The boy in this point had passed two floors with his legion without many problems except in the first exploration in each floor.
For this reason, enveloped with arrogance, the boy started the preliminary exploration after a rest day. However, this arrogance didn't cloud his judgment and experience; he approached his work calmly and seriously.
Flaunting its fame, the tutorial didn't disappoint the boy; the difficulty had increased. On this occasion, besides a slight increase in their numbers, it also endowed real goblins with intelligence.
Now, these goblins didn't charge toward the boy like deranged creatures without brains. Instead, they took their time to try to evade the lances and attack the boy or the false goblins.
Fortunately for the boy, he and his goblins managed to maintain a good defense, preventing the real goblins from destroying the wall and formation. Despite losing half of the legion, they eventually managed to defeat them.
After returning to the safe zone, the boy, although worried, wasn't desperate, as he already had an answer to this situation: more numbers.
But more numbers weren't going to solve all the situations; the boy knew this since the second floor. However, until now, he had been prioritizing a good defense for himself.
So, seeing this occations before him, he decided trying train archers.
In the training sessions with his legion, he decided to train his goblins with bows. However, the result was poor and miserable.
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Certainly his goblins had the capacity to use swords, shields and lances, but still they are very brutes to learn how to use a bow.
So, the boy seeing it, decided thinking about a alternative.
[Javelin? No, it's complicated to carry with a lot of lances, and also using a javelin could be complicated.]
[Throw rocks?, umm, no, haven't rocks in the warehouse, and this could be very effective]
[Oh, yes, that's it, crossbows. The warehouse has crossbows. Although they are weaker than bows, they are still useful and easy to use... I guess...]
Fortunately his thought was correct, and his false goblins could using the crossbows, although of course their learning were harder than swords and lances.
In this way, the boy having resolved this problems, continued with normality his painful training.
So, fifteen days before the six-month limit, the boy decided to start exploring the floor to practice, not to clear it.
Obviously, the boy knew that overtraining was a bad idea, but seeing that the goblins now had intelligence, he decided to at least get used to a new kind of combat and also try to obtain more money.
In this meaner, the boy, with a "legion" of 12 permanent false goblins, four crossbowmen armed with crossbows and swords, and eight regular soldiers, started exploring the floor.
The result was excellent.
Although the goblins weren't very smart, and their intelligence was usually compared to that of a five-year-old child, after a month of learning how to use a crossbow, these four false goblins spent almost five continuous months training their aim, leaving only a bit of time to learn how to battle with swords. was natural that these brutes being learned how to shoot and kill monster.
So, shooting through the shield, the crossbowmen could kill some goblins before they reacted with their defense. Now that those real goblins thought a bit before attacking, ironically, this became a weakness, giving the boy more time and space to shoot them.
And in this way, with patience, the boy abused the respawn limit of this floor, which he knew allowed three respawns per monster. Before finally arriving at the fifth floor, the first floor with boss.