“Shua!”

  A powerful gust of wind erupted as a golden beam shot out, cleaving the massive tree outside the tribe cleanly in two.

  Tian immediately sensed something was wrong—this had to be Holy Light Impact.

  Thanks to the system, he could see Eveleya’s full status panel and skills, making the scene feel familiar.

  【Eveleya: Lv38

  Race: Human

  Class: Holy Nun

  Titles: Servant of God, Holy Body, Monster Hunter, Hero…

  HP: 309

  Strength: 98

  Defense: 107

  Skills: Holy Light Impact, Holy Light Shield, Divine Healing, Holy Scripture Prison, God’s Grace · Holy

  Equipment: Low-Grade Holy Spellbook

  Overall: 500】

  As a pure support healer, her combat power wasn’t particularly high. However, when using her holy magic at full strength, she could still take on several Greater-variant goblins single-handedly.

  At this moment, however, she was essentially a loyal servant to the goblins.

  Tian flipped to the page for Holy Scripture Prison.

  Staring at the strange ancient text, Eveleya began chanting uncontrollably.

  The spellbook resonated, and a fist-sized golden orb of light flew out from the pages.

  It rapidly expanded into a cross-shaped cage of light, crashing into the ground with a thunderous thud and locking firmly in place.

  “Now that’s more like it.”

  Tian smiled in satisfaction. With this skill, dealing with that Giant Hammer Goblin should be no problem.

  But first, they needed to gather a massive amount of paralyzing poison.

  Once he was imprisoned, they could force-feed him the poison until even his resistance failed.

  At that moment, Gob Kuang and the others finally lost interest.

  Rodel finally had a chance to catch his breath—at this point, death felt like it would be a mercy.

  If he weren’t waiting for the Sword Saint and the royal knights to come rescue him, he would have bitten his tongue and ended it long ago.

  “Huh? Eveleya, you’re back to normal? Quick—kill that goblin! Use your magic to heal me! Hurry!”

  Rodel practically screamed, his whole body shaking, eyes bloodshot and wide!

  But Eveleya only gave him a brief glance, as if she didn’t recognize him at all. She curled up at Tian’s feet, her pale, delicate form shrinking as she drifted off to sleep.

  “What… what the hell is going on?!”

  Rodel’s breathing trembled—he couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

  Eveleya—a holy nun—had become a goblin’s pet?!

  This was absurd!

  Tian looked down at him and sneered coldly.

  “What else could it be? She willingly submitted to me. She’s my loyal little dog now.”

  “You’re dead!!!”

  “Do you even know what you’ve done?! Eveleya is the daughter of a bishop in the Holy Church! Chosen as a servant to God! A child of the Holy Mother Mary! You have no idea what you’ve unleashed!!!”

  “The wrath of the Holy Church! What could a tiny goblin like you possibly withstand?! Even the Lionheart Empire bows before the Church—and you dare do this?! Hahahaha!”

  Rodel didn’t know whether to laugh or rage.

  Eveleya’s status was even higher than his own—that’s why he had only dared to pursue her, never force her.

  She represented divinity.

  If she were killed by goblins, that would just be a normal human-monster conflict.

  If she were defiled by goblins, people could still rationalize it—after all, they’re goblins.

  But now? A goblin had tamed God’s chosen servant into his own obedient and docile pet.

  This was a direct provocation against God Himself!

  This was war between monsters and divinity!

  The Church would never let this go. The Lionheart Empire—no, the entire continent—was about to be thrown into chaos!

  “Hahaha! Your actions will surely lead to the complete extinction of the goblin race from this world!”

  Rodel laughed maniacally.

  Tian finally understood.

  “So what—you’re saying goblins aren’t allowed to have her? God has his divinity, but goblins can’t have their own god?”

  “Pfft! Trash like you dare compare yourselves to the divine Church? Your only purpose is to be slaughtered by humans!”

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  Rodel spat viciously, his emotions boiling over.

  Tian slowly nodded.

