The Evolution Of A Goblin To The Peak

by Stayrr

The fantasy VRMMORPG, Battle Worlds, is one of the most played games in the world. In this game, there’s a legendary player that could defeat a “Boss” on his own. His name is Blood(In-Game-Name). Blood is a legendary player that surpassed all the players in the world. He completed hundreds of quest and dungeon raids alone. When Blood was going to log off, suddenly the virtual capsu

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The fantasy VRMMORPG, Battle Worlds, is one of the most played games in the world. In this game, there's a legendary player that could defeat a "Boss" on his own. His name is Blood(In-Game-Name). Blood is a legendary player that surpassed all the players in the world. He completed hundreds of quest and dungeon raids alone. When Blood was going to log off, suddenly the virtual capsule that he was wearing exploded causing him to die. His soul didn't go to the cycle of reincarnation but it was sucked by something causing him to transmigrate into a body of Goblin. This is a story about a boy that was transmigrated in the body of a Goblin. Follow him as he rises through the ranks and become the most powerful monster in the world

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Chapter 1 - I've become a goblin

The stars glistened in the night sky as a young man finds himself deep in the final moments of his favorite virtual reality game, Battle Worlds Online. The game had taken the entertainment world by storm, quickly rising to the highest played game worldwide.

The view-screen flashed with yet another mission successful notification; a common sight for the young man. His notoriety as Battle Worlds Online's Rank 1 player was a well-hidden part of his private life. His secret known by only a few close friends. They urged him to reveal himself to the world and join a game club, but he flatly rejected them all. The true joy of this game was not found in the fame or the wealth, but in the escape to a world where anyone can be whatever and whoever they want to be.

His name was Souta Ieshi but those who inhabit this world knew him as Blood.

Oblivious to the danger that was soon to approach him, Souta prepared to log out and stretch his legs, as the capsule he had been confined to for several hours now was starting to take its toll. As he reaches for the logout option, his screen filled with "error" symbols in large bold red text. Desperation and fear filled Souta's heart as he attempted to force the logout, however it was already too late. The capsule that Souta resided in experienced an unprecedented surge of power, shooting electricity through his body. A blinding white light illuminated the room as the capsule exploded.

With a boom that shook his apartment complex, Souta was dead

To cover up the failure of the machine, the media was silenced, not allowing a whisper of the events that had caused the death to come to light. Soon, Souta and the incident would be forgotten and become a nameless statistic, an integer.

"Argh!"

A moment passed as the throbbing pulse within the creature's head started to subside. He felt as if his entire body was on fire and his head had been struck with a metal bat.

"Damn! It hurts!" He placed his hands in the hard, brown dirt and slowly pushed himself into a seated position.

"Huh? Where is this? What the hell happened?" As his eyes began to clear, he found himself focusing on the environment around him. Wooden torches cast shadows on the high stone walls. The room itself was poorly lit, but he could still see enough to determine that he wasn't anywhere familiar. The damp air felt heavy in his lungs, thickened by the scent of wet earth and dust and his mouth was filled with the taste of iron.

"Dungeon?" He couldn't remember where he had gotten the word but as foreign as it sounded to him, it felt that it was the most appropriate word to describe his surroundings.

He gathered his strength and stood up, noticing that the torches that lit the room were still a foot or two above his line of sight.

A grimace spread across his face as his eyes drifted to the floor where he could see a pair of dark-green covered feet; each one matched with five grotesque toenails covered with filth and dirt.

"Huh? What am I?!" His confusion grew as he lifted each foot, staring at his soles, calloused from walking without any footwear. He turned his attention to the rest of his body, noting that his entire body was covered in the dark-green skin. It clung desperately to his bones, as his gaunt figure which has obviously suffered from extreme malnourishment didn't have much muscle on it. He rubbed his hand along his chest, feeling the rib bones pressing against the flesh as if it were trying to escape his body. His hand continued up to his head, pressing against his scalp as the last of the headache subsided. Not only was he green, skinny, and weak, but he was also bald! This was not his day.

A light blue screen appeared before the creature, mildly startling it. He glanced over the information on the interface.

