Chapter 7: The Scattered Kobolds
Inside a lush forest.
Rhodes' figure jumps through the woods, and unlike the wilderness skills of rangers and wanderers, Rhodes hunts purely with combat skills. Juggernaut gave up his defensive heavy armor in exchange for high burst and agility, and at this time, Rhodes was like the most ruthless hunter, hanging far behind those bear goblins, making up for them from time to time.
The smell of fear lingered in the forest.
The screams of the bear goblins before they died stimulated the fleeing companions to panic even more.
One, two, three......
Rhodes had already killed most of the fleeing bear goblins, and the smell of blood in the woods had become strong, and the predators in the wilderness would soon surround him, leaving him with little time left.
The swordsman's explosive ability is very prominent, but correspondingly, they lose their super high continuous burst ability, unless they have special powerful equipment to make up for this, otherwise under normal circumstances, high burst means low endurance.
Stamina is consumed in killing.
Rhodes calculates his physical strength bit by bit, perfectly controlling every bit of strength, in the field, conserving physical strength is a very important combat skill, because you never know what kind of enemy you will face in the next moment.
Laugh at!
As blood splattered out, the last goblin fell to the ground with a thud, and Rhodes pulled out his great sword and wiped it twice on the goblin's corpse.
Suddenly.
He seemed to hear something moving in the forest, and then he dodged and immediately followed the direction of the movement.
It's already some distance from Gustown.
Killing in the wild can easily attract some predators, especially in places that are far from human activity.
"Huh? Kobolds? ”
Rhodes didn't see any signs of large predators on the other side of the forest, but he found a few manes hanging from some of the branches between the leaves, a gray mane with a foul smell.
And Rhodes also found some footprints nearby, obviously similar to the footprints of creatures like jackals and kobolds.
"No wonder these bear goblins are running this way."
Rhodes twisted a handful of mane, the corners of his mouth hooked a cold arc, and the decapitating sword in his hand glowed.
Although these bear goblins have a high fighting instinct, they are not beasts after all, and they still have some wisdom, and they know how to get close to some "companions" when danger comes.
Perhaps, to put it a little darker, deep down in the hearts of these intelligent creatures, there always seems to be some thoughts that the water will lead to trouble, and the friends of the dead will not die and the poor will not die.
It seems that these bear goblins have known for a long time that there is a group of other creatures deep in the forest.
Sou! Sou! Sou!
Just as Rod was squatting on the ground to study the traces, a sharp sound of breaking the air sounded, mixed with a little bit of coldness, and continued to shoot towards Rode's vital point from behind the trees.
Bang Bang Bang!
Rhodes held his beheading sword across his side, blocking the arrows one by one in a parrying stance.
The bushes in the distance trembled.
When the arrow fire in the distance was suppressed, a strong kobold came out, and before he knew it, this group of kobolds had actually come around, and for a time let Rhodes fall into their encirclement.
"Interesting!"
Rod glanced at about fifteen or sixteen kobolds around him, the one at the head was burly, almost the same as Rhodes, holding a bone crusher hammer in his hand, and he looked extremely fierce.
To Rhodes' surprise, this group of kobolds turned out to be a group of people with many weapons.
This is unusual.
Although kobolds are also intelligent creatures, their low intelligence makes their productivity extremely low, and it is basically impossible to produce such a relatively complete weapon.
"Whew! Oh! Oh! ”
One after another howls rang out, and a kobold with a harassy head on his head, showing his sharp, scarlet fangs, and his blood-red eyes howled, and pounced, as if he was about to tear Rhodes to shreds in the next moment.
"Stupid!" Rod looked at them indifferently.
- Cross Slash!
The decapitating swords were intertwined, and a blood-colored cross slash was struck, forcing back the enemy who pounced on him head-on, and Rhodes immediately took a back jump slash, and after avoiding the attacks on the left and right sides, he paused and turned around to slash with his sword.
- Ori Oni Swordsmanship!
