The clock turned back to a day earlier...
Guild Leader Vick had entered the Core Area of Lorraine Forest and had been searching the area for several days.
Yet just as their previous investigations had shown, after several full days, he had found nothing unusual.
Other than the fact that Goblins had indeed become numerous—even the Core Area, where they had once been scarce, was now filled with them.
But there was no sign of a lord-level Goblin, nor any Spider Silk that might point to a Lawrence Family conspiracy.
That was strange.
Given the current situation, a Goblin population of this scale could not possibly have failed to produce a lord-level Goblin. And around it, there should surely have been a massive Goblin army, including numerous Bronze Goblins and Giant Goblins.
But where had all those Goblins gone?
Lorraine Forest was vast. Saying they had turned the entire forest upside down might have been an exaggeration, but during this period, the entire group, including the Adventurer's Guild, had indeed conducted an enormous number of investigations within it. Logically, if a lord-level Goblin had appeared, it was impossible for them to have found nothing at all.
Could they have been hiding somewhere unknown?
For example, in some undiscovered enormous underground cavern? Or perhaps simply within a Different Space?
Just as he was thinking, Vick suddenly sensed an eerie spatial fluctuation.
Although Vick did not know Space Magic and was not even a Mage, as the Branch President of the Adventurer's Guild, he was widely experienced. He had encountered related things in his youth and was extremely familiar with such subtle fluctuations—though this was not a normal spatial fluctuation. Otherwise, someone who was not a spatial Mage like him would not have been able to sense it.
Vick sprinted in the