The Evolution of a Goblin to the Peak

Swoosh!

In a split second, Gilven arrived in front of Souta. He pulled back his hand and threw it towards Souta's chest.

He had easily pierced Souta's body before, so he thought that he could do it again. Plus, this blow was many times stronger than before.

Souta jumped back as he controlled the black tentacles to block Gilven's fist. Gilven's fist destroyed the tentacles that were blocking it easily.

Two of the four black balls in Souta's back moved. It went in front of him, and gravity tried to push Gilven away. It decreased the power of his punch to a great extent, while the other two black balls pulled Souta away from Gilven.

Everything happened in an instant. It caused Gilven to miss his target.

Boom!

His punch destroyed the ground in front of him. The ground shook heavily as the floor collapsed.

"I miss?" Gilven looked up, and he saw that Souta was already gone. He then felt someone behind him. He quickly moved his body away while turning around.

But when he looked behind him, he found nothing but black tentacles flying towards him. Gilven waved his hand and dispersed the black tentacles.

Once again, he felt someone approaching him from behind, but when he turned around, he found that Souta was already gone. He gritted his teeth as he raised both of his arms and smashed the ground, causing the ground to collapse.

Boom!

The ground shook heavily as it exploded, and everything around Gilven was destroyed. He then looked up and saw Souta pointing his finger at him in mid-air.

"Just go down!" Souta shouted as he slightly moved his body away and the sun rays hit Gilven's body, causing him to close his eyes.

He was using his [Shadow Bind] spell and [Shadow Ball] spell to the full extent. The tentacles were hiding all the black balls that he had scattered before. Using this, he teleported to each of the black balls to confuse Gilven's strength.

A large collection of red berserk energy formed on the tip of his finger. It spun like a razor, and it created sharp sparks of energy around it.

[Bestrou]!!

The red ball of energy expanded before it shrank. Then, it shoots towards Gilven.

The four gravitational balls behind Souta rotated at high speed and increased the gravity around Gilven by eight times. The power of the four gravitational balls stacked up, causing them to increase the gravity by eight times. This was all it could do, considering that it was level 4. It will grow stronger in the future once he levels it up.

Along with the increase in gravity, the [Bestrou] arrived in front of Gilven at a speed faster than before. The [Bestrou] smashed Gilven to the ground.

"AAAH!!!" Gilven shouted as he used powerful combat arts to meet the [Bestrou] above his head.

[Dominating Dozen Killing Fist]!!

The two attacks collided, causing a huge explosion that swallowed half of the village. The ground collapsed into nothingness, creating a huge and deep pit in the village. The shockwaves of the explosion annihilated every structure inside the village, including the Adventurers Guild.

A lot of people died without knowing what happened to them. The casualties were so high that ordinary people couldn't hope to survive this explosion.

Alice, Lumilia, Lynn, and Yuko were already outside of the village. All of them were injured, especially Lumilia. Lumilia has already passed out because of her injury. Lynn was trying to heal her while giving her some healing potions that they bought in the Adventurers Guild.

Alice looked at the sight of the destruction with a blank expression. She looked at Lynn, who was trying to heal Lumilia, before she glanced at Yuko, Souta's beast companion.

Even though Yuko didn't fight, Alice felt that Yuko was exhausted. She then turned her head and realized that Souta was borrowing her energy so that he could fight those people.

"Really... You people are so..."

Various things were coming into her mind at once. She felt complicated as she remembered what had happened to her before arriving on this continent—the tragedy of her past.

...

Alex, who was fighting one of the six-circle officers of the Deadly Sins, looked at the explosion. He knitted his eyebrows and muttered, "Is that Souta?"

He wasn't sure if he was just imagining things, but when he recalled the incident in Gripin City, he finally realized that the person that was fighting the other six-circle officer was Souta.

"He's using another monster potion?!" He was shocked when he felt the huge concentration of best feram in that place and thought that Souta would use that potion once again.

Based on the mana signature that he felt, Alex guessed that Souta's opponent was still stronger than Souta. The mana density of Souta's opponent was higher than the chaotic best feram in the atmosphere.

