Although this beautiful and dangerous forest was scary, everyone was no longer as scared as they were before going through a stimulating fight.

From time to time, one or two scattered Goblins would appear in front of them and they would also respond to it quickly. When there were more than one goblins, Yumi would attract their attention and use herself as a tank, while Maggie and Link supported her by using ranged spells on goblins.

Goblins would be finished off quickly under the fierce bombardment. With this process, a skill book,[Restore] dropped. The skill had a 2 second cast time. It could only be learned by Priests, the skill could instantly restore 40 Hp. It was one of the better skills in lower levels.

As Maggie was the sole priest in their group so they didn’t have to think about it, Link directly handed it to Maggie. Maggie was also very happy after getting a new skill. Restore was an extremely important skill for training in secret realms. If it was sold outside, it could go for millions.

“Let’s continue onward.” Link said.

Aside from AOE attack skill books, priest-class skill books were the most expensive and rare. Even though Link had the Amplification Module, it didn’t allow him to learn skills from other classes.

After walking for more than half an hour, Link’s party arrived at a flat grassland. They had finally met elite goblins for the first time.

[Goblin Warrior] (Elite)

Level 9

Hp 5000

[Goblin Archer] (Elite)

Level 9

Hp 4500

[Goblin Mage] (Elite)

Level 9

Hp 4000

Elite goblins were different from the ordinary goblins, they were taller and stronger. But the most astonishing thing about these elite goblin parties was that they followed a leader. So most of them were very organized.

As soon as the three of them came into view, the goblin party arranged themselves into a proper formation. Goblins warriors taking the lead, while archers were behind them.

Seeing this formation Link was amazed.

“No wonder people don’t like goblins that much, they are far smarter than other monsters.” Link said.

“Yes, Elite goblins are more difficult to deal with compared to other elite monsters.” Yumi said with a sigh.

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“So what should we do now?” Maggie asked.

“There is no need to panic, we only need to do the same thing we did until now. I will tank them and Maggie will use her healing spells on me. Link, you have to concentrate on dealing the most damage.”

Link and Maggie nodded after hearing Yumi. Actually Link wasn’t really worried about facing these elite goblins, he was worried about hidden attackers.

Yumi didn’t have to wait for a long time, the goblin party was already approaching their group. Yumi didn’t waste time and waved her spear towards the goblins warriors. As soon as the spear came into contact with the first goblin, it cut globin into half. But other Elite Goblins didn’t miss their chance to injure Yumi, so Yumi had to defend herself from their attacks.

Even though Yumi had better equipment, Goblin attacks started piling damage on Yumi bit by bit. In a matter of seconds, Yumi lost one third of her Hp. Maggie also didn’t take much time to use healing spells on Yumi, refiling her Hp to full.

In the meanwhile, Link had already conjured a blast spell in front of him. As soon as Blast spell was thrown on the group of the goblins, a fire wave swept through the goblin party. But they didn’t have much time to recover as Yumi started using her spear to reap their lives.

But Goblins were not stupid, a low roar came from the side of the goblin party, which belonged to the leader. As soon as the roar sounded, panicked goblins seemed to have found their hope, as they rearranged themselves into the formation.

Yumi, who was trying to reap more goblin lives, felt something rapidly approaching from a distance. Yumi used a low level shield amulet to conjure a shield around her.

As soon as the shield amulet was used, several arrows bombarded on the shield. Looking at the dense volley of the arrows, Yumi broke into cold sweat. Link, who never dropped his guard, was also paying attention to Yumi and Maggie while fighting.

So Link was aware of Yumi’s situation, he was also ready to cast Bone Armor on Yumi at any time but Yumi’s quick reaction truly surprised him. It’s very hard for someone to predict danger on instinct but what sets her apart from normal professionals is her reaction based on instinct.

Link was aware that Yumi should have gone through a lot of training before her awakening because of her family background. But developing fighting instincts and such a quick reaction needs you to go through many fights. And Yumi's performance is the result of her hard work.

“I have to start working hard if I want to unleash my full potential.” Link was feeling very motivated after watching Yumi’s performance.

Link also started using blast spells in succession. While Maggie was busy using the Holy shield to help Yumi negate some damage. Link observed the battle situation and found that even though all three of them are trying their best, it is very hard to destroy a well formed group of Goblins.

“We have to take care of the leader first.” Link shouted to Yumi and Maggie.

Yumi and Maggie were also aware of the fact that they didn’t cause much damage to this group of the Goblins even after fighting for a while.

“Do you have a plan?” Yumi asked without turning back.

“Yeah, but I have to prepare for a while, and I need you to deal with remaining goblins for a while.” Link answered.

Yumi nodded without asking any further questions, and started using her spear skills actively to defend against attacks of the goblins, while Maggie started healing her.

Link distanced himself from the fight and ran in the forest and started circling back towards the other side of the Goblin party. Just as he walked out of the forest, Link felt a cold sensation in the back of her neck. Without wasting any time, he ducked down. As soon as he looked up, Link saw a black knife passing though the place where he was standing previously.

Link rolled to the side and jumped back to create some distance from the ambusher. He found a lean and tall goblin in the distance, with a knife in its right hand, while its left hand had many darts.

“Finally found you.”