Amil couldn't think properly as he put the monkey's corpse in the ring and just mounted on fluffy to leave from the dangerous area. 2 minutes later, they were back in their area. Amil just lay on the big rock drinking one more health potion. Pumpkin and fluffy came to him all worried.
"Don't worry, my shoulder will join to the socket soon but it's going to hurt a lot" Amil said while mildly smiling.
"But who would have thought I will get that damn monkey's skill" he said smugly and accepted the skill.
According to the description, Amil could punch his opponents a hundred times in just 10 seconds, but the skill needed 20 stamina points which made Amil shocked.
He just ignored everything and focused on healing. He could feel that his shoulder was going to pop back in the socket any moment now.
Just when he was determining his will, pumpkin started hissing asking to get food. Amil was just going to retort when his shoulder healed with a crack sound.
"Urgghh!" he winced in pain due to the bad timed heal and cursed inwardly.
It took him 2 minutes to get used to the pain.
[ Pain Resistance skill level up]
"Well….it was not that bad" He shrugged after seeing the upgrade and felt to be worth it.
"Now, let's go have a good meal. We deserve to have a party."
They started having a feast with the wolf flesh, whenever Amil killed a wolf, he would go to the merchant and sell its skin while getting the flesh.
The roasted flesh of the wolf was savory, and everyone liked it, so it had become a staple food for them.
'He's not back' He thought. It had been 6 hours since Zach left for leveling up.
They left for the village as Amil was excited to sell the monkey.
He quickly went there and put the monkey on the table. The merchant looked at it with a frown.
"You won't get much gold coins, this thing doesn't have many uses other than its bones. This is a rarity as everyone finds it annoying to kill"
"Yeah, it was pretty hard to kill it, it broke my shoulder in an instant."
"The only thing good about it is that it gives good EXP. I can give you 20 gold coins for it."
Amil was very disappointed with the exchange, if he had not got the skill then it was not at all worth it.
"Boy, I think your parents are back. A team came from outside today, do check it before going back."
Amil got excited and went back, when he entered, he saw his mother-father laying peacefully in the lobby eating food.
"Mom! Dad!" Amil shouted and went there.
"My boy~ How were you all this time?"
"We heard some interesting thin-"
"Not now!"
"I am good, mother. Just exhausted"
They hugged and talked for a while, he and his mother were too off-topic so his father butted in.
"Do you have a human with you?" His father asked seriously. His mother was also silent this time listening.
"Yes, it all happened by accident but now he's one of my subordinate. Even big sister and leader approve him."
"Then where is he?"
"I told him to level up to 3 on his own, he would be fighting right now"
"You know that others also hunt theirs? They will rip him apart on site."
"No, father. Everyone has been told by the leader to not approach him rather than hurt. For the time being, meet fluffy…"
His parents looked confused but saw a wild boar entering their hut. They looked at Amil and sighed hard. His father was just going to say something but pumpkin interrupted them by coiling itself around his mother showing his affection.
"Oh~ Pumpkin, I see you have leveled up too. I will give you good food today." His mother said while patting pumpkin's head gently.
Amil's mother's name was Kamil while his father's Drax. They were the average-looking Kobold but a little big with a ferocious aura.
Drax just snorted seeing his wife being goody-goody with pumpkin.
Amil told them the whole thing of how he got fluffy, how he fought with other kobolds while attacking a tribe, and how he got Zach and the monkey fight. Kamil and Drax were silent for a while.
"You have experienced now Amil, it will be good for your next fight…Never mind, so you fought that 4 handed monkey? If I remember clearly, it's a level 4" His father's eyes squinted as he looked at Amil with a judging look.
"It's just that father since I fought the kobolds up my level, I have been craving for more fights above my level, and the EXP's better this way."
"It's okay to go level 4 but don't you dare go in deeper, that's where the beasts have elemental powers. You won't stand a single chance."
They were talking when they heard the curtain move. Amil's eyes were shocked and he froze looking at the person.
Zach had just entered the hut all bloodied, blood coming from countless wounds, bite marks everywhere with huge chunks of flesh missing from the skin. an eye swollen so much, the eyeball was not visible, he was taking the help of the sword to even walk.
"Amil...I reached l-level 3" He said as he fall down with a thud.
Amil went there immediately and saw Zach's HP was only 10.
"Mom!! Please a potion!!! Mine won't have any effect"
His mother just went near Zack crouching down, She took a potion and made Zach drink it.
"He will be as good as new in a few hours, now you mind telling me more about him?" Kamil said with curiosity, the human was too tenacious in her eyes.
"He was a slave in the human territory, was kidnapped by a small tribe. He never ate good food or slept in a bed, he was even only level 1 since 16 years." Amil said with sadness in tone.
Both Drax and Kamil's eyes became complicated after listening.
"Even his pain resistance skill was at level 3 when I found him"
They both were in shock, with level 3 pain tolerance at level 1? Just how much he was beaten?
"He has suffered too much, let him sleep on the bed. I will make something good for now." Kamil said as he went to the kitchen.
"All is good Amil, but you must be wary with the humans. They are greedy and unpredictable; you don't know what they are thinking so just be careful."
"I will... don't worry"
"Uhh…but father, can I use a skill on you?"
"Yaa sure, do it now, it can't hurt me."
Amil went near Drax and activated the skill while punching in the air, the speed of the punch increased in an instant on their own. He hit all the punches on his father's chest and guts who was standing there smugly.
The skill ended and Amil stopped with staggering feet and panting hard.
"I am so proud of your luck, this skill is very good, it even gave me 1 damage and I am level 9. But alas your stamina stat is too low for you to use it effectively."
"Huff..Huff…thanks father"
After a while, Emil also came, they all ate together and talked and after a while, Zach also woke up.
"How do you feel now?" Amil asked while patting his shoulder.
"Like I was never injured," He said while moving his hand here and there. There were still bite marks and the grown flesh was not the same color due to tanning. They all had become scars of the battlefield.
"So now tell how you got so much injured, the wolves are not that hard to kill."
Zach before telling bowed at all the family members with respect, Kamil and Drax just nodded, and Amil as a translator heard about his fight.
"First the wolves were 2 or 3 max in a group, I killed them all but one of them ran, I didn't have much stamina left so I sat down for a while. Then after a while, there were footsteps coming toward me. I went on guard and saw 12 wolves ready to pounce at me. It was very tough to kill them all, couldn't even able to get their corpse back for you, I'm sorry." He said seriously at first but became sad at the end.
Amil didn't know whether to laugh or cry and translated everything for his family.
They all became satisfied with such a performance, Emil and Drax even patted his shoulder which made Zach shudder in excitement.
"You have done good, let's party today~," She said as she went in the kitchen.
"You have to make me learn Koboldian Amil, I also want to talk to everyone normally."
"You bet I will do, Idiot! Making me translate everything again and again" Amil snorted and sat down with Emil.
Drax went to his wife in the kitchen and couldn't help but sigh.
"When should we tell them about the attack..?" Kamil looked at him sadly at the question.
"Let's wait and tell them in the morning, a last normal night should be good for all"
".....True"
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