Goblins.
A species only slightly stronger than slis—bottom-tier monsters of the world. A sneeze from Cat-sis could scare an entire swarm of them to death. Yet they were infamous among common folk and ordinary adventurers for being sly, fond of group ambushes, possessing a flicker of intelligence, using crude tools, and raiding human villages.
Small-bodied and born evil, these wretched creatures were nothing but cannon fodder used by higher monsters to target ordinary humans—they were greedy and cunning, and would even sob and whimper pitifully to gain sympathy.
Many inexperienced adventurers who had not done their howork were fooled by a goblin’s fake cries—softening their guard, feeling pity they should not—and were promptly ambushed, defeated, and reduced to either food or reproduction machines.
Jasmine’s little face turned pale. This was her first ti encountering truly violent goblins, and she was scared. In the entire team, the only person who could be relied on was herself.
“Rock Wall!”
Rumble—earth-yellow stone surged upward, rising from the ground and blocking the goblins’ charge.
“What do we do!” Rorina finally snapped out of her daze as the terrifying goblins were blocked by the wall. Yet her face was still drained of color; witnessing those senior mages die brutally right in front of her had left a deep psychological shadow.
“Should we retreat...” Maixi stamred, “But the path we ca from is already blocked by goblins. We can only go further down...”
“You two cooperate with . Together, we’re going to wipe these goblins out.” Jasmine bit her lip.
“You’re insane!” Rorina’s eyes widened. “There are so many goblins—we can’t handle this!”
“But we have to kill them. The ogre on the second floor eats goblins for snacks.” Jasmine’s voice grew cold. “Do you feel confident dealing with sothing even more terrifying than what’s right in front of us?”
“I—I—I...” Rorina, unable to argue back, plopped onto the floor and burst into loud wails. The crying of a human child only further agitated the goblins pounding on the other side of the wall.
Clang—clang—clang!
Iron pickaxes hamred the rock wall. Cracks crawled across the thin barrier, splitting wider and wider!
The rock wall finally fractured. Three pairs of crimson eyes glead from the shadows, accompanied by the scraping sound of tal dragging across stone.
“Ooh! Human younglings! Soft skin! Tender at!”
Pointy-eared, flat-nosed, wart-covered green-skinned creatures squeezed through. The leading goblin wore a battered pot helt studded with nails; the rusty cleaver in its hand was wider than the little girls’ thighs.
Thump!
A polished, fleshless human skull was kicked by the goblin and skittered across the ground—rolling to a stop right in front of the sobbing Rorina. She stared in horror into the empty holes of its eye sockets.
“Gyaaaa! Female human younglings!”
The goblins grew excited.
The stone wall was about to collapse. Triggered by their frenzied cries, Jasmine gritted her teeth—and detonated the entire wall.
Boom!!
The several-ter-high wall exploded into a cloud of dust, chunks of rock crashing down and crushing the goblins who had been busy digging.
The trapped goblins squealed like crushed rats.
“Ah!”
A teammate scread again—but this ti it was Maixi.
Before Jasmine could savor the delight of wiping out dozens of goblins in one blow, she was yanked back to reality by Maixi’s sudden cry.
The world, which had gone quiet after the explosion, abruptly ca back to life.
Jasmine whirled around, her pupils shrinking!
Two goblins—she had no idea when they had crept up—lunged out of the darkness!
They were a full size larger than the previous swarm. Yellow canine teeth bared, drooling thick foul-slling saliva, muscles bulging, bloodstained pickaxes in hand, movents swift.
Thank goodness her teammate scread—otherwise she would already be on her way to heaven, just like those seniors. She would never see her mother again.
Cold fear stabbed through her. Jasmine used the terrain and summoned stone spikes—piercing from all directions toward the two goblins—but the razor-sharp rock spikes only left faint scratches on their green skin before shattering!
“Ah!”
Seizing the goblins’ brief mont of stiffness, Maixi suddenly burst with courage—successfully enchanting her straight sword for the first ti ever, leaping two ters into the air, plunging the fire-enchanted tip straight into one goblin’s eye!
Szzzt!
Fire magic erupted from the blade—
[Fla Sword!]
Szzzz—!
With the stench of charred flesh, the goblin shrieked. The one whose eye was pierced thrashed wildly like a frenzied dancer. Maixi was flung away, slamming onto the ground with a heavy thud, life-or-death unknown.
When the mad dance ended, the goblin crashed to the ground, life extinguished.
A 10 point notification flashed across the crystal talismans the three girls carried.
At the sa ti, the other goblin seed frightened and turned tail to flee.
Using the brief breathing room, Jasmine hurried to the rubble and found Maixi, imdiately slapping healing magic onto her face.
“Heal!”
Smack!
“Heal!”
Smack!
“Hea—”
“Uuu... Jasmine, why are you hitting my face?”
Maixi sat up as if nothing had happened, holding her cheek while glancing around, finally looking toward their pink-haired teammate who was frozen stiff. Maixi grinned: “Ahhh, our little missy is broken. What do we do?”
“You’re the broken one! Your whole family is broken...” Seeing hope again, Rorina scrambled to her feet and stumbled toward her two teammates.
But this ti, her tone carried no venom. She sat beside Jasmine, glanced at the goblin corpse crushed among the rubble—
Her throat bobbed twice. Sha flooded her face.
“I didn’t expect this human roadblock to actually... be useful. I was shallow...”
Jasmine checked her teammates’ injuries. Finding nothing serious, she finally relaxed. Her voice grew °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° soft:
“Then everyone... next, let’s work together. And wipe out the remaining goblins.”
...
Inside Talin City.
Magic-crystal arcade hall.
Vieya was accompanying Xiao Lü as they played a ga. On the pixelated screen, two tiny pixel characters—one with a staff, one with shield and sword—were working together in a side-scrolling co-op adventure.
“Hey hey hey! How can you not even dodge bullets! You died again! Hurry, press up up down down left right left right baba to unlock 30 lives, then keep playing with !” Xiao Lü huffed angrily.
“...This.” Vieya fumbled with the buttons, her beautiful eyes fixed unblinking on her pixel character. She muttered with deep concentration, “It’s this trash machine’s fault—the delay is too high. I clearly pressed jump, but it didn’t jump!”
“......”
Beside them, Cat-sister held two cups of milk tea, opening her mouth but not speaking. She realized her master seed to have forgotten sothing important.
Before departure, she had sighed and paced endlessly—saying her daughter wanted to beco a soaring hawk, wanted to fly into the sky, did not want her mother anymore. Worried all night about Jasmine—worried she’d be hungry, cold, bullied...
But now—
“Hehe! I picked up the golden legendary greatsword!” the sli-girl exclaid with joy.
Helcat finally could not hold it back. She enunciated each word:
“Master. Are you going to drink your milk tea or not?!”
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