Chapter 38 - Red Goblins

Clank! Clank! Clank!

The weapons of the goblins couldn't penetrate his Aura! It was such an incredible feeling for Cyril who was constantly worrying about any incoming attacks when he was only at F-Rank…

"Haha! Come!"

After learning that his protective aura can actually bear the strikes of the red goblins, Cyril's attack became even more reckless as he killed all the remaining creatures in a few seconds.

"This is so much easier than I thought!"

He couldn't help but smile as he discovers his ability. He can already see the changes in his plans after learning his strength.

The only problem now is his artifacts…

'This…'

As expected, he noticed a part of the dagger was chipped off. It wasn't because of the goblin's sturdiness but because of his S-Rank Aura that is incompatible with such a low-rank Artifact.

The stress that the item is receiving from his body was just too much. No matter how good his control with the intensity of his Aura, its quality will never change after all.

He looked at the corpse of the goblins and started checking their possessions…

From all the intelligent beings within the Arcane Worlds, the goblins are considered to be one of the weakest races.

Of course, it doesn't mean that they are truly weak because when they grouped up and were together with their goblin chief, they would become troublesome opponents for the lower-ranked Awakened like he was before.

However, this also means that aside from making them a good opponent for newly Awakened individuals, they won't be able to offer more than that.

"Two Crystal Orbs and 12 decent Pickaxe… I guess it's not that bad for a start…" Cyril muttered after realizing that their daggers, blades, and swords weren't even enchanted. It means that they are just normal weapons that couldn't be sold in the market.

That's right, the one he currently has and those in the Awakened Market Online were indeed considered as "Goblin's Dagger" but they were all crafted by a Goblin Specialist and possess enchantment that could penetrate an Awakened Aura…

He looked at the tunnel ahead and thought that it is most likely the direction of their hideout… Anyway, he doesn't have plans on moving yet as he looked at the bags filled with unknown ores.

There are over 20 bags filled with the ores they're mining and quite a lot of them were still scattered on the ground and not being collected.

Cyril picked up one of the red ores as he tried to guess what it is.

He could remember a few ores in his past life that were quite useful, but the ore in front of him is not included in those!

"Xagan… Do you know this Ore?"

Cyril asked while holding that palm-size red ore… It has a dull red color on the outside but he can see a few with bright red colors on the inside.

'Of course… If you wish to know everything about this ore, I can give you all the information I have for only 20 days.'

Xagan answered in his mind.

"Ugh… 20 days? Nevermind… This is my Arcane World from now on anyway… I'll take my time to investigate." Cyril shook his head as he threw aside the ore in his hand. For now, he would leave it there since they are all quite heavy.

Cyril bagged the two Crystals with him as they might be useful later on. He also brought a couple of pickaxes in case his dagger and boomerang were broken because of his aura.

He looked at the narrow path ahead and confirmed the recent traces of goblins using this path…

'They are not using wheelbarrow or something similar to transport the ores… Is it because they don't know how to make it? Or because the hideout isn't that far?'

Cyril mused as he looks at the dark tunnel ahead.

The bags used by the goblins indicates that they still have access to other resources. After all, ten of those bags were made of furry creatures like big cats or wolves. As for the remaining two, they seem to be made of crocodile skin or perhaps, from large lizards.

'There must be another beast community within this dungeon… or do they have a way to exit this dungeon?' Cyril smiled at the thought…

Nevertheless, this dungeon seems to be more interesting since the hideout of the red goblins must surely be filled with precious materials that can be found nearby.

Cyril then walked ahead and followed the glowing stones ahead.

Soon, he heard rushing footsteps coming at him… It appears that the fight created a commotion and he was now about to face the other members of the red goblin tribe.

'Heh~ This will be easier, I guess…'

Since he only has a Rank F Artifact, he doesn't have any magical abilities he could manifest so fighting multiple creatures would be more difficult.

However, now that they are in a narrow aisle, he would only have to face one or two goblins at the same time!

Cyril smirked as he moved forward to meet them…

He brought out the two pickaxes first since he felt that the dagger might be needed for the fight against the goblin chief.

Unless he could get decent weapons from these reinforcements, he would have to save that dagger to deal with the chief…

Graaahh! Graah!

The goblin started talking but he couldn't understand them… Cyril just started smashing his pickaxe on their head as he ignored their strikes!

"Come!"

Cyril fought against 20 more red goblins… This time, five of them have enchanted Daggers which seems to be much better than the one in his possession!