I decided to quickly collect the bodies of the goblins into my [Item box] so it could be turned into points and leave the place as soon as possible as stronger monsters could smell the blood in the air. However I couldn't go back to the dungeon covered in blood like this as it will also attract monsters with the smell of blood.

I checked the dungeon map and saw a river flowing nearby. With that I could wash off the blood sticking to my body and also harvest the river for some fresh water. Although dungeon lords didn't need to eat or drink it'd be nice to have the feeling of water going down your throat.

I went to the nearby river and washed all the blood on my body while drinking the water that wasn't contaminated by the blood. It was then that with my advanced eye sight as a dungeon lord I saw three adventurers filling up their bottles with water up the river.

All three of them appear to be of human race. Firstly, there was a boy that had blonde hair with a shield and mace in his hand. He appear to be the tank of this three man party. The second one is a boy that had brown hair with a staff in his hand. He as you may have guessed is a mage. Lastly there was a girl with brown hair holding a bow and arrow in hand as if ready to attack any monsters at any moment.

They seem to be rookie adventurers by how light their armour was that seems to be completing a quest and decided to stop near the river to rest and get some water.

After a lot of thinking I decided to introduce myself to them to get some information since the info I had been given didn't include everything I need to know. For example the name of this forest and how strong are the monsters in this forest. I slowly approached the adventurers. They seem to notice me since their eyes were following every moves I make for any sudden attack. However they appear to not be hostile since they haven't attacked me yet.

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[ Stop! ] Yelled the boy with blonde hair. [ What are you doing in this dangerous forest? ] They questioned me. He appears to be the leader of this group.

[ I was hunting some animals so I didn't notice I entered this forest ] I lied.

[ Do you know that you are in the Eplas forest? ] The boy questioned me again.

[ No. I didn't know that I was in the Eplas forest ] I answered. So the name of this forest is Eplas.

[ Then you were lucky to encounter us. Since the deeper you went the stronger the monster you encounter. If you didn't encounter us you probably would have venture deeper in the forest and get attacked by any number of different monsters ] the boy spoke.

[ Yes I was lucky indeed. I will return back to my home without going deeper in this forest. Thank you for the advice. ] I answered.

[ No problem. ] The boy laughed.

After that I parted ways with the group and quickly rushed to the dungeon as soon as I was out of the adventurers.

On a side note, that little group would later become successful adventurers but that is a story for another time.

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Back in the dungeon I peiced together the info I gained thanks to the adventurers. To sum it up this forest was named Eplas and the deeper you went into it the stronger the monster you encounter.

Like the boy said I was truly lucky to encounter them since it gave me two bit of important information. Firstly is that I shouldn't go deep into the forest unless I am confident of my strength. Secondly is that since this forest is filled with monsters it also means that this forest will be filled with adventurers that want to exterminate the monsters for money and fame.

The more adventurers there are the more likely it is that they find and destroy my dungeon. This is where I realized my mistake. I should have analized the adventurers to get a good grasp of how strong a rookie adventurer is compared to me.

Well that just means that I should work harder to be stronger so that I wouldn't be afraid of them. With that out of the way I brought out the goblin bodies to convert them into points. One body is roughly equal to 5 points with three that means a total of 15 points. That brought up my total to 880.

Satisfied with the results I promised to practice magic tommorow and went to bed early.