Chapter 177: Chapter 130: Blade of Rebellion, Armored Giant Ape
They were Ghost-faced Spiders, Corpse-Eating Lizards, Black Giant Rats, and... goblins!
Roy had known for a long time that goblins existed on this continent.
But this was the first time he had encountered a living one.
Just as he had read in books about Extraordinary Creatures, the goblins of this world had green skin, were generally under a meter tall, and had ugly features. They used scavenged human weapons or self-made wooden clubs.
Goblins weren’t particularly strong.
Even an ordinary soldier could handle four or five at once.
However, that didn’t mean goblins posed no threat.
Because these creatures always appeared in groups of dozens.
Furthermore, they were cunning by nature, feigning death or fleeing to confuse their opponents, and taking advantage of the cave’s complex terrain and dim environment.
These little goblin tricks didn’t cause Roy any trouble.
Before transmigrating, he hadn’t just watched the *Goblin Slayer* anime; he had read the manga too.
More importantly, he wasn’t in the habit of underestimating his opponents.
Even if his opponents were goblins, he wouldn’t let his guard down.
Any goblin he attacked was either beheaded or cut in half at the waist. They were dead beyond a doubt, with no opportunity to pull any tricks.
Like the adventurers in *Goblin Slayer* who underestimated goblins, Selena and Monica didn’t pay much mind to creatures that even ordinary soldiers could handle.
And then, they nearly paid the price for their carelessness.
Selena was fooled by an injured goblin that was playing dead but wasn’t quite finished. She was nearly stabbed in her long, shapely thigh by a rusty dagger that seemed to carry a "Tetanus" attribute.
One had to admit, that goblin had good taste in targets.
The spot it chose was right in the "absolute territory."
As for Monica, she was ambushed by a goblin from behind and nearly took a blow to the back of her head.
Fortunately, they reacted quickly enough, instantly deploying their Protective Fighting Qi.
Otherwise, they would have become the laughingstock of all Great Knights, forever unable to escape the shameful label of being wounded by a goblin.
By observing their fight, Roy noticed that, like Catherine at the beginning, neither of them had much practical combat experience.
In other words, they hadn’t fought many cunning enemies before, which was why they were fooled by the goblins’ little tricks.
As the saying goes, some lessons can only be learned through experience.
After nearly being wounded by the weak goblins, they cast aside their disdain and became fully focused.
The deeper they went into the cave, the stronger the Extraordinary Creatures became, and the fewer corpses they saw in the passages.
Clearly, most of the Knights who had entered the cave hadn’t made it as far as their current position.
The passages inside the Lost Cave were as complex as a labyrinth.
Unless everyone made the exact same choices at every fork, it was inevitable that their numbers would dwindle.
After advancing for another ten or twenty minutes and dealing with the Extraordinary Creatures they met along the way, Roy and the others arrived in a massive cavern.
The cavern was enormous, roughly the size of two or three football fields.
Compared to the passages, which were only seven or eight meters wide at their broadest, it was exceptionally large.
In addition, the light in the cavern wasn’t as dim as in the passages.
On the rock walls all around the cavern, a great deal of moss grew, emitting a blue glow.
This moss illuminated the cavern like strips of light.
While Selena and Monica were still surveying the cavern, Roy’s voice rang out.
"I’ll handle the next enemy. You two just watch out for yourselves!"
Although they didn’t know why he had suddenly said that, Selena and Monica didn’t hesitate, immediately retreating behind him.
As they watched, Roy sheathed his Fine Steel Cross Sword, raised his right hand, and released a stream of silver-white Fighting Qi.
The silver-white Fighting Qi surged from his right hand like a roaring flame.
In the next second, this silver-white Fighting Qi condensed into a strangely-shaped two-handed greatsword.
The blade was thick and heavy, with a slight inward curve. The point where the blade and hilt connected resembled a neatly arranged rib cage.
The guard wasn’t a common straight crossguard, but was instead angled downwards from the center.
At the center of the guard was a skull.
To be precise, one side was a hornless human skull, while the other was a demon skull with curved, opposing horns.
The hilt and guard also had a bone-like appearance.
The very end of the hilt wasn’t the usual pommel, but a crown-like decoration.
If there was another Transmigrator from Blue Star who also loved video games, they would have recognized which game this two-handed greatsword came from at a single glance.
The Blade of Rebellion!
The signature weapon of Dante, the protagonist of the famous action game series, *Devil May Cry*!
Considering he was currently using the alias "Shanks," Roy didn’t continue to form the Destruction Sword from *Final Fantasy*, but instead created the Blade of Rebellion from the *Devil May Cry* series.
Watching Roy form the Fighting Qi: Blade of Rebellion, Selena and Monica frowned slightly.
Although Great Knights could use Fighting Qi Substantiation to form all sorts of weapons, they would typically create the weapons they were most accustomed to using.
After guessing that Roy was about to form a Fighting Qi Weapon, Selena and Monica’s first thought was that he would create a Fighting Qi One-Handed Sword.
After all, what he wore at his waist was a standard-issue One-Handed Cross Sword.