In the middle of the area, there was a larger hut than any other. It wasn't just a larger sized hut, but it was also made with a bit more detail than the other makeshift huts. It had kept bothering Asher for quite some time and he decided to check it out. There was only one reason Asher felt bothered by it.
'Goblins have no ranks between them…. So why is that hut like that?'
Goblins were a very… unique bunch. There were no skilled ranks between them, and in general their species was just too dumb as a whole to even come up with the brains of something like societal ranks. That was why such a hut, bothered Asher about the implications it held.
What was rather fortunate for mankind, was that goblins had not a single inkling of intelligence, and neither did they have any kind of ranks between them like shamans or magicians. Goblins were already a very densely populated species with a high reproduction rate, so if they did have these ranks, it would likely be the Goblins being the species that endangered humanity 50 years ago and not the demons.
Yet… he couldn't help but feel like the hut was designed for the presence of a leader. Asher tried to separate these thoughts and push them away, but couldn't as he approached the hut.
"Keruk… Keruk…"
Inside the hut, there was a slightly darker colored goblin than the ones he had encountered till now, but it didn't look any more different than that. It wasn't bigger than any of the others, nor better dressed.
Asher stopped his step slightly when he noticed the slight difference in skin color, but soon he took out a dagger and approached the goblin. Asher was right before the goblin, when he stuck the dagger towards its neck to puncture the goblin's esophagus. But for some reason, right before he could do so, the dagger caught on something.
"Shit…"
Asher murmured in surprise. A black thread held his arm back. When Asher focused his eyes carefully, he noticed there were black threads all around Goblin he was trying to kill. He had been fooled and placed in a trap.
"Hah."
What kind of goblin did this, he thought and chuckled lightly. However, his expression turned cold as he suddenly heard the sound of a horn get blown outside the hut. The other goblins had been found out and sounded the alarm.
The sleeping goblin opened its eyes at the sound of the alarm. Its eyes suddenly widened and fixed themselves on Asher, who was in front of it, and howled.
"KRUKKKK KREEEE!"
Quang!
The hut collapsed. Asher bounced off and landed on the floor. It quickly became noisy as the other Goblins started to wake up one-by-one and attacked Asher.
"Kerak Kree!"
Asher found himself in a dogfight. The approaching goblin stabbed with it's spear and Asher parried it quickly, breaking the wrist of the goblin and stabbing his knife up the jugular of the goblin.
Quickly seeing the goblin in front of him fall, Asher grabbed it's spear that was mid-air and turned his body to throw the spear he had caught into the chest of the nearest Goblin. Yet this was only the beginning of the waves of green monsters starting to close in on him.
'Fuck, I'm in trouble.'
Asher clicked his tongue and kicked his foot down onto the ground with a mighty stomp.
As if an earthquake had occurred, the earth shook violently as Asher stimulated his unique aura into his foot to make the ground quake. The goblins lost their footing as Asher then sprinted through their ranks cloaking himself in a dark robe as he reached Reika's location quickly.
"Ah, Asher! What's this…."
"We're caught. It was a trap, we need to run right now."
Asher normally would never be frightened of such mere goblins. But these numbers were dangerous and he was still not as powerful as he'd like to be in order to slay them all here without raising suspicions. More than that, he needed to get out of here quickly at the sudden appearance of a simple trap. It was just a trap, but everything leading up to that point, indicated something was off.
Goblins were a bunch of low-intelligence mongrels that looked like walking snot. They had set a trap? This was rather unique and was not something Asher could bother to explain in detail to Reika right now.
"Krahhhh!"
A goblin suddenly jumped out of the bushes, but Asher didn't even react or look at it, as he simply brought a spear out of his wrist brace's spatial pocket and stabbed it. Asher then stood up and kicked the goblin off the speartip into the incoming goblins that were chasing after him. Asher turned his head back towards Reika and spoke.
"We need to run away for now. Don't make me repeat myself."
Asher had spoken this time, with no signs of his indifferent or nonchalant attitude. His eyes had narrowed and turned cold as he looked at the incoming Goblin horde.
"O- Okay."
( next chapter after 2 days later & thx Jerry_oh for the power stone .
another thing, do you guys wants to have some patreon chapter? it will help me financially)