哥布林弓箭手松开弓弦，一支箭呼啸而过。
阿诺条件反射地蹲下身子，就听到一声尖叫。回头一看，只见一支箭矢刺入了不远处一名长发少女的胸口。
而她的旁边，还站着另一个一脸愕然的穿着裙子的女孩。
“那支箭不是射给我的！” 阿诺回过神来，拉着裙子少女向森林走去。
他记得第一个人死之前，他们看到远处有人居住。
那就是阿诺现在逃跑的方向。
身后的其他人也有同样的想法，也朝着阿诺的方向跑去。
但哥布林不会轻易让人类猎物逃脱。
三只妖精从教堂废墟中冲出，与妖精弓箭手附近的另外两只妖精汇合。他们手持武器，向阿诺一行人冲去。
阿诺身后还有八个人。三...
但追赶他们的却是凶恶的哥布林和弓箭手，不断地对射射箭，给人类带来了巨大的压力。
偶尔的箭矢大大减慢了她们的逃跑速度，有些女孩体质虚弱，根本跟不上。没过多久，哥布林就追上了。
九人停下了脚步，惊恐地看着拦路的哥布林。
“呵呵呵……” 哥布林们手持武器，原地起舞，看着人类如同待宰的羔羊。
“啊，我中枪了，我中枪了！” 一个戴着耳环的男人突然捂住了他的肩膀，大声叫道。
刚才，弓箭手又向这群人射出了一箭，主要瞄准的是男人们。
对于哥布林来说，人类男性只是被杀掉的食物。雌性可以生育更多的妖精，如果可能的话应该活捉。
这群人可以解决部落数天的食物短缺问题，并增加他们的人数。
女孩们看到了两人被拖走的遭遇。如果他们的命运要被这些丑陋恶毒的生物所破坏，他们宁愿死！
阿诺感觉到身后那个穿着裙子的女孩在不停地颤抖，蜷缩在他的背上。他在心里叹了口气。
前面被封锁，弓箭手在教堂后面。
他有天赋【灵魂祭祀】，可以通过祭祀灵魂来召唤生物，但他必须先杀死哥布林才能获得灵魂！
现在他怎么能杀人呢？
毫无疑问，他和其他人很快就会被砍成碎片并被吃掉。
“朋友们，我们只能赌上一切了！” 一名瘦骨嶙峋的男子对阿诺一行人说道：“我们周围不知道还有多少野兽，退到教堂里就是必死无疑。
我们九个人，他们只有四个人。
四名男子各对抗一名，女子对抗最后一名。
我数一、二、三，我们一起冲！”
听到他的声音，肩膀中弹的男人停止了哭泣，女孩们看上去惊呆了。
阿诺和一个光头青年目瞪口呆地看着骨瘦如柴的男人。
哥布林的身高只有一米到一分三米，但这四个人看上去根本就不是能干的战士。
一对一的武装哥布林，他们必死无疑。
But seeing the scrawny man's resolute gaze, Anuo and the others understood.
This...this was the only way left!
It was fight or wait for death!
If they fought together, maybe some could make it.
What if he was the one who got away?
"One!"
"Two!"
"Three, charge!" At the scrawny man's yell, Anuo and the others shouted to psyche themselves up and rushed the goblins.
But after two steps, Anuo's heart sank.
Except for him, the bald youth, the wounded man, and a bikini-clad woman, no one else charged!
The other four women remained frozen in place, with no intention of rushing.
After shouting "Three", the scrawny man hadn't charged either, instead running towards the church and lone archer!
That bastard!
By now Anuo realized they'd been duped.
The scrawny man wanted them to buy time so he could escape another way!
But understanding changed nothing. The goblins were upon them.
Turning and fleeing was impossible now...
The wounded man was already hampered. At first contact a goblin stabbed his thigh, blood gushing out, staining his pants red.
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"Damn beasts, even if I die and become a ghost, I won't let you go!" He pointed at the scrawny man dodging arrows and cursed loudly.
