[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-am-not-a-goblin-slayer":3,"chapter-i-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-i-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-chapter-481":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I Am Not A Goblin Slayer",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1310883,1741,"Chapter 481 - 277: The Master of the Nest","i-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-chapter-481",481,"\u003Cp>To be honest, Gauss has seen many monster lairs at this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But aside from the numbers, this Kobold town seems to be the most properly planned. Though it’s rugged and chaotic, it maintains a unique order and gives off a peculiar vitality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before him lies a simple road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many Kobolds are walking along the road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By appearance, their status can be easily distinguished. Ordinary Kobolds are small and have dull scales. The Elite Warriors are stronger, significantly larger, and clad in iron armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some special Kobolds are riding giant lizards, swiftly moving along the main road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These Kobolds rarely wear tightly protective armor, wearing only soft robes. When one drives a giant lizard across, the ordinary, small Kobolds give way, bowing their heads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hierarchy is truly stringent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss silently observes this monster town through the spider’s perspective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the gaps along the road, the controlled spider skillfully jumps around, avoiding the claws of the Kobolds above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, it passes through several areas, quickly understanding the Kobolds’ food sources.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A large piece of land grows dense moss and fungi, while deep pits house swarming black insects, mice, and other stored food.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During Gauss’s observation, several Kobolds are feeding those pits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, Gauss discovers that his previous judgment that the Kobold lair does not venture outside might be mistaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because on the road, Kobolds are pulling vehicles loaded with wood and other supplies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, the Kobolds have their hidden passage for going outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The more Gauss observes, the more he feels that the Demon ruling this monster lair is not simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, how could they restrain these wild Demons so well?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unconsciously, he has passed through the outskirts of the town to the area close to the interior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Clang! Clang! Clang!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of the furnace, Kobold craftsmen are busily forging rough billets, hammering those reddish metal blocks into tools and weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beside them are some finished products, not exactly exquisite, but the shining blades are evidently deadly to other creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Knives, rough short swords, spearheads, numerous arrows, pick heads, and some trap parts, metal ingots, very diverse kinds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, mining aside, the Kobold tribe’s fame also lies in forging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, unlike humans and dwarves, Kobolds do not pursue craftsmanship and aesthetics in their skills; they focus on practicality, utilizing their instinctive perception of minerals and metals to discern ore quality, then simply heating and hammering to refine the metal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, as long as a Kobold tribe is established on a mineral vein and fire source, they inevitably develop basic smelting and forging capability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This ability has even formed a kind of innate talent engraved in their bloodline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Kobold’s other instinct is to loathe intelligent creatures, this creature despises all other humanoids and has a tendency to mistreat other beings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They also worship powerful Demons, especially Giant Dragons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This makes them a huge threat to humans, naturally hostile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss’s mind flashes with more memories about Kobolds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze fixes on the almost mountain-like piles of ores and weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Kobold lair strictly executing \"blockade,\" maintaining basic order internally, and stockpiling vast amounts of weapons, ores, metal ingots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is their purpose? Or what does the Kobold leader managing this lair intend?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Attack Gold and Silver Town?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silently amassing strength, preparing for future plundering?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the information Gauss has so far, he cannot discern clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He vaguely feels that the entire Kobold town is engulfed in a mysterious fog.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is too calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Calm to the point where it hardly seems like a monster lair, only when passing the slaughter zone, seeing the group of bloodthirsty Kobold butchers with blood-red eyes, does he perceive traces of the Demon’s ferocity in them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Roar Roar!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several Kobolds are loudly communicating.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss curiously approaches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as a group of Kobold craftsmen circles around a piece of ore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crushed rock skin reveals a translucent Magic Crystal Stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The quality is quite good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About the size of a goose egg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss roughly estimates that such a natural Magic Crystal Stone is worth at least dozens of Gold Coins, or even more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its color is crimson, emitting an aura of fire attribute power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not bad, a good item,\" Gauss thinks silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Demon Crystal already belongs to Gauss’s team’s spoils.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides him, the eyes of several Kobolds surrounding the Demon Crystal light up instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They continuously let out excited roars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kobolds have an irresistible urge to collect Gold Coins, gems, and any small objects that can reflect light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this respect, it indeed shares a similar penchant with Giant Dragons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Gauss thought these Kobolds would hide the Demon Crystal privately, they actively reported it to other Kobolds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, a Kobold Shaman riding a giant lizard, holding a burning pure white candle, arrives at the smelting workshop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As it enters, the Kobold craftsmen immediately disperse, crawling aside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the Kobold Shaman mutters something to them, it reaches out and picks up the crimson Demon Crystal.\u003C\u002Fp>",823,"2026-06-05T18:36:35.128Z",1,"novelbin.me","73e402efde720430aa5bbd5a71659e43a81b5d313b0d3abe1d4848839ca2286d","i-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-chapter-482","i-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-chapter-480",640,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-cover.jpg"]