Name: unnamed

Race: Goblin

Level: 1(0/100)

Class: «none»

Health: 10/10

Stamina: 3/3

Mana: 2/2

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Strength: 3]

Agility: 6]

Dexterity: 4]

Intelligence: 1]

Vitality: 5]

Free attribute point(s): 3

Skill(s): [Dash, [Stab]

Skill point(s): 1

"I guess I just don't have a name." He had hoped that he would at least have something he can call himself, but now was not the time to come up with a name. Getting as much information about himself as possible was much more vital.

Next was his race. "Goblin. Well, that helps I guess." Having the knowledge of at least what he was soothed his anxiety slightly.

Quickly reading through the stats, he noted that outside of his health, none of the numbers were double digits. Even with the little knowledge he possessed, he still could easily tell that he was a very weak monster.

He continued down the list, stopping on the skills section. "Skills?" the creature thought aloud. Another screen appeared atop the first, seemingly closer than the larger information interface.

[Dash] Level 1: Increase the movement speed by 10% when running on a straight line. Stamina cost: 2

Proficiency: 0%

[Stab] Level 1: Increase the piercing effect by 10%. Stamina cost: 2

Proficiency: 0%

As far as skills go they seem fairly basic and with only 3 stamina, they could only be used once before he would be exhausted. However, they are the only skills he has, so they will have to work.

Seeing as he currently had three free attribute points and one free skill point, he had to think wisely about how to use them. Scratching his barren head, he thinks to himself that he doesn't have enough information on his situation. "I'll just hold onto these for now." he decides.

The goblin swiped at the information screens, causing them to disappear from his view. He searched his immediate surroundings for a weapon of any kind. After settling on a rock that was just larger than his fist, he made his way to the worn wooden door on the far side of the room.

The door groaned loudly as it gave way to his tiny green hand. The rough wood matched the rest of the room, having seemingly not received care in several years. He had entered a long hallway that stretched into the darkness from his left to his right. It appears to have been decorated similarly to the room he had just left, with lit torches sporadically placed in metal sconce. The flames on the torches seemed to be ready to die out at any moment, but continuously held on, maintaining the low level of light in all directions.

Turning to his left, he silently crept along with the dirt and rock floor, keeping a low profile as he followed the corridor.

The long, dim passage came to an opening. The creature carefully searched the dimly lit room from the entrance of the corridor. The goblin's beady eyes darted left and right, finally settling upon a shifting shadow in the middle of the room. The light from the flames revealed a dull, off-white complexion clad in leather armor. The dull shine of iron came from the mysterious creature's hand.

The goblin's breathing became slow and calm. The skeleton soldier's defense was much tougher than his and fighting would be impossible without a weapon. As he reasoned in his mind, his heart began to beat faster, his blood rushed through his body, and his mind filled with delight. He knew it would be almost impossible to win, but his instinct lifted his body and moved his hands to clutch his rock tightly. 'Let's do this!' he thought as he rushed towards the skeleton, letting out a feral goblin howl.

The green monster threw his stone with all his might, splintering the skeleton soldier's barren skull with a sickening crack. The skeleton stumbled from the force of the blow, opening an opportunity that would be perfect for the quick-witted goblin to take advantage of. While the skeleton was off-balanced, the goblin leaped into the air, using all of his weight to kick the skeleton to the ground. Once fallen, the skeleton was barraged with a flurry of goblin punches, each one echoing the sound of snapping bone throughout the room.

As the skeleton attempted to rise again, the goblin would use as much force to kick the berated soldier back onto the ground, allowing the goblin to quickly unleash another round of blows upon the fallen victim.

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A cold sensation shot through the spine of the goblin. Reflexively, the green monster jumped back as far as it could as the wind from the blade of the skeleton's wild swing sliced through the air a hair's breadth away from the creature's green flesh. The goblin had sensed that he was weak, but even after landing several powerful blows which caused his hands to tingle from numbness, the soldier was still alive. The skeleton was now coated with dirt from the floor where it had been lying and cracks had formed on the left side of the skeleton's head where the rock had hit it. Several pieces of the skull had fallen onto the floor from being struck by the goblin's fists.

