Yue'e shook her massive head.
"Boss, I want to give you something!"
Li Meng patted Yue'e's rge tusk and grinned.
"Then go ahead, I'll take anything you give me!"
"Wait, I'll go get it!"
Yue'e's enormous body turned and ran towards the deep water area.
In Li Meng's eyes, she dove into the water.
After a while, there was a loud spsh.
Yue'e's massive body leaped out of the water.
She nded heavily in the shallow water.
Yue'e ran over, spshing water.
"Boss, it's this!"
Yue'e opened her menag mouth and used her too push out a silver metal disk.
"This is... a sacrificial disk?"
Looking at the item in Yue'e's mouth, Li Meng frowned slightly.
How did this thing end up in the northern s?
And it ended up in Yue'e's possession.
Li Meng took the sacrificial disk from Yue'e's foul-smelling mouth.
"Yue'e, where did you find it?"
Li Meng examihe disk and asked Yue'e.
"At the bottom of the water over there. At night, my kin like to gather around it, and it makes me unfortable."
The disk emitted an ominous aura.
The strohe creature, the more they could se.
"Could it be that guy deliberately left it here?"
Looking down at the disk in his hand, Li Meng muttered to himself.
The northern s was home to many s crocodiles and s crabs.
Though they weren't very intelligent.
If they gathered around the disk, it might actually activate it.
"Looks like I o get stronger quickly!"
If he had enough strength, he could capture Bck Robe and interrogate him.
Then he would know what Bck Robe's purpose was and what forces were behind him.
"I really like this gift. If you find anything simir iure, give it to me."
The northern s was vast, and there might be more than one sacrificial disk.
"Boss, this thing is strange. Are you sure you like it?"
Yue'e's enormous eyes were fixed on the disk in the boss's hand.
Li Meng grinned and put the disk away.
"I like strahings. Alright, you tinue sunbathing, I'm off!"
Li Meng ran off, leaving a long-sting trail oer's surface.
Watg the boss's departing figure, Yue'e's massive body y ier.
She closed her eyes, basking in the sun.
Her inally dark gray scales gradually turned a light red uhe sun's heat.
The m, Li Meuro the tribe.
With the Pigmen tribe i over, the tribe returo its usual routine.
Time beloo the Goblins.
Almost every day, new Goblin babies were born ihroribe.
Their arrival strengthehe tribe.
Simirly, Goblins died every day for various reasons.
Hunting parties expaheir hunting grounds deeper into the forest day after day.
Injuries ahs were iable during hunting.
Another new day, in the m.
Throribe, throne cave.
"Boss, something's wrong, something's wrong!"
A Goblin's shout suddenly came from outside the door.
Apanied by hurried footsteps.
"Bang!"
The sturdy door was violently pushed open.
Gobu Zhang's tall body came running in.
As soon as he stepped through the dobu Zhang's body came to an abrupt halt.
"Boss, you're busy, I'll... I'll wait outside!"
Seeing the boss sitting on the bed with a female Lizardman in his arms, Gobu Zhang smiled ingratiatingly and took a step back.
He quickly turned and ran out of the wooden house.
He thoughtfully closed the door on his way out.
After a while, the noise ihe wooden house subsided.
Soon after, there was a creak.
The door of the throne cave opened from the inside.
Li Meng's tall and strong figure emerged.
"Gobu Zhang, what's got you so flustered?"
Outside the wooden house, Gobu Zhang was waiting.
Seeing the boss e out, he quickly approached.
"Boss, my two hunting parties haven't been heard from in almost two months!"
Gobu Zhang wore a mournful expression.
Li Meng sat down oeps at the door.
"Which dire did you send them?"
Gobu Zhang looked around and pointed north.
Seeing Gobu Zhang point north, Li Meng gred at him.
"They must have entered humaory and bee with by humans."
To the north y a range of mountains, and beyond them was humaory.
After more than two months, they were surely gone.
"Damn humans!"
Gobu Zhang cursed in anger.
"Boss, I want revenge!"
Gobu Zhang was so angry he anting heavily.
He k on the ground, his aurning to fttery.
Li Meng waved his hand impatiently.
"Dead is dead. If they're dead, just have more. Revenge wait for ter."
Li Meng was pting how to ge the future.
He didn't have time to stir up more trouble.
The tribe lost many Goblins daily for various reasons.
The disappearance of two hunting parties was nothing to him.
"Alright, spend the few months iribe replenishing offspring."
Gobu Zhang's eyes lit up, despite his initial disappoi.
He quickly got up and ran joyfully into the depths of the forest.
Watg his subordinate's retreating figure, Li Meng shook his head helplessly.
Goblins were like that.
They had ao eating and reprodug.
Gobu Zhang didn't care about the loss of two hunting parties.
He just wanted an excuse to stay iribe.
To help his Goblin subordinates evolve quickly.
Even Goblin Soldiers weren't allowed to stay iribe.
In a year, they spent at least half the time hunting with the hunting parties.
Li Meng gnced slightly to the west, towards the depths of the forest.
, he had to wait for the event to happen.
Three months had passed sihe Pigmen tribe i.
The Principality of Ilysis's pi legion would likely attack within a year.
The time wouldn't be less than six months.
"It seems preparing for war is the only option!"
Li Meng stood up auro the wooden house, expressionless.
In the ing year, he had only oask.
To reproduce as much as possible.
The Goblin subordinates had to find their own solutions for food.
If they couldn't find food nearby, they had to look further.
He had to increase the tribe's forces at any cost.
Soon, the silen the wooden house was broken again.
And it sted for a long, long time.
Almost every few days, the female Lizardman ihrone cave would be repced.
Time passed little by little, day by day.
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Seven months ter, in the Goblin Forest.
It was noon, and the scorg sun hung high in the sky.
Between the mountains, the Goblin River wound its way forward.
At the fluence of the main river and a tributary.
A rge fleet was sailing upstream along the main river.
Tall sails formed a patch of white clouds on the river.
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