The demon monk in the second dimension

This is a high-level fire magic spell; even a silver-rank witch would find it quite difficult to create such a scroll.

But its power is commensurate with its difficulty of production.

"A large number of flames rapidly expanded in a short period of time, burning away all the oxygen, similar to the principle of a thermobaric bomb. The storm of flames lived up to its name. Even I would need to be in the mid-Foundation Establishment stage to cast a spell of this level."

"No wonder people always talk about mages. At the same silver level, a warrior is equivalent to a cultivator at the eighth level of Qi Refining, while a mage can already cast spells at the mid-Foundation Establishment level. If it weren't for the limited number of spells a mage can cast each day and the need to prepare in advance, where would a warrior in this world have a chance to survive!"

Xia Zhi shook her head, took out her personal map, and wrote the character "fire" on it.

On the castle walls, goblins frantically tried to escape the crumbling ruins.

But Xia Zhi refused.

He put away the map, grabbed the bow and arrows beside him, and started calling out names to the goblins one by one.

Whoosh whoosh!

Arrows rained down, piercing through the bodies of goblins one by one.

Xia Zhi kept swinging her arms and soon emptied a quiver.

At least a dozen goblins fell from the city wall.

He single-handedly provided the firepower of an entire class!

The bow and arrow used during the summer solstice were made of bone.

The bow was made from the spines of two goblins, and the bowstring was bought from adventurers and tanned from the sinews of earth dragons.

This bone bow is of higher quality than the iron bow and can withstand the high-intensity output during the short period of summer solstice.

After dealing with the goblins on the city wall, Xia Zhi drew the short sword from her waist, put on the shield in her left hand, and came to the gate of the castle.

Goblins are creatures with an amazing ability to learn!

If they survive an attack, they can learn from it and prepare a response based on that experience next time.

Moreover, these goblins have a greater chance of evolving into giant goblins, goblin shamans, or even goblin warriors and goblin kings.

Therefore, in a goblin extermination campaign, not a single goblin can be left alive.

He waited for a while and found that no goblins had escaped, so he searched around the castle.

Fortunately, because the castle was originally a military fortress, there is no back door.

Summer Solstice circled around twice but didn't see any goblins.

He was preparing to deal with the fire caused by the burning castle when suddenly a heavy rain began to fall!

A sudden downpour struck.

Large raindrops fell from the sky like pebbles, hitting Xia Zhi's helmet with a crisp, tinkling sound.

Summer Solstice: ...

He took off his helmet, faced the sky, and wiped his face in the heavy rain.

"That's good, it saves me the trouble of putting out the fire."

Chapter 13 Goblins in the Forest Shoot with Arrows

When you're soaked to the bone and moving around in a downpour, the rate at which your body burns heat and energy is three to five times faster than usual.

So, after throwing all the goblin corpses into the burning castle, Xia Zhi found a corner of the castle that hadn't collapsed yet to take shelter from the rain.

He lit a fire, took off his soaking wet clothes to dry them, and was only wearing a pair of boxer shorts.

Next, Xia Zhi took a tin can from her backpack, filled it with rainwater, put it on the fire to boil, and then threw in wheat cakes to turn them into a paste.

Next, he took out a piece of beef jerky from his backpack, cut it into pieces with a knife, and threw it into the porridge to cook together.

In no time, a pot of wheat and beef porridge was ready.

Listening to the torrential rain pattering through the trees outside, Xia Zhi ate her porridge while watching the flames in the castle being extinguished little by little by the heavy rain.

"After the ninth level of Qi Refining comes the tenth level, and then comes Foundation Establishment. The barrier to Foundation Establishment doesn't exist for me. I'll just proceed step by step, and once I kill the Goblin King and his tribe, I'll have enough materials to complete Foundation Establishment."

"Two of the Five Elements Corpse Pile have already been completed; only the Metal, Wood, and Earth elements remain. I hope there are enough goblins in the forest to allow me to complete one of them."

The heavy rain is not going to stop anytime soon.

On the summer solstice, he leaned against the fire, got dressed, added enough firewood to burn for half the night, and closed his eyes to sleep.

Xia Zhi had previously wondered if she could replace sleep with cultivation, like in many novels, but later realized that this was simply impossible.

Cultivation is a form of exercise, with an intensity between jogging and race walking.

After advancing to the Nascent Soul stage, cultivators can use meditation instead of sleep because their physical and spiritual strength have increased, eliminating the need for daily deep sleep.

Meditation and proper spiritual practice are completely different things.

Before the summer solstice, we could work non-stop for three months, but that's no longer possible.

Although the nascent soul and divine soul are still in the tribulation stage, this body is a genuine Qi Refining Ninth Level.

I can't take it without sleep.

……

I slept straight through until dawn on the summer solstice.

The rain stopped close to midnight.

