The Goblin Lord was standing at approximately over 30 meters tall, he towered over most of the surrounding trees , he was clad in a blackened volcanic armor and a jagged obsidian crown that gave him both a menacing yet majestic kind of look, his amber eyes were now burning with ruthlessness and quite a huge amount of anger too , and now that i'm able to see him more clearly, i was now able to see that he wielded a massive warhammer which seemed to be forged in the fiery depths as it was actually pulsating with raw, destructive energy .
He was marching towards the location i was in fuming with anger to the point that he was unaware of how many of his allies were being squished by him , he probably wasn't even aware that he squished them look at him he was a colossal sized goblin, if not for the facial features resemblance, i would have suspected that he was a giant who was disguising as a goblin .
Oh right ,do giants even exist in this world , they might actually be, i have already had my encounter with a lot of things that i once believed that they were nothing more than mere fantasies , so if giants were a thing in this world, i would be more intrigued than surprised to actually finally meet them .
His size was huge to say the least, he was the biggest creature that i have ever seen in my life he had tusks that was currently dripping with blood as if he was some kind of a vampire, but whatever or whoever he had been eating it didn't go down without a fight as a few scorching marks were on his forehead but they were barely noticeable .
He had an incredible muscle build , bulging muscles on his arms that left the person seeing them wondering about what was beneath the armor , his shape told great stories of his resilience and incredible strength too , and why wouldn't it ,if i remembered correctly that old Adventurer from before said that a fully grown Goblin Lord can reach S Rank and Regard said that those S Rank monsters have at least one attributes which have 1000 points , not to mention that this creature is rumored have a unique skill too .
But was this really the guy responsible for the maneuvers used by those goblins, was he even that smart , he looks more barbaric like character than an intelligent and cunning one especially with that enraged expression that was on his face .
With each stomp he make on the ground even from here , i can hear the earth beneath me rumbling and was even able to hear the last scream of what i presumed to be the scream of those miserable and unlucky goblins that were being squished unintentionally by him, while other were lamenting about those unlucky fellows or something like that .
An appraisal would give me all the information i needed to know about him but he is a bit far away and using appraisal wasn't possible from the far distance, so i will have to wait for him to reach some safe distance from me , or i could use both Stealth and Camouflage to meet him halfway and use appraisal to figure exactly what will i deal with next .
I activated both the skill after deactivating the Aura Of Strong skill and went on with this small plan of mine, i used Stealth and i felt my tongue moving on its own and actually chanted something in a weird language that i wasn't able to recognize in mere seconds and then my body began to disappear i was still in the same place but was now in an invisible state what a weird feeling , i felt as if i was covered in some sort of a special status i can still see and hear everything clearly and i can also interact with my body in this state but all in all it was a weird one of a kind like experience, i then activated my second skill camouflage and began to move towards the colossal Goblin .
As i was making my way towards him, i began to wonder about Lora, did she arrived at Terra safetly, and how and what she was doing currently, was that theif trustworthy enough to leave her in his care, he did help us with the collar but the way he was so proud when he introduced himself as a thief was still making trusting him with Lora a bit unsettling thing for me and after all Terra wasn't the safest place to be especially on these days as Regard said , luckily , if something go wrong, i believe she can take care of herself quite well, i don't know what her status window looked like since i wasn't able to use appraisal on her but this in itself a declaration of how strong she was, hopefully .
At the mentioning of Regard , he was about to tell me why was he not to able to leave Trond before but we were interrupted just as he was about to say why, so a note to myself to ask him about it later when i finish my hunting task and the other business i have here , you see even after i finish this hunting task of mine , i was still going to search for a one particular monster that i really want to meet if possible .
As i was already some distance away from the goblins horde beneath the legs of that huge goblins, i was able to notice that they were like their fallen comrades fully equipped with different weapons and armors but not all of their armors were like the fallen goblins from before bloodied and quite unfitting too , the ones that most of the horde in front of me was wearing, were actually brand new and was even gleaming in this dark night , but how could this possibly be even if they used Transmute to make them, they won't be able to gather so many sets of armors and to equip the whole army at least not in this short time .
Could they were planning on doing this kind of move since a very long time, or could someone else behind the scenes be the one responsible for supplying them with those ridiculous amounts of equipments , and what could his purpose be by doing such thing, it's not like the humans at the safe zones were a force to be reckoned with from the start , and even if they were to succeed in a short period of time, the king would send high ranking Adventurers to reclaim those safe zones again , if they hadn't done so already .
