-Reyha Kingdom; Gallo's Outskirts; Goblin's Lair; 3rd Floor-
As the group found themselves in front of 50 goblins, Kymani, confident about handling this situation, charged once more at the group of monsters.
Holding the bone dagger from before and fueled by
[You have killed a level 3 goblin. 3 experience points have been gained.]
[You have killed a level 3 goblin. 3 experience points have been gained.]
[You have killed a level 3 goblin. 3 experience points have been gained.]
[You have killed a level 3 goblin. 3 experience points have been gained.]
....
Unfortunately for Kymani, despite his skill numbers were still numbers, and some of the goblins got to stab or slash at him, but the goblins became faced with a problem... Their attacks wouldn't go through the skin. So, unable to harm him, the goblins continued to be slaughtered killing another 8 of them, and while he was doing so Lavenica got 4 double kills through headshots, getting another 8.
[You have killed a level 3 goblin. 3 experience points have been gained.]
[You have killed a level 3 goblin. 3 experience points have been gained.]
[You have killed a level 3 goblin. 3 experience points have been gained.]
[You have killed a level 3 goblin. 3 experience points have been gained.]
....
In the end, Kymani killed 10 other goblins and injured the rest, leaving them for Lavenica to kill.
[You have killed a level 3 goblin. 3 experience points have been gained.]
....
[You have met the experience point requirement. Your level has risen to 4.]
Seeing this, Kymani took no time, and opened his status screen.
[Name: Kymani Njeri Marvion
Age: 19
Sex: Male
Species: Voidling | Sub-Species: Viscous Voidling(Extinct)
Affinity: Neutral, Void, Chaos, Order, Isekai
Bloodline: None
Physique: Viscous Goblinoid Body
Soul stage: Mortal
Soul grade: 17th
Level: 4
Exp: 2/200
Titles: Reincarnated Individual; Otherworlder; The Holder Of Order and Chaos; The Spawn Of Sin and Virtues; The Only Apostle Of Isekai, Reincarnation, and Lesser Creation; The Lucky Pervert; The Antithetical Existence
Job: Harem Collector, Isekai Grand Apostle, Celestial Container, Hero
Class: None
Stats(Goblin Form):
Strength: 11 --> 15(22.5)
Dexterity: 10 --> 14(21)
Vitality: 14 --> 19(28.5)
Magic: 10 --> 14(21)
Willpower: 10 --> 14(21)
Agility: 11 --> 15(22.5)
Charisma: 69
Luck: 99
Undistributed Stat points: 25 --> 0
Attributes:
Hp: 170/170(255/255) | Mp: 140/140(210/210) | Sta: 170/170(255/255)
Attack: 14.5(21.75)
M.Attack: 14(21)
Defense: 16.5(24.75)
M.Defense: 16.5(24.75)
Speed: 14.5(21.75)
Unique ability/s: [Absorption(Basic)-lv:20], [Double Exp.Lv -], [1/2 Exp Requirement.Lv -], [Challenger Ascension],
Innate ability/s(Racial skills): [Void Walker], [Mimic]
Active skills: None
Passive skills: Mortal Core(2).Lv -, Mana Circuit.Lv I, Mana Sense.Lv I, Battle Instincts.Lv I, Dagger Mastery.Lv I, CQC.Lv I,
Resistances: Physical Attack Tolerance-lv:1, Magic Attack Tolerance-lv:1, Elemental Attack Tolerance-lv:1, Void Attack Immunity-lv:1, Order Resistance.Lv -, Chaos Resistance.Lv -,
Magic: Chaos Magic.Lv -I, Order Magic.Lv -I,
Unique Magic: Isekai Magic.Lv I,
Extras: Omni-Harem God System(Owner), Blessing Of The Higher Divine Of Chaos and Sin, Blessing Of The Higher Divine Of Order and Virtue, Blessing Of The Lower Divine Ruler Of Isekai, Blessing Of The Divine Of Reincarnation
Mimic Forms: Phaseless Goblin,
Inventory: Empty]
'Hum... It really seems that my goblin form gives me a bonus of sorts to all my physical and magical stats... Can I check that?' Kymani confirmed as he had seen it before, but wasn't sure if it was temporary, so he waited it out.
[Phaseless Goblin(Mimic Form): The mimic form of a goblin that has yet to evolve, also known as phaseless. Due to their superior physical and magical aptitude, when compared to phaseless slimes, the user will receive a x1.5 multiplier to all related stats.]
'Oh... That explains it... But if this is correct that means I can evolve... I wonder what the next evolution of a Viscous Voidling is... Will I become a demon like in that slime isekai?... That could work, then again demon lords don't sound that special in this world... At least not as much as in that world, from how the King talked... In the end, I can only wait and see... Or, I'll just ask Lavenica! She should know something.' Kymani concluded.
{Lavy, what would become if I evolved?} Kymani in his curiousness questioned.
{Lavy?} Lavenica was more so surprised to be called that.
{Yeah, I thought the nickname fit, but I won't use it if you don't like it.} Kymani responded.
{No, you can keep using it. As for your evolution... It's hard to say when it comes to evolving, a lot of factors and even what type of skills, jobs, classes, titles, and so on a being has all come to play in defining their path, and a lot of possibilities that some even theorize to be infinite, exist... So, I can not be certain enough to deduce.} Lavenica replied with a thoughtful expression.