After smashing the head of the kobold behind him with a blow, Rod calmly reflexively jumped, and the decapitating sword slapped down like a mountain pressing on the top.
- Collapse of the Mountain!
Caught off guard, killing a kobold with one blow, a sneer flashed at the corner of Rod's mouth, and his body quickly rushed into the crowd of kobolds with the help of a three-stage sliding sliding, and the decapitation sword was as powerful as a dragon, even if the kobold was wearing leather armor, but Rod's sword still regarded it as nothing, accurately breaking one flaw after another, and the flower of blood was blooming.
"Whew!"
There were a few low roars in the forest in the distance, and the fear in them was very obvious, and it seemed that Rhodes' appearance of rushing into the crowd and killing them had reminded the kobolds of some bad scenes.
"I want to go! How can it be so easy. ”
Rod was not in a hurry to pursue, and calmly watched this group of kobolds running behind him, this group of kobolds had not even reached level 20 in their professional level, and they were not as fast as Rod in terms of speed and physical strength, so he was not in a hurry at all.
"I've never seen a kobold like this."
Rod dragged the decapitating sword with an expressionless face and rushed up, facing a fierce slash, and the kobold in front of him also reflexively carried a battle axe, but in the face of that powerful blow, even the inferior battle axe was shattered.
Blood and certain organs were scattered all over the place.
Seeing this, the other kobolds ran towards the depths of the dense forest without looking back.
The corners of Rod's mouth hooked.
There is something interesting about these kobolds.
Under normal circumstances, those intelligent creatures in the wilderness, they are more aggressive and ruthless than humans, and when encountering certain intelligent creatures in the wild, the human side will always suffer, because the enemy is often a group of barbarians who are not afraid of death.
But this group of kobolds seemed to be frightened and actually coaxed.
Think about it again, when these kobolds meet, they are extremely fierce, their eyes are blood-red, as if they have seen enemies of life and death, as if they have a natural sense of hatred for human beings.
Now that they are scared, they are wailing and running around with their heads in their hands.
"Looks like a bunch of kobolds with a story!" Rod stared indifferently at the fleeing kobolds.
Woooooo
In the face of these kobolds who were roaring and frightened like cats, the outcome of the battle was self-evident, and Rhodes almost hung behind them and harvested the heads one by one.
The chase lasted for half a day.
Rhodes didn't use much physical strength at all, he didn't seem to be chasing the ferocious wilderness creatures, but like chasing a herd of sheep, and almost to the end, this group of kobolds didn't dare to fight back like the ferocity of some wilderness creatures.
When the last kobold fell to the ground.
Rod looked through his trophies, and there was hardly anything but the tattered weapons.
"Bad luck!"
Some complained and kicked away the rags, but Rhodes still looked for them with some reluctance, seeing that these kobolds should have attacked humans, and those weapons and leather armor were obviously snatched from some human territory.
Soon.
Rhodes actually followed the trail to find their lair.
It's a bunch of bonfires that have been extinguished, and there are some animal bones piled up next to it, and there are no human bones, so it should be too far away from the human activity area.
"It's still a group of shrewd kobolds."
Rhodes was a little surprised.
Compared to the stupid bear goblins who were going to die attacking human quarries, these kobolds far from human territory were undoubtedly much smarter.
It's a pity that I finally met Rod.
"Huh?"
In the pile of rags, Rhodes rummaged through them for a long time, and he really found something useful.
Dozens of gold coins, which should have been left behind by some unlucky guy who was robbed.
and a ring encrusted with precious stones, which was supposed to belong to a certain merchant.
"The emblem of the Osm watchtower...... The kobolds seem to have come running from that side......"
Next to these things, Rhodes sent out a lot of items with the insignia of the Osmum watchtower, and it seemed that these kobolds actually came from the guard tower camp in Westflow City.
"Whatever...... It's a small gain! ”
Weighing the gemstone ring, Rhodes put away the spoils of war with some comfort, picked up his broadsword and headed back in the direction of Guth Town.