Chapter 118 : The Final Goal! The Underground Kingdom!
Chapter 118: The Final Goal! The Underground Kingdom!
The Beastkin’s powerful instincts told it that these two people were extremely dangerous.
Moreover, the two of them made no sound at all while walking, like ghosts.
It did not know whether they had already gone far away.
It quietly tilted its head and discovered that the two did not seem to be paying attention to it anymore.
Instead, they walked straight toward the largest cell.
“Eh~”
A soft exclamation from a young girl rang out, startling the Gnoll so much that it hurriedly withdrew its gaze and obediently crouched facing the wall.
“This sword mark… seems somewhat similar to your swordsmanship, my lord.” The tall man spoke, seemingly having noticed something.
“Mm.” The short girl extended her hand and gently pushed the iron bars in front of her. The thick, sturdy bars bent like dough.
Then she stepped forward and directly entered the cell. “It should be her. Hehe, looks like while I wasn’t around, she pushed forward something I casually figured out. Not bad, not bad.”
The girl clapped her hands, then turned around and patted the Centaur trembling in the corner of the cell. “Big guy, I’m leaving. Be good—listen to that uncle, alright?”
The Centaur swallowed nervously. At this moment, none of its usual savage and violent demeanor remained—it didn’t even dare to move.
It simply watched as the girl walked out through the iron bars, then casually straightened them back into place.
To her, those incredibly sturdy iron bars felt like a child’s toy.
Afterward, it watched as the tall and short figures chatted while leaving the dungeon.
For the next half hour, the dungeon remained deathly silent.
Only after more than ten minutes did Green slowly sit up, rubbing the back of his head, and the sounds of the Beastkin gradually returned.
……
Meanwhile, as the sun set, Leo finished packing up his fifth prey of the day.
“Hunting really is great.”
Leo glanced at the bulging leather pouches hanging from his mount.
Today’s harvest was quite abundant—one Headhunter, one Minotaur,
and three Centaurs.
Hunting seemed far less difficult than he had imagined.
It could even be said—it was too easy.
At first, he had been somewhat nervous, but as time went on, Leo completely let loose.
“It feels no different from slaughtering those Beastkin in the dungeon. It’s like these Beastkin are all lining up to die at my hands.”
Leo felt that these low-level Beastkin seemed incapable of judging the strength of their opponents.
The moment they saw a Human, they would rush forward, intent on killing him.
Based on Leo’s current assessment of his own strength,
Beastkin below Level 3 had almost no ability to resist him.
Level 3 Beastkin were equivalent to the Low-tier Knight Realm, or rather, the weakest level of Low-tier Knight.
In terms of comparison with actual people,
they were roughly at the level of the Fifth Knight of Blackstone City, Clarsen.
With Leo’s max-level dual swordsmanship and additional attribute bonuses, his strength had increased tremendously.
Moreover, he understood the weaknesses of these Beastkin.
Thus, in actual combat, his performance far surpassed these Level 3 Beastkin.
“I wonder what it would be like to face a Level 4 Beastkin.”
Leo pondered. Up until now, he had not encountered any Level 4 Beastkin.
During the Beast Calamity, both the Centaur Chieftain and the Underground Lord had been Level 4.
But Leo had not directly fought them.
He wondered just how strong that Underground Lord who released poison gas really was.
He glanced at his panel.
After a full day, his greatest gain had been experience in the 【Tracking】 skill.
【Tracking (White) Level 2 77/100 (Agility +0.2, able to mark prey positions, number of marks: 2)】
After just one day, the skill was already nearing Level 3.
Then there was the Hunting skill.
【Hunting (White) Level 5 11/100 (Perceive prey weaknesses, obtain information on hunted species) (Special Effect: Hunting Moment Level 4)】
After killing five prey, Leo’s Hunting skill had successfully advanced to Level 5.
At the same time, Hunting Moment had also risen to Level 4.
Level 4 Hunting Moment granted Leo an additional enhancement—taste amplification.
Now, Leo felt that he could detect extremely subtle differences in flavor with his tongue.
He could even test his food before eating to prevent being poisoned…
At present, by suppressing other senses, Leo could enhance his vision, hearing, smell, and taste.
With four senses unlocked, logically, the next should be the fifth human sense.
“Touch.”
Leo speculated. If he continued grinding this skill to max level,
he should unlock Level 5 Hunting Moment and find out then.
Moreover, after this skill upgrade, the Berserk State indirectly activated through Hunting Moment had also extended to about one minute.
This was another indirect enhancement to his combat strength.
If his Spirit Attribute continued to increase,
would the duration of this Berserk State continue to grow until it became his normal state?
In addition, after several rounds of archery, Leo’s Basic Archery had also gained some experience.
This skill did not concern him at all.
He could grind it anytime—just by continuously aiming, drawing the bow, and releasing arrows.
As long as his Agility Attribute increased, Leo could always use archery to push his Strength Attribute into its optimal combat state.
Just as he was thinking, a message suddenly appeared in Leo’s mind.
With a thought, he immediately entered Fulei’s aerial perspective.
After scanning the surroundings, Leo focused on a direction. “It should be nearby.”
Through the mark in his mind, Leo could sense that the Goblin was somewhere close.
Fulei’s sharp eyes searched the area.
Soon, he spotted a small hole a few hundred meters away.
The entrance was well hidden, carefully disguised with dirt and withered wood.
However, Leo’s Environmental Awareness trait came into play.
He saw through the somewhat overly deliberate concealment almost at a glance.
Leo found a large tree nearby and had the Dragon-Elephant wait beside it.
Its massive size made it too easy to expose.
Meanwhile, Leo quickened his pace and swiftly approached the hole.
His eyes constantly scanned the surroundings, while Fulei circled overhead, monitoring everything below.
With full situational awareness, Leo reached within a hundred meters.
At that point, he sniffed—he could already smell the Goblin’s scent, a mixture of underground sulfur and decay.
He quickly advanced to the entrance, only to realize that this was merely the nearest of many holes.
Further ahead, every few dozen meters, there was another entrance.
Densely packed holes, each about the size of a washbasin.
The scale of the area was so vast that Leo felt it might even exceed the size of Blackstone Castle.
Leo slowly crouched down, clearly smelling the Goblin scent.
He activated “Hunting Moment” and listened carefully—there was no sound from within.
At that moment, Leo placed one hand on his sword hilt while the other dug into the soil.
Soon, he cleared away the dirt at the entrance.
Leo crawled inside.
The passage was a little over half a person’s height, extremely cramped—he had to hunch over.
But as he went deeper, the space gradually widened.
Leo slowly straightened his body.
It was a narrow passage dozens of meters deep. As he moved forward, the light from the entrance behind him gradually faded.
Relying on his sense of smell and hearing, Leo determined that there were no creatures in the tunnel.
After walking for a while longer, he saw a faint light.
It came from a large earthen pot, with dim embers still glowing beneath it, as if it had been burning for a long time.
Leo held his breath—the smell from the pot was terrible.
Looking inside, he saw remnants of various things. He smelled sulfur, tree roots, and even some kind of meat—perhaps dead rats or something similar.
This was likely Goblin food. This place seemed to be their dwelling.
Leo continued deeper.
Suddenly, everything opened up.
At the end of the narrow tunnel was a massive underground palace.
It was a gigantic spherical chamber, as large as Blackstone Castle.
The walls of the chamber were filled with numerous tunnel entrances—Leo’s current position was just one of them.
At the bottom lay a vast plaza, dotted with flickering lights.
Those lights came from large earthen pots, and around them swarmed countless busy figures.
Goblins!