Chapter 1156: The Severe Situation
The setting sun was as red as blood.
The bloody battle was only beginning.
The goblins that were charging in the front were struck by the magic arrows coming from the female rogues, and they fell in big groups like fields of wheat that were being harvested by sickles.
“Oink! Oink! Humans! Fresh food!”
“Charge! Kill them!”
“Eat these humans!”
The deaths of their peers didn’t faze the goblins. In their eyes, this human troop was a great source of food.
The consecutive victories that goblins had in the Southern Region made them completely overlook this human troop. After all, in previous battles, there had been cases where a few hundred goblins chased after thousands if not tens of thousands of humans!
A ton of goblins rushed out of the hills and mountains in the area.
Instead of looking like a troop, these goblins looked more like refugees. Most of the goblins were less than a meter tall, and their dark-green skin was full of wrinkles. Their triangular heads made them look malnourished, and their eyes looked like big light bulbs. Their expressions were fierce, and they wore simple metal armor while holding weapons like wooden sticks.
The goblins didn’t have any formation, and they didn’t coordinate with each other. They simply screamed and charged over fearlessly.
Their presence made them look like a group of tigers that rushed into a herd of sheep.
However, the result showed that a herd of sheep rushed into a group of tigers.
A cavalry team of the Northern Region Empire that had less than 1,000 people charged through the goblins three times, and close to 10,000 goblins were killed. Not a single goblin survived, and many green corpses filled the ground while green blood stained the land.
“With such strength, the goblins could dominate the entire Southern Region?”
Under the command flag on the hill, masters of various empires such as Gerard discussed in disbelief.
“This is not right. This is the first encounter that the expeditionary troop had with the goblins. If the military of goblins are as weak and disorganized as these goblins, how could the human troops in the Southern Region be defeated and almost wiped out?”
“Perhaps we only ran into ordinary goblins. We might encounter elite troops of goblins once we travel further in!”
The masters and commanders thought to themselves.
Using fire, the mages burned all the goblin corpses, and the blazing flames turned everything into ashes.
After the troop pushed forward for about 20 kilometers, they finally saw a destroyed human city. Close to 10,000 elite goblin soldiers were guarding this city, and Gerard volunteered and led the troop of Liverpool, taking down the enemies and securing the city within one charge. About 5,000 goblins were captured.
Under the command of people such as Shaarawy, the expeditionary troop moved into this city.
The expeditionary troop was planning to spend the first night in the Southern Region in this city.
The soldiers started to set up campsites and get organized in the city.
Suddenly, a roar resonated in the city like thunder.
“Kill! Kill all these goblins! Don’t let a single one of them live!”
Commander Gerard of Liverpool seemed to be stimulated by something. He was in charge of patrolling the city, but it seemed like he turned crazy. He dashed into the sky and arrived at the place where the captured goblins were imprisoned. Then, he unleashed his energy, and earth-elemental warrior energy fell like mountains.
Puff!
A series of soft explosions sounded, and thousands of goblins were turned into dust.
“Mr. Gerard, don’t attack. Her Highness ordered that we need to keep them alive to interrogate them!”
Shaarawy instantly detected the surging energy in the sky, and he quickly rushed over. When he arrived, about 5,000 goblin captives were killed. Under rage, Gerard turned all of them into meat pies, and the stinky odor and green blood were everywhere.
“You killed them all?” Shaarawy was confused. “What happened? Why is General Gerard so angry?”
“Follow me.” Gerard didn’t want to say anything, and he led Shaarawy to the center of the city where the goblin troops stored food.
When Shaarawy saw the human corpses where their limbs and heads were eaten, the chunks of half-cooked human organs, the women and children who were tortured unconscious, and a senior who was still alive, but one of his arms was eaten with white bones exposed in the air…
“Kill! Kill them all! From now on, the expeditionary troop won’t take any captives! I will kill every single goblin on the continent!” Shaarawy was extremely furious. He hadn’t even hated the Holy Church this much.
“The goblins are inhumane beasts. No! They are lower than beasts! Except for intelligence, they are a bunch of walking murderers!”
Soon, what was discovered in the city spread in the expeditionary troop.
In fact, this news didn’t need to be spread. Humans’ limbs that were eaten, humans who were tortured to death, and pots of cooked human organs were everywhere in the city.
This was a living hell! Almost all humans were killed! Out of hundreds of thousands of people, only less than 20 survived. Even though they survived, they had become insane due to fear and torture.
Although everyone heard the news that goblins ate humans before they came to the Southern Region, they were shocked and infuriated when they saw it with their own eyes.
The roars of soldiers resonated in the city.
“No more goblin captives!”
“Kill every goblin in the Southern Region!”
The angry soldiers searched for goblins in the city. The ones who were still alive were dragged to death by horses, and teams of scouts patrolled the city and killed many goblins who were hiding.
After resting in the city for half a night, the expeditionary troop moved out in the second half of the night, rushing toward the City of Iduna.
On the morning of the second day, the expeditionary troop finally encountered a real goblin troop.
A battle occurred on the flatland.
The angry human troop performed a one-sided massacre. In high spirits, the human soldiers battled into the night and defeated close to a million goblin soldiers. Almost no goblins were taken as captives; they were killed.
That night, the expeditionary troop set up campsites on the battleground.
“Just as we expected, the first group of goblins that we encountered was composed of cannon fodder. Today, we finally encountered a real enemy troop.”
In the Central Commander’s Tent, the commanders of various empires gathered here. Shaarawy analyzed while pointing at the map, “The goblin warriors are far weaker than human warriors, but there are too many of them. I believe that the troop we just battled with is only an ordinary troop, but there were close to a million goblins already. They are like military ants!”
“You are right. The terrifying aspect of goblins isn’t their combat strength but their sheer number. You just can’t kill them off. The humans in the Southern Region lost too much territory and resources, enabling these goblins to reproduce as much as they want!”
“Among goblins, there are high-level warriors. The advisors made a simple categorization; from weak to strong, the goblins could be divided into cannon fodders, civilians, warriors, king-level masters, and emperor-level masters. There might be even more powerful goblins above that. An emperor-level goblin is equivalent to a Sun-Class Lord. Today, 15 of them were killed!”
“We haven’t encountered the legendary goblin zeppelins and other magical machines. I’m afraid that the upcoming battles will be even harder. The situation is more severe than we have anticipated!”
Although the expeditionary troop obtained the victory during the day, they weren’t optimistic.
In fact, their concerns weren’t ungrounded.
On the second day morning when the sunlight shined on the land, the expeditionary troop was surprised to find that they were surrounded by goblins!
There were so many goblins that they seemed like a green ocean! The campsites of the expeditionary troop were surrounded, and many goblin zeppelins flew in the sky, covering the sun. Both the goblin soldiers and goblin zeppelins extended to the horizon! The sheer number was shocking!