apologies, being bathed in the warm sunlight makes one easily drift off to sleep."

Ainzach shook his head slightly, "The matter is somewhat special; I had intended to notify you specifically, but I didn't expect you to make the trip yourself."

"Your Excellency the Mayor should take more care of your health," Lachier spoke up from the side with a smile.

"You know how it is, I have always been a lazy person," City Mayor Panasole chuckled.

The atmosphere of the conversation between the three was very harmonious; it was clear their relationship was quite good.

"Right, well... let us discuss the matter at hand," City Mayor Panasole said.

As soon as these words were spoken!

The expressions of Ainzach and Lachier turned serious.

City Mayor Panasole appeared incredibly obese and incompetent, but as friends, the two knew him very well.

Not only was he not an incompetent person, but he actually belonged to the category of quite shrewd and capable individuals.

"E-Rantel," as the most important border city of the Re-Estize Kingdom, was the very front line facing the Baharuth Empire.

As long as His Majesty the King was not foolish, he would not send an incompetent person to hold down "E-Rantel"!

And as it happened, the current His Majesty the King was not a mediocre man.

Being able to bypass the noble system to create the position of "Head Warrior" for a commoner like Gazef, and allowing him to form an entirely new army, was enough to prove this.

"The situation is as follows."

"In the last half-month, the number of villages and caravans suffering from goblin attacks has decreased significantly."

"In fact, during this period, there hasn't even been any intelligence regarding goblin attacks," Ainzach said with a solemn expression.

Lachier, the head of the Magic Guild, asked in confusion, "Isn't this a good thing?"

"Whether it is a good thing or not depends on more than just the current situation."

Ainzach continued, clasping his hands together on the table, "According to past experience, these few months should be the time when goblins breed in large numbers and attacks are at their most severe."

"And this abnormal behavior before us suggests that something we do not understand has likely occurred in the Great Forest of Tob."

City Mayor Panasole, who had been listening, then said unhurriedly: "What is the result?"

He did not ask the redundant question of whether Ainzach had sent people to investigate; since the three were appearing here, it meant Ainzach had already achieved certain results.

"Yes!"

Ainzach nodded, "Through intelligence obtained by several adventurer teams from the outer regions of the Great Forest of Tob."

"Something must have happened in the territory of the Eastern Giant Trolls; the entire forest has a stronger scent of goblin blood."

"There is a suspicion that a large number of goblins have died, but strangely, no large quantities of goblin corpses have been discovered."

"According to the intelligence gathered so far, we can temporarily rule out the actions of any powerful adventurer team, otherwise there should have been a large number of corpses left behind."

Ainzach stopped there, picked up the silver magic container on the table, and drank the cold liquid inside in one gulp.

"You suspect that a conflict occurred within the goblin community in the Troll territory," Lachier said with a serious face.

"It is also possible that a battle occurred between the Wise King of the Forest and the Eastern Giants for unknown reasons."

City Mayor Panasole narrowed his eyes slightly and said softly.

"Correct," Ainzach nodded, "At least for now, it is a good thing for us."

"Keep a close watch on it," City Mayor Panasole said.

Ainzach: "Understood."

In the Great Forest of Tob. By the small river.

Tang Zheng did not know that a small meeting was being held inside "E-Rantel" at this moment because of the things he had caused.

However.

Even without knowing the content of the meeting, Tang Zheng was clear that as the number of goblins he slaughtered increased significantly, the impact produced would naturally not be limited to just the forest.

In the first half-month, the number of goblins he killed was not very high.

Even if left untreated, those few goblin corpses would naturally be eaten clean by the beasts and monsters in the jungle.

But now, if the massive number of goblin corpses he slaughtered were not dealt with, it would truly cause big trouble.

Not to mention anything else.

It would inevitably draw the Trolls out, and Tang Zheng had no intention of provoking that group of Trolls right now.

Furthermore, with the massive reduction in goblins, it would also attract the attention of adventurers from "E-Rantel."

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Many low-level adventurers all relied on easy jobs like killing goblins to earn money.

If adventurers entered the outer jungle and discovered a large number of goblin corpses, they could analyze some intelligence about him just from the wounds on those corpses.

This was also something Tang Zheng did not want to see!

The more intelligence he leaked now, the more intelligence the "Great Tomb of Nazarick" would obtain in the future!

This intelligence war!

It had already begun the moment Tang Zheng chose to stand on the opposite side of the "Great Tomb of Nazarick"!

Therefore!

Tang Zheng stored all the corpses of the more than two thousand goblins and over 30 ogres he had slaughtered into his item box.

As expected of an item box unique to "Players," the space inside was indeed large; it was actually able to fit everything, though Tang Zheng also used this to figure out the approximate capacity the item box could hold.

Storing so many corpses into the item box took up a full one-third of its volume.

Such a volume did indeed look large, but for a level 100 player, it was simply not enough!

Just in the anime, the mountain of 500 million gold coins that Ainz Ooal Gown used to resurrect Xia Tiya would have been enough to nearly fill Tang Zheng's item box to the brim.

However!

Right now, such a large volume was clearly enough for the current Tang Zheng.

The death of over two thousand goblins and 30 ogres!

Not only did it break five iron swords, but it also made Tang Zheng feel somewhat numb from the killing, and even made him become much colder as a person.

The reason he ran to the river to take a bath today and did not continue to slaughter goblins was that Tang Zheng wanted to take a day off specifically to adjust his emotions.

Tang Zheng was full and satisfied, looking up at the status panel in front of him.

【Ability Table】

Innate Talent:【Player】

Overall Level: 19lv

Experience Bar: 5893/9500

Class:

Basic Class: Genius 9lv (Warrior...)

Intermediate Class: Sword Saint 10lv

Skill Points: 39

Passive Skills: Item Box, Slash Enhancement (10%)

Active Skills:

Warrior: Instant Reflex, Four-Fold Slash, Rapid Slash, Stealth, Tracking

Magic: Minor Cure (1st Tier), Magic Arrow (1st Tier), Odorless (1st Tier), Camouflage (1st Tier)

Heating (2nd Tier), Papermaking (2nd Tier), Item Appraisal (2nd Tier)

Class Skills: Pharmacy, Alchemy

Since the "Genius" class did not increase stats upon leveling up, the attribute table had not changed much, but there had been quite a few changes in the ability table.

(End of chapter)