  “I see. Alright then—Gob Kuang, are you guys tired already? Can’t keep going? Letting this guy rest?”

  “Ah? Boss, don’t slander me!”

  With that, Gob Kuang and the others immediately got fired up again.

  Rodel trembled with rage and terror.

  “Beast! Damn beasts! Aaaahhh!”

  …

  Once it was over, Tian began gathering the goblins, preparing weapons. It was time to deal with the Bloodfang Tribe.

  He announced,

  “This time, kill every regular goblin you see. But their leader must be taken alive. Start collecting as much paralyzing poison as possible—dump it all into these iron barrels.”

  Thanks to their iron-forging skills, crafting iron barrels was easy.

  In the end, they gathered more than ten barrels full of paralyzing toxin.

  “Move out—Bloodfang Tribe.”

  …

  Meanwhile, inside the Bloodfang Tribe.

  “Boss, we’ve cleared out every nearby goblin tribe and cave.”

  A goblin shaman reported.

  The Giant Hammer Goblin nodded in satisfaction.

  “Excellent. That means the western corrupted forest is now ours alone! Hahaha!”

  “But there’s still that bigger tribe to the south. No worries—last time we scouted, they were all just regular goblins. Not even one Greater variant.”

  The shaman said this, but his expression was a bit uneasy.

  The Giant Hammer Goblin waved it off carelessly.

  “A tiny tribe like that? Two Greater variants could wipe them out. Ignore them.”

  “But… I saw that they have a lot of iron weapons—and they’re keeping elves captive!”

  The shaman raised his voice slightly, sounding shocked and confused.

  At once,

  The lounging Giant Hammer Goblin suddenly sat upright.

  “Elves? So the northern elf tribe was taken down by them?”

  “Probably. We need to be careful. Find the right moment to sneak in, wipe them out, and steal their elves.”

  The shaman sneered coldly.

  Goblins were always wary of each other—better to eliminate a potential threat early before it grew too strong.

  The Giant Hammer Goblin thought for a moment.

  “Fine. We’ll go tonight.”

  “Boss! There’s a goblin outside asking to talk to us!”

  Suddenly, a shout shattered the calm of the Bloodfang Tribe.

  The visitor was none other than Tian.

  The Giant Hammer Goblin stormed out, dragging his massive bone hammer, brimming with arrogance.

  “Hm? Some lowly goblin from who-knows-where? Just kill him.”

  “Bloodfang Chief, I know you’re a Hero-tier goblin with near-human intelligence—that’s why I came to talk.”

  Tian said coldly.

  The Bloodfang Chief paused slightly.

  “You are…? A mutant variant?”

  He could tell Tian was no ordinary goblin, so he made the assumption.

  “No, just a bit smarter than average. I’m also the leader of the Tian Kuang Tribe to the south—the one you mentioned keeping elves captive.”

  Tian narrowed his eyes slightly.

  Hearing this, the Giant Hammer Goblin burst into roaring laughter.

  “Shaman, this is the ‘dangerous southern tribe’ you were talking about? This weakling is supposed to threaten us? Hahaha!”

  For a moment, the shaman didn’t know what to say.

  When he scouted earlier, they really did only have regular goblins.

  He never expected them to be this pathetic.

  “Bloodfang Chief, I actually came to discuss cooperation. If you’re willing to join us, you’ll have the chance to breed with elves—even humans. But the condition is that only you join.”

  Tian said seriously, staring straight into his eyes.

  The Giant Hammer Goblin froze for a second, then set his bone hammer down. His enormous body loomed like a mountain as he stepped forward.

  He reached out and grabbed Tian in one massive hand.

  “Hmph, idiot. Once you’re dead, those elves are all mine!”

  He prepared to crush Tian.

  Goblins had no concept of “don’t kill the messenger.”

  But in the next instant—the Giant Hammer Goblin’s fingers were all sliced clean off!

  Blood sprayed everywhere!

  “Aaaahhh! Damn you! Kill him!”

  The Giant Hammer Goblin roared in fury and quickly retreated.

