Goblin Champion Warrior

"Ready, archers, volley!" Xiao Yu shouted, hurling a Flame Missiles spell after the arrows.

A whole row of arrows swished through the air, turning the ogre into a pincushion. But the ogre had a full 600 health, and that damage wasn't enough to kill him.

"Grabb hurts! Grabb is angry!" the ogre mage roared as he cast Bloodlust on himself. His body immediately grew another size, becoming a giant monster a full three meters tall. With one punch, he flattened the nearest goblin warrior. -123. In fact, Xiao Yu didn't need to see the red number to know the goblin warrior couldn't be any deader. He'd been flattened into a pancake.

Crushing attack, four times the damage. Damn, this guy really hits hard. He's clearly stronger than those three Blackrock Orcs yesterday. But you ran into a boss like me who can't stand anyone more capable than himself, so just go and die in peace!

Xiao Yu grumbled inwardly, but his hands didn't stop. He hurled volley after volley of Flame Missiles.

"Warriors, all of you, attack!" Even in the thick of things, he didn't forget to call on his underlings. More than ten goblin warriors swarmed forward, hacking at the ogre with their little cleavers and axes, while the goblin scouts' arrows never stopped flying.

The ogre's health plummeted under the barrage, and he was beaten to the point of tears.

"Stop hitting me! Grabb surrenders! Grabb surrenders!" He crouched with both hands over his head, unable even to fight back.

Xiao Yu was somewhat speechless as he watched the ogre crouching with his head covered. You're giving up already? Too bad you're not a cute girl. Crouching like that won't help you. Seeing that the ogre had only a sliver of health left, he thought, I'll take this kill myself.

"Stop!" Xiao Yu shouted. His goblin underlings all stopped at once and looked at him expectantly.

The ogre raised his head too, looking at Xiao Yu with terror on his face.

But Xiao Yu raised his staff. "Flame Missiles!" Five missiles of flame materialized in the air around him. With a wave of his staff, they all rushed toward the ogre.

Bang, bang, bang! -12, -12, -12, -12, -24 (critical hit). A single Flame Missiles spell dealt 72 damage.

With a crash, the enormous ogre fell spread-eagled on the ground. He was finally as dead as could be.

Haha, nice! This goblin pyromancer's damage really is high!

Xiao Yu inwardly savored the moment and turned to glance at the Blackrock Orcs. They were all staring dumbfounded, their carefree manner from yesterday nowhere to be seen.

System notification: You killed Grub the Ogre (rare elite). This wandering ogre from the Western Wilds was notorious, and killing him proves your strength and ferocity. You have gained 29 reputation.

Killing ordinary monsters or NPCs didn't grant reputation, but killing a rare elite or higher monster, or a named NPC, did. The higher the template level, the more reputation it was worth. Grub the Ogre had given him 29 reputation.

Looking at his 42/500 reputation, Xiao Yu thought that his road to becoming a boss was still a long and arduous one.

But the camp didn't return to peace with the ogre's death. There was still plenty to do today. Although adventurers had come to cause trouble yesterday, the camp's construction and development couldn't stop because of that.

Training for the goblin scouts and goblin warriors continued. After a while, Killer Codename 38 and Invincible Hero both logged in.

Perhaps because goblins looked so lousy, the two of them were still the only players in the entire camp. He needed to pay special attention to developing them.

"You two came at just the right time. Don't manage the goblin laborers today. Leveling up is more important."

As he spoke, Xiao Yu pointed to the goblin warriors and scouts who were drilling. "Each of you, pick ten underlings and take them out to level up quickly. Remember to command them well and try not to let anyone die."

The two exchanged a glance, both looking pleasantly surprised. After working for Xiao Yu these past two days, they were finally getting something out of it.

They hurriedly thanked him, then each hastily picked ten underlings and left the camp to level. With underlings to help, leveling was much easier. Although they had to share some of the experience, the killing blow was worth the most, so as long as they handled things properly, they could still level quickly.

Xiao Yu, however, didn't go out to level. He didn't want to run into adventurers again.

