Chapter 21: Enemy Attack—Nobody Gets to Leave!

What? Enemy attack? Didn't you say there was absolutely no danger?

Damn it, you Flower Spirit Elves are really screwing us over—is this how you guarantee safety?

Those who had a translation module on them, upon hearing the guard's alarm, instantly turned pale.

They had learned of the power of the two archery towers, and thought that the Flower Spirit Elves daring to build their tribe here meant there would be no danger nearby.

Moreover, they wanted to use this opportunity to trade away their useless items, meet other survivors, and exchange apocalyptic survival experience, which is why they entered the village to participate in this trade fair.

But the trade fair had barely started when they were ambushed—how could they not panic?

Everyone, don't panic yet—listen to me for a moment!

Seeing the scene grow somewhat chaotic, Hua Yao hurriedly climbed onto the table, lightly pressed her hands together, and spoke loudly:

Since you all honored us by coming to this trade fair, your safety is something our Flower Spirit Elf Clan will definitely guarantee!

Our Flower Spirit Elf tribe is protected by two archery towers—even if a hundred goblins came, they couldn't possibly walk in alive...

Boom—!

However.

Before Hua Yao could finish speaking, a huge roar came from the village entrance.

There stood a giant goblin over two meters tall, clad in heavy armor and wielding a massive axe, ignoring the incoming arrows, smashing through the wooden fence and charging to the front of the western archery tower.

He used the kinetic energy from his high-speed charge, gripped the axe with both hands, spun his body once, and fiercely struck the axe at the base of the tower.

With a "bang", the nearly five-meter-wide archery tower was cleaved at the waist by the giant goblin's axe.

The upper half of the tower toppled backward, crashing heavily to the ground and kicking up clouds of dust.

One of the two defensive facilities the Flower Spirit Elf Clan relied on was destroyed just like that.

I'm sick of this! Can you Flower Spirit Elves do anything right? Is this your "don't panic"?

I'm such an idiot for believing you and coming to this damned trade fair—I'm as good as dead today!

Your archery towers are really something— they didn't even break the enemy's defense before being chopped down!

……

Looking at the fallen archery tower, everyone present vented all their anger and fear onto Hua Yao.

Everyone thought Hua Yao and her lot were overconfident, treating a broken tower like a treasure.

Only Su Hao knew Hua Yao wasn't lying—the tower's attack power was indeed strong; ordinary fallen goblins couldn't withstand a single volley from the two towers.

This could be seen from the goblin corpses scattered outside the village.

If the attackers were only ordinary fallen goblins, even if their numbers doubled, they still couldn't get into the village alive.

Unfortunately, among the attackers this time was a heavy-armored goblin warrior!

This is a First Rank supernatural monster; the arrows from the archery towers could never pierce his heavy armor.

Even the exposed skin of the heavy-armored goblin warrior would be hard to shoot through.

Heavy, heavy-armored goblin warrior—everyone run, I'll buy you time!

After staring blankly for a while, Hua Yao finally came to her senses, her earlier calm gone.

She also recognized the giant goblin's identity, realizing it was a First Rank monster that could not be defeated by the archery towers.

Normally, the Flower Spirit Elf Clan would flee at the first opportunity, never looking back.

But this time she decided to stay behind to cover the retreat, buying time for the others.

After all, this trade fair was organized by her group, and she had promised safety to every participant, so she had to give them a better chance to survive.

The participants naturally weren't polite either; they immediately packed up their stalls and turned to flee.

But before they could finish packing, a mocking voice came from nearby.

Run?

Ye Xiu rose from behind his stall, glanced over the crowd, and a teasing smile appeared on his face.

Did you ask my opinion? You just want to run?

The crowd first froze, then furrowed their brows and shouted angrily:

What are you even? We want to run however we like—do we need your permission?

Are you scared stupid? Not running now—are you waiting for New Year?

Holy shit! Something's wrong—I can't muster any strength!

Damn it, me too—bastard, did you do this?!

Damn it, are you in league with that giant goblin, you bastard, actually teaming up with an ominous creature!

……

Everyone present suddenly felt weak all over; some were so bad they couldn't even stand, collapsing limp on the ground.

Hua Yao was one of the more severe cases; not long ago, to better organize the scene, she had stood on Su Hao's stall.

Now suddenly weak all over, she involuntarily stepped back two steps and fell from the table.

Careful.

Since the incident happened right before his eyes, Su Hao instinctively reached out with his left hand, wrapped his arm around Hua Yao's slender waist, pulled her into his embrace, and prevented her from falling off the table.

Given Su Hao's current physique, even if he had no strength either, catching Hua Yao, who is under a meter tall, with one hand was still easy.

Among a crowd where nobody could stand steady, Su Hao still had spare strength to help Hua Yao, which naturally drew Ye Xiu's attention, though his face showed no worry at all.

I didn't expect your physique to be decent, but unfortunately, you've been hit by my special soft bone powder—you can't stir up any waves now.

You mean the big fish is that guy?

At that moment, Ma Tao led the heavy-armored goblin warrior and over twenty surviving fallen goblins to Ye Xiu's side, glanced at the crowd, and saw only Su Hao still able to stand steadily.

That's right, it's him—this guy brought out ten bottles of healing potion and two near-supernatural weapons at the trade fair; he surely has plenty more good stuff on him.

Damn! So lucrative?! This guy has that much good stuff—he's probably a supernatural too; good thing he got hit with the soft bone powder, otherwise we'd have to go through a lot of trouble.

After hearing Ye Xiu's introduction, Ma Tao sucked in a breath of cold air, then his eyes greedily fixed on Su Hao.

As long as we take care of that fat fish, we'll make a killing this time!

Since he can bring out two near-supernatural weapons to trade, he surely has even better stuff on him, maybe even one or two supernatural artifacts.

Thinking this, their eyes grew even hotter; they ignored the curses of the people around them and slowly walked toward Su Hao.