The giant creature clench its fist and getting in stance.
"Why he is not using his sword? Its underestimating me. I just need to wait for Glutt– Blaaagh!"
Suddenly he feel a tremendous impact in his left body causing him to make a weird sound. Without noticing, the commander leaps towards him in a blink of an eye and punch him.
Arpada flew to the wall and cough a blood, then this time he saw the goblin commander leaps forward to him but it is still so fast to even react on it–
'Boom!'
A loud vibration generated from the impact shake the sorroundings– a sound of pebbles falling at the wall could be heard as the commander's giant foot removing it. Arpada got buried at the wall and heavily injured.
"I'm losing my consciousness, sh*t" Arpada said.
He saw the Goblin Commander walking away as if he just squashed an insect to the wall.
"What's the deal with this creature? It is so huge yet it is so quick, how is that even possible?" He said.
As his consciousness fading in front of the creature, he suddenly remembers the minotaur that slaughtered Gio's party.
"They have similarities in size." He said.
As the commander walks away to pick up his sword, he feel the vibration of the ground as if it something big is approaching.
The trees were got blew away as Gluttony used [Dash] skill to rapidly approach him, the commander looks at it suddenly felt a heavy pressure pinning him down.
"I am not strong, you know." Arpada said to the Commander. "But that thing? is much more powerful than me." He added.
'ZIIING'
As Gluttony used [Agility Up] increasing its speed and break the sounds, everything it pass by got blown away with an immense pressure.
The commander was astonished and quickly picks up his sword to embrace the impact.
'BOOM!!'
The ground shakes tremendously and created a crater below them while blewing everything away.
'GRWAAAAA!!' The commander shouted while vertically swing his sword but in its surprise, Gluttony disappeared and it cautiously looking for it.
"You're looking for him?" Arpada said then used a potion to recover his HP.
'BOING'
It then saw the slime on his shoulder and slowly wrapping on his body.
Arpada spat to the ground and said "Round 2."
'GWRAAAA'
The commander rapidly leaps forward to him again but Arpada could now react into it and the commander got astonish again.
Arpada swiftly dodging its slashes then using a potion in amidst of fight.
Because of Gluttony's attribute and [Agility Up] skill, it controls Arpada's body to react.
The commander leaps backward as it feels the difference in power.
"So the beast could also feel fear?" Arpada asked.
In a blink if an eye, Arpada jumps to it but got deflected by its two-handed sword then he used [Absolute Shadow] and disappeared on the commander's sight.
Then a dagger suddenly appeared below it, slicing its left arm.
'GAAAAAAAA'
The commander screams in agony and its blood drips to the ground.
It jumps to the wall and hops again to create a distance between them yet it starts to run away.
[Absolute Shadow]
Arpada travels through the darkness, following the shadow of the commander and used [Concealment].
The Goblin Commander looks around and saw nothing, while enduring the pain in its arm.
"Do you think you can get away?" Arpada whispered into its ear.
As soon the commander looks at him, he slice off its head ending the fight.
Gluttony slowly dettaching to Arpada and absorbs the Goblin Commander.
He suddenly fell on the ground, every muscle on his body are trembling due to overwork.
"I would never have a chance to defeat that if I didn't equipped Gluttony and using potion simultaneously." He said while breathing heavily and uncontrollably body shaking.
He lay down to the grass, feel the breeze and realizing how weak he really is without Gluttony.
[ You gained 1 level]
His system window appeared and taps the system.
[SP: 12]
"I still have SP, but I don't know where to allocate it." He said. "Is it good to specialize on agility?" He thought to himself.
'Boing?'
Gluttony finished absorbing the goblins commander.
[Gained "Two-handed sword mastery" and "Martial art"]
Then Gluttony mimic the two-handed sword and Arpada got astonished.
[Goblin commander's sword]
[ Attack: 100 (+59) ]
"No wonder why it is freakingly strong." He said. "But its speed it on another level!" He added.
"Lets go head back to the camp first, we need to rest for a bit." He said.
"I don't want to fight again something like that again for awhile now." He added.
'Boing'
"You too?" He laughed and stands up.
"Are you a tamer?"
He heard a gentle voice coming out of nowhere and got cautious about it.
"Yes, who are you? Or rather where are you?" He asked.
"Don't worry I'm–"
Then suddenly beautiful woman sorrounded by green light appeared in front of him.
"Cynthia, caretaker of this forest." She answered. "If you are a tamer then you must already know about the reincarnation of the beast." She added.
"What?" Arpada asked.
"What beast did you tame?" She asked.
'Boing'
"A slime? I never encounter any slime tamer before." She said.
"But what do you mean by reincarnation of the beast?" He asked.
"Would you mind changing our place before we talk about it?" She asked.
Then Arpada look around how messy the environment were.
"This also affects my job you know? You destroyed the forest."Cynthia said and sigh about it.
The dusk was falling rapidly and the breeze was getting colder.
"Then how about on my camping site?" Arpada said.
"Good enough." Cynthia said.
Then Arpada walks innocently when he suddenly called by Cynthia. "Where are you going?" She asked.
"To the camp–" He stopped talking as he saw a portal through his camp site was created by Cynthia.
"As long as its in range of the forest, we could teleport on it." She explained.
"Cool, that saves time." He said and went through the portal.
***
Arpada sits on a fallen tree and create a campfire, while Cynthia is standing near him, looking at his action.
"Does your slime talks?" She asked.
"No? It only wiggle, bounce and creates a punctuation marks with its flexible body." He explained.
"I see." She said. "As a tamer you should know about it." She added.
"Okay, so what that reincarnation thing?" He asked.
"Tamer is a rare class and also an influential class that uncovering the truth about this world." She said.
"When a tamer makes a contract or tamed a beast, the soul of that ancient beast will possess that newly tamed beast and throughout the history, unraveling the creation of this world. So its like there are beast souls waiting for their turn to get reincarnated into the tamed beast." Cyntha added.
"So after the beast got tamed? They possess their previous memories?" Arpada asked.
"Yes." She said.
"Then why Gluttony seems doesn't have a knowledge of the past?" He asked.
"That's also my question." Cynthia said.
Then they look curiously to Gluttony.
'Boing?'
"I don't have a record of someone taming a slime before." She said.
"Well, who would someone tame it anyway?" Arpada asked.
"You?" Cynthia said and pointing to Arpada.
"Well, its an accident okay? Although my Gluttony is different, it is so strong." He said. "But what do you mean by uncovering the truth?" He added.
"The system you possess, the origin of the beasts and the ancient soul of the beasts." She said.
And so Cynthia tells him an ancient story that recorded from the ancient tamers.
The beasts in this planet came from another world, multiple portals open up in this planet and the humanity was about to extinct. But then– a mysterious man who fiercely fought with the beasts successfully sealed the portals.
Without any information, humanity discovered the "Awakening stone" gaining a great power. Class and skills was discovered to fight the beast in this world and so tamer class slowly uncovering the truth from the ancient beast they reincarnated through taming.
"This ancient beast, what they were like?" Arpada asked.
"Throughout the history of the tamer, I only know 9 ancient beast, excluding yours. The Dark Serpent, White Dragon, Cerb, Lizo, Lycan, Queen ant and Asterion, also known as the Minotaur."
Arpada widen his eyes and the astonishment is obvious into his face and asked loudly–
"Minotaur!?"
To be continued..