  At his command, every goblin in the Bloodfang Tribe charged out—but they were all naked, no armor.

  Their weapons were just stones, wooden clubs, nothing more.

  “Boom! Boom! Boom!”

  The next second, heavy, orderly footsteps thundered from the dark forest!

  The Bloodfang goblins felt their hearts tighten.

  When they finally saw who was coming, real fear gripped them!

  If it were just a giant monster, they could handle it—but this was far more terrifying!

  Dozens of Goblin Warriors marched in perfect formation, clad in iron armor and wielding iron spears!

  Like an unstoppable army!

  “How can there be so many Goblin Warriors?!”

  The Bloodfang shaman was stunned—whoever wanted to fight could do it themselves.

  He turned and ran toward the back, planning to escape.

  But the moment he reached the edge of the grass, a sharp blade pierced straight through his chest!

  “Who—!”

  The shaman let out a frenzied roar, baring his teeth and trying to fight back.

  The first stab didn’t kill him.

  Then a second blade plunged into his forehead.

  The attacker was Gob Tian, leading a squad of Goblin Assassins.

  In the darkness, their figures were almost invisible. With Night Stealth activated, not even goblin night vision could detect them.

  The skill only worked at night—no effect in daylight.

  And Night Stealth lasted only 30 seconds—usually saved for critical moments.

  Now was exactly that moment.

  At Gob Tian’s command, all the Goblin Assassins activated stealth and slipped into the Bloodfang Tribe.

  Meanwhile, the Giant Hammer Goblin was furious.

  “Damn it! So what if there are a bunch of Goblin Warriors? I’ll flatten them all!”

  He tried to pick up his bone hammer again.

  But the instant his fingers opened—cold light flashed!

  All his fingers were severed again!

  Now both hands were fingerless—he couldn’t even hold the hammer. His strength was greatly reduced.

  “Damn it! What the hell is this?! My hands! I can’t hold my hammer! I can’t hold it!!”

  The Giant Hammer Goblin went berserk, flailing his fists wildly.

  Seeing this, Gob Tian shouted,

  “Mission accomplished—fall back!”

  The Goblin Assassins were fragile—one solid punch would kill them, so they immediately retreated.

  Outside the tribe, the better-equipped Goblin Warriors were slaughtering.

  The charging lesser goblins were cut down like vegetables—easy kills, several at a time.

  Three hundred goblins couldn’t hold them back at all.

  Even the few Greater variants in Bloodfang were only half as strong as Tian’s side.

  They were effortlessly killed.

  Soon, only the raging, fist-swinging Giant Hammer Goblin remained.

  “Master! Master!”

  At that moment, Tian appeared, leading Eveleya by the hand.

  He commanded,

  “Use Holy Scripture Prison to trap him.”

  “Yes, Master!”

  Eveleya immediately began chanting. The spellbook flipped open on its own.

  A ball of light transformed into a cross-shaped cage, piercing straight through the Giant Hammer Goblin’s body.

  It locked him in place—he was completely immobilized.

  But it looked like it would only hold for about ten seconds.

  Taking advantage of the window, Tian shouted,

  “The stuff! Pour it down his throat! Then use your poison skills—bite him!”

  A group of Goblin Assassins appeared again, swiftly pouring all the collected paralyzing toxin down the Giant Hammer Goblin’s throat.

  The rest swarmed him and sank their teeth in hard.

  “Damn you! Damn you all!”

  The Giant Hammer Goblin struggled with all his might, finally breaking free of the cage. He flung several Goblin Warriors away in one violent motion.

  His strength was terrifying.

  “Everyone fall back!”

  Tian urgently ordered.

  The Giant Hammer Goblin fixed his hateful gaze on Tian and charged straight at him.

  Eveleya raised her hand to cast an offensive spell, but Tian stopped her.

  “It’s fine, my good little dog.”

  “Boom!”

  A cloud of dust exploded.

  The Giant Hammer Goblin collapsed right in front of Tian—completely paralyzed.