Chapter 022: Goblins
The greatest sorrow of goblins is not weakness, but cowardice, and if they only kill one partner, they will lose their will to fight. Without a strong enough boss restraint, they're simply a bunch of rats.
Spider screamed in dissatisfaction, the goblins were a bunch of snacks to her, but the snacks were running away, how could she enjoy it happily? She frantically weaves spider silk, uses it to create obstacles, and then wields eight sharp arthropods to slaughter.
With a spell, Gauldos summoned several dominant skeletons one after another, and the skeletons resurrected from the goblin corpses were extremely short, but not bad in combat. Although they are a little weaker, their movement and attack speed have been greatly improved, and the only downside... Timidity is also compensated.
More and more of the dominant skeletons stood up, eventually reaching 10, picking up sticks and stone bags from the ground and joining Spider in a one-sided slaughter. Goblins aren't completely useless, at least when they run away, they're pretty skilful at running in small steps. In the end, there were 23 corpses left behind, of which 10 were the big brother who was not so daring, 1 was the goblin leader, and the rest of the minions all escaped into the depths of the Turin Forest.
Spider looked at the corpse on the ground dissatisfied, and her aggrieved eyes were like a deep resentful woman. I have to say that they don't look very good, and Spider has turned off the venom gland function, but none of these corpses are intact. For Spider Queen, how does it make her enjoy it?
She had to pick and choose, and first she made do with the corpses of the goblin leader and 10 tall goblins.
After this battle, the intimacy between Gaudus and Spider has increased by another 5 points, and it is now 15 points.
At the same time, the class level of the high-doth necromancer has also successfully climbed to level 7, and 1 freely allocable attribute point has been added to the perception.
Gadorus walked over to the goblin leader's skeleton and picked up the demon mask to check its information. Unexpectedly, this mask with poor workmanship and rough painting turned out to be a blue piece of equipment.
γGreen Leather Collar Maskγ
[Introduction: An ugly cedar mask with an oil paint made of the blood of wild beasts depicting a pattern of evil spirits, and a mysterious power seems to be condensed under the humble exterior.] γ
[Types: Helmets, light armor.] γ
[Grade: Blue.] γ
[Status: Normal.] γ
[Equipment requirements: Perception 13 points.] γ
[Collateral attribute 1, Pride of the Leader: Passive, this mask is a symbol of authority in the greenskinned tribe, and the wearer will have a certain deterrent effect on the greenskinned goblin.] γ
[Attached attribute 2, Voice of the Ancestors: Active, the Greenskin Leader Mask embodies the power of the Heroic Spirit of the Greenskin Goblin Ancestor, activating it can release the Voice of the Ancestor, causing a stun for up to 3 seconds to surrounding living enemies, and doubling the effect on the Goblin. γ
Gaudus pinched his nose in one hand and his mask in the other. The attributes of this mask are actually quite good, especially the [Voice of the Ancestors], this range stun skill really increases its value.
The only downside is... It stinks.
Don't greenskinned goblins take a bath? Anyway, he is a tribal leader, so he is a little more particular, why does even a mask have a filthy smell?
Reluctantly, Gaudus put the mask into the ring.
Immediately afterward, Gaudus took out the Quenched Dagger, cut off the ears of the remaining goblin corpses, and strung them together with a piece of spider silk and threw them into the ring space.
Not far from the allotted share, Gaudus did not slack off, found a clean place to sit down, and began basic meditation.
Soon, the already shrunken magic vortex began to move rapidly, and the magic power gushed out from all parts of the body like a spring, slowly converging into the magic vortex, and at the same time, the enchantment effect of the bone staff1 "Weak Magic Stirring" continued to work. After 20 minutes, the mana was almost restored.
As he looked at the corpses of goblins with their ears cut off all over the ground, he suddenly had a strange thought. He tried to chant the spell of [Domination of Skeletons], and at the same time added the spell section of [Flesh and Armor].
After casting the spell, the entire body of the goblin corpse swelled rapidly as if fermented, trying to transform into a solid state, and then it was completely dismembered and collapsed, only the skeleton inside stood up, and some internal parts were hung on its body. It seems that only the Dominating Skeleton has had an effect, but the Flesh Armor has failed.
Despite this, Gaudus found that he suddenly had more enlightenment in his mind, and some things that he didn't understand about [Flesh and Blood Armor] suddenly penetrated. Looking at the skills panel again, the learning progress has advanced by 3%!
It's a huge discovery, and even if you don't fully master a skill, you can use it to advance your learning progress a little! 3% may seem like a small number, but based on past experience, two hours of uninterrupted learning can only advance 2% if you go through the normal path.
At this time, Ray. Field's voice suddenly sounded, "How advanced are you in your flesh and blood armor now?" β
Gaudus replied, "12 percent." β
"Okay, then you try to summon a few more dominating skeletons, remember, with the spell of flesh and blood armor."