So what could possibly be the target of such an operation , and why did they choose now of all times to start it and to clean the Wicked Forest from the humans existence in it .
It could have been an act of pure malice too, everything was possible when the information i had currently was quite limited .
As i already reached a safe distance from the goblin and a barely enough distance to use Appraisal on the goblin in front me, it happened .
For the first time since i arrived at the Wicked Forest my appraisal skill wasn't able to activate normally like it did with the other goblins but the weird part wasn't this, but what happened after my failed attempt of peeping on his attributes, he was actually able to notice me and didn't even waver a second before he struck towards my position as if he was able to see me even though i was using two sneaky skills that should have shielded me from being noticed by him .
He was strangely agile too in complete contrast to his large size too, as thanks to the Frozen Edge effect, i was able to evade being squished in my place .
Not that it will do much damage if it was pure physical attack but i better be careful otherwise, i might not get much damage but i could be smashed into the ground or being sent all the way flying , which could lead me to other dangerous situations and even deprave me from being able to dodge effectively, since i will be in the air and so .
I again made a distance between the two of us again and was wondering what was going on did he have something that interfered with Appraisal, and how was he even able to exactly pinpoint my location and how he was so agile when attacking too , gosh what was really going on with that weird goblin , where did he go ?.
So there you are, little bug .
I heard a gruff voice coming from above me , iooked up and saw that the abomination was currently behind me and was staring at me intensively , he spoke just now, right, or was my brain just misleading me or something .
Before i kill you,tell me did you happen to see an black owl an hour ago .
So no question about it he he was really that Goblin Lord and he is capable of speaking human language, his way of speech was a bit lacking but he was the first monster that i encounter capable of such feat, but more importantly now he was asking about that black owl from before, luckily he didn't see the place where it was resting in currently , or no telling how would he have reacted .
Answerme, scummy human , where is my Bevo, damnit .
His anger at me ignoring him while being in my own world enraged him to the point that the earth beneath me began to tremble as if something was trying to come out of it and it really was so, a volcanic craters were beginning to appear from under me, and the moment they surfaced, they shot their lava at me directly and precisely while increasing the heat around us .
Was that a result of a skill, how many times could he use such skill , after seeing the size of those projectiles, i fully believed in his ability to raise entire cities and it was just a skill, i was able to effectively evade the magma rocks that were thrown at me, but the problem was that the heat that came with these magma rocks was eating away my Stamina , luckily it was not by a big chunk and the amount was just barely noticeable, otherwise fighting this creature would have been an impossible thing to do .
While i was evading and trying my hardest to get away from the volcanic craters he conjured, i noticed a big shadow appearing on top of me, i looked up and it was the great warhammer he was holding now coming towards me with full force and full speed while he was abnormally screaming : i recognize you, you were the last person Bevo saw before, i lost my connection with him, what did you do to my friend , human .
I made a mistake and actually replied while i was about to use his attacking hammer and his outstretched hands as a ladder to get close to him to be able to attacksaying :
Would you believe me , if i told you he died by an accident would you believe me .
And just right before i evade his attack and begin my counter attack , his massive warhammer actually gleamed and the force it was releasing was enough to blow me away, and just as i was in the air the same shadow but this time it was actually being swinged around by none other than the now enraged goblin as he then proceeded to smash me with it .
While i was no position to evade, i was about to bite the bullet and accept the attack when i realized that if his attack were to hit me, i'm might actually die since i currently was on top of one of those volcanic craters he conjured and i didn't believe that my physical damage reduction or even the elemental immunity from fire damages that was linked to my armor would allow me to survive such a hit.
But i can't use brute force to defend against such attack as the difference between our strength was quite apperant , and how was he exactly able to attack something that he supposedly can't see, was something wrong with my skills, no the other goblins was looking weirdly at their Lord fighting something they weren't able to see so no problem with the skills but the problem lie in that Goblin Lord himself, could it be that he had an occult skill that were allowing him to see me , it is better to use those next seconds wisely trying to figure a way out of this predicament .
That could work i hurriedly activated my skill Rock Slide on the ground beneath the Goblin Lord trying to unbalance him by creating a landslide as to indirectly change the trajectory of his his attack and for the attack to miss .
