The Evolution of a Goblin to the Peak

Everyone managed to hold off the enemies. It was truly amazing, as the floating land unknowingly helped them distract their opponents.

Thud!

Lynn fell on her knees as she exhausted her mana by casting healing spells nonstop. This was the only thing that she could do, so she decided to try her best by healing everyone.

"Lynn!!" Lumilia hurriedly went beside Lynn with a concerned look.

"Don't push yourself too much. Souta wouldn't like it if you collapsed here," she said this to Lynn in a gentle tone.

"But... I want to help everyone." Lynn lowered her head while clenching her fists.

"You already tried your best, and it's enough for us. Your healing spells helped a lot of people." Lumilia said, then her subordinate approached them. She looked at the subordinate and asked, "What is it?"

"The reinforcements from the neighboring cities have arrived!" The subordinate said so to Lumilia in a polite tone.

At the same time, the other leaders breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the news.

"You've heard that, Lynn. You can leave everything to us," Lumilia smiled as she spoke. She knew that once the reinforcements arrived, they would be able to push back the forces of the Seven Deadly Sins.

She turned her head and saw a wave of people helping them. It was the combined force of three cities. Each city sent five thousand armed people to help Ladros City. So they have a total of fifteen thousand troops, and five hundred of these are B-rank or above.

It's the start of their counterattack.

But not every troop was here. Half of it went to District 5 to help the nobles there.

A middle-aged man with blue hair and blue eyes landed near the group. Three people with powerful auras landed beside the man.

The man with blue hair walked towards them and asked, "Who's the person in charge here?"

"Father...!" Lumilia blurted out when she saw the man.

Jimmy and the other leaders of the merchant group glanced at her before they looked at the people that arrived. They knew that these people were the leaders of the reinforcement.

"We all have authority, but this person is our strategist."

They said as they turned their heads to Lumilia. At the same time, the people that arrived, including her father, looked at her.

Lumilia took a deep breath as she stood up and approached the leaders of the reinforcement.

"I'm Lumilia, the vice commander of the Dark Oculus Legion and the strategist of the merchant alliance army." She introduced herself in a tone that wasn't too polite or rude to these people. She was one of the leaders, so she didn't need to bow her head to them.

It was as if she was telling them that they were equals.

"Good job on holding back the enemies," Ursus said to her as he observed him. He was quite surprised to find her being a strategist for a large army like this.

"No, we just did everything to survive against this powerful enemy." Lumilia shook her head. She then explained to them the current situation.

About what happened to the city and Bargan getting sealed in the sky.

Boom!

Suddenly, the ground shook heavily. Huge cracks appeared on the ground, and several people fell on it.

Lumilia, Ursus, and the other leaders stopped talking as they turned their heads to look at their surroundings.

"What's happening?"

Then, powerful waves of energy swept out and froze everyone on the spot.

Ugh!

Lynn, who was at the corner, puked. She shivered as she felt the great energy in the atmosphere that made everyone tremble in fear. This was the first time she experienced this kind of energy.

Even without trying her best, she could easily feel the immense energy below the floating land. It was terrifying and unnerving.

It felt as if a giant predator was standing in front of her. The energy it possessed was like the sun, as it exceeded the amount of energy all the people in this city possessed.

It's like she was comparing a small pond to a vast ocean.

...

Randolf's current transformation was familiar to him. It made him remember a bitter incident in his past life when he encountered this man in the Mars Archipelago.

When he went on an expedition on that newly opened continent, he met Randolf a few times, and he always got killed at that time.

'So he changed his name, or Zargon is his real name.' Souta thought while looking at Randolf from top to bottom.

Zargon is one of the four crystal emperors and will be called the Dark Emperor because of the dark crystal on his forehead. The four crystal emperors were the pinnacle of existence in the game. Their power was unfathomable.

The four crystal emperors were known throughout the whole world, and countless people feared them because of their overwhelming power.

Souta didn't think that one of his classmates was the Dark Emperor. It seems that taking the bead was Randolf's true motive.

Randolf was looking at his body, trying to feel his new powers. He felt an overwhelming power in his body, and his mana solidified. Not just that, his physical strength also increased greatly as it broke the limit.

Energy and physical strength.

This was a true S-rank, a realm of the strong.

"Ah~ this power..." Randolf murmured while clenching his fist. A tremendous amount of mana was gushing out of his body, and he wasn't familiar with his new strength, so he couldn't properly control it.

'The last piece... A few more minutes, and I'll be able to complete this," he thought as he glanced at Souta.

"That was your goal all along," Souta said as he squinted his eyes. He was still trying to force his body to move under the solid mana in the surrounding area.

"I needed this to complete my goal. To free my brethren." Randolf responded as he took a step forward. He smiled as he glanced at the huge pit on the surface. "Let me tell you something."

Souta moved his eyes and looked down at the city. He could see the battle from way up here more clearly than anybody else.

"Exactly one thousand two hundred forty-five years ago, three terrifying existences came out of the infamous Dark Forest. It wreaked havoc on the continent." Randolf said while looking at the huge pit with a serious expression.

"You're telling me that one of the existences that came out of the Dark Forest was sealed here," Souta said as he recalled the same lore of the game.

"This kingdom hadn't been founded at that time, so no one knew about it. I just happened to find this history while searching for this crystal." Randolf said as he touched the black crystal on his forehead.

'Three creatures that came out of the Dark Forest...?' Souta frowned deeply as he realized what was going to happen.

"Here it comes..." Randolf said deeply.

BOOM!!

A surge of the best feram burst out of the huge pit. Everyone stopped moving as the energy spread throughout the whole city.

Ohm!

The worst scenario has come. The threat of this creature was greater than the forces of the Seven Deadly Sins that were in this city.

Bang!

A gigantic hand came out of the pit. It grabbed the edge of the pit, and a huge figure emerged from it. Thick and dense energy was flowing out of the body of the figure.

ROARRRR!!!

A loud roar resounded throughout the entire sky as the figure revealed itself. Everyone saw a seven hundred-foot-tall humanoid-furry creature come out of the pit.

It has three ashen-colored horns on top of its head. Its pair of sharp fangs were glistening as it opened its mouth. The color of its fur was brown with black in its abdomen, and dozens of spikes protruded on its broad back.

Its hands were covered in white exoskeleton-like armor, and its long tail extended from its back to the ground. It has a length of fifty feet.

The humongous chains were around its neck, arms, and legs. The fake Gleipnir was still hard and wouldn't break easily.

Everyone turned pale when they saw this giant creature. Their mind went blank for a second as the creature emitted a powerful wave of energy that wiped out the surrounding buildings.

"I have no choice but to release it. My objective is to get the crystal, but taking it means that the power source of the seal will be gone." Randolf said in a low voice.

A creature from the ancient era.

This creature was a monster at its peak, a Monster Lord.

One of the three kings of the monster, along with Sea King and Sky King, is the infamous Underground King. These three creatures fought the alliance army of the Giza Continent and walked through the war of demons.

A monster that was hunted by humans, demis, and demons. Even the other monster lords were hunting them, yet no one managed to take them down.