Chrysos charged towards the village. The goblins noticed him running and they immediately blew horns to signal the others.
"Intruder! Kill him!" A goblin shouted and shot an arrow at Chrysos.
"Get rid of the intruder!" More goblins grabbed their bows and arrows and shot a hailstorm of arrows at Chrysos.
Such a terrifying number of arrows was shot down and anyone who saw this wouldn't think to run forward recklessly.
As Chrysos dashed like the wind towards the goblin village, he could somehow understand what they were saying.
"They can talk? And it's human tongue as well..? Interesting..." Chrysos squinted and looked at the village more differently now than he did earlier.
"They have bows and trained archers, this isn't a normal thing at all.." Chrysos wasn't really confident that he could block or slice through this much arrows. Of course, he has a limit as a human being. Well, sort of a human being.
Skin hardening wouldn't be too useful because some of the arrows that were being shot have piercing Divinious within them. With this alone, the quest is definitely one of the harder intermediate quests.
Divinious isn't used by humans alone. Many creatures and other races can also use it.
Chrysos took a potion with a dull orange colored Divinious energy swirling inside. He threw it on the ground and a lotus flower formation made of rocks appeared and covered Chrysos from the rain of arrows.
Chrysos took another potion from his belt that had gray needle like Divinious spikes inside and uncorked it.
The moment the liquid was released, thick fog filled the earthly lotus flower. And then, Chrysos took an incendiary potion and uncorked it.
…
Meanwhile, at the goblin's treehouses.
"What's going on? What happened to the human?" A goblin archer general asked his subordinates.
He had green skin, a pointy nose, quadruple jointed arms and yellow eyes. He wore a belt with animal skin covering his entire lower half. He held a bow and he had a leather quiver on his back.
"The human hid in that rock statue. Our arrows cannot pierce through it." A goblin archer answered his question.
"Wait for him to escape. Shoot him down if he does." The archer general commanded.
"Yes, this subordinate understands." The goblin archer put his hand on his chest and bowed before leaving.
"Tch, all humans clearly do not know what's good for them." The archer general watched the rock lotus from the highest treehouse in the area. He grabbed a wooden cup and drank some water.
Suddenly, the earthen lotus popped like an over pressurized tank and thick gray fog covered the battlefield.
"Pfft-" The archer general spat out his drink. After wiping his lips, he searched for the human but the fog was too thick to even see anything.
Frustrated, the archer general shouted. "Shoot! It doesn't matter where you shoot, just make sure that he won't enter the village!"
The archers nodded and started shooting randomly.
...
Chrysos smiled. He ran across the battlefield unhindered. The goblins cannot see through the fog, but he can.
Chrysos closed his eyes and when he opened them, a layer of translucent crimson tissue covered his eyes.
The crimson elephant has a unique evolutionary trait that allows it to see heat that works like heat vision goggles. Not only that, it can also see fresh blood being circulated through walls!
But of course, that uncanny ability to see blood through walls costs Divinious.
Thu!
Chrysos ran through the scattered rain of arrows. Since they aren't as compact as before, he could easily tread through the arrow rain. He slashed down arrows that came dangerously close to him and avoided the arrows that had Divinious as they were more dangerous.
The normal arrows could barely do anything to him because of skin hardening, while the Divinious enhanced arrows can be easily dodged because he could see through the lens in his eyes which arrows had Divinious and which ones didn't.
Soon, Chrysos reached the wooden gate made of logs and smashed it down.
Crash!
The goblin archers stopped shooting after realizing that the intruder entered their village.
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Goblin king's treehouse.
"King Rafouri, bad news! a human is currently attacking the village!" An armored goblin approached the king's throne and bowed.
"A human!? How dare they enter our sacred land!" Rafouri was a huge goblin with iron plates and small wooden logs tied to his arms and legs. His chest was extremely bulky and muscular, making his long sharp teeth even more intimidating.
Rafouri grabbed a huge stone sword next to him and shouted. "For the glory of the Baknar tribe, we will kill whoever disrespects our land!"
"For our tribe!" The goblins near the throne shouted.
"Kill those who taint our tribe's glory!" Rafouri led his men towards the main village. They were on a hunting session to gather food for the tribe. But because of this news, they had to run back.
...
The villages' treehouses were far from each other, so it would take a while to get to them by climbing.
The archers were also getting into position to shoot Chrysos once again.
Chrysos drank an Uncommon Tier, Strong Leap potion and felt Divinious gathering on his feet.
"Alright, now let's get to the action." Chrysos grabbed five incendiary potions and threw them on the trees, in an attempt to burn them down. He targeted those who had the most treehouses to maximize damage.
He ran towards many trees with houses built on them and burnt them down without hesitation.
After that, he jumped towards the nearest archery outpost by using the ladders connected to them.
...
"He jumped towards us!" A goblin alerted the others.
"Quick! Shoot him down!" Another goblin threw his spear at Chrysos while the others shot arrows.
Clank! Clank! Clank!
Chrysos sliced the incoming arrows down before he landed on the outpost.
