“After the previous mayor was killed while exploring the forbidden forest, I came here to take office, and this thing has remained here ever since.

I have never understood what this is for, does Lord An Nuo know?"

An Nuo shook his head and said, "I don't know the details, but can you give this thing to me?"

After hearing this, Liya said without any hesitation, "It's just a decoration for me. If Lord Annuo needs it, just take it away!"

For Riya, it is worthwhile to exchange a stone plate of unknown use for Anno's favor.

What's more, if the elite goblins really attacked, they would not take such a decorative stone slab with them when they evacuated.

Taking the palm-sized stone slab, Annuo examined it carefully.

I found that there was nothing special about it except the magic patterns on it.

"Does it have to be placed in that pit?" An Nuo guessed in his heart.

Walking out of the meeting room, An Nuo found Liz waiting outside.

Liz saw An Nuo holding a slate in his right hand and asked in confusion, "Master, why did you come out with a slate?"

“This should be inlaid in the center of the church!”

"Hey, this size seems to be real."

"Let's not worry about that for now, let's go outside the town and check the situation first!"

An Nuo walked to the side of Feng Lang, who leaned down on his own initiative.

After Anno and Liz got on, the Wind Wolf ran out of the town panting.

At this time, on the town road, the workers sent by Riya were shouting that monsters might attack the town, and asked everyone to go back and pack up their things and be ready to escape at any time.

All the townspeople who heard the news ran back home.

As An Nuo walked along, all he saw was chaos.

After arriving at the door, Annuo continued walking for a distance and came to an observation point where he could observe the edge of the forbidden forest.

This place is only a few hundred meters away from the forbidden forest. Three guards are looking in the direction of the forest with nervous expressions.

"Is there anything going on?" Annuo jumped off the Wind Wolf and asked the guard beside him.

The guards all knew Anno. One of them pointed at the forest and said, "Just now, dozens of goblins rushed out. After we saw them, we were planning to return to Gruul Town, but we found that they returned to the forest and then there was no movement."

"You rushed out and came back?"

Anno frowned, then rode the Wind Wolf to another direction and summoned the Harpy where the guards couldn't see him.

The harpy flew towards the forbidden forest and began to investigate the situation.

When flying to the edge, Anno saw several sneaky goblins through the harpy's vision.

These low-level goblins are at the edge of the forest, looking outside at the moment.

"What's going on? Why do they seem to be afraid that we will break in?"

Those goblins were obviously acting as sentinels, observing the situation outside the forest.

This made An Nuo a little confused.

"Liz, are you sure there are nearly two thousand monsters in the Forbidden Forest?"

"This is what the Goblin King told me himself. If he's not lying, then it's two thousand!"

"Then did the Goblin King tell you that since it has so many people, why doesn't it attack human villages and towns on a large scale?"

Liz nodded and said, "The Goblin King said that he didn't get any orders from the Aier Mountains. But I don't think that's the reason. Although I haven't had much contact with the Goblin King, I feel that he is very timid. He is obviously level 11 and still in his lair, but he is accompanied by a group of level 10 guards wherever he goes."

After hearing this, An Nuo showed a hint of doubt on his face.

However, judging from the current situation, the monsters in the forbidden forest will not rush out of the forest and attack villages and towns.

This could be an order from the cowardly Goblin King.

"We can't jump to conclusions too early. It's daytime now, and they may attack the village at night!"

Anno licked his lips, let the harpy fly into the forest, and continued to explore for information.

What surprised Annuo was that the group of elite goblins seemed to have really retreated to the core area. The harpy flew all the way to the ruins of the church but did not see any monsters above level 6.

"Did they really retreat?"

After thinking for a while, Anno summoned another level 5 goblin - the previous dog-headed man was pierced by Sharp's gun and died after a while, leaving a summoning slot vacant.

The summoned goblin ran all the way into the forbidden forest, then found the goblins on guard and began to gather information.

These goblins on guard had no idea that the goblin in front of them was summoned by humans.

When they heard that the summoned goblin had just woken up from some corner and rushed over, several goblins on guard began to explain to Annuo's summons in a chattering manner.

Some human advance team just entered the forest and killed many monsters, and many humans were also killed.

This includes humans being hunted by the goblin race in the core area and escaping from the forest.

These are all what Anno knew.

When Annuo controlled the goblin and asked why they didn't chase after him, the other goblins looked at the summoning goblin with confusion.

"Are you sleepy? Once we grow to level 6, we need to live in the core area. Without a mission and the king's permission, no one above level 6 can leave the forest at will!"

"Why?"

"Rules are rules. Why are there so many whys?"

"So, the goblins that came out of the core area have all retreated?"

"Of course! We are the ones they sent here to keep an eye on them. If any more humans come in, report back immediately."

Hearing this answer, Annuo, who was hiding in the distance, breathed a sigh of relief.

He returned to the previous observation point and told the guards that the crisis was over and the goblins would not attack the town of Gruul for the time being.

Then he quietly moved to the edge of the forest and killed several low-level goblins who were on guard.

Logically speaking, this period of time is when the goblin population is on alert, and they should not continue to enter the forbidden forest.

But Anno had just obtained the mysterious stone tablet. If he didn't put it back now when the elite goblins returned, it would be difficult to do this again if the Goblin King sent a group of high-level goblins to use the church ruins as a base in the future.

This situation is not impossible!

With the help of the safe route explored by the harpy before, Anno soon arrived at the ruins of the church.

Walking to the central area and finding the pit, Annuo took out the stone slab and stuffed it in.

“Buzz~!”

After the stone slab was inlaid, a faint white light suddenly emanated.

Then Anno had an idea!

Towards the stone slab, he thought of offering the monster souls he collected!

"this……"

An Nuo's eyes suddenly widened, shocked by his own thoughts.

Ten white-level slime souls were offered as an experimental offering.

Then Anno discovered that the souls of ten slimes flew out of his body and were sucked into the stone slab.

After absorbing the soul, the stone slab glowed brighter.

"This must be related to the God of Summoning!"

After An Nuo had a guess in his mind, he offered the remaining hundreds of white-level souls bit by bit.

When the 500th white-level soul was enshrined, all the magic patterns on the stone slabs lit up, and through several magic patterns on the ground, they connected to the twelve stone pillars around them.

Under Annuo's shocked gaze, the bottoms of the broken stone pillars also emitted light, forming a hexagram array through connecting lines.

An Nuo, who was in the hexagram formation, clearly felt that the speed of magic power recovery in his body was accelerating.

During the previous battle, Annuo's magic power was almost exhausted.

But now it is recovering at a speed of 5 points per second!

At this rate, Annuo's 1,000 magic points can be restored in less than four minutes!

In addition, Annuo's consciousness once again entered that piece of nothingness.