The Evolution of a Goblin to the Peak

Two figures crashed into each other. One of the figures had a powerful crimson aura covering his body, while the other had a bluish aura coating his body.

Bang! Bang!

The two figures continued to crash into each other, producing powerful shockwaves that swept out over the whole area. The aftershocks of their collision stirred the atmosphere, and it produced extreme winds like a wave of water.

Almost everything in the area around them was destroyed. Even the ground collapsed because of their sheer strength.

Right now, total destruction has swallowed the whole Ibish village. The Ibish village was annihilated. Almost ninety percent of the people who were living here died.

In mid-air, the two figures collided once again. After colliding a dozen times, the crimson and blue figures retreated five meters away from each other.

Souta tightly gripped the Vajra sword in his hand. He looked at Gilven with a serious expression. Even now, he still feels intense pain all over his body. It was like someone was drilling his internal organs and pouring boiling water in them. Then, the heat would disappear, and extreme cold would appear.

It was hard to describe the pain that he was feeling.

"I have to hold on for one minute..." Souta said to himself. He knew that his body couldn't handle this much pressure at once. If Yujin didn't use spirit power, Souta was sure that he was dead right now.

The effect of drinking two monster potions at once was extreme.

Gilven didn't know that the reinforcement of the institute was coming. He had no idea at all. He moved his eyes and glanced at Frels.

He saw Frels nodding at him with a serious expression. Frels was going to join the fight to kill Souta.

The two of them moved at the same time.

When Souta saw this, he also moved his body. He charged towards Frels, who was a mage, but Gilven intercepted him.

Bang! Bang!

Once again, the two of them collided. The collision between Souta and Gilven was as loud as thunder roaring in the sky. The duel between the two became fierce as they started the most dangerous close combat...

Bang! Bang!

Gilven was determined to kill Souta. Therefore, he exerted his utmost effort since the beginning of their collision. And Souta responded by using everything he got...

Souta became dejected as most of his strikes were offset by Gilven. The powerful best feram was disrupting the air flows, and corruption started to appear. Even so, Gilven didn't care about it. Gilven fought countless third evolution monsters. He even fought some fourth evolution monsters. It was not going to work against him as long as Souta didn't penetrate his mana protective shield.

Mana protective shield was a barrier that only powerful creatures in the world possessed. It offset everything that came from weak creatures such as Souta. The monster didn't have the mana protective shield, but they had a beast barrier.

The monster would gain this trait once they reached the fourth evolution. That's why, no matter how strong a third evolution is, they don't have any hope of defeating fourth evolution monsters. That's the same for humans and demis.

Still, the best feram that Souta possessed right now was as dense as the fourth evolution monster, even though he doesn't have the traits and stats of that level of monster. Only the best feram reached the level of the fourth evolution, not him.

Still, it wasn't enough to pierce Gilven's mana protective shield, even with the added power of Yujin. The spirit power was a strong type of energy, higher than mana.

Gilven and Souta exchanged blows at high speed, causing sparks to fly out between them.

Suddenly, Souta looked up in the sky and saw a huge black ball whirling around. The ball flew towards him, creating a disturbance in the air.

"...[Shadow Desolation Ball]!?" Souta recognized the spell in the sky. He checked his surroundings and found that the [Shadow Ball] spells that he scattered before were gone.

It must be the work of Frels. That six-circle officer really calculated his escape route and blocked all of it. No, not all of it, as Gilven was still in front of him.

"Damn! That woman!"

He guessed that as long as he got close to Gilven, Frels wouldn't launch that powerful spell. So he flew towards Gilven and wrestled with him in the air. He didn't dare to retreat, as he knew that Frels would attack him once he did that.

This was the only choice that he had.

Gilven was pretty confident in fighting Souta in close combat. Both of them threw their most powerful attacks at each other, but Souta was very agile. He moved his body from side to side to avoid getting hit critically.

...

Outside of the village, Randolf was standing while watching the fierce battle. He felt the aftershocks of the battle and the pressure of the best feram.

He didn't care about it, as he knew that he wasn't going to fight.

"So that's Souta. He's really a reckless person to think that he would try to fight these people." He muttered while shaking his head. He didn't think that Souta was this kind of person, but what could he say right now. Souta was fighting those people for the lives of his friends.

"Bloodstone... A vampire was cultivating that dreadful stone in this village. No one would ever imagine it."

...

"Hmmm...? Where am I?" Lumilia slowly opened her eyes. She looked around and saw that she was on a grassy plain with Alice, Lynn, and Yuko. Yuko? She gazed at Yuko and recalled what had happened before.

"Where is Souta?!" Lumilia quickly asked Lynn and Alice, with a concerned look on her face.

Lynn just lowered her head and didn't answer Lumilia's question.

Lumilia turned to Alice and asked the same thing.

Alice pointed in the direction of the village and said, "Souta is still fighting those people."

"What?!" Lumilia turned pale as she recalled how powerful those people were. She supported her body as she tried to stand, but she was still weak.

Lynn moved, and she supported Lumilia.

Alice turned silent when she saw Lumilia's expression. She looked down at her feet and asked herself.

Have I changed?

The gap in their strengths wasn't that large. The only difference was that Souta wasn't afraid of taking a risk by fighting a higher-level opponent. To fight a higher level opponent, Souta was taking the risk of drinking the monster potion. The drawback of this potion was something that other people wouldn't want to experience, yet Souta drank it without hesitation. He even took two monster potions.

Alice raised her head and saw Lumilia watching the battle. "I will not hesitate anymore..." She muttered in a low voice as she also watched the battle.

"W-We have to help him... I-I can't let him..." Lumilia said that while trembling, she felt her eyes getting wet. She felt the weakness she experienced in Gripin City.

Souta was always helping her. She thought that she grew stronger, but reality slapped her. She doesn't want it. She doesn't want to become someone who always receives help from others. At least she wanted to try to help others...

"If I only had monster potions... What can I do?" Lumilia gritted her teeth in anger. She doesn't want to experience this feeling anymore. She recalled that she still had a lot of money left.

Using that money, she would buy something that could help her in an emergency situation like this one. She would try to acquire skills and spells to increase her powers. She would not limit herself anymore.

Determination burned in her heart. She didn't know that at this moment she finally unlocked her potential, which opened up her path to the peak. Later on, she would realize that this was the turning point in her fate.

That day when he pulled me out of the grasp of my family and changed my fate, the Azure God of the East.

...

Blood splattered as Souta managed to penetrate Gilven's mana protective shield. In return, he took a deep wound on his chest and back. Comparing his injuries to Gilven's, he would say that he would die because of his injuries if he didn't treat them.

No matter how many monster potions he drank, he still wouldn't be able to defeat Gilven, a true higher-level opponent. His current power was just a temporary one. It's not permanent.

The four gravitational balls behind Souta disappeared. Without these black balls, Souta wouldn't be able to float in mid-air.

He fell and crashed onto the debris of rocks on the ground. Souta sighed as he looked at the huge black ball in the sky. The black ball slowly descended in his direction.

"It's a pity... I wanted to know how you modified the [Shadow Bind] and [Shadow Ball spells." Frels said as she shook her head.

Gilven just looked at Souta on the ground.

"Am I going to die without knowing my past and my real identity...?" Souta muttered to himself as his vision got blurry. He then saw a figure descend in front of him.

"It's okay. Listen to my words." The figure said with a grin on his face.

The figure in front of him had short, messy blonde hair. He was tall and had an average physique. He was wearing black pants and a long-sleeve shirt of the same color. On top of it was a small dark blue cloak.

This person didn't have any presence at all. Gilven and Frels couldn't sense him at all. They couldn't understand how this man appeared before them without them noticing him.

When Souta saw this figure, he couldn't help but laugh. At the same time, he heard a notification in his mind indicating that he had completed the quest.

But that's not important...

The reinforcement of the institute was one person only. But this person was more than enough. Why? because he's the strongest.

The Flame Master, Bargan Hevifield.