Eastern outskirts of Border Town.
Li Si looked at the map and scanned the surroundings.
After the dungeon’s miasma appeared, the wild magic beasts had decreased significantly, and finding a few isolated ones for Lili Ya to level up was really troublesome.
“Um… Li Si, do we really have to dress like this?”
Lili Ya held her crystal staff, her eyes somewhat dazed after a night of heart-to-heart talk while drunk, and she was full of hope for Li Si’s determination and her own future.
However, going out adventuring dressed like this was really unexpected.
Lili Ya looked at the green goblin costume on her body, and her mind couldn’t keep up with Li Si’s pace.
Li Si gave an affirmative reply, “Goblins have very poor eyesight. They easily mistake objects of the same shape as companions. This way we can attack and retreat more safely.”
The Kingdom of Minos is a pixel game, but its settings are very interesting; this kind of same-pixel misjudgment works not only on goblins but also on some stronger magic beasts, and it’s a black tech that only veteran players know.
Now that the dungeon has appeared, all the wild monsters have gathered toward it, making it quite difficult to find magic beasts, so we must do everything possible to increase the success rate of hunting.
Li Si deliberately chose a less-traveled path, and although the world had changed, the adventurers’ spirit of adventure hadn’t; in just one day they were already full of energy and starting to adventure again, and some places previously identified as magic beast strongholds had already been cleared out, so without some special means it was really hard to find leveling monsters.
Li Si walked up to a bush and narrowed her eyes, and at the roots of the bush there was a very faint green fluorescence, which she could see because she had the Tracking skillāordinary people couldn’t notice it at all.
This was a trace left by goblins; the fluorescence was radial and fresh, indicating it had just passed by, and the direction these goblins were heading was toward the dungeon area in the east.
Li Si looked up at the forest ahead, and based on the freshness of the traces, the goblin group shouldn’t have gone far, and since they were nocturnal magic beasts, with the sun out now, they should be getting sleepy.
In other words, there should be a small group of goblins not far ahead.
Li Si signaled behind her, and since goblins are shorter than humans, they had to crouch down to make their height similar to avoid being discovered as much as possible.
Lili Ya decisively crouched down, but just as she did, she felt a chillāfrom the bush diagonally ahead, there was the sound of hurried footsteps approaching.
Li Si immediately judged that it wasn’t a magic beast but an adventurer, and was about to leave, but the bush was already pushed aside.
“Bathroom, bathroom! I can’t hold it anymore!”
This was a female adventurer, very careless, who pushed aside the bush without checking inside, turned around, pulled down her pants, and started to relieve herself.
“Mary! Be careful! Will said there are traces of goblins around here! They might be in your bush!”
“John, shut up! Don’t try to scare me! Will said the goblins are ahead! How could there be goblins here!”
Mary pouted in rebuttal, her own teammate just liked to scare people; how could goblins possibly be in a place like this?
“Huh?”
Mary suddenly felt a sound behind her, turned around, and first saw two green backs.
The two backs were the same height, about 1.6 meters, and were silently pushing aside the bush on the other side to go out.
Mary was dazed for a second.
She focused on the pointed ears of these two green creatures and realized they were two goblins.
“G-go-goblin! Waaah!!!”
“T-that… actually we…”
One of the goblins suddenly turned around.
Mary screamed, not even finishing urinating, pulled up her pants, and dashed out in a single bound.
“What’s wrong! What’s wrong! Are you okay, Mary!”
Outside the bush, John, holding a longsword and on guard, immediately stepped in front of Mary, gripping his longsword with both hands and peering warily into the bush.
“Two really big goblins!! And they can talk!! So scary, so scary…”
The hunter teammate next to them asked in confusion, “Big goblins?”
“Yes, yes! Both are as tall as John!”
“Th-this tall?”
John was a little uncomfortable; goblins were notoriously shortāonly special individuals could grow to 1.6 metersāand if this were the previous world he wouldn’t have believed it, but now that even the goddess could go missing and the Holy Court could fall, nothing was impossible.
John stared gravely at the mainstay of the team.
As the first captain to realize they should stay away from the crowd to find leveling magic beasts, John believed that Will surely had the ability to judge the situation.
Will frowned and didn’t dare to take it lightly.
He carefully pushed aside the bush, looked in the direction Mary pointed, and suddenly froze.
He crouched down and sniffed gently at a tree root.
“It’s the smell of goblins passing by. There are indeed goblins up ahead, but the 1.6-meter individuals should be evolved beings. However, the fact that they are active during the day shows they have sufficient mobility. In that case, why didn’t they attack Mary directly?”
John guessed, “Mary said there were two of them, and there are three of us. Could it be that their intelligence has also evolved, and they know how to judge numerical advantage?”
Will shook his head.
Even if goblins evolved intelligence, a 1.6-meter individual already has the strength to face a small team, let alone the fact that in front of them was a lone archer.
āIf they didn’t attack, it definitely wasn’t because they were afraid.ā
Bang!
Boom!
“Gaji?”
“Gaji!”
A strange set of noises suddenly came from the forest ahead.
The sounds included battle cries and panicked goblin calls.
Will frowned.
As a veteran hunter, he could barely understand some goblin calls.
āIt seemed like there was a fight, but the goblins’ calls weren’t angryāthey were confused.ā
Will made a simple analysis and roughly came up with the following meanings.
“Big brother, why are you hitting me?”
“Big brother, you’re so tall, why are you cutting me?”
“Big brotherāno, king! Why are you attacking your own people?”
“Two kings, did you evolve some special ability?”
Something along those lines.
The more Will listened, the more confused he became.
In all his years as a hunter, he had never heard such strange goblin communication.
“Sound… the sound’s gone…”
Mary was uneasy.
She listened carefully and confirmed that the battle sounds had really disappeared, along with the goblins’ cries.
Will’s expression turned serious.
The scent of blood wafted through the air.
He couldn’t believe it.
He turned and exchanged a glance with John.
The two understood each other and carefully protected Mary as they moved forward to check.
A moment later, the three reached the source of the bloody smell and were stunned.
The ground was covered with goblin corpses.
Not only was there a river of blood, but all the items the goblins had been carrying were looted clean.
All the goblins’ left ears, which could be used for quest submission, had been sliced off.
“So fast…” John was dumbfounded.
Mary stood there dazed.
Suddenly she felt something cold down below, and realized she had only urinated halfway outside.
Will snapped back to attention and quickly sent out a warning in the area channel.
-[Border Town Area]
-[Friendly Team: 1~5 leveling zone found two specially evolved goblins! They stand 1.6 meters tall, and goblins call them kings! They attack each other. I suspect they are a new type of Goblin King. Everyone, be careful!]