"Goblin soul!"
Caelan endured the pain and glanced at his status panel.
Name: Caelan.
Race: Human
Level: 1
Experience: 20 / 100
Class: None
Mana: 10 / 10
Skills: None
Talent: Spirit Offering!
[Goblin soul x 1 acquired]
His level went from 0 to 1, and he even got an extra 20 experience points!
In other words, by killing one Goblin, Caelan gained 70 experience points plus a Goblin soul!
Seeing the Goblin soul, Caelan immediately remembered that Spirit Offering could Summon Goblins.
However, when Caelan prepared to activate Spirit Offering, he discovered that Summoning Goblins also required sacrificing a Goblin's claw and left ear.
Caelan immediately picked up the dagger dropped by the Goblin, ignoring his disgust, and cut off a claw and a left ear from the dead Goblin.
"Be careful!"
A weak voice sounded behind him.
Caelan turned around and saw a Goblin wielding a wooden club running towards him.
"Holy crap!" Caelan flinched in fear when he saw the Goblin running over.
Taking down one Goblin had almost cost him his life.
With another one running over, he definitely couldn't win.
Panicked, he quickly placed the freshly cut claw and left ear on the ground, and Caelan immediately offered the Goblin soul.
Spirit Offering activated!
Caelan's only ten mana points were instantly depleted.
The Goblin's claw and left ear on the ground instantly dissipated.
The next moment, a short creature appeared in its place.
Green skin, pointed ears, sharp teeth, and an ugly appearance.
It looked exactly like the dagger-wielding Goblin that had just been killed!
But Caelan knew this one was his Summon.
If he wanted to, he could even make the Summoned Goblin commit suicide.
After Summoning the Goblin, Caelan quickly threw the dagger to it, telling it to block the approaching club-wielding Goblin.
"Woo wah~"
The Summoned Goblin held the dagger and let out a cry.
Then it started fighting with the club-wielding Goblin.
The club-wielding Goblin didn't react at first, thinking this Goblin was its companion.
Only after its arm was stabbed by the dagger did it furiously swing its club and strike back.
Taking this opportunity, Caelan also saw the Summoned Goblin's information.
Name: None
Race: Goblin
Level: 1
Health: 100 / 100
Class: None
Mana: None
Skills: None
The Summoned Goblin's level was consistent with Caelan's level, and its panel had an additional health bar, but no experience points.
The extra health bar was probably there to let Caelan know the status of his Summon.
As for experience points, it's likely that once Summoned, it couldn't level up.
Caelan was also Summoning for the first time, so some things could only be guessed.
He looked down at his bloody left hand and couldn't help but grimace.
He took the cloth pouch from the waist of the dead Goblin beside him, then pulled off the beast tooth hanging around its neck and threw it into the pouch.
He stood up, holding the cloth pouch in his right hand, and found that the Goblin he had Summoned was being beaten back by the club-wielding Goblin!
Its health had even dropped to 60!
"So fierce!"
Caelan noticed that the club-wielding Goblin, apart from the initial scratch from the Summoned Goblin's dagger, seemed to have no other injuries.
"Is it a level suppression?"
Caelan guessed that the opponent's level was likely higher than the Summoned Goblin's.
At least level 2, or even 3.
After all, he had just killed one and instantly gained more than a level!
"No, I have to run!"
Caelan felt that the Summoned Goblin wouldn't last much longer.
In just that short time, it had taken two more hits, and its health had already fallen below 50!
He looked around.
The man with an arrow in his shoulder was slumped on the ground, covered in wounds, with a short-dagger Goblin jumping around him, stabbing him occasionally.
The bald man was covered in blood, fleeing into the forest, with two Goblins hot on his heels.
As for the women behind him, except for the girl in the dress who stood frozen in fear, the others had already followed the scrawny man back into the church.
Suddenly, Caelan saw a shirtless woman struggling to get up from the ground.
Blood flowed incessantly from her forehead, and there were purplish-blue marks from blunt force trauma on her tanned back.
Caelan remembered her; among the five women earlier, she was the only one wearing a bikini, and the only one who had charged towards the Goblins with the men.
Among the women, she was undoubtedly the most useful.
Caelan unconsciously glanced at her bare upper body, and as he was about to walk over, a scream rang out nearby.
Caelan turned his head and saw that the man with the arrow in his shoulder had been killed by the short-dagger Goblin!
The troublesome part was that the short-dagger Goblin's gaze swept between Caelan and the bikini-clad woman, then it directly ran towards Caelan.
"Damn it!"
Caelan cursed under his breath and turned to run.
Before running, he shouted to the bikini-clad woman and the girl in the dress: "I'll distract it, you two run!"
Although the Goblin's target was originally him, he might as well do them a favor.
Caelan's physical fitness was still decent, thanks to consistent exercise during his school days.
But the short-legged Goblin ran no slower than Caelan.
Hearing the Goblin's increasingly close cries behind him, Caelan plunged into the forest.
The short-dagger Goblin didn't give up and followed closely behind Caelan.
However, in the forest, visibility was limited, and it soon lost track of him.
"Wah ya ya..."
The short-dagger Goblin yelled in frustration, raging impotently for a while before turning back.
On the other side, Caelan ran for his life.
After sprinting through the forest for ten minutes, he finally emerged.
"Huff~ huff~!"
Caelan looked back at the forest, breathing heavily.
"I... I finally... escaped!"
He raised his left hand, which Caelan had wrapped layer after layer with a torn-off short sleeve.
However, the blood had already stained the entire cloth red.
"I need to find a place for treatment!"
Caelan wiped the sweat from his face and looked around.
The place he was currently in was on higher ground, and he could clearly see the outline of a town below.
Caelan even saw quite a bit of smoke from chimneys.
"Great, the direction is right!"
Caelan's face showed a joyful expression, and he quickly ran towards the town.
The Summoned Goblin's health had dropped to zero, resulting in its Death, before Caelan even escaped the forest.
However, it at least held off the club-wielding Goblin for a while.
Otherwise, even if Caelan wasn't smashed to Death by the club-wielding Goblin, he would have been cut down by the short-dagger Goblin that caught up from behind!
As for the people who woke up in the church with him, how many escaped?
Caelan didn't know, he could only pray for them in his heart.
The forest was only about three kilometers from the town.
Half an hour later, Caelan arrived in front of the town, where he was stopped by two armored Guards on the town's protective river!