He wanted to go there and help Souta, but his hands were already full because of the powerful enemy that he was facing.

Alex looked at his opponent with a serious expression.

...

Frels was looking in the direction of the huge explosion. The houses around her disappeared because of the shockwave of the explosion.

She squinted her eyes and recalled that Gilven was in that direction, fighting the kids. She even dispelled her [Doppelganger] spell and left everything to him. But it never occurred to her that those kids could fight Gilven. So what really happened in that direction?

"Hmm... Interesting. I felt the power of a monster there, so the question is, who appeared and fought Gilven? Is it related to that intense bloodlust before?" Frels chuckled as she slightly turned her head and looked behind her.

The five corps guardians were lying in the pool of blood. No one knows if they are still alive or not except for Frels.

"I should go there..."

...

Gilven was still standing in the deep crater. His look was fierce and still the same. He only took some damage from that [Bestrou] and it was not life-threatening.

Still, the best feram managed to seep into his bones and slowly disrupt the mana in his body.

"That brat... His control over his spell is exceptional... Much higher than mine... Even I couldn't do it the way he did it." He muttered while looking around. The ground was still black, and several black tentacles rose up from it every second.

Suddenly, Souta appeared beside him. He tightly gripped the vajra sword in his hand. If Saya was awake, he would make another contract with her to increase the power that he will receive from the [Possession] skill. Unfortunately, she wasn't awake.

He poured a huge amount of best feram into the sword and used the [Crimson Moon] skill of the sword.

The crimson color slash flew at Gilven, but Gilven still managed to react. He raised his left arm and used it to block the [Crimson Moon].

Bang!

The power of the [Crimson Moon] spell tore apart the sleeves and gloves of Gilven. Gilven's equipment was all orange-grade equipment. It was already an achievement that Souta managed to destroy it.

"Hmph!" Gilven snorted as he moved his right hand and grabbed Souta's face. He then smashed him on the ground.

Boom!

Yujin was left in the village. He didn't leave even though Lumilia, Alice, and Lynn left. He stayed here and watched the battle between Souta and Gilven.

Currently, Souta and Gilven's figures were colliding several times in mid-air. They were trading blows at high speed. Souta was very tricky, as he fully utilized the effects of the [Shadow Bind], [Shadow Ball], and [Gravitational Ball] spells. Not just those spells, Souta was even using the [Mud Slide] spell and other basic spells.

In terms of overall power, Gilven was stronger than Souta, but the problem was that he couldn't land a clean hit on Souta. At this moment, Souta was really glad that he chose [Shadow Ball] to level up to ten instead of the [Shadow Spike] spell.

Yujin didn't know what training Souta had done to have that kind of mastery over his spells. He's using several spells simultaneously and controlling them to do different things.

Without Alophy's power, Yujin wouldn't be able to follow them with his naked eyes. They were too fast for him.

"Alophy, you know what to do," Yujin said while looking at the earth-shaking battle.

"I know... You'll reveal your power to that guy. I'm not sure if he's worth it." Alophy grumbled annoyingly. Despite that, she still followed Yujin's words.

A white, shiny magic circle appeared beneath Yujin's feet. The magic circle produced a very calm and stable mana.

Yujin took a deep breath and raised both of his arms. He slowly opened his mouth and said, "Great spirit of the world. Come and heed my words."

[Spirit Essence: Heart of Lion]

[Spirit Vitality: Resonating Pulse]

The magic circle shone brightly as Yujin cast spirit spells that he knew. The bright light gathered Souta and Gilven's attention.

"S-Spirit Magic!?" Gilven was shocked when he saw this. He soon recognized the peaceful energy that it was producing.

On the other hand, Souta was stunned as he felt the stinging pain on his body caused by the monster potion slowly disappear. He also found that the hole in his stomach was slowly closing. Not just that, but the strength he possessed was increasing to a higher level.

'Spirit buffs... So this is the power that Randolf spoke of when he talked to Yujin.' Souta thought as he checked his body.