"I will probably never come back" Sam was looking Magda town from a distance, the last half a year was hell for him.
"I suffer a lot in there, but at least I did profit from that" Not long after a week of training Sam was told that when George take an apprentice, everyone in the guild bet in how long he is going to last. He obviously bet for himself and win the bet. Now his money bag its full again with a valor of 2.5 gold coins in total, product from his initial gold coin, the winning bet and all the missions that George make him do alone.
"The old man wasn't that evil" Sam thought as he remembers his last day of training.
***
"Now that you're going, I should give you some words from a veteran like me. One, good thing that you made that much money, in Salas city in the adventures guild there is something especial for the ones that want to rise to bronze rank, and its cost 1 gold coin… I not going to tell you what, it's a nice surprise"
"The second thing it's about skill and technique, what's the difference? The difference it's that a skill it's an action and a technic it's a style of fighting. An example it's your heavy smash, I can see that you learned it on your own, so when your pole technique rise to intermediary, its use it's going to rise as well."
"Also, nobody can give you technique, but you can find skill scrolls to learn the skill or to one time use in bigger cities or in big auctions, but this type of skill can't level up on its own with your technique, you have to need the skill scroll for that as well, so I recommend you to try to learn as many skills possible on your own unless it's absolutely necessary."
"That's all, now get lost and I don't want to see you again unless you are a bronze rank"
***
"And his advice were always on point, like my new gear" Sam was talking while looking at his chest, the leather chest piece was changed for the mad wolf leather he killed, and then look at his bracer, the bracer didn't change but attached to it was a pair of mad wolf knuckles, made with it teeth; the leftover leather was guarded in case of damages.
"This is going to make so much damage" True to be told, hand to hand combat almost made no damages on monsters, it need knuckles or skills to be effective against strong monsters; although it's very effective against other humanoids.
"Now let's go to Salas city, a place where I will join my first party… and to get my revenge in a little pea."
The next day
"I forget how boring it's to travel on my own"
The next day
"I knew it!" a crazy person was shouting in the middle of a road. "With the money I got I should buy a horse, but nooo…" Sam stops for a moment to think of a reason that he didn't buy a horse or borrow it.
"Because… my teammates! They don't have one, so I can't be the only one with a horse" Feeling happy with that lousy excuse that didn't explain why he didn't borrow a horse or the fact he totally forgot that you can travel by carriage, Sam continues traveling east.
Making a promise that the next time he travels on his own he will travel with a horse, when suddenly he see the thing he wanted the most right now.
"A horse!"
More specifically, he saw a group of traveling goblins that have one horse. "Just like before, the thing that I need the most appear in front of me in a shape of a group of goblins"
After hiding his stuff, he takes his time and followed the goblins for a while, not making the same mistake as the last time.
After some time he confirms that the group in front of him doesn't have scouts or reinforcements, he makes his plan.
-There are a total of five goblins; two of them have spears including the one in the horse, one club and one rusty sword and a dagger. They look that they are going to rest soon, that's better, when they bind the horse to a tree it's the moment I will attack-
Sam didn't wait long, after ten minutes or so, the goblins stop next a tree and tie the horse.
-Now- Sam rushes to the group only equipped with the knuckles. The sword goblin see him and alert the others at the same time that he tries to vertically cut Sam.
Sam side doges the cut to the right, then with his left hand grab the handle of the sword and doing a right hook with his other arm. The hook connects making the goblin lose one eye and making the hold on the sword loose, Sam disarm the goblin and jumps backwards dodging a spear strike.
"You will not be able to touch me you little bastards" Throwing the sword away so it can't be used in a short while.
Then Sam uses a new skill he gained in his training.
"Rocket punch!" Accelerating his body forwards while doing a straight punch, he connects with one of the spear goblins head killing it. After that he grab the goblin body and used as a shield against the dagger goblin that tried to sneak attack him, then Sam kicks the goblin away so he can deal with the pair of goblins that didn't make a move yet.
"Come at me"
Listening to the order, the goblins try a pincer attack on Sam.
"Rocket punch!" this time he didn't aim at a goblin but between the pair of goblins. When the goblins were turning back Sam do a low kick at one sending its feet to the air, Sam take the goblin feet and aiming to the other one he shouts…
"Heavy Smash!" Action that make the both goblins crash their head against the other, successfully killing both.
"Three of five" turning to the still healthy dagger goblin and the semi blind sword goblin he ask "Now tell me, how do you want to die?"
After some brutal death Sam talks again, "That was a magnificent stress reliever"
Sam approaches the goblins bodies and with the dagger he takes from the goblin start to cut open the right hand of each goblin. Thing that it's not weird for rookies adventurers, since he know now that taking the right hands of goblins and take them to any guild, he is getting paid a copper coin for each one, but the one doing this are few since its payment it's too few for the job, Sam does this because…
"I barely have much money and I like good commodities that are expensive, and like grandma said –every drop counts- "
Now with a stolen horse from the goblins, Sam travels to the border city of Salas.