"Ding!"
In the dim cave, sparks flew.
The coldly gleaming, finely made Standard Machete slammed down against the stone wall.
Yet it only crushed a few scattered patches of Fungal Moss.
Like a Wolf Fox, he dodged the enemy's attack.
Xia Nan rolled and sprang to his feet, the tip of his Beheading Longsword touching the ground.
He was panting hard, the hair on his forehead clumped with sweat, and a few flecks of mud still clung to his cheeks.
The trousers along the outside of his thigh had been slashed open, and blood could be seen slowly seeping out beneath.
It was a cut he had suffered by accident during the fight just now, scraped open by a sharp-edged rock on the cave floor.
Fortunately, the wound was not too deep. With his Constitution, it would soon close and recover on its own, so there was no need to worry about excessive bleeding.
And the enemy currently fighting him—
Was a humanoid Monster the size of an adult male, with reddish-brown skin.
"A Hobgoblin!"
Like Bear Goblins, this sort of creature was also one of the Goblin subspecies.
They were like two branches splitting from the same bough.
If the direction of Bear Goblin evolution was size and strength, Then Hobgoblins evolved toward intelligence and command ability.
A Challenge Rating of "0.5" meant that an ordinary Hobgoblin without any other particular talents was basically no match for its burly cousin in a one-on-one fight.
But an intellect far beyond others of their kind gave them greater potential.
These natural leaders and commanders could easily become the chiefs of large Goblin settlements after reaching adulthood. With the raiding experience passed down through the generations, they could develop their tribes at astonishing speed into calamities that threatened other intelligent beings.
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