"As for exploring the Demoncloud Continent, our Xinfei Merchant Guild is still working on it, and we have yet to gather all the relevant information." Xu Yi calmly addressed the gazes fixed on him. "However, we have gathered some information about the goblins and reached a clear conclusion: they are... a race with whom communication on equal terms is almost impossible."
"Hm?"
That conclusion took everyone aback.
"Communication on equal terms is almost impossible?" the Malo Empire's representative asked in surprise. "President Xu, what does that mean? Are you saying those goblins will be hostile toward us?"
This was an important question. From what Elder Trand had just revealed, the Goblin Race was the dominant race on the Demoncloud Continent. If they were hostile toward outsiders and refused to cooperate, it would pose a tremendous obstacle to their plans to enter and develop the continent.
"That isn't entirely accurate, but you can more or less understand it that way." As Xu Yi answered, he couldn't help smiling wryly to himself.
According to the intelligence sent back by the Xinfei Merchant Guild's expedition to the new continent, the goblins who dominated the Demoncloud Continent still had a very primitive social structure, and their individual combat strength was nothing remarkable. However, their extraordinary reproductive capacity had given them a population far greater than that of any other race, allowing them to establish absolute dominance over the continent.
In fact, the elves and gnomes of the Demoncloud Continent had been willing to send representatives on this risky journey with the Xinfei Merchant Guild, which had appeared from who knew where, to the Sains Continent more than ten thousand kilometers away because they hoped to obtain outside assistance against the goblins, whose increasingly staggering population was on the verge of squeezing all the other