3) Worst Case Scenario

"BRUH STOP CHASING ME ALREADY!!!"

Gi Wan was being chased by a huge herd of goblins, one could even see a goblin with a more muscular build and 6 feet tall.

"Dammit there's even a hobgoblin chasing me."

The herd contained atleast 30 goblins, however Gi Wan's sword has become so useless now. Gi Wan's eyes looked desperately for something, and they opened wide after seeing something.

"Hah! There it is!"

Gi Wan quickly ran over to a slim gap between the walls which led to a small chamber. The gap was just enough for one person to fit. Basically, it's the best place to fight the goblins.

He quickly jumped into the chamber and turned around quickly. His arms and legs were covered with bruises, these were caused as he was using all methods possible to stay away from the goblins. Even if one were to excercise his whole life, they wouldn't be able to increase their running speed without actually running outdoors, the 35 agility stat of Gi Wan was the proof. Thankfully the goblins were slow enough for him to keep proper distance. Weirdly though he didn't really feel tired even though he ran so much.

"Haha guess the 'True Otaku' and 65 vitality Stat were useful afterall"

The first goblin came into the chamber and swung its sword, Gi Wan used the same strategy to defeat it as the one he use to defeat the goblin at his home.

WHAM! STAB!

"Hah I got a new sword now."

Gi Wan couldn't help but smirk, maybe because his stabs were too good, the goblins only lasted a slash and a stab.

"Hmm"

He slashed and stabbed all the goblins that entered the chamber instantly and is managing to kill them slowly, bit by bit he could see that the numbers of goblins were decreasing. He made sure to collect the items dropped from the goblins.

'It's good to have an inventory, these will definitely come in handy if my stamina is gonna run out."

He wasn't just seeing what was infront of him, he analyzed the whole situation and came up with a perfect plan to take care of these goblins.

WOOOSH!

Gi Wan barely managed to dodged the club.

"Kraaaaa!"

The hobgoblin finally came!

'Tch, there are still five goblins tho...'

Although he managed to dodge the club, he lost his spot infront of the entrance and is now surrounded by the goblins.

DUN DUN!

「Skill 'Rookie's Sword Mastery' (lv 2) -->

'Rookie's Sword Mastery' (lv 3)」

As he was skillfully fighting the goblins, he acquired and leveled up his sword mastery twice!!

"As expected of an SS grade skill it sure is helpful. But..."

The hobgoblin started to run towards Gi Wan. Instead of avoiding the hobgoblin's blow, he also started running towards it. His stats are clearly way lower than the hobgoblin, however he looked confident.

He made slight deviation in his movement and ran towards the hobgoblin's left side and hit the club with his sword's handle and deflected it. He then ran past the goblins while avoiding and deflecting their attacks and went back out to the open.

He quickly gulped down the item 'Uncooked goblin's meat'. He didn't really know how it tasted as he didn't chew on it. As he regained a bit of his stamina back, he faced the goblins again. Due to it's bigger build and the way it ran away from the entrance to hit Gi Wan, the normal goblins came out of the entrance first and he quickly subdued them.

Then, It was time, the hobgoblin came out with a huge roar and swung it's club once more. Gi Wan dodged the club and stabbed it's right arm with which it was holding the club. The hobgoblin's swings became slower and less powerful, so he managed to deflect and dodge it's random swings and kept on stabbing it.

Two hours passed, Gi Wan finally managed to kill the hobgoblin while eating around 20 'Uncooked goblin meat'. The reason the fight was prolonged was simple, his sword broke after 15 minutes and he had less chances to hit it from that moment onwards, since his range decreased by a lot and the vitality stat of the goblin must be around 100 since it took so long.

DUN DUN

「You have fullfilled the conditions to obtain the skill 'Persistent Bastard'

Conditions :-

1)Title 'Apostle Of Nothing'

2)A prolonged fight of two hours with an enemy whose total stat is 2 times higher than the user's stats

3)Victory in the fight」

"Ooh! Guess the struggle was not so useless afterall"

「Persistent Bastard

Rank :- SSS

-Ascended-

Type :- Passive

Effect :- Increase all your skill levels by 2 for each stack. Decrease your stamina consumption by 10% per stack. The skill stacks up as you fight more battles such as the one you fought for the skill acquisition. Increase your stats by 100% if you are facing against an opponent stronger than yourself

Stacks :- 1/3」

"..."

He acted super cool, and just closed the skill info as if it was nothing.

"Well, guess imma rest for a bit since the hard fight had come to an end."

「Hidden conditions met!」

"Nani?"

「The boss is being released from the boss room!」

「Please defeat the boss and prove that you are worth your title ^^」

"For fuck's sake, that emoji at the end pisses me off for some reason. Anyways I don't think I have time to rest, I should quickly come up with a plan, it's not like the boss will be spawned here right? I mean I even have Pers-"

His words cut off as he saw a huge green monster around 10 feet long and as fat as an SUV with an axe.

"Haha I don't even have a sword this would be the perfect time to face the boss who just so happened to be an orc!"

「The Orc's stats have been doubled due to the difficulty level of the dungeon」

"..."

Gi Wan had a really wide smirk on his face, but somehow his expression looked real grim.