Chapter 338: Goblin Lord

"How can that old, dying goblin beast, turn into this" mumbled Adam to himself as he watched the giant monstrosity strike the ground where he previously stood before dodging with the Step Skip Skill.

"That pesky ability of yours to disappear is annoying, but I will show you true power" bellowed the beast as it let out a wild roar and charged towards Adam once again.

"Why don't you tell me more about Akarshia. Is that a continent or a planet or some sort of place? And just how powerful is the Goblin Kingdom and do other beast kingdoms exist?" said Adam as he created some distance between himself and the goblin, so that he would have more time to react to its rapid attacks.

"I am classed as a Goblin Lord and do not answer to you, you vile creature. All humans will perish and I will make sure that I find a way out of here through you" stated the Goblin Lord.

Adam was shocked by the fact it called itself a Goblin Lord and assumed that it was some sort of class of goblin beast that was above that of the normal goblins that he had faced.

The Goblin Kings were most likely the elite of the goblin beasts and his assumption that the goblin beasts were created by them was incorrect and it seemed as though the real mystery was why and how the system was able to place all of these goblins within the dungeon.

[A Goblin Lord is probably a goblin with more than one special trait, and if that is the case, will I come across more beast lords that will have frightening powers? Also if I eliminate him, that does mean that my Goblin Summon will gain a second Special Trait?] wondered Adam.

There were so many thoughts bouncing around his mind, but against such a powerful opponent, Adam had to be completely focused and was only able to avoid its attacks because of his Step Skip Skill.

Although the hall and underground structure was very big, it was very restricting as Adam along with the powerful Goblin Lord he was facing, would need much more space to be able to fight to their full capabilities.

However, in the closed-off hall, that was impossible to break out of, the Goblin Lord had the advantage since it was much larger, stronger and faster than Adam, and Adam didn't have the space to use the Burst Movement Skill that could help make up for that gap in power.

"You keep calling me revolting and disgusting, but you are the vile creatures. I am the Goblin Slayer and since I have already killed most of your subordinates, it is only right that I bury their commander with them" said Adam, wanting to anger the Goblin Lord.

Once it became angry, it would restrain itself less and was more likely to make a mistake, which Adam would exploit, while he might also be able to get some more information out of it.

If everything that the Goblin Lord had said was true, that meant that the Goblins were all creatures that lived outside the dungeon and meant that they truly had a physical form, which was why their bodies disappear.

It also implied that they were able to reproduce in a similar way to humans and was why Adam found that some of the Goblin appeared to be more slender and more feminine than others, but from what Adam had read from stories, Goblins would usually prefer to mate with female humans.

There wasn't a single sane human that would want to mate with a goblin, which was why they would be kidnapped and forced to reproduce for the goblins, and was another reason why the hatred between goblins and humans was so deep-rooted.

It seemed as though, the long time they had been isolated had caused some of them to begin displaying feminine features, but it was unlikely that they could reproduce yet and the thought of them being real creatures never struck his mind.

Adam merely saw them as entities that were spawned and created by the Dungeon System and if they had been trapped on the floor for so long, it could mean that the Dungeon System must have existed for a long time before integrating with Adam.

Or it could mean that there was someone or something that had created the system and prepared the dungeon, or that time flowed much quicker within the floor to the point that many years had already passed for them, in the short time that Adam had integrated with the system.

There were so many ideas and theories that were flowing through Adam's mind at once and he had a feeling that the system was about to experience a big change.

If from that moment forwards he would be facing real creatures that weren't fabricated by the system, would that mean that he was also in a physical form that could suffer permanent damage or was his Dungeon Form still merely a projection of his real body?

Even with the Ethereal Recovery Skill, the scars and damage that the Dungeon Form sustained would have caused Adam to die multiple times over if it wasn't for the fact that every time Adam left the dungeon and returned, he would have a new Dungeon Form.

There were too many unanswered questions, but for the time being, the only thing he could do to get them was take down the Goblin Lord, then complete the floor so that Ava, as a representative of the system's program, could inform him of what exactly was going on.

"A mere human dares to undermine a Goblin Lord and speak to me in this manner. I will remind you of where your kind stands on Akarshia and will not hold back any longer" roared the Goblin Lord as it unleashed even more power.

The enraged Goblin Lord had been suppressing its power for so long and unleashing its full power was very damaging to its body that had grown old and frail, but blinded by anger, all it wanted to do was rip Adam to shreds.