A festival unique to River Valley Town.
To some extent, rather than a festival, it’s more like a large-scale event organized by the adventurer association of River Valley Town.
The timing is not fixed; sometimes it may not even occur for several consecutive years.
It’s also not limited to a single day, but rather continues for fifteen days to two months (similarly unfixed).
The festival’s custom, there’s only one.
Even the target of the hunt is only one.
Just like the "fish tide" at sea, every once in a while, the Green-skinned Goblins in Mist Forest seem to be stimulated by something, reproducing crazily in numbers.
This already vast number, like mosquitoes, swells to a ridiculously exaggerated degree in a short period.
Under these conditions, these naturally cruel and vicious Demons, whose morale multiplies with their group’s numbers, begin to expand and invade driven by survival instincts.
The forest is filled with many high-level Transcendent beings and harsh environments, even an enormous number of goblins are insufficient to break the balance within.
By contrast, the fertile and open lands outside Mist Forest, and the ordinary people living on them, become their target.
Long ago, before the concept of "Hunting Day" emerged and when River Valley Town was just a remote and desolate small town.
The Kingdom of Sevia stationed a large military force here year-round, paying a high military cost to protect the local residents while curbing the goblins’ development.
After all, no one could ensure that after the ancient secret, the Greenskins returning to Aifala Continent, whose exaggerated reproduction ability seemed like from another world.
If not restrained, whether they might grow into a disaster threatening Pan Yun Province, or even the entire Kingdom, like a plague of locusts.
Later, with the adventurer association establishing a branch in River Valley Town and attracting a large number of adventurers from all over the world.
The Kingdom of Sevia gradually withdrew the troops and reached a cooperation with the Association.
A portion of the expenses originally spent on garrisoning was allocated during "Hunting Day," when the goblin numbers soared, subsidizing the adventurers around River Valley Town.
Raising the bounty for goblins from the original 3 silver and 7 copper per goblin.
To five silver coins per goblin!
Driven by money, the adventurers who value wealth as life curbed the goblin population growth and expansion, replacing the role of the former kingdom’s armies.
On the other hand, for the adventurers of River Valley Town.
Hunting goblins is already part of their work and earning Gold Coins.
Even if the bounty remains unchanged or slightly decreases, the sudden increase in goblins’ numbers can attract many low-level adventurers, limited by strength and with no other income, to hunt them.
Now that the bounty has slightly doubled, naturally their enthusiasm is much higher.
The kingdom spends less, while adventurers gain Gold Coins.
Today, "Hunting Day" has been held for many years, becoming a tradition in River Valley, even gaining some fame within the Kingdom.
The adventurers, always wise in matters of Gold Coins, gradually mastered partial patterns related to it.
The sudden increase in goblins’ numbers is not without warning.
It’s like a compressed spring.
Before the greenskins begin their mad reproductive expansion, the goblin communities appearing in the wild noticeably decrease.
No matter how they were hunted before, just when a wave was cleared, another batch would immediately appear, seemed to lose the prideful reproductive power in short time.
Presented in another form, it’s the sudden increase of adventurers in River Valley Town, and the adventurer association’s task board being quickly cleared off goblin clearing tasks without replenishing new ones.
Following this, anticipating that "Hunting Day" is coming and intending to make a big profit from it, adventurers inevitably stockpile large amounts of related supplies in advance.
The sudden increase in demand, coupled with some greedy merchants...
The price of supplies naturally rises with the tide.
"Now do you understand? Why things in town have gotten more expensive lately."
"I see, it’s just like when fishing gear prices go up during the fish tide at South Bay."
"Still, such greedy merchants, damn it!"
Seeing his companion beside him still immersed in complaining about price hikes, paying no attention to the main point.