Chapter 108: Goblin Hunting - I (2/2)

There were a feays of acquiring a mount, the most common method was a tedious process called incubation, where you'd create one fro harvested souls from the creature you wanted tothe end result froh the incubation enerally the most expensive solution and it was much cheaper to just do it yourself

And the hardest method out of the three was to form a bond with a creature in the wild But the chances of that happening were slim, and it was likely that so to bond ell before you reached the stage where it'd even consider for a pact with you

There was also quest rewards, but those were barely worth , and often times they'd just fall under the third ive an already incubated enerally not worth it

The benefits of a hts, was the ability to summon and dismiss it almost at will And unlike horses that permanently died when they were killed, mounts were practically i sealed away until their spiritual bodies regenerated after a certain amount of time

Merlin checked his quests as he walked "Destroy the Goblin Caoblins somewhere north within the forest, and his task was to annihilate theoblin's Heart" was a quest where he had to retrieve the heart of a hobgoblin for an alcheh and it seemed that it overlapped ith his first quest

"Goblin Exters quest, although it specifically mentioned to collect their ears The quest overlapped with the first quest as well, but he lers toas he expected

"Killing Kobolds" and "Gnoll Gangs" bothfor territory south in the forest, it seenolls were forced out frooblin infestation His quest was to cull their numbers a bit so neither races posed a risk for a while

He decided to get rid of the goblins first, although the forest covered quite the distance and north was rather vague for the camp's location, so he had to rely on luck and his prior experience to find it

He slipped into the forest and began heading north-west It took hioblins, unfortunately they just seee ca over a dead squirrel, not paying any attention to their surroundings Merlin hid his presence and slowly crept up on the group, and when he felt the opportune moment come, he pounced

Merlin suddenly dashed out fro theoblin that had its back to hioblins were startled, but quickly readied their pointed sticks One lunged towards Merlin, but the stick that barely qualified as a spear was easily pushed away The other tried a si but it suffered the saoblins like they were incoers rather than a sword and shi+eld, although he did enjoy the feeling of invulnerability that the shi+eld offered hioblins off with ease, and as his quest asked, he started roughly cutting the goblin ears off Due to the active quest, once the ears left the goblin's body they started faintly glowing as if they were ite Merlin to throw them into his inventory It was a similar effect as to ould happen if he had used an ani skill

「Goblin Ears Collected: 6/140」

Once he was done, he quickly cast cleanse on hioblin's blood After one last check he found that unfortunately there was no loot once again

Merlin continued his journey through the forest, and not long after his first encounter he seeroup of four from the distance, he noticed that they were oblins he just killed But thebody paint, indicating that they were froan stalking the group He wasn't sure if they were going to eventually lead hi, but he decided that it orth the gauide than to wander blind after all, and even if he rong, he still had to kill plenty of goblins anyway