There were about 30 orcs left overall with larger numbers at the back where the low levels were fighting.
Amil was fighting with an orc with his subordinates and Gaghan. The orc was a level 5. It kept breathing fire from its mouth which was easy to dodge. One of the eyeballs was gone, the nose broken with blood coming out of it, and a hell lot of poison in the wounds.
Amil was 200 EXP behind in leveling up. Just 4 more orcs and he would reach level 5. The only limitation was that killing the orcs was hard due to their tough skin.
"Now!" Amil shouted as both Zach and Gaghan went for the neck, the orc was already on the ground wincing in pain with some help from fluffy.
Zach made the cut and Gaghan pierced both the daggers in the wound giving the killing blow. Till now, it was the only efficient way to kill the orcs for level 4 kobolds.
[ EXP + 51, +2 Mana]
"Huff…." Amil sighed in relief. He had a lot on his mind, he had to keep pumpkin away from the dead orcs, and protect Zach from dying with his frail body, fluffy himself was very slow, if he was moving in the direction of the orc's palm directory, he won't move and go head-on.
Only Gaghan in the group was fighting with brains. Amil was surprised she was fitting in with the group so well.
Just like that, without any problem, there was an end to the 2nd orc, time went by and about 10 orcs were left. Amil looked around finding only big corpses everywhere, some kobolds were injured but not to the extent to die. The orcs were never a challenge but an EXP gathering grind for the tribe. With their low intelligence and playing only solo, the orcs were said to be both strong and weak.
"Man…. only 1 level 4 left from the 10. Let's go fast!" He said as they attacked the orc marking it their prey. Amil grinned and felt like it was time to use his skill. He activated his 100 punch skill near the orc's face.
The orc couldn't help but move his face left and right from the punches. It was stunned at the end, they used the same tactic, fluffy pushed it down, pumpkin sprayed poison, then Zach and Gaghan gave the final hit.
[ EXP +51, +1 strength, +1 dexterity]
"It's over!" He heard the voice of the leader from the air.
"It's time for a feast!!"
Everyone shouted happily from the victory, it was fruitful for all like Amil who needed 50 more EXP to gain level 5.
Kamil came running towards Amil and gave a big sigh seeing Amil safe, in 2 minutes, both Drax and Emil reached. There was someone with Drax who immediately went to Gaghan.
"Why were you fighting with this crazy family's son, Gaghan?"
'oh, here comes the protective father' Amil shrugged looking at the big kobold.
"He's my first friend in the tribe, father. He is Amil!" She said as she patted Amil's shoulder introducing him to his father.
"I know who he is, the infamous tamer, felt like you will be a normal kid but…Sigh just like the family." He said while sighing.
"What is abnormal about my family bastard!?" Drax shouted as he readied his weapon.
Kamil laughed hard while looking at the fight.
"Sorry about my father," Gaghan said looking at the banter.
"No worries, my family's no different." He said. they both laughed. Elena came to them and introduced herself to Gaghan.
"Amil, I am now halfway through level 3," Zach said while moving staggery. His leg was dislocated from the knee.
"Hey, drink the potion, bastard. Do you want permanent damage?" Amil said with worry.
"I already drank it; the leg should pop in any minute now..."
The whole tribe had a feast that night with everyone enjoying the fruitful victory.
The next day, Amil was all ready for getting his last bit of EXP. Without waking anyone up, he went to some monkeys killing them within seconds.
[level up]
[ +20 HP, +2 strength, +2 stamina, +2 intelligence, +2 dexterity, + Mana]
[ Skill Fireball (level 1) gained]
"Sigh…." He took a deep breath to not shout from excitement.
Amil activated the fireball skill and raised his hand. The fireball started to get materialized in his palm from scratch. He noticed that he was losing 0.5 mana stat every second. After letting it get to baseball size, he positioned himself to throw it and with a pew, it went towards a tree.
BANG!
The tree quaked a little, the fire kept burning on it, he observed that the fireball was not taking his mana after it left the contact. Amil went to the tree and extinguished the fire urgently not wanting the forest on fire. A huge black crater formed on the tree, but not to the extent of making it fall.
'It's weak right now, but after some leveling…" Amil grinned madly at the thought of blasting his enemy's head with only one fireball of ping-pong size.
He went to the family with the news finding everyone up and eating.
"I am at level 5 now," he said with a grin.
"Congratulations son~"
"Finally…"
Emil nodded at him in satisfaction. Zach just raised his thumb in happiness.
Pumpkin didn't care while fluffy came caressing his leg.
'Should I tell them now?' He thought as he looked at his family with distant eyes. Drax looked at them and didn't like it.
Amil sighed and dropped telling them for a while.
"I gotta go to the level 5 area." He said and then looked at his companions.
"Pumpkin, fluffy, and Zach…...you won't be coming with me as I don't know I can protect you and you all can't help me right now too. You will all fight in your respected level areas and reach to me when you become level 5" He commanded in a serious tone, Zach and fluffy had some complicated emotions while pumpkin was eating his boar flesh normally.
He bid farewell to all and went to the inner forest.
'Let's see who survived that fight'
Meanwhile, at the house, Drax was talking to Kamil.
"Did you see the resolve in his eyes?" Drax asked with seriousness.
"Sigh…. yes, he will probably come to talk to us soon…."
Amil had reached the same area again, the pressure was gone as he was now strong enough to withstand it.
After moving a while, he saw the feline sleeping under a large tree with bark 10 inches wide.
The feline looked like a mix of a lynx and a tiger; the color was different from both but the body structure said something else. The body was broad as a tiger with the same prideful aura but the face was a little small with pointy ears. There was a spike at the end of its tail, a true battle machine.
'WHA- 'Amil became shocked as he saw a huge wound on the feline's neck.
'Okay Amil, it's now or never...' He thought as he readied himself for the fight. He made a small fireball in his right palm.
The feline's eyes twitched as it felt mana fluctuations near him. Amil did not wait as he sent a small fireball at the feline's face.
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