The skeleton soldier found its way to its feet and staggered its way towards the goblin. The goblin backed away from the creature, hoping for another opening to attack. As the skeleton soldier lifted his blade into the air, the goblin seized the opportunity to rush the skeleton, disrupting its swing. The iron sword crashed heavily against the stone, ringing loudly into the corridors. The goblin kicked at the inside of the skeleton's knee with all his might. To his surprise, instead of feeling the resistance of the skeleton soldier's bones, the goblin's foot pressed against the joint, causing the lower leg to become dislodged from the upper leg. The skeleton once again fell to the ground, where the goblin rushed to the skeleton's skull and stomped as hard as he possibly could onto the creature. With another dry crack, the skull gave way to the goblin's foot.

A dinging sound pierced the goblin's mind and a screen appeared before him.

You have earned 52 Experience for defeating a skeleton soldier.

Experience (52/100)

A heavy sigh escaped the goblin's lips as he fell back onto the now-disintegrating soldier. His stamina had all been used up, causing his body to refuse his command to get up. After a few minutes of rest, the goblin arose and inspected the sole remaining artifact of the skeleton's existence. The iron sword felt heavy in the goblin's hands. As he looked over it, a notification appeared over it.

[Rusty Sword: 10 damage. Durability: 2/5]

The Goblin inspected the worn blade and led both hands to the hilt where he gripped tightly onto the cloth-wrapped handle. He waved the box away and lifted the blade onto his shoulder where he could carry it comfortably. As he started to continue through the room to the opposite side of the room from whence he arrived, another ding echoed in his mind, revealing another translucent box in his path.

Quest(s) Received:

Survival: Survive for 5 days

Reward: 200 Exp. 1 AP (Attribute Point)

Raiding: Complete the dungeon

Reward: 100 Exp and 1 SP (Skill Point)

The goblin sneered at the box. If he was this exhausted from fighting just one skeleton, how could he hope to clear the entire dungeon. The battle had highlighted his weakness. Against one skeleton he would be at an advantage due to his speed, but if there were more then he would be as good as dead. The goblin decided he would use his attribute points to boost his power.

As he finished his thought, the attribute list appeared before him again. He placed his first two points into strength sending a surging force throughout his body. His muscles had definitely felt stronger after allocating just those points, however, he hesitated before placing his third point on strength. Inside his little green body, he could feel that he would need more than just strength. His eyes wandered to his intelligence stat. He scoffed to himself, thinking it absurd to waste points on intelligence when he could be even stronger, however, the feeling refused to fade. Slowly, the goblin's bony finger hovered towards the ] on his intelligence.

As he pressed the button, his mind felt as if it was splitting open. He dropped to the floor on his knees and grunted in pain. Thoughts, ideas, and memories that felt out of place, yet familiar flooded into his mind and a single name sounded through them all. 'Souta Ieshi'.

As the pain subsided, the goblin could recognize his own thoughts again. He was Souta Ieshi. He had died and from his experience this far he could tell that he was no longer in the world he once knew. He fell on his butt with a mixed expression on his face as he had come to realize that he had been reborn into another world as a goblin. He held his head in his hands and curled up in the corner of the room.

His thoughts raced at breakneck speed. 'How could this have happened? This can't be real! I can't be a goblin, they're so weak!'

Puzzled by his predicament, Souta struggled to grasp the reasoning behind his situation. After a few minutes of panicking, doubting the reality of his situation, and finally bargaining with himself, Souta cleared his mind and took a deep breath. Souta slapped his face with both hands, filling his ears with a hollow "pak". If he didn't get a hold of himself, he was doomed to die in this dungeon.

Souta opened his stat window again and sneered in dissatisfaction. Although goblins were known to be weak, it was much more despairing knowing that those low stats belonged to him. He sighed and waved away the window. He reminisced of when he was playing his games. This world reminded him most of his favorite game of all, Battle Worlds Online.

In the game, there are players from all over the world, but most player characters belong to one of three groups, the humans, demi-humans, and monsters. It wasn't often that someone chose a monster character. The beginning is extremely difficult since most monsters start off with weak stats in comparison to the other two. Humans and Demi-Human characters had fixed stats that increased gradually as they leveled up. However, monster characters didn't have fixed stats, instead, they had to grind as hard as they could to evolve into stronger versions of themselves, as long as the character didn't die, they could even become as strong as a field boss.

"Evolution." The concept was firmly in Souta's mind, however, a fog seemed to cover any details of how it worked.

