As soon as Alex gave out the order, Videl who had just come out of the inner world got into action. Alex could feel that Videl had already broken through to rank 5 after consuming the flesh of the goblins from the village. This was good news to him as that meant that as long as videl's strength reached rank 7, his revenge would be easier. The reason for that being that if Videl got to rank 7, he could fight a rank 8.
Alex summoned Infringer and got it to transform into dual swords. He was ready to fight and he knew that he couldn't underestimate the opponent as it wasn't that simple. First of all, it was a hobgoblin, a species that had much purer blood as compared to the goblins. The second thing was that it wasn't just an initial stage rank 5 but a rank 5 that was already in the late stages of rank 5. To add more to this, it wasn't from the dungeon but one that happened to enter the dungeon some decades ago.