*Ding*
*Ding*
*Ding*
I woke up to the sound of the system's notification. My body felt heavy and when I open my eyes, a goblin was on top of me and punched me in the face. I quickly rolled to the side and shove the goblin away.
"KEUKEUKEUEKUEKE"
"KHAKHWKKUHKAUHKAUH"
The crowd of goblins was laughing at the goblin I pushed away. This hurt the pride of the goblin and I could see the anger in its eyes. I pulled out my sword from the inventory, the crowd went silent because to them, I pulled the sword from thin air. I quickly checked my stats and check the damage it dealt.
{Stats:
Lv. 5
HP: 45
MP: 20
Strength: 16
Agility: 27
Dexterity: 3
Intelligence: 4
Vitality: 10}
"Only 5 huh, I guess their level isn't higher than me since it just stings on the surface, " then I proceeded to open the other notifications.
{Sudden Mission}
- Defeat the Goblin horde (0/20)
Reward upon comletion: 1,500 exp
Reward upon failure: Death
{Main Mission}
- Escape the Goblin Forest and head to the city of Bag-iw.
Reward: 20,000 exp
"RAAUUUGHHH!"
While I was checking the system, a goblin let out a war cry and suddenly all the other goblins' eyes turned red and their body started emitting glowing red liquid all over their body. This situation is bad for me because I am surrounded in all directions. So I quickly dashed toward the front and break through two goblins.
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
I ran towards the edge so that they would go rush me in a collected manner. I hack and slash aimlessly without form to the goblins that went into my striking range. It was easy cutting through them since they don't even bother blocking and just keep charging to their deaths. Not one goblin was able to injure me, but in exchange, I was huffing and puffing from all that sword swinging.
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Goblin Lv. 4 defeated! You gained +75 exp}
{Congratulations, you leveled up! Lv. 5 > Lv. 6}
The only one left is the one who let out a war cry earlier, its most likely the leader. My fatigue didn't go away when I leveled up and it only recovered my HP. I put all 5 points to Vitality hoping it would decrease my fatigue but, unfortunately, it did not, it only increased my HP by 25.
"KEKEKKEKEKE!"
This green bipedal pickled prick is laughing at me and has this evil grin and eyes filled with pleasure on its face.
"Bro got turned on by its dead comrades?" I smirked and scoffed as I uttered this under my breath. I joked about it but I know it was just waiting for me to get tired.
"RAAAUUGHH!"
The goblin let out another war cry but this it buffed himself and now its body is glowing with green liquid. I assume this is for defense? Since it is usually like that even in games and the red one was for attack. It immediately launched itself to me and swung downward. I blocked it or that's what I thought.
"TINGG!" The sound of my sword breaking in half from that swing and it also managed to graze my shoulders.
"What the hell was that? The sword was glowing red!" Thoughts rushed through my head and kicked the goblin away. Was that mana? Aura? Qi? It looks like one of them from the mangas but I don't know which one. The goblin rushed towards me again and I managed to dodge its attack but it still managed to slice my body.
"I don't know what that is but I'll be learning that once I kill you," I said with confidence but I'm not really confident that I could even win this fight. I picked up one of the swords from the ground and threw it at the goblin to block off its sights and then I picked another one before charging to my death. The goblin parried the sword I threw then I tried to stab its chest but it was able to parry my sword and send my arms upward leaving my body open.
"URRGHHH!" I groaned as I force my arms to go down and block the next swing. As expected, it broke the sword and sliced halfway through my left arm. I jumped backward and picked up another sword. Honestly, having an arm flailing around isn't the best feeling. I tried to ignore it and charged at the goblin hopefully landing a strike.
"TING!" The goblin once again broke my sword with one strike. Its grin is becoming wider as if it's enjoying playing with its prey. I moved back again and grabbed another sword. This went on and on until there was no sword left on the ground. All this time, it was just standing there arrogantly and I didn't even manage to land even a single hit. I was running out of options then I remembered I had a Wooden Staff in my inventory. That was my last option, if this still doesn't work, I would just die and hopefully avoid this scenario next time.
I held the wooden staff and checked my HP.
{Stats:
Lv. 5
HP: 3/75
MP: 20/20
Strength: 16
Agility: 27
Dexterity: 3
Intelligence: 4
Vitality: 15}
"Haha, I'm basically one hit away," I said with my voice shaking heavily because of fatigue and fear, even though I know I can revive, the feeling of death is still so new and bizarre to me. The goblin saw my griefed expression and it slowly walked towards me, I waited 'til it was on my striking range before swinging the staff. I don't know any magic so this is all I could do right now. Once he was near, I swung the staff with all the strength I could gather and I was surprised!
"CHIEEK!" The goblin grunted as I was able to hit its body despite its attempt of blocking it with whatever that is on its sword.
*Ding*
{You have grasped the essence of Magic.}
{You have obtained a new skill: Basic Mana Mastery}
{Normal / Basic Mana Mastery Lv. 1: Passive}
Proficiency: Meditate for 10,000 minutes (0/10,000)
-Able to grasp the essence of magic.
I don't know the description of this but I could feel something strange entering my body and going to my heart.
{New stat unlocked: Magic}
"Ah, so it was a stat huh? Well, this is great!" I was rejoicing at the fact that I unlocked something new but reality hit me because I don't know how I even cast magic.
"What if I apply the laws of science." While I was thinking, the goblin appeared in front of me and stabbed my leg. I thrust the staff to the goblin's head to push it away.
"UUHRGHHGHHHHH!" I try to withstand the pain and keep thinking of moving the wind. I tried to form an image of a wind blade over and over and over and over again and started thinking fast because of the adrenaline. The goblin walked slowly towards me looking agitated because I'm still alive despite my injuries and its face shows like someone who got their pride stepped on.
*Ding*
{You have obtained a new skill: Razor Wind}
{Normal / Razor Wind Lv.1: Active }
Proficiency: activate 0/2000
MP cost: 5 MP
Cooldown: 10 seconds
-Creates a crescent-shaped wind blade by condensing the air.
After that popped up I yelled immediately and aimed my staff to the goblin.
"RAZOR WIND!" A magic circle appeared in front of the staff followed by a thick crescent-shaped wind that flew at the speed of sound toward the goblin and created a sonic boom that threw me off a few meters away and knocked me out. When I came to I saw the body of the goblin cut in half clean, sure enough, it couldn't block it.
*Ding*
{Elite Goblin Lv. 10 defeated! You gained + 500 exp}
{Sudden Mission Completed. You gained +1500 exp}
{Congratulations, you leveled up! Lv. 6 > Lv. 7}
I tried to stand up but couldn't and felt every part of my body aching. Then I found myself lying in the pool of blood of the goblins I killed.
"If I could create a magic skill just by thinking about it then, what if I create a healing skill." I tried to imagine an image of light appearing on my hand and started thinking of the effect which is to heal my arm. I don't know how long I was imagining but I passed out from the huge loss of blood.
{Immortality activated}
-Returning to the last saved point.