The Hobgoblin glanced around, seeing his protectic walls having fallen into their own blood, he felt strangely... nude. Like the walls around him had vanished, leaving him in the open.
Then... it stared back at the culprit, who, right under his eyes, shamelessly retreived his arrows before awkwardly scratching his head. "Umm... Looks like the other goblins are patiently waiting for their turn but you sure are eager to be honoured by my holy water, don'tcha?"
"GAHHH!!" The Hobgoblin bellowed out furiously and charged towards this scum now pointing his hand towards him
"Aye! I understand your admiration!" Kobi nodded his head with a serious face, arrows hurling out of his hand non-stop. "But you need to wait in line for the promised reward, see," He pointed at the corpses, "those goblins are first!"
Shik kept staring at this preposterous scene with an agape mouth. 'Who the heck is this host!? Wasn't he just being sentimental of the death he caused earlier? What the heck... I want to go back in time... I don't like this current timeline.'
The Hobgoblin suddenly felt a heavy burden on its shoulders, its speed fell drastically. By the time he neared Kobi, it collapsed due to its legs failing to support its weight.
Sweat downed its whole body, its chest kept heaving up and down weakly.
Seeing the Hobgoblin remaining with only a breadth of its Hp, Kobi had a sigh of relief.
He squatted next to it and patted its ugly, sweaty head. "Don't worry! I will let you see how fair I am, I will just collect it in a pouch and then start distributing! Don't die without your award, okay!? Oh! Also, if you moan while I'm awarding you," Kobi shyly scratched his head, "I will have to tell your wife you secretly... you know! Watched other people answering nature! Though," A light blush appeared on Kobi's face, "You sure got some strange kinks!"
'THIS SCUM!' The Hobgoblin's eyes rolled back, the last shred of its Hp dropping to zero.
'THE HECK!?' Shik slapped his face for which any girl would fall for.
"Phew~ Tough Fight! Tough adversaries call for tough methods, eh?" Kobi wiped the nonexistent sweat from his forehead, 'Intriguing, so emotional damage also works huh?'
His eyes glinted for a second. After a while, he started searching the corpses, ignoring the blinking golden bar for now.
Much to his surprise, he could take the clubs the goblins were using.... or didn't get the chance to use.
He could even store them in his inventory, so he calmly took one in hand and stored the rest. 'They must've some value right?'
As he was busy with that, Shik was sweating over something else.
'Unbelievable... He created a FREAKING ERROE IN THE MONSTER'S AI. WHO THE HECK DID I TAKE AS A HOST!?' Shik wiped the sweat which had started to pile.
"Alright! Come along Shik, time for a new skill!" Kobi grinned while beckoning Shik to hurry along. Shik dumbly nodded his head and flew over.
The slot machine stopped at three skills: Fire breath, Gale Burst, Blood Taunt.
Kobi raised his brow, his eyes hovered atop the last one, its icon showed animals sniffing blood. But eventually his eyes moved to the second one, Gale burst. In its icon, a circular sphere spread out from a chibi body, blowing back various creatures.
He grinned and clicked on it, 'I feel this one is more crucial right now.'
Kobi drifted his eyes calmly to the walking dictionary.
Shik still dazzed, spoke up, "Oh! Yea, yea! Costs 5 Mp and you can blow back enemies."
Kobi sucked in cold breath, "That's half my Mp!"
Shik shrugged, 'I truly don't want to tell you, you can regenerate Hp and Mp per each level up... or who knows what you might do.' Shik wiped his sweat once again.
"Onto floor five!" Kobi swayed to the door and grabbed the knob, a hint of fear flashed in his eyes.
'I don't know what else this freaky system has in store now...' Kobi peeked at Shik from the corner of his eyes. Barely catching the later's hurriedly receding smirk. 'This bitch...'
Shik smiled, totally ignoring the thoughts that couldn't be more clear to him.
Kobi gripped the knob tighter and swung the door wide.
The moment he opened the door, it vanished. The floor extended back his feet and sealed him in the room with only a single door on the other side.
The moment Kobi glanced forward, all the hair on his body stood on end, his instincts screamed at him to move.
Still in his daze, Kobi blankly tilted his head.
A terrofic boom exploded next to him, something cold caressed Kobi's cheek. But his eyes were fixated on what lay in front.
Three fat Hobgoblins, all clenched large machetes in their tight grips whose grubby blades' thin edges glinted maliciously for blood. All of them were surrounding a larger, stronger and more terrifying green skinned humanoid monster.
Kobi felt his tongue squirm and push back his saliva, his gaze turned to the top of the green humanoid's head, at its profile, who had its arm out-stretched in a throwing motion.
"Goblin... Prince!? ...Level 1." Kobi felt his jammed heart throb loudly, his gaze turned to the Hobgoblins, "Level 5!"
"KILL!!" The Prince growled loudly, his humane words ringing in Kobi's mind like the chimming of large bells, bringing him back to his feet.
'Shit!' Kobi glanced left, noticining the source of the gentle cold hugging his cheek being a lustrous gold spear which he thankfully managed to dodge.
Kobi involuntarily gulped, 'I COULDB'VE DIED!'
"GAHHA!!" The Hobgoblins charged over, the Prince folded his arms over his chest and gazed on coldly.
'Wait!' A smirk formed on Kobi's face, a mischievous desire formed in his head. He tapped on the spear and muttured, 'Move!'
The intricately linned, tasselled spear, glittering like polished, pure gold vanished... into thin air.
The Hobgoblin's paused... the Prince's mouth hung loose. Shik slammed his palm on his face.
"Phew!" Kobi raised his palm, causing arrows to start charging out, "Thankfully I got this tooth-pick. My butt-scratcher just snapped last night! Thank you for your contribution, Princess Goblin. Guess what? As a reward, I will take you in as my servant Princess! Serve me right and you will get a nice promotion into a lackey! Then you might even get a chance to become my boot-licker! Rejoice!" Kobi nodded his head like a witty businessman and clapped his hand like he had secured a deal.
In the meantime, a Hobgoblin who had been constantly being barraged by Kobi fell dead.
'The... fu*k?' The Prince's lips spasmed, "I AM A PRINCE NOT A PRINCESS, YOU SCUM!"
His figure blurred before materializing in front of Kobi. His out-stretched fist reached his face in no time.
'SHIT!' Kobi's legs went limp standing in front of his imminent death, his body helplessly ducked down... miraculously dodging the strike which blasted terrifyingly into the wall behind.
'Huh?' Kobi glanced up, coming face to face with the Prince's dumbfounded face looking down.
"Oh! Hohoho!" Kobi scratched his head sheepishly, "I thought you were a princess since you are covering your chest with bandages alongside your nether region. Sorry, sorry!"
Kobi hurriedly jumped to his feet and patted the Prince on his shoulder, "Its fine, I can still hire you as my floor-wiper since you look sincere enough. Guess what? I will directly give you a promotion to a shoe-polisher later on! Kay! All good!" Kobi sincerely patted the Prince's shoulder.
Meanwhile, another Hobgoblin had a heartattack and fell down dead.
A Goblin Prince, something that he couldn't evolve into even after two evolutions... could be promoted to be a shoe-polisher? THE HECK!?
Shik slapped his face.
Kobi cursed himself, 'MOUTH SHUT UP ALREADY! I DON'T WANNA DIE!'