The Astonishing Strength of a "Gold Rank" Adventurer's Attack

Those two remaining human corpses clearly were not something these Goblins could use, even if the Troll was already full.

"Huh?"

A Goblin sitting on the outskirts, licking some unknown beast's bone, twitched its pointed green ears and turned its head to look behind it with some alertness.

The next instant.

Terror appeared on the Goblin's face as a black figure suddenly burst out of the bushes.

Before the Goblin could even cry out a warning—

The swift Iron Sword came chopping down from the air and split the Goblin in half with one strike.

Amid the spray of green blood, Tang Zheng's figure appeared.

"Fourfold Slash of Light!"

Tang Zheng twisted the wrist of the hand gripping the Iron Sword.

In an instant!

Four cold flashes streaked through the air.

The other four Goblins closest to the outer edge did not even get the chance to react before the Iron Sword pierced through them, and they toppled to the ground!

"Gained EXP 27"

"Gained EXP 31"

"Gained EXP 22"

"Gained EXP 25"

"..."

Messages rapidly surfaced on the Attribute Panel.

Fourfold Slash of Light struck out with four sword blows in an instant. Although it would reduce accuracy and even disperse its power to a certain degree, as the Head Warrior's signature move, and one he had even used to defeat Nail Clipper, the strength of this skill went without saying!

The New World was a real world, not a game where taking damage only caused a numerical change like a decrease in HP.

Once someone was injured, their strength would naturally decline. If a vital spot was hit, they might even be executed on the spot.

Even with Tang Zheng's attack weakened by its dispersed power, it was still not something these Goblins could withstand.

In the blink of an eye, five Goblins had died. Only then did the other Goblins who were eating react.

"Wah!"

"Wah, ah!!"

"Wah wah—"

Panicked, terrified cries rang out one after another.

The Goblins quickly threw away the food in their hands, scrambled to their feet in a panic, and fled in all directions.

Goblins were timid by nature. Faced with this sudden situation, they clearly would not band together to surround and attack Tang Zheng, but instead fled at the first opportunity.

Unfortunately!

Tang Zheng's Agility value far surpassed these Goblins'. If this group of Goblins had joined forces to surround him, they might have been able to cause Tang Zheng some trouble.

But scattering and running was practically delivering themselves to his blade!

Tang Zheng's figure moved rapidly without pause. Every time his sword fell, a Goblin lost its life.

"Gained EXP 25"

"..."

"Gained EXP 29"

Messages flashed one after another across the Attribute Panel.

"Human?!"

The Troll reacted at this moment as well. Looking at the Goblins being killed one after another, it roared and snatched up the huge wooden club placed at the entrance of the low grass hut.

Bang!

Bang!

The Troll's body was over two meters tall, and each step it took on the ground sent out a tremor.

Tang Zheng had been keeping an eye on the Troll the entire time. Seeing it charge toward him, he remained extremely calm. He did not give up on killing the Goblins; instead, his movements became even faster.

He did not want these Goblins causing trouble at the side while he was fighting the Troll.

Bang!

The huge wooden club smashed heavily into the ground with a dull, weighty thud.

Tang Zheng's figure had already flashed away the moment the Troll swung its club, avoiding the Troll's attack, and he conveniently finished off another Goblin in the process.

"Obtained 27 experience."

"Food, human!"

The Troll kept letting out furious roars, swinging its enormous wooden club with all its strength, stirring up gust after gust wherever it passed.

However.

Tang Zheng easily avoided every single attack.

After a simple round of probing.

Tang Zheng had already realized that his movement speed surpassed this Troll's.

Once he understood that.

Tang Zheng worried even less, and the movements of his hands became a little faster.

"Waa—"

"Waa, waa!"

The Goblins' screams and wails rang out without end.

In just a short while, all eighteen Goblins in the small Goblin settlement had been slain by Tang Zheng.

Off to the side.

Perhaps because the Goblins had been slaughtered to the last, perhaps because of the huge rotting wound on its chest, or even because it had eaten too much, the Troll's movements and speed were affected.

"Huff~ huff~"

The Troll, which had been swinging its huge wooden club in pursuit, panted heavily and stopped. Its gaze was vicious, tinged scarlet as it looked at the human who had slaughtered the Goblins.

Sensing that furious gaze that wanted to tear him apart!

Tang Zheng stood seven or eight meters away from the Troll and split his lips in a grin as he looked at it.

"Now it's just the two of us."

Tang Zheng swung the Iron Sword, flinging the green blood staining it onto the grass on the ground, and spoke in an icy tone.

From his judgment just now, this Troll's strength was indeed greater than that of the two Trolls that had attacked Team Rock back then.

Even so!

Tang Zheng still held a certain advantage in speed. By taking advantage of the Troll's injury and its slow speed, he could completely wear it to death.

Only—

Tang Zheng recalled the sight of it devouring human corpses. He raised the Iron Sword in his hands and gripped it tightly with both hands.

Thud!

Tang Zheng stomped hard on the ground, his figure charging straight toward the Troll.

The seven or eight meters between them vanished by the time Tang Zheng took his third step, bringing him right in front of the Troll.

"Food!"

The Troll was both shocked and furious. Clearly, it had not expected this human food, who had been darting all over the place, to actually dare face it head-on.

Boom!

Its powerful, dark-yellow arm, twice as thick as a normal human thigh, tightened and bulged with muscle as it swung the enormous wooden club, smashing it heavily down at the charging Tang Zheng.

"Roar!"

It was going to smash this little human before it into meat paste!

The fierce force made the wooden club produce a powerful sound of tearing through the air as it swung.

"Food? Go die!" Tang Zheng's gaze turned cold, and he directly swung with both hands:

"Quick Slash!"

Bang!

The hard wooden club and the Iron Sword collided heavily, producing a dull, thunderous crash.

Two equally astonishing forces clashed, forming a ring of invisible force with the two of them at the center, blowing the surrounding weeds bent and pressing them down against the ground.

This strength...

So great!

The force transmitted through the blade from the hard wooden club made Tang Zheng's arms go numb, and the web between his thumb and forefinger even throbbed with pain.

"Quick Slash" was a Sword Saint skill and would inflict 110% damage!

Added to the passive "Slash Enhancement (8%)," that was equivalent to dealing 118% damage. Tang Zheng's Physical Attack was 93 points, meaning the pure numerical damage was approximately equal to 110!

It was basically about the same as the stats provided by a max-level Sword Saint Class!

So!

The destruction caused by Tang Zheng's strike just now had absolutely already reached, or even surpassed, the level of a Gold Rank Adventurer among the Warriors of the New World!

Yet the attack strength of this Troll was actually slightly higher than the power of Tang Zheng's strike!