Chapter 505
Chapter 505 Fighting While Retreating
Greem had experienced a nagging suspicion in the back of his mind since the fight started.
He had kept feeling as if the Goblin Plane didn’t live up to its name. The strength they were displaying was far too weak.
As a small-sized plane, the power systems of the Goblin Plane were several times weaker than the Knight’s Plane. There had at least still been a Fourth Grade Dragon Knight in the Knight’s Plane. Yet, Second Grade magical machines like Tigule’s were already considered top-tier combatants in the Goblin Plane.
Greem didn’t really understand the situation. He had intended to observe a little longer to obtain an explanation. And at that moment, when he saw that black pillar shoot towards him, Greem instantly understood the core strength of the Goblin Plane.
Dammit! The opponent had invested most of their efforts into the path of ‘magical energy’!
Greem possessed the ability to exit the battlefield quickly. Naturally, he had the leisure to think about all these complexities. However, Bug Adept Billis, who had remained in the black pillar of light’s area of effect, instantly became the most tragic victim of the battlefield.
Two other magical machines had remained in the radius of the black light, much like Billis. They had rapidly started melting the instant they came into contact with the black light. The machines collapsed like melted candles before being entirely vaporized.
The three adepts demonstrated all sorts of tricks as they frantically escaped into the woods. The black dots in the sky were like a swarm of bloodthirsty wasps. They buzzed as they pursued the adepts.
The massive flying ship also rapidly turned around and trailed after the robots, but slowly disappeared into the horizon as it trailed behind.
No one could care for the heartbroken Tigule right now. He opened his cockpit with grief painted across his face. He leaped onto the ground and stumbled across the battlefield in search of the corpses of his companions.
Regardless of how thoroughly he scoured every inch of land in a two and a half kilometer circumference, he could only find the broken machines of two of his companions. Tigule personally dragged his companion’s deformed corpses from the machines and buried them with tears streaking down his face.
The other companion’s corpse had already exploded into bloody paste and chunks of flesh. Tigule didn’t mind the filth. He gathered every drop of blood, every strand of flesh, and every piece of meat, before stuffing it all into his mouth, crying out loud as he swallowed everything in a single gulp.
For some reason, Tigule’s green eyes turned blood red after doing all this. A dense aura of bloodthirst radiated from his body.
He unhesitatingly charged into his cockpit and closed it. The three-meter tall Metal Goblin raised its arms and let out a heart-rending roar. It then strode into the forest.
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The pursuit in the forest was still ongoing.
Billis and Mary had already shaken off the enemy completely.
Mary’s speed was too much, even if the magical machines in the skies had two additional wings. Bug Adept Billis, on the other hand, was extremely proficient at stealth and hiding. He only needed to burrow into the ground, and the goblins would be incapable of finding him with their crude technology.
That was why they had all vanished from sight a long time ago. Only Greem alone remained.
Greem didn’t mind this situation at all.
Billis and Mary were only First Grade. Recovering their magic in this shitty low-magic plane was an arduous task. They needed to go into hiding after a fight to recover.
On the other hand, Greem was utterly different.
With the pounding core of fire in his chest, nothing could stop Greem from taking fire energy from the fire elementium plane, even if this plane was void of any elementium. Consequently, Greem would almost never run out of power as long as he limited the intensity of the battle to a certain level.
As Greem strode through the forest, he occasionally used fireballs to open a path ahead. Meanwhile, he kept a close eye on the magical machines circling the skies.
These fearless fellows were like flies that had smelled the odor of rot; it was impossible to chase them away no matter what he tried. They maintained a tight tail on Greem, diving down and attacking him whenever they found a suitable opportunity.
One could see a pile of smoking machine wreckage every three kilometers on this path that Greem had escaped through. The location of the crashes might be different, but all the machines shared the same trait. That was… none of the goblin mechanics in the magical machines had survived!
Greem had already figured out the combat method and means of attack available to the machines after the previous battle. When he struck, his counterattacks were always sharp and brutal.
A chain of three exploding Magma Fireballs would shatter the energy defenses, and then only a single piercing ‘gaze of death’ was needed.
Greem was only firing Solar Rays. However, in the eyes of the goblins, they were undoubtedly terrifying ‘gazes of death’!
The moment the energy shield covering a machine broke, a thin beam of red light would shoot from the evil adept’s blazing eyes, piercing right through the location of the cockpit. The ray of light wasn’t even as thick as the little finger of a goblin, but it possessed fearsome fire energy.
The Solar Rays would release terrifying fire energy the moment they came into contact with the body of a goblin mechanic.
Thus, if one investigated all the machines that had been struck with the gaze of death, they would not find any corpses within, only a pile of ashes.
The goblin mechanics flying in the sky faced an enemy that could easily kill them while being almost impossible to kill himself. They all felt a deep chill from the depths of their hearts.
Greem’s frightening strength had intimidated them and sent their morale crashing down into a valley.
Just then, a rumbling roar came from the woods behind.
Greem stopped running and teleported onto a tall cliff. He looked back at the forest behind him.
Ancient trees along a path were snapping and falling. Even the trees near them trembled and shook. From a distance, it seemed like a horrifying monster was making its way through the sea of threes.
Crack! The two ancient trees nearest to Greem fell, and a somewhat familiar metallic silhouette appeared in Greem’s vision.
So it was him!