“…”

Ai Li's taunting echoed in the training ground, but this time no one spoke, they were still immersed in the fear of being attacked and killed by the goblins just now. After a moment, Kaori raised her hand tremblingly.

"Um, Ms. Ellie, may I ask what just happened?"

"Okay, let's review it first."

Ai Li ignored Kaori's question and just waved her magic wand. Then a picture appeared in the air in front of everyone. It looked like a movie. Attracted by this picture, many people also perked up and stared at the picture - it was exactly what they did after entering the cave.

"First of all, the formation. No matter where you venture, the protection of the rear guard is essential. According to common sense, in addition to the forwards, there must also be strong combat professionals to guard the rear. But you actually put all the melee fighters in the front..."

Having said this, Ellie was stunned, sighed and shook her head, then looked at Meld next to her.

"Captain Meld, what are you teaching them? Barbecue?"

“…I’m very ashamed.”

Captain Meld lowered his head with a red face, and said nothing. And among the students, several people also lowered their heads. They were not unaware of this, but during the training in the Great Labyrinth, Meld mainly asked his knights to be responsible for the rear guard, so they forgot this matter of course...

The picture continued to move forward, and then Ellie waved her magic wand again, pausing the picture.

"Here, you triggered the trap."

"trap???"

Hearing what Ellie said, everyone looked at each other.

"Have we triggered the trap?"

"here."

Ellie raised the magic wand and nodded again, and then the picture zoomed in. Then everyone discovered that there was indeed an inconspicuous piece of wood on the ground.

"This is?"

“This is a warning trap. Once triggered, the goblins inside will immediately sense that something has invaded their nest, so they will immediately run out to check whether the intruder is an animal or an intruder.

"ah……"

After hearing Ellie's explanation, many people showed expressions of sudden enlightenment, and finally understood why they suddenly encountered a few goblins running out at that time. At that time, they did not think much about it and killed the other party directly. They did not expect that there was such a reason.

"But didn't we kill those goblins?"

At this time, another big boy also frowned in confusion and spoke, and Ellie glanced at him.

"Are you an idiot? That's why the goblins attacked you. The scouts we sent out to investigate have never returned. Anyone with a bit of common sense would know that something is wrong."

"That's right! Sneak attack!!"

At this point, another girl jumped up excitedly.

"Where did those goblins come from? We were clearly on guard all around, so why did goblins come out from behind us?! Isn't there only one road there?"

"A road?"

Ai Li laughed and didn't answer, but continued to play the pictures. Next, everyone saw them entering the fork in the road, then finding the woman in the garbage dump, and then Kaori being attacked.

"This is the trap set by the goblins."

Ellie paused the screen again.

"You were distracted and didn't notice the Goblin hiding in the back and attacking. Fortunately, there is more than one healer in your team, otherwise this lady would be dead."

“…”

Hearing what Ai Li said, Kaori's face turned pale, and the others were speechless - it was indeed their mistake, and they had nothing to say about it.

Then, the students who had suffered the surprise attack ran out of the garbage dump. They stumbled back to the fork in the road. Then Tian Zhihe Guanghui, full of high spirits, walked towards another road angrily, and the others followed closely.

Just after they walked for a while, Ellie paused the screen again.

"here."

"……?"

Everyone was stunned when they saw the direction Ai Li was pointing.

"What??"

"Didn't you just ask why goblins appeared from behind you? This is the answer. Watch carefully."

In the picture, a group of people walked through the tunnel, and then the picture stopped there. After a moment, everyone was surprised to see that in the shadows next to the tunnel, a large group of goblins walked out. They lowered their heads and muttered something, then showed a cruel smile and walked towards the direction the students left.

"What, what, what is this?!"

“This is a secret passage.”

Ellie shook her head.

