Chapter 17: The Goblin Settlement

Most of the goblins died, and only three remained as they stood there in a daze, two goblin warriors and one goblin peon. (TN: from here on out, green goblin slave will be called goblin peon)   

The goblin warrior had a strong physique, and the poison had less effect on it, as the speed of poison spreading in its veins was relatively slower. Although it didn’t fall down immediately like the others, it still staggered around and couldn’t stand steadily. As for the other goblin peon, nothing happened to it as it looked around in a daze. Of course, it wasn’t immune to poison; it simply wasn’t fast enough to grab any food at all.

Xiao Yu leapt forward without warning, his speed unfathomable, and a blade light was drawn out from his right side. The blade light cut across the goblin peon’s neck before it could react, and green blood spurted from its throat. The goblin’s head flew high before it could even notice where the attack came from.

“Gu gu!”

The light of the blade burst through the peon’s neck and then proceeded straight toward the goblin warrior. Sensing something was amiss, it lifted an axe to intercept the attack; however, Xiao Yu moved the blade down, as it strangely twisted over and missed the edge of the axe.

The goblin warrior couldn’t hold back its momentum; it staggered and almost fell down. Xiao Yu quickly kicked the handle of the axe in its right hand, causing the axe to fly away, and then struck the goblin into distance with the hilt of the withered bone blade.

The monster stared wide-eyed at its empty hand before a blow to its head knocked it to the ground. Xiao Yu swung his blade and slashed at the other goblin warrior who was staggering toward him. Its strength was far inferior to Xiao Yu’s, not to mention that its strength and reaction ability were greatly reduced due to poisoning. It staggered back as it also lost its axe. 

“Why are you standing there? Kill these two elementary monsters immediately!”

Waking up from their daze, Han Kexin and Jiang Xiaowen reacted and then rushed forward with their short spears. They each faced an empty-handed goblin warrior. Green goblin warriors were a little bit weaker than the gray ones, to begin with; now that their weapons have been blown away, and with them being poisoned by different types of venoms, their combat effectiveness has been further reduced, as they were forced to retreat by the two girls.

Han Kexin shouted with a sweet voice and pierced the goblin warrior’s chest using her sharp spear, piercing its heart as a huge ball of essence melted into her body. In an instant, she felt a tremendous energy gushing out of her, and the pores all over her body loosened comfortably. As a result, she couldn’t help but let out a moan of ecstasy that could melt bones.

“She didn’t evolve…” Xiao Yu frowned slightly when he saw this, “still needs some more?”

The other battle between Jiang Xiaowen and the goblin warrior was also coming to an end, and the signs of poisoning on the monster became more and more apparent. Under Jiang Xiaowen’s pressure, little by little, the goblin’s shoulders, abdomen, chest, and even its neck had stab marks gradually appearing on them. Finally, in one attack, the short spear in her hands pierced the enemy’s vitals.

Jiang Xiaowen, who successfully hunted down an elementary-level monster, also received a huge boost in energy, but it was obvious that she, too, wouldn’t evolve. Among the four elites in the group, Han Kexin, who was the strongest one, failed to advance, so this outcome was expected. However, they weren’t that far away from the elementary realm, as they only needed half a step to advance.

Jiang Xiaowen clenched her fist happily, “Wow, I feel like my strength has at least doubled, and I can now confidently take down a large buffalo with a single punch. Thank you, without your assistance, I would not have been able to defeat this monster. “

“That was impressive; I learned another trick from you.” Han Kexin also showed a joyful smile, but she felt somewhat regretful that she failed to advance.

Xiao Yu glanced at her, “You still have a lot to learn.” He turned around and whistled before remarking in a low voice: “The goblins on the ground are not dead yet, come out and clean them up, don’t waste this opportunity!”

More than thirty people came out of the grass one by one and slaughtered the half-dead goblin peons on the ground. These goblins were too weak and lost much of their essence. For Han Kexin and Jiang Xiaowen, this amount of energy was nothing, but for others, its strengthening effect was extremely obvious.

“I’m getting stronger; I’m really getting stronger!”

“Me too!”

“……”

Xu Jing was standing with an ordinary-looking young man. Following her remarks, Li Dapeng held her hands, his face full of excitement.

“Xiao Jing, we’ve all become much stronger now. We don’t need to be afraid of these monsters anymore!”

“Um, though, it’s all thanks to Xiaowen. If it wasn’t for her recommendation, the two of us might not have had this opportunity!”

“We must repay her in the future.”

As the goblins were killed one by one, there was a sound of excitement and ecstasy in the whole crowd. Yunyun was also lucky enough to get the essence of a goblin peon. She obviously felt that her strength and senses had been greatly enhanced, and a gleam of joy flashed in her eyes.

Xiao Yu walked up to Jin Shi, looked at Wang Chao, who was being supported over, and said, “Fatty, can you still fight?”

Wang Chao experienced a lot of pain but finally got better as he said, “Fatty has never suffered such grievance since he was a child…but I’m almost recovered!”

At this time, a sound came from a distance, and the remaining goblins outside the village were finally attracted by the sound of fighting they made. Seeing this, Xiao Yu sneered. This would save him from lurking near the village to personally kill them. Since they approached them, leaving the settlement’s vicinity, the goblins inside the village far away would definitely not be able to hear them.