Gao Duos nodded, and as he said, four more dominant skeletons stood up, but the flesh and blood armor still didn't take effect, but the learning progress advanced by 2.5%, 2%, 1.5%, and 1% respectively. It seems that the gains in learning progress gained by releasing unlearned skills are gradually decreasing.
Thunder. "I've long found out about this method, the benefits of continuous casting progress will be less and less, but every once in a while, the benefits will become larger, which requires you to constantly read the magic content and occasionally cast a few spells, so that the benefits will be maximized." β
"I see, you see."
"One more thing, you need to upgrade [Domination Skeleton] and [Undead] to lv3 as soon as possible. At your current level of control over skeletons and undead, the [Flesh Armor]'s learning progress can only be increased to 30% at most. β
Gao Duos nodded, he already knew this technique. In the game, even if the preconditions for some skills are not fully met, you can still learn most of them. It's just that depending on how well you have achieved the preconditions, the maximum learning progress will generally hover between 25%-75%, but it will never exceed this range.
(This is like if you want to master microeconomics completely, you must master high school Chinese and high school mathematics, but if you only master high school Chinese and junior high school mathematics, you are not unable to learn microeconomics, but you can only understand 50% of the content, if you only master junior high school Chinese and high school mathematics, you can understand 75% of the content, but you still can't master the whole of microeconomics.) οΌ
"But then again, you don't have much magic left, and summoning a [Domination Skeleton] with [Flesh and Blood Armor] consumes a lot of mana."
After a short period of meditation, Gaudus regained some of his mana and killed 5 Domination Skeletons through counter-summoning, recovering some of his mana, essentially maintaining 70% of his maximum mana cap. After all, his ability [Domination] level is only lv2, and he can only maintain a maximum of 10 domination skeletons at the same time, and the extra skeletons will only continue to consume his mana.
After recovering their form, Gordos, Spider, and the Skeletons of Domination continued deeper into the interior of the Forest of Turin.
After walking a few more paths, Gaudus felt that the trees around him had become much thinner and the terrain had flattened out.
It won't be long before Gaudus sees a goblin camp.
Sure enough, Gaudus stepped on a charred bone, which was not an animal bone, but a human leg bone! At the same time, there seems to be some black charcoal left around this leg bone.
Goblins may be as timid as rats, but they treat their captives with unprecedented cruelty, boiling them raw, grilling them, or drying them into bacon for storage and eating them at the end! Whether the other party is an elf or a human, as long as it falls into their hands, it can only be reduced to food!
Goblins rarely have picnics and usually eat in their own nests, which means that there is a goblin camp nearby.
Goblin camps are generally stationed with at least 300 goblins, including the old, weak, sick and disabled, and there is no shortage of high goblins and goblin leaders with a certain combat effectiveness.
Gaudus orders a dominant skeleton skilled in stealth reconnaissance to crawl forward and obtain first-hand information through soul connections.
The Domination Skeleton crept silently, its low body blending into the earth and making it extremely difficult to see with the naked eye. In the distance, there was a flickering fire, which was clearly the light of a campfire, accompanied by a burst of gurgling sounds, presumably a bunch of goblins talking.
It seems that Gados was not wrong in his judgment.
The skeleton moved on, touching the edge of the goblin camp. It's a camp, it's probably a simple fence around a few grass huts, not even tents, the goblins are basically sitting on the ground, some are chewing mice, and a few tall gobs have set up a large pot on the campfire, in which cloudy broth is boiling, and then the torso of some unknown creature is thrown into it.
And on the edge of the iron pot, there were not only goblins with drooling eyes shining brightly, but also two young men who had been stripped naked, and their feet were actually cut off!
Gaudus couldn't help but be a little annoyed... Goblins are the meanest and most evil creatures, they already have their own naΓ―ve civilization, but they still do it!
But he soon realized that there was nothing strange about it, after all, for them, it didn't matter whether it was holy or evil. Humans who claim to be the primates of all things are just one of their recipes, filling their stomachs is the most important thing, and cutting off their feet is just to prevent food from escaping.
Although he understood this, the anger in Gauldos's heart was still a little difficult to suppress.
That's two living people! O man!
Although calmly told him that this was just a normal behavior of goblins, and it would happen more often in the future.
But when he really saw this scene, that calmness was gradually swallowed up by anger.
Faced with such a cruel scene, no one can control their hearts as they please.
The rage drove the Gordos to control the skeletons to advance towards the interior of the camp for more specific information, but there were still some old and weak goblins patrolling around it! With such an alert awareness, it seems that the goblin leader in charge of this camp is definitely not a brainless guy.
Gaudus took a deep breath and dispelled the anger in his heart. Anger can only make people lose their minds, and only calmness can defeat the enemy. Now what he has to do is not only to make up 100 shares of the kills, but more importantly, to rescue those two young people!
Just, how to do it?