8 Arisen Darkness
[You received 200 Experience points]
Currently inside the goblin's cave...
[You received 200 Experience points]
"K-Kgh..."
"Finally done..." After piercing the goblin in front of me right through his chest with my daggers, I could finally relax for a bit.
Removing the dagger from his chest, I moved back towards the cave entrance and seated on some nearby rocks, and waited outside.
After some time passed, I thought back at the fight I had with those goblins.
While fighting with those goblin daggers, I experienced some difficulties that I didn´t have with my sword. The first obvious difference would be the lack of length compared to the daggers, which greatly increased the difficulty to kill those green blobs.
The second would be the quality of the daggers which were beyond terrible, I would even say that it was crap!
The moment you tried to pierce something with those things you will realize that it was easier to abandon the dagger than to pull it back since the whole action was more like ripping with pure force rather than a smooth cut.
Heck, when I first tried to pull it out it didn´t come alone, instead, It also dragged the organs out of the poor goblin!
Even I was stunned at first.
And I bet it wasn´t a nice sight for those goblins either, since seeing one of their own getting his organs pulled out wasn`t in particular nice sight.
Rather, it was terrifying!
At least that's what he believed. For all he knew, those goblins could have a thing for the organs of their kin.
Alas, after I have done this I could clearly see their knees shaking out of fear and their loud voices becoming even weaker. But that could also be their way to express their excitement...
"Still, I made quite the gruesome mess, didn`t I? But still, even though I made this whole mess, why didn´t a new group come over to help? It can´t be that these were the last goblins inside the cave...right?"
'Maybe I gave them too much credit' He thought internally.
Seeing that no other group was coming I felt quite depressed and glad at the same time.
Glad cause I was able to eliminate the group of 8 without any problems and was depressed cause my focus was on keeping an escape route ready the whole time so that I don`t get surrounded. But what was the point of keeping my guard the whole time when in the end it was going to be a wasted effort?
"Sigh, It can´t be helped, better safe than sorry, I guess. Anyways why aren´t they coming out? it can´t be that they didn´t hear our battle right? or did they underestimate me and sent just this group...?"
Shaking my head helplessly I stood up and headed deeper inside the cave. but before that...
"I should carry more than 3 daggers this time around and properly replace my cloth "armor" with some new cloth...." He mumbled before during of the dead goblins with his hollow eyes.
After kindly taking the cloth from the goblin corpses together with some of their daggers, I continued deeper inside the cave. While going deeper I found what looked like the sleeping place of those goblins.
On the walls, I could see multiple holes that were crudely dug out together with some of the same cloth that the goblins wear as some kind of decoration. In front of me is what I would describe as a garbage dump, in the floor were some small pieces of the same metal used for the dagger while in the corners was some meat that was floating in some kind of yellow-looking water which I haven´t seen before. Other than that, there were only some half-destroyed barrels with many scratches and holes and something that had meat attached to it by some strings.
Looking at the meat bought up a question...
Where did they get it from?
"Did I by any chance miss another kind of creature while I was exploring? That shouldn't be the case, although I haven´t explored everything I should at least have met 1 by now or a sign of them..."
After thinking for I while, I still had no clue what kind that was meat, but suddenly an idea came to mind.
"Status should work right?" without much hesitation, I gripped one of the pieces of meat and used status.
[Dried Goblin Meat]: A dried piece of goblin meat. They say that the meat from around the belly has the most fat in it, but that is false. In actuality, the part with the most fat is a little more below the belly between bot-"
"Dammit!" I immediately threw the piece of fat and stepped on it until I was satisfied.
"To think that I actually touched this piece of trash with my hand..." He cursed out loud.
Although he had minimal senses, he still found it disgusting.
At first, I was in disbelief at the fact that they were eating each other but as I continued to read the description, I became all the more disgusted.
I cursed my curiosity for a while before I continued to go deeper inside the cave since there wasn´t much to see other than trash.
After walking for a while, I could finally hear screeches from far in the path.
"So they choose to hide instead of fighting, huh...are they stupid?" Why attack me in the first place when you are going to hide here?"
"Kgh!"
"Kghhah!"
"Kgwha!"
It seems like they noticed me...well, it isn´t like I tried to hide or anything but these particular goblins were for some reason louder than the other ones that I had killed.
'Annoying...'
The current room that I was, was quite different than the one from before. This room didn`t have holes in the walls or trash all over the place. The only noteworthy inside this room would be the 3 goblins in front of that were near what looked like a seat. Which I found quite weird for several reasons. Why was this the only room with a seat and why was this seat so large? It was way too large for those goblins.
"Let´s see, one, two...only three? And I thought that there will be more. Quite dissapoi-" Just before I could finish I heard a loud noise behind me as if something heavy has fallen to the ground.
"-ing?"
Just before I was able to turn around a club larger than the ones that the goblins were using hit my side with a massive force which sent me flying and rolling to the ground for a few meters.
"KGHAGHAGHA!"
