“Ahhhh!”

The Redcap Goblin drew its short dagger and chopped directly at the neck of a tribe member who was turning to flee.

Its blood-red eyes glared fiercely at the remaining goblins watching it.

No retreat! Time to fight!

Unlike ordinary goblins, the Redcap Goblin suppressed its lingering unease at the bloody scene. The battle instinct born from its bloodline was awakening. The thirst for human blood overwhelmed its fear of death.

After slaying two timid tribe members, the group’s collapse temporarily stabilized.

Its brain’s combat memory told it that as long as it approached these spellcasting humans, victory was near.

Perhaps after bathing in the blood of this powerful human, it could even advance to a stronger level!

Fueled by this desire, the Redcap Goblin began pushing the tribe relentlessly!

Inspired by this rally, the goblins regained their fighting spirit and launched a third charge.

“Goblin kill count: 4”

“Total monster kills: 210”

After three charges and the loss of ten tribe members, goblins finally reached Gauss’s side again.

By this point, the number of adult goblins that had died at Gauss’s hands in this village had unknowingly reached twenty-five, nearly half of their forces.

Facing the goblin rushing forward, Gauss didn’t bother drawing his rapier.

He seized the opportunity to snatch up the Unbreaking Scepter, just after releasing a spell, and smashed it toward the enemy in front.

His strength of 7 made the rapier feel light and nimble, but the metal scepter was just right.

Combined with the Goblin Killer title’s 20% damage bonus against goblins,

and the Unbreaking Scepter’s sturdy properties,

all these powers stacked up to unleash even greater force!

“Thud!”

The moment the scepter’s head struck the goblin’s skull, time seemed to freeze for an instant.

“Bang!!!”

A crisp, perfect sound echoed throughout the village.

The skull cracked sharply where it was hit, then burst apart like a watermelon exploding!

The ugly head was smashed and shattered by the immense force, brain matter and gore spraying everywhere!

Only the headless body spasmed weakly, then collapsed to its knees.

Meanwhile, the spears of two or three other goblins stabbed at Gauss but couldn’t pierce his solid armor even an inch.

Their wooden spears failed to penetrate Gauss’s tough protection.

This brutal scene caused the nearby goblins to tremble in fear.

“Bang!”

“Bang!”

“Bang!”

But Gauss didn’t stop. He pressed forward with unrelenting force.

His scepter hammered down like a heavy hammer on the heads of several goblins.

Each strike effortlessly shattered their skulls.

“Goblin kill count: 4”

“Total monster kills: 214”

“So useful, really useful.”

Gauss noticed that after increasing his strength, the Unbreaking Scepter felt much easier to handle.

At long range, it could unleash Magic Missile spells.

When enemies closed in, and it was inconvenient to cast spells, he could seamlessly switch to melee combat with it.

The only downside was it looked a bit rough. Anyone seeing his current fighting style would definitely call him a berserker. Who would have guessed he was actually a mage?

But a weapon that kills enemies is a good weapon, no matter how it’s used.

Gauss swiftly cleared out the nearby goblins.

Not far away, a red figure no longer hid itself.

It drew its short dagger, stomped hard on the ground, and with powerful leg strength, this not-so-tall body leapt high.

Its physique was deceptive. Despite being only about 1.3 meters tall, it possessed strength surpassing that of a strong human man.

The high-leaping Redcap Goblin launched a powerful jump slash from several meters away.

Gauss had already noticed it for a while.

Before, it cautiously stayed behind its tribe members;

now it dared to launch its final attack close to him.

Little did it know, Gauss had been waiting for this very moment.

With a wrist flick, the tip of the Unbreaking Scepter aimed at the airborne Redcap Goblin.

“Magic Missile!”

The moment the scepter tip gathered magical power,

a smile appeared on Gauss’s face.

A strange sensation of rapidly expanding magic surged.

Luck was on his side.

Of course, part of this was by design.

After stacking so many attacks without triggering the Goblin Killer title’s critical hit effect, it finally activated now.

Because it was marked as a leader, the Magic Missile Gauss released was at full power, without any reduction.

Originally more powerful than a normal magic missile, with the critical hit effect boost, it quickly swelled.

A 20% power bonus, a special magician class first-ring spell, Spell Mastery talent, critical hit effect, secondary core skill...

This strike was the ultimate hit stacked with buffs!

“Boom!”

As the missile shot out, the air seemed to be torn apart completely!

Shockwaves rippled along the missile’s flight path.

“Thoom!!!”

The Redcap Goblin in midair, with nowhere to dodge, was precisely blasted by the heavy large missile.

In an instant, as if hit by a several-hundred-pound high-speed hammer,

before it could even be blown away by the impact, it exploded!

Literally, its skin burst open on the spot.