Summer Solstice ate a piece of wheat cake with yesterday's water, put on his leather armor, put his iron helmet back on, and stepped away from the ancient castle that had become ruins.

He trudged back to the town through the muddy ground, inevitably getting covered in mud himself, looking quite disheveled.

Back in the border town, Xia Zhi's first task was to go to the Adventurers' Guild to turn in a quest.

At the Adventurers' Guild, he learned from the receptionist that the novice adventurer who went to hunt goblins in the forest had returned.

Although everyone was injured, including one with a broken leg, no one died.

I also obtained some information during the summer solstice.

There are at least ten goblins in the forest, none of them are large, they are all common species.

They are cunning, playing guerrilla warfare with adventurers in the forest. They can not only use flying stones for ranged attacks, but have even learned how to use traps.

The adventurer who suffered a broken leg was injured after stepping on a bear trap.

"This is probably a trap left by the hunter, which the goblin has learned to use."

After considering the information he had received, Xia Zhi went to the blacksmith's shop to replenish his arrows.

He said this to the blacksmith shop owner he knew well.

"No arrowheads, just sharpen the head of the shaft. I want arrows made entirely of wood."

"Arrows made entirely of wood? It's not impossible. Come and make them with me."

The blacksmith shop owner nodded.

He knew that Goblin Slayer had his own methods and sometimes customized some strange things.

Together, the two of them made twenty pure wooden arrows without iron arrowheads in just ten minutes.

Afterwards, Xia Zhi embarked on a journey to the southern forest.

……

After a torrential downpour, many traces in the forest were buried.

Numerous leaves fell from the branches, and the footprints washed away by the torrential rain were nowhere to be seen.

Once inside the forest, Xia Zhi became extremely alert.

He took the bone bow from his back, gently placed the arrows on the dry bowstring, and scanned the forest warily with his eyes.

It was evening, the perfect time for goblins to go out hunting.

Let's imagine.

While you were living and working peacefully in your quiet little village, a horde of goblins stormed in.

These monsters killed your family and friends, stole your livestock, kidnapped your sisters, and burned down your village.

Everything happened so suddenly, and so unforgettable.

To humans, goblins are monsters.

But to the goblins, he was the monster!

Whoosh!

Goblins' skin color does indeed help them hide well in the forest, but it can't escape Xia Zhi's eyes.

Ten meters away, a goblin was about to throw a stone at Xia Zhi, but was shot down by Xia Zhi's first arrow.

"Ka!"

A goblin nearby was startled, but managed to throw the stone it was holding.

Xia Zhi shifted to the side, dodging the pebble whose edges were polished very smoothly.

He took another wooden arrow from the quiver at his waist and nocked it on the bowstring.

With a hum, the bowstring vibrated.

The arrow tore through the air with a sharp whistling sound.

Do!

The wooden arrow flew steadily and pierced the goblin's heart.

"grumble!"

The remaining goblin, seeing its two companions dead, let out a scream and fled in panic.

Xia Zhi followed behind him, watching the goblin hopping and skipping around, its running posture quite different from that of ordinary goblins.

Xia Zhi lowered her gaze, seemingly discovering something, and a cold smile appeared on her lips hidden beneath the mask.

He took a step forward, and suddenly his foot slipped, and he fell into a pit.

The pit was very deep, more than three meters deep, but very narrow, less than two meters wide.

"Quack quack!"

Seeing Xia Zhi fall into the trap, the goblin who had just been running away laughed and ran back.

Meanwhile, three more goblins appeared in the surrounding forest and surrounded the trap that Xia Zhi had fallen into.

They held stones in their hands, wanting to kick someone when they're down.

Inside the trap, Xia Zhi waited for a few seconds before bracing herself against the edge of the trap with her hand.

He infused his legs with true energy, stomped on the ground, and jumped directly out of the hole!

Xia Zhi immediately sensed something was wrong based on the way the goblins escaped.

When it was running away, this goblin deliberately went around this spot; it was so obvious!

Therefore, when Xia Zhi deliberately fell, she infused her legs with true energy.

He kicked two streams of true energy into the cave, shattering something with their force before it landed with a thud.

Because of yesterday's heavy rain, a layer of water accumulated at the bottom of the trap, reaching waist height.

By the time the summer solstice arrived, the water was already murky.

But just now, using the force of the explosion, Xia Zhi discovered that there was indeed something set up at the bottom of the trap.

The goblins placed many wooden spikes in the trap.

The heads of these spikes also contain poison made by goblins from their feces.

However, these spikes had already been shattered by the true energy that Xia Zhi had just unleashed.

After leaping out of the trap, Xia Zhi did not use the bone bow.

He drew two arrows from his quiver with both hands and then thrust them forward.

puff puff!

With a spray of blood, Xia Zhi used all her strength to stab two wooden arrows directly into the throats of the two goblins.