A week had passed quickly. Souta and Tetsui didn't even know that a month had week since they occupied the nest.
Souta reached level 18 and he was the same level as Greater Isle Boa that he fought before when he was still in Jack's squad. With the power of his group, they could easily hunt down the Greater Isle Boa.
Not only him who level up. Gobo also level up and evolve into a Hobgoblin successfully. There's two Hobgoblins in his group and it made his group more powerful than any squad in Jabuzi's nest.
The other Goblins too level up by one. A week had passed but their level only increased by one. The reason behind that was that Souta focused more on increasing their stats through training their body not by leveling up so that they would gain an advantage if they met some at their level.
Soka too level up to 5.
Souta already earned 700 skill points and he could buy another skill from skill list. He looked at the Tough Body skill. He didn't even hesitate and used 500 points to buy it.
"Tough Body acquired."
Souta muttered as he looked at his skill and saw the words "Tough Body level 1."
Tough Body is an active skill not a passive like Sword Mastery. It could enhance his body flesh to next level for five minutes. In short, it's a skill for tank type in RPG games.
He already bought three skills in the second page of skill list. The Tough Body, Stealth, and Sword Mastery. There's only two skills left that he haven't bought.
The Heal and Archery. These two skills are for archer and cleric.
He don't know if there's still another skill list that will appeared once he evolve or not.
Except for buying skill there's another use of skill points. And that's leveling up the skills. But Souta don't want to do that. He prefer to level up his skills through hard work and save skill points.
Souta shook his head and he slowly stood up. He picked his sword and started practicing sword skills.
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Tetsui level up to 7 in a week. He looked at his stats and felt satisfied. He still have 300 skill points left.
He lifted up his head and looked at Souta who was practicing sword skills. He opened his mouth and asked, "Kiyomi, Do I really need to buy all the skills in the skill list?"
Souta stopped what he was doing when he heard Tetsui's question. He looked at Tetsui and replied, "Yeah. The more you have skill the better when you evolve because all your skill will also increase in level when evolving." He then went back to practicing sword skills.
"That's good to hear." Tetsui said as he looked at the skill list.
He still haven't bought the Mana Regeneration and HP Regeneration skill. He didn't hesitate and used his points to buy these two skills left in the skill list. With this he already bought all the skill in the skill list.
He once again looked at Souta and asked, "Hey, after you evolve. Is there any changes in the system?"
"You will open the second page of the skill list. Tough Body, Archery, Heal, Sword Mastery, and Stealth are the skills that you would see once you evolve." Souta replied while swinging his sword.
"Hmmm... So that's how it is." Tetsui muttered. He realized that being a monster have a lot of set back. With his current form he couldn't hold a sword and bow. That's pretty unfair for him. If that's the case then he could only depend himself on Tough Body, Stealth, and Heal skill.
Tetsui looked at his skills.
[Skills:
Most of his skills were only level 2 because he was always asleep and didn't practice for a very long time. He only practice his skills because he know that he would need it one day to survive in this world. There will be a time that these skills will be able to help him survive a precarious situation.
Suddenly, Gobb enter the room in a hurried manner.
"Leader!" Gobb said.
Souta stopped what he's doing. He looked at Gobb and thought that something must be outside the nest. He task Gobb and Gobo to guard the entrance and inform him if some monsters appeared.
"What is it?" Souta asked.
"There's a Goblin Squad at the entrance!" Gobb replied to him.
"Hmmm? Goblin Squad? I see..." Souta muttered as he rubbed his chin.
Tetsui couldn't understand what they are saying. He looked at Souta and asked, "What's happening?"
Souta looked at Tetsui and said, "It seems that the Goblins from Jabuzi's nest finally found us."
Tetsui frown when he heard Souta. He then looked around at his surroundings.
He guess that the Goblin Squad just found them and came to check it. If that's the case then there's nothing to worry about but the leader of the squad. The leader of a squad must be a Hobgoblin if what Souta said was true. A Goblin Squad consist of ten or more Goblins. That's not a problem for their current man power. They have a total of three Hobgoblins including Souta and four Goblins that were level 7-9. He himself was level 7 and probably stronger than a level 7 Goblin. There's Soka too but she was just a level 5 Ash Wolf. No, a level 5 Ash Wolf was pretty strong too. The Ash Wolf increased in stats was higher than Goblins. Every level up the Ash Wolf increase their stats by 5 while the Goblins were only 2. Souta, Gobu, and Gobo should join together and kill the leader of the squad if it broke into a battle. With that the enemy's squad formation will break once their leader died and we would easily kill the remaining Goblins.
Tetsui looked at Souta and have a guess what's Souta's plan. From the past week he already have some knowledge about Souta. So he could guess that Souta will fight the enemy's leader one on one. Just like what happened when Souta fought the leader of the wolf pack. He didn't even command the other Goblins to help him kill the wolf.
"Let's go!" Souta said as he walked forward while clenching the sword tightly on his hand.
Gobb followed behind him.
Tetsui turned his head to Soka, who was sleeping at the corner. He approached her and tapped her head with his paws.
Soka opened her eyes and looked at him with a questioning gaze.
Tetsui pointed at Souta before he followed him. He don't understand the wolf language. He still haven't learn it as he was still an Ash Wolf. Maybe, he would learn it after he evolve.
Soka slowly stood up and followed them.
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Souta walked over with his group. He scanned the enemy's group with his eyes.
The leader was a Hobgoblin and he was standing at the front of the group. Behind him, there's twelve Hobgoblin.
Tetsui opened his mouth and said, "Kiyomi, we need to kill them. If one of them returned back to the nest then it would trouble us."
"Your right, we need to kill them all." Souta nodded at Tetsui's words.
The Hobgoblin looked at Souta and noticed the pups beside him. His face contorted and he opened his mouth, "We were wondering where you have gone and it seems that you betray us."
Tetsui didn't understand the Hobgoblin's words. He just said, "Kiyomi, Kill the leader immediately with Gobu and Gobo. With that we will be able to kill the other Goblins easily."
Souta looked at Tetsui before he nodded his head. He opened his mouth and said, "Gobu and Gobo, kill this one immediately."
Two figures flashed behind him and arrived in front of the Hobgoblin.
The Hobgoblin reacted quickly as he pulled out his sword and blocked the attacks in front of him.
Clang!!
Souta used appraisal to scanned the Hobgoblin.
[Jelo(Hobgoblin) Level 20]
'Level 20? This level is higher than I expected.' He thought when he saw the Hobgoblin's level. It seems the he really need to join forces with Gobu and Gobo to kill this Hobgoblin.
"Kill them all! Leave none of them alive!" Souta shouted as he dashed towards the Hobgoblin.
""Yes, leader!"" Gobe and Gobi said as both of them charged at the enemy's group.
Gobi and Gobb didn't say anything as they followed Souta's order.
There's twelve Goblins at the enemy's side and Souta only have four Goblins and two pups. They need to fight two Goblins at the same time.