"Holy crap! Coming again!!"
Ethan did not want to clash head-on with this kind of lunatic.
So, he pulled out a handful of gunpowder from his intermediate backpack.
And threw it at the red-hatted goblin.
BOOM!
The gunpowder ignited.
It turned the goblin, whose inner fire was already burning too fiercely, directly into a human torch.
Flames surged wildly across its body. This time, no matter how tough it was, it couldn't endure this level of fire. It immediately fell to the ground, rolling and twitching nonstop.
It even let out all sorts of cracking and popping noises.
Ethan finally relaxed.
As he watched the flames in front of him, a catchy rhythm suddenly popped into his mind.
Very quickly, the red-hatted goblin had already been burned into a pile of ash.
As for the other goblins, some had already been torn apart by the tornado, and the remaining few were blown around until they were stumbling. Daji rushed forward, grabbing one with each swipe and finishing all of them off.
The last two who tried to run did not escape the white eagle.
The white eagle swooped down from the air, grabbed them, and then dropped them from high altitude.
The goblins splattered into puddles of flesh.
In the blink of an eye, the entire group of over twenty goblins was wiped out by Ethan, Daji, and the others working together.
"Long live the Lord Leader!"
"Lord Leader unbeatable!"
"Lord Leader awesome!"
Everyone shouted with excitement. After all, if the Lord Leader had not returned in time, with their strength, forget fighting a whole group of highly agile goblins, even ten of them fighting one goblin would not necessarily win.
No, they definitely would not win.
Stone Six, while flattering Ethan, asked with awe, "Lord Leader, what was that stuff you threw just now? How was the explosion so strong? It instantly burned that red-hatted goblin to death."
"Gunpowder!"
Ethan smiled, "Last time I tricked someone into giving me some saltpeter and sulfur. I added charcoal and made a bit of gunpowder."
"I originally planned to bring it here for mining. Didn't expect it to become a weapon instead."
"Lord Leader is incredible, Stone Six respects you."
Although Stone Six knew what gunpowder was used for, and had even secretly used it while hunting, but in a crisis like this, someone who could react so quickly and use it this way, there were probably very few.
[Red-Hatted Goblin's Helmet: Although ugly like all helmets, still better than a green hat. Special effect: Defense +200%, Magic Resistance +20%]
[Goblin's Butcher Knife: A basic chopping blade made by dwarves, used by dwarves to trade for ore with goblins. Quality is average, but good enough for chopping people! Special effect: Agility +50%]
[Red-Hatted Goblin's Ashes: Add to a magic item to increase magic resistance!]
"..."
After the red-hatted goblin burned into ash, Ethan looked at the pile of red exclamation marks on its remains, especially the last item.
'What the hell, ashes?'
'What kind of idiot game is this? Even ashes aren't spared?'
"Collect all!"
[Red-Hatted Goblin's Helmet +1]
[Red-Hatted Goblin's Ashes +10]
[Goblin's Butcher Knife +1]
[Goblin Helmets +21]
[Goblin Steel Pickaxes +21]
[Goblin Meat Paste +2100]
[Earth Beast Cores +24]
[Wind Beast Cores +20]
[Goblin Fangs +44]
[Goblin Backpacks, dismantle?]
A long list of items.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Each ding made Ethan extremely happy.
Because each ding meant profit.
But Ethan quickly noticed something odd. It was one thing for green-hatted goblins to be inferior to red-hatted ones, but they didn't even get ashes?
"Or… is it because the green-hatted goblins weren't burned? So they only turned into meat paste, not ashes?"
The last items were twenty-two goblin backpacks.
Ethan didn't dismantle them immediately. He checked them first.
[Goblin Backpack: Made from goblin-shed skin, capacity 500. PS: Some dry rations are hidden inside. Take them out?]
"Take out!"
[Tree Spirit Bread Fruits +23]
[Tree Spirit Fruit Wine +23]
[Dwarf-Made Blood Bull Cheese +2]
The goblin backpacks had less capacity than his intermediate backpack, which held 1000.
Even if he didn't plan to use them, he wasn't going to waste them.
Once back home, he would list them all in the trading channel for sale.
As for personal use, Ethan would absolutely not consider it. Carrying goblin skin on his back sounded disgusting no matter how you thought about it.
But the three types of goblin dry rations did catch his attention.
He noticed that tree spirits and dwarves appeared frequently.
Dwarves even made gear and weapons specifically for goblins.
And goblins sold ores to dwarves.
As for tree spirits, Ethan still didn't know what kind of trade existed between goblins and tree spirits.
"But from the clues so far, these races seems to have normal trade relations. Which means, these monsters probably even have a functioning marketplace."
This realization, made Ethan suck in a cold breath.
"If I look at it another way, could it be that these monsters are the real natives of this world, and humans like us are actually the invaders?"
"Just like the relationship between the Na'vi and humans in Avatar?"
This thought, instantly filled Ethan with fear.
"Forget it."
"Better not think too much."
After all, whenever humans think too hard, God laughs.
Just like wondering why humans should keep living, philosophical nonsense.
Instead of thinking too much, better to focus on living better.
Even if he was sent to this world like a virus, then as a virus, all he could do was think about how to survive, how to live better.
The rest, leave it for God to figure out.
Just right. After fighting so much, Ethan was a bit hungry.
He opened his backpack, took out the goblin dry rations, and examined how these things were meant to be eaten.
[Tree Spirit Bread Fruit: A kind of bread tree grown by tree spirits. The fruit looks exactly like a cream bread roll, and even tastes exactly the same. But the only difference between bread fruit and actual bread is that bread fruit will rot if stored for too long.]
[PS: Bread fruits can be planted, and once dried and ground into powder, can be used as flour. It is the staple food of most races!]
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