Souta closed his eyes and focused on his next evolution. As he thought, the name of his evolution seemed to come to him through the void of his newfound information. He needed to become a Hobgoblin.

Souta cleared his head, now focused on his quest to become strong enough to evolve. More information was coming to him, but it was becoming harder and harder to sort out what it meant. The fog felt as if it was slowly returning to his mind, taking information with it. 'The intelligence stat!' he thought. By using the intelligence stat he was able to get his memories back, but with as little intelligence as he currently has, he can't hold onto all of it. As his mind continued to slip back to that of a goblin, he swiftly opened up his attribute menu again. In the name field, he struggled to put in his name. 'It's a new start, a new life. I could name myself anything I want.' His thoughts pressed against him, but at that moment he knew that he could only choose one name, his name. The name that his mother and father had given to him as a celebration of his life and the name that he had kept hidden from the world until his death. The tiny fingers pressed hurriedly on the keys and confirmed his entry. Even as a goblin, there was one thing he shouldn't forget. His name is Souta Ieshi, in his world and in this one.

Souta picked up the sword at his side, his mind now calmed to its original state. He felt as if he had forgotten something, but wasn't sure what it could be. Bits and pieces of information swirled about his head, making derailed trains of thought that would continue to cycle.

Now armed with a sword, executing his skill [Stab] would be possible. This would make fighting mildly easier, however, the main issue still existed, he had no idea where he is.

Souta breathed a silent prayer of thanks to the system for giving him a way to survive and slowly stepped into the corridor, pressing forward through the dungeon.

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Chapter 2 - [Soul Blood Earring]

Souta checked the exp that he received from killing the skeleton soldier.

Level: 1(52/100)

He only needed to kill one skeleton soldier before he levels up.

He stood up and armed himself with a short rusty sword that he got from the skeleton soldier. He looked ahead and saw that there were two paths in front of him.

He pondered what he should choose. In the end, he decided to go to the left path. He couldn't describe it but this dungeon was somewhat familiar to him. It feels like he came here before.

He walked carefully as he stepped forward and entered the left path. The path was dark and the torches on the walls could barely illuminate the area.

He already guessed that this was the dungeon of an undead monster. The boss of this dungeon must be a powerful skeleton knight or mage. If it's a lich then there's no way that he could conquer this dungeon within five days. Lich was a powerful undead and it's level hover between thirty to forty. It was a boss-type monster that can be found in a mid-level dungeon or high-level dungeon.

He wasn't sure if this was a high-level dungeon just from seeing one skeleton soldier. But... the system wouldn't give him such a low reward if this was really a high-level dungeon. It must be a low-level dungeon if he would receive such reward. One must know that the higher the reward the more dangerous the quest.

Souta saw a corpse of a goblin laying down in the pool of blood. He had an idea that the group of goblin tried to invade this dungeon but were killed in the process. That's must be the reason why his body(goblin) was inside this dungeon when he woke up.

"This smell is making me puke." Souta pinched his nose. The goblin smells like a rotten fish. It's not his first time smelling this kind of thing.

Virtual reality could make people feel like they were really in another world. The game could copy a person's five senses and Souta would set it to the maximum so that he could really feel that he was in another world. He could smell the blood, feel the wind, and saw the bloody scene inside the game like they were real. The other people would at least turn off their sense of pain or red blood but he hadn't. When someone cut him in the game he would feel extreme pain, and when he cut someone in the game he would see the bloody scene that he made.

He ignored the corpse as he walked ahead of it. Then, he saw a wooden door five meters away from him. He slowly approached it while carefully looking if there were any traps.

He placed his palm on the door and slowly pushed it. He took a peek inside and saw that there were three skeleton soldiers inside the room.

"Three at the same time? I could handle it as I have a sword now and could use the skill [Stab]." Souta muttered while looking at the sword in his hand.

He went inside the room without making any sound. He doesn't want to alert the skeleton soldiers yet. He needed to swiftly take out one of the skeleton soldiers to decrease the burden of fighting them.

He observed the three skeleton soldiers as he clenched his fingers around the handle of the sword.

"One... Two... Three... Go!"

Souta pounced at one of the skeleton soldiers. He quickly raised his sword above his head and swiftly swung it down at the skeleton soldier.

Bang!!

