Lu An and his team standing in front of the cave. The cave was enormous, nine meters tall and around twelve meters wide. From inside the cave, he could feel a cold wind blow his face. His vision was limited up to fifteen meters ahead.
The young Lu An scanned the mouth cave, and he found footprints on the ground. Each of the footprints was small in size, at least much smaller than the one to human's.
"It seems we teleported right in front of the goblin cave!" Lu An opened his mouth while turning back to his team.
"How do you know, Captain?" A man in his late thirties approached and asked Lu An. Hu Feng was curious as to how this young man could tell the cave was the goblin cave.
Lu An pointed at the footprints on the ground, "These are the goblin's footprints!" Hu Feng followed the finger to see the messy footprints on the ground. Lu An came closer to the man and whispered, "Just call me by name, Uncle Feng," His cheeks turned red as he said those words.
Lu An was embarrassed to be called Captain by someone much older than him. On top of that, he was not used to being called like that. It was cringe for him.
"I can't! If Boss knows, I will be scolded for sure," Hu Feng shook his head with a smile before he whispered something to the young man, "Moreover, you have to get used to this," he tapped Lu An's shoulder to encourage the young man.
Lu An nodded helplessly as he did not insist on Hu Feng to drop the formality between them. He looked at his team and shouted, "Get ready! We will be entering the cave shortly!"
"C-captain Lu An!" A young guy that was about the same age as Lu An raised his hand, "Yes! What is it?" The Captain asked the young guy back.
"Shouldn't we look for The Shaman instead?" The young guy, Li Ru asked Lu An. He was trying to remind Lu An to look for The Shaman instead of clearing the goblin cave.
The reason was that Li Ru did not want to enter the creepy cave. Inside was so dark and cold with the monsters inside, it made him not want to enter the cave. It seemed everyone else had the same fear toward the cave as they looked at Lu An hopefully.
"We should look for The Shaman," Lu An nodded his head in agreement. Li Ru and the other slaves were relieved until the next words came from Lu An's mouth, "What do you think Boss would ask for if he is here? He would order us to clear the side objective too, so we are going to clear this goblin cave before we look for The Shaman!"
Hu Feng completely agreed with the young guy. If Tang Shaoyang was here, he without a doubt would lead them inside to kill the monsters inside. Even though the cave was not the objective, if there were monsters for them to kill, their Boss would send them over.
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"Huff… Huff… Huff…" Kang Xue breathed heavily. It had been ten minutes but she failed even to kill one of the remaining three Rabbidogs.
"It seems the first one was a lucky shot," Tang Shaoyang handled the remaining three Rabbidogs. He cut their feet and placed them in front of Kang Xue, "You kill them!" She failed to kill the Rabbidogs not because she was too afraid or anything else, it was because of the level gap between her and the beast.
"I am sorry…" Kang Xue muttered in a low voice. She did not ask him to be spoiled like this, but she was too helpless.
"Don't be sorry to him! It was his fault for asking to fight against Stage-2 Beast with your current level," Zhang Mengyao consoled while approaching her, "It's okay, don't get burdened, he also did the same thing for me when I was low-level like you," she whispered to Kang Xue.
"Mnnn," Kang Xue nodded her head. With Zhang Mengyao's words, she felt a lot better. She walked toward the limbless Rabbidog, just as she was about to kill Rabbidog she heard Tang Shaoyang's instruction, "Target the head, don't ruin the fur on the body,"
Even though she did not know why he instructed her so, she still nodded. In the first place, she was going to target the head.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
The girl killed the suffering Rabbidogs with her scythe. After that, Tang Shaoyang collected the carcasses and stored them in his inventory. Thanks to the stack system, the Rabbidog's corpses stacked into one space up to twenty-one.
"I gained one level!" Kang Xue exclaimed happily when the notification rang in her head. With the blood sprayed around her cheek, her happy expression looked daunting.
"Good! Distribute the attribute points so you can get a little stronger," he smirked at the girl.
