Dungeon & Goblin (2), The goblin village.
When the newly arrived group of goblins saw Long Shin they cried loudly.
"kukukukukyakuku".
"kukukyakuku".
"kukyakuku".
"Kill them" Long Shin ordered the dark soldiers with an expressionless face.
The dark soldiers who were quietly kneeling in front of him stood up and dashed towards their enemies.
They showed no care about the fact that the one who they were attacking used to be their companions, in the first place to the primitive races like goblins kinship was already close to non-existent their will always be disputes among them only because they have a leader ruling over them they stay united.
The goblins who were glaring at Long Shin didn't expect that their own kind to attack them getting catch off guard five of them were easily killed by dark soldiers.
Seeing their companions getting killed woke them up from their stupor.
"kyaaaaaa".
"kukukyaaa".
The remaining fifteen goblins started to engage in a battle against the dark soldiers.
"Swish, swoosh". One of the goblin used his rusty sword to stab in the chest of the dark soldier.
"kekekeke".
Seeing his enemy's chest getting pierced the goblin began sneering.
"Stab" his happiness was short lived as he felt his own belly getting pierced looking down he saw a dark sword which was stabbed in his belly.
The dark soldier used his free hand to take out the rusty sword out of his chest.
"Thug". The rusty sword fell on the ground instead of a bloody wound only endless darkness like a bottomless abyss could be seen in the form of a cave it was as if the small wound on the creatures face leaded the way to the endless abyss.
The wound was repaired in the next second as if it was never their Long Shin felt that he was drained of his mana when the wound was healing but the amount was almost negligible for him who had immense mana reserves.
Similar battles were occurring between the group of goblins and the dark soldiers.
When the goblins thought that their enemy have been death with they retuned and attacked even more ferociously even when one of the dark soldier's head was sent flying it quickly regenerated in no time.
Long Shin didn't move as he wanted to see the performance of the dark soldiers.
Long Shin found that mana needed for even full body recovery wasn't that much and he could easily maintain such consumption.
'This skill is truly heavens defying' he exclaimed internally.
The battle was quickly concluded vitality left the bodies of the twenty goblins leaving behind twenty cold corpses the dark soldiers once again came in front of him and maintained a kneeling posture.
"[Dark summoning]".
He raised his right hand soon twenty new dark soldiers joint the ranks of dark army.
"Let's find more prey to hunt but first" Long Shin looked at the corpses of the dead goblins with shinning eyes.
"[Devour]".
He used devour on the remaining corpses of the goblins and transformed them into mana, he waited for the refreshing feeling of his rank advancements but even after waiting for one minute it didn't come.
'Looks like leveling up won't be that easy in the coming future'.
He lamented if the others heard him they would surely couch blood many were still stagnant on the Black-Iron and took years to advance a single minor rank while this guy who advanced two minor ranks in but two days after becoming a magister was feeling down because he thought that his speed of advancing was slow?.
If it was so easy to increase the rank from this little corpses then it would even surpass the scope of a broken ability.
"Take me to Your village" he ordered the newly joint goblins.
Both him and the dark army walked towards the goblin village in the road he found some goblins as well because of that the number of goblins grew from twenty five to thirty eight it was worth noticing that even after he devoured eight more goblins his rank didn't increase.
Thought he could cross ranks to fight if he didn't have the ability to devour it would take at least several months to promote a minor rank as mana was too little on earth.
The Goblin village consisted of a hundred and fifty goblins of which he had already took thirty eight as his own dark soldiers.
The remaining number of goblins were either fighting each other or eating the prey they caught.
'One Hundred and Twelve, if I take out the once at the remote corners by sneak attack it shouldn't be hard to deal with'.
The number of goblins was more then two times of the current dark army he was not an Idiot who would go in front of them and have a fair battle even considering the regenerating ability of dark soldiers he wasn't sure of deafening this number and even if he was there was no guarantee of there being no abnormality in the goblin village.
Long Shin put all of the dark soldiers back in his dark storage and moved alone assassinating would be more easy if he went on his own.
Instead of going through the front gate of the village he chose to go from the eastern corner.
The front gate had five goblins scouts they would alert the entire village as soon as they see him, the east side of the village on the other hand was covered with dense trees and the security was also the most minimal there.
"[Wind Steps]"
Long Shin used wind steps and directly landed on one of the branches of a long tree which was covered with dense leaves.
While he patiently waited for one of the goblins to come.
"kukuku" in about five minutes one of the goblin scout came to check the area.
"Da, da, da" he was roughly checking around for any possible intruders when the goblin came right below the tree where Long Shin was hiding.
"Swoosh" with a sound of air being torn apart Long Shin jumped down from the tree.
"Stab" he took out the magic sword and directly penetrated the goblin's chest.
"Umm" the goblin tried to screen but he tightly closed the creatures mouth with his other hand in about a few moments the goblin scout stopped his actions his eyes closed.
"[Devour]".
He used devour on the corpse and once again jumped up on the tree to wait for the next target to arrive.
…
"Umm" a goblin's painful murmur could be heard before the creature died.
"I have already killed quit a few in this area now it's time to change the hunting spot".
Using such simple strategy he killed almost five to six goblins one after another.
The goblins in the village have also sensed the abnormalities happening in the east of the village a scout team consisting of a few goblins will soon be dispatched.
He could ambush them with his dark soldiers but if he did the village will be alerted so he chose to change the hunting spot instead.
