Chapter 629 - Test do not unlock (1/2)

Korgh, the Eldritch Abomination whose fragments had been implanted inside the goblin tribe, still believed to have drawn the short end of the stick by being bonded to such useless and ugly creatures.

On the contrary, she had been quite lucky. The goblin's only strong point was their reproductive ability, so she had an easy time manipulating them at first and then overpowering their feeble minds once she had grown stronger.

Assaulting the crystal mine had given her plenty of time and energy to refine a body similar to the original Eldritch she had been spawned from. Unlike the other hybrids, she didn't give chase to her 'mother' due to her vessel's weakness.

She had preferred to remain hidden inside the mines all along to build her strength and regain her knowledge. Korgh had no trouble avoiding the miners. There were too many unused corridors she could use as havens and as long as she didn't suck the crystals dry, they would always recover their energy.

She was one of the few hybrids still alive in the entire Garlen continent. Most of the others had been killed by humans or Emperor Beasts before reaching their maturity or assimilated by their originals after challenging them.

The noise that Lith had heard and Morok pretended to, was her slowly digging out a particularly juicy mana crystal to feed upon without being noticed. She had no idea how the humans had found her.

Her light manipulation abilities rendered Korgh almost invisible and with all the noise echoing through the tunnels she was as silent as a mouse.

Korgh wasn't worried, though. Those guys weren't miners, their disappearance was likely to go unnoticed for days if not ever. Lith cursed his bad luck as several darts from a tier one Chaos spell threatened his life.

There wasn't enough space to dodge them and he knew from experience that most barriers would be useless against Chaos magic.

Lith and Morok Blinked in opposite directions in the nick of time. Holes several centimeters deep opened in the wall behind where their vitals had been just a second ago.

Korgh couldn't use powerful spells without risking to trigger a chain reaction that would make the mine collapse, killing both herself and the humans in the process. Luckily, the Rangers had the same problem plus they had to take care of the dead weight.

Many Professors were caught by surprise and remained severely injured. The same happened to their Assistants and the soldiers tasked to protect them. The only silver lining was that their enchanted armors had prevented any deadly wound and that Korgh was focused on the Rangers.

'How bad it is?' Lith asked while taking the Gatekeeper out of his pocket dimension and shrinking it to the size of a short sword.

'She's magically stronger than you, but her physical strength sucks. Half of her body is still that of a goblin.' Solus replied.

Korgh's appearance was that of a humanoid creature, about 1.6 meters (5'3”) tall, with thin limbs and a head too big for her body. Half of her skin was a yellow so pale to almost be translucent, allowing to see what little of her organs still remained.

The other half was a pitch black gelatinous substance that seemed to constantly move and change its shape like it was a flowing liquid. One second it resembled the slimy skin of a toad, the next one it was full of hair like that of a beast.

'Let me guess, the black half is a tough client.' Lith thought.