Goblin King: My Innate Skill Is OP-Chapter 271: Anchored

• Osteo Shield (C)

Creates large bone plates or shields that reinforce defense and absorb powerful impacts.

• Warlord Frame (B)

Constructs full skeletal enhancements, reinforcing limbs, increasing strength, and enabling temporary exoskeletal forms.

I also see Dribb and Gobbo with this bone type skill.

[Venom Burst (C)]

Releases a small toxic cloud that weakens enemies in close range.

[Acid Vein (B)]

Channels condensed toxins through your limbs or weapon, allowing corrosive strikes.

[Plague Reactor (A)] 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Your body becomes a living toxin furnace. You can unleash a wide-area toxic detonation or create persistent venom auras.

Hmm...this set may be Narg.

[Stone Plate (B)] — Active

Creates layered stone armor on the user's skin. Highly durable but weighty. Higher ranks improve density while reducing mobility loss.

• Earthguard Layer (C)

Creates a thin stone plate that cushions blows and reduces impact damage.

• Granite Coat (B)

Forms heavy, dense armor that protects against high-level physical attacks and prevents bone fractures.

• Living Bulwark (B)

The stone armor reacts to incoming attacks, thickening automatically and absorbing devastating strikes with minimal mobility loss.

This could also go to one of the berserkers?

[Hellbrand (A)] — Active

A high-intensity flame-amplification skill that elevates the user's fire to infernal levels. When activated, the user's heat output rises sharply, causing nearby air to shimmer and burn. Attacks become superheated, flames expand in force and reach, and the user's presence alone can scorch the surroundings.

• Heatwave Pulse (C)

Releases a concentrated burst of scorching air that forces enemies back and distorts their vision. Raises the user's flame intensity for a short period.

• Inferno Domain (A)

Generates a blazing field around the user where temperature spikes dramatically. Enemy stamina drops quickly, projectiles weaken mid-flight, and the user's fire abilities gain amplified power. Prolonged use risks severe overheating.

• Overheat Ascension (S)

The user's body enters an extreme combustion state, turning them into a living infernal beast. Strength, speed, and flame output skyrocket, and attacks carry devastating heat shockwaves. The transformation inflicts heavy strain on the body, causing internal burn damage and exhaustion once the effect ends.

[Deathroot (S)] — Active

A corrupted ink-based ability that manifests as a viscous, black substance capable of adhering to any surface it touches. Once applied, the ink initiates a progressive drain of vitality, growing more potent as it spreads. Its corruption deepens over time, gradually weakening physical integrity and disrupting internal energy flow. At higher levels, the ink can attach to energy constructs, breach defensive barriers, and erode the outer layers of the target's spiritual essence.

• Black Grasp (B-Rank)A thin tendril of cursed ink lashes out and anchors itself to skin or armor, spreading like liquid corruption. Once attached, it drains stamina and numbs the area, serving as the basic method of tagging and infecting a target with the ink.

• Ink Consumption (A-Rank)The ink thickens into a more aggressive corruption that tears at vitality on contact. It weakens muscles, slows movement, and corrodes whatever it touches, eventually seeping into the body through pores and open wounds once enough of it accumulates.

• Abyssal Spread (S-Rank)The ink becomes semi-sentient and rapidly expands across any surface. It corrodes armor, rots flesh, and disrupts energy defenses, branching in fractal patterns that devour vitality and leave dark necrotic scars. Against weaker foes, it can engulf the entire body within seconds.

[Predator's Focus (B)]

The user can read micro-movements, breathing rhythm, and evasion intent with extreme clarity. Attacks become sharper, faster, and more accurate, with drastically reduced deviation. Higher ranks sharpen predictive accuracy and kill precision.

• Kill Line (C)]

The user can immediately identify the cleanest path to strike a target. Even in chaos, this grants a natural ability to find and fire through narrow openings that others would miss.

• Heartseeker Aim (C)]

Allows the user to pinpoint weaknesses such as joints, tendons, arteries, or thin armor points. Shots delivered with Heartseeker Aim have higher penetration, greater lethality, and can cripple or stagger enemies even on glancing hits.

• Predator Instinct (B)]

Enters a heightened state of perceptive focus. Time feels slightly slower, and the user can read the target's next movement before it happens. Every arrow released during this state automatically adjusts to strike the most vulnerable position available. Against weaker foes, this becomes instant kill potential.

The last four skills had Zarah written all over. They were skills I had gotten from killing the goblin archer Ingrid, so it made sense that the skills were class-related.

Coming to the end of the skill list… I sighed as I pressed my palm to my forehead, the afterimage of dozens of skill descriptions still flashing behind my eyelids.

Reading through all of them at once was like trying to swallow a whole river.

My mind felt stuffed, heavy, and slightly overheated.

But then… something sparked in me, a flicker of excitement cutting through the headache.

Because hidden among the pile were two skills—two very specific ones—that might give me exactly what I needed.

A safeguard, a shield. a way to defend myself against Zivra's mind-breaking ability.

The thought alone made my pulse steady.

If I had those two… she or anyone with similar abilities could never catch me slipping.

If I had those two… she or anyone else with abilities that could twist the mind inside out would never catch me slipping again.

And the two skills were [Unyielding Will] and [Focus], or rather, the high-ranked versions of them.

I wasn't completely sure that even their strengthened forms would outright counter Zivra's mind-breaking ability, but I knew one thing for certain: both skills were built on reinforcing the parts of me that her pressure tried to shatter.

They'd stabilize my mind, and anchor my sense of self, giving me a tighter grip on my own consciousness. [Unyielding Will] especially.

At a higher rank, the skill wouldn't just boost willpower; it would harden it, condense it, and turn my mind into something that resisted being pushed, pulled, or bent, no matter how overwhelming the external force was.

[Focus] was good in its own way, as it sharpened clarity, steadied thoughts, and would keep my perception from scattering when everything turned chaotic.

But...