28 +28 Grind ²

The group of about 20-30 Garfon's which followed me as I tried to hide from them , the Forest wasn't that dense with trees which made it hard to hide.

'Shit this going to be hard I thought killing a lvl 3 Garfon would've been sufficient to level up.'

I checked the stats of all the Garfon's following me and chose the one with least HP.

Garfon

Level : 1

HP : 624/792

It looked like the Garfon's had a fight against themselves. Garfon's were one of those species who always would choose their leader by a fight it looked like the level fought to be a leader.

Luckily the Garfon just had enough HP to get one hit by my 'Fireball'. Along with new update came new command , I sometimes forget to use them but to check my Fireball's cooldown I used a new command.

"Show Fireball Cooldown"

A small window appeared before me

Fireball

Cooldown Time : 10 minutes [1:05 minutes]

'1 minutes remaining , I have to stall them for 2 minutes huh.'

I looked at my surrounding to find any place to hide as I was pretty tired to stall them for 2 minutes. I could see a dense forest on my right , without wasting I ran towards the forest to hide.

The trees in the forest were pretty tall atleast taller than the 3m Garfon's after finally reaching the area I climbed on the highest tree in the area which was about 10m high. I saw that the Garfon's didn't try to climb on the tree.

'Could it be that they can't climb a tree?'

Even though Garfon's were pretty powerful with their kicks at the end of the day they were low level monster. I assumed that they couldn't climb and as soon as the cooldown was over I started charging my 'Fireball'.

While the 'Fireball' was charging I tried to search the lvl 1 Garfon who I was targeting. Jumping tree to tree I was finally able to find that Garfon it somewhat healed but was still in the range to kill it in one-hit. After charging my 'Fireball' I jumped from the tree which was right above lvl 1 Garfon and rammed the 'Fireball' in my right hand into it's head from above blowing it's head into piece.

「 You've dealt 648 damage 」

「 You've gained 273 Exp Points 」

The impact produced quite a sound which made all the Garfon's near it turn their attention towards me.

"Haste"

I used 'Haste' quite a lot time just to increase it's level , using haste I climbed the tree quickly without giving Garfon's anytime to attack me. After this successful attempt I scouted for all the injured Garfon's and attacked them with my magic skills and basic attacks.

One hour passed and I was able to only kill 4 Garfon's but these 4 were pretty high level Garfon's which leveled me up 2 times. I checked my Status Window before heading to kill the low level injured Garfon's.

"Show Full Status"

Name : Excess

Race : Human

Bloodline : --

Class : Mage [Beginner]

Level : 3

Title : --

Strength : 15 [+5]

Intelligence : 20 [+20]

Agility : 15 [+10]

Stamina : 10

Stats Points : 0

•Other stats are locked

In this one hour I used 'Haste' total of 12 times , 'Fireball' 6 times , 'Cut' 20 times and used 'Insane Humanity' 1 time. Sometimes the cooldown's of all the skills were in sync like at 30 minutes mark I could use 'Cut' for the 10th times , 'Fireball' for 3rd time and haste for 6th time.

At a time like this I used all my skills to aim at a high level injured Garfon like level 7 or 8. With the power of all the skills I was able to drop the monsters HP to 50% and used basic attacks to finish the kill each of basic attack dealt 200 damage.

Right after leveling up I invested 5 points in strength and 5 agility to deal damage using Strength stat. The Garfon's were dumb , but even a dumb monster could learn just by watching. I noticed that some of the high level Garfon's were somewhat able to climb.

"I can't just hold onto these trees , right now I can only fight head on."

Even though I knew the Garfon's were able to climb now , I still didn't land on ground. I located all the low level Garfon's and using basic attacks & magic skills I was able to kill 13 of them and level up 3 times in next 2 hours. I quickly invested my stats points while running away from the Garfon's who were following me.

I was going further going inside the forest which made it hard for me to leave the hunting grounds. The tall trees I could see ahead were now starting to disappear, this meant that I was now coming out of the dense forest. Jumping from tree to tree I regularly killed lvl 1 Garfon's I could find.

After leveling up to lvl 5 I was able to kill lvl 1 Garfon's with just 4-5 basic attacks. I eventually started investing more points in my strength than agility and strength as the basic attacks didn't have any cooldown. Before reaching the end of the forest I was able to get to lvl 7. After investing all my points my Status Window looked like this.

Name : Excess

Race : Human

Bloodline : --

Class : Mage [Beginner]

Level : 7

Title : --

Strength : 35 [+5]

Intelligence : 25 [+20]

Agility : 20 [+10]

Stamina : 20

Stats Points : 0

•Other stats are locked

I used the stats points to increase my stamina as I was getting tired it also recovered some of my HP which was pretty low. Finally leaving the dense forest I reached an big empty hunting ground , I could only see the Garfon's following me behind. Their number was reduced by half most of the high level one's were dead , seeing that I felt somewhat confident.

I constantly kept checking the time left for quest , only 23 minutes were remaining I fought for total of 4 hours and was only able to reach level 7.

"Show sub quest objective"

「 Kill 20 monsters near the hunting grounds of Beginner's Town. [19/20] 」

'Oh that command is real? I'll try to find more of these commands.'

I only had to kill one Garfon to complete the quest it was night time I was fighting for straight for 4 hours with some breaks I got on the trees. I went ahead and aimed at the lvl 5 Garfon with my 'Insane Humanity'. The crimson flames started burning the Garfon's body out of nowhere , the nearby Garfon's who saw their comrade burning in those flames were scared.

「 You've dealt 675 damage 」

For the remaining HP I used my powerful basic attacks to further decrease the HP. With dagger in my left hand I jabbed it in the burning Garfon's neck and used my power to make a cut on it's neck. Then pulling out the knife I next aimed for it's legs making a cut on each of them. I saw the monster's HP falling and used the uncharged 'Fireball' to finish it.

「 You've dealt 382 damage 」

「 You've dealt 348 damage 」

「 You've dealt 373 damage 」

「 You've dealt 529 damage 」

「 You've gained 1938 Exp Points 」

I waited for the sub quest completion message but it didn't appear even after waiting for few minutes. The only reason I could think of was

"Don't tell me. Show Location"

「 Forest of Kin 」

"Sh*t this location isn't considered as hunting grounds , I've to go inside the forest to kill them. Luckily they are scared and running towards the forest."

I rushed towards the lowest level one the time was ticking 20 minutes were left to complete the quest. The remaining time was good enough to kill 5 Garfon's at my level , because of that I was pretty relaxed.

Just after taking few steps in the Garfon's direction I was hit with something and pushed 30m far from my initial location. No not a hit , the impact of the clash was what blew me away that far. The impact almost made me unconscious , I somehow managed to open my eyes and saw 2 guys fighting.

Everytime they clashed the impact made me move further and further away from where I was lying. Calling the 2 fighting 'guys' was an insult to them , they were no less than monsters aura surrounding them had a specific colour. One of them had silver-ish colour aura and another one had orange coloured aura.

After exchanging blows few times the silver aura one won completely crushing his opponent. His aura started to fade away as he walked towards me , I was still lying on the ground and somehow survived their impact's damage.

The man with orange coloured hairs stood infront of me and helped me to get back on my feet. I cleaned my black robe while I was doing all this he asked me ,

"What were you doing here in Forest of Kin?"

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