Ling was taken aback as he spotted a four-meter tall monster furiously standing in front of him. And by just simply looking at the monster's size and aggressive aura were enough reasons to decrease his morale.
[Your morale is down by 35%]
His limbs were tremendously shivering, wondering how he would be able to defeat this large monster.
Of course, it was the occurrence that surpassed his expectation. Why? Who will think that there was already a huge monster at the very beginning of his journey in Ranker's World Online? Plus, the core he would consume once he died against this monster.
As of now, Ling had 1 core coming from the green rabbit, 1 from the goblin commander, and 33 cores from the normal goblins. If his guess was right, those cores would be worth around 35 or 37 dollars. Yet, it can be higher since the items were still not concluded there. Or easy to say, his total earnings would be around 45 dollars.
"No, I'm fucked up? Why did I enter this dungeon in the first place?" Ling said in a cracked voice, then glanced at the blue screen that popped right in front of his eyes.
[Battle Orc]- it's the monster ruling this dungeon. To be more specific, Goblin and Goblin Commander are praising this creature, at the same time, afraid.
[Battle Orc skill(s)]:
[Trench Smash]- using its blunt weapon and excessive physical monsters, the Battle Orc creates a sharp that could deal +98 damage in a direct hit
[Earth rupture]- by concentrating its magical power and physical strength at the same time on its weapon, it allows cutting the surface in a half.
[Berserk]- this is a buff skill that would trigger once it's facing a hard circumstance. By this, the monster will dramatically increase its strength and agility.
After the quick scan from the screen, he removed it and focused his attention on the monster aggressively charging toward him.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Because of the Battle Orc's weight and size, the dried surface was shaking, and Ling stumbled on his footing as well. With that, he can easily tell that this monster was really possessed by excessive strength.
"This is frustrating, tch!"
Ling clicked his tongue, then started to run away, knowing everything he had right might be disappeared once this monster managed to kill him. Plus, he was trying to find a possible idea to conquer this huge monster.
Swoosh!
Suddenly, a weird noise occurred from his behind, so he gradually took a glance at it. His eyes widened after seeing the monster already attain a closer distance while swinging its blunt weapon.
BOOM!
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-3
-5
A massive explosion has transpired and the entire place was covered by a cloud of dust. Fortunately, Ling managed to use [Dash] skill at the very lost moment, if not, probably his body already looked like a smashed tomato. Nevertheless, his health power still decreased due to the strong force created by the monster that pushed him to the post.
[HP: 124/135]
He rolled several times to the ground and just stopped when he hit the post. Now, his body has covered by scratches, and blood dripping on his chin because of the small cut on the corner of his lips.
Swoosh!
Ling immediately regained his footing, then darted at the monster standing 25 meters away. Yes, this was the exact distance from how far the monster sent him. As soon as he blinked his eyes, the monster disappeared from that location and directly appeared in front of him.
Boom!
Another explosion occurred after the monster's attack landed on the thick posts located behind him. The post's parts scattered all over the place as it was like if those concrete stones hit a person seemed easily die. Luckily, his unique passive skill called [Shadow] activated and saved him from sudden death.
[After exposing to the dark for too long your unique passive skill [Shadow] activated! Your speed and strength would increase by 50%!]
"Thank, God! That's so close." Ling said inwardly, then raised his guards, realizing that the Battle Orc was possessed by extraordinary speed. "I need to be more careful!"
[Battle Orc's health power: 550/550]
Ling spotted the health bar over the monster's head and found out that he still had not inflicted any type of damage to the monster. Also, the monster's life was too large. But what he should expect? He was facing the dungeon boss.
Basically, newbie rankers were allowed to conquer the F-rank dungeon ability that had the difficulty of +D since the monsters there were matched with their current abilities. Yet, this was just possible if Ling entered with the other rankers that had classes like Tank, Mage, Fighter, Cleric, etc. In his case, it appeared that he was having a solo expedition at the very beginning of his character's journey that no one ever in the history of Ranker's World Online could do.
8 minutes had passed when the battle between Ling and Battle Orc started. Fortunately, Ling managed to avoid the malignant attacks that came at him due to his speed, at the same time, his willingness to survive.
[HP: 103/135]
Well, receiving minor damage was still inevitable since rocks were flying. If this situation continues, probably Ling would die because his health power was depleted constantly.
[Trench Smash!]
The monster groaned loudly as it started to cast one of its skills. To describe it, a tremendous shock wave and magical blase that can easily cut his bones were flying through the mid-air. And yes! He did everything he got to dodge this attack.
'Status!'
At this point, he knew the free attributes he collected could help him to save from this perilous situation. At the same time, if he was lucky it could increase his winning chance against the monster.
Name: Blood
Ranker Level: 7 (732/760)
Job:--
Title: -- Goblin Annihilator
Health: 110/185
Stamina: 38/46
Mana: 34/34
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Race: Human
Class: Rogue
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Strength[+]: 24+4+1 (29) +2.61 Ore crystal effects (31.61)
Agility[+]: 19+4+1 (24) +1.44 (25.44)
Vitality[+]: 23+4+6 (33)
Dexterity[+]: 17+4+1 (22)
Intelligence[+]: 12+4+1 (17)
•Free attributes point(s): = 0
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•Unique passive skill: [Shadow] level 1
•Unique passive skill: --
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Rogue skill(s) section: [Dash] level 1, [Stab] level 1, [Pounce] Level 1. [Play with smoke] Level 1. [Madness Slash] Level 1.
Other skill(s):
[Possess] Level 1.
[Knife Weapon Mastery I: (1002/1500)]
•Skill point(s): 8
In order to sustain the damage given by the monster, he decided to put the +6 free attributes on his vitality, and the remaining +4 attributes put them one by one in each status.
