-"Store them in your inventory. They will be useful sometime later…"- Lucas said to which Rei touched the swords one by one and then stored them in his inventory just equipping himself with the short sword since a shuriken wasn't that effective in a close-range battle.
At that time he heard a weak voice.
"T-thank you."
"C-can you please save them?", The grey-eyed goblin said as he looked at Rei and then at the younger goblins.
But Rei didn't stay there to protect the younger ones and went deeper into the village. The place from where he was hearing all the screams.
He then soon found four more humans. The four of them had swords in their hand and seemed to be equipped with fine armour
Just as Rei was about to dash towards them he heard Lucas's voice.
-"Don't recklessly try to battle them. Those two are level four and the third and fourth person is definitely level 5, and there are four of them. You can't win against them."- Lucas said.
If only both of them had seen the level-up notification, they would have known that Rei too was now Lv.5.
Well, Rei was the one who turned off the voice of the screen earlier, when he was mining so he was the one to blame!
"Then, what are you suggesting?"
-"That you leave this place immediately. You don't even have your life-saving skills as you already used them once. And they are NPCs anyway! Just leave them!"-
Listening to Lucas Rei became a bit angry. Though he didn't understand what was meant by NPC, he took it as an insult to the goblins of this village.
His grip over the sword increased as he tensed his legs muscles, channelling all the strength of his body to them. His body shot like an arrow toward the three people.
"Haha hahaha! Look some more Exp is coming here!"
"Good! Good!"
"They all are really brainless, aren't they? Hahaha hah! It feels so good to butcher these brainless monkeys!," Those four of them started to laugh as they looked at some goblins dashing toward them.
Three of them swung their swords toward the goblins killing them with just some basic moves.
But at that time one of them noticed a goblin that was standing in a single place not moving toward them.
'Is that goblin so scared that he doesn't dare to move? Yes, that's how it should be!' The man thought as he welcomed free exp. He ran toward that goblin but at that time that goblin suddenly shot front at a very high speed, like an arrow, and the next movement the man's decapitated head fell on the ground.
*Ding*
[You have killed a Lv.4 player.]
[12% exp received.]
[Level: 5 (Exp: 49%)]
This was a trick that Rei taught himself to survive. It was to catch your opponent off guard and attack their vital part. It is like a gamble where if you fail to do that then you die. As simple as that. After all, it was a twisted world, where one had to use all means to survive.
Rei understood this when he was just a kid and thus he was able to survive so long. But he wasn't perfect and was sometimes driven away by emotions.
And now was an example of it.
However, at the same time, he used his tiny brain too. He put the shuriken away to reduce the weight and launch himself forward… well, that was something anyone would do.
Regardless…
After killing another human, Rei glanced at the only other player who was Lv.4.
'Looks like I killed a Lv.4 human…', Rei said to himself as he switched the voice function on.
It was quite distracting to read the text, so hearing the voice would be better at this point.
In any case, without wasting any time, he brought his shuriken out and then launched it toward the guy. The shuriken was very useful to him as it was very sharp and was a long-range weapon.
Rei aimed at the legs of the man and it successfully sliced through one of the two legs.
Of course, such a feat was possible because the man wasn't paying attention at Rei and was looking at the goblins near him.
Regardless, the man survived.
Also, just as Rei threw the shuriken at the Lv.4, the remaining two Lv.5s dashed towards him as they realized their party member was killed.
One of the men quickly swung his sword at Rei, who dodged it by twisting his body, and at that same time, he launched the shuriken which had just returned after slicing off the leg just like a boomerang.
"Kill the fucker!" One of them said but at that time Rei threw the short sword at a very great speed which pierced the right shoulder of the man.
"This sword belongs to…" One of them said shocking others.
"Yes! Now that I notice, this is indeed-", taking advantage of the situation and not letting them finish what they were saying, Rei swung a long sword decapitating, one of the hands of the Lv.5 player.
At that time one of the Lv.5 players struck Rei's head with a large shield. Rei was pushed back a bit but before he could regain his footing, the Lv.5 player dashed forward while swinging his sword. Rei's heart started to beat faster and faster as he looked at the incoming attack. He knew that he couldn't do anything as the sword was just a centimetre away from his head.
'It's all over.', Rei almost gave up.
But at that time Lucas was carefree. He knew that Rei was in the game and had three lives remaining.
Also, there was another reason why Lucas didn't bother to worry.
At first, he thought that Lucas was just inviting death, trying to lose a life. But then he soon realized that he was still within player protection time limit!
Indeed, the sword sliced off Rei's face in two, in a slanting manner, but soon enough, the pixels rejoined.
Rei was unscathed.
"Wha-"
"What the heck!?"