Chapter 198 Chira Insects
Nevertheless, Vaan had never seen well-equipped goblins before.
Not only did the Rank 1 Green Goblins wear full-body black leather armor, one of them even wore a set of full black iron armor.
Furthermore, their black iron spears appeared to be around rank 2 in quality.
'These armored goblins look stronger than the normal Rank 1 Green Goblins…' Vaan silently thought as he observed the goblin patrols with Omni-Sense.
Kreuk!
Suddenly, the leading black iron armored goblin stopped and glanced around as if it had detected sothing with its nose.
Shortly after, it fixed its gaze in Vaan's direction and approached the huge boulder he was hiding behind to investigate with the other goblins.
Vaan's eyes glinted.
In that instance, he quickly determined the goblin had sohow slt his scent despite it being erased beforehand.
The mont the goblins drew close, he imdiately shot out from behind the huge boulder like a blurred shadow and swiftly slashed each of their necks with his gunblades.
Keuk!
All six goblins were quickly felled in a short instance.
No matter how well-equipped they were, they couldn't make up for the absolute difference in power between him and them.
Even so, the goblins had revealed much sharper senses and faster reactions than the average Rank 1 Green Goblins.
Just like hobgoblins, they had been enhanced or evolved, but to an even greater degree than the hobgoblins.
'This pocket realm is hiding many secrets,' Vaan mused.
Shortly after checking the goblins' equipnt, he tossed everything into the Heaven-Swallowing Space, their corpses included.
Furthermore, he also eliminated the traces of their blood, burying everything under patches of red soil with Earth Manipulation.
Vaan quickly left the area shortly after, heading north.
Along the way, he found the pocket realm's environnt to be quite unique, unlike anything he had seen in the human world.
There was no consistency in the formation of its land. While there were barren areas, there were also thriving plants from both the human world and Gehenna in one place. So grew on the ground, while others grew over rocks and boulders.
Overall, it painted a rather surreal and unnatural scene.
'If this environnt was artificially cultivated, then was it actually a result of the two worlds colliding?' Vaan wondered.
As he ventured further north, he also found so small insects that thrived on the flowers of Gehenna.
However, the insects didn't seem recognizable—or rather, they possessed multiple recognizable traits of different monsters, beasts, and insects, all mixed together.
None of the monster, beast, or insect books he had read in the libraries had recorded such a kind of creature.
For example, the insect in front of him looked like a honey bee. But besides its head, which was the only thing that looked like a honey bee, it had sharp scythe-like arms of a praying mantis for its legs, wings of a black bat, and a scorpion tail-like stinger.
Failing to find a na that matched the description in his mories, he could only call it a chira bee.
As if Vaan had got too close, he had attracted the chira bee's attention.
The mont it spotted him, it imdiately revealed its highly hostile and aggressive nature as it flew at him with its stinger out.
Vaan's brow furrowed.
In the sa instance, a picked up a pebble on the ground with Earth Manipulation and flicked it at the attacking chira bee, easily splattering it upon impact.
Chira bee was extrely weak, around the lowest level of Rank 0 beings. Even ordinary humans could have killed it with a regular fly swatter.
But when the chira bee's green blood splattered on the ground, it easily eroded so of the soil.
Even the pebble he used to kill the chira bee had lost half its shape before it struck a boulder and scattered into countless tinier fragnts.
'Such corrosive power!' Vaan frowned as doubt sprouted in his heart.
As he continued forward, he found more chira insects. And like the chira bee, they were all highly aggressive when he entered their line of sight.
A stronger feeling of doubt sprouted in his heart.
Soti later, Vaan encountered another group of goblins patrols. However, they were too preoccupied with hunting down another group of chira insects to notice him.
None of the chira insects he had seen were bigger than the size of two fingers. They were all small and weak, yet highly dangerous at the sa ti.
Vaan quickly understood the reason for his suspicions.
While the unnatural environnt itself could be said to be naturally ford from the collision of the human world and Gehenna, the chira insects were not native creatures of said environnt.
'These chira insects are the products of body transmutation experints!' Vaan quickly realized.
However, body transmutation experints were considered forbidden research as they tampered with life and created horrid existences.
It was especially forbidden from being conducted on humans as the Transcendent Witches did not want the purity of the human race from mixing with other creatures in the pursuit of power.
If they had allowed such a trend to grow, a day would co when no one could be considered fully human.
'I sll an evil witch's lair,' Vaan thought.
Once he ca to that conclusion, many things beca clear to him. But, at the sa ti, it also gave him more questions.
From the changes in the goblins' intelligence and basic abilities to their disciplined training and equipnt, even the existence of the chira insects, it could all be explained as the work of a Fallen Witch.
The undiscovered pocket realm provided the perfect environnt for the Fallen Witch's experints.
However, it would still be difficult for a Fallen Witch to command hordes of goblins on her own.
'Is the Fallen Witch working with a higher-ranking goblin blessed with greater intelligence? Or has the Fallen Witch conducted body transmutation experints on herself and fused with a high-ranking goblin to beco one of them?' Vaan speculated.
He wouldn't be surprised if it were the latter, as Fallen Witches have abandoned their humanity.
However, blind speculations wouldn't get him anywhere.
'I need to investigate further,' Vaan decided.
If it was the evil lair of a powerful Fallen Witch, there was a good chance that even the Plant-type Abomination may have been captured and held captive sowhere for research purposes.
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