He reached out his hand and caught a wooden spear right as it was about to penetrate his chest. He threw it right back, but failed to hit any goblins.
Regardless, he landed on the outpost.
He was surrounded by at least thirty or more goblins.
The goblins wasted no time and grabbed their weapons to attack Chrysos.
Chrysos used his swiftness ability and chopped the goblins down with ease. Their stone weapons could barely even match with his Alizuite sword.
Slash, hack, chop. It didn't take too long to keep his slaughter going.
When there were only five goblins left, Chrysos beheaded them all in one slice.
Shwish!
Their headless bodies spurted out a rain of blood.
Turning his head to locate new targets, Chrysos jumped towards another tree outpost and began slashing his way to another outpost after killing the goblins in them.
This repeated action quickly thinned the goblin's numbers.
When Chrysos reached the final outpost in the tree that he was jumping up from, he encountered one goblin left.
This goblin had nothing on his face except anger towards him. "Human! This is when you'll die!" The goblin archer general used his axe and chopped down a wooden pole that already had many chopped marks. Clearly, he's been chopping this wooden pole for a while.
Chrysos dashed forward and decapitated the goblin.
When he looked at the wooden pole, he realized that it was supporting the entire outpost.
"Ah crap.." Chrysos stood still for a second before the wooden outpost creaked and fell down from the tree.
Rumble...
Crash!!
Pieces of burning wood and ropes were falling down the tree with him.
Chrysos used his Alizuite sword and stabbed it deep in the tree. His fall was stopped because of this and his arms only felt a slight burn from the impact. His sword left a vertical trench mark at the tree's bark.
"That maniac... now how am I supposed to get down?" Chrysos looked up and saw his arms that were grabbing his sword's handle. And when he looked down, he saw the burning mess he made. He looked around and saw a rope that was still intact located on his right.
He pulled his body close to his sword and used his body strength to pull the sword out from the tree. And before he began falling again, he used his legs to maneuver and jumped towards the rope.
He used the rope to climb down and looked around.
The treehouses were being burnt down, so he didn't have to do anything. All he has to worry about is the houses and outposts on land.
Meanwhile, outside the village…
Meiros watched the carnage unfold before his eyes.
He was weirdly amazed at how much power his master could show. However, his kind nature also made him feel bad for those greenflesh beasts that had to die.
Meiros sighed. "However, this is for our sake.. survival is for the strongest." Meiros continued watching the inferno climb up the thick and tall trees that used to house many beasts before.
...
Rafouri arrived at the tree village and saw the fire surround the houses and buildings that they painstakingly worked hard for. His eyes were overflowing with rage. He looked around and saw Chrysos in the middle of the flames.
The scene was like hell.
He couldn't hold his rage any longer. "Kill that monster now!"
The other goblins also had deep hatred for Chrysos, so when Rafouri issued an attack, they didn't hesitate and charged towards Chrysos.
Rafouri leaped mightily up and slashed his sword down at Crhysos. When Rafouri and his sword landed, dirt and rocks were kicked up from the impact.
When the dust cleared up, Rafouri looked down at Chrysos only to see the human to actually parry his ground slam!
Chrysos was in a half kneeling position while his left arm was pushing the blade up and his right arm was holding the handle very firmly.
Rafouri's sword was chipped by this attack. However, he didn't mind it. He snorted and used his empty left hand and punched Chrysos who was under his sword.
Chrysos leapt back and dodged the massive arm that was going to squash him. When Chrysos landed, he felt something behind him. He dodged to the right and saw a Divinious arrow almost hit his head.
"You brought more of your friends?" Chrysos clicked his tongue. "This is going to be troublesome."
Two more goblin generals swung their swords at Chrysos, so he had to stay vigilant. But at this time, a goblin berserker snuck behind him and chopped his axe down.
Chrysos narrowly dodged the strike, and because he was dodging, the archer took this opportunity and managed to shoot him in the shoulder.
"Gah!" Chrysos was getting overwhelmed again. The goblin's coordination was great. He couldn't exploit anything to his advantage. "I have no choice then.." Chrysos gritted his teeth and threw his sword at the archer!
Swoosh!
The sword reached the archer in a blink of an eye and killed him!
Thwack!
The sword penetrated the goblins head, lodging itself deep into a bloody mess flesh and bones.
The two goblins with swords and the berserker were even more enraged. Their attack's ferocity increased because of their anger.
"Anger doesn't give you good decision making." Chrysos laughed. He jumped over the swords and sent a sidekick to a goblin's head.
Bang!
The goblin was hit by a strike with the force of three boars, coupled with the fact that Chrysos' shins had Taronite armor. His head began bleeding because of the damage and he wasn't in the condition to fight.
Chrysos took this opportunity to grab the goblin's own sword and decapitated him.
Rafouri approached him and slashed the stone sword at Chrysos.
Woosh!
Chrysos jumped up, dodged Rafouri's strike and threw the sword towards the berserker's head. Now, he has killed three generals.
Rafouri's heart bled. These generals fought for him bravely for many years. Seeing them die like this made him want to kill Chrysos more.
