Chapter 17 Sleeping in the red wilderness (1/2)

Chapter 17 Sleeping in the red wilderness

Translator: Tchu

Frightened, the pitiful creature shrank into a ball and stared at the red rock.

Increasing his pace, they soon crossed that rock and the pitiful creature could finally see the appearances of those goblins more clearly.

From their appearance point of view, these fellows really put the rumours and fears of Primal Wildfire to shame. At the first glance, those goblins look a bit ridiculous.

Their entire body was covered by a fresh green skin like a frog after summer rain. They had pointy donkey ears and a large nose resembling a carrot stuck on their faces. These fellows did not have any hair or beard. The head was gigantic, but the body was ridiculous thin beyond comparison and did not fit at all. Their height was about 130 centimetres from the looks of it and the proportion between each part of their body was very obviously uncoordinated. Hiding behind that rock, these little creatures bared a mouthful rotten but sharp tooth at them and started at Shaar and the pitiful creature with a strange look.

What especially surprise the pitiful creature especially were the goblin’s long arms. While hanging down, they sufficiently surpassed their kneecaps.

When first seeing those fellows, it would be very difficult to fear these creatures – first, they seemed very thin, small, poor and dirty.

Yes, those goblins were actually more “beggarish” than beggars. Between those fellows behind the rock, only one of them was completely clothed and wore a broken sack (Nobody knew where he got it). Three holes where cut on the sack for the head and both arms.

Another fellow had a weapon in its hand made from some large animal leg bone with a stoned fixed on top to increase the lethality. Furthermore, this creature had an “armor” sewed together by sixes to seven different things.

Oh god, this counted as armor?! Giving this armor a closer look, its composition materials were: Two broken copper plats, one pile of tree barks, several rotten woods and something resembling a rope.

The pitiful creature stared at them for a while and was somewhat suspicious: “Are these creatures really goblins?”

“Yes.” Shaar nodded.

“But, they did not seem terrifying like in the legends.” The pitiful creature was very puzzled.

Shaar smiled: “Goblins are also separated between the strong and the weak. Those you see don’t belong to any tribes and are outcasts. The truly dangerous ones are from the goblin tribes. Don’t think that a single goblin is small, weak and cowardly, if you run into several hundred of them and furthermore if they didn’t have any food for several days ……You will learn their ferociousness.”

Indeed, when Shaar said it, the pitiful creature detected the same look in their eyes as a group of stray dogs surviving in the wild. They acted somewhat cringe and a little timid, but also hid a bit of viciousness and hostility.

Shaar did not pay any attention to those dirty fellows and continued taking his usual big steps forward. When several goblins came too close, Shaar would stop, stand firm and pick up a stone and threw at them while threatening them by screaming – whenever that happens, these goblins immediately dispersed.

When the sky was getting darker, the pitiful creature discovered that those hobo goblins which were following them disappeared.

Before night felt upon them, they discovered a giant skeleton in the wilderness left behind by some large animal. The pitiful creature did not know if it was a buffalo or camel or other animal.

This giant bone structure on the ground had its huge ribs horizontally placed in a line, in a very symmetrical manner. It was impressive that on the entire skeleton, not a tiniest bit of meat was left….Obviously this was not the doing of Mother Nature through decaying, but something removed every tiny bit of flesh of it and plundered it clean.

Approaching the bones, the pitiful creature saw that it had pieces of dense and numerous teeth marks on them.