…
In a few hours he respected the process in all for directions killing seventeen goblins making there number shrunk from one hundred and twelve to ninety five while the dead goblins joined his own dark army making their number grow to fifty five from the previous thirty eight.
"Kukukuku" a team of twenty goblins came to where Long Shin was assassinating the goblins.
The goblin village had also known that an intruder was killing their companions and dispatched group of ten goblins in all four directions.
It caused the already shrunk goblins in the village to shrunk even more.
'I guess I can't quietly assassinate them anymore then this' Long Shin thought silently while he watched the goblins coming towards him.
'Well, there numbers have already went down by a considerable amount I guess' soon the group of ten goblins came near the tree he was sitting on.
'Come out' with his order fifty five goblins came out from the shadow of the tree and ambushed the ten incoming goblins.
"Kukuku" the goblins didn't expect such a large amount of ambushers and we're can't unprepared.
The dark army attacked them in team each goblin was facing at least five dark soldiers and the battle quietly began.
"kukukyaa".
"kyakukyaaa".
"kyakyakyaaa".
The dark soldiers mercilessly slaughtered them some had lost their limbs, some had weapons stabbed on various parts of their bodies while the more luckier once directly got their heads sent flying saving them from the come torcher.
"Thug" with a sound the last of the goblins fell down.
"[Dark Summoning]"
»Ding! The spirit of the dead has answered your calling«
»Ding! The spirit of the dead has answered your calling«
»Ding! The spirit of the dead has answered your calling«
….
From the bodies of the goblins darkness rose and ten more soldiers joint the ranks of the dark army.
"Kyaaaaaa" suddenly the screech of a goblin came from a nearby place.
'Huh, so they found me' a goblin scout had come near their battle field probably from the noise caused by the previous fight.
It screeched loudly the goblin team which were nearby came to the area.
Many of them gathered from the four teams one was slaughtered by him while three remained the team of the goblin who screeched and the nearby team of the goblins came quickly to face the enemy.
"Kyaakyaaa".
"kukukuku".
"kykukyakyakuku".
The goblins released their aura of Black-Iron rank registers and pounced on the dark army.
Soon both of the sides began exchanging moves in mere few moments they exchanged dozens of moves were both injured to a certain degree.
The movement speed and reaction speed of the goblins might seem slow but that was only in the case of an abnormality like Long Shin the dark army's overall performance was not much different from normal goblins.
The only difference was that they could easily recover from even the most sever injuries in the next moment and fight they didn't have any fear towards death in their eyes their lord who could bring them from the abyss was the ruler of death.
"swoosh, swoosh" both of them fought ferociously one of the dark soldier slashed apart the four limbs of one of the goblin while others directly slashed at the various parts of their bodies some slashed their stomach dividing them in to two while their internal organs and blood gushed out some slashed off their heads white and red matter scattered around.
In just five minutes the goblins were dealt with no one was left alive.
"[Dark Summoning]".
An emotionless voice was heard the tone itself seems to contain no emotions and view death as nothing but a play.
»Ding! The spirit of the dead has answered your calling«
»Ding! The spirit of the dead has answered your calling«
»Ding! The spirit of the dead has answered your calling«
….
When the voiced reached the dead goblin corpses their shadows began to rose and took their new role.
"The number of Dark Soldiers have reached eighty five and the last scouting party seems to have gone back to the village, it's time to destroy the goblin village" said Long Shin.
"Forward" with his order the army of eighty five dark soldiers who were formerly goblins began to March towards the goblin village.
The original population of goblins which was one hundred and fifty was now no more then sixty five while the dark soldiers number grew to a whooping eighty five even if their was any abnormality in the village then it could be easily dealt with by such a large army.
…
Soon the dark army came in front of the goblin village.
In front of the village many low rank goblins such as scouts warriors were used as canon fodders behind them Hobgoblin warriors made a defense line they were all equipped with rusty shields behind them stood goblin mages all of them held a magic stick but it could be clearly seen that the magic sticks were of low quality and furthermore many of them had cracks could only be used for casting some low level spells and skills such as fireball.
Behind the goblin mages stood goblin archer's only they held some descent looking now and couple of arrows in their hands the ruler of the goblin village the goblin champion stood behind all of them like a Lord.
He was a huge green goblin at least roughly 2.5 meters tall he was a giant with bulky build two large fangs grow upward on his mouth the skin color was green like any normal goblin he wore leather hands with metal spikes instead of armor he only wore two shoulder pads large metal spikes were growing from them he carried a huge club which was at least half of his own size spikes could be seen on the end Long Shin had no doubt that none of the dark soldiers could take his strike head on and remain unharmed .
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He was shielded in the back of all these goblins looking at the dark army with daunting gaze his eyes were bloodshot filled with hatred.
If this tactic was used against someone else then the result would be disasters for the opponent of these goblins but unfortunately it was being used against Long Shin who could revive the dead and make them joint his own army while his own dark soldiers were immortal as long as he provided them mana from his monstrous mana reserves this village was doomed to fail from the moment they chose to use this tactic against him.
"Rooooooaaaaaaar" instead of a screech the goblin champion roared at him with utter hatred.
As if the roar of the goblin champion was the signal to start the war, entire goblin army dashed towards Long Shin and the Dark Army.
If some one saw the Dark Army from the sky they could only see a large dark shadow casted upon the ground inside the shadow countless glowing red eyes stared at the incoming army of goblins.
"Charge" Long Shin only said a single word but this seemingly simple word signified the start of a massacre.