The Labyrinth Kingdom

Chaptre 03. Meeting 1

It was a dark night in the middle of the forest

The sound of small footsteps running through the bushes could be clearly heard within the silent forest.

The moonlight cannot penetrate the lush trees, the forest becomes very dark, which makes one's view becomes limited.

'Prescription... Crackling... '

The sound of bushes rubbing against the darkness of the forest rang out, from within which a group of two-legged creatures jumped out in a hurry.

Right now, a group of goblins numbering around 20's were seen frantically running away from something.

They are the remains of the goblin tribe that previously lived around the place.

Initially they numbered more than 300'an people. But now, only they were left and were frantically running away to survive.

Goblin Chief Raluk, cursed repeatedly while continuing to run.

"Damn it! How can this happen… "

A few hours ago, their village had been attacked by an army of humans.The attackers named their hunting operations as either poaching or monster hunting.

Hunting operations like this are often carried out by humans, especially people who call themselves adventurers.

They were the main cause of the destruction of goblin villages scattered within the forest.

Previously, Raluk village had also been attacked several times by them, but managed to survive.

Raluk initially thought that the adventurer group had given up on attacking their village after failing several times.

Because those people had already never been seen again after their last fight two months ago.

But his prediction turned out to be wrong.

As night fell, the group of adventurers once again appeared in the village, but this time they were accompanied by a group of heavily armed troops who suddenly came to besiege and attack the village.

The group of soldiers carried out a powerful and deadly surprise attack.they did not even have the time to strike back.

In an instant, the village was destroyed and most of the goblins died.

There were some goblins who managed to escape, but they were being chased by adventurers.

Just like Raluk and his group had experienced at this time.

“At least bring more women! Even if it's just one! ” Raluk's orders.

Among the goblins that managed to escape, only five were able to fight in the group, including himself.

He did not know how far the adventurers would chase after them, but he felt extremely uneasy at the moment.

He had to make all sorts of efforts to make sure the women survived.

In this world goblins were considered as a lowly race that were treated badly no matter where they were.

They were often used as hunting targets by adventurers to get paid from Guilds.

Goblins have small body shapes with ugly faces, they have low intelligence, their males and females are both green skinned.

They live their primitive lives in rather large groups in forests or mountains or other remote areas far from humans.

They have cowardly character and high inferiority nature, but they can be tough on enemies weaker than them.

If one talks about their most prominent features, then the answer is their high reproductive ability.

Goblins are humanoid creatures that have the highest reproductive rate compared to other humanoid creatures in this world.

As long as they had both men and women, it would only take half a year to recover their group's population numbers.

Moreover, Goblins were also a unique race.although they were weak, They were the race that had the most amount of racial skills in this world.

At least they had five skills, such as: [Voracious], [Overwhelming Fertility], [Fast Growth], [Quick Birth] and [Strong Fetus].

It was thanks to these skills that they were able to quickly increase in number. But as a payment, their lifespan was shortened to 10 years.

It's the world's way of keeping their numbers in check.

In addition to their shortened lifespan, goblins also have a lot of bad zeros, such as: coward, coward, inferiority, irritable, miserly, eccentric, slow thinker and many others.

Because of these traits, the goblin race never evolved and remained a weak race.

Although goblins only have a short lifespan, it is actually very rare to see a goblin that has died from having reached the end of their life span.

Most of them died while hunting for food in the wild or were killed in monster hunting operations that had been popularized by the Aria Kingdom for a long time.

Just like what happened in Raluk village today.

To compensate for their weak combat power, normally the goblins would ask for protection from the stronger races. For example, such as: Ogre or Troll.

In return the goblins would offer some of the food they managed to get or even fly other goblins as a protection fee from them.

Most goblin villages do this, Raluk village is also one of them.

There were at least 10 Ogres living in his village, seeing these Ogres-Ogres marching to protect the village was quite a satisfying spectacle.

