[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-my-goblin-system-levelling-up-with-my-sss-class-":3,"chapter-my-goblin-system-levelling-up-with-my-sss-class--my-goblin-system-levelling-up-with-my-sss-class--chapter-399":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","My Goblin System : Levelling up with my SSS Class Devouring skill",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1090310,1423,"Chapter 399","my-goblin-system-levelling-up-with-my-sss-class--chapter-399",399,"\u003Cp>They’d been in combat for exactly thirty seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Demon Elite Strike Results:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Human casualties: 27 killed, 19 woundedDemon elite casualties: 3 killed, 7 woundedTactical result: Significant human casualties inflicted, demon elites successfully withdrew\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now the human infantry knew demon warriors were present and had adapted tactics—blessed weapons, concentrated fire, coordinated response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next strike wouldn’t be as successful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—-----------------\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Central Gates\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battering ram continued its methodical work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kelvin commanded sixty defenders at the gates, knowing they couldn’t hold forever against sustained assault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Drop more oil! Set the ram on fire!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Defenders poured oil over the walls onto the ram housing below. Flaming arrows ignited it. Fire spread across the wet hides covering the ram.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the ram crews had water barrels ready. They doused the flames, maintained the assault.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How long until the gates break?\" Kelvin asked Thrak through the network.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The gates are damaged from artillery bombardment. Under sustained ram assault? Another ten minutes maximum.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Can we kill the ram crews?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’re protected by the housing. You’d need to get soldiers down there in close combat, which means exposing your defenders to overwhelming numbers of human infantry supporting the ram.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So we can’t stop it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Not realistically. When the gates break, pull back to secondary positions. Don’t die defending gates you can’t hold.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kelvin absorbed this tactical reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten more minutes until the central gates broke. Then human infantry would pour through in overwhelming numbers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lyra, central gates will fail in approximately ten minutes. After that, we can’t hold the gate area.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Understood. When gates break, conduct immediate withdrawal to prepared positions fifty yards inside the perimeter. We defend from there.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Western Wall\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Skar’s forty-two serpentfolk fought the ladder assault with natural advantages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Serpentfolk were faster than humans, more agile, and had superior reflexes. When human soldiers reached the top of ladders, they met defenders who could strike three times before a human could react once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the humans had numbers. For every ladder the serpentfolk pushed away, two more went up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A human soldier named Garrett climbed a ladder, shield raised against expected attacks. He reached the top—and a serpentfolk warrior named Viss struck with spear too fast to block. The spear punched through Garrett’s shoulder. He screamed and fell, crashing onto soldiers below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another ladder. Another soldier climbing. This one had better luck—the serpentfolk defender was engaged with a different soldier, creating a gap. The human soldier reached the wall top, pulled himself over, and for three seconds was inside Third Line’s defenses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Skar himself appeared, moving with serpentine speed. His spear struck twice—stomach, throat. The soldier died before he could cry out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But more ladders were going up. More soldiers climbing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Western wall is being overwhelmed by sheer numbers,\"Skar reported.\"We’re killing their soldiers three-to-one, but they just keep coming.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How long can you hold?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fifteen minutes maximum. After that, they’ll have enough soldiers on the walls to overrun our positions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fifteen minutes, then withdraw to secondary positions.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—------------\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For three hours, the battle ground on with brutal intensity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eastern breaches: Human infantry pushed through in waves. Settlement defenders conducted hit-and-run attacks, inflicted casualties, withdrew to next defensive line. Repeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Central gates: BOOM. BOOM. Finally—CRACK. The gates shattered under the ram assault. Human infantry poured through the broken gates in a flood of steel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Western walls: After forty minutes of ladder assault, enough human soldiers reached the wall tops to establish footholds. Settlement defenders were forced to withdraw rather than be overrun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By Hour Four, human forces had penetrated Third Line at all three sectors and were pushing deeper into the settlement’s defenses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Settlement casualties were mounting. Defenders were exhausted, wounded, running low on arrows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lyra watched the tactical situation deteriorate from her mobile command post—she’d moved three times as human forces advanced, staying ahead of their push.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We’re losing ground everywhere. Casualties are unsustainable. We’re down to approximately four hundred eighty effective fighters from six hundred forty at dawn.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One hundred sixty casualties in four hours. Twenty-five percent losses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Against human forces that still numbered nearly twenty-one hundred soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The odds were brutal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Seraphina, we need the corruption specialists. It’s time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From her concealed position three hundred yards behind Third Line—hidden in a network of buildings and underground passages far from the walls—Seraphina received the order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Corruption specialists, prepare large-scale attack. Target the human forces inside Third Line perimeter. Full power.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two hundred corruption specialists had been waiting in concealment for hours, preparing their magic, coordinating their spell patterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They weren’t combat fighters. They were curse specialists trained in area-effect corruption magic, similar to yesterday’s contamination spell but more focused, more lethal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each specialist began channeling dark purple energy, building power for a coordinated strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seraphina herself coordinated the two hundred individual casters into one massive spell, her demon lord power amplifying and focusing their combined magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spell took three minutes to prepare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Seraphina gave the command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"RELEASE!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two hundred corruption specialists unleashed their magic simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dark purple energy erupted from their concealed positions, arcing through the air like lightning, converging on the human forces inside Third Line’s perimeter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The spell manifested as a wave of pure corruption that swept across the battlefield, targeting living beings with demonic energy designed to decay flesh, break bones, and shut down organs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eight hundred human soldiers caught in the spell’s area of effect felt it immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those with weak holy protection fell first—corruption energy burning through their bodies like acid. They screamed and died in seconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those with moderate holy protection suffered but survived—skin blistering, organs failing partially, but staying alive through their blessed amulets and priestly protections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those with strong holy protection—blessed warriors, priests, soldiers carrying holy relics—felt the spell but were largely protected. Discomfort, pain, but no life-threatening damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Corruption Specialist Mass Attack Results:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>243 soldiers killed (those with weak\u002Fno holy protection)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>387 soldiers wounded but surviving (those with moderate protection)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>170 soldiers mostly unaffected (those with strong protection)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Total human casualties: 630 affected, 243 killed\u003C\u002Fp>",1000,"2026-06-03T11:01:34.716Z","2026-06-03T11:01:41.603Z",1,"novelbin.me","a595446a6d23af8e09fbbf24b731bc2ed584008610fbb8592ff0af19ad6b64df","my-goblin-system-levelling-up-with-my-sss-class--chapter-400","my-goblin-system-levelling-up-with-my-sss-class--chapter-398",474,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-goblin-system-levelling-up-with-my-sss-class--cover.jpg"]