But just as he feared, before noon, a goblin scout came in to report that adventurers had appeared outside again.

Xiao Yu stood atop the camp's watchtower and looked out. Several adventurers around level seven or eight were killing lone goblins wandering outside the camp. They seemed to be the same people as yesterday.

But Xiao Yu didn't intend to bother with them. He would let them kill as they pleased. At most, he would lose a little faction value. It was no big deal.

In Sky World, generally speaking, every monster had a faction value. The higher it was, the more subordinate monsters spawned. Killing subordinate monsters reduced faction value, and the lower it fell, the smaller the monster faction's territory became, allowing other wild monsters to enter it.

As Xiao Yu saw it, his plan was basically ready anyway. He had no intention of keeping this goblin camp for long, so its territory could shrink if it had to. The quest to attack Nightwhisper Village was more important by comparison. Although he was confident he could lead the camp's goblins to drive off these adventurers, adventurers were the most troublesome creatures of all. If he drove them away this time, more might come next time, so he might as well let them do as they pleased.

Fortunately, there was a limit to how often subordinate monsters respawned. After repeatedly killing the subordinate monsters around the camp several times, the adventurers saw that they had stopped respawning and withdrew.

By evening, the two goblin messengers who had taken a message to Hogger finally returned. They reported that Hogger had confirmed he would attend the alliance meeting tomorrow.

After a day of leveling, Invincible Hero and Killer Codename 38 had each gained two or three levels and reached level ten. They could now change class.

Monsters in Sky World could change class once every ten levels. For example, the common forest wolf could change into a frost wolf, a dire wolf, a big gray wolf, or various other types at level ten. Although the increase in strength wasn't as enormous as advancing a template, they could learn new skills, making it worthwhile.

Goblin warriors could change class into goblin champion warriors, goblin guards, or goblin raiders.

Goblin scouts, meanwhile, could change class into goblin assassins or goblin hunters.

"So what classes are you two planning to choose?" Xiao Yu asked.

The two exchanged a glance. Finally, Killer Codename 38 said, "Boss, you're so good at this game. You must be a professional player, right? How about helping us think it over?"

Xiao Yu thought that was fine. If he didn't help, these two would surely pick their new classes at random.

"Invincible Hero, my personal recommendation is that you change into a goblin champion warrior. Only those with the warrior title can choose this class, so it counts as a hidden class. It has an aura skill that can greatly boost the morale of nearby monsters of the same race."

Xiao Yu clearly remembered that many wild monster factions had a warrior title, allowing them to advance into champion warriors. Champion warriors generally had aura skills.

"As for you, Killer Codename 38, I personally wouldn't recommend becoming a goblin assassin. Although it has assassin in the name and its attack power is high, goblin assassins don't have stealth. They can't learn it until they change into goblin killers at level 20. Until then, leveling a goblin assassin is miserable. Monsters can't take a beating like players, after all. A couple of hits up close and they're dead."

"By comparison, goblin hunters are much better. They're a ranged class, so they can pick up kills. They can also learn the skill Lesser Beast Taming. The beasts they tame aren't very strong in combat, but at least they get a pet."

The two nodded repeatedly and chose their new classes according to Xiao Yu's advice.

[System notification: Player Invincible Hero changed class to goblin champion warrior.]

[New skill acquired: Aura of Courage. Raises the morale of nearby goblins, reducing their desire to flee.]

[New skill acquired: Battle Stance. Enter Battle Stance to increase your hit and parry ratings by 10.]

[System notification: Player Killer Daihuan 38 changed class to goblin hunter.]

[New skill acquired: Lesser Beast Taming. Similar to the Beast Taming skill used by hunter adventurers, but because goblins are too weak, they can only tame beasts at least two levels below their own, and tamed beasts receive no attribute bonuses.]

[New skill acquired: Track Adventurers. Tracks adventurers in the vicinity, with an effective range of 30 yards around the user.]

The two were moved to tears by the system notifications. After struggling miserably for so many days, they had finally made something of themselves.