"Why don't you think about why the goblins placed torches here? They have night vision and don't need firelight. The purpose of placing torches here is to hide the entrance and exit with the shadows illuminated by the firelight. But you were ambushed in the garbage dump before, which made you panic and you didn't notice this secret passage right next to you. That's why you were ambushed."

“…”

Upon hearing this, the students all opened their mouths in amazement, speechless. They had never imagined that those weak goblins could be so wise.

"How novel! If they didn't have some skills, these weak monsters would have been completely wiped out by humans long ago."

Next, everyone arrived at the Ruins Square, and then Sky River Glory rushed forward to kill the goblin, and the others also got into a melee, the rear guard was attacked, and then all of them were killed...

“…It’s just a mess.”

This time, Ai Li didn't even bother to comment and directly gave her own thoughts. Hearing this, a group of students blushed and lowered their heads.

"It's not our fault!"

However, at this moment, Tian Zhihe Guanghui suddenly stood up and retorted loudly.

"Isn't it right? When you see someone being abused like this, shouldn't you immediately save them from their suffering?!!"

In response to Tianzhihe Guanghui's words, Ellie shrugged her shoulders, then she simply ignored the idiot and looked at Captain Meld.

"Well, that's all for today's training. I'll come back tomorrow."

After saying this, Ai Li glanced at everyone and sneered.

"By the way, a nest like this should be able to be taken care of by at most five low-level adventurers with good coordination, but you actually... hehe, saving humans? Resisting demons? Are you worthy?"

Hearing this, the others lowered their heads and remained silent.

"But, but this is too scary. Why do we have to experience this? When those goblins killed me, I really thought I was going to die..."

At this time, another girl also started crying and complaining, and Ellie looked at her in surprise.

"I asked the goblins to kill you for your own good."

"……Why?"

"Because in real life, goblins won't kill their prey so easily. If you are defeated, you will be captured by them, and then violated at will, and give birth to goblin cubs for them, and this will repeat over and over again. When you can no longer reproduce, the goblins will kill you and make soup out of you... Is this what you want to experience?"

“…”

This time, all the girls looked livid and shook their heads desperately. Ellie, on the other hand, chuckled and looked away.

"Well, we'll continue tomorrow, everyone...have a good dream."

After that, Ellie took Azisa and Irena shopping, the students went back to rest, and Captain Meld went to report to the royal family.

It has to be admitted that the royal family and the Pope were also shocked when they heard Captain Meld's report.

"You mean... these gods can't even deal with the goblins in a formal battle?"

"Yes, sire."

Captain Meld lowered his head, looking ashamed.

"This is all our responsibility. I have always believed that we should train according to the ideas of the gods and in line with their pace. But the witch lady changed my mind. I never thought that in a real battle, these gods would behave like this..."

At this point, Captain Meld didn't know what to say. He had watched the students' adventure in the illusion created by Ellie from beginning to end, and he could only say that the performance of these gods' messengers was... simply unbearable to watch, and terrible.

“…”

The emperor and the pope looked at each other and fell silent. Indeed, these messengers were summoned by the Supreme God to save the world, so they had always treated them with courtesy. But in the final analysis, if the messengers wanted to protect humans and fight against the demons, they had to step onto the real battlefield and fight.

However, it was just an illusion and their opponents were goblins. Couldn't they bear it?

In fact, this is also normal. The different living environments of both sides also lead to differences in values. For this world, sixteen or seventeen years old is already an age for independence. And because the danger level of this world is relatively high, even if ordinary people have never dealt with monsters, they know their dangers to some extent.

However, the world where the gods' messengers originally came from was much more peaceful than this world. Not to mention killing people, they probably had never even seen a chicken being killed. So from a certain perspective, the mental state and stress resistance of these gods' messengers were no different from that of teenagers in this world.

All along, because the gods' messengers possessed powerful strength and conquered the great maze smoothly, everyone thought there would be no problem.

But unexpectedly, after actually stepping onto the battlefield, the performance of these gods' messengers was so poor.

It seems that we need to change our thinking.