I used Rock Slide and it worked better than intended he was unbalanced for about two seconds and even got stunned in his place on the ground for 4 seconds and his attack didn't just miss but his weapon fell from his hands too, the moment that his weapon fell on the ground the whole area shook with craters appearing all over the earth .
~Phew~ i took a long breath in relief, luckily i was able to evade such a dangerous attack and looked at the now lying on the ground giant and decided to try using appraisal again and this time it actually worked .
Appraisal have leveled up .
Another cool surprise .
Appraisal :
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Name : Javo .
Rank : S .
Title : Goblin Lord .
Attributes :
Strength: 1500 .
Stamina: 1300 .
Agility: 1100 .
Mana: 945 .
Spirit: 400 .
Hidden Attributes :
Constitution: 500 .
Will: 450 .
Luck: 100 .
Fate: 200 .
Spirituality: 350 .
Comprehension: 400 .
Skills :
( Earthshatter Dominion ) (Active Skill) :
Range : 50 meters radius .
Effect : Causes ground-shaking tremors that can split the earth, form barriers, or erupt small volcanoes .
Cooldown : 5 minutes .
( Obsidian Armor ) (Active Skill) :
Duration : 10 minutes .
Effect : Temporarily hardens skin to resist attacks, increasing Constitution by 80% and Strength by 100, with ground vibration detection up to 30 meters .
Cooldown: 1 hour .
( Unyielding Aura ) (Passive Skill) :
Range : 20-meter radius .
Effect :
Weakens enemies by reducing their Strength and Agility by 10%, while boosting allies' Endurance by 15% .
( Grim Command ) (Active Skill) :
Range : 100-meter radius .
Effect :
Summons up to 20 C Rank goblin minions that last 10 minutes or until defeated .
Cooldown : 2 hours .
( Savage Strike ) (Active Skill) :
Range : Melee .
Effect :
Inflicts a powerful hammer blow that knocks back enemies 5 meters and has a 20% stun chance for a period of 10 seconds .
Cooldown: 10 minutes .
( Mountain's Fortitude ) ( Passive Skill ) :
Effect :
Boosts physical damage resistance by 25% and reduces status effects duration by 10%.
( Volcanic Mana Essence ) (Passive Skill) :
Effect :
Permanently increases Mana by 15% and boosts Mana regeneration by 8% at all times .
( Tactical Onslaught ) ( Active Skill ) :
Range : 30 meter radius .
Effect :
Enhances Javo's Agility by 30% and coordinates attacks with allies, increasing their accuracy by 15% for coordinated strikes .
Cooldown : 45 minutes .
( Iron Will Regeneration ) ( Passive Skill ) :
Effect : Slowly regenerates Stamina and minor wounds over time during battles, speeding up by 10% in defensive positions.
Unique Skills :
( Unstoppable Advance ) ( Passive Skill ) :
Effect :
After defeating foes or claiming territories permanently increases Agility and Comprehension by 1.5% .
( Tyrant's Fury ) ( Active Skill ) :
Duration: 15 minutes .
Range: Self and 25-meter radius for the fear inducing effect .
Effect : Amplifies Strength and Spirit by 22%, instilling fear that reduces enemy Stamina by 10% per minute .
Cooldown : 3 hours .
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What with those ruthless attributes, was he a goblin protagonist of some sort, he even had a name Javo, his attributes and even hidden attributes are all off the charts, he had two unique skills and one of them, i believed to be responsible for the huge improvement of his strength and intelligent and the other one was a skill very much fitting for someone who wants to be a leader with its huge enhancing effect on all the underlings commanding both comradeship and complete obedience .
At least one of the mysteries about how the goblins were able to get so smart all of a sudden was now solved 400 points in Comprehension that's just mental , and with that amount of attributes in both Spirit and Spirituality there was no more wonder about how he was able to know where exactly i'm at, it must be related to those two attributes .
I also now understood his abilities better, but this will be the most tiring fight that i had ever had and, how can i damage him with that Obsidian Armor skill he has, i don't have any skills that delt that much damage like the ones he have , but he really had quite good skills , some crying voice had forced me to regain back my attention to see that the colossal green goblin was actually crying .
~Sob~ ~ Sob ~ , again, you humans again costed me another dear memories, first was my tribe,my parents, my dear companion , you kept on taking everything that i have ever held dear from me , but not anymore .
