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The Last Horcrux
Chapter 25 : Goblin camp 2

Chapter 25 : Goblin camp 2

Gormak was a hard working goblin. He worked hard everyday, following the orders of his superior. From building wooden huts to guarding the walls, he was like a loyal subject. Though it was not always like this. Before the commander was born, he was like a lost lamb, struggling to survive. It was only after the commander was born that he was taught the true path. Things like how to use tools was taught to him.

This made him very happy. He no longer had to struggle to hunt. With these new tools, he thrived and grew. And after weeks of hard work, he had finally done it. Through his hard work and effort, he had gained the strength to evolve and join the ranks of his seniors.

No more would he be looked down by his seniors. On this day, he was finally strong enough to stand beside them and accomplish his dreams. His dreams of mating with a human female was finally within his grasps. He hated mating with female goblins. He hated their rough skin and horrendous face. Everyday he saw the soft skin of human females and was told that he was not allowed. Everyday, he had no choice but  to watch them be carried over to the cave without being able to do anything about it. Every day was like torture for him.

However, after finally evolving into a hobgoblin, he was finally allowed to enter the breeding chambers. No more would he have to stand and watch, today was the day he was finally going to join in and become a true hobgoblin. His father had always told him that to become a true hobgoblin, he had to sex with a human, elf or beastman.

Walking towards the prison room, Gormak cheered happily. He couldn’t hold his excitement in as he merrily walked towards the prison room. Reaching the wooden gates that locked the prison, Gormak hurriedly unlocked it and rushed in. After entering the prison, his eyes popped wide open as he saw the buffet of women. As his eyes lustfully scanned the room for the perfect pick, his one eyed purple headed yogurt slinger rose in attention to his thoughts.

He walked towards the right side of the room and picked a tall middle aged women up. With passion overflowing him, he carried her by her legs and swung her over his large shoulder. After getting his prize, Gormak turned around and walked towards the wooden gate.

However, just as he was about to leave through the door, he heard the sound of someone running behind him. Next, he felt something move his sword sheath.

*Pst*

Suddenly, he felt blood spray out from his neck. A metal blade had pierced his neck, drawing large amounts of blood. It was his sword. Gormak face churned into a snarl he felt extreme pain wrecked spread from his neck. His dark green skin became stained in blood as it gushed out from his throat. Unable to scream due to the cut on his throat, Gormak turned and to face his attacker.

An expression of confusion rose as he turned around. In his dark red bulging eyes were the reflection of a smiling girl with pink hair. A smile so sinister and creepy that froze his warrior heart completely. How? How is she awake? Why is she smiling? Intruder? Impossible!

However, despite having a cut across his throat, he didn’t die. Due to the fact that the cut was shallow, his hobgoblin vitality kept him alive. His anger flared as his confusion and shock ran out. Realising that a human girl had just attacked him, he roared in angered but nothing but soft gurgles came out. The cut on his throat had destroyed his vocal cords.

His anger rose even higher. Not only did i get attacked, i’m heavily damaged!

Pulling another sword out of his second sheath, he thrusted his sword at the girl that attacked him. However, to his surprise, the girl dodged it expertly and retaliated. She had bent her back backwards by a ridiculous angle, causing the sword to pierce the air above her.

*Pst*

A shallow cut appeared on his chest.

Gormak mind turned into shambles as he tried to comprehend what was going on. What is going on? How is she so nimble? How is she awake? I’m getting destroyed by a weak little girl!

Swinging his sword again, he slashed downwards towards the girl’s legs. However, just like before, his sword only passed through the air as the girl dodge yet again. This time she did a front somersault and jumped over the sword before slashing at his head, causing another shallow wound to form.

Looking at the smiling face of the pink haired girl in front of him, Gormak couldn’t help but feel that she was toying with him. And indeed he was right.