"Die!" Souta then pulled back his sword and used [Stab].

Swoosh!!

Bang!!

The tip of the sword hit the forehead of the skeleton causing various cracks to appear.

The skeleton soldier fell down but Souta knew that it was still alive. He still hasn't heard the system prompt inside his head yet.

He raised his feet and heavily stomped the skeleton soldier on the ground. He then once again slashed the sword in his hand on the skeleton.

The bones in the neck of the skeleton weren't sturdy enough to stay till when a metal like a piece of sword crashed into it. The bones cracked and the skull was separated from the body as it rolled on the ground. The cracks on the forehead of the skeleton spread out before it crumbled down.

All of this happened in just a few seconds.

[You've received 51 exp from killing Skeleton soldier!]

[You've level up!]

[All attributes increased by 1!]

[You've received 2 attribute points!]

[You've received 1 skill point!]

Souta was sure now that he eliminated the first skeleton soldier. He then saw the other two skeleton soldiers charging at him.

One at his left while the other one was at his right.

Two on one, huh?

The skeleton on his left side slashed its sword.

Swooosh!!

"Ha!" Souta raised his sword and parried the sword of the skeleton soldier. Then, he threw a punch on the rib cage of the skeleton.

Bang!

He then quickly crouched down as a sword passed above him.

"That's close!" He tripped the skeleton soldier with his foot before he smashed his elbow on its skull.

Bang!

He doesn't have time to finish the skeleton soldier as the other skeleton already made its way in front of him.

"Ha!" Souta shouted as he forcefully swung his sword.

Clang!

Both his and the skeleton soldier's sword collided causing a metallic sound to echoed in the whole area.

Souta was forced back by the skeleton soldier's strength. His level was lower than skeleton soldier so it was natural that the stats of the skeleton was higher than him. He knew that his strength was weak that's why he needs to rely on his sword. The added damage of the sword was enough to cause a crack on the skeleton even if it wasn't a blunt weapon.

He gritted his teeth and bent his knees.

Swoosh!!

He used the skill [Dash] as he charged straight towards the skeleton while pointing his sword at it.

Clang!

His sword crashed the few ribs of the skeleton soldier. He then grabbed it's spine as he kicked the feet of the skeleton.

Bang!

The skeleton was smashed on the ground and when he was about to finish it, he senses someone behind him.

"Hmm?"

He immediately rolled his body sideways.

Clang!

He lifted up his head and looked ahead. He saw the other skeleton soldier and he squinted his eyes.

He dashed and slid on the ground while slashing his sword on the knee of the skeleton soldier. He then kicked the ground as he flew in the mid-air. Along with the force of gravity, he elbowed the skull of the skeleton soldier causing it to crack.

[You've received 54 exp from killing Skeleton soldier!]

He ignored the system prompt as he quickly moved his body and dashed to the other skeleton soldier.

"This is the end!" He smashed his elbow on the skull of the remaining skeleton soldier with all of his might.

Bang!

[You've received 51 exp from killing Skeleton soldier!]

The skeleton soldiers slowly turned into ashes fading in the air as it leaves its weapons.

"Ha~" Souta breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the system. He slumped down on the ground as his tense muscles finally relax.

He looked at the system interface and saw that he level up to 2. He still needs to kill two skeleton soldiers before he level up to 3.

Level: 2(105/200)

"I'm extremely tired!" Souta muttered as he looked at the rough ceiling.

"Let's rest for an hour."

Souta moved his body at the corner of the room. He leaned his back on the walls while pondering his next move.

He lifted his head and observed the whole room. The whole room was wide and dark. There's only one lantern at the center of the ceiling that could barely illuminate the entire room. He looked around and found that there were other four lanterns at the corner of the room but there's no light coming out of it.

"This is...? A secret room!!" His gamer sense was tingling right now. He had an idea that this was a secret room. There's no doubt about it. He just needed to solve this puzzle.

He immediately got up and observed the whole room. He felt a sense of nostalgia. It feels that he was familiar with this room but he couldn't remember if he went here before in the game.

After a dozen minutes, he found something.

He was standing in front of the walls while tracing his palm at the cold wall.

"This is the secret door but I couldn't open it..." He rubbed his chin while looking at the wall in front of him. He then looked back at the four lanterns at the corner of the room. An idea came into his mind as this was familiar to him but he couldn't remember where he completed this dungeon.

