A young man of asian origins, a mohawk, a wolf tattoo on his neck.
No doubt about it, Frank had just appeared in front of Keith.
"Hi." He said with a smile.
"How the hell did you get here?" Keith asked, weirded out by his friend's sudden arrival.
"Just finished up. I asked if I could meet the first one to finish after me. I guess it was you. Anyways, it's good to see you doing well."
Frank sat down in front of Keith.
"Yeah. What Difficulty Setting did you choose?"
"Medium."
"Same. I guess we both did okay then. What Type of Magic though?" Keith asked.
Frank chuckled lightly.
Meanwhile, Alex finally took his decision.
Seconds later, he joined Frank and Keith.
"Welcome!" Frank said.
"Guys, guys, check this out!!" Alex shouted.
He sat down and put his hands on the ground for a couple of seconds.
Once he raised them, under his right hand, the ground was pitch black, under his left hand, a thin layer of ice.
"Fire & Ice, huh? Pretty cool." Frank said.
"Hell yes it is. What about you?" Alex asked.
Meanwhile, Keith zoned out while looking at the ceiling.
'I wonder how Elisha is doing. He'll probably join us soon...' He thought.
...
'Alright. I gained 4 Vigor & Endurance Points and 1 Strength Point. It seems that gaining any more than that will take too long...' Elisha thought as he stood back up.
As he was wearing a tank top, veins were visible on his shoulders and arms.
"Maybe I should just go for it. I'm sure I will have other opportunities to train." Elisha muttered as he walked towards the two Goblins left.
After opening his Inventory and selecting the Iron Sword and one of the Wooden Shields, he sprinted towards the Goblins.
[You have defeated one Goblin.]
[You have gained 10 Gold coins and 20 Experience Points.]
[You have defeated 3/60 Goblins.]
[57 Goblins remaining to clear the Floor.]
...
[56 Goblins remaining to clear the Floor.]
As their bodies hit the ground and turned to ashes, eight Goblins appeared on the other side of the dome.
'With this shield, the arrows won't be that big a deal. Especially since I can see them clearly now.'
Half of the Goblins were archers.
Elisha took care of the rest.
Once only the archers were left, he put his weapons back inside his Inventory.
While he was doing that, the archers encircled him.
"Alright, come at me!"
The next instant, four arrows were shot towards him.
One of them missed, two were dodged perfectly, but the one shot from behind him slashed his right leg.
It was shallow, but enough for Elisha to feel pressure.
'There will be 4 times as many arrows later...'
He dodged and dodged without attacking while the Goblins continued to shoot their arrows.
[You have gained 1 Sense Point.]
He dodged some more.
[You have gained 1 Sense Point.]
[You have gained 1 Agility Point.]
And some more.
[You have gained 1 Sense Point.]
Suddenly, he could faintly hear the sound the arrows made by piercing the air.
Thanks to his Sense Stat increasing, dodging arrows that came from behind got a lot easier.
At least, he now could tell that an arrow was coming from behind him.
After Elisha dodged three waves of arrows perfectly, he put down three of the four archers before walking away.
He walked with his back towards the Goblin, and yet no arrow touched him.
Elisha got rid of the last Goblin.
[You have defeated one Goblin.]
[You have gained 10 Gold coins and 20 Experience Points.]
[You have defeated 12/60 Goblins.]
[48 Goblins remaining to clear the Floor.]
"Status Window." Elisha said.
[ Name: Elisha
Species & level : Human Lv4(0/200exp)
Gold: 120
HP: 158/160
Endurance: 75/80
Stats: Strength: 16
Agility: 20
Sense: 26
Vigor & Endurance: 16
Unused Stat Points: 14
Skills: (None)
Titles: (None)
]
'The level-ups sure help. And 14 Unused Stat Points...'
"I'll put 5 Stat Points into Sense and 5 into Agility." Elisha said out loud.
[5 Unused Stat Points have been allocated to the Agility Stat.]
[5 Unused Stat Points have been allocated to the Sense Stat.]
[Your Sense Stat is higher than 30.]
[Your senses have greatly improved.]
"Let's defeat these guys. I doubt I'm lacking in any particular Stat but we'll see." Elisha muttered as he turned towards the 16 Goblins.
'Oh. It's different this time...'
Indeed, out of the 16 Goblins, there 6 archers, 4 with Wooden Spears, 4 with Iron Swords and 2 with Iron Maces.
'My Agility and Strength are both way higher than theirs. Them having a variety of weapons shouldn't be a problem.'
Indeed, except from a couple of scratches, Elisha defeated the goblins without any problem.
'Your senses have greatly increased, huh? It's true. The difference is obvious. Is 30 a special number when it comes to Stats?'
Elisha lowered his gaze towards his left arm.
An arrow had shallowly cut him.
'A small price for a level-up...'
But the next second, he felt something incredibly dangerous coming from behind.
His instincts were telling him to turn around, and he did.
'What the...!'
Elisha raised both his arms defensively and the incoming fire ball exploded upon impact.
[You have lost 30 Health Points.]
The explosion pushed him back a couple of meters.
As the smoke faded, he realized that his arms were only superficially burnt.
But Elisha did not have time to think, as 20 or so arrows were raining down on him.
He quickly jumped back, opened his Inventory and took out a Wooden Shield.
Using it to defend himself against the arrows he couldn't dodge was the only way he survived.
With one arrow imbedded deeply into his left leg, Elisha raised his gaze towards the monsters.
32 Goblins.
10 of them had long spears.
21 of them had a bow and arrows, but also an Iron Dagger kept on their waist.
1 of them had a Wooden Staff.
The spearmen were at the front.
"These little #####.... They took me by surprise..." Elisha muttered as he pulled the bloody arrow out of his leg.