They'd woken up together as strangers, so had a sense of comradeship.
Who knew the scrawny man would be so vicious, manipulating them for his own escape!
Meanwhile, Anuo was also in peril.
Four had charged, but there were four goblins.
Perhaps seeing the bald youth uninjured and more dangerous, two goblins engaged him.
Anuo faced just one dagger-wielding goblin, but had an arrow still stuck in his left arm.
Despite rolling and dodging, the goblin still slashed numerous cuts across Anuo's body.
Blood stained his white shirt red.
"No match at all!" Anuo crawled up from the ground, looking at his mangled left hand, the torn corner of his mouth twitching nonstop.
Three meters away, the goblin kept swapping the dagger between hands, bloody mouth filled with a severed finger - Anuo's!
In the clash earlier, Anuo had seized the goblin's weapon wrist, hoping to wrest away the dagger.
But the goblin was far stronger, and instead grabbed Anuo's other hand.
Seeing it move to bite, Anuo desperately pushed against its head with his left hand.
The result was his left hand mangled and thumb bitten off.
Kicking the goblin back bought some distance, but now the blood loss left Anuo's vision blurred.
Seeing the goblin charge again, Anuo turned and fled towards the forest.
The goblin's short legs powered after him. Just as it closed in to strike, Anuo suddenly turned.
In one smooth motion he shed his overcoat and flung it over the goblin's head.
The goblin froze in surprise, but quickly reacted.
It pulled at the coat with one hand while retreating.
Anuo naturally wouldn't waste this fleeting opportunity.
He powerfully kicked the entangled goblin down, then pulled a sharp triangular rock from his coat and stabbed down with all his might towards its head.
The rock smashed into the goblin's exposed head just as it pulled free of the coat.
Over three centimeters of sharp rock speared into its skull!
The goblin's eyes rolled back as its legs spasmed and thrashed violently.
Anuo quickly mounted it to hold it down, smashing the rock repeatedly into its head until it finally lay still.
Seeing the discarded dagger nearby, Anuo moved to pick it up.
At that moment, a plume of white transparent substance rose from the dead goblin and entered Anuo's body.
[Goblin Soul Acquired x1]
Here is my attempt at translating the excerpt into English:
"Goblin soul!"
Anno endured the pain and glanced at his status panel.
Name: Anno
Race: Human
Level: 1
Experience: 20/100
Profession: None
Mana: 10/10
Skills: None
Talent: Sacrificial Offering!
【Obtained Goblin Soul x1】
His level increased from 0 to 1, with an additional 20 experience points!
So killing one goblin gave Anno 70 experience points plus one goblin soul!
Seeing the goblin soul, Anno immediately thought of how Sacrificial Offering could summon a goblin.
But when Anno was about to activate Sacrificial Offering, he discovered that summoning a goblin also required sacrificing the goblin's claws and left ear.
Anno immediately picked up the dagger dropped by the goblin, and ignoring his disgust, cut off one of its paws and left ear.
"Be careful!"
A weak voice rang out from behind.
Anno looked back and saw a goblin waving a wooden mace charging towards him.
"Damn!" Anno shuddered in fright when he saw the goblin running over.
Killing one goblin nearly cost him his life.
And now another one was coming, there was no way he could beat it.
In panic, Anno placed the just severed claws and left ear on the ground, and hastily performed the Sacrificial Offering with the goblin soul.
【Sacrificial Offering】 activated!
Anno's meager ten mana was instantly depleted.
The goblin's claws and left ear on the ground vanished in an instant.
The next moment, a small creature appeared where they were.
Green skin, pointy ears, ugly looks.
It looked exactly the same as the dagger goblin just killed!
But Anno knew this was one he summoned.
If he wished, he could even make the summoned goblin commit suicide.
After summoning the goblin, Anno immediately threw it the dagger, telling it to block the incoming mace goblin.
"Wuwa~"
The summoned goblin made a sound as it picked up the dagger.
Then it clashed with the mace goblin.
The mace goblin did not react at first, thinking this was its companion.
