Chapter 36: I Have a Bold Idea
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Sherlock thought that after the mission announcent, the gars would scream “Waaaa!” and charge towards the Houndhead n. After being annihilated, they would carry bricks, train their skills, and purchase equipnt before shouting “Waaaa!” and dying under the Houndhead n’s clubs again.
After ten to twenty cycles, the Dungeon would expand to twice its size, and the gars would have defeated the Houndhead n and received generous rewards.
Perhaps the Houndhead n would be frightened by the fearless Goblins and retreat deep into the Spiders’ Lair. Sherlock already made plans to capture the Houndhead n by using Mana if they escaped. Then the gars could continue to challenge the Houndhead n until they completed their Main Plot Mission.
He didn’t expect that the Main Plot Mission would bring him lots of trouble.
It went like this…
“Simba, could you tell about the Houndhead n? It’s that notorious leader of the Houndhead n, Crar! As a highly-skilled Blacksmith, do you have rich adventuring experience from when you were young?”
BurningChestHair asked Simba casually as he handed his Hiltless Short Sword to Simba to get it improved to Level 4.
He was being hunted by the Houndhead n because of his Winterfell Short Sword, which he dropped at the Spiders’ Lair entrance. The Short Sword was now the prize of a Houndhead Man, who would be showing it off.
“Pa!”
Simba broke the Level 3 Hiltless Short Sword viciously and threw the broken Short Sword into a furnace by the side before he said coldly, “Your sword’s broken.”
“No—!”
As BurningChestHair howled in despair, Simba put away his hamr, extinguished the fla in the furnace, and closed down the Blacksmith Shop. Under the gazes of the other gars, he walked towards the Dungeon Core Main Hall.
Sherlock was planning the future developnt of the Dungeon when he saw Simba walk in. Sherlock sat down, supported his chin with his hand, and asked, “Simba, were you harassed by the Goblins again? I told you to ignore them. Soon, they won’t bother you.”
“Lord Sherlock! While I was forging, I casually ntioned that Houndhead n are low intellect creatures. Within an hour, the Goblins whose heads show strange green words gathered and asked twice. Every ti, they would ask the sa question about the Houndhead n’s leader, Crar! The notorious leader who instilled fear in Underworld citizens since young!” Simba was puffing with such anger that his beard flew up.
He shouted furiously, “If I knew that one day I would be harassed by the Goblins due to Crar, I swear with the honor of my ancestors that I would have hamred Crar when I was young!”
Sherlock watched the hot-tempered Simba and gave him a cup of bloody chrysanthemum before calming him. He said he would chide those pestering Goblins and reminded Simba to ignore them. Once Simba had cooled down, Sherlock sent the angry Dwarf out.
This wasn’t Simba’s first complaint, but it was the first ti Sherlock felt for him.
This was because the gars also pestered Sherlock. Within two hours of the announcent, tens of gars tried to obtain information about Crar from him.
The gars asked all the “NPCs”—Simba, Moroes, Little Fairy, and Sherlock.
They asked again and again.
“Do you know the Houndhead n? Do you know their leader, Crar?”
Simba was harassed for an hour because he uttered the words “Houndhead n are low intellect creatures”.
Moroes adhered strictly to Sherlock’s suggestion and kept quiet on all topics other than combat skills, so he was spared the harassnt.
No matter what questions were posed to the little Fairy, she would reply, “Even if I die and rot in the soil, I’ll never help you evil Devils!”
The gars had new plans after they harassed the NPCs for two hours.
Twenty gars stripped themselves of equipnt and left all their tal coins in the Dungeon. They asked other gars to look after their belongings and set out wearing their initial shorts and shirts.
Sherlock didn’t understand what the gars were doing as he used Mana to observe the unard gars setting out. They ran to the Spiders’ Lair entrance and shouted “Waaaaa!” as they charged at the Houndhead n.
A massacre ensued. So gars were hamred to the ground, while others escaped to the “Safe Zone”, which was within Sherlock’s radius of dominance. The Houndhead n hollered helplessly and left at that point.
Sherlock thought that the surviving gars would escape back to the Dungeon. Instead, they held a short discussion at the safe zone before charging at the Houndhead n again. They were massacred. Sherlock saw the gars fleeing all over before being hamred to death. The Houndhead n dragged most of the corpses back to the Spiders’ Lair, while so of the corpses beca their food.
A series of Teleport Portals appeared at the Dungeon Core Main Hall, and the gars walked out. The otherworld gars made use of Sherlock’s Mana to create new characters.
“What are they doing? Is that the otherworld’s way of playing gas?”
Sherlock was puzzled. Although the gars loved cruel and exciting battles, he didn’t know they enjoyed being slaughtered while naked and defenseless.
“They are probing.”
Bru began to explain.
“This is one way to probe a BOSS in the otherworld. When they have no strategy, they will fight nurous tis with the BOSS to determine his skills, attack interval, and his movent patterns before designing a combat strategy. For example, in “World of Warcraft”, “Online Swordsman 3”, and “Final Fantasy”, gars would use probing to discover the weaknesses of a BOSS. Using this thod, they could defeat superior opponents.”
Sherlock didn’t understand completely, but he got the gist of it.
“The gars make use of repeated battles to familiarize themselves with their opponents before coming up with a combat strategy?”
“Lord Sherlock, you seed prejudiced against the otherworld’s gars. In the otherworld, they have aliases such as “Fourth Calamity”, “Terrifying Apeman”, and “Invincible Kicking Man”. This isn’t the first ti they used such thods. When they couldn’t defeat the Spiders, they familiarized themselves with combat skills before defeating Spiders by using teamwork. It’s the sa principle with the Houndhead n,” Bru said.
Sherlock witnessed the teamwork of the gars when they fought the Spiders, but he attributed their success to Moroes’ combat training. After Bru’s explanation, the gars’ capabilities were beyond his expectation.
Sherlock initially treated the Goblins like hard laborers. He opened up the Spiders’ Lair for the gars to train their combat skills and provide an entertainnt outlet for them. Though the gars had to work hard carrying bricks, they had a chance to relax.
The other Dungeons had similar entertainnt outlets, but the normal Goblins preferred watching performances, wrestling, and playing with mud. The otherworld Goblins preferred adventure.
Sherlock thought that there wasn’t much of a difference, though the adventurous Goblins saved him considerable Magic Stones.
As long as they worked hard and didn’t cost Sherlock many Magic Stones, he was nonchalant about their entertainnt preferences.
Sherlock didn’t see the Goblins as warriors but as cheap laborers that he could exploit. He could also enjoy their interesting discussions on the official website and discussion forum.
The Goblins were able to proactively gather information and find out about their opponents using combat before devising a combat strategy. Most importantly, they had unlimited revivals.
Sherlock gazed at the naked revived gars who were wearing their clothes and joking at the sa ti.
“Bru, I have a bold idea,” Sherlock said.
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