Chapter 6 The Ambush Goblin
There is no bird singing in the autumn forest in the sunny autumn. This indicates that there are creatures, monsters, and extraordinary beasts that birds fear.
Horn was alert and took out a pointed pebble from his waist pocket and squeezed it into his hand. He was a magic apprentice, and magic was his biggest reliance besides the runes of his eyes.
Currently, he has eleven magics, six types of magic that can be used to fight or assist in combat:
[Flash Technique]: A strong light bursts out for a moment.
[Transmission technique]: Transmit information within a range of 100 meters.
【Ruyi Rope】: Summon an 8-meter-long rope that can withstand 300 pounds of pulling force.
[Insidious]: Summon a strong wind to blow out the items in your hand, covering the thirty-degree fan-shaped area in front. The farther the distance, the worse the effect of squinting your eyes. The spell casting materials are required, such as: dry sand, flour, and quicklime.
[Acid Splash]: Summon a ball of acid as big as a fist to attack the enemy.
[Photography item]: When you eject the items in your hand, you need to cast the spell material such as: stone.
Magic has strong lethality and its power increases as the casting level increases. Take the projectile as an example.
The projectile can accelerate the shooting of stones and achieve a bullet-like effect. Horn's current effective killing range is 20 meters. After the casting level is increased, the effective killing range will be increased.
Casting spells requires the consumption of magic power. The greater the magic power, the more magic power it consumes.
With the total amount of Horn's magic, he can perform the lowest energy-consuming flash technique 15 times, the highest energy-consuming acid splashes 5 times, and the projectile 7 times, which is exactly the amount of a pistol magazine.
He pinched the stones in his hand and pretended to continue walking leisurely. At the same time, he carefully observed the woods on both sides of the road and found a goblin lying in the grass.
It’s really hard to find these green-skinned creatures lying in the grass!
Horn wasn't sure if the goblin had any accomplices, and to be cautious, he activated the runes of his eyes in his palm.
The eye runes can be regarded as the strongest trump card by Horn, so it is naturally not as simple as one more perspective. It has extremely perverted insight, and the weed leaves veins a hundred meters away are clearly visible, and it can also see through invisibility and launch spiritual impact.
Unlike magic that consumes magic, eye runes consume mental power. Without using mental impact, Horn can maintain eye runes for more than ten minutes.
Under the investigation of the eye runes, the goblins hidden on both sides of the road and the traps on the road have nowhere to escape.
A total of three goblins were found, one lying in the grass beside the road, holding a stone spear in his hand, and one squatting in the bush. Its weapon was a bow and arrow, and another was hidden behind a large stone. They were waiting for their prey to drill into the trap.
Horn's mind was flying, the stone spear goblin had the least threat, the goblin archer had the medium threat, the most worrying thing was the goblin behind the stone, which was hiding well. If it weren't for the weeds bent on the edge of the stone, he wouldn't have found it.
It is inferred from the distance from the road that the stone it hides is that it must have remote means.
Horn recalled the information of the goblins' long-range attack methods, bows, throwing stones, and blowing arrows are the three most common types.
The bows and arrows that throw stones and hunting are fine, but the arrows may be poisoned.
Don’t underestimate the toxins made by these savage monsters. The raw material of toxins is poisonous insects and weeds in the forest. They are often mixed with poison. I wonder how many adventurers are suffering from poisoning.
As Horn moved forward, he scanned his surroundings and formulated tactics in his mind.
At least you can't face three goblins at the same time.
He found a thick spruce, using spruce as a cover, and the goblins behind the stone could not attack him.
After having a plan in his mind, Horn walked towards the trap in the look of the goblins' expectant eyes.
Without any warning, he hiding behind the thick spruce. The goblin ambushers immediately realized that they had been discovered. The stone spear goblin stood up with a scream, and the archer pulled the bow quietly.
Due to perspective and distance, the goblins behind the stone cannot attack Horn, and the stone spear goblin needs to run a distance, and the only thing Horn needs to be guarded against is the goblin archers.