Until its arm was stabbed by the dagger, it angrily swung its mace to strike back.
Seizing this chance, Anno also checked the summoned goblin's status.
Name: None
Race: Goblin
Level: 1
HP: 100/100
Profession: None
Mana: None
Skills: None
The summoned goblin's level was the same as Anno's, its panel had an extra HP bar, but no experience value.
The additional HP was probably there to show the summon's status.
As for experience, it likely couldn't level up after being summoned.
This was also Anno's first summon, he could only make guesses about some things.
He lowered his head to look at his mangled left hand, and couldn't help but grin.
He took the cloth pouch around the dead goblin's waist, and pulled off a beast fang hanging around its neck, throwing both into the pouch.
Holding the pouch in his right hand, he stood up and saw that his summoned goblin was being beaten back by the mace goblin!
Its HP had already dropped below 60!
"So fierce!"
Anno noticed that aside from the initial knife wound from the summoned goblin, the mace goblin seemed uninjured.
"Could it be level suppression?"
Anno guessed that its level was likely higher than the summoned goblin's.
At least 2, or maybe 3.
After all, he had leveled up over 1 level from killing one!
"Can't win, have to run!"
Anno felt his summon wouldn't last much longer.
In just a moment, it took two more hits, its HP already below 50!
He looked around.
The man shot in the shoulder lay slumped on the ground, covered in wounds, a dagger goblin still jumping about stabbing him occasionally.
The bald man ran towards the forest covered in blood, two goblins chasing after him.
As for the women behind, other than the girl in a dress who seemed scared stiff, the rest had already followed the thin man back into the church.
Suddenly, Anno noticed a topless woman struggling to get up from the ground.
Blood flowed from her forehead, and her wheat colored skin had bruises from being clubbed on the back.
Anno remembered her. Among the women, only she wore a bikini, and only she charged at the goblins with some men.
She was undoubtedly the most useful one of the women.
Anno couldn't help glancing at her bare upper body. Just as he was about to walk over, a miserable scream sounded nearby.
Anno turned to look, the man with the arrow in his shoulder had been hacked to death by the dagger goblin!
Troublingly, after the dagger goblin glanced between Anno and the bikini woman, it charged straight at Anno.
"Damn!"
Anno swore and immediately fled.
As he ran, he shouted at the bikini woman and dress girl, "I'll lure it away, hurry and run!"
Though the goblin's original target was him anyway, no harm in earning some goodwill first.
Anno's physique was decent, thanks to working out while at university.
But the short-legged goblin ran just as fast as Anno.
Hearing the goblin getting closer behind with its cries, Anno dashed straight into the forest.
The dagger goblin did not give up, sticking close behind Anno.
But with the restricted vision in the forest, it soon lost him.
"Wuwa ya ya..."
匕首哥布林沮丧地在原地大喊。无力地发泄了一会后，又折了回去。
另一边，庵野继续拼命地冲刺。
在森林里狂奔了十几分钟后，他终于从森林里出来了。
“呼……呼！”
庵野回头望着森林，呼吸粗重。
“终于……逃走了！”
他举起左手，左手上缠满了撕破的袖子。
但血已经将所有的绷带都染成了红色。
“得找个地方治疗一下！”
庵野擦了擦脸上的汗，环顾四周。
他现在所在的地方很高，可以清楚地看到下面的城镇。
他甚至可以看到炊烟升起。
“太好了，走对了路！”
安野脸上露出喜悦之色，快步朝城镇跑去。
召唤出来的哥布林还没逃出森林，生命值就已经归零了。
但它还是成功地挡住了狼牙棒哥布林一段时间。
不然的话，无论是被狼牙棒哥布林打死，还是被追击的匕首哥布林砍死，庵野都已经死了！
至于教堂里一起醒来的其他人，庵野不知道有多少人逃走了。
他只能在心里为他们祈祷。
森林距离城镇约3公里。
半个小时后，庵野来到了城镇前，被两名装甲卫兵拦在了护城河前！