"The monsters that appear are getting stronger and stronger."

John put away his sword and stood, at this time they were less than 10 miles away from the Imperial camp, judging by the frequency of monsters they encountered along the way, I am afraid that the pressure on the Imperial team here is not small.

"The barracks are heavy, come and stop."

One of the guards pulled out a token and showed it to the guard.

"The people of Wangcheng!"

The guard was taken aback, and hurriedly said

"I'll go and inform the general."

John nodded, and the guard hurried away, and a few moments later, a stout man in armor approached.

This man is the person in charge here, he heard that the people from Wangcheng were not happy at all, in his eyes, the noble young masters of Wangcheng not only did not come here to help, but also always added to the chaos, just came here to mix some military merits, at this time he was in a hurry, where could he divide his mind to take care of those noble young masters?

"Yes...... It's His Royal Highness the Prince! ”

The dissatisfaction on his face dissipated instantly when he saw John again, unlike those noble young masters, John had made great achievements for the empire for many years, but he was the person he admired the most.

"In the barracks, don't bother with all that red tape, General Beth, let's talk inside."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Beth nodded, and led John into his camp.

And all the way up, in addition to the hurried soldiers, John also saw many wounded soldiers moaning in pain, and it seemed that the situation here was not good.

"General Beth, what's going on?"

Beth smiled bitterly: "Presumably His Highness has seen it, the casualties of the soldiers are very large, and those goblins have not known what they have gone crazy about recently, and they have attacked the surrounding villages frantically, our soldiers have almost no time to rest, and this time it is not only the goblins who are causing trouble, but there are even many traces of cat demons." ”

"Cat demon?"

John showed a solemn look, unlike the goblins, the monsters that live on the periphery of the Glen Forest, the cat demons basically live in the depths of the forest, and rarely run to the outside world, and their strength is stronger than those goblins, no wonder there are so many casualties in the army.

"Why? There must be some special reason why so many goblins and cat demons have escaped outside the Gran Forest. ”

"As for the reason...... I don't know. ”

Beth shook his head: "The empire has a limited number of troops stationed here, and it is quite reluctant just to resist those monsters, but according to my inference, this monster riot should be related to the depths of the Gran Forest." ”

"Deep in the Gran Forest? Genie? ”

John frowned, although the empire and the elves were neighbors, they had never had any communication, so they had no way of knowing what was going on in the Glen Forest.

John pondered for a moment, "Well, tomorrow I'll take a trip to the Gran Forest to see what is going on in the forest." ”

"No way!"

Beth exclaimed, "There are many monsters in the Gran Forest, how can His Royal Highness the Prince ...... with his body?"

"No need to say more, I know what you want to say, but if you continue like this, the soldiers will soon be unable to support it, and the rest of the empire's troops are scattered everywhere, if you ask your father for help at this time, it will take at least a month or two for the reinforcements to arrive, and it will not be able to quench your thirst at all, and this is the only way to do it for now."

Beth was speechless for a moment, and what John said made sense, and he had no way to refute it.

"Then tomorrow, please ask Your Highness to bring an elite army......"

"No, it's enough for me to go alone."

John waved his hand and said lightly.

"How can this work, as His Highness's guard, how can he let His Highness put his body in danger?"

Before Beth could speak, the leader of the guards beside John spoke urgently.

"The strength of the monsters in the Glen Forest, I am naturally very clear, it is precisely because of this that I have to go alone, the number of people is too big, and with your strength, you may not be able to help."

The leader of the guards was flushed, but he couldn't say a word. Although they are nominally John's bodyguards, if it is about strength, even if they go together, they may not be John's generals.

"If I act alone, I can have a lot less worries, don't worry, I will definitely not fight those monsters, after all, the purpose of my trip is to investigate, not to fight those monsters."

"This ...... All right. ”

Bess could only smile wryly and nodded, because he knew that since John had already made his decision, it would be useless for him to say more.

"So be it, rest well tonight, I'll leave early tomorrow morning, and as for the few of you, stay here to help General Bes."

"Yes!"

Seeing that several people agreed, John nodded, turned and left the camp, leaving only the wry-smiling General Beth and a few guards.

In fact, if you talk about this Gran Forest, it is not the first time that John has entered, when he was a teenager, he also came to Gran Mori with the army, but it was not General Beth who was stationed here at that time, so they also don't know. However, since he has entered it once, he has used some experience, and John also has some understanding of the monsters in the Gran Forest.

The outer perimeter of the Gran Forest is the Dark Forest, and the trees here are very tall and can be described as shading the sky and the sun, because these many tall and dense trees block the sunlight, so the dark forest looks a little dark all year round, hence the name "Dark Forest".

In the dark forest, there are many monsters, goblins are one of them, and in the depths of the dark forest, there are many cat demons, as well as some minotaurs.

At this time, John had just entered the periphery of the dark forest.

"There doesn't seem to be anything strange about it."

John said to himself that everything in the dark forest hadn't changed since the last time he had been here.

"It seems that we can only find some clues if we go deeper into the depths."

John walked cautiously, and in the midst of such a forest full of monsters, he had to be vigilant at all times.

"Oh? Is it a wild strawberry? ”

John carefully put a few red fruits into his backpack, this wild strawberry is a specialty of the Gran Forest, unlike the strawberries in the outside world, the strawberries in the Gran Grove have a certain healing effect, in such an environment, no healing means can be wasted.