Now, somehow he felt his body become even stronger, yet he was well-informed this wasn't enough to kill this monster.
[Posses!]
Ling tried to use the skill he acquired from his [Goblin Annihilator I] title.
[Failed! Your level is too low to possess a higher-level monster!]
"Just like what I thought, the monster I can only control who is weaker than me." He said inwardly, then switched his position as he felt the monster would do something different.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
And all of sudden, the strong magical power gathered on the monster's blunt weapon and was now slowly cutting the surface. It was releasing tremendous fire that looked like magma. But the gist of this attack wasn't directly attacking Ling. To be precise, it was to eliminate all areas where this human could run.
Tch!
Ling clicked his tongue, figuring out what was the monster trying to do. "Unlike the other monsters, battle Orc has higher intelligence. It's too obvious that attack isn't for me, it's to corner me in a certain position."
[Dash]
Swoosh!
It can't be helped, Ling decided to charge toward the monster and swung his knife. Since the monster was too tall for him, he aimed for the legs.
Swish!
His knife was slowly penetrating the monster's flesh, which made him have a broad smile on his face.
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[Goblin Lord HP: 530/550]
His attack looked like a tickle for the monster as it hadn't had any reaction. Moreover, the smile he had on his face earlier easily faded away as the monster directly kicked his stomach.
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[HP: 80/185]
He coughed some blood out of his mouth while experiencing severe tightening of his chest. "I can't breath-"
Bam! Bam! Bam!
He sent far away and almost fell to the magma that could be easily drained his health power. At this time, he took his health potion to replenish the severe pain and the health points lost to him.
In his grasp was the transparent glass that had red liquid inside. He was well savvied that he had limited time, so immediately drank the liquid.
Gulp! Gulp! Gulp!
Inside his mouth has rough small particles, but the taste was sweet so he doesn't mind drinking it.
[HP: 185/185]
His health power went back to its original state, at the same time, all the wounds he had earlier were also fading away.
"You..." He threw the tube glass directly at the monster. After that, he jumped into the mid-air to stab its chest.
Battle Orc fully swings its arm, aiming at the man who was aggressively coming at it. Its speed and power were enough to land again a solid attack on Ling
Thud!
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[HP: 135/185]
His back whacked on the wall. "This is so damn hard!" He was using the wall to slowly regain his footing while his other hand was stopping his mouth from releasing blood.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
The shaking of the ground awakened his senses as the monster was coming into him rapidly. Of course, sometimes it came to his mind to surrender in this fight since he can come back to this dungeon whenever he wanted. But the thing here was the cores he collected, he can't afford to lose a single one of them.
"I can still fight, there's no reason for me to surrender here." Ling said inwardly, then took a deep breath trying to calm himself as he did a reckless move back then. "The monster's HP never came back to 550, if I use some speed and continuously attacked it. There's a high chance I can kill it."
Swoosh!
Ling also dashed toward the monster. When the two of them met in the middle part of the dungeon boss room, the monster attacked him with its blunt weapon.
Boom!
He strengthened his legs knowing the force could push him back. Well, he succeeded to do that as he attained closer distance and stabbed again the monster's leg.
Argh!
The monster groaned in pain as his attack was way deeper than before.
[HP: 500/550]
As soon as he was pulling back his knife, suddenly, it was stuck inside the monster's flesh. Yes, he can get it but the monster was attacking, so he have to avoid it first.
Boom!
He leaped into the air, but this time he wasn't doing this to dodge the attack. To be exact, he used that way to step onto the knife's handle, so that it would go even deeper.
Argh!
[HP: 450/550]
"My attack is working... Also, I know that deep, it's impossible for me to take back the knife. Equip!"
That effect of his attack gave him the courage to keep going.
Meanwhile, Ling looked like was dancing with the monster as he was dodging all the monster's attacks without any problem.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
But it seemed like, Ling wasn't simply dodging the attacks as he was now using the knives he collected from the goblins. 30 knives, it was the exact number of knives that stabbed the monster's entire body.
"3 more to go!"
[HP: 220/550]
Battle Orc was bathed in its green blood and confused with the continuous attack provided by its opponent.
Argh!
The monster swiped its hand into the air as if it would like to catch the human climbing in its head. However, the monster missed, in exchange, it received more stabs in the eyes.
"I can't keep the last of my knife as I felt this monster would trigger his berserk skill."
Ling was jumping on all the knives planted on the monster's body. Each knife could easily decrease the monster's health power.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Bam!
[HP: 70/550]
[The [berserk] skill will be activated!]
The screen appeared in front of him, but it looked like he doesn't care about it after he saw the Battle Orc start to fall to the ground.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
This is for you!
You gave me a hard time!
Let me you feel severe pain!
I'm going to kill you!
The last knife he had in his inventory, he used it to keep stabbing the monster to its head, chest, and eyes. He didn't stop until the notification appeared.
Ding!
[You've received 3000 EXP from solo killing the Goblin Lord!]
[You've completed the quest!]
[Reward will be granted!]
[Your screen name would spread in the entire game!]
"Fuck off! I'm too tired!" Ling said, then laid on the surface.
...
On the other hand, all the rankers in Ranker's World Online received the same notification that came from the system and showed a short video clip.
[Blood, is the first-ever rookie ranker that would be able to complete the solo expedition inside the F-rank dungeon that difficulty of D+]
Solo expedition?
What the fuck?! Did He kill the Battle Orc alone?!!
Those moves... He's professional?
Rookie? It does mean his level was around level 10 or lower?!
It's unbelievable!
All the rankers inside the game were starting to be alarmed... As they could not believe what they were eyes seeing in the video clip.