I’m not Goblin Slayer Chapter 068

Opening the Adventurer’s Handbook, he found that the title for goblins had been upgraded.

“You have accumulated 50 goblin kills. The title [Goblin Hunter] has been upgraded to [Goblin Slayer].”

After the title upgrade, the effects of the entries also underwent a complete change.

Current effect: Bane. In combat against goblins and related advanced species, attack damage is increased by an additional 20%.

(Includes a critical hit special effect. You have a certain chance to trigger a critical hit. Attack power will be significantly increased in critical hit state. This effect cannot be triggered again shortly after being triggered.)

The title upgrade increased the damage bonus of Bane from 10% to 20%.

Don’t underestimate this 10% increase. Damage bonuses, compared to other flashy effects, are the most direct and brutal improvements. The original Bane effect already made him invincible against many goblins.

Now, with it increased to 20%, it’s even harder for ordinary goblins to contend with him.

He even suspected that, relying on his basic swordsmanship and the 20% damage bonus, he might even be able to directly confront the mutated large goblin he encountered during his first mission.

Moreover, the title upgrade also added a critical hit special effect to Bane. Once triggered, attack damage would increase significantly again.

Gauss browsed the panel, feeling like he was truly walking further and further down the path of a goblin slayer.

He temporarily considered this not a bad thing.

His Adventurer’s Handbook required him to accumulate the total number of monster kills, so goblins were an excellent target.

Because goblins are numerous, have strong reproductive capabilities, and are one of the most common low-level monsters.

Although most individual goblins are not too strong for him now, encountering too many at once still carries risks.

Furthermore, powerful individuals with challenge ratings can also be born among goblins. The strengthened special attack against goblins would provide him with more assurance when undertaking related commissions.

He just wondered how many more goblins he would need to kill for the next title upgrade.

Gauss pondered in his mind.

After a moment of thought, his consciousness returned to reality.

After looking around, he took out his dagger and began skillfully cutting off the goblin’s large ears, then searched the surroundings for loot.

Unfortunately, this group of goblins was poor.

Aside from some wooden and stone tools, there were only a few tattered rags used for concealment.

This was actually within his expectations.

Generally speaking, goblins with weaker combat abilities and desires tended to possess cheaper.

Only those goblins truly capable of threatening humans and merchant caravans might plunder and steal enough valuable items.

However, deep inside the cave, Gauss discovered a skinny female wild goat tethered with ropes and wooden stakes.

This discovery left Gauss with mixed feelings.

Because the weak mother goat lying on the ground had a bulging abdomen, and upon closer inspection, he seemed to see a worm-like wriggling phenomenon beneath its belly.

It was a pregnant mother goat.

Although Gauss had long heard that goblins could reproduce offspring by relying on other animal mothers, and that there was no reproductive isolation, when he witnessed this scene with his own eyes, he couldn’t help but be startled by the goblins’ exaggerated reproductive capabilities.

The goblins’… that, was simply too unrestrained.

Looking at the bleating mother goat on the ground, Gauss decided to put it out of its misery.

“Chaa!”

With a swift slash, the blade severed the ropes imprisoning the mother goat, and also took its life.

After dispatching the mother goat, Gauss did not stop his actions.

The tip of his sword rested on the mother goat’s abdomen. With a gentle slice, the tender skin slowly parted, exposing the warm internal body of the mother goat.

Gauss found the little green-skinned mouse-like offspring in the mother goat’s abdomen, and one by one, he poked and picked them out with the tip of his sword.

Laying them out in a row, he counted them. There were a total of 6 goblin.

The number was neither too many nor too few. It seemed that the number and survival rate of goblin offspring conceived by the mother were also closely related to its size.

Gauss had heard people say before that if goblins chose a small animal like a rabbit as a mother, they would often only conceive one or two offspring. If it was a large animal, it could be several, a dozen, or even more.

Insufficient nutrition from the mother would also result in smaller goblin offspring.

No wonder the goblins nearby were not large in size. Gauss had found the answer.

The 6 goblin offspring he killed, like the previous kobold pups, would not accumulate in the monster index, but Gauss still felt it was necessary to do so.

Although killing these six offspring could not change the rampant situation of goblins, it could at least reduce some hidden dangers for the surrounding villages in a short period of time.

And it was just a matter of convenience.

After checking the surroundings of the cave again and confirming nothing was missed, he picked up his belongings and left.

The goat’s carcass was also left in the cave.

Goblin flesh is poisonous to humans and most creatures and cannot be consumed as normal food. After the goat that conceived the goblin offspring was contaminated, its flesh was probably tainted with some toxins. Furthermore, Gauss couldn’t bring himself to eat it after seeing what he just saw.

He returned to the vicinity of the wheat field where he had killed four goblins earlier, cut off the ears as spoils of war, carried the goblin corpses away from the farmland, and after throwing them into the wasteland, he walked towards the village.

He greeted the strong guard, passed through the dirt wall and fence outside the village, and entered the village.

The village was a scene of peace and harmony.

On the dirt path, a freckled girl in a faded linen dress, her bare feet stained with mud mixed with grass clippings, played and frolicked with her companions on the road.

Beside the stone and wooden houses of each household, in small courtyards enclosed by fences, various flowers and shade-providing climbing plants were grown.

Gauss paused and observed for a moment. Compared to the villages further south, this particular village was indeed more prosperous and peaceful.

He was somewhat engrossed, and memories of his hometown from the original owner’s mind were slowly stirred.

However, a sudden movement awakened him.

It turned out to be a girl who turned her head to play with her companion, not paying attention to the path in front of her, and bumped directly into him.

Gauss reacted quickly and quickly helped the girl in the linen dress who was about to fall.

“Are you alright?”

“I’m fine.” The girl was initially nervous about bumping into a stranger, but after glancing up at Gauss’s gentle and handsome face, she instinctively relaxed. “Thank you.”

“Mm, be careful next time.” Gauss helped the girl up.

Watching the girl wave at him and then run shyly towards her companions, he couldn’t help but smile.

Unbeknownst to him, his Charm had quietly increased from 5 to 6.

While an increase in Charm also had a potential aesthetic improvement, it was more about a change in temperament and affinity. When he needed it, a higher Charm value made it easier to gain others’ trust.

Looking at the peaceful village.

Gauss decided not to rush off. He planned to clear out the surrounding goblins first and develop here for a while.

He wanted to see if he could accumulate the total monster kills to 100.

In addition, his progress in practicing spells in real combat was very fast. Since he had finally found a group of weak goblins, he had to seize the opportunity.

0-level Cantrip: Mage Hand Lv 3 ( 1/50)

1st-level Spell: Magic Missile Lv 2 ( 15/20)

1st-level Spell: Mage Armor Lv 2 ( 19/20)

Mage Hand had already reached Lv 3.

Mage Armor was also about to break through to the next level, and he wondered if it was just his imagination, but recently, whenever he cast Mage Armor, a strange warm current always surged through his body.