In fact, the Raluk village protected by 10 Ogres belonged to a powerful village, as the combat power possessed by one Ogres was equivalent to 5 to 6 human soldiers.

Thanks to these Ogres-Ogres as well, his village managed to repel the attacks launched by the previous adventurers.

However, this time the attack was different.

Dozens of human adventurers suddenly came and fought with the Ogres, Knights and Magicians took advantage of this opportunity to attack the weakened goblin village and the armored army blocked the escape route to kill the goblins who had escaped the siege.

Their attack this time was well planned from the start, it was impossible for the goblins to win.

Although they already had a lot of combat experience against humans called adventurers.

But this time was different, the bastard who came to attack them this time was a soldier from a nearby town.

They were a group of well-trained troops, impossible for a goblin whose mediocre combat power could win against them.

“Ralluk! A fire! The enemy is coming !! ”

Hearing the cry of one of his goblins, Raluk regained his senses from his daydream.

the adventurers were of course still chasing them.

'Can we hold back their pursuit here?' raluk

The number of torches is not much.

However, it still exceeded their own numbers.

If a fight were to occur, then they would definitely die.

But they couldn't keep running away like this either.

The women did not have strong physical strength, Then there were also children, although only a few.

If they managed to hold the pursuers here, the women and children would have a higher chance of living.

But, once they were all annihilated, the pursuers would definitely chase after the rest and would eventually kill the fleeing women and children.

“I have no better idea than stalling for as long as possible”

He saw his gun.

The sword that he had used for a long time, was smeared with blood from the enemies he had fought before.

His armour was already in tatters, only now did he realize that his breastplate had been removed.

He looked at the other goblins, but they were also in the same situation as him.

"take the rest per…"

'Bruk...! '

Just as Raluk was about to give orders to his subordinates, a bat accidentally hit his face.

"A, what !?"

"Raluk, look! bat herd…"

Swarms of bats, numbering in the hundreds, flew out of a cave.

"Ehhh... Cave !? If things go well, we might be able to hide there for a while ! "

If they continued to run aimlessly like this, sooner or later adventurers would definitely catch up with them.

Therefore, they should at least consider the option of sheltering inside the cave, even if it is dangerous.

Raluk immediately hinted his goblins to hide in the cave and rushed in.

"I, this …"

He had originally expected a small crack as the entrance of the cave.

However, what they found was quite surprising, they found a large door.

The giant entrance gave the impression of a gate from the old castle, decorated with ornaments that were indistinct and emitted a mysterious air around it.

Perhaps it was the tomb of a hero, or an ancient ruin. After all, the door was wide enough for 20 goblins to walk through.

Moreover, Raluk also looked at the stairs leading down, even though it was already old and dusty.

"What the hell is this ..., no! You guys hurry in! ”

When he thought that, 'he should have known if there was a place like this near his village.'

He suddenly recalled that they were still being chased by adventurers at this time.

He told the other goblins to quickly enter.

They've come this far, there's no way back.

The goblins came down the stairs in a hurry, initially thinking that the place would be dark and stuffy.

But the inside turned out to be quite spacious and filled with torch light, so it didn't feel dark at all.

The stairs were very long, taking over 10 minutes to run all the way to the bottom.

“Hah...huft... , oi! Is everything here !? ”

Panting out of breath, he called out to his friends.

The others immediately replied, they also look very exhausted at the moment.

"here. Everything is complete, we're fine! ”

“That's great ..., however, it looks like this place is wider than I thought ”

“Ya, we can use this place as our new hiding place ”

Grateful for this unexpected luck, Raluk spontaneously smiled.

As long as they used this place as their new headquarters, those people would not be able to attack them using the siege tactics like before.

Feeling that he was in a safe place, his heartbeat began to calm and stabilize.

But it only lasted for a moment, in the next second, he and the other goblins froze in fear.

“Welcome to our underground labyrinth. Nice to meet you, isn't it, brother? "

“. ”

"!!!"