The Evolution of a Goblin to the Peak

Souta pointed his sword forward, and black energy spun around the tip of his sword. He charged it until it reached its limit before he fired it.

[Dark Shooting Ray]!!

A large, gigantic beam erupted as it swallowed everything in front of Souta. It then caused a huge explosion several kilometers away from them. The size of the explosion was several times stronger than what occurred in Blackrock City.

BOOOOMM!!!

It annihilated more than ten thousand soldiers of the Great Astley Empire in an instant. The aftershocks of the explosion blasted everything around it, and the ground collapsed like fragile glass.

Lydia stopped running as she protected Isabella from the aftershocks of the explosion. Her heart was thumping wildly. The power of Souta's spell was several times stronger than before.

It was already at city scale. It could wipe out an entire city on the map using that spell that he just used.

It was truly frightening...

"Continue! Don't stop running!"

She came back to her senses when she heard Souta's voice. She shook her head and focused her attention on running.

Souta glanced at them before he resumed firing his spell in every direction.

Several explosions occurred that shook the entire place. Everything within fifty kilometers got disturbed by the battle that was happening in this place. Aside from the countless prisons in this world, a lot of monsters were roaming around, but they started running away.

Why? Well, the aftershocks of the battle felt like the world was going to end.

The [Dark Shooting Ray] was stronger because Souta didn't hold back on charging it with his mana. Also, the mana density in this world was lower than before, so the things here were fragile.

The power of an offensive tier 2 spell in this world was terrifying.

Souta narrowed his eyes as he moved his body from side to side while killing every soldier that tried to stop Lydia and Isabella.

"Argh!!"

"Ugh!!"

"No!!"

"Help!!"

The soldiers of the empire screamed as he killed them swiftly. He was killing everyone with just one swing of his sword.

After killing a few hundred people with his sword, the blood of his enemies had already covered his body. It looks like he bathed in their blood.

...

The group was so far from Yuko, who was fighting the wardens, generals, and commanders alone. She was keeping them busy while Souta, Lydia, and Isabella were escaping.

Still, fighting more than twenty B-rank powerhouses was too much for her. They specialized in different fighting styles, so it was really hard.

There were tankers, close-range attackers, long-range attackers, and supports. They filled up what each member lacked. Also, their combination was extraordinary.

Yuko couldn't even take one of them out. Her opponents' experience was vast, and they honed their fighting style by fighting dragons.

Also, her opponents weren't your ordinary B-rank. All of them had parasitic essence eaters in their bodies, which boosted their physical abilities to A-rank.

[Burning Shout II]!!

The tankers went in front to absorb her powerful attack. Her flames were dispersed, and she saw several attacks flying at her.

She jumped away and avoided the attacks, but then the ships in the sky fired light beams at her.

Boom!! Boom!!

General Albert opened his mouth and said, "We should take this monster first. Lydia and the other two wouldn't be able to escape this planet. They didn't have the transportational gate after all."

"Yeah, if they planned to steal one, then they have to go through the other wardens first," Warden Mackenzie said.

The Prison World was huge, so one warden could handle everything that's happening here. One warden could supervise the whole world, so the Great Astley Empire stationed thirteen powerful people as wardens in this world.

The wardens were like kings and emperors in this world. They are the ones who are deciding everything. It wasn't an exaggeration to say that they were like kings and emperors. Their region was even larger than the whole Condifan Empire in another world.

"If this monster really is like a dragon, then it also has the boosted mode. Once it uses it, it's going to get harder," General Asimon said.

"If this one didn't have that mode." General Albert said as he glanced at General Asimon.

General Asimon smiled and replied, "Then, we'll be able to kill it without suffering that many casualties."

They were talking about the [Monster Orb Release]. Since Yuko had dragon's energy, they had guessed that she also had the boosted mode or rage mode. It was a powerful and terrific skill, but they were prepared.

There were more than twenty B-ranks, so they could handle Yuko. It's like a raid party of adventurers in the Imperium hunting down a third evolution monster that could bring danger to the city.

Yuko felt overwhelmed. This group of people that she was fighting wasn't that strong. She was sure that she could defeat them in a one-on-one battle, but somehow she couldn't even land a direct and fatal hit on one of them.

She was about to attack the person closest to her when beams of light flew at her and landed on her body.

Boom!

...

Lydia and Isabella managed to break through the army. Isabella closed her eyes. The things that were happening around her were things she hadn't experienced before. It was horrible and frightening, as thousands of people were dying around her.

"This is it."

The two heard Souta's words. Lydia turned to look at them and asked, "What are you going to do?"

"Just escape from this place. You're from the Great Astley Empire, right? So you have some idea about this world. Just go, and I'll follow you soon." Souta replied while wiping the sweat from his forehead. He was already breathing heavily and consuming a lot of his energy.

He then gave her his spare transmission talisman. He could contact her using this, but Lydia didn't know its function, so he explained it to her first.

"Okay, we'll wait for you." Lydia nodded with a serious expression before she turned around and left with Isabella.

Souta glanced at their backs before he looked at his system.

Health: 2,197/2,420

Stamina: 572/995

Mana: 2,276/3,802

Just by fighting these countless soldiers, he already consumed more than a thousand of his mana.

Well, they were safe for now, so...

Souta charged at the enemies in front of him. He used everything that he had to eliminate as many of his enemies as he could. It was a very exhausting battle.

He didn't even know if he would run out of stamina and mana before he could kill everyone here. He opened his [Harvester of the Soul] once again and plucked all the souls of the people that died.

He used the souls in the right piece as his left piece needed 4,000 souls. While the soul that he needed in his right piece was 3,000 souls. He gained 100 points from gathering souls, and he used all of it on his agility. His base agility right now is 1,078 points, making it the third attribute to reach 1,000 points.

Reaching 1,000 points in agility greatly increased his speed. It was also an effect of his agility attribute that his speed rose exponentially.

Then Souta heard a familiar sound in his mind. He was waiting for it. The system prompts

*Ding!*

[Quest 2 Completed!]

[You've received 20,000 exp, 15 free attribute points, and 8 skill points!]

*Ding!*

[Quest 3 Unlocked!]

[Great Astley Empire] Quest 3: The Prison World is one of the worlds under the Great Astley Empire. Free the prisoners to create chaos in this world.

Rewards: 10,000 exp, 5 free attribute points, and 3 skill points

The third quest wasn't that hard. Also, its reward was less than the first two quests. Well, it's not that bad. As long as it had benefits, he was fine with it.

Forget about it. He should finish this as soon as possible. No, he should leave this place since Lydia and Isabella aren't here anymore and proceed to finish the third quest.

[Air Walk]!

Souta jumped in the air as he looked in the direction where Lydia and Isabella went. When he confirmed that they were really not here, he landed on the ground.

The soldiers around him kept rushing, but Souta simply avoided them by jumping in mid-air while slashing his sword at them.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

Souta flew away in a different direction from where Lydia and Isabella went. Ten black balls appeared behind him as he shot toward the sky.

Since the ones who were trying to stop him were just ordinary soldiers, they wouldn't be able to catch him. None of them had parasitic essence eaters, so no one could fly.

"Bye-bye..."

He muttered as a smile formed on his face. His acceleration was so fast that he easily reached 3,500 kph in just a second.

Swoosh!

He continued to fly until he found a huge mountain. He shoots down without decreasing his speed, and the moment he landed on the ground, he quickly used the [Burrow] skill that he got from the Underground King.

This is a perfect place...