"Thrilling" (Please Add to Favorites and Follow)

Chapter 20 "Thrilling" (Please collect and follow~)

From the moment they entered the battlefield until now, the most frequent task Bone Two, Bone Three, and the other skeleton soldiers had performed was dragging away corpses and cleaning up traces.

But honestly, Bone Two and those dull-witted skeleton soldiers had actually learned to clean up traces?

Mu Yuan felt this was a significant improvement.

Troops, troops—what defines troops? Those who fight are called troops, but troops only know how to fight.

If a player ordered troops to do something outside of combat, like asking an AI a question completely absent from its database, the troops would freeze up and mess around chaotically.

Yet now Bone Two, Bone Three, and the others could do it; Bone Six and Bone Seven were clumsy but seemed to be imitating and learning?

It was true that having Deathbone, a fellow skeleton, made guidance easier, but it also suggested...

"Bone Two and Bone Three are Opening Wisdom? They're gradually gaining a sliver of intelligence."

Of course, they had some intelligence but not much yet, and Deathbone was still teaching them with heavy thuds.

Goblins were inherently lazy by nature; sending out patrol squads was already their limit, and their defensive lines were actually far from thorough.

The goblins' execution was also lacking.

At this moment, Deathbone and the other skeletons were already slaughtering wildly, having killed over twenty goblins, including several Two-Star Spearmen.

But further ahead, where a large group of goblins gathered, it would be difficult to employ steady tactics like ambushes or assassinations; they'd have to storm in and take some risks.

Mu Yuan gazed into the distance.

"Great Goblin (Common ***): Zero-Tier Level 6" "Goblin Spearman (Common **): Zero-Tier Level 4, Zero-Tier Level 5" ×3 "Goblin (Common *): Zero-Tier Level 4" ×8

Over a dozen goblins sat around a campfire before the camp, their levels generally high, marked in red text.

Even the weakest goblin matched the Wolf King from the first day.

They wielded clubs, their faces fiercer than ordinary goblins, and their bodies taller and sturdier.

Elites!

Deathbone's expression was very grave; after all, it was only Level 4, equal to the most common goblin.

Against these enemies, caution was indeed necessary, again and again.

Whoosh—

A Wooden Spear tore through the air.

Deathbone struck first, targeting the Goblin Spearmen with ranged attack capability.

This time, it didn't need to hide or silence the goblins, so it aimed for the larger torso area.

Within two and a half seconds, it hurled three Wooden Spears.

Like bullets leaving a barrel, the first and second Spearmen fell in succession. But the last Goblin Spearman dodged the fatal spear by a hair's breadth, only taking a wound.

As expected of a Level 5 expert, formidable indeed.

Deathbone murmured, treating it with solemn caution.

Then it threw another spear, killing that elite Spearman.

After this burst, Deathbone had to catch its breath. In the distance, the Great Goblin let out a beastly roar and charged forward.

At the same time, the entire camp erupted; one after another, green-skinned creatures ran out from corners, shouting and wailing.

Over thirty goblins.

The number seemed small, but only Mu Yuan understood the sheer visual impact of these monsters charging together.

Deathbone and the few skeletons facing these green-skinned monsters were like rocks standing against a surging wave.

But though the wave was fierce, the rocks could hold firm against the impact.

"The final battle has finally arrived."

Mu Yuan thought to himself.

The next moment, Deathbone and the skeletons, with their fearless, heroic, and solemn backs...

Turned and fled.

The goblins were stunned, frozen for a moment before roaring in pursuit, but the skeleton soldiers weren't slow; even the high-level Great Goblin couldn't catch up immediately.

Deathbone's guerrilla warfare had begun.

Mu Yuan was also stunned, his mouth twitching slightly.

"Though this is indeed a tactic."

"Though one side has a Rare-grade and five Three-Star troops, while the other has only three Three-Star troops, so tactics are necessary."

"But they could've just charged straight in!"

Mu Yuan could only continue cracking sunflower seeds, his focus sharp and unwavering.

Several skirmishes unfolded around the mountain hollow, and Deathbone struck and retreated each time, never letting itself get tangled up with the Great Goblins.

Even if it could one-shot or two-shot a high-level Great Goblin with its skills, it still refused to do so.

That was far too risky.

What good would it do to take out Great Goblin A when Great Goblin B and Great Goblin C were still around? The danger was too great—its armor might get dented, and in the grand scheme of things, that meant its life and its comrades' lives were on the line.

Bearing the heavy trust of the lord, Deathbone would never choose a reckless approach.

