I opened an adventurer's guild in another world.

The mission in Mir Village didn't actually require so many people.

Let them come, mainly to hunt slimes and level up.

Now that the objective has been achieved, it's enough to leave Lu Zhishang, Lü Yan, and Wang Zixuan to continue clearing out the remaining slimes.

The location of the mission in Anno's hands, Gran Village, is located ten kilometers southwest of Mil Village. It was attacked by monsters, mainly goblins, half a month ago.

Because there is an iron mine in Gran Village, there are as many as twenty guards stationed there!

However, according to the survivors, there were hundreds of monsters.

In order to cover the villagers' retreat, the guards were surrounded by monsters, and in the end, none of them escaped!

It was precisely because of what happened in Gran Village that the Viscount intensified patrols around the area surrounding Mill Village.

If the monsters make any further moves, Mill Village is very likely to become their target.

"The Viscount sent us to investigate intelligence around Gran Village, most likely because he's preparing to take Gran Village back."

On the way to Gran Village, Anno and the others explained the mission.

The main purpose of retaking Gran Village was also to seize that iron mine.

"Since there's an iron mine, why not send more guards to protect it?"

Liu Rongrong was somewhat puzzled.

Anno explained, "This year's monster attacks came much earlier than in previous years, and the Viscount did not increase defenses in advance, which is one reason."

Another reason is that there are three other villages a few kilometers away from Gran Village. These three villages could have served as a warning to Gran Village.

But the monsters bypassed these villages and launched a direct attack on Gran Village!

Anno's analysis silenced the others.

"These monsters are numerous, and they bypass non-priority targets, focusing their attacks specifically on their main targets. Their combat strength and intelligence are both considerable!"

After Geng Qingxue finished speaking, Xue Feibai continued, "Nonsense, our mentors are all level 10 or above professionals, aren't they amazing? But Valkam still doesn't dare to leave the city to exterminate monsters!"

In this world, humans are the weaker race, while monsters are the stronger one!

If all monsters were like slimes, could the demon race still dominate humans and other races?

"Brother Bai is right, everyone shouldn't underestimate monsters!"

Anno nodded and instructed, "This time, we'll only hunt lone monsters on the outermost perimeter and carefully gather intelligence."

Black Iron level quests require players to be level 6 or higher, or several players below level 5, to accept them.

Currently, apart from Anno and his group, no other adventurer in the Adventurers' Guild can take on this task.

However, the mission only has a three-day time limit. If Anno cannot resolve the issue, the Viscount will delegate the mission to a mercenary group.

"If I'm not mistaken, Gran Village must be teeming with monsters right now. We need to find a way to level up a bit more while we're completing this quest."

Everyone: "Understood!"

After several hours of running around, both Geng Qingxue, a magician, and Liu Rongrong, a priest, were panting heavily and covered in sweat.

Anno found a secluded spot and let everyone rest for a while.

He glanced at the surrounding terrain, compared it with the map in his hand, and said to the person next to him, "Be careful, we've entered the area of ​​Gran Village."

There are many small hills, each a dozen meters high, in front of us, covered with shrubs and weeds, which severely obstruct our view.

And Gran Village is located in front of these hills.

The straight-line distance between them and where everyone is now is only a little over a kilometer.

"bass!"

Xue Feibai drew his long sword from his waist, and the others became even more vigilant.

Anno will summon the goblin and let it climb up the hillside to observe the situation.

"I'll go check it out too!" Meng Xin volunteered, activating the thief's initial skill [Stealth], and her figure faded into the background.

However, upon closer inspection, one can still detect the distortion of light around Meng Xin.

With their vision shared, Anno saw the scene that summoning the goblins had witnessed.

The place where everyone is now is just a small hill on the outermost edge.

Ahead lay rolling hills, with only a winding path leading inwards.

As far as the eye could see, there were no monsters in sight.

Not long after, Meng Xin also returned.

"No monsters were found, and there's only one road into Gran Village!"

Xue Feibai looked at Anuo and suggested, "That road will definitely be guarded by monsters. Should we go through these hillsides?"

The only road is too dangerous to take.

But that doesn’t mean walking down the hillside is safe.

"I'll have the summoned goblins lead the way, and everyone else follow behind, being careful of our surroundings."

If you see any monsters, report to me immediately.

As long as the monster's level is no higher than 5, I can see their information.

If we can win, then we will fight.

If we can't win, we'll retreat!

"clear!"

The group nodded and quietly climbed the hillside, about fifty meters behind the summoned goblin.

Anno also released four summoned slimes, which spread out around the group to check the situation.

The mission requires gathering intelligence on Gran Village.

Since they hadn't even seen Gran Village yet, Anno naturally couldn't just take a quick look around and run back.

Moreover, he planned to use the monsters on the periphery to break through to level 5!

......

On a large rock in the woods, there was a small iron helmet, and next to it lay a goblin fast asleep.

Beside it, a goblin wearing a helmet was trimming its nails with a dagger.

Suddenly, the dagger goblin noticed movement on the opposite hillside, immediately stopped what it was doing, and looked in the direction of the noise.

The two hilltops were only about thirty meters apart, and the dagger goblin could clearly see a goblin with a long spear on the other side.

The spear goblin climbed the hillside and looked around.

Soon, the spear goblin also spotted the two goblins next to the rock.

The dagger goblin gave the spear goblin opposite him a strange look, scratched his forehead, woke up the sleeping goblin, and asked, "Are any goblins out today?"

"Huh?" The goblin was still a little confused when it woke up. It looked in the direction the dagger goblin was pointing and found a goblin holding a spear staring at them from a distance.

"No, aren't we just the outermost sentry post?" it said, letting out a long yawn.

"This goblin looks unfamiliar. Where did it come from? Should we report this to the boss? We're about to attack the next human stronghold. Every goblin we have adds to our strength."

"I think it's a good fit; it looks even stronger than us!"

Having made up their minds, the two goblins headed towards the spear goblin's location.

"Target spotted, two goblins. One level 3, one level 4, wearing armor, weapons are a dagger and a longsword! Prepare for battle."

Anno and the others, who were following behind the summoned goblins, were on the other side of the hillside, so the dagger goblins couldn't see them at all.

Upon hearing Anno's command, the others immediately went into battle mode.

When the two goblins walked down the hillside where they were originally staying and came to the foot of the hill where the summoned goblins were, Anno immediately controlled the summoned goblins to turn around and leave.

"???" The two goblins looked at each other in confusion.

"Brother, don't go! Let's achieve great things together!"