One Human, One Book, One Slap

With malicious grins showing their yellow teeth, the goblins drooled at Edwin, as if he was their favorite food!

To be honest, he was really their favorite food.

Then the ten goblins threw rocks towards the boy. Even if with the protection of the robe, Edwin would still get hurt or bruised because the rocks could be considered as blunt weapons.

He dodged the rocks while deflecting some back to the goblins, but then, they stopped throwing rocks.

Five of the goblins who were carrying spears changed their weapons to swords and charged at Edwin.

With visible surprise, the boy was caught off guard by the neatness of the formation and communication of the goblins. In the stories that he heard, goblins were known to be disorganized and undisciplined, but it wasn't the case for these gremlins.

When one of the goblins got close to him, Edwin took the initiative to attack. The goblin suddenly became frightened and it started slashing the sword to the boy when he wasn't even close yet.

Granted that these goblins were somewhat organized and disciplined, their fighting experience was actually a bit lacking.

Edwin took advantage of the toughness of his robe and used its sleeves to stop the frantic slashes of the goblin, and used his other hand to disarm the goblin and kick him and hastily run towards the unarmed creature.

But as he was about to kill the goblin, the other four creatures attacked simultaneously.

Even though Edwin's robe was tough and unbreakable in front of these wooden weapons, he might still get hurt by getting tackled down to the ground by the goblins.

Due to the small size of the wooden sword of the goblins, for a human like Edwin, he was only taking hold a short sword.

He backed off from the four goblins, but at some point he was stopped by the goblins who were holding spears.

Edwin was starting to get annoyed, but he couldn't do anything about it. He was surrounded from all sides while being forced to focus into defense.

The speed of the sword-wielding goblins varried, one of them outrun the other three and first arrived at the boy and slashed down with its sword.

The boy parried the strikes of the goblin, while forcing it to back off by several steps. Edwin was still more powerful than them individually, as he was about to attack the goblin again, the other ones who were still holding the sword came to the rescue and simultaneously attacked the boy again.

This time, Edwin couldn't back off because he was near the edge of the formation and could only defend and attack against the four goblins.

The boy might be outnumbered, but he was still obviously more powerful than the other four by a large margin, making them retreat one by one.

Suddenly, one of the goblins accidentally tripped to the ground. He ran towards it and was about to kill the stumbled goblin when the other eleven goblins, including the one he disarmed earlier started to throw rocks again.

Edwin was forced to defend himself again by the rain of rocks, while dodging the strikes of the sword-wielding goblins. Due to this, the four sword-wielders and Edwin was in a stalemate.

'I can't keep this on for much longer!' Edwin tried to think of a way to get out, he couldn't even execute Flicker or Burst Steps or even Shadow Steps because he felt the orc wasn't that normal as it seemed to be.

As for dagger flash? Would the wooden sword even be qualified for it?

'Allen was really being easy on me when we fought.' He thought but he suddenly changed his mind, 'No, it's not that I'm weak. It's because I don't have the initiative!'

In an instant, the spear-wielding goblins also attacked the boy. Edwin dodged the spear attacks, but was hit by a rock on the back and an another one to the arm.

At the same time, one of the goblins who was equipped with a sword slashed towards him, Edwin could only block it with his own sword, but he was hit again by the rocks!

Now, the boy lost his concentration and one of the goblins took this opportunity to slash down at Edwin's wrist while the sleeves of the robe wasn't protecting it.

Edwin felt a sharp pain on his wrist, making him hiss as he spotted a wound on it.

Seeing what was happening, Edwin unhesitatingly did a flicker. At the same time, the orc acted too.

When the boy reappeared, the orc was also near his location. The latter then kicked the former and the boy and was knocked away to the ground a few meters away from his initial position.

As he was standing up again, Edwin coughed out blood.

If a portion of the force of the kick wasn't absorbed by the white robe, his spine would have probably get crushed.