Outside the mountain hollow, Gray-black skeletons and green-skinned goblins were still locked in battle. The fight dragged on for over ten minutes, pounding the very path into dust and shaking the heavens until they crumbled. In the end...

Pfft—

Bone Three thrust forward sharply, then jerked upward, driving its blade straight into the strongest, most towering Great Goblin from behind—right below the waist, at a spot a notch lower.

The Great Goblin let out a earth-shaking, agonized howl.

Mu Yuan felt his own backside clench.

Deathbone gave Bone Three a thumbs-up. Good lad, that's the way. A steady skeleton like us has to fight like this.

The Great Goblin, dealt a fatal blow to its rear, soon keeled over dead.

The other goblins, now without their Great Goblin leader, scattered in panic and fled back into their camp.

Inside the camp were palisades and sentry towers, making it tough for Deathbone and the other skeletons to storm in. Still, after the battle that had nearly ground the path to dust, the number of goblins in the camp had thinned by more than half.

The three strongest Great Goblins had already fallen to Deathbone, Bone Two, Bone Three, and the other skeleton soldiers.

Deathbone pressed steadily toward the camp, advancing step by step, methodically dismantling each trap along the way.

Not far off, goblins and javelin throwers were starting to show signs of breaking ranks. But the next moment, their eyes gradually turned bloodshot, just like the Wolf King and the other monsters before them.

They lost all reason and instinct, replaced by a savagery fiercer than even the skeletons' fearlessness, their combat power spiking sharply.

Of course, no matter how much they went berserk, goblins were still just goblins. Swinging clubs at the skeletons' armor only produced a hollow thud.

They were dealing damage, sure—but it was like scraping a scratch.

"The outcome's settled. Didn't expect this kid Deathbone to be more reliable than I thought—he's already got the makings of a commander."

Mu Yuan chugged a couple gulps of soda, pushed aside the pile of sunflower seed shells, and got ready to move his own character in to finish things off.

Suddenly, the falcon circling overhead as filler let out a sharp, piercing cry.

Mu Yuan's brow furrowed.

Deathbone's movements halted.

In the distance, deep within the camp, three figures had somehow emerged without anyone noticing.

Two were burly Great Goblins, and the third was very short, about the size of an ordinary goblin—yet it stood dead center in the C-position.

Its frame was hunched, its animal-hide clothes patterned far more intricately than the other goblins', a necklace of beast fangs hung around its neck, and in its hand, it held a crooked wooden staff studded with a few skulls, like some kind of scepter.

This was...

A Rare Troop—Goblin Shaman!

In a tiny camp like this, a shaman had actually appeared?

Didn't the forums say shamans only showed up in big camps?

This was bad news!

Deathbone, being just a skeleton, wouldn't understand what a Goblin Shaman meant. Sure enough, it was time for the lord himself to step in and turn the tide.

Mu Yuan started maneuvering.

The Goblin Shaman, which had just entered view, raised its staff high, muttering something under its breath as if chanting.

The air grew thick and sticky, and an ominous, unsettling aura spread through the surroundings.

But Deathbone had already struck!

Its soulfire blazed fiercely. A brand-new, two-meter-long gray-white bone spear had somehow appeared in its hand.

It bent its body slightly, right arm drawn back.

Skeleton Warrior Throwing Technique, full power!

It locked its gaze on that hunched figure.

Charge!

Energy surged, flooding every limb and joint in an instant, then gathered at the palm of the right hand gripping the spear.

Throw! Throw! Throw!!

Dust kicked up from the ground, deep grooves carved by its boots.

A sharp, piercing whistle split the air.

Then came a thunderous boom from far away.

Boom--!

The bone spear, hurled with a full Charge, tore through the air like a cannonball, violently ripping the Goblin Shaman's body apart, shattering it, and without losing momentum, blasted the camp gate behind it to pieces.

The spreading dust quickly cleared, leaving no trace of the Goblin Shaman's corpse.

To the side, two burly goblin brutes had just let out a threatening roar when they choked mid-cry.

A hundred meters away, Deathbone, still holding his throwing stance, wiped non-existent sweat and breathed a sigh of relief.

"So close, so close, so close."

"This fight was way too thrilling."

In front of the computer, Mu Yuan, looking at the corpses strewn across the ground and the Soul Sand and Remnant Souls crystallizing from the monsters' bodies, cracked some melon seeds and remarked:

"Yeah, that was really thrilling... right?"

Today's two chapters are posted together for better flow, begging for all kinds of data QAQAQ~

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