Chapter 205: Melee battle against the Brutal Goblins (1/2)

'Looks like this thing wanted to come out,' she thought upon noticing her spatial ring's sudden rise of temperature. However, she disregarded it.

Cinde decided to return her eyes to the front. The dummies deliberately came out from the shadows.

The illumination coming from the moon illuminated their figures.

”The Brutal Goblins!” She heard Ella exclaim upon seeing the dummy'sfigures.

”It looks scary!” Cinde cried out.

”You know about it?” Ella asked her.

Cinde didn't know whether to nod or not, ”I only heard about it from my parents when I was a kid. It was one of the elements used by my mother to scare me into sleep whenever I couldn't fall asleep.

She said that brutal Goblins were the fiercest among all many kinds of goblins. They had saw-like teeth, cone faces and pointed chin, and squinted snake-like eyes. Their skin color was dark blue, and jet black body hairs were all over their body. They could even grow their nails up to half a meter long. And they sent an eerie low growl that was so heart trembling when one hears it,” she explained and described what her mother once told her.

Everything her mother said before looks to be legit seeing the dummies in front of them now. Though they were dummies only.

While Cinde was telling her what her mother once told her, in Rea's eyes, there was an ounce of sadness.

Looks like Cinde had a wonderful childhood for having a mother who took care of her and even told some tales just to make her fall asleep. Rea wasn't able to experience such things from her parents.

Her mother was sick even before she was born. When she gained consciousness, she was already lifting a huge responsibility on her petite shoulders.

'Looks like Cinde has a wonderful mother,' Rea thought.

While she was mulling about the past, Cinde continued her story without stopping.

”...and then my mother once told me that if I won't sleep early she will throw me and feed me to the Brutal Goblins…”

”.....”

Rea fell silent. ”I regretted telling that she's a wonderful mother…” she muttered.

”Eh, d-did you say something, Ella?” Cinde asked in puzzlement.

”N-nothing, ahem!” Rea replied and cleared her throat. ”In any case, it looks like it won't take long for him to get out of his hiding,” she added.

Just as she said it, the Brutal Goblin dummies rushed at one point of the forest, in one of the huge trees that could be seen around. They surrounded it and slashed with their long sharp nails.

(Gwar! Gwar! Gwar! Gwar! Gwar!)

Their voices were so bizarre to hear. One's hair would certainly stand upright just because of it. Also, their strengths weren't ordinary. The large tree with a trunk of about 3 meters radius wide was cut in just a minute!

Rea and Cinde caught a glimpse of a shadow leaped in a near tree.

They wondered if Crimson didn't know that this type of goblins had a high perception, especially under the moonlight.

Just as they had thought, Crimson was currently cursing under his breath. He was well-hidden on that tree. But it seemed like the enemies knew already that he was hiding there.

He wondered if they have a high perception? No, they should have! Seeing that they knew where he was hiding from the start.

The tree was butchered and fell. Then they ran to other trees near it!

”Dang, I knew it! They have a high perception!”

Sistela notified him.

”Tsk, so my guess is right on the spot, huh,” he replied.

Looks like there was no use hiding then.

He also noticed some of the dummies started to climb up towards him.

Yman fortified another branch and threw it to one of the dummies who climbed up.

However, he gawked in disbelief when it was shattered by the enemy's sharp nails.

”These creatures look scary!” He whined.

As expected the higher the wave and stage he reached, the stronger the enemies would become.

And on top of it, his stamina was declining. And even his reserves were used up already.

It wasn't easy to fight multiple enemies consecutively especially that he used up all his spells with an area of effect. And he could not waste his mana also.

What he would be going to do? Yman had tried thinking of some ways. Now that even his javelins were useless against these types of foes, he was down to only one option!

Will he use that mana? No, if he fought them in a black magician mode, he won't gain any combat experience. It would be a waste of effort in that regard. Right now, his combat experience has continued growing little by little while he was fighting.

Yet he was down with his only choice was to engage them in a melee.

The enemy this time was stronger. On top of that, there were quite a number of them. About 20 sinister-looking creatures surrounding him. Yman made a deep breath. He was currently standing on top of a tree branch.

Rea and Cinde noticed one of the dummies shot itself to the relative tree. Its figure disappeared in the shade of countless leaves. Then it was followed by a loud impact.

(Woosh!)

They saw a figure sent flying. Because it was dark, they could only see a dark shade of it.

Leaves and tiny branches were flying all over together with the figure. Then another impact could be heard when it crashed on the neighboring trees.

The figure made a low groan.