First Battle

" Oh, for fucks sake."

He repeated this to himself while landing down inside the giant room inside the hollow tree,where the goblin warrior stood protecting the chest. It looked at Jack landing in front of him on the other side of the room and gripped its spear tightly. The warrior was definitely not happy with his arrival. Just then, a screen popped up in front of Jack. 

[The Day 10 special event has been activated earlier.]

[Rewards would be diminished.]

[Trial of paths: 

Time: 1 hour

Reward: Gene skill ,inferior weapon (removed), inferior armor (removed), full recovery

Objective: defeat or kill the goblin warrior within the time limit.]

"Of fucking course," honestly, he was just annoyed. Not only did he end up triggering something that he normally should not have, meaning it would be fucking harder than him for everyone else, but to top things off, he won't even get half the rewards he was meant to. All because he was paranoid and clumsy. Next time, he would just be lazy and die fucking later.

Right now, he was pissed at anything as he held each of his short swords in each hand. He rushed towards the goblin, slashing at him with his sword. But the goblin was an actual warrior. Not someone who just picked up a weapon a few days ago for the first time. As Jack slashed towards him, the goblin sneered at the amateur technique of swordsmanship. The goblin used its spear tip to parry the blade and push it away from his own body while using its free hand to punch Jack in the guts, making him get pushed back as he coughed, gasping for breath.

"Well, fuck you too."

Jack said before getting up in a much angrier tone and rushing towards the goblin all over again, this time learning from his past mistake. He did not directly swing his sword but instead used his straight hand to swing a feint attack, only to follow up with his left hand in an upper slash.

But the goblin was not stupid either, as it avoided the first feint attack and then used the tip of his spear to parry against the sword once again. But as he swung his fist towards the man again, Jack used his sword's sharp edge, causing the goblin to punch his own hand and cut it through the middle. Jack had used the same trick he did with the snake, using the opponent's momentum against them to gain. 

This time, the goblin ended up being the one screaming in pain after having cut its hand in two. This was the perfect opportunity for a follow-up attack with his other blade due to the goblin having lost its focus in the moment. Jack used the blade to stab forward with all his strength as his blade pierced through the goblin's chest. The green warrior's eyes turned red as if he had been enraged. Rather than pain, there was anger on its face as it grabbed Jack by his neck and then smashed him into the ground so hard that Jack could feel every bone in his body being crushed. 

He let out a bloody scream, quite literally, as blood spilled out of his mouth while he did so. His body refused to move as the goblin sighed and walked towards his spear, where he had dropped it, grabbing it to finish off the human. 

The goblin walked to the human who had challenged him, as he was going to end this trial once and for all. It roared and stabbed its spear down towards the man's head. But against all odds, Jack moved his body to the side just in time to have the goblin's spear just stab into the ground as he threw something at its head with all the strength that was left in his body. His weapon pierced the goblin's eye as it screamed.

The snake's teeth, which he had turned into poisoned throwing weapons, finally came to be used, as he assumed they would. Using his one chance, he grabbed his sword and stood up while the goblin tried to pull the blade out of his eye. Jack came from behind, and with every bit of energy left in his body, he slashed at the creature's neck from behind, decapitating it. Jack fell to the ground, as did the head of the goblin, who used to be his enemy.

[You have killed an inferior creature

+10 merits]

As Jack was struggling hard to breathe in the moment, suddenly a white light shot down from the skies directly at him, and the warm feeling encompassed his body again. Everything felt fine for now as he closed his eyes and enjoyed the warm feeling both of victory and of full recovery.