Chapter 35 : Deep in Enemy Lines
Chapter 35: Deep in Enemy Lines! Experience Like Cabbage!
Through the Goblin he had just killed, Leo had already obtained detailed information about this race on his panel.
Looking at the long list under weaknesses, Leo felt slightly relieved.
Recalling how he had casually smashed a Goblin to death with a single strike, it showed that this race was not particularly powerful.
It was only the unknown that had caused his fear.
Leo counted, “A total of five weaknesses.”
With so many weaknesses, his confidence immediately increased.
The fear in his heart dissipated by more than half.
【Special Value: None】
The word “None” was written behind this entry, though he did not know what it meant.
Just as Leo was thinking, the brief calm was suddenly shattered.
A series of rapid knocking sounds came from outside, like hard stones striking the ground.
As the knocking drew closer,
the people in the Training Room tensed up again.
“What do we do?”
“I don’t know… we can’t just sit here and wait to die.”
“Why don’t we move together toward the knight hall?”
Leo sensed that the panic was spreading again due to the knocking sounds outside.
And the pounding seemed to be getting louder.
“Quick, block the door!” Arthur was relatively calm. The only solution he could think of was to barricade the only entrance with heavy objects.
Several squires immediately followed him to move weapon racks.
Meanwhile, Leo tilted his head up, his eyes scanning the ceiling.
“Not good! Get out of here!” Leo suddenly frowned.
“What did you say?!”
“You were the one who told us to retreat here, and now you’re telling us to leave!”
“This is the only place we can hide!”
The squires, already like ants on a hot pan, were thrown into complete chaos by Leo’s words.
“Leo… but at least these stone walls can protect us,” even Arthur did not understand why Leo would say this.
“Look there.” Leo pointed to a corner of the ceiling, then moved directly toward the door.
“Get out!” Following Leo’s reminder, Arthur noticed a faint crack in the ceiling corner. “They’re on the roof!”
The Goblins were indeed on the roof.
The pounding outside was just a diversion—their real goal was to break through from above.
Once the roof was breached, they would have the high ground, and everyone inside would become trapped prey.
Leo realized that these Goblins were not the mindless low-level creatures he had imagined, but a group with strong organization and execution.
Leo lifted a weapon rack weighing over a hundred pounds and threw it aside.
At this moment, a large hole had already been broken through the ceiling on the other side.
A beam of light shone down through the opening, and a triangular head hung upside down, peering inside.
“Damn it! Run!” Everyone rushed toward the door.
The Goblins on the roof let out strange cries.
Then a stone the size of a head smashed down.
With a crash, it shattered upon hitting the stone floor.
This impact sounded like the signal for their attack. Soon, cracks began appearing on the other side of the ceiling as well.
More stones rained down toward the crowd.
“Damn it! These beasts are trying to crush us to death!”
At that moment, Leo realized something else was wrong.
A force was blocking the door from outside.
“Damn it, it won’t open!” Several squires around Leo slammed against the door.
“Move aside!” Leo shouted, spreading his arms to push aside the panicked crowd.
The next moment, he sank his stance, cracking the floor tiles beneath his feet as he gathered all his strength into one point.
Power of Dark Tide!
Leo flexibly applied the force technique of the Tide Cross Sword.
With a thunderous boom—
Leo charged like a rhinoceros, slamming his shoulder into the iron door.
Bang!
A ring of dust burst from the doorframe.
Then a second impact.
The doorframe and surrounding bricks shattered.
Fragments of stone clattered to the ground.
The heavy iron door was blasted open, sending more than a dozen Goblins behind it flying over ten meters.
Leo’s overwhelming strength shocked all the squires.
It was as if the figure before them was not a human, but a rhinoceros from the wild plains.
The Goblins on the roof continued throwing stones, but dozens of Knight’s Squires poured out through the doorway.
However, they discovered that the small courtyard was already densely packed with Goblins.
These green, dwarf-like monsters stared with pale gray eyes, baring their teeth, their sickle-like claws scraping with a low, grating sound.
“Damn it…” Seeing this massive group of monsters, the squires were stunned.
Hearing about them in rumors was one thing.
Seeing them in reality was another.
Before the squires could react, the Goblins had already launched their attack.
Like wolves spotting a flock of sheep,
they lunged forward, clawing with both hands and feet.
Faced with the Goblins, the Knight’s Squires quickly fell into chaos.
Though they had trained in swordsmanship for some time, some even beginning the Breathing Technique,
when real Beastkin appeared, fear instantly overtook their minds.
Their already weak combat ability could not be brought into play at all.
These teenage noble boys—some wildly swung their Iron Swords, others retreated backward, and a few were so frightened they collapsed onto the ground.
Yet among the crowd, one figure charged straight into the Goblin horde.
A heavy Iron Sword swung again and again, smashing toward the Goblins’ necks.
Amid the continuous impacts, Goblin corpses were sent flying into the air.
“Experience… all experience like cabbage.”
Leo had been slightly flustered at first.
But once he started fighting, he realized these Goblins were actually very weak.
Their skin and bones were tougher than ordinary humans,
but their weaknesses were extremely obvious.
Their cervical spine.
After discovering this, these Goblins became nothing more than experience fodder before him.
At this moment, many squires in the back noticed Leo deep within the Goblin swarm.
“That’s… Leo Laide!”
“My god!”
They were completely stunned.
“Is… is he smiling?”
Leo was indeed smiling. At this moment, he glanced at his panel—the Hunting experience bar was skyrocketing.
In just a few minutes, the Hunting experience had increased by more than 20 points.
【Hunting (White) Level 1 22/100】
At the same time, the experience for the Tide Cross Sword was also surging.
【Tide Cross Sword (Blue) Stage One 77/100】