As he was about to stand up again, the orc dashed to Edwin. The speed of the orc wasn't as fast as the boy's Burst Steps, but because he was injured, he wasn't able to react on time and was sent flying by an another kick.

This time, he managed to land back down the ground without getting knocked down.

"Ugh." Edwin coughed out more blood from his mouth.

"I can't let this continue or else I'll become meat paste.", Edwin gritted his teeth and tried to resist ejecting out more blood.

Then the boy's eyes slightly widened as he sensed danger. He rolled to the side, avoiding another kick of the orc.

However, the orc's club suddenly glew the faintest of light and it smashed it towards the boy.

Even with the protection of the white robes, because the club was a magical blunt weapon, Edwin knew that he would be crushed to death; if not crushed to death, he would be severely crippled afterwards.

At the last second, an idea emerged from the boy's mind.

-bam-

The club collided with something and it made a loud noise.

-boom-

Afterwards, the orc's weapon suddenly exploded creating smoke all over the area and it forced the orc back several tens of meters away from the boy.

Arising from the smoke, Edwin panted and let out an infuriated expression, while his one of his hands was carrying the Mortal Plane's Codex!

The boy stood up on his feet, a bit shakily this time due to his injuries.

At the same time, another sword-wielding goblin was charging towards him and slashed down its sword. Seeing the enemy, Edwin blocked the wooden sword with the book, and the sword broke in half as if it was merely a twig!

The goblin was surprised and was about to run away when Edwin swiped the book's front to the goblin's face.

-whoosh- -pshew-

The goblin's head flew away from it's body and landed somewhere far away from it! What just happened startled all of the other incoming goblins and made them stop on their tracks.

Edwin was also surprised by the result and checked the book. After promptly examining, he saw that there was no single stain of blood on it.

The boy glanced at the codex then towards the remaining goblins, "If a man throws a brick at you, then hit him with a book!"

"Roar!", the orc angrily roared stood up and dashed towards him without considering what just happened. The orc was slightly smarter than the goblins, which was almost impossible considering the common orcs focused on their strength rather than their brains.

However, seeing this, Edwin wasn't flustered anymore and even charged forward to the orc to meet it head-on. As soon as they get a considerable distance to each other, the orc punched out with its giant fist. On the other hand, the boy raised the book.

-bam-

The fist was thoroughly blocked, and the orc even staggered back due to the backlash, but Edwin was still firm on his place.

Blood flowed out of the orc's knuckle causing it to roar in anger even more.

From his observation, the orc in front of him was smarter than the ones on the stories that he heard, but its intelligence was beaten back by its anger! And it didn't care for anything anymore and even charged forward again while punching its other arm out.

-bam-

This time Edwin dodged the orc's attack and the beast only hit the ground, causing a short, weak quake. The boy used this opportunity to get closer to the orc's head and slap the book to the orc's face.

Meanwhile, seeing the boy actually trying to get closer to it, it grinned and sent out his other already bleeding hand to block the boy.

-crack-

Contrary to what the orc was expecting, the result was that its already bleeding arm bled even further and even its shoulder was dislocated!

The orc roared in fury again and punched out with its other fine arm, but Edwin anticipated it and dodged it fairly quickly. The boy then used the arm as a stepping board and tried to slap the orc's head was once again.

-bam- -pshew-

The orc's head flew from its body and landed somewhere in the clear field. Afterwards, the orc's body went it its knees then tumbled to the ground with a loud thud.

Then Edwin turned his head towards the remaining goblins and smiled. The smile along with the fact that there was still blood on his mouth, made him look dashing and dreadful at the same time.

The goblins didn't hesitate to drop all their weapons and equipment to the ground and started running away with all their might, even bumping on each other, but would Edwin let them escape after he was beaten so badly?

The following result was an one-sided massacre. A human, and a book, capable enough to behead the enemies in one slap.

The last thing that the goblins saw was a human carrying a book, before they were slapped to death amidst the snowy terrain.