He lit up the four lanterns of the room and it illuminated the whole room but nothing happens.

"Hmm...? There's still one thing that I need to do."

He looked up and extinguished the fire on the lantern on the ceiling, the first lantern that was lighting up the room.

Boom!!

Suddenly, the ground shook.

Souta looked back and saw that the secret door was slowly opening.

"As I thought..."

He walked forward and saw a dark narrow path. He didn't think twice as he directly stepped forward. He felt the mana here in this room was too dense, making his chest heavy.

He tapped the walls and found that this was no ordinary rock. The mana here made the walls harder than the rest making it a precious stone called Mana Stone. From the looks of it, it looks like a high-grade mana stone, no, he thinks that these walls shouldn't be called stone.

After walking for five minutes, Souta arrived in front of a metal door. He opened it and looked inside the room.

There's nothing inside the room except a golden treasure chest in the center of the room. The treasure chest was emitting golden light.

Souta's eyes lit up when he saw the golden treasure chest.

He approached it and slowly opened the golden chest. There's a lone silver earring with black orb as its design inside the chest.

"This...?" He finally remembers what it is. This earring was one of his pieces of equipment in the game. One of his powerful set in the game, the [Soul Blood Earring].

He's lucky that he found this in the early game.

He picked it up and directly wear it on his ear.

"Ah!" He felt an overwhelming power went inside his body.

[Soul Blood Earring: A powerful Universal Treasure. It could harvest the soul of every creature to increase the wearers' power.

Skill 1: [Harvester of the Soul: It could collect the soul of every dead creature. Soul collected: 0/100.

Skill 2: (locked)

Effect: 10 strength, 10 vitality, 10 intelligence

Souta looked at the detailed information of the [Soul Blood Earring]. He still couldn't use skill 2 as it needs the other pair of earrings. The [Harvester of the Soul] was a skill to collect the soul of every dead creature. He couldn't directly collect the soul of a living creature. He needs the soul of a newly killed creature that hasn't left its body. If he collected 100 souls he could use it to increase one of his attributes by 10 but every time he uses it the soul requirement gets higher.

"This earring feels nostalgic..." Souta said with a smirked on his face.

It's time to harvest the soul inside this dungeon.

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Chapter 3 - Training and Eating

Souta was much more powerful now than before. A single piece of Universal Treasure gave him the power up above his level. Universal Treasures were the highest grade treasure that can be found in the whole cosmos.

He stood up and picked up his sword. With the stats he had right now, he could probably conquer this dungeon in just a single day. Well, it all depends on the size of the dungeon.

"I should get the other skills for now to increase my battle prowess." He rubbed his chin as he looked at the sword on his hand.

"First, I would try to acquire the [Sword Mastery] skill. To acquire it, I need to swing a sword a thousand times in a proper form." He said as he fixed his posture. This was the same in the game.

Swoosh!!

He began to swing his sword.

"One... Two... Three... Four..."

...

After a few hours, Souta finished swinging his sword and he successfully acquired the [Sword Mastery] skill.

He sat on the ground as he tried to catch his breath. The muscles on his arm were sore and he could barely move it.

"This will boost my fighting power."

He felt that this was really out of this world. When he acquired the skill, he felt he already became well versed in using swords. In the game, it will only increase the players' damage when using a sword. Also, some of the sword skills require the [Sword Mastery] skill.

[Sword Mastery] Level 1: The most basic level of the Swordsman. At this level, a person could be truly said a Swordsman. Effect: 20% damage when using a sword.

Souta picked up the sword and played with it. He really felt that he was a real Swordsman right now. With this, he could accurately pinpoint his [Stab] to the bones of the skeleton. He wouldn't need to worry about not hitting the bones when he used [Stab]. Before he was reluctant to use the skill [Stab] as he was worried that his sword would pass through the body of the skeleton, so he mostly used his fist and elbow. But now, he doesn't need to worry as he had the [Sword Mastery] skill. The combination of [Sword Mastery] and [Stab] was great.

The added damage of the [Sword Mastery] and [Stab] was enough to pierce an iron not to say the bones of the skeleton.

