Shadow Covenant

Chapter 163 "Green Skin"

Woody and Sengu walked on the long gravel street where the stars were scattered. The silence and serenity have long since disappeared from this stream town located in the west of the Whispering Forest, embedded in the green crown like a pearl, flames, Crying for kill, calling for help, and soldiers breaking through and shouting from all directions in an endless stream, as if a demon imprisoned for millions of years, wants to vent its sins and evils in this peaceful land.

And as Woody and the others left the center of Green Brook Town and went to the outskirts, mottled bloodstains could be seen everywhere on the gravel road, and on both sides and even in the middle of the road, there were also unrecognizable bloody remains of limbs still stuck on it. , although no blood flowed into rivers, the messy blood still added a chill to the night of this medieval town.

Unknowingly, as Woody advanced, the night was already getting darker. When the building directly in front of the field of vision completely disappeared and turned into vast darkness, Woody understood that the periphery had arrived.

Sengu also became extremely cautious when he arrived at this position. He led Woody and the team to cross the gaps in the buildings and alleys. Woody could vaguely see that the entrance to the north street of this town was the same as what he had seen before. They were completely blocked by carriages or piled up sundries, and the three-meter-high wall was built like a jigsaw puzzle. It was hard to see outside the high wall, only the lingering fog cruising in the gaps.

And unknowingly, the shouts of killing on both sides have disappeared, and occasionally only a few cold arrows are shot in the air, cutting through the pale and fluffy cold mist that comes every night in the Whispering Forest.

"Grimm! Here we come!"

Walking out of an alley in the gravel long street, Sengu, a mercenary of the Nudong Merchant Group, walked to the side door at the end of the long street with ease, knocked on the wooden door a few times and said in a low voice.

And Woody kept silent, he already knew on the way here that the place where he came to support was the most tense position of the war, the north of the town was also the first wall to be broken by the anthropoid apes, and the army of monsters engulfed it. There, most of the monsters that infested the town also used it as a diffusion point, spreading outward.

Now, the second line of defense is to rely on the buildings in the north of Green Creek Town as the bridgehead, and Grimm is the leader.

Not long after the knock on the door, the wooden door in front of him was opened. It was a red scarf ranger with the lower half of his face covered. He recognized Sengu and spoke directly.

"The boss is on the second floor. The group of monsters seemed to be moving again. He told me to come down and open the door!"

While explaining, he proficiently poked his head out to see if there was any movement in the alleys on both sides.

"Come in, it's not safe here now, there are goblins and goblin dogs from time to time, and a companion was dragged away just now."

Sengu stroked his chin beard and suddenly realized.

"No wonder, I said that there was a bit of dog smell in the air just now. It turns out that the goblin cubs also joined the battle."

"Sen Gu is old, this goblin is different from the ones we have seen before, it is not brown but green." The red scarf ranger emphasized and corrected his opinion, with lingering fear in his heart.

"And they hold items that are more powerful than mage spells in their hands. Several brothers were injured just now because of this."

"In battle, they are not afraid of death, not like the cowardly goblins before."

"It doesn't matter! Goblins don't just change their skin, even if they add a head, it's still a goblin!"

When Sengu said this, he didn't care about it, and didn't take the goblin to heart. The red scarf ranger wanted to say something, but found that he might not be able to persuade him, so he could only hold back his words.

On the contrary, Woody heard the information that the goblin's skin is green, and suddenly recalled in his mind the highlight moment of the last life, Asenlandt, which belonged to the goblin.

And that group of goblins called themselves "green skins".

The green skin is transformed from the day after tomorrow. The so-called skin changes are actually ordinary goblins painted with green camouflage. Among the green skins, the more green the proportion, the higher the status of the goblin.

Among the green-skinned goblins, there is a goblin leader named Kezan, who not only unified all the tribes of more than a thousand goblins in the south by virtue of wisdom, but also mastered a high-end technology that humans have not been able to master.

This technology was later named by players.

——"Goblin Technology"

And Kezan, who has mastered goblin technology, brought almost cross-age equipment in the way of goblin mercenaries, and was able to handle the dark side of the war between several kingdoms with ease. Even many cultists hired them to carry out some blasting activities. In the east of the Xingxuan Mountains in the South, it was famous for a while, and many players in the South were equipped with goblin technology equipment, rocket boots, diamond-cut refracting telescopes...

