Diedrich had now finally found another prey that was alone, it had taken him a long time however he wasn't sure if he could kill it, it was a spear goblin.
Diedrich had heard how ferocious they were from other people in the camp after asking around and knew that unless he performed a sneak attack he definitely couldn't kill it again without getting seriously injured.
As Diedrich was thinking of a plan he suddenly got an idea. He had been thinking of new methods to attack goblins and thought it would be a good idea to use throwing daggers so he had started collecting daggers and currently had 10 wrapped in a beast skin which looked like a sack, but now he had thought of another use for them.
Diedrich started preparing his trap after a few minutes it was done, however, he still had to lead the spear goblin there which would be risky.
Diedrich went to find the spear goblin again, luckily it had not wandered too far away from where he last saw it, Diedrich not wanting to be weighed down
put his spear down, and then threw a dagger from his waist at the goblin from a distance.
The goblin heard a "whoosh" behind it and turned its head to see a sharp looking object being propelled at it, the goblin easily moved its body to the right to avoid the dagger.
Seeing the perpetrator, the goblin was immediately alerted and rushed at his attacker. Diedrich saw how fast the spear goblin was running and was shocked, "that's fast" he thought as he began to sprint to the area he had laid out his trap.
If Diedrich's speed was comparable to a gazelle then the spear goblin was a cheetah, pretty soon the spear goblin was catching up, and Diedrich had to start using the trees to go in a zigzag pattern to lessen the goblin's speed, this worked lessen the pressure although the goblin was still catching up and Diedrich had only made it halfway to where the trap was.
The goblin was eventually in close enough range of Diedrich and started to thrust out with its spear, Diedrich had to dodge constantly and use the trees to his advantage slowing down his speed significantly.
Diedrich had no confidence at fighting the goblin head-on as he wasn't a martial genius who could suddenly fight someone more well-versed in their weapon and faster than him, so Diedrich continued to dodge, eventually Diedrich was covered with cuts and had a nasty gash at his side where blood was continuously flowing from.
Diedrich felt like he needed to faint, even so, he couldn't give up as he had made it to where his trap was.
Diedrich needed to go a few more meters to reach the trap, but he knew that he was at his wit's end and that if he got stabbed once more he would probably faint from blood loss, so Diedrich took the last of the two daggers he had on his belt and threw it behind him, the goblin saw this and dodged to the side easily, but this still broke its momentum and Diedrich had enough time to reach the trap.
When Diedrich arrived he saw a patch of thick moss that was covering the ground and ran there, he then jumped over the patch of moss while the goblin was now already closely following behind him again.
The goblin saw the human before him jump while they were in battle and evilly cackled at the stupidity as in the air the human was a sitting duck and couldn't avoid its spear, so the goblin immediately took this chance to try to skewer the human.
Diedrich saw that the goblin was about to attack, even so instead of being mortified he was calm, as the goblin was also about to step on the thick patch of moss.
The goblin had just put its foot down and was going to make a kebab out of Diedrich when it suddenly felt a piercing pain from his foot and due to its momentum going forward it fell down.
This was Diedrich's plan: he had put daggers into the ground so that only about 10 centimeters were still exposed; he then covered it with moss so the goblin couldn't see it.
When the goblin fell Diedrich knew this was the end as where the goblin fell where more daggers were waiting for it, so in the end it was skewered instead of Diedrich.
Diedrich had no way of knowing if he could kill the goblin instantly with this as he didn't know how the goblin would fall but luckily the goblin fell with its head on a dagger so the dagger pierced its brain.
Diedrich fell to the ground in exhaustion, as the adrenaline began to recede like a tide, the pain from all the injuries he had accumulated washed over him. The agony was terrible especially since he had never experienced such injuries.
The pain only slightly dissipated when he heard the sound of the system.
[Killed spear goblin +4]
[Point score: 49 ✩]
Diedrich revealed a bitter smile, he felt that the risk was definitely not worth the points, he had almost died for 4 POINTS! although it wasn't a small number, killing two warrior goblins was much easier.
Diedrich was heavily injured and knew that he wasn't safe where he was, Diedrich took the spear from the goblin's corps, attached it to his back with the beast skin, and climbed a tree, Diedrich then found a branch where he could comfortably sit on and fainted.
When Diedrich woke up, the sun was beginning to set, it made for quite a beautiful scene seeing the sun from atop the trees slowly disappearing over a seemingly endless forest. Diedrich still felt really weak although the bleeding had stopped and his wounds were already partly healed he still felt like sh*t.
"Swish, swish"
Just when Diedrich was appreciating the view he heard the sound of something below him, he looked down and saw a goblin.
It was probably going back to its lair, Diedrich was reminded of his current points 49 and thought, "Might as well make it a round number".
Although Diedrich didn't have much strength, he was still able to throw a spear and kill a normal goblin, so Diedrich lifted his spear above the unsuspecting goblin and threw it, the spear went into the goblin's head and it was an instant kill.
[killed Common goblin +1]
[ Point score: 50 ✩✩]
Diedrich felt some form of energy cover his body again and seep into his skin. He immediately felt energized and more powerful. The pain from his wounds lessened, however, he still couldn't move around too much as his wounds would open up again, but it would probably be fine by tomorrow he hoped.
Diedrich, feeling happy, wanted to go down the tree to retrieve his spear.
"Thump, Thump, Thump"
When Diedrich started to climb down he heard the sound of loud footsteps from behind. As the tree was blocking his sight, he had to stick his head out to see what was going on.
When Diedrich saw what was behind the tree his eyes opened wide, from the distance he could see countless goblins coming in his direction from every corner of the forest, if Diedrich had to estimate there were at least 500 goblins.
Diedrich quickly climbed higher up the tree and went to a spot so high that they probably wouldn't notice him.
Diedrich nervously watched as he saw countless goblins pass him and march in the direction of their lair. Diedrich watched as one of the common goblins accidentally stepped on his trap, fell, and became skewered.
[killed goblin +1]
"Ha mphh"
Diedrich wanted to laugh, however, he knew he had to stay quiet or it would certainly lead to his doom once discovered, even with his upgraded strength he couldn't fight 500 goblins.
When Diedrich saw the dead goblin a sudden thought crossed his mind "I don't have to kill the goblins directly to get points", a smile appeared on his face as he thought of leading a large group of goblins into a trap.
The goblins who saw that the goblin had died, didn't care too much and simply avoided the area and continued forward.
After 10 minutes all the goblins had passed. Diedrich waited for another half an hour to see if no other goblin armies would come and none came.
It was now dark and Diedrich finally felt relieved and decided to go down to retrieve the spear and daggers he had used previously, it seemed the goblins had no interest in them, which left Diedrich a little puzzled.
After retrieving all his spoils he calculated that he had 14 daggers and 2 spears, Diedrich added another dagger to his waist, last time it became risky when he didn't have a dagger left, the rest he put in the sack made of beast skin, and went to sleep.