Blood, guts, shattered bones, brain matter, eyeballs, muscle tissue, and its treasured red pointed cap were all blown to pieces, raining down like a heavy storm!

“Goblin kill count: 1”

“Total monster kills: 215”

Instant kill!

Gauss nodded, satisfied with the effect of his ultimate strike.

Though it felt like using a cannon to kill a mosquito, the power was clearly visible to the naked eye.

Truly strong—probably even the mantis man he fought before couldn’t have withstood this strike.

However, thinking carefully, he realized he was being a bit unrealistic. Since the mantis man didn’t receive the Goblin Killer title’s bonus, the damage wouldn’t have been so exaggerated.

Still, with his current strength, killing it shouldn’t be difficult—though it might take one or two more Magic Missiles to finish it off.

Gathering his thoughts,

Gauss turned to the other goblins.

Without their leader Redcap, they seemed stunned.

Bathed in a rain of blood, their steps grew heavier.

Seeing the goblin group’s morale sink to rock bottom, Gauss knew he had to speed up.

Without their leader, the goblins would quickly scatter.

There were still over twenty goblins ahead, and chasing them separately would be troublesome.

He planted the Unbreaking Scepter into the ground and drew his rapier.

He still had to be faster than them.

With a big stride, he approached several goblins.

Thanks to the level 2 Basic Swordsmanship skill, his rapier felt incredibly skilled in his hand.

Killing ordinary goblins didn’t require complicated sword techniques;

the most basic moves were enough.

The key was speed, precision, and ruthlessness.

His wrist flicked several times, the rapier slicing several afterimages in the air!

“Flame!”

“Desire!”

Gauss moved quickly.

Following each step was the slender silver sword light hitting the goblins’ vital spots precisely.

Each movement was like a dance.

Occasionally, a goblin tried to resist, but it would sadly see its weapon blocked by mysterious power, then, after the flashing sword light, darkness would swallow it forever.

Without their leader, the goblins were nothing but a disorganized mob to Gauss.

“Goblin kill count: 1”

“Goblin kill count: 1”

“Goblin kill count: 1”

Amid the splashing murky blood, kill notifications flashed before Gauss’s eyes.

Within minutes, he eliminated all the goblin’s fighting strength.

Then he looked down at the reddish-brown footprints extending toward a low wall.

Gauss narrowed his eyes slightly.

He leapt onto the low wall.

Sure enough, in the distance, he saw several goblins fleeing toward the forest.

Alongside them were goblin pups from the village that had not appeared before.

These small creatures, about several dozen centimeters tall, ran surprisingly fast.

Gauss jumped down from the wall, feeling his surplus stamina and magic.

Activating the skill Enhanced Jump, he sped up the chase.

He was already faster than the goblins, and with the skill bonus, his speed soared even higher.

Before long, he caught up to the goblins that had run ahead.

“Flame!”

His rapier stabbed the back of one goblin.

Then the second, then the third!

Even if it wasn’t part of his mission, he would exterminate every goblin.

Finally, all adult goblins were dead by his hand.

Before him stood seven or eight small goblin pups of varying heights and sizes.

At this stage, the goblin pups already had some rudimentary intelligence.

They looked at Gauss with eyes full of hatred.

Especially the one in front, the largest, nearly 80 centimeters tall with green skin.

Its lowered head and eyes held a hatred almost tangible in form.

Perhaps in its eyes, Gauss, who shattered their peaceful daily lives and slaughtered their kin with similar blood, was no different from a merciless demon.

Gauss met its gaze.

Under his stare, it slowly knelt and repeatedly kowtowed, begging for mercy.

“You seem smarter than other goblins.” Gauss said solemnly.

This was the first time a goblin had knelt and kowtowed to beg for mercy in front of him.

Such human-like behavior was probably learned from captured humans in their tribe’s past, but it also indicated it was naturally more intelligent than most goblins.

If Gauss hadn’t arrived, years later, it might have used its stronger body and intelligence to rise to elite status and wreak havoc.

“Too bad!”

Gauss casually swung his sword.

Precisely and quickly, he cut down the small head bowed on the ground.

Its intelligence still had limits;

the emotion in its eyes couldn’t be hidden.

Of course, even if it hadn’t revealed that deep hatred, Gauss wouldn’t have spared it.

The remaining pups met the same fate amid a series of sharp cries.

Looking at the scattered palm-sized heads,

Gauss’s expression grew serious.

His seriousness wasn’t about exterminating the goblin pups.

Rather, he suddenly realized that the hatred between monsters and humans might be tangled and deepened in this flowing blood.

If he had missed this group of pups, years later, a goblin elite full of hatred toward humans might be born, seizing every chance to massacre human villages just like today.