The Evolution of a Goblin to the Peak

In the south continent...

Alice was monitoring Torkez and Franklin's actions.

The Noxious, the assassin group formed by Franklin, became the strongest underground organization in Numan Country. It developed very fast, and it alerted a lot of people. So most of the underground organizations tried to stop Noxious, but all of them were demolished.

Franklin personally annihilated those people with Isabella's help. Compared to the central continent, the people on the south continent were weaker. The only people who could be a threat to them were the Annihilation Realm experts. In other words, the S-rank experts that controlled the Numan Country.

The Noxious swallowed various underground organizations in just a month, and they finally extended their hand to neighboring countries to expand their influence and strength.

It became a powerful force with five A-rank experts, one hundred twenty B-rank experts, five hundred sixty C-rank experts, and thousands of below C-rank experts. It will continue to rise, and Franklin was confident in his abilities.

The Clautus Group was pretty much normal compared to Noxious. It just became a city-scale organization as it completely replaced the Red Witch and Nine Lives in Blue Ray City.

The Clautus Group wasn't an underground organization, so they had to be careful about their reputation and actions. After all, they didn't want to challenge the ruling forces of the Numan Country with their current strength. They will suffer an instant defeat if they fight one of the ruling forces, as they don't have an Annihilation Realm expert in their ranks.

Alice was satisfied with their work, as they were close to conquering the Numan Country. She's the one who's in charge here, as she was the only one who could contact Souta. Souta didn't have any spare transmission talismans with him, so Torkez and the rest didn't have a way to contact him.

They didn't want to use the Great Astley Empire's technology in the Guardian Fortress, as there's a high possibility that someone from the central continent could detect the wavelength. It's too risky compared to the transmission talisman.

About Yuko and Doranjan, Alice had no news. She could only hope that the two were doing well in the Monster Kingdom.

"Those two are strong, so they are going to be fine..."

She muttered as she looked through the window. The city looks peaceful, but she knew that various organizations were competing hidden in the shadows.

"I will continue my training. I completely liquefied all the mana in my mana pool and reached the limit of A-rank. The next process is solidifying. Just a little bit more, and I will attain S-rank."

...

Two weeks had passed since the incident in Paultry City. Souta and the others hide in Eilish's mansion. They were safe here, and no one would forcefully barge inside the house of an Extinction Realm master.

The situation became intense as Night Watch decided to pressure the Monster Dungeon by sending a few elites. A monster was involved in the incident, so most of the people thought that it was related to the Monster Dungeon.

Even the Union Peace decided to move and pressure the Monster Dungeon. The atmosphere was intense, as war could break out at any moment.

The nearby monster around it was eradicated, and it could be seen that Night Watch wouldn't stop until they learned the inside story of the incident. But then the Monster Dungeon denied everything and said that they didn't send a monster to that place, much less a monster that could use the best feram.

The Monster Dungeon wasn't afraid of them. They literally came out of their nest and fought the people from the Night Watch and Union Peace. They pushed them back with a dominant attitude.

"It will turn into a war," Eilish said.

"Who do you think will win?" Souta asked as he glanced at Eilish.

"Of course, the Union Peace. If the Monster Dungeon is going to fight Night Watch, then they would have a chance, but sadly, the Union Peace is present. It's the effect of your action in Paultry City." Eilish smiled faintly.

"Yeah," Souta nodded. He didn't expect that his simple action in the city would cause a chain reaction that would lead to war.

Well, he didn't care about them. He was glad that they would fight each other, as it would give him an opportunity to move freely and to find the hidden base.

Eilish turned to Gragas and asked, "Are you going to join them?"

"Ugh, what can I do? I've gotten involved in this trouble, so I don't think that I could get away with this easily." Gragas said with a sigh.

Since the Night Watch and Union Peace were prepared for a war, he was sure that the two giant organizations would hunt him down if they knew that he was involved in the incident.

"That's good to hear." Souta smiled faintly.

"What's good about it?" Gragas asked with an annoyed expression.

"It means that you have a chance to learn more about the soul weapon. If it's your dream, then isn't it normal to take the risk? Don't tell me you are afraid of them?"

"No, I'm not afraid of them! I just want to live peacefully and create a masterpiece!" Gragas said in a loud voice.

"Hehe~ live peacefully..." Souta laughed, and he shook his head. Then he added, "You wouldn't be able to live peacefully if you had a huge dream of replicating a soul weapon. In any case, you will face various challenges in order to achieve it. As you know, a lot of blacksmiths tried to replicate soul weapons, but none of them achieved it."

"I know! You don't have to tell me about it!"

Souta shook his head, and he turned his attention to Eilish.

"Anyway, we will leave this city tomorrow to go back to the hidden base." He said.

"Oh, you're leaving?" Eilish raised her eyebrows.

"Yes, I can't wait any longer. Plus, the Night Watch and Union Peace are busy dealing with Monster Dungeon, so we will sneak inside the hidden base." Souta nodded at her.

"You have a point, but you said that there are people guarding the hidden base, right? So, how do you plan to deal with them?" Eilish asked.

"The usual way without any scheme. Just utterly crush them since I don't have to worry about reinforcement." Souta's tone was chilly as the atmosphere around him turned cold.

"It seems that you are confident. You've escaped before, so why did you think that you could take them right now?"

"I didn't retreat because I didn't have a chance to take them down. I retreat because I don't want to attract attention, but I don't have to worry about it right now. The Monster Dungeon solved all of my problems as it took all of the attention of the huge organizations in this land."

The Union Peace must have thought that he was going to hide for a while, and they wouldn't guess that he was going to attack the hidden base. It's not entirely true that they were going to lower their security because of this reason. In fact, the security of the hidden base must be higher than last time.

Anyone who was in their right mind would tighten the defenses of their base after an unknown person sneaked inside it.

So Souta already expected to fight some S-rank once again.

In the past two weeks, Souta didn't just sit idly waiting for the opportunity. He trained hard in the last two weeks to increase his mastery of his Archetype. He also increased the capacity of his monster orb using the monster orb of a fifth evolution monster.

In the battle, he wasted some of the energy inside it. He used it as fuel to fire his [Bestrou] and charged his monster orb to increase the duration of his release form. So those energies didn't improve his energy capacity at all.

His energy had reached 2,000 points. The improvement kept increasing after he learned the Archetype. The third form of Archetype was really helpful, as it could enhance his training speed by several times. It could also help him hide his energy inside his body without a single leak, so that no one could sense his best feram unless a powerful sensory type appeared in front of him.

It was called [Third Form: Serenity of the Vajra].

The fourth form of the Archetype was defensive ability. It would be helpful to him, but he didn't use it in the last battle. Just like the fifth form, he could hardly control this form. It would forcefully cancel some of the activated skills in his body. So unless he's in a dire situation where he absolutely needs to block an attack, he wouldn't use it for the time being.

[Fourth Form: Bridal Lotus Benevolent Rose].

That's the name of the fourth form of his Archetype.

"That settles it. We will leave tomorrow." Souta said this before he stood up and left the room. Amanda and Yenxa followed him closely.