96: Chapter 96 Giant Skeleton Soldiers?!

One day later, Goblin Forest.

A party of over a dozen professionals arrived at the outskirts of the Goblin Forest.

Everyone was extremely nervous, gripping their weapons tightly and staring vigilantly at the shadows of the surrounding jungle.

"Keep your eyes peeled."

"These Goblins are not only bloodthirsty and vicious, but also exceptionally cunning."

"They like to ambush from the shadows."

The tattooed leader lowered his voice to warn them.

The team members became even more cautious immediately.

The entire party moved forward inch by inch.

Advancing.

Continuing to advance.

After walking over 1,000 meters, they still hadn't encountered a single Goblin monster.

? ? ? ?

Question marks slowly appeared over everyone's heads.

"Captain, how come there isn't a single Goblin here?"

"Yeah, we've already entered the middle section of the forest, so why haven't we encountered even one monster?"

"This is too abnormal."

The team members voiced their questions one after another.

They had farmed Goblins here before.

They knew the number of monsters here very well; logically, the moment they entered the forest, they should have been discovered by Goblins and started a fight.

But now...

They hadn't even encountered a single Goblin.

Moreover, the forest was far too quiet.

There were no insect chirps or bird calls.

Even less, the roars of ferocious beasts.

This deathly silence made one feel nothing but creeped out.

"Damn it, I don't know either."

The captain scratched his head, feeling somewhat annoyed.

"Since we're already here, let's continue deeper to take a look."

"If we still don't find any monsters, we'll retreat immediately."

The captain with the large tattoo on his arm was very experienced in farming monsters in the wilderness.

He knew very well that in such monster-dense areas, once too many changes occurred, it was very dangerous.

Danger is often accompanied by opportunity. Take a gamble, and a bicycle might turn into a motorcycle.

Under the captain's lead, this party of volunteers continued deeper into the forest.

Soon, they discovered deep craters left behind by explosions.

"Holy crap, what kind of skill is this? The power is actually this huge?"

"And there are so many of them."

Looking at the dense craters in front of them, everyone in the party had their mouths wide open.

"It seems a powerhouse came here to sweep the place."

The tattooed man acting as captain said in a deep voice.

"Sigh, what a pity."

"The Goblin Forest is such a great holy land for leveling up, and it's actually been completely wiped clean."

"Not leaving a single monster for us, that's too much."

The people in the party complained one after another.

"Roar—!"

Just then, a monster's roar came from not far ahead.

Everyone in the party froze for a moment.

The next moment, dazzling light burst from their eyes.

"There's actually a fish that slipped through the net."

The tattooed captain grinned excitedly and charged forward, taking the lead.

"Brothers, follow me and kill!"

Soon they saw the monster that had let out the roar.

It was a young Goblin about 1.5 meters tall with an exceptionally hideous face, his body covered in a highly technological mech.

[Lord BOSS: Mecha Goblin]

"Damn, it's a BOSS!?"

"Run!"

They came to kill monsters, not to throw their lives away.

Given their strength, facing a BOSS over level 30 meant certain death.

Furthermore, this was a Lord-tier BOSS.

"Wait, Captain, don't panic!"

A middle-aged woman in the party whispered a reminder.

"This BOSS is already at low health!"

A low-health BOSS?!

After the woman's reminder, everyone looked up at the health bar above the BOSS's head.

[Health Points: 17,030 / 4.8 million]

"Only 17,000 HP left!"

"Great opportunity!"

"If we can slay this BOSS, we'll make a fortune this time."

"Yeah, Captain, no amount of small monsters is worth as much as one BOSS."

"We've been drinking soup for so long, it's time to eat meat."

This party's strength was very average.

They could only get by by slaughtering various small monsters and salvaging materials in exchange for a meager amount of money.

Now that a BOSS was delivered to their doorstep, they naturally didn't want to let it go.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Just then, dull thuds came from the distance.

With every sound that fell, the ground trembled slightly.

Everyone looked up and froze in place.

"This…"

"Damn, what is that thing?"

It was a Giant Skeleton Soldier, gargantuan in size, nearly 20 meters tall!

It was like a small mountain piled up from white bones, rushing over from the distance.

On top of its head were two hideous demonic horns, and around its neck was a tattered black cape, flapping loudly.

When the Mecha Goblin BOSS saw the Giant Skeleton Soldier, endless fear appeared in its eyes.

Without a word, it turned and ran.

But its speed was too slow.

The Giant Skeleton Soldier reached it in an instant.

Clang—!

Accompanied by a deafening sound of metal clashing.

The longsword in the Giant Skeleton Soldier's hand slashed fiercely onto the Mecha Goblin BOSS's body.

Sending it flying hundreds of meters away.

Like a worn-out sack, it drifted down slowly.

When it landed on the ground, its health bar had been completely emptied.

One-hit kill!

"Holy crap!?"

Watching the Mecha Goblin BOSS's corpse roll to his feet, the tattooed captain shivered in fright.

Boom! Boom! Boom...

The Giant Skeleton Soldier walked over slowly.

In its massive eye sockets, ghost fire churned, slowly sweeping over the few of them.

Then it directly ignored them.

It picked up the Mecha Goblin BOSS's corpse and walked back.

Just like picking up a small chick.

Not until the Giant Skeleton Soldier's figure completely disappeared.

Did the group finally heave a heavy sigh of relief.

Collapsing to the ground.

"Cap... Captain, what exactly was that monster just now?"

It was obvious that the Mecha Goblin BOSS had been chased here all the way by that Giant Skeleton Soldier.

At this moment, they were incredibly fortunate.

That they hadn't attacked that Mecha Goblin BOSS.

Otherwise, they would definitely have become targets of the Giant Skeleton Soldier's attack.

Then they would have been dead for sure.

Thinking of this, everyone shuddered all over.

"It looked very much like a Skeleton Soldier... just exceptionally large in size."

"How could it be a Skeleton Soldier? It should also be a powerful BOSS."

"This is monsters fighting over territory."

"This place has been occupied by a stronger BOSS. Let's go quickly, otherwise we're dead."

The group used their hands and feet, scrambling and crawling as they ran out of the forest.

Fearing that if they were one step too slow, they would become ghosts under the Giant Skeleton Soldier's sword.