While chanting a spell at a rapid speed, he pulled out his hunting knife and stared at the arrows on the bowstrings, ready to block or dodge at any time.
The goblin archer loosened the strings and the feather arrow shot out, and Horn found that he didn't need to make any moves.
Whoosh!
Feather arrows flew past Horn.
At the same time, his spell was completed.
Projectile!
The pointed stone specially selected shot out quickly, hitting the goblin archer's forehead and drilling into his head.
Even the scream wasn't heard, and the goblin archer fell to the ground.
On the other hand, the stone spear goblin did not find that his companion was dead, and he held his spear in both hands to charge.
Horn has enough time to react and use his excellent fighting skills to complete the counterattack.
He pulled out his blood-stained hunting knife, poked his head out from behind the spruce and looked towards the stone, but immediately shrank back.
This is a fake move to lure the enemy into attack!
The goblin was fooled, and a bone needle flew past his ear and pierced into the bark of trees not far away.
Then Horn poked his head out from behind the spruce. He saw a panicked green back and immediately chased after him.
Due to short legs, the goblins failed to escape and were shot dead by stones shot from behind.
The blood hole in the back of his head ruled out the possibility of death from the goblins, and he walked towards the corpse.
When he approached, he smelled a odor and saw the plant juice applied to the goblins. This is a native way to hide their body odor when hunting. Although the method is soil, it is very easy to use.
Horn turned the goblin's corpse over and saw the goblin's appearance, his ugly hawk-hooked long nose, his savage brow bones, his wretched mung bean eyes, and his shit-green skin. He was so ugly that he couldn't bear to look at him.
He cut off the goblin's left ear with fluff and put it into a small cloth bag that had been prepared.
After thinking about it, he pulled away the goblin's hand, put away the bamboo blower, and found two bone needles on the dirty short skirt of the animal skin.
At this point, there was nothing in this goblin that could attract him.
Horn returned the same way and plundered the remaining two goblin corpses.
Coins with patterns are used by many monsters as jewelry and symbols of identity, so coins can be found occasionally on them, but unfortunately, there is not even a single copper on these ones.
“So poor.”
Horn snuggled the remaining two "silver coins" into cloth bags, returned to the road, used a hunting knife to dig open the floating soil on the surface of the trap, and then pushed the branches aside, revealing the sharp bamboo thorn trap below. He wanted to destroy the trap to prevent passers-by from getting injured.
“Huh?!”
Horn found that there was blood on the bamboo thorns. His face changed. He pulled out the blood-stained sharp bamboo thorns and raised them to his eyes to observe the blood. The blood had not solidified yet, but it began to turn black. It should have been left this morning.
All traces around him were wiped out by the goblins, and he could not judge the identity of the blood owner.
Horn had a serious expression, pulled out the bamboo thorns and continued along the road.
After walking for a while, he found no traces of the goblins. It was a string of human footprints. Judging from the size of the footprints, it was an adult man, and the direction when the man came was Horn's goal - Hongtu Village.
The situation was much worse than Horn imagined. At first he thought that the villagers of Hongtu Village planned to solve the problem by themselves, but now it seems that this is not the case. The villagers sent the help seekers sent by the villagers were ambushed by goblins before they even went far.
Ordinary goblins can't imagine the idea of breaking the connection between human villages and the outside world. There is a very likely place for goblin elders in this group of goblins. Only those old goblins who have lived long enough have such wisdom.
Moreover, the Goblin Elder not only lives for a long time, but also has the power of magic.
Goblins are barbaric monsters. They will drive away their old companions so that they will not leave much food. There is only one kind of old goblin that will not be expelled, but will have a high status, which is the goblin elder who awakens the power of magic.
The chances of the birth of the goblin elder are very low, which requires a huge population base. In other words, the goblins around the Hongtu Village may not be three or two bandits, but an entire goblin tribe (with a population of more than 30).
Horn's face was gloomy and the power of magic was very terrible. He was not sure if the Red Clay Village had been attacked or even if there were any living people.
But no matter what, I came here, let’s see the situation first.
Chapter completed!