Xia Nan followed the Barbarian Fugan and the Winter Wolf Fanny into the depths of the valley.
The terrain where the three stood was relatively high, and the uphill path made it difficult for him to see the distant scenery.
But as they went deeper, Xia Nan gradually caught that familiar scent in the air, one that made his heart stir.
Sure enough, after traveling through the dense forest for around twenty minutes,
a large Goblin settlement came into view.
With his extensive experience dealing with Goblinoid tribes, Xia Nan needed only one glance down from the densely vegetated hillside to judge the rough scale of the settlement.
There should have been between one hundred and one hundred twenty ordinary individuals, and there were definitely elite creatures among them. Otherwise, they could never have gathered so many Goblins.
But—
His pitch-black eyes fixed on the clearing in the valley below, Xia Nan frowned slightly without realizing it.
This Goblin settlement seemed somewhat different from the ones he had encountered before.
Normally, given the vile nature of Green-skinned Goblins, even with elite leaders restraining them, it would be difficult to completely suppress their chaotic, crazed, filthy instincts.
Yet in this valley clearing, Xia Nan did not see the excrement strewn everywhere or the rotting carcasses of prey that should have been present where Goblins gathered.
To a certain extent, it could even be called clean.
And unlike the habit of most Goblinoids, who dug deep underground to build their nests, this Goblin settlement, with more than a hundred members and enough numbers to construct large underground caves, had built its nest directly on the surface.
Tattered tents of various colors, patched together from who knew where; crooked yet somehow completed crude wooden huts; and even a ring of defensive fencing made