[Goblins. Next attack.]

With the entrance token, I rush into the Teleportation Gate and immediately got transferred into the Red Blood Cave. With the new stack of Demonic Metal Slugs, I am more than ready to fight with the Slimes on an even ground, where I did. The new "Deadly" type Slugs have an instant damage the moment they are shot, so without worrying my accuracy, each time my aim is pointed at one of the slimes, the trigger is pulled twice and they are dead in a few seconds.

With the Battery Mode on the pickaxe, I managed to continue mining for quite a long period of time. Almost after five to six hours, I started to get used to the way the Rocky Slimes made their appearance. Through a proper handling, I could easily handle the Slimes along the way as I dig in deeper into the cave. The scan skill did not stop in between as well, where I keep on having them activated to make sure I mine at the most beneficial side, instead of wasting the battery effort.

Although Crystal Mining could results in a good amount of Disposable Rocks that I could use to convert into my batteries, but this doesn't mean that the waste is sufficient to support my heavy usage along the way. Very soon, the disposable trash failed to withstand the heavy requirement of the battery conversion, and end up finished before I felt like stopping.

"Damn it. Since the crystals over here is denser compared to the free cave, the disposable stones are not as much as it would be compared to the cave as well. I am actually out of juice for the battery conversion after seven hundred minutes!" I speak to myself as I controlled the situation where I am attacked again by a few slimes that coming over my left side.

Since my capacity of trash, I'm able to bring along is only 55,000 units, it is quickly depleted after a total of 550 minutes. While between the 150 more minutes, the trash is actually failed to keep up, and I am forced to stop now. I hesitate for a moment, but without a choice, I've decided to call it off after seeing that I am no longer capable to fight and mine at the same time.

This time, perhaps it was due to my aggressiveness, I actually hunt around 8 slimes in every ten minutes. Within this 700 minutes, I had already used up to 1,120 Demonic Metal Slugs to hunt a total of 560 Rocky Slimes. The stash in my inventory grows accordingly, while in a total, I managed to obtain another 2,800 Lower Red Power Crystals, along with 350 Blood Crystal Sands.

I am also lucky to manage to meet two small little puddles of Blood Water along my way, so in additional, I managed to increase the number of Blood in my inventory by another 100 Units. Just like this, I exit the Cave and went back to the Refining Workshop, without any other things needed to be considered. I had considered about refining all the Lower Crystals into a medium grade before I use all of them for my body.

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Not too far away from passing the Ling Shen and Ling Cheng City Border that they had been guarding for as long as the city is still resided by hundred thousands of troops, is a settlement where its name is only well known to the residents within. The residents of this settlement are pretty different compared to the Ling Shen and Ling Cheng City because they are from Goblin Tribe.

This settlement is not too large, but due to the body size of the goblins are about half a human in comparison, the settlement could fit in double the amount of resident compared to a normal town. Although this settlement is handled and administrated by those from the Monster Tribe, this doesn't mean that they are not well organized. Within the settlement, not only they are pretty cooperative and hardworking, they have quite a few different buildings that are specialized to be used for certain matters.

But the most often used building is only three of them, located closest to the square of their settlement. The armoury, where all young and battle-ready goblins will enter and be issued with a weapon and equipment of their choice and start to participate in those some attack in taking human lands, since the goblins have a quick growth rate, almost fifty to a hundred young goblins came into this building daily, for weapons.

The Blacksmith Workshop, where there are at least more than a thousand blacksmith worker working within this building. When it is clearly observed, some of them within are humans, and multiple injuries could be seen from their body. For an initial point of view, they are most probably forced to service and help in this matters, or death would be their only options.

Lastly, is a building that seems like a huge cowshed. This building is also the biggest compared to the other buildings within the settlement. Within, at least thousand to two thousand female of any kind of species is being confined and used to breed new kind of goblins. Birth is expected daily, and within this building, any kind of moral value is devoid from being spoken within. As it was almost the filthiest thing within this world.

Around hundred to two hundred goblins could be expected to be born each single day, added with the "Hardworking" goblins that "procreate" without stop daily, their production is almost expected to maintain such momentum until something happened. Added with the maturity period of a Goblin zygote only required three months to grow before entering a labour, this Goblin infestation, will soon overwhelm the Ling State if they were not controlled earlier.

And on this same moment when Lu Bu is within the Red Blood Cave, another ten groups of vanguards, with the numbers of around 500 each group, is preparing to attack into the Ling State. Leading each group, is a Goblin Marauder, a rank that was given the moment the goblin managed to survive past one year.

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The moment I wake up, I immediately went over to the Refining Central Workshop and begins to refine all the Red Power Crystals is could. A 2800 Lower Crystals is a huge number, with two minutes used on each attempt, it actually took me almost twenty hours to completely refine all of them, while allocating a short rest between a hundred attempts. At the end of the day, in the 560 tries I had, 60% or 336 of them successfully refined, and not only that, the Level 5 Quirk actually managed to activate for a total of twenty times between this refining and gave me quickly a boost in the final results.

Skill Name:

Basic Skills - Tenth Grade Crystal Refining Level 10 (620/5,120)

Specialty:

(20%) Increase in success rate for Crystal and Similar product refining.

Quirk:

Level 5: +5% chances to refine a crystal one rank above without cost.

Level 10: One (100%) success tries when refining a product every day. (Up to Upper-Grade 10)

Notice:

Increase the success rate of refining attempt on crystals and similar material. More quirk could be obtained in higher level.

What is most unbelievable is that the Crystal Refining Skill actually managed to get a new quirk that is quite amazing the moment it reaches Level 10, and surprisingly, It could be used until up to Upper Grade 10 materials. With this, I tried using it once at five Medium Crystals in my hand, and not even a second required to refine this five crystals, it immediately upgraded into an Upper-Grade Red Power Crystal!

I kept the item within my pocket as I went back to my room and begin to absorb all the medium Red Power Crystals I have in my inventory. Absorbing all the crystals I have, my strength increases by a (33.7) points, pushing me halfway to obtain a total of six points of strength. I know that I will have only three more chances to enter the Red Blood Cave before I went over to the Night Glowing Cave, and after getting a short rest, I immediately went over to the blacksmithing workshop to craft some of the Demonic Metal Slugs again.

This time, I used another seven hundred of the Brass Rod once again to craft a total of 1200 Demonic Metal Slugs encased in a hundred magazines. Unexpectedly, it came out as a "Deadly" kind once again. I then spend around 50 of the Brass Rod to repair the Demonic Air Shooter, so it could be used for long. I am thinking about crafting a second Demonic Air Shooter as well and make myself double wield when in battle.

But before I could make my way to the Teleportation Portal, a bell ringing could be heard around all location, indicating that the city is under attack once again. "Goblin! Goblins Vanguard is attacking the Ling Hun Town again! All people without the capability to fight, quickly get into the town hall shelter or your respective Workshop. Alert! Alert! Goblin is attacking!" those news spreaders quickly run around the whole town and had everyone informed of what is happening.

"Brother, how many goblins are there?" I quickly asked one of the news spreaders as he passed by my side. "Are you trying to fight them? This is not a good idea, this time, at least two group is here, so their estimated number is reaching nine hundred easily." he quickly replied my questions, and run faster to inform everyone.

"Nine hundred goblins... That means at least few hundred Compartment bags could be obtained from them? Should I participates in this fight?"