Xiao Yu rushed into the dozen enemies like a whirlwind; he cut off their legs, making them lose their fighting power so that others could easily kill them. Although the energy gained was far less as a result, however, for those who had only killed one or two monsters before, there was still an obvious increase in strength for them. It’s just that there was no elementary-level creature in this group; otherwise, Han Kexin or Jiang Xiaowen could finally evolve.

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Thirty individuals cleaned up the goblin corpses on the ground before lurking in front of the settlement, attentively observing the goblin village.

The wall of the goblin settlement was a row of broken logs inserted into the ground, no one knew how many years old they were, but most of the wooden piles were already rotten and covered with a thick layer of green moss. In some places, various fungi grew there, and green vines entangled around the logs while many unknown small wildflowers bloomed on them. There were still some large trees around the settlement, and a few simple-looking stone and wooden dwellings could barely be seen between those trees. These houses were, of course, exceedingly primitive. The so-called ‘stone dwelling’ was just a shelter formed with large stones.

“Gu gu, gua gua”, a strange frog-like cry came from the inside. The sound had a very high frequency and was quite dense, indicating that there were still many goblins left in the village.

The collected venom is running out, so we can’t continue using the same strategy. 

Xia Yu thought as he noticed the darkness of the night slowly approaching. The forest at night was very dangerous; they had to return before that. That being the case, they must kill all these goblins before night envelops the forest.

Xiao Yu observed the surrounding terrain and chose to ambush the goblins in front of the main gate of the settlement. More than thirty people quickly divided up the work, digging pits to make traps and smearing the remaining poison on their weapons. Everything was arranged in an orderly manner. 

Xiao Yu used the bone blade to cut off two-thirds of the trunks of six large trees on their periphery. So that, as long as there was a strong impact from behind, the big tree would fall in an instant. Some deep pits were dug and then covered with layers of twigs and leaves, waiting for goblins to take the bait. All the people held weapons in ambush. Fourteen people took simple bows and arrows and climbed into the limbs of several big trees with lush branches, waiting to shoot their prey.

“I’m going to lure the goblins over here; everyone, make sure to conceal yourselves.”

When everything was ready, Xiao Yu gestured to everyone, then he strode to the front of the Goblin village and cut off several wooden logs one by one with his bone blade as he quickly made a gap in the wall of the village, which Immediately attracted the attention of a large number of goblins, they all had the same thought, What is happening? As they rushed over

The ugly frog-like croaking sound immediately echoed out non-stop, and dozens of green-skinned goblins emerged from their wooden house, rushing at Xiao Yu with wooden clubs and axes. Xiao Yu killed more than a dozen goblin peons one after another before seven to eight goblin warriors appeared, brandishing their axes and chasing after him.

Whit his current strength, it was still a bit difficult to deal with eight goblin warriors at the same time. Other than the goblin warrior, there was also a ‘first-order’ goblin in the village, so he dared not act recklessly as he turned around and ran. He rushed toward the woods where the crowd was waiting in ambush, directly followed by the horde of monsters.

The goblin habitation was just around two hundred meters away from the woods where everyone was hiding.

“Push the trees down!”

Xiao Yu ran just to the outside of the woods and shouted. Just then, the sound of cracking was heard, and the six large trees that had been cut down in advance fell forward one after another under the force deliberately exerted by the crowd. As a result, dozens of goblins were immediately crushed underneath. However, there was a large number of them, and soon another batch appeared and continued the chase.

Forty meters, thirty meters, twenty meters…

Xiao Yu suddenly stretched out his hand and shouted, “Fire the arrows!”

After hearing his orders, the people lying in ambush on the trees immediately let go of the bowstrings that had been tense for a long time, and more than a dozen wooden arrows flew out of the woods, shooting down at the goblins who entered their range of fire. There were at least six or seven arrows shooting down; the dense projectiles even encircled one goblin warrior.

“Well done!”

These sharpened wooden arrows, combined with a simple wooden bow, were not powerful enough to kill most goblins. However, because of the highly poisonous substance smeared that could destroy lungs, there was basically no possibility of survival for any goblin who got shot.

“Ji Ji gua gua !”

One goblin warrior was clearly agitated as it hurled an axe that landed on one of its assailant’s chest. The force pushed him, and he flew out of the tree, colliding with another tree five meters away; his body was bloodied and mangled before he died on the spot.

Everyone’s hearts trembled, and they immediately hid their bodies and dared not be careless. At the same time, another wave of arrows was fired, and seven goblins fell.

Before the fight officially started, the goblins lost nearly thirty from their ranks, and even one goblin warrior died thanks to that mixture of poison.

But the other monsters didn’t care about their companion’s death; they just kept screaming strangely and continued to charge forward, with the intent of tearing Xiao Yu to shreds, chasing him to the ends of the earth. In the end, they had yet to run a few steps before they lost their footing as they stepped into the buried traps. More than twenty goblins fell into big pits one after another. These pits were not deep enough to crush their skulls, but every pit was filled with poison, and another group of goblins was wiped out in the blink of an eye.

The remaining group of goblins reached the middle of the ambush area. Xiao Yu abruptly came to a halt, twisted his head to slaughter this last batch, as he caught them off guard, and continued to cut down numerous monsters one by one. He was like a sharp dagger stabbed deep into the clump of goblins.

“kill!”

At this time, there were shouts of killing everywhere.

Han Kexin and the others rushed out from all sides, armed with poisoned weapons, to encircle and suppress the surviving monsters. The influx of people from all directions caused chaos, and the goblins were split into multiple groups all at once as the intense melee battle started.

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