When I touched the doors I felt an icy current from my head, which ran down my back. At that moment I realized that it would be dangerous, I used the power of Faith to create a light armor of leather and black iron, piece by piece, since I can't move much power at once. Finally, I created 2 curved black iron daggers.
Feeling much safer, I opened the doors, I saw a room 5 times bigger than the rest of the cave, but what shocked me was not the well-lit room, but what was happening in it.
I saw older goblins, hobgoblin guards with armor and spears, in the background a golden throne about 3 meters high, there sat a yellowish green orc, quite muscular but extremely ugly.
To his left side a mace, to the right stood a hobgoblin wizard holding a wooden staff. As they entered the doors creaked, all turned to look at me.
I was ready and taking advantage of those few seconds, I launched myself against the nearby goblins, ignored the system notifications and kept killing. As I fought I remembered to reinforce myself with Faith, as the blood stained me, I tried to concentrate while moving the power of Faith towards me all over my body, armor and daggers.
As I continued my carnage, the hobgoblin guards arrived and I could barely face them.
[You acquired Faith Boost (F)]
At that moment, I felt a great burden released and my consciousness was released. I continued to use reinforcement while dealing with the guards.
[Upgraded Faith Reinforcement (F) to Faith Reinforcement (E)].
I felt what the reinforcement increased and my stats went back up, so it was easier to kill the guards.
When the Hobgoblin Wizard saw Leon in the distance killing the guards, he started whispering while holding his staff.
[Negative status detected]
[Source Curse '3-day penance' curse ]
[Statistics - 20%]
At the same time I felt like I was carrying a big rock. Although I gradually felt my strength increasing, I surely increased in levels.
[Upgraded Faith Strengthening (E) to Faith Strengthening (D)].
[Acquired Combat with Daggers (F)]
Again I rebounded again thanks to leveling up and skill, my movements also became easier and I wear slower.
I already killed more than half of the room, they went from a little more than 120 to 50, and still decreasing.
At this point it was already easy to kill the guards, I got closer and closer to the throne.
There the Orc was watching Leon attentively, until he said
Orc: I Yerk, I recognize your strength.
Yerk stood up from his throne, took his mallet and walked towards Leon with firm steps and a serious look. As Leon almost reached the throne, only 4 Hobgoblins remained, after killing them.
[Combat with Daggers (F) was updated to (E)]
[Upgraded Faith Reinforcement (D) to Great Faith Reinforcement (C)].
At this point his strength almost doubled from the original, his use of daggers was steady, fast and accurate. Leon reached level 9, the orc had 16.2 times the strength of a man together with his mace reached 19.4 and Leon 15 times plus reinforcement minus the curse reached 19.5 times, tied in brute strength.
Lion - Let's go!
he shouted while shaking the green blood from his daggers. Hearing this Yerk swung his mace back as he ran, looking where to attack he approached Leon.
The Orc upon arriving hit Leon in his ragged arm covers and sent Leon flying several meters, while his health dropped by a quarter. Yerk wasted no time and moved in for a downward strike.
Leon narrowly dodged, while silently commanding the system to 'put 4 points to physical' so Leon's final strength reached 24.7.
He took advantage of the difference to lunge at the Orc and cut his neck, as he felt the danger he tilted his head to one side. But Leon managed to cut most of his neck, which started a torrent of blue blood, the Orc's health dropped to a third. Thanks to the Orc's Regeneration skill, which closed the wound in time.
When I got behind the Orc, I used my daggers to pierce its back and made 2 bloody cracks, while the Orc was in pain and trying to reach me, until it stopped moving.
[You killed the Dungeon Boss].
[Dungeon cleared]
[Chest in Storage]
[Level Up]
At that moment the Hobgoblin Wizard died next to the throne and with him, the curse also dissipated. And my strength reached 30 times that of a human. Quickly, I deactivated the reinforcement and my strength settled at 20 times.
[Dungeon Clear, Do you wish to leave?]
[YES - NO, Ejection in 59:40']