Chapter 79 - Unexpected Trap - Part 2: A Goblin

Shin could see the system changing everything in front of him. Of course, the tons of messages were confusing him even more. He had no idea of what was going on.

But he knew one thing for sure, whatever was happening was related to some sort of magic or illusion.

The reason for that was simple, despite being confused, he could feel a weird sense of concentrated mana.

He had been exposed to the mana of the Land of Lost ones which was quite dense. Other than that, no other part of the forest gave off that kind of mana, at least not that dense. 

Well, that included only the parts that he had visited earlier. Of course, the place where he was now was an area where he hadn't visited earlier, but he had been searching for the beast there for quite some time.

All this time he could sense that the mana was quite less in the surrounding so a sudden increase definitely meant the activating of some spell.

'Dang, it's as if a part of me is slowly trying to get away...', he was trying to describe the feeling that he continuously felt because of that.

'I have no idea about what is happening, but I'm sure that if I try to use the system, I would be able to get out of this predicament...'

This was unforeseen, Shin was quite strong, therefore he couldn't have been cornered so easily. But it seemed like he had fallen into some sort of trap.

Of course, that was because he became careless. Not only was he overconfident about his skills, but also had his mind diverted while thinking about Aella probably because right after she left, he started to feel that he had lost something important.

'Tsk, I hate this...'

'Just who the heck is toying with me?', he asked himself.

He was pissed off and now couldn't bear it anymore.

'I hate this ridiculous feeling...'

'I'm done waiting...'

Actually, this was an abnormal condition to which he was subjected to, therefore he was waiting for the system to let him learn a new skill, but it seemed as if the system had become quite stubborn, at least after the latest evolution in which Shin had evolved into a Highlord wolf!

'Sigh, it's enough...'

He gathered all his thoughts and left out all the annoying feelings. His mind all of a sudden became empty thanks to that.

Everything was calm for a moment at least exactly when Shin disabled a skill that he had been using all this time.

Of course, using a skill would be wise since he would be able to attack or do something else, however, he disabled a skill.

Would disabling a skill really help? Was there any such skill that would help him when it would be disabled?

Yes, there was one, a strong skill which he received during the start which had been active all this time.

'Ding'

[ You have disabled the skill active skill Aura Control ]

[ Host's entire aura will no longer be concealed ]

[ The aura will emerge and start to spread in all direction with a radius of 5 Km ]

'Zoom'

The moment the skill got deactivated, the pressure in the entire area changed.

'Ding'

[ You have gained a new passive skill 'Mental Defense' Lv.1 ]

[ Most mental attacks will be cut down and will have no effect on the host ]

[ Efficiency of magic usage will increase by 10% ]

That was an odd timing to receive a skill. He should have gained that earlier, but oh well, the bottom line was that he got it and after getting it he was sure that he was attacked with some skill that was related to affecting his mind.

In any case, he had disabled a skill earlier thanks to which the attack on him vanished too.

"No..."

"Spare me..."

Shin heard a weird voice, of course, he was no longer confused.

He now felt completely fine. He turned his head towards his right only to find a goblin standing there.

"A goblin...?", Shin was way too surprised to see that.

It was a dead reality that goblins were one of the weakest creatures in this world, however, he had never met one.

Of course, the weaker the race, the farther they would be from the center. This meant that they should be found near the edges of the forest, but that wasn't the case.

Shin had never once encountered any goblin until now. It was his first time seeing a creature that resembled the elves a bit, their pointy ears did for sure.

But the Goblin in front of him was somewhat different. It was wearing a violet-colored rob which usually the mages or sorcerers would prefer wearing.

It was holding a staff too and just by seeing that Shin realized that the creature in front of him was capable of using some sort of sorcery.

He didn't hesitate to take a look at its stats because he could see that the goblin was terrified. Of course, he knew the reason, after all, it was because of his terrifying dragon-like aura.

"Please..."

"Please spare me..."

The goblin could see a dragon covered with smoke emerging from Shin. The dragon was as huge as any tree that was present there.

The red light that was shining from the eyes of the dragon was what terrified the single goblin even more.

Of course, Shin kept walking towards him at a slow pace, but that didn't matter to the goblin.

Shin's aura was so intense that the small plants nearby suddenly died and withered. Well, he didn't observe that because his attention was towards the goblin's stats.

From Goblin's perspective, the aura kept growing and so did the dragon. The goblin had no idea about the situation anymore.

It threw the staff that he was holding. Needless to say, the staff and the blue crystal ball on top of the staff didn't break.

However that couldn't be said about the goblin, the way it behaved, it felt as if it's heart was soon going to burst and come out from its mouth.

"..."

To be continued...