A massive voice that was similar to a roar was laughing.
Gazing at the source of the laughter, he saw a being similar to the goblins with green skin with a vicious face holding a club in his hand.
It was laughing.
"Status!"
Dammit.
[Status]
Name: ----
Race: Hobgoblin
Level: 8
Class: Warrior Lv. 2
Sub-Class: ----
Health: 550
Mana: 80
Attributes: Strength: 11 Agility: 6 Intelligence: 8 Endurance: 11 Stamina: 25
[Talents]: [Leader]
[Skills]: [Lower Weapon Mastery Lv.2] [Sprint Lv.3] [Heavy Strike Lv.1]
Dammit!
Dammit!
"DAMMIT!" He cursed internally.
I was shocked. I was too careless. I should even be more careful!
How did this guy come from behind me!? I already passed through there, so how!?
I observed the huge goblins which sent me flying or rather this hobgoblin. Seeing his status I freaked out for a moment. I can`t win against this thing! Not only did it have the same skill sprint as the level 3 goblin that I faced but the skill was already level 3!
And it has a second skill!
[Heavy Strike Lv.1] Blend your mana with your weapon to increase the force behind an attack. Although the method is crude and unrefined it gets the job done.
Forget about the attributes This skill sounded really terrifying!
He even blocked my escape path...! How can I possibly kill this bastard...
Thinking of what to do, an idea crossed his mind.
"Ah!"
"Show me my status XP!"
[XP: 4400]
Although I could just show the interface by just thinking in my head, the current me wasn´t calm. It wasn`t fear or anything the like. It was the same hot feeling that I was experiencing when I first fought with the level 3 goblin.
"I just need a tiny little bit more...just a little more!" He said as his head turned towards the three goblins.
I immediately picked myself up and rushed with my daggers toward the three goblins!
I just need to kill them!
*crack~
Although my left side arm had some cracks, I still pushed myself to kill these three goblins!
Seeing what I was aiming to do, the hobgoblin gave chase. Although he was a tiny bit faster than me, the direction that he sends me flying was towards the three goblins. Where the distances weren't that great. Even though it was only a few meters it was enough for me to reach the three goblins first.
"K-Kghaa!" The three goblins cried out of panic at seeing me coming for them. Even if they wanted to run away they couldn´t. Behind them was nothing more than a wall and the throne that I thought was a seat at first.
Having no other option, the 3 goblins went to the throne and picked up different kinds of weapons from a barrel that was beside the throne.
One picked the axe, while the other picked up a spear with the last one picked a shield with a dagger. After they were done they turned around to face me with their weapons up high.
When I first saw all the different kinds of weapons that the goblins had I became worried that these three goblins might be the elite force with the hobgoblin that was chasing me being the king.
But the moment the goblin swung the axe toward me, I noticed that wasn´t the case at all. The hands of those goblins were trembling when they attacked me, they even closed their eyes for a short moment when they attacked.
I dodged the axe by sidestepping it and stabbed the goblin right in the throat the next moment I could, killing it in less than two seconds.
[You received 200 Experience points]
After taking a look at the status of the goblin I killed I realized that although the goblin was level 2, it had lower stats than the normal goblin thus far.
"KGWAAA!"
Hearing the enraged voice of the hobgoblin behind me I realized why these 3 goblins were this weak.
"I see, these are your female aren´t they".
Three more left.
I jumped towards the two female goblins trying to kill both of them before the hobgoblin reached me.
The female goblin with the spear tried to push it through my chest, only to go right through my cloth armor and come from behind, thus hitting nothing. I quickly slashed my dagger through her neck halfway before abandoning my dagger stuck on her neck.
[You received 200 Experience points]
Two left.
I quickly turned around only to see the female goblin completely hiding her face with the shield and pointing her dagger toward me.
"Stupid..." I gripped the shield and pulled it towards me.
Between my physique and my superior strength, I easily lifted the female goblin in the air and pierced her through the chest.
[You received 200 Experience points]
I abandon my last dagger in her chest and I quickly equipped the shield in my left arm and the female goblin dagger.
"One of-"
"KGHWAAAAGHA!"
Right before I finished equipping the shield and the dagger. The hobgoblin's legs and club shined with a small green and white light.
Before I knew the hobgoblin was right beside me ready to smash me apart!
"Shi-" I quickly put the shield in front of me in hopes to block the hobgoblin's strike, but what I didn´t expect was the power behind this strike.
*Crack
"What!?"
Even though I shielded myself it wasn`t enough. The moment the club met with my shield my hand started to break. Although I blocked that, I was sent flying and crashing to the throne.
*Baahm!
"Seriously..."
I was seated on the throne with my whole body still trembling from the impact. And seeing the hobgoblin slowly walking towards them with an enraged expression.
I could only grin viciously.
"You trashed me long enough don´t you think?"
I bought the status up and with a whisper I said.
"Acquire...Miasma!"
With that.
An enormous dark death aura came out of my body.
Engulfing me and the throne in complete Darkness!
