Goblin Dependency-Chapter 266 - 142 Tidal Shaping_2

Deep inside his heart, for the first time since the battle began, a sense of retreat emerged.

He didn’t question why it was only now that he, who had never been particularly brave, had thoughts of fleeing.

He simply held onto an unrealistic hope and ran in a direction away from the core battlefield, towards where villagers were screaming.

But after all, he was just a new adventurer, without much training, and his physical fitness was very ordinary.

At the moment, after high-intensity combat, his stamina was already exhausted.

A brief rest of a few breaths wouldn’t provide any relief.

Instead, the aching soreness of his muscles became more evident, as fatigue swallowed him like a tidal wave.

He barely moved his body away from the wall, taking two steps forward.

Then suddenly staggered, swayed, and fell to the ground.

He still held his One Handed Sword in his hand.

But he couldn’t get up no matter what.

It seemed as if all his strength to stand had been completely drained.

And just as Abi was in this most awkward moment, it seemed he was affected by the thick scent of blood around him.

Three goblins, shuttling between the wooden houses in the village, searching for prey, discovered his body lying on the ground.

"Squee!"

An excited, sharp cry suddenly pierced the air.

Abi struggled to get up, but at that moment, it seemed his brain had lost control over his body.

He could only futilely lift his neck, desperately watching those mud-covered feet rapidly approach him.

Fleeting through his mind were the few cherished memories of his short life.

Abi closed his eyes, quietly waiting for death to come.

At the brink of death, his mind, originally filled with chaotic emotions and thoughts, became completely serene.

He even found time to make a little joke to himself:

"Goddess, please let these goblins not be too hungry, at least let me be free first before they feast."

Abi’s prayer did not work.

Because before the goblin’s footsteps, sounding from his ear, could truly reach him, they gradually slowed and became heavy, eventually stopping completely, ceasing to move.

Confused, Abi slowly opened his eyes.

What he saw were three pairs of twig-like slender legs standing still in place.

As if burdened by a pressure far beyond their body’s capacity, the goblins’ calves trembled violently, one could faintly see the thin skin stretched to the limit over their feeble muscles.

"Bang!"

The enormous pressure crushed these three goblins beyond bearing.

Nearly simultaneously, they knelt and collapsed.

Their movements were identical to Abi’s earlier struggle.

Limbs pressed against the ground, faces down, wailing and struggling.

Even though they exerted all their strength, they couldn’t even perform the most basic act of standing up.

These low-intelligence, lower-level demons, even until now, didn’t understand why, in just a few seconds, their bodies had suddenly become so heavy.

It was as if beneath the surface, a huge magnet was pulling them firmly to the ground, making it hard to break free.

Of course, for these three goblins, at least currently, they probably had no chance of figuring it out.

Because in the next second, an iron-gray sword light descended like an execution beheading blade from above.

Silhouetted against the spurting fresh blood,

it chopped off their heads.

Xia Nan, holding a Beheading Longsword in his right hand, bent down and pulled Abi up from the ground.

He opened his mouth, trying to say something to the dazed Abi.

But seeing his vacant eyes, bewildered consciousness, and mud and blood-stained face, he realized that Abi probably wouldn’t be able to comprehend a single word at that moment.

So he merely patted Abi’s shoulder and gestured in the direction he had come from:

"I’ve cleared that area, it’s very safe."

"Adeline and some other villagers are there."

"Leave the rest to me."

He repeated it twice until Abi dumbly nodded, then turned and rushed back into the village.

The Bear Goblins were dead, leaving only some Green-skinned Goblins on the field.

Even before leveling up, they posed no threat to Xia Nan.

Not to mention now that he had become a legitimate professional, his overall strength had soared several notches.

Handling them was easier and more swift than before.

From the outside to the inside, he cleared over half the village in less than ten minutes.

This even included some time spent arranging the villagers.

His speed was extremely fast.