But later, the ambition of the local King Kezan was gradually exposed. After the genocide of trying to subvert the human regime and wipe out all humans on the territory, the legend of the prosperity of the goblin kingdom brought by goblin technology soon came. Under the mage's spell, the smoke disappeared, and the goblin's technology was still difficult to compete with the spell in the face of high-level power.

But in this timeline, the goblin kingdom of Kezan should still be involved in various disputes in the form of mercenaries.

However, the West Coast is also within the scope of their employment acceptance?
Woody has a headache. If this battle adds a group of variables like goblin mercenaries, the outcome will be hard to say. After all, the variants of goblins such as green leather goblins are different from his close relatives, ordinary goblins, and they are not in the wilderness. It is more appropriate to describe this group as crazy. Most of the green-skinned goblins transformed from ordinary goblins are paranoid and advocating violence after they are brainwashed. They essentially enjoy the pleasure of destruction, and Never cherish your own life, holding a bomb and dying with the enemy is a basic operation.

The number of ethnic groups is huge because of the enrichment of ordinary goblins, and although the strength is similar to that of kobolds, the basic creature level may only be 3/5 or even [-]/[-], and an ordinary farmer can deal with [-]-[-].

But with the blessing of goblin technology, a small group of green-skinned goblins plus a large group of goblins, the challenge level can even reach 4 or even 5, and the hill giant cannot reach this level.And if the team had enough backup resources, even an adventure team with an average occupation level of 10 might fall under their goblin bombs.

"How many of them are green? Are there any goblins with gold earrings."

Woody caught up with the red scarf ranger a few steps, and asked in a low voice.

After knowing that he was about to face a group of green-skinned goblins, Woody's combat thinking immediately changed, and the Thor ring in his hand began to rub unconsciously.

If it's really a green-skinned goblin, he doesn't have to worry about the explosion. At this point in the early stage, they haven't mastered the gas bombs in the later stage. They are just the most basic explosion.

"There are about seven or eight, and there seems to be one with a golden earring. What's the matter, have you seen them?" The red scarf ranger asked curiously when he saw Woody who came forward to ask.

"I seem to have a little impression, and I'm just asking." Woody explained, saying that he didn't know, but he was a little nervous in his heart.

Because of the number of seven or eight and the golden earrings, it is very likely that this is a goblin team with a commander level.

That also means that this goblin team may drop, among the goblin technologies he wanted most, toys that were quite useful until the previous life time travel.

——"Commander Tactical Goggles"

——"Item Effect: The special effect of "Measurement" is obtained, and the wearer's detection and night vision ability get a +3 bonus. When wearing it continuously, there may be short-term blindness, dizziness and other negative effects.

——"Item effects (measurement): You can understand the enemy's strength more clearly and present it in numerical values."

——"The detection of the target data in front is complete, the target combat power is 73-135, and the own combat power is 121-153, you can attack! &... The data fluctuations in the front are detected, the target combat power is 999-1111, it is recommended to escape quickly... ...recommended to flee quickly&...on the broken eyepiece, the shadow of an angry dragon is reflected."

……

Specifically measure the strength fluctuations of the two sides. This kind of technology is difficult to achieve with magic, and most importantly, having it in the adventure is equivalent to a map detector, which can clearly detect the strength and level of monsters ahead. It is very beneficial to his solo wilderness journey after arriving in Rosent, allowing him to avoid many detours and unnecessary troubles.

Therefore, even though this tactical eyepiece is still very likely to be an early version and cannot detect an excessively high level of strength, it is still worth his try tonight.

However, before Woody could think about his next move carefully, he had just walked to the building window on the second floor when a round iron ball suddenly flew in. When Woody saw it, he immediately stepped forward, at the speed of flying, With sharp eyes and quick feet, he kicked the iron ball back.

Before everyone could react, a wave of air came from outside and inside at the same time, directly causing everyone in the house to feel an earthquake-like shaking instantly, beams and earth and rocks rustled down, and the whole house looked precarious .

Obviously, the bomb just now was not just the one kicked by Woody, there were other bombs thrown at the same time.

"what's the situation?"

