Goblin Dependency

All those selected through the ritual and pulled into the Secret Realm are senior adventurers who have already obtained Professional Level.

In this high-risk profession, no one is a fool after honing their skills for so many years.

In fact, like Xia Nan when he first descended into the Secret Realm, many adventurers had already guessed that the ritual was probably organized by "Algae Scale" Dodd.

Fink was one of them.

As the deputy captain of the "Wind Forger" team, before being swept into the ritual, he was standing on the coast with Captain Sefeng, facing off with those damned members of the Furious Tide Battle Gang.

Originally, they were even prepared to fight, but unexpectedly, a pillar of light shot up from the center of the island, and the light curtain fell.

He, along with several teammates in the team, was simultaneously pulled into the Secret Realm.

Fink didn’t know whether to call it luck or not, as the beast he inhabited upon arrival belonged to the category of "Demon".

——Soluble Sore Poison Toad.

He was able to name this creature because many years ago, when he just obtained his Professional Level, he and his teammates accidentally wandered into a swamp inhabited by a large number of such creatures during a mission.

The ultimate result was that of the six-member team, only two survived to return to the Tavern.

One of them was him, and the other was the present "Wind Forger" Captain Sefeng.

The official Challenge Level marked for Soluble Sore Poison Toad as a Demon is exactly Level 1.

It is in the same category as the Bear Goblins, Harpies, Dire Wolf.

But obviously, just being a slightly larger toad, Soluble Sore Poison Toad could not possess the strong physique of the above Demons.

What truly makes adventurers dread it is its extremely corrosive venom; just catching a breath can send a healthy human to Heaven.

Turning from a senior adventurer human into an ugly and relatively weak toad, it’s hard to express how Fink felt at the time.

Fortunately, focusing closely on the frozen human perspective quickly made him realize this should only be temporary.

Once this large-scale ritual suspected to have been arranged by Algae Scale concludes, Secret Realm collapses, he will revert to human form.

Upon understanding this reality, just like the hundred professional adventurers being swept into the ritual at that moment, Fink began his actions.

Every ritual participant has their own distinct approach upon descending, due to factors like personal growth environment, identity background, and skill levels.

Some focus on familiarizing themselves with the surroundings, eliminating dangers; others invest time and effort into their beast’s body, enhancing battle and survival capabilities.

But Fink prefers to search for teammates, quickly assembling team members to leverage the numerical advantage for profit in subsequent actions.

His luck was indeed favorable.

After getting slightly accustomed to the surroundings, within less than a week, he encountered the first adventurer he met in the Secret Realm near the landing site in an incredibly coincidental manner.

——A giant mongoose that was fighting a Jungle Leopard twice its size.

As for how he judged whether it was an adventurer inhabiting the beast and not an ordinary animal... For most adventurers capable of being drawn into the ritual, this wasn’t difficult.

With just a little observation, one can notice the dissonance of a human soul driving an animal’s body.

Fink intervened and assisted the mongoose, turning the Jungle Leopard into their dinner for that day.

His proactive help also clearly signified his identity as a ritual participant.

It is worth mentioning that, at that time, neither Fink nor the mongoose adventurer had evidently discovered the ritual’s mechanism allowing evolution through slaughter.

Otherwise, the interaction process would have surely been more cautious.

But regardless, through this encounter, the two have managed to connect.

Then came the most critical, yet troublesome point—how to communicate?

Perhaps high-level Demons or special species like a Mount Wolf have throat structures capable of speech.

But clearly, neither a toad nor a mongoose can speak human language.

The two can only communicate through written text.

After confirming several secret codes known only to Wind Forger team members, Fink thrilledly confirmed the other’s identity—

Wandering Leslie!

Also a member of the core Professional Adventurer Team of Wind Forger.

Being part of the same adventurer team, cooperation after mutual identity confirmation naturally became the result.

The plan drawn up started progressing step by step, and Fink felt confident that his actions were correct.

After thoroughly searching the area near the landing site and confirming no clues were left behind.

Poison Toad Fink and Mongoose Leslie jointly embarked on a journey to find their teammates.

Except, perhaps it was due to the fact that in the real world, everyone was in the same coastal area.

Before finding their teammates, they stumbled upon the piece of wood marked with the Furious Tide Battle Gang’s insignia that Xia Nan had seen earlier.

Having departed from the real world, freed from any constraints, given the relationship between the Furious Tide Battle Gang and the Wind Forger team, the upcoming development needs no further explanation.

Using abundant adventure experience, confirming the opponent inhabits a normal goblin and none of the elite individuals exist within the group.