Chapter 68: Learning the Ropes (2/2)

"Honestly, it feels a little gimmicky" Merlin oblin He noticed that the archer goblin had coer drawn, but Merlin had finished off the club goblin before it got very far

Merlin threw his blood-caked gladius at the last goblin before charging towards it, now i itself through the goblin And in a siht once did it, a vine extended frooblin's chest

「Passive skill ⟪Rose Blight⟫ has triggered, target's stats have been reduced」

Surprisingly, he received a notification that his passive triggered, and he could see that where the vine had struck the goblin, the surrounding skin had begun turning purple

'Ah, so that's what that was' Merlin thought to himself, it seemed rose poison was just sporotrichosis, or ardener's disease, but with a fantasy twist Rose poison spread much faster and acted more like a curse than poison, or even what it really was in the real world, which was a fungal infection that was transh cuts caused by rose thorns

Merlin retracted the vine and began sla its knife arm down It took a couple strikes, but he eventually killed it When he stood up, he noticed that none of the goblins dropped any loot, which left hioblin's bow seeh to leave a handful of arrows in the quiver, so he considered it a win

Merlin robbed the goblin's corpse of the bow and quiver, they were terabbed his sword before chanting and casting the cleanse spell

「Skill ⟪Cleanse⟫ Activated」

The filth that was coating his body and his sword suddenly peeled off and began floating up for a fewboth Merlin and his sword spotless

"Such a convenient spell" Merlin said to hi it to cut the ears off of all three goblins, throwing theer away He grabbed the goblin's bow and quiver, alongside the club the other goblin used, and walked back towards his seat next to the ca to die out

Merlin threw the club into the ca with the vine once ht idea, as they becaine a snakeas he wanted