"Go to hell!" Rafouri swiftly reached his hand to grab Chrysos.
"Not now, but I'll think about it soon." Chrysos dodged the massive hand and jumped towards the remaining goblin swordsman.
The general was taken by surprise that Chrysos would go for him, so he slashed his sword from reflex.
Chrysos pulled out the arrow from shoulder and grabbed the sword with his bare hands which are also armored by Taronite except for his extremely durable fingers.
His golden fingers were releasing sparks just by holding the blade's sharp blade. When the sword was redirected where his body wouldn't be stabbed, he buried the arrow in the goblin's eye.
Chrysos yanked the sword out of the goblin's hand and decapitated him with it.
Rafouri roared.
"You left me no choice!" He threw his sword away and red markings all over his body appeared. The Divinious energy gathering in these markings went over the charts.
"You'll have to die here no matter what!" Rafouri's muscle mass shrunk dramatically. However, he was faster and stronger than before!
Boom!
Rafouri ran forward and punched.
Chrysos blocked the punch with a sword, but Rafouri's fist broke the sword and hit him in the chest! From this punch, Chrysos was sent flying back.
Bwom!
When he landed on a tree, Chrysos spat out blood under his mask. He was breathing heavily..
"This isn't good.. this strength is impossible for me to match at the moment.." Chrysos looked everywhere but he couldn't see a way to handle this. He had to depend on his strongest weapons right now.
It was at this time when his bloodlust receded and clarity rushed back into his head like a tide.
But when he now thought deeply about his current situation, he couldn't believe that he was this deep in dangerous territory.
Rafouri became so strong in just a short while! How could he even defeat that?
But then, he felt something from his hand and looked down.
It wasn't like he thought about it, it was more like a sudden insight pierced his head.
He looked at his fingers as if he was drawn to them.
These fingers confused Gerald since day one. He only knew that they were faster, tougher and stronger. Aside from that, he knew nothing else about them.
But now, he had to rely on these to survive.
He felt it instinctively.
...
Seeing that he was able to subdue the human, Rafouri was filled with happiness and rage.
Rafouri charged towards Chrysos again and stretched his arm back to release a devastating punch!
"Die!!!" Rafouri roared.
Chrysos removed his right glove and stretched all of his fingers out. The golden reflection of his fingers shone brightly because of the flames around them.
Chrysos gritted his teeth and watched Rafouri closing in.
Rafouri punched forward while cackling. "I'll break your stupid fingers and your head!" Rafouri's fist sped up and hit Chrysos' fingers.
Bam!
A powerful sonic boom spread out from the impact.
Chrysos' fingers creaked from the sheer force that they absorbed.
But Chrysos wasn't harmed at all!
Rafouri's eyes widened in shock.
Chrysos was also looking at his hand in shock. What the hell happened? Was his eyes playing tricks on him?
When Rafouri was about to send another punch, Chrysos' fingers glowed with a bright light within a second before suddenly...
The same punch that Rafouri exerted was returned to his arm fivefold!
Rafouri was sent flying backwards. He crashed through trees, boulders, and burning wood without stopping.
...
Chrysos slumped down and breathed heavily. He looked at his fingers and saw that the white glow disappeared.
"Whatever that thing I did is powerful but, it consumed literally everything I have in my Divinious reserve!" Chrysos only spent about 29% of his Divinious earlier from his fight against the goblins. But from this strike alone, it consumed everything he had!
Divinious isn't a corporeal energy that can be harnessed through simple means, so measuring it using units is very difficult.
But through repeated testing throughout many generations, Humans created a unit system for Divinious and measured it by numbers. It ranges from 1-10.
Someone with a 1st tier Divinious reserve would only be able to cast the most basic fireball spell 120-200 times, 2nd tier would he able to cast it 201-650, 3rd tier would be at 1200-5000 times, 4th tier is 5001-8000 times, 5th tier can cast it 8001-13,000 times, 6th would be able to cast it 13,001-40,000 times, and 7th is about 10,001-17,500 times, meanwhile 8th can cast it for about 17,501-40,500 times, 9th can cast it 40,501-100,000 times, 10th can cast it 100,001-120,500 and anything beyond that is in Provectis level.
Using this unit measurement is very reliable since the advanced fireball has equal Divinious distribution throughout all humans.
The list only applies for Iretior ranked awakened ones. Provectis, Elitius, and beyond that holds so much power.
Chrysos has a sixth tier Divinious reserve. And from the power released by him earlier, it was worth around 28,400 advanced fireballs.
It is devastating to think about when the advanced fireball spell can destroy a wooden house in one hit.
However, it is also worth noting that just because you have the Divinious capacity to cast a fireball, let's say 10,000 times, it does strain your muscles to an extent, like curling a dumbbell.
Divinious requires a strong body to cast as well. So without the proper medium to cast it, it would be difficult to cast it. That's why those who are still Iretoir cannot hope to cast spells used by Provectis ranked awakened ones. Advancing a rank also strengthens the physical body, so it's important to keep a balance between the body and the Divinious Soul.