Burn higher my flame of vengeance, There's No Saving For Your Kingdom Now You All Deserve To Be In Ashes For What Your Kind Did To Us ,To Me .
"The earth bows to me, and soon, so will your kingdoms. Goblins will no longer crawl in shadows!" .
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Warning : The Goblin Lord Javo was able to awaken Unique SKILL : Domain Of Scorching Flames , please be aware .
A unique skill awakening and what with that warning notice, was it something related to the current battle or did everyone heard it , i was about to use appraisal again to see what its specific effects were, an earth cage suddenly appeared and cover my whole body in it then a hand outstretched and held the now incapacitated me tightly as if trying to squeeze the life out of me but i didn't felt a thing other than the uncomfortable feeling of being restricted from moving .
Without you triggering my anger, i wouldn't have been able to obtain such a gift for that you have my thanks , i will let you die a painless death .
I still paid him no mind then he began to squeeze my body even more but the only thing that he was capable of doing was to break the earth cage that he was bounding me with , i used this as a chance to use Steal since he was this close and we were making direct contact against each other and choose the skill that i believed will help me the most in my current situation , while also get rid of the biggest obstacle that would have probably prevented me from doing much damage to him Obsidian Armor .
I activated steal and the purple light appeared again and i heard the familiar voice of the World's Will confirming that it was a success and hurriedly went to check it out :
( Obsidian Armor ) (Active Skill) :
Duration : 10 minutes .
Effect : Temporarily hardens skin to resist attacks, boost Constitution by 16 times and Strength by 1000 , with ground vibration detection up to 300meters .
Cooldown: 1 hour .
Cost : 100 mana , 500 stamina .
I took a cold breath of air and was still held in the goblin strong hands when i involuntarily decided to Activate Obsidian Armor for the first time but was unable to , since my mana points was still short of 5 point to use the skill but no worries i will have to stall him for another 10 minutes and i will get that passive skill related to mana from him and how difficult would it be .
I activated my Aura of strong again and was now able to squeeze every ounce of strength in my body to escape from his grasp , and very much succeeded in doing so, he was surprised to see me escaping but then smiled and said : you are more strong than i first anticipated, i was about to give you a painless death but i believe you want to earn redemption by fire so be it i will grant your wish human, Domain Of Scorching Flames ,burn to ashes human as an offering for Bevo's soul to be well rested .
The scene around us suddenly changed to one engulfed in flames with the ground been scorched and a few volcanic craters appeared suddenly in the range of 50 meters radius he pointed at me and i was directly swallowed by flames to the point that the flames were even obstructing even the goblin lord from seeing what is happening inside the flames , the flames stayed burning for 3 minutes, meanwhile the Goblin Lord was now rejoicing his presumed victory .
I was safe and sound in the flames thanks to my armor but my sight was also obstructed since i was now covering my face in the set of armor with difficulty .
I hoped for him to let the skill be active for five minutes more at least but sadly he wasn't able to do so .
The scene began to dissipate as if it didn't happen in the first place, his Skill was deactivated for some reason and he Looked at me who was walking from the dissipating flames unscathed with wide eyes for some seconds then in the next moment he again held his warhammer and began to swing at me but luckily for some reason he wasn't able to use any other skills .
Not that he needed any , as he with his basic strength and with just his passive skills was way still stronger than me but , as i wasn't able to struck him even after i depraved him of his most powerful defense, he was able to smash me around like a ragdoll and i understood that heavy weapons such as his warhammer was one of the shortcomings to my ability to evade, 3 out of 10 swings were able to send me flying then he was attacking the vulnerable me in the air with his fist and weapon looking stunned at how much resilient i was .
This can't continue going on like this, even if i'm more than capable of staying like this but it was hurting my ego, i had already decided on overcoming every obstacle in my way to be the strongest, but how can i do so when i wasn't even able to land a solid hit on my enemy , we have exchanged over 50 moves between us, devastating the whole area around us but i was still at the the receiving end for most of the hits .
After 5 minutes, i already gave up on my first plan which was to wait for the cooldown of the skill Steal before beginning my counter attack and had a new plan in mind that could possibly make this battle turn around in my favor quicker and more effective too , but i will first have to fix him in his place for a 10 to 15 seconds and i know just how to do that .
Let him say whatever he wants if my plan worked, he won't be able to choose which way he wanted to die with .
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