"Am I really in the game or not?" He said with a sighed. He doesn't have any information, all he had was the [Soul Blood Earring]. This was proof that he was inside the game world.

What if he died? Gamers never died right? They only respawn.

He doesn't have the guts to try this. He still doesn't want to die and he had many things that he wanted to do. He wasn't afraid of dying, the thing that he was most afraid of was the unknown. No one knew what will happen if someone dies.

"And one of that is to finish this game." He said with a smirked on his face. This was a super difficult game as he would finish it without dying. This was not the same as a virtual game when he died the system will only give him a penalty.

He couldn't help but tremble while thinking about this.

He could dominate the game at that time because of his powerful set, unique skill, and his super high level. If he was really inside the game, he wanted to know the date right now. He wanted to know what version he starts.

He could already recall most of the things in the game, which must be because of the added 10 intelligence of the [Soul Blood Earring]. But the problem was that he couldn't remember anything outside the game except his real name.

"Hmm...?" Souta saw something while he was looking at his stats. He found that his exp increased while he was practicing.

"So training can also increase a person's level here. It must be because this body wasn't an avatar anymore but my real body."

The increase in exp was low compare to what he gets from killing the skeleton soldiers.

Suddenly, he felt his stomach growling. He still hasn't eaten a single meat ever since he transmigrates into the body of the goblin. He forgot that he had to eat to survive. His head was only filled with leveling up and forgot one of the most important things, the food.

"The monsters here in the dungeon were only undead. I couldn't eat something like that, plus when the undead died their body withers." He said in a low voice. There's no animals here or other monsters. Monster? There's a corpse of the goblin inside this dungeon.

He exited the room and went to the corpse of the goblin that he found before.

He looked at it with a frown on his face. "I'm going to eat this! I don't have a choice but to eat this to survive, I still want to finish this story!"

He carried the corpse inside the room. He felt nausea just from the thought of eating this goblin. His face contorted in disgust.

He suddenly recalled that there were torches everywhere inside this dungeon. He would at least cook the meat of this goblin before he eats it.

He chopped the meat of the goblin and roasted it to the point that he couldn't recognize that it was a slice of goblin meat.

Chomp!

Souta directly bit the meat and quickly gulp it. He felt that he was going to puke the meat. He closed his eyes and erased those thoughts inside his mind.

"Souta eat, if you don't eat you won't survive!" He said to himself. He felt that he was about to cry just thinking that he would eat this every day. Souta thought that he should find a way back home. He doesn't want to stay here in this place living like this.

...

Souta rest for a few hours before he exited the room. He was going to conquer this dungeon.

He tried to collect the soul of the dead goblin but as he expected the soul already left its body. The soul will leave the body after three hours when they died. It means that the goblin died more than three hours from now.

Huh? He just remembered that he practice sword for a few hours and that took most of his time.

Still, those skeleton soldiers. Those skeleton soldiers still had their souls on their bodies that's why they could still move like a living creature.

A necromancer had that kind of skill. They could call the soul from the hell back to the living world to serve them.

But he couldn't collect the soul of those skeletons if he hadn't defeated them. He still needs to defeat them to weaken the link of soul and body so it makes it easier to collect their soul.

"Okay, it's time to finish this," Souta said in a low voice as he played the sword in his hand. After getting the [Sword Mastery] skill, he really felt that he was an experienced swordsman.

He exited the room and went to conquer the dungeon. He met a lot of skeleton soldiers on his way but with his current stats, those skeletons were not a problem. He could defeat them easily with his 16 points of strength, plus his 20% added damage when wielding a sword. Ten points of strength was a big gain for a goblin like him. Every time a goblin level up its attributes only increase by one point, so ten points were equals to ten level up.

The skeleton soldiers weren't his match at all. They became his exp pot to further increase his level. By the time he arrived in front of the Boss room, he's already level 6. At this point, it's already hard to level up as he already needs a large amount of exp.

It took him one day before he managed to arrive in front of the boss's room. Since fighting for a whole day left him tired, he's going to take some rest.

"I want..." Souta slowly closed his eyes and took a little nap.

He woke up exactly four hours after he fell asleep.

"Ah!" He yawned and he looked around his surroundings. He didn't think that he would fell asleep. He only plans to rest for a few minutes before going to fight the boss of this dungeon.

He