26. Battle Against Goblins 3

'Shit, damn, things were going so well until now. Because something like that happened. What is that in the first place, damn, that's definitely not goblin, far from it, damn it!!!'

Matt could only think about this looking at the slowly advancing creature, from his platform a little further away from his mentor.

Minutes before, things were going well, extremely well, they were managing to eliminate the goblins more easily than expected. Yes, a large part of this was due to the preparations they had made over the last three days, but in addition, when one of the spearmen became overwhelmed by fear of the creatures, they were always incapacitated by a force that they could not see but could see its influence on the way the little monsters writhed and howled in pain with the black marks on their skin.

But it was just that creature riding the three-animal hybrid accompanied by 4 more hobgblins and things changed, the goblins no longer advanced in disarray and fell into the traps. Now they were not only bypassing them, they were also dismantling them and using the debris to throw at the spearmen, both overhead and directly at the front line spearmen who were left defenseless with one arm defending and the other with the spear, causing had to choose between being hit from above or from the front.

With the tide of battle turning, the enormous creature came at a leisurely trot, as if showing that it did not care about the presence of humans or its fallen goblins, it even seemed to challenge anyone who had the courage to attack it.

Matt was a lively and dedicated young man in several areas, who could boast of being very intelligent, and like him he knew a little about how goblins lived, being in generally closed communities governed by the law of the strongest, being the strongest usually a goblin larger and stronger than most called a hobgoblin.

But the problem is that when it said bigger and stronger, it would be in relation to a normal 0.9 meter goblin, not 1.9.

Except for the green skin and pointy nose and ears, that thing could be anything but a goblin, a hobgoblin or even a troll, ogre or orc that sometimes some solitary strays of these species form a kind of symbiosis with their "inferior relatives". After all, as far as Matt knew, although they could be excessively overweight as a sign of strength and thus develop even stronger muscles and bones, none of these species had 4 twig-like horns protruding from their foreheads, eyes that, unlike the goblins that they were yellow sclera without pupils, his were like those of goats or goats, only red.

Hands with 4 fingers (counting the thumb) or a rat-like tail with the tip appearing to be covered in insect bark but not actually a stinger.

(A/N: in case you didn't quite understand what the big guy would look like physically, imagine or see the image of the sumo wrestlers who appeared in Shuumatsu No Valkyrie, in Raiden and Shiva's fight, then consider him green, bald, with a nose and ears pointy, a mouth full of pointy, salivating teeth and a tail.)

The goblins that walked alongside this giant were more similar to what Matt knew as hobgblins, being the same as common goblins, only bigger, more muscular and (a detail that wasn't a rule but was common among them) having hair. thinner instead of bald spots. Those who accompanied the enormous creature riding the hybrid boar, carried well-kept metal weapons and armor ready for fight, not the less dangerous stone ones, and if their expression could be any indication, they knew very well how to use them.

'The hell how are we going to deal with this now!!!'

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'Okay how are we going to deal with this unconventional Boss?.'

I thought looking at the creature on the screen, unlike the rest of the goblin mobs until now this group accompanied by several mobs was very distinct on my cell phone screen, just like my believers the 4 following the largest received an image update making them the same as my believers.

While the big guy received an update on the same level as my Devotees, but honestly I would have preferred if they hadn't put so much detail into the image, I think I could even see the remains of his last meal still in his teeth, a mix of red and green.

It's pretty disgusting.

Another different thing was that I could see his status, but only the big one and the other 4 remained the same in that sense.

[Name: Evrolk the Hideous

Level:????

Race: imp-goblin

HP: 120/120

MP: 50/50

For: ???

Def: ???

Agi: ???

Int: 4

Skills: Summoning Aura*, Heavy Strike*, Flying Slash*, Glutton*, Heavy*.

*Aura of intimidation: causes pressure on friends and allies, -15% enemy hit.

*Heavy Blow: carries a blow with 5 mana, +30% attack strength.

*Flying slash: launches a slash using sharp weapons, 10 mana.

*Gluttonous: eating is more important than thinking, -20% intelligence.

• when hungry: +15% in strength and agility, -30% in intelligence and -25% in defense.

• when satiated: +10% to all statuses.

* Heavy: -35% agility, +10% defense.]

It's like I said, this one takes work.

But there's one thing I didn't understand, his species. As far as I know, in fantasy games and stories in general it's not difficult to have to deal with demons and things but in general this only happens at the end of the middle to the end, not at the beginning!.

Even though it is an imp, which depending on the media can be considered the goblin of demons (always generic appearance being red and small), it would still be a demon or almost so, why put it in what would basically be a tutorial battle?

Oops!! Just distract me a little and he gets very close to the spearmen and launches an attack that pushes the ENTIRE line back... Wasn't that a little too strong for a beginner boss?

Because like... He threw an attack ok, nothing big, just that he threw an attack while a group of I think about ten goblins attacked the spearmen, and the attack went from the goblins to the spearmen after having decreased in intensity, and yes, it was an insta kill on the ten goblins and it still had enough strength to take the spearmen's HP from 5 to 7 and force a knock-back….

I'll say it again, this guy is not too strong for an initial boss!!!

Well, there's no point in complaining, since he decided to join in the fun, I'm going too, and Punishment.

.....

Is that what????

Because nothing happened, he didn't stop for a while but there was no damage. None. That's right, wait, even though it's basically a basic attack it's already at level 3 after having evolved, shouldn't it have at least given it at least -1 HP?

But he only stood still for a little while and continued walking with the other 4 larger goblins. Just to check one thing, I tested Punishment on all 4 and there was damage on them, but very reduced, ranging from -1 and -2.

Ok, this isn't the first time I've seen bosses that are resistant to basic attacks, but does it put someone invulnerable to basic attacks, with a 3-digit HP and even an ability that increases defense? That's a bit exaggerated.

Aaaaaahhhhh damn. While I was checking the effect, I reached the lancers again and quickly finished off about 10 and left another 12 almost dead. Seriously, this isn't too strong for them, well Matt and Ivan's arrows can't even do damage. but always around -1 and -2 on the boss and a little more on the other goblins.

Well, so I still have something to check. Ah, what's the annoying thing, before I could use Lightning on him he caught one of the holidays and ate him to restore his HP, and the miserable thing was caught, an injured one, not one of the dead.... Ok, I'll empty all the whole mana, just to throw a shower of Lightning on that BIG GREEN NOSE!!!!