Even without unleashing [Teeth Hunting], at a glance, others could only catch a fleeting shadow in the air.

If observed more closely, despite wearing heavy iron armor and covering a large distance with each stride, it was clear that there was a significant demand on his leg muscles for explosive power.

Yet, the footprints he left on the muddy ground were very shallow.

Roughly equivalent to the pace of an average adult male walking at a regular speed.

This was naturally an initial development of the [Gravity Control] that Xia Nan had just mastered.

——By flexibly adjusting the "gravity," he could temporarily increase or decrease the gravitational force on an object.

It was the first use that came to Xia Nan’s mind after acquiring this skill.

Simple, but effective.

For the enemies, like the three goblins before; merely pulling up their gravity a notch immediately stripped them of mobility.

They lay still on the ground like lambs to the slaughter, stretching their necks out for him to harvest.

For Xia Nan himself, lessened gravity meant a lighter bodily burden and faster speed under the same exertion level.

Not only in everyday actions but also in other two battle skills [Vortex Slash] and [Teeth Hunting], which would be significantly enhanced under gravitational effects.

And if later on, as the skill level of [Gravity Control] gradually increased, he could use it stably over a long period.

Xia Nan could even purchase equipment without considering the weight of armor, choosing the heavier ones with better defensive performance under the premise of not affecting agility. Inside, a hundred layers (an exaggerated claim) stacked, as long as [Gravity Control] could suppress it, would burden him no more than a light, thin T-Shirt.

Further, when he elevates [Gravity Control] to the point where he can completely counteract the effect of "gravity" on himself...

He didn’t dare imagine.

Moreover, all these ideas surfaced in a mere few dozen minutes since he became a professional—thoughts that emerged while clearing goblins, leaving no time for deep pondering.

"Gravity," as one of the four fundamental forces of the material world, has an immensely broad scope.

It was absolutely impossible for him to comprehend fully in a short span.

For now, first clean these goblins out of the village; slowly research it further upon returning to River Valley Town wouldn’t be too late.

Thinking silently, a ruin filled with scorch marks ahead rapidly approached in his view.

Slightly panicked and weary roars echoed from within.

A man in simple hemp clothing clutched a mud-stained hoe tightly, swinging it to fend off several goblins in front of him.

Leaning against the wall behind him was a middle-aged woman clutching her child tightly, also grasping a meat-cutting dagger in her hand.

Her eyes were firm, seemingly ready to fight to the death with the goblins before her.

Without a moment’s hesitation, Xia Nan’s legs burst with power!

Mud stars splashed!

As if springs were attached to his feet, his body, unburdened by gravity, instantly leaped into the air.

Clearing the collapsed wall obstructing his path ahead.

Falling suddenly.

Yet at the moment of landing, he retracted the intensified gravity, so the descending momentum, which seemed enough to leave a deep pit in the ground, in reality produced only two shallow footprints.

"Zing."

The sword blade twirled, an arc of iron-gray light flashed by.

Several headless goblin corpses fell to the ground.

Descending from above,

Pointing out the path for the villagers within, whose faces showed a similar expression of daze.

Xia Nan wasted no time, leaping up again.

In the blink of an eye, he landed on the dilapidated rooftop.

Having suffered from smoke and collisions from the Bear Goblin, the house itself was already teetering.

The rooftop surface was uneven and covered in cracks.

But standing there, Xia Nan, who was leveraging the high ground to scout targets, stood extraordinarily steady, as if on flat ground.

...

[Tidal Shaping]

Category: Specialty

Effect:

1. Fall damage halved (constant/rule-based);

2. Gain bonus to your balance ability when standing on unstable surfaces;

3. Any push or pull effect targeting you can be enhanced or weakened depending on the specific situation (active/passive)

Introduction:

Under gravity, no one can move you.

Note:

"Three thousand meters... piece of cake!"

——Adventurer King·Legendary Cliff Jumper·The one who survived the great disaster·Banyan

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