Faced with Annuo's refusal, Tester frowned.
A petite female knight beside Tester stepped forward and pointed at Annuo and said, "Boy, do you know whose invitation you just rejected? This is the third prince of the kingdom!"
An Nuo still shook his head, "Thank you very much for your kindness, Your Highness, but I still have some unfinished business to do."
"you……"
The female knight let out a delicate cry and was about to say something, but Test raised his hand to stop her.
"In that case, I won't force it!"
As the third prince, Test also has his own pride.
The royal family's invitation only comes once.
No matter how good the other party is, Test will not make a second invitation after giving up this opportunity.
But what Tester didn't expect was that, except for Annuo, all other adventurers rejected his invitation.
In fact, Hansen, Mark and others are very clear about their own weight.
If Anno wasn't there, they wouldn't be able to defeat the Goblin King, let alone the Scythe Goblins.
If he doesn't have the ability, he naturally won't accept the royal family's invitation.
"Take some people into the forest to see if the situation is true! The rest of you, station in the town of Gruul!"
Being rejected by a group of people, Test was obviously unhappy.
He ordered a 16th-level officer under his command to lead several hundred people into the forest to check the situation, and then he mounted his horse and left with his army without looking back.
The female knight next to Tester glared at Anno before leaving.
An Nuo also glanced back at the female knight.
"Idiot, huh!"
The female knight raised her chin, snorted coldly, and turned away.
Annuo stared at the female knight's back as she left, and the female knight's information panel appeared in his field of vision.
As if he saw something interesting, the corners of Annuo's mouth gradually rose.
"President, we seem to have upset His Royal Highness the Prince."
Hansen said to Anno in a low voice while fastening the pocket in front of him again.
"Humph, although you are blind, His Royal Highness will not punish you for this matter."
A military general walked over and looked at Annuo and others with disdain in his eyes.
"My name is Tolan Jared, you can call me General Tolan. Next, I will follow the order of His Royal Highness the Prince to investigate the situation in the Forbidden Forest to see if the facts are consistent with what you said. An Nuo, you will lead the way for us!"
In Tolan's opinion, although these people have some strength, they are after all "country people" from the border.
"These ignorant country bumpkins probably don't even know what they just rejected. They are such short-sighted people."
Tolan thought so in his heart, and deliberately asked Annuo to lead the way for him.
When An Nuo heard that Tolan asked him to lead the way, he actually breathed a sigh of relief.
If these troops were allowed to enter the forbidden forest, they might discover the existence of the church.
Although I don’t know whether the people in the army would be interested in the Demon Gathering Array, it would be better if I were not discovered by them.
Just now, An Nuo was still thinking about how to deal with this matter.
I didn't expect Tolan to let me be his guide.
Let Xue Feibai, Mark and others return to Luoshi Town first with the symbols of hunting monsters and the spoils collected from the goblin cave. Annuo led the army to bypass the church and go deep into the forbidden forest.
Taking Tolan to search the goblin cave, the messy monster corpses in the cave silently proved the adventurers' achievements.
In fact, after Anno killed the Goblin King, he asked the summoned creatures to lead the returning monster troops into the church in batches.
The monsters that were lured into the trap were eaten away little by little by Annuo and the adventurers.
Because killing monsters below level 11 no longer gives Annuo experience, all of these monsters are killed by adventurers to level up.
When the entire monster army was killed, Mark, Hansen, Xue Feibai and Liz all reached level 11 - Xue Feibai was specially promoted by Annuo, and for this he killed hundreds of monsters alone.
Lu Yan, Lu Zhishang, Geng Qingxue, Meng Xin, Wang Zixuan, as well as the two priests Liu Rongrong and Ning Wen, have all reached level 10!
The strength of others has also improved greatly.
The lowest level of adventurers still alive is level 8, and there are also a lot of level 9s.
Once they go back and learn new first-level skills and consolidate their strength, their strength will be several times greater than before!
As these people's strength improved, they respected An Nuo even more.
"You searched quite thoroughly!"
Tolan looked at the empty goblin cave with the glowing magic stone in his subordinates' hands, curled his lips, and then returned with his men.
After returning to the town of Gruul, Tolan reported the intelligence he had gathered to Tester.
"From the empty monster villages and bloodbathed goblin nests we encountered on the road, it basically proves what Annuo said is true!"
Tester looked at the map in the tent and asked without raising his head, "Does the number of monster corpses match?"
"Anno said they have burned it to prevent the outbreak of plague!" Tolan reported while half-kneeling on the ground.
"Well done!" Tester nodded and let Tolan go out.
"Now that the monsters in the Forbidden Forest have been dealt with, I plan to rest in the town of Gruul for a day and gather intelligence on the Aie Mountains during this period. I will launch an attack early the day after tomorrow. What do you think, both of you?" Tester said to the two guards in the tent.
The soldier with three scars on his face said in a muffled voice: "Your Highness has experience in leading troops in battles on the front lines. Just do what you want. My duty is to protect your safety."
The old man with white beard also nodded.
Tester said confidently: "Hahaha, they are just a group of remnants. The high-level monsters of the Seventh Army were killed by the Sword Master, and the mid-level monsters were also surrounded and suppressed. The ones who can escape are probably small characters of the first and second levels!
After so many years, even if they have become stronger, how strong can they be?
This battle is just an experience.
When the battle is over, I can legitimately become the commander-in-chief of the newly-established Tenth Army!
By then…”
…
On the other side, after completing the leading task, Anno returned to the Forbidden Forest, left a summoned ratman to guard the church, and then returned to Luoshi Town.
When Anno returned to Luoshi Town, he found a group of mercenaries gathered in the adventurer's camp.
The mercenaries' faces were filled with surprise and envy.
Soon Anno knew the reason.
The people surrounded by the mercenaries were Xue Feibai and others.
The mercenaries cannot see the spoils of war, but they can personally feel the improvement in the adventurers’ strength.
Some mercenaries found that people they knew were weaker than themselves before they left in the morning, but when they came back in the afternoon, their aura was stronger than theirs.
And it's not just one person, it's a group of people!
The upgrade speed is too fast.
The mercenaries learned from chatting with the adventurers that Mark, Hansen, and Xue Feibai had all reached level 11, and they were so shocked that their eyes bulged out.
Valkham's mercenary group currently only has three professionals above level 10.
And the Adventurer's Guild produced 3 of them at once!
When the mercenaries saw An Nuo coming back, they unconsciously made way for him.
Mark and others in the adventurer camp, when they saw Anno coming back, hurriedly went to greet him with a look of respect on their faces!
The mercenaries watching nearby couldn't help but gasp and thought to themselves: The mercenary world in Valkham is about to change.
Even Mark and others who are at level 11 are so respectful to An Nuo, which means that An Nuo must be a professional above level 10, and stronger than Mark and others!
The strength of the top leaders of the Adventurer's Guild is already stronger than that of the number one ranked Garo Mercenary Group!