{It's wait and see, I guess.} Kymani while disappointed was not bothered and even found this interesting in it's own way.
With no further complications, they entered the 4th floor.
-Reyha Kingdom; Gallo's Outskirts; Goblin's Lair; 4th Floor-
Once again, they were met with familiar scenery and caves with glowing musk continued, and so did they.
"... Kymani... Do you think that you're being a bit reckless? I mean I know you can battle, but what would you have done if the goblins were able to stab you to death?... Not doubting your ability, however, l believe that more caution should go into your fighting." Merilyn advised having seen Kymani pretty much throw himself at battles without much of a plan, which wasn't terrible, especially when the enemies are weaker, but she still believed it could lead to problems to let such a style become a habit.
{I'll keep that in mind, and it's not like I don't realize, but I don't currently have much better methods As for tactics... I'm not that much of a strategist and even if I were to come up with a plan, I don't think I would have the patience to bother applying it. Just tell her this.} Kymani expressed to Lavenica through their connection rather than awkwardly trying to explain in his broken speech.
"Master says, that it would be redundant to plan out moves, when he's more of an instinctual fighter, even so, he does somewhat agree and will keep your words in mind." Lavenica transmitted using her understanding of what was said.
"How nice, I'm sorry if I sounded negative, I am just worried you might fall into the same traps I did when I was just training. I must also say, that it's impressive how intuitive your style of combat seems to be, after all, very few have that kind of aptitude." Merilyn added with a smile as she seemed to like what she was talking about.
From then, their conversation continued casually, until they met with the first group of goblins not already being attacked by adventurers on this floor. The presence of adventurers throughout the floor was more pertinent than in past floors but was yet to reach a level where it could actively hurt their grinding experience.
The group of goblins found was similar to the ones faced before but now aside from having bone knives, and leather amors, they now had some goblins holding bows and arrows. In this group of 10 goblins, 3 of the were archers, while the rest still used simple bone daggers.
{I'll act as a distraction and you will kill off all the archers. Once that is done, I can get to the physical combat with the remaining ones.} Kymani proposed.
{Though I don't think they would be able to so any substantial damage, it would minimize variables to do so.} Lavenica agreed in her own way.
Ready for another brawl, Kymani went in, but unlike many times before, he kept a certain distance from the goblins and attracting their attention, rather than going to them. This led to the archers shooting at him with their arrows. Due to his combat and sensory skills, avoiding the arrows was not a hard task and was instead accomplished with relative ease.
Using this time and the lack of understanding of their surroundings the goblins seemed to have, Lavenica shot one of the archers dead, having no way to position herself to kill more due to the current space constraints, as they were in an enclosed cave system.
At this time, the bone dagger-equipped goblins got to Kymani and began trying to stab or slash at him, which ended up being avoided, relatively easily as he took this chance to kill one goblin by slitting its throat, but was forced to dodge when another two arrows were shot at him. This created an opening that the goblins close to him took, and used to actually hit him, however, they were unable to harm him as their bone daggers, didn't pierce his skin.
[You have killed a level 4 goblin. 4 experience points have been gained.]
Just like before Lavenica shot another archer, leaving only one.
Having one less to worry about, Kymani sliced even more goblins, killing 4 more of them and injuring the rest, as he was still able to evade the arrow that was shot his way.
[You have killed a level 4 goblin. 4 experience points have been gained.]
[You have killed a level 4 goblin. 4 experience points have been gained.]
[You have killed a level 4 goblin. 4 experience points have been gained.]
[You have killed a level 4 goblin. 4 experience points have been gained.]
Finally, Lavenica shot the last one, before getting closer to clean up the 2 goblins left.
Following this, the group continued to move in deeper until they reached another group of 40 goblins, 10 of which were archers and the rest the typical bone dagger goblins, and they easily killed their way through them, and continued to descend until they reached the final area of the 4th floor.
Once again, they were met with a group of 50 goblins guarding the way to the next floor, this group having 20 archers and the rest using bone daggers.
When Kymani got in there, the number of arrows shot at him, was such and in quick succession that many hard simply dodge, forcing him to focus on blocking most of them. This left him open to the attacks of the bone dagger goblins, so Kymani grabbed a goblin and began using it as a meat shield, then began cutting down the goblins around him, making his way to the goblins, while Lavenica shot some of them down.
Due to the closed-off nature of the cave space, there was only so much the goblins could do in terms of positioning, and this led to them being close enough for Lavenica to actually get double kills, as she headshot and killed 2 archer goblins.
On his way to the archers, Kymani killed 10 bone dagger goblins, including his meat shield. Getting there he lost no time and began slaughtering the goblins killing 15 of the archers just as Lavenica triple-headshot the last 3, archers.
[You have killed a level 4 goblin. 4 experience points have been gained.]
[You have killed a level 4 goblin. 4 experience points have been gained.]
....
[You have met the experience point requirement. Your level has risen to 5.]
From then Kymani simply helped Lavenica kill the remaining bone dagger goblins, before having any time to think of his status screen.
It didn't take long, but they were soon done, and Kymani as it became his habit, opened his status screen.