"Why did you collect their bodies?" Zhang Mengyao asked out of curiosity. "Their horn is hard, maybe it had some uses later, and…" He paused midway.
"And?" Zhang Mengyao asked the man to continue, "I touched the fur, it was so soft. We can skin the fur and patch it to be carpet so we can cuddle together on the floor…" he whispered to the girl's ear.
As it was in front of her team member, her cheeks flushed red from embarrassment. She was aware that they could not hear him but it was still embarrassing.
Since the battle was over, it was time to explore the unknown land, "Should we focus on The Shaman or…" Zhang Mengyao was about to ask the side objective but Tang Shaoyang gave his order before she could finish her question, "There are no priorities, we will finish all objectives! There should be a bonus reward from finishing the side objective,"
"Now we will split to scout the surroundings. After fifteen minutes we should go back to this spot!" He pointed to the ground below.
Thirty minutes later…
Tang Shaoyang stood in front of a big cave on a hill. Zhang Mengyao found the cave while they split to scout the surroundings.
"Is this a goblin cave?" Fu Dandan entered the cave without any fear. She looked at the uneven cave wall and around, nothing unusual about the cave. No sign told them this was a goblin cave too.
"We will know once we enter the cave!" Tang Shaoyang entered the cave with the battle-ax in his right hand. Fortunately, the cave was big enough so he could use the battle-ax without a problem.
The others followed him, no one questioned him as the girls were more courageous than the men. Kang Xue was the only one who got nervous since the cave was dark. There was no source of light when she looked from outside.
"Be careful, the goblin should be the same creature we met in the hospital!" Tang Shaoyang warned the girls. The goblin he encountered in the hospital was Dark Goblin, he remembered this.
Kang Xue swallowed a mouthful of saliva. If Dark Goblin was inside then this cave was extremely dangerous. With the warning, she brought herself closer to Tang Shaoyang.
When they were twenty meters inside, they could see the light inside. The light's source was from the cave wall, "That should be a torch," Tang Shaoyang muttered in a low voice.
"This is good news, even the monsters inside are goblins, they are not the Death Scythe," he concluded after seeing the torch on the wall.
"Why so?" Li Na asked in a small voice, she was curious why he concluded easily by seeing torches.
"Death Scythe does not need light! They should be happy staying in the darkness, why bother to use torches? Unless this is not a goblin but other monsters," he replied calmly.
As they got deeper, they found more torches on the wall. Tang Shaoyang was getting more convinced that if it was a goblin nest, they should not be Death Scythe.
After five minutes of walking, the cave forked into two different paths with a big torch in the middle. One toward the left while the other one to the right.
Tang Shaoyang was about to check both ways until he heard footsteps. It was irregular footsteps that sounded so clear to the ears. Even without his words, Zhang Mengyao and the others subconsciously halted their steps.
He walked slowly to the wall and peeked at the voice, the voice came from the left path. On the left path, he saw a group of goblins. As for why he could tell them were a goblin because they had the same appearance as the Dark Goblin.
However, this one had green skin and they brought random tools as their weapon. The five goblins were armed differently, one with a hoe, one with a pickaxe, one with a wood ax, one with a rusted sword, and one with a spear with stone as the spearhead.
This group of goblins was heading toward his direction, about fifteen meters away from the fork.
[Basic Detection]
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[Monster - Goblin]
Affiliation: -
Evolution: Stage 1
Level: 21
Skill: -
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"Huh!?" A gasp of surprise came from Tang Shaoyang's mouth as confusion filled his face. Then he activated [Basic Detection] skill to the other goblins. Then he found out that the goblin was truly weak, much weaker compared to the Dark Goblin.
Stage-1 Evolution, level 21, with a strip on the skill which meant the goblin did not have a skill.
"So the normal goblin is weak…" He muttered in a low voice as he turned toward Kang Xue. He smiled at her, a smile that made the girl uncomfortable, "I have found the right opponent for you!"