"Ah! What's the matter!"

"Damn, what happened?"

……

The earth trembled and the mountain shook, several people in the house and some guards on the second floor panicked and even cursed.

"Hurry up, go down first before talking, otherwise the house will collapse!"

The shaking has little effect on Woody. He has already experienced the battle with the abyssal ape demon just now, and now he has more thoughts in his mind.

Couldn't it be that group of goblins who made it!
And when he fled the house together with Sengu and others, when the special gunpowder smoke in the air and the outline of the small humanoid creature that left in the cold mist could be vaguely seen, the culprit of all the crimes was clear.

"Fuck! It's those green-skinned goblins! I'm going to kill them!"

A guard was furious and wanted to draw his sword and rush out. During the fluctuation just now, he was hit hard on the forehead by a tile, and the gray cloth wrapped in it was dyed blood red. The expression on his face was particularly ferocious at this time.

However, he was quickly stopped by another person, who blocked him with a strong arm.

"Calm down, Julian."

"If you catch up, I'm afraid the end will be the same as that of Kamance, being blown in half by something buried in the ground."

A middle-aged soldier who was also a bit embarrassed, but with four or five points of imagination like Sengu in his eyebrows and eyes, the only difference was that he didn't have the big beard, showing the unique cold and hard jaw of the northerners, and brushed his hair with the other hand Dust, earnestly persuaded.

"But... Boss, these goblins really are!"

"Boss, are you all right?"

"Grom!"

……

The appearance of the middle-aged soldier made the atmosphere loose, and the team that was panicked by the explosion suddenly seemed to have a backbone. Sengu even stepped forward to hug his brother.

"Oh, Sengu, His Royal Highness Cecil didn't ask you to support the inside, how is the task done?"

When Grim saw Sengu, he was not surprised to have received news from his companions earlier, but he was a little curious that Sengu's team had only left for a short time, and wasn't it to take care of His Royal Highness Cecil's safety?Why come back now!

After hearing this, Sengu could only answer honestly.

"It's over. We didn't even make a move. That abyssal creature was killed in advance."

"Oh? There are such powerful characters in the business group?"

Grimm was also shocked when he heard this. Originally, he was a little worried about Sengu's safety, but now it seems that his brother is just going through the motions.

"Of course, he's still here with us now, that's the young man in the tavern who gave us advice and stayed with His Royal Highness Cecil."

The eyes of all the people present couldn't help looking at Woody who was standing on the edge of the crowd. After all, there were not many people who could walk with His Royal Highness Cecil, let alone a passenger who got on the bus halfway, and knew that Woody was Cecil. There were not many people who specially arranged for the caravan, at least most of the guards didn't know Woody's identity, so the mystery immediately shrouded the black-haired young man.

At this moment, Woody is inquiring more information about the green skins from the previous red scarf ranger. Judging from the bomb just now, it seems that the deterrent effect is not so strong. After all, a bomb exploded a building at the peak of the previous life. The power is still too small.

But for the aborigines who have never seen it, the effect is so remarkable.

However, this is perfectly normal. Goblin technology, as a technology that has flourished in Ascension in recent years, is not known to many people. Therefore, after seeing that goblins can use magic and other abilities, most of the aborigines are shocked. It is difficult to judge the fear and fear from the heart with rational thinking.

Regarding this point, Woody himself has to admit that this is the limitation of the eyes of the times.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Woody could only nod helplessly.

"Actually, it's nothing. The weakness of the abyssal ape demon is obvious. If it is really difficult to deal with, I think it may not be as good as these guerrilla goblins."

Seeing Woody say this, Grimm sensed the information in the words, and combined with the previous communication with the Red Scarf Ranger, he stepped forward and asked solemnly.

"Your Excellency seems to have a different opinion on this unique goblin. Have you heard of them?"

Woody nodded.

"Green-skinned goblins are active in the south. I have seen them in books. They are very smart and will use many strange things that humans cannot create to help them win the battle."

"The commotion in the house just now was the bomb it created."

"So do you have any good plans?"

Sensing the eyes of the people present, as well as Grimm and Sengu who were close to him, Woody's face remained unchanged, and he smiled slightly.

"I have a little idea, but I still need your cooperation."

(End of this chapter)