"Spread Across the Sky Like Stars!"
The instant Ethan used the Spread Across the Sky Like Stars skill, countless rice-grain-sized Spatial Gates appeared among the goblins like tiny stars filling the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little stars. Tiny stars everywhere.
"Pfft!"
"Urgh..."
Two goblins moved forward less than half a step and died immediately.
The other goblins instantly opened their large eyes wide and shouted, "Don't move! Nobody move! There's something strange here!"
"I didn't even see any hidden weapon. Why did they die?"
"How would I know?"
"Could there really be ghosts here?"
"I heard before that this underground kingdom we live in used to be an underground palace from the Old World, the kind used to bury dead people."
"That was all Old World stuff. Even if there were ghosts, they'd be dead by now! Stop talking nonsense!"
"Then explain it! Why are they suddenly dying for no reason?"
The goblins were almost driven mad by what they were seeing.
But the Spatial Gates were simply too small.
Combined with all the dust in the air, finding them was practically impossible.
"So this is Spread Across the Sky Like Stars?", Even Ethan was stunned by what he saw.
Turning Spatial Gates into a dense trap field produced an effect comparable to a shotgun.
The result was unbelievably strong.
If there was one flaw, it was probably the outrageous amount of mental power the skill required.
After all, he had only used Spread Across the Sky Like Stars once, yet Ethan's mental power had immediately dropped by 2000.
[Mental Power -2000]
It should be noted that Ethan only had 7000 mental power right now.
And that was only because his Great Fireball had reached Level 5.
Yet this was only a Level 3 skill, and it consumed 2000 mental power in one use.
The cost was truly massive.
But the cost was almost directly proportional to its effect.
As expected, the remaining dozens of Yellow-Cap Goblins could no longer endure the strange situation around them.
Almost all of them broke down and fled back toward the Guard Hall.
Although the Spread Across the Sky Like Stars skill created a very dense field of Spatial Gates, a few still slipped through.
For example, the shorter goblins.
Or those that had been so frightened from the beginning that they dropped to the ground and crawled back.
Naturally, those couldn't be killed.
But that didn't matter.
Because... Ethan still had one final killing formation.
The Shadow Guard.
At this moment, it had an Obedience Talisman attached to it and would only follow the instructions Ethan had programmed into it.
So when those fleeing goblins tried to return to the Guard Hall and passed a strange statue, one of the goblins even turned its head and looked at it curiously.
But it simply assumed it was an oddly shaped cave rock and didn't think much about it.
However, as they ran, they suddenly began losing their heads.
Some met even worse ends, splitting into two halves and collapsing to either side, dying with their eyes still open.
Until the moment they died, they couldn't figure out how they had died.
"Alright! Come out now."
Seeing that the battle was basically over, Ethan called toward the tunnel entrance.
Soon, the Birdmen squad flew over to him.
"Lord!"
"Mm. We can continue deeper into the maze now. I've basically wiped out all those goblins."
Ethan spoke casually while taking out the Godslayer Sword.
With each swing, he used the Strange Sword Style.
He simply waved it around.
But every time he swung, a goblin barely clinging to life on the ground would die.
[Strange Sword Style: Experience 321/10000]
[Strange Sword Style: Experience 322/10000]
[Strange Sword Style: Experience...]
Every swing was experience points.
Naturally, Ethan wasn't going to waste them.
He wanted to max out a skill as soon as possible.
Because he had noticed, these skills seemed to become area-of-effect abilities once they reached around Level 4 or 5.
Great Fireball was powerful enough.
But the problem was that the higher its level became, the more experience it required.
Ethan didn't even want to imagine how terrifying the experience requirements for Level 7 or Level 8 Great Fireball would be.
On the other hand, there was the Eight Godslayer Forms.
Although there was no shortcut.
Each move had to kill ten thousand monsters before it could be fully mastered and upgraded.
But that was also its advantage.
Those ten thousand kills, no matter which form of the Eight Godslayer Forms it was, as long as it killed ten thousand times, it would definitely level up.
So naturally, Ethan wasn't going to give up all the experience lying across the ground.
Anyway, he was heading deeper inside.
Since he had nothing else to do along the way, he might as well collect it all.
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