He was greatly annoyed by the fact that killing these minions didn't increase his xp and they were causing him this much issues, with each passing second the numbers of creatures kept increasing till he couldn't keep count of them anymore.
he decided to take action at that moment, since he knew there was no way he was going to get away from there without making use of his fire mage abilities he unleashed wave after wave of fires burning the enemy, burning them increased their numbers but at least it allowed him to progress.
He kept moving till he managed to corner them at a dead end, he wondered where the creature kept spawning from considering the fact that there was no door or portal leading them in, he held the last of the creatures by the head burning it to crisp but there was nothing in front of him, no doors, or portal or hole.
He was about turning back to leave when something shiny caught his eye in the slightly dark corridor, it was an emerald orb.
''maybe it's a reward for defeating this amount of monsters'' he thought and picked up the orb
He was wondering what a mother nest was when a door materialized in front of him and he stepped through it, finding himself in front of the temple, he held the mother nest and an info bar popped up.
He smiled to himself and put the orb away, before heading towards the temple, he was a few meters from the temple doors when the skies above the temple darkened and the dozens of sculpture around the temple came alive, it turned out that they were not sculptures but garygoles instead, one of them dived from the top of the temple trying to impale him with a trident but renjiro managed to roll away at the last moment and tried blasting him away with a fire ball but his attack had no effect.
He turned and began to run back but no matter how much he ran, he never managed to cover any distance, the garygoles didn't relent and continued attacking him from all sides, at this point he was grateful it was a game because with his present constitution there was no way he would survive the onslaught, but at least he had considerable strength compared to the rest of the beginner level elites in his continent.
Frustrated by the fact that he couldn't run away, he took out an ice mage potion that he had bought from the store and threw it at the garygole, freezing him in place. He remembered how much that potion had cost him and almost shed tears. He attacked the garygole blasting it with a flaming tornado, the best spell he had in his arsenal. The garygole blew up into bits and renjiro punched the air in excitement.
He looked at the timer and saw that he had about fifteen minutes left, he didn't have any more potions left, so he saved his progress and continued blasting the garygoles as they attacked him, but he couldn't keep up with it for long, his health continued to dwindle till it fell below critical level.
He thought he could defeat all the garygoles without using the ice mage potion but it turned out that he was wrong, the garygoles were resistant to fire spells, he went into the store and bought as many ice mage potions as he felt could deal with the situation at hand.
He returned and saw that respawning hadn't changed restarted the timer and it continued to countdown from where it was before he was respawned, he cursed his luck and froze about three garygoles at once before proceeding to blast them to bit.
''I take back whatever I said about the creators of this game being unparalleled geniuses, the game had one fatal flaw. Once you found an opponent's weakness they became quite easy to defeat, but it wasn't like he minded. He would find it very frustrating if the NPC's were smart enough to keep evolving past their weaknesses.
He made short work of the garygoles and stepped into the temple seeing that he had but five minutes left to complete the mission, he saved his progress before he proceeded.
Inside the temple he saw a large altar with a pale man who had pointed ear laying atop it, there were twelve candles encircling the altar and a rune that was drawn with blood, a red robed priest stood above the pale man chanting gibberish, completely unaware of renjiro's presence.
Renjiro didn't want to waste any time and blasted the priest with a fire ball, the priest hit the fire ball away without turning to look back at who it was coming from and continued chanting, renjiro threw caution away and charged at the priest grabbing onto him and trying to incinerate him but the priest grabbed onto his hand and threw him into one of the pillars supporting the temple.
When the priest turned he noticed that there was nothing where his face was supposed to be, the priest had decided to give renjiro all his attention but renjiro noticed that even though the priest was no longer chanting the timer was still counting down, the priest rained down a volley of ice spikes on him but he managed to dodge and only came away with a few scratches, he saw a large ball of fire coming towards him and blasted it away with fire of his own, he knew that there was no way he could defeat the priest with the abilities he had and he had exhausted all his ice mage potions fighting the garygoles, so he began attacking the altar while also trying to avoid the priest's attacks, with each successful hit the temple shook violently.
He had about a minute left and he put his all into every attack he threw at the altar, an ice spike impaled his shoulder and he took a health potion and blasted the altar with another fireball making it crumble.