[You gained 5 Experience (Exp: 38/80)] x 7
[Skill Levelled up]
Archery Lv.4 - Increases damage and accuracy with all bows and crossbows by 40%
Power Shot Lv.2 - Charge an arrow beyond normal, adding mana for 160% damage: 6 MP
Double Shot Lv.2 - Shoot two arrows in rapid succession with 100% damage: 4 MP
"Haa.....ha.....!"
My fingers were sore, blood oozing from the thin creases as the skin had cracked from the pressure and overuse... I had expended all of my crude arrows while running along the rock wall, trying to avoid their arrows.
"Rena, the archers are dead!"
Despite my shout, there was no response because we were too far apart. I had been forced to flee towards the village's entrance with half the warriors and scouts chasing me.
Maybe she heard my voice and could fight with ease...
I looked around me as the goblins began to scale the walls and climb to my location, standing above their village.
"Ten warriors... and five scouts..."
The pain from grasping my blood lance was dulled thanks to my improved resistance to those sensations, but that just proved how badly it hurt to fire arrows that recklessly.
"Gigig!"
Two goblins were almost to the top, so I pulled back my spear and thrust it straight through a goblin's throat before slamming the wooden shaft into another goblin that appeared alongside it.
There were many more, though, and my weary limbs had trouble responding, barely managing to kill another goblin as they ascended the rocky crags.
[You gained 6 Experience (Exp: 44/80)]
[You gained 6 Experience (Exp: 50/80]
The force of my slamming the second goblin caused it to fall from the rocks, smashing into the uneven stone floor and snapping its neck!
It seemed that Lady Luck was on my side, giving me a moment to take a breather as my rapid regeneration restored both my fatigue and injured fingers.
With only eight warriors and five scouts remaining, my mind moved to a new method to attack them as I twisted to the side, dancing on the stone ledge to avoid the crude arrow shot by the scout, my hand twisting in the air and forming a grasping motion as blue flames began to dance on my palm.
⟪Spirit Fire⟫
I pushed forward and sent the blue ball of flames toward the scouts, who scattered on reflex after seeing me kill an approaching Goblin Warrior, thinking the fire would crash in their direction.
But when it was short of them, the fire exploded into countless embers that showered over the area and began to burn them, many rolling around in pain as their cries filled the air.
With the scouts disorientated, I grasped the blood lance once again, tightly this time, sweeping across the rocks, its sharp blade slicing the throats of four goblins and removing one of their heads, spraying hot, sticky blood across my arm as my eyes peered upon those dying.
"Ah... I am quite hungry..."
My left hand grabbed the warrior I missed, its arm trying to stab me, before my fangs sank into its throat, causing the creature to squeak and flail about in a panic.
"Juicy~"
I could feel its heart beating faster... the more blood I drank, the faster it beat. My ears were filled with the sound of my gulping the liquid as my empty stomach quickly filled with the delicious crimson life, sweetening my parched tongue and rejuvenating the weariness in my limbs.
"Delicious."
The blood of a goblin was tasty. It felt like mana candy...
[You gained 6 Experience (Exp: 0/90)] x 5
[Level Up!]
Not even thinking, I added three to agility and two to dexterity. I didn't lack strength, but my flexibility and expertise were lacking when switching between weapons or climbing.
The moment I drank the blood, my thoughts no longer contained doubt as I dropped from the ledge, my hands grabbing two of the last warriors and slamming them into the ground as my body smashed into the ground, taking a small amount of damage. At the same time, their heads exploded when I threw them head-first.
[You gained 6 Experience (Exp: 12/90)] x 2
"Weak..."
I had been too stupid, not realising the words of the Death Goddess when she told me about muscle power earlier; the stupid weakling limited my mind and actions I was the day I arrived.
"One attribute point was too much of a mental block, even for my vampire self..."
Until now...
My feet twisted, pivoting my hips as the moves taught by my mother all those years...
Even when my talent seemed lacking, the training I endured for years, even now, I practised in the morning! With a roundhouse, I drilled my foot at the head of the last Goblin warrior like a jackhammer in an unavoidable attack, its neck bending backwards before being killed instantly.
[You gained 6 Experience (Exp: 18/90)]
"Boring."
Still not happy, I scanned the entrance where the scouts were finally standing up; their burnt faces were quite disgusting, but my lips curved into a small; the sound of their beating hearts and that glare of hatred towards me... It was too exhilarating.
