bookandnovel Chapter 84 The Queen's Lament
Chapter 84 The Queen's Lament
Chapter 84 The Queen's Lament
Faced with the siege of the cave dwellers and the slime alliance, the goblins, the original owners of the cave, seemed somewhat powerless.
A goblin chieftain, clad in a tattered fur cloak and wearing a feathered crown, roared as he led his troops in a charge, wielding a double-edged axe, attempting to break through the cave monsters' defenses.
However, each of their charges was thwarted by the cave monsters' precise ranged attacks and the slimes' mucus blocking their path.
A burly caveman wielded a huge bone shield, leading his companions to form a defensive line to block the goblins' frontal charge.
It held aloft a torch, illuminating the way ahead, guiding other cave monsters to accurately throw short spears or stones, repeatedly piercing the goblin's defenses.
Some goblins tried to fight back, but their attacks were either evaded by the cave monsters or neutralized by the slime's goo, with little effect.
The battlefield was filled with the clanging of metal, the cacophony of creatures' roars, and the slippery sound of splattering slime.
For a time, no demon noticed that a sixth brother was spying on the battlefield.
Ark ordered the skeletons to stand still, while he quietly hid in a dark corner, watching with great interest the melee between nearly a hundred monsters.
Not to mention Fangzhou, even the other students watching Fangzhou's battle livestream from the outside were captivated by this rare sight.
As newly awakened rookies, they had only watched some individual combat videos and had not yet witnessed such a large-scale melee:
Through the Ark's hunting recorder, the sounds of clashing swords, exploding slime, and shattering bones intertwined, unfolding a vivid and brutal picture of underground warfare before these trainees.
The goblin's axe struck the caveman's shield, sparks flying.
The caveman's short spear pierced the goblin's chest, and blood gushed out.
The slime clung to the goblins' faces, causing them to struggle in pain.
Inside the cave, broken spears, shattered armor, severed limbs, and pools of dark red blood covered the rocks.
However, despite the goblins' valiant resistance, their defenses gradually crumbled due to the coordinated efforts of the cave monsters and slimes, resulting in a continuous increase in casualties.
The reason they were able to hold out for so long despite being outnumbered was because among these twenty-odd goblins, there were four elite goblins at the apprentice level.
Despite their fierce fighting, the goblins' morale was barely maintained.
Besides the goblin chieftain who led the charge, there was also an elderly goblin holding a red crystal ball and wearing an animal skin robe, who was probably the goblin priest of this tribe.
The other two, clad in tattered leather armor and wielding rusty battle axes, are likely the tribe's goblin warriors.
In contrast, the cave monsters only have three apprentice-level combatants.
One of them, constantly waving a bone staff, was the cave-dwelling elder.
There's also a monster guard wielding a torch and a bone shield, engaged in a one-on-one battle with the goblin chieftain.
The last one is a green slime that is a size larger than its kind.
Fangzhou looked around the battlefield, a sense of doubt creeping into his mind.
The cave dwellers are a typical matriarchal society; where is their queen?
Worried that there might be other changes, he temporarily restrained his urge to act and decided to observe the situation further.
Boom!
With a dull thud of weapons clashing, the goblin chieftain wolf cleaved through the cave monster guards who had been desperately clinging to it, and quickly glanced at the chaotic battlefield.
Seeing its kin falling to the ground one after another due to being outnumbered, their numbers reduced to less than 20, it roared angrily at the goblin priest.
The goblin priest, surrounded and protected by the other goblins, raised the red crystal ball in his hand and responded with a series of shrill cries.
It immediately turned around and went to the rock wall behind it.
Fangzhou took out night vision binoculars from his backpack and carefully observed the goblin priest's every move.
He was curious: in this desperate situation, did these goblins have some trump card up their sleeve?
As the goblin priest performed his ritual, Ark discovered that a large apprentice cave monster was firmly bound to a protruding stalactite pillar.
Fangzhou immediately understood why he hadn't seen the queen of the cave-dwelling monster tribe.
But why did these relatively cowardly cave monsters suddenly launch an attack on goblins, contrary to their usual behavior?
It turns out that these goblins stole the cave dweller's home and kidnapped their queen back to their cave.
Fangzhou looked somewhat strange. It was said that goblins were creatures with the bad habit of kidnapping other female monsters.
It seems the cave monster is the unlucky one this time.
Looking at the fat, weak, and dying cave queen tied to the stone pillar, it was hard for these goblins to bring themselves to kill her.
At this moment, the goblin priest walked up to the cave queen, muttering incantations and holding a bone bell in his hand.
The bell's surface was covered with obscure and difficult-to-understand runes, emanating a chilling aura.
The goblin priest slowly pierced the cave queen's heart with a bell, seemingly performing some cruel sacrificial ritual.
The cave queen struggled in agony, uttering mournful cries.
Upon hearing their queen's screams after the Goblin Warband, the cave monsters went berserk.
Amidst the roars of the cave elders and cave guards, they charged recklessly towards the goblins, seemingly forgetting the pain and death.
The goblin chieftain shouted loudly, urging the priest to continue the ritual, while leading two other goblin warriors at the middle apprentice level to firmly guard the front line.
The incantations chanted by the priests behind them became increasingly rapid.
Soon, the cave queen's life force rapidly drained away under the pull of the priest's incantation and the bells.
Finally, with a mournful cry, its life force was completely drained, transforming into a dark energy that flowed into the bone bell.
The once dull bell in the goblin priest's hand now shone with an eerie gray light, and a powerful sealing force surged from it.
The goblin priest immediately directed the sealing power at the greatest threat on the battlefield—the large slime at the apprentice level.
The large, green, jelly-like slime was instantly enveloped in gray light.
The previously brutal attack immediately stopped, and its body began to tremble, as if it were fighting against some invisible force.
Finally, the giant slime slowly turned around and launched an attack on its former allies, the cave monsters.
This unexpected turn of events caught the cave monsters off guard, and their formation instantly fell into disarray.
Meanwhile, the goblin chieftain led his people in a counterattack, and the tide of the battle turned instantly.
Fangzhou, hiding in a corner, watched the goblin priest's actions from the beginning, and couldn't help but show an expression of admiration.
No race that can survive tenaciously in the mythical era, no matter how primitive or foolish, should be underestimated.
That goblin priest is a ruthless person!