She felt that Gauss was joking with her.
"Do you think you’re joking with me, Gauss?"
"..."
Sometimes, speaking the truth is difficult because people might think you’re lying.
Seeing Gauss’s unchanging expression, her smile gradually stiffened.
"Are you serious?"
Gauss blinked.
"Oh my god! Moradin above!"
Toga slapped her forehead.
She felt her understanding of combat power and professional levels was about to be overturned.
If Gauss wasn’t lying, then as level 6 professionals, how could the gap between them be so huge?
Even those legendary species at the same level wouldn’t possess similar strength, right?
Toga shook her head.
During the group’s rest, Gauss’s clay creature was collecting the spoils below.
But just like his initial reconnaissance, this goblin lair seemed large but was actually not profitable.
Fortunately, the reward this time was Bruno’s secret silver, otherwise relying solely on the scraps and raw materials in the lair seemed like a big loss, since the manpower cost of Gauss’s team shouldn’t be cheap.
The only value probably came from the various organs provided by that goblin chieftain, especially the heart, which Gauss kept.
Sitting by the campfire, his memory flickered with the scenes he observed earlier in the goblin lair.
This underground lair was vastly different from those he encountered before.
Initially, he couldn’t articulate the difference, just that his sixth sense inexplicably found it strange.
After sitting down to think, he quickly understood the source of that discordant feeling.
"It’s this."
Gauss used Mage’s Hand to grab the giant heart carried by a spider, bringing it before him.
"Thump!"
"Thump!"
Although that goblin chieftain was already dead, the plump heart in front of him was still beating intensely.
Of course, this didn’t mean there was anything wrong with the heart, just like in the previous life when ordinary animals died, parts of their bodies would temporarily retain activity; the life forms of this world were stronger, so naturally, anomalies were more evident.
Gauss found the anomaly to be the heart’s owner, that goblin chieftain.
Its existence was very peculiar.
Both strong and weak.
Strong in that, compared to his impoverished subordinates and the obviously makeshift lair structure, having such a commander-level goblin was like a phoenix emerging from a chicken coop.
Its underlings were numerous but lacked quality, with only about twenty elite-level goblins, and their strength wasn’t high.
More like something it temporarily gathered from around to form a makeshift group.
That’s why Gauss could defeat it with a single blow; otherwise, a lair with over a thousand goblins couldn’t be so weak.
If guessing this way, its existence becomes even more anomalous.
Such a commander-level creature certainly didn’t pop out of the ground, right?
Even someone almost like Gauss, becoming from an ordinary person to the current master-level, equivalent to monster commander-level, took two years.
Not to mention a goblin with no roots.
Relying only on its effort and talent, even Gauss didn’t believe that.
Gauss also thought it didn’t emerge from the demon kingdom to cultivate a branch force in human territory, because that didn’t make sense; if supported by demon kingdom forces, it should have brought its subordinates and mastered basic smelting and forging methods, or have access to monster spellbooks, etc.
Like the goblin lair with a thousand goblins Gauss initially bombed with alchemical bombs, they knew mining and forging, taming beasts to form cavalry units, enslaving other species of demons...
Whereas that goblin lair earlier knew nothing.
And that goblin chieftain displayed high attack and low defense characteristics in actual combat.
In terms of destructive power and burst speed, it indeed reached basic commander level, but its protection was too weak.
Gauss’s Thousand-Silk Severing originally aimed to weaken it, but inadvertently cut it into dozens of pieces.
Weak subordinates, makeshift forces, high attack and low defense goblin chieftain, along with its cunning intelligence...
Connecting these factors, Gauss felt that goblin seemed to have been suddenly enlightened.
For an inapt comparison, it’s like "Enlightenment Brother" from his previous life’s online competitive games, having the most precision in positioning and shifting, but its agility and maneuvers were oddly stiff; that goblin was filled with such "contradiction."
Surely it wasn’t "getting something opened," right?
Gauss shook his head.
Suddenly, he thought of something and opened the Adventurer’s Handbook.
Besides the densely packed kill information, his total monster kills had reached 18,511.
Of course, these weren’t important.
He looked at a newly popped-up notification.
"Killed Commander-Level Goblin Chieftain*1"
"Gained Commander Points*10"
"Recognized you slew a goblin mastering special divine blessing power and absorbed Divine Factor 0.13%"
"Hmm?"
Sure enough, an unusual notification popped up on the panel.
Divine blessing power? What does it mean?
So, was the goblin that died by his hands really "open something?"
Except this cheat wasn’t like his Adventurer’s Handbook but divine favor.
What deity?