After causing heavy damage to the hobgoblin’s neck, Nora knew that she had all the time in the world to practice with him. Since he couldn’t shout or scream loudly for help, no other hobgoblins were going to come. Unless he escape, he was all alone. Thus, Nora decided to keep him as a practice partner to train her sword skills again. Moreover, she wanted to practice her movements with her body. With ‘nimble body’ and ‘haste’ increasing her mobility, Nora wanted to find out the limits of her body.

She wanted to know how far she could take her body before fighting the commander. Waiting for the hobgoblin to swing again, Nora couldn’t help but smirk. She could sense that the hobgoblin was fuming in anger. She could see his veins popped out from his forehead. Nora almost felt bad for him, her sadistic side was coming out again.

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Unable to hold his anger anymore, Gormak rushed forward and continuously swung his sword at Nora. He kept swinging hoping for Nora to make a mistake or to make a lucky strike. However, that did not happen. No matter what he did, Nora expertly dodged it by a hair’s breath and retaliated. With the passive ‘nimble body’ active, there was nothing Gormak could do to hit her, her flexible was almost at an athlete's level.

Gormak right arm fell as Nora slashed his arm. The women he was carrying dropped onto the floor in a sack of potatoes. However, he did not even glance at her. There was a bigger threat in front of him. Seeing how the pink haired girl was staring at him with mischievous eyes, he felt as if she was a predator toying with it’s prey. He knew that if he stopped paying attention to her for even a second, he knew he was going to die.

However, there was nothing he could do to kill her. She was too fast for him to hit. Feeling desperate, Gormak decided to run. After turning around, Gormak moved his legs as fast as he could, cursing the fact that he was borned with 2 legs. However, before he could even take more than 5 steps. He felt a chill down his spine. As if a tiger was behind him. With his back wide open, a large cut suddenly appeared on his back, causing him to stagger to the ground.

Nora was finally done playing around. Flicking her sword again, Gormak lifeless head rolled onto the ground. His body mutilated by multiple shallow wounds, blood pouring from each orifices. Gormak was just a pile of muscle and blood, as if a sadistic serial killer had just played with it’s body. The level 42 indicator above his head slowly dimmed before disappearing.

Seeing that the fight was over, Nora couldn't help but stretch herself. This was the first time she noticed how flexible her body was. Although she had the skill for a long time, she had never bothered to check how strong it was. Since she had never been in a real fight where she could use was her body, she never noticed that she could bend so far.

Doing a split, Nora saw that her legs could bend up to 200 degrees. With the way her body bent, Nora felt like she was a gymnast. However, after hearing Evelyn telepathic comment, Nora immediately stopped playing around. Her face blushed with embarrassment.

“Master, look at how flexible you are! That’s a lot of positions you can try out.”

Pretending as if nothing happened, Nora cleaned the blood off her swords by rubbing it on her clothes and using its cleaning effect to get rid of the blood. After she was done removing the blood, Nora telepathically asked Evelyn about something she was wondering about during the fight, “hey Eve, how come all the women are still unconscious? What did the goblins do to them?”

“Oh yeah, i forgot to tell you. The goblins used some weird paste to make everyone fall asleep. I don't know how they got the paste. All i know is that the goblin commander gave them out to everyone.”

After listening to what Evelyn said, Nora couldn’t help but think that something weird was going on.

How did the commander get the paste? A hobgoblin commander isn’t smart enough to craft it. Was i wrong? Has a bigger threat spawned?

Nora felt anxious thinking about the monster that was stronger than a goblin commander. However, seeing that she had no other clues to decipher what was going on, Nora decided to ignore it for now. She knew she was going to find out soon anyway.

After leaving the prison room, Nora locked the wooden gates and left the scene. She  sneaked forward and was soon met with a dilemma, a split in the tunnels. 4 different tunnels appeared and all had clear signs of recent travels. Nora did not know where to go. Moreover, all of the paths looked exactly the same to Nora. All had torches lighting the way and was evenly elevated.

Evelyn did not have enough info on the cave to find proper directions. All she knew was that the leftmost path was the direction of the exit. Left with no choice but to rely on luck, Nora used the right hand method and took the rightmost path.

Keeping her ears wide open and ready, Nora roamed through the rocky tunnel. After sneaking around for a few minutes, Nora heard the sound of footsteps coming towards her. She heard it get louder and louder as if it was getting closer to her. Nora jumped and climbed up onto the rocky ceiling. Using one hand, Nora to grip tightly onto the stalactite and waited.

Soon, she saw a tall green skinned hobgoblin. Nora free hand gripped the chipped sword tightly as she waited for him to pass by. Her heart thumped loudly as she started perspiring.

Now!

The moment the hobgoblin walked by below her, Nora released her grip of the stalactite and plunged down towards him. As if she had been training all her life, Nora used the most reliable move ever known to man. Nora used the plunging attack to instantly KO the hobgoblin. With his head cleaved in half, the level 47 hobgoblin died before even realising what happened.

Leaving the dead body behind, Nora continued to wander through the endless cave. However, this time, Nora walked instead of slowing sneaking. She wasn’t sure how strong the the hobgoblins sense of smell were. She didn’t know when they’ll notice the corpses. Thus she wanted to kill as much as she can before getting caught.

After a few minutes of walking around, Nora noticed a stronger light shining around a corner. Nora immediately stopped running and pressed herself against the wall. Silently she peered out and saw 3 hobgoblins huddled around a fire eating what seemed like flesh. Occasionally, grunts and grumbles leaked out from their mouth as they laughed and talked. Although Nora was used to seeing people be consumed, Nora was still disgusted by the sight. She was slowly regaining her humanity.

Should i reveal myself now? If i kill all three of them with magic, the commander will sense the mana fluctuations. Actually, i shouldn’t. With more than 10 hobgoblins alive, it’s too risky. Moreover, i still not sure if there’s something stronger than a goblin commander.

I need to kill more hobgoblins before revealing myself. Otherwise it’ll be too difficult. Sigh, looks like i have to risk it again. At least this body is useful in situations like this. It’s good to be underestimated.

Preparing herself for the act, Nora loosened her clothes to look the part. And to make herself look even more authentic, Nora rubbed her eyes with dirt to create fake tears. After mentally preparing herself, Nora left the sword behind the corner and ran towards the trio.

The moment she entered the room, the 3 hobgoblins turned to her in surprise. They were obviously wondering how she had managed to escape. With lustful eyes piercing her, Nora pretended to be scared.

Faking an expression of fear, Nora stopped and shook her legs. Seeing Nora slowly move backwards, the trio smiled lustfully. Turning around, Nora dashed back around the corner.

The trio smiled at each other and laughed. Hastily getting up, they chased after Nora, laughing along the way. They were quite confident in catching her. Despite not knowing how she escaped, they knew that it was impossible for her to escape the compound. Sooner or later, they’ll get her.

However, as soon as the trio turned around the corner, a splatter of blood occurred. It happened too fast for any of them to realise anything. With another flash of light, another geyser of blood spewed out. The last of the trio wanted to screamed in surprised but right before any sound got out, another slash occurred, killing him instantly. In less than a second, all three of the hobgoblins had died. Two, didn’t even knew what killed them.

Taking a breath of relief, Nora left the body and entered the room with the fire. On the other side of the room, was a wooden door with metal bolts. Seeing how special the room was, Nora knew something good was on the other side.

He gazed through a small hole by the door and saw a well-constructed room. Nora could see several objects in the room with runes inscribed within them. Scrolls lined the far wall and a staff with a red crystal leaned against the desk. The room itself was lit by a orange crystal orb hanging from the ceiling. On the desk, Nora saw test tubes and beakers lined up by the side. In the middle, notes were sprawled all over, giving a chaotic feeling, Nora was extremely familiar with the sight and knew exactly what was going on.Nora had no doubts about it, it was a mage’s experiment room.

The only thing in the room that surprised her was the sight of a pink pig faced man pouring powder into a vial of transparent liquid.

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