Gauss waited patiently for the two to finish communicating before he spoke up.
"Got any intel?"
"Got dumb intel! Got dumb intel! Got" Aike turned to look at Gauss, repeating it noisily.
The corner of Gauss's mouth twitched imperceptibly, and he fought back the urge to slap his forehead.
This wasn't the first time such a situation had happened.
He comforted himself that if he wanted Aike to fully master simple human speech and be able to communicate simply later on, the current foolish process of imitation was also a necessary path.
"Um, Aike found that camp overseen by the half-ogre, and the location is right at" Alya stated the intel obtained from the raven.
Half-ogres, their first target of this trip, were, as the name implied, a typical hybrid race.
They were born from the breeding of ogres with humans, orcs, or other humanoid lifeforms.
The official Monster Introduction Manual recorded that their challenge level was mostly level 1.
This monster stood nearly two and a half meters tall, weighed two to three hundred kilograms, was ugly in appearance, and had rough skin, inheriting some of the traits and abilities of ogres, but with a physique slightly inferior to that of a pureblood ogre.
Its intelligence wasn't particularly high, but in this monster army commanded by that terrifying ogre shaman, the lower-tier monsters mixed from other races were still willing to submit to the management of this different-raced half-ogre.
"Also, Aike discovered the traces of another tribe..."
"This is good news too." A flash of sharp light crossed Gauss's eyes, and a trace of joy swept across his face.
It seemed the quantity of monsters in the areas the two were responsible for wasn't small.
"Funny chirp! Funny chirp!" Aike flapped its wings smugly.
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Gauss ignored it, shifting