Chapter 66: Chapter 26: Danger!

*Bang!*

The loud sound echoed through the goblin settlement as the huge stone pillar in the centre was shattered into a thousand pieces.

My hand grabbed the neck of a huge monster, neither a goblin nor a hobgoblin but an Ogre.

Blood oozed from the creature's body as countless sharp, jagged stones penetrated its flesh, causing the Monster to tremble and thrash in my hand.

*Crack*

I tightened my grip, feeling the wonderful sensation of bones breaking a sense of terror in the Ogre's milky white and green eyes.

"Is that all you have?"

With an exhilarated taunt, my body tensed before slamming the huge Monster down repeatedly into the broken debris as its hands grasped my wrist, trying to crush my bones to get free.

But I ignored the pain coming from it.

As the Ogre and I were creatures with almost limitless stamina and vitality, I would destroy this brute before anything else.

This Monster had given me a lot to think about...

An Ogre was something not just any goblin could beat. Even the normal goblins could not match up to an Ogre in Strength, speed or regeneration.

Only Hobgoblins and similar evolution paths had even the slightest chance of competing.

That's why this was the boss of the goblin settlement, and it was quite interesting how they were like slaves to this bastard. He even had a stupid crown and pretended to be some king.

No simple monster should be capable of that kind of hierarchic control. So I got my answer; there must have been something very unusual in this ogres lineage.

"Speak. What is controlling you? Speak!"

"Y-you damn ape, how can trash like you injure a mighty Ogre like me? Y-you-"

*Bang!*

Shut up, Damn fleabag!

I grabbed his throat, tightening my grip with a clenched jaw. I'll tear everything out from the bottom up and let him suffocate slowly until he tells me what I want.

*Cra- crack! Cra-crack*

Slowly his weak attempts of resisting weakened, and his entire body began trembling, begging for forgiveness with its gaze and waving its broken arms uselessly in the air, seemingly indecisive between ripping me apart or dying first.

My hair began to stand on its end, clearly something dangerous was about to appear, but I didn't show fear or worry; instead, my fist began to punch the Ogre, breaking the rest of its bones as its green face distorted into an ugly one with its teeth tearing apart.

Finally, It seemed like the Ogre's strength had reached its limits.

As my fist crushed the Monster's chest and lungs, the Monster started a last-ditch effort, yet it was meaningless as my mouth puffed out before a huge flame blew into its face.

*woosh*

Everything burned to a crisp; the Ogre's innards, muscles, and skin were turned into ashes while a half-intact skull and ribs lay before me as they fell to the ground before I crushed them under my feet.

-> Ogre Warrior Killed

It was at that moment that the source of my tingling instincts appeared...

A hobgoblin shaman with a bone staff and its body wrapped in a black, murky mana-like robe advanced towards me from the Ogre's massive hut, glaring as its green face resembled a ghast.

"V'elm kan! Sizna Dark Bolt!"

A black bolt the size of a small dagger suddenly shot towards me, burning its way into my shoulder and damaging it with dark and poison mana, making me grit my teeth at the sudden attack.

As blood gushed out, the smell of its pungent rotting poison was strong enough to affect even me, so this wasn't a normal creature anymore.

"I am done testing its main attack..." I whispered before stepping forward and moving to attack the shaman.

In retaliation, the shaman began to summon those dark bolts en masse! The terrifying sight of more than a few hundred bolts merging in front of it made the scenery resemble a graveyard for souls as they shot out like rain towards me, quickly enveloping the clearing.

*Thud*

I never expected to get damaged to this degree by a damn bone bird! Yet now, this damn bird's attention was fixated solely on my body, not looking away anymore.

"Damn... it's a suicide bird, isn't it!?" My body felt annoyed, cold and rage flooding like the water and flames surrounding a drowned pyre.

Lumia ran forward, reaching my left side and grabbing my shoulder with an ashen face stained with cold sweat, her gaze filled with horror, guilt, and ferocity.

Turning away from me and glaring at the flying, ghastly skeleton before she spoke with a dark, violent voice.

"Kill."

"Yes, we will kill, bird!"

Her arm lifted her bow, glowing with brilliant magical colours and mana swirling around her arrows, one Knocked and four between her fingers, as I grabbed my severed arm and dashed forward.

Since she seemed able to kill it, I would protect her with my body! Since the damn bird was fixated on me!

A smile and a thank you reached my lips as Lumia released her shot, a glowing green arrow was aimed precisely at the eyehole in the bird's skull, speeding faster and faster before it burst into a windy glow!

With the thunderbolt as a rear guard, the arrow's sharp tip was consumed by an icey, red flame before the wind strengthened it and enhanced its penetration power.

The way she shot her arrows with different elements rapidly, her fingers started bleeding, but I found her visage to be beautiful as she locked her azure eyes on the bird alone!

"Fire Arrow. Ice Arrow. Poison Arrow, Water Arrow."

Swinging my right hand in the air, I held onto the bloodied, severed limb and pulled my head back, filling my mouth with a powerful fireball, hoping to shoot it the moment before the fused arrows hit its target.

And suddenly, a cracking sound burst forth before the arrow collided with the bird's head. In an explosion, its entire head was smashed into a thousand pieces, the ghoul screeching like a tortured banshee before its body turned to ash in mid-air.

*Blorp*

Before it was sucked away, the large clouds formed from a constant spell dispersed, leaving only a starry night sky above while our figures stood on the bloodied, ruined soil, left in the middle of a settlement overturned with corpses.

Yet it was over.

I didn't get a chance to fire my fireball, but then as I was about to swallow the mana... Something occurred to me!

No!

There was no announcement!

I turned back, seeing the shaman's broken body, limping as it stood behind Lumia with a sharp dagger aimed down at her back.

It was too late to warn her, so I used the flame in my mouth, directing its flow towards the goblin.

Suddenly it froze as Lumia's free left hand swung backwards. A small glaive-like knife, covered with a dark aura, rushed like the winds, penetrating the shamen's mouth as she slashed out its throat.

She then kicked out with her right leg, cracking another bone, before leaping away with the momentum as my huge flame enveloped the bastard's body and melted it instantly.

Then I heard the crisp and clean word resounding in the air.

-> Completed Danger! Goblin Shaman

Total party contribution: 100%

Items Gained!

[Goblin meat] x 50

[Goblin Ears] x 80

[Hobgoblin Ears] x 20

[Orge Heart] x 1

[Ogre tusk] x 1

[Crown of Elemental Damage(Rare)] x 1

[Gold] x 550

[Level + 2]