My blood lance appeared in my hand, running towards them while they nocked and released their arrows.
One landed on my side, digging out chunks of flesh and making me growl, but it failed to make me slow as my hand grasped the arrow before snapping the sharp tip and launching it into the goblin's eye, causing its head the spike to pop from the back.
Another appeared before me, scraping against my arm, tearing the flesh like a knife scraping off wax but failing to slow me.
In front of two scouts, their arrows released, their backs pushing up as my arms flexed, the spear in my hands thrusting through the air with such force that neither scout had time to let go.
The metal tip went into the goblin's chest and out the other end, sticking through the other scout standing behind diagonally, from their back, at an almost invisible speed with only a light howl and flash of steel.
I had put every bit of my enhanced strength into that singular blow and killed the two scouts instantly, the impact vibrating up the shaft of my lance, which bent slightly as their bodies fell, being propped up on the end, skewered.
Finally, there was just one left, a scout trying to pull the burning arrows stuck in the leather armour off its chest.
[You gained 4 Experience (34/90)] x 4
"Haa... delicious...."
My hand was holding a goblin's heart, squeezing it like an orange drink in small cartons, gulping down the blood as my wounds and fatigue vanished.
I felt a slightly strange sensation of not thinking this was disgusting, but the taste was like a sweet lemonade on a hot summer day, and my eyes closed with delight.
Rena is still a million times tastier.
[You gained Experience (88/90)] Accurate information too far from combat to tell!
At that moment... my Experience suddenly shot up as the ground shook.
It meant that Rena was fighting, and the distant village centre began to shudder from heavy explosive sounds and the sound of magic crashing against the rocks.
"That girl is so noisy..."
There was no worry yet as I could feel her current state and see her health due to being my Pet if I looked to the top left of my vision.
A small red and blue bar showed.
"But those bastard goblins have hurt her..."
[Gained +4 Attributes]
[The Azure Fox is increasingly interested in following you longer!]
[Show your stuff in the final battle and win another wife!]
"I think it means pet..."
[Don't even lie; I can see your desire; you want her to become a sexy fox girl!]
Who wouldn't?
I didn't care to argue with the Death Goddess and her messages; my feet began to rush towards the centre of the village, using all four attributes to increase my speed to twenty-nine.
Before leaving, I quickly gathered the best quality crude arrows possible and took a few of their swords and daggers, keeping them in the basic storage item the king gave them.
A D-Rank Hero could only hold about 20 items.
Luckily, any item but weapons could stack.
I rapidly began pacing like a tier three athlete, rushing across the jagged stones, strange trinkets, and totems before I reached the village centre...
The pillar was half destroyed, and most small huts were flattened, with the crushed and deformed bodies of more than ten goblins sprawled around, with some burnt to a crisp hanging over the broken stone walls.
It seems that Rena and Yuzu had fun.
Rena held her arm while the fox sat on her head, spewing fireballs at the goblin shaman.
I felt no extreme emotions about her injury.
Maybe if it were the past, I might have been worried and lost my judgment in the battle, but I was calm.
Aside from the fact the scent of her blood made me excited looked at the two goblins...
One was old and wrinkly with a bone staff, seeming to be a goat's head of some kind and the huge blue goblin with more ferocious features and holding a huge club.
"Grak!"
Its roar caused the air to vibrate, hurting my enhanced senses.
"Rena, focus on the old man. I'll take the big guy." My voice sounded with a loud shout, causing both goblins to look my way.
But my body was already shooting forward using the Lunge skill with my hands tightly gripping my Blood Lance.
I would skewer the bastard that touched my woman, his club oozing with her blood.
Only I could make her bleed!
It was a lie.
There was no way I would be calm when someone hurt my delicious and wonderful Rena.
"I will kill you!"
My deep, vengeful voice sounded as the huge goblin seemed to accept the challenge and prepared to intercept my charge.
"Aki!? It's really strong! Even my high defence was like paper! Don't!"
"Attack the shaman! I will punish you for letting another man take your blood later!"
Rena is mine, and Yuzu is mine; everything that tastes delicious is mine!
[Yes~ that's it, tear those goblins apart, become a real vampire~]
[Ah, my champion, you are so adorable!]
My spear was about to gouge the chest of the blue, muscular giant goblin when a sound echoed in my ears, causing my attack to falter, letting the huge club swing towards me.
[The Goddess of Death transformed your Pet!]
"Eh?"
*Boom*