The 1st monsters that Jin Sung finds are Goblins, green humanoid creatures the size of grade school kids. Their intelligence is also similar to that of children, but they are very ferocious. They are usually armed with weapons like daggers, short swords, short spears and bows.
'So those are Goblins. They certainly look weak with those small builds but they also look very dangerous because of their crazed expressions and the weapons they hold. How should I fight them? There are 10 of them.'
Jin Sung uses his Stealth skill and gets behind a Goblin sneakily. Then he sends a cross with his right arm to the back of the Goblin's head. His punch breaks the Goblin's skull with just one hit.
He has just killed a Goblin that looks like human and its blood wet his fist. It makes him quite uneasy, but he doesn't looks perplexed or feel bad, just a bit uneasy. He looks very calm as if it's a normal thing, maybe it's because of his passive skill, Calmness.
'If I don't have this skill, that will mean that I'll lose my composure, in this situation it'll be very bad.'
The Goblins have already started running toward him, he may die if he loses his composure here. Thanks to Calmness, he can stay rational and respond to the Goblin's attacks. There are still 9 of them, but he isn't afraid at all.
A Goblin jumps toward him with a dagger ready above its head. It swings the dagger down to stab Jin Sung's body, but he can see its movements easily. He dodges and sends a left hook at the Goblin's jaw, breaking it's jaw.
The damaged Goblin flies and hits some of its comrades, stopping their tracks. Jin Sung jumps in their direction. The Goblins also started getting up and another Goblin jumped towards Jin Sung and tried to stab his body. But Jin Sung dodges and sends a right uppercut at the Goblin's jaw, breaking it's jaw.
The Goblin went flying and fell above the rest of its comrades. Then Jin Sung activates his Stealth skill and got behind another Goblin sneakily. Then he sends a jab with his left arm at the back of the Goblin's head. His punch breaks that Goblin's skull with 1 hit.
The remaining 6 goblins started to run towards him and all tried to jump him together. But, he used the Sprint skill and instead ran towards them. He started using kicks to kill them. He went for their head because they are of short stature and it's also easy for him to kill them as their head is a vulnerable spot.
Thanks to his perception stats, he can sense the Goblin's attacks and respond appropriately. But he still get a few hits because fighting 6 at a time isn't easy for a newbie like him, but thankfully they are minor injuries.
"Good thing that I learned martial arts techniques for combat and often did sparring with Jin Woo to hone my real battle skills. If I slacked off and just waited until I got the system, then maybe I couldn't have pull it off."
Jin Sung's level rose to level 5 after killing those 10 Goblins. They gave quite a lot of XP and maybe it's also because he is still very low level that he can get a lot of XP from mere Goblins. Now his stats have gotten higher and thanks to his level up, all his wounds have healed and his fatigue has also disappeared. He looked at the 5 free stat points and distributed 1 for each stats.
"For the starters, let's keep balanced stats. Jin Woo is really thoughtful to install this healing feature at level up. It will help a lot now when I need to hide my hunting activities. Getting injured will make make me exposed. Even my HP and MP filled to full again with each level up. It's really good."
Name: Sung Jin Sung
Level: 5
Job: None
Title: None
HP: 1500/1500
MP: 1500/1500
Fatigue: 0
[Stats]
Strength:15
Agility:15
Perception:15
Vitality:15
Intelligence:15
(Available Points: 0)
Before continuing, Jin Sung collects the 'drop items', the Goblin's weapons and mana cores. But he doesn't have time to take out the cores for now because it's already night, so he stores the corpses. He can't sell the cores now anyway, so he just saves them for future.
After storing everything in his system's seemingly unlimited inventory, Jin Sung continues to go deeper into the cave. He finds a fork path and sense danger from both the paths. One seems less dangerous and another seems more dangerous. So he chooses the former one.
"Is it because of my perception stats? I can feel the level of dangers from both path. The one which have the boss likely will be the more dangerous path."
He went inside the less dangerous path and just as he thought, the path he chose is filled with normal Goblins. There are 30 Goblins here, a lot more than the previous group. He has gotten stronger, but still 30 Goblins are too many, although he can one-shot each if he hits the correct spot.
'When I attack 1 one of them, the others will start swarming at me, which will be very dangerous. But I shouldn't back back down now that I've come this far. I need to become stronger.'
Jin Sung thinks of a way to defeat these 30 Goblins without putting him in too much risk. Then he got an idea after looking at his MP and skills.
'I should be able to do it for within 1 minute if I use this because I'm sure I'll level up a few times after I kill them.'
He used both Stealth and Sprint at once and started killing the Goblins rapidly by using punches, kicks, elbows strikes, knees strikes, palm strikes and chops. With his fast and smooth footwork, he always reached the best position and hit them. He always aim for the chins and foreheads. Within 5 minutes he killed all the Goblins. While sweating he took a deep breath.
'Huff. Huff. Phew. Phew. Took longer than I expected because the Goblins changing their places. Now the only one place left is the boss room.'
He collect all the drop items, Goblin's weapons and their corpses and headed towards the boss after storing them in his inventory.
He entered the boss room and saw that there 10 normal Goblins excluding the boss Goblin, that looks stronger, faster and bigger than the other ones, holding a dagger and a bow.
They started attacking him but he instead uses Stealth and took out 2 Goblins with strong punches. Then another 2 Goblins came rushing towards him and got punched at jaw and back of their head. The rest 6 also tried to jump him together, but he used his Swift footwork and dodged their attack. He then ended their lives with his strong kicks.
Then finally the boss came towards him while shooting an arrow that nearly hitted Jin Sung, but he managed to dodge it. The boss charged towards him while swinging its dagger, but he barely dodged it.
'It's faster and stronger than the other normal Goblins. I need to read it's movements and kill it.'
Jin Sung used Sprint and charged at boss with full speed and threw a palm strike at the boss' chin, making it lose it's balance and suddenly jumped at it's back and threw a chop at it's neck, dislocating the neck. Then a strong punch at it's face. The boss was finally dead.
'I need to go outside and check on the time. I have school.'
Then he took all of the drop items, Goblin's weapons and corpses inside his inventory and went outside of the dungeon while using stealth and sprint. Everyone outside was surprised to see that the Gate close automatically. Jin Sung came outside and saw the time, it was 3 A.M. so he decided to go back home. But while going home he saw another Gate appearing in the middle of the street. He entered the last gate at 12 A.M. to clear it. It took him 3 hours to clear it.
'This one is also an E-Rank Gate. Maybe luck is with me this time. So I need to clear it within 6 A.M. and return home.'