Primordial Soul's Rebirth

"There are no goblins left in the forest."

When Alex said that, Alice, Ann, and Anna almost stopped in their tracks, but looking at Alex who continued at his pace they quickly followed behind as well.

"There are no goblins inside the gate? How do you know that? Also, we got the report saying that there had been sightings of low-ranked goblins in the gate.

Our scout team had seen them with their own eyes."

Anna spoke as she caught up to Alex.

She was sure that it was not her old brain playing tricks on her and she saw the report that said that this is a goblin gate and there are goblins in this gate.

Alice and Ann didn't say anything as they knew that Alex was not done, and yes, as they had thought, Alex continued.

"The forest is too quiet, there are no beasts in the forest, we have yet to find a single goblin even though we are about to reach the boss layer and the main point is that we didn't find any other trap after the one at the gate.

The one at the gate was likely a trap made to inform the one that laid that trap there about our arrival, and goblins don't do that.

Goblins stay close to their traps, ready to pounce at us when we fall for the trap, but still, these are just my guesses.

However, even if it is my guess, I would still not want Noctura to take a risk."

Alex concluded his point with that.

But his words made complete sense to the ladies, it was not that they couldn't come to the same conclusion, they just didn't try to think too deeply about anything as they had that much confidence in their strength.

But Alex was thinking from Noctura's perspective so he pointed it out as it could be dangerous for her.

The girls and Anna just nodded their heads and continued ahead and in a while they were right in front of the goblin village but....

"It's empty..." Anna spoke as she glanced at Alex.

Alice and Ann were not much surprised since in their minds Alex was something close to omniscient and omnipotent.

The whole village was empty, there was no sign of life anywhere.

It almost felt like a destroyed village with no one inside, yeah almost.

The strong stench of blood coming from every corner of the village made it hard to think of it as a deserted village.

The whole village was surrounded by a grim aura of death, but for the group that entered the village it was nothing, they were not the weak-willed, newbie raiders, they had seen their fair share of blood.

Noctura was the first to enter, she started sniffing the air after that. Her ears would turn to every side as if an antenna, it felt like she was searching for something or someone, and she was doing just that.

Noctura still had her skill activated so other than Alex, Alice, and Ann, who were more than a level above her, no one else could see her.

Even Anna, who was a bit shocked by Noctura's ability was unable to see her till now.

Anna knew that if she were to use her ability then it wouldn't be a problem for her to find Noctura, but she was shocked that she couldn't find her without it.

Anna was an SS-ranked raider after all.

*Swish**Swish**Swish*

Just then the sound of air being cut was heard before Alice, Ann, and Anna found three arrows coated with green liquid heading towards them.

Although the speed looked slow to Alice and Ann, it was actually quite fast.

Anna was not an SS-ranker in speed stats, so she was able to narrowly avoid the attack, but she avoided it nonetheless.

But as if the first round of arrows were sent as a test, three more arrows were shot, and all of them were going right for Anna.

Anna didn't want to take any kind of risk and she could see that neither Alice nor Ann had any intention of helping her, let's not talk about Alex as he didn't even look at her.

Anna hurriedly waved her hand and the root of some kind of tree emerged from the ground, standing right in front of her.

The arrows crashed into the root, slowly melting it, but the attack was stopped.

'So that's the famous 'Root whisperer' huh' Both Alice and Ann had the same thought when they saw Anna using her skill.

They didn't help Anna because they wanted to see her skill and also because they didn't have any reason to help her, she was strong enough to defend herself.

After all, it was Anna herself who said, 'I won't become a burden.'

Noctura on the other hand sharply turned her head towards the direction that the arrow came from before she ran.

The arrows were shot from the largest and the thickest tree in the whole forest, it was located in the middle of the village.

Noctura dashed to the tree at full speed as she just needed to kill the beast that was on it.

Noctura had already tried searching, and other than the scent of blood, she could find just one scent everywhere.

The main point was that the same scent was coming from the beast above the tree, it was a disgusting and gloomy smell, but she still ran towards the tree as she followed the stench.

Noctura's thinking was simple, she would kill it in one shot, directly bite its head off, whatever it was.

By now it was clear to everyone that the beast on the tree was the only beast left and it was probably the boss or someone strong enough to defeat the boss and take the boss title from it.

Now some of you might want to ask: what do you mean the boss title was taken?

A gate is cleared when the Boss is killed, that's what happens, but the Boss needs to be killed by someone from outside of the gate for that to happen.

If the boss is killed by a beast inside the gate, or a group of beasts from inside the gate, then the said group or beast would be given the title of the Boss.

This rarely happens as the boss is always strong enough to defeat the mobs or mid-bosses. But it does happen, and it had happened three times before in some low-rank special gates where the boss is killed like that.

Alice and Ann could see Noctura running towards the tree, so they thought of following her, but they were stopped.

"Don't do that, it will just alert the beast that's looking at us.

Let her do it on her own."

Alex voiced out, but Alice and Ann giggled as they saw him fully focused on Noctura.

He had his fists clenched and his body tensed, it was as if he was ready to dash at the fastest speed he could in case he found anything out of line.

Alex ignored their giggle and continued looking at Noctura.

He was ready to use his EX-ranked stats, it would not even take him a milli second to reach Noctura with that speed.

Noctura, on the other hand, stopped when she reached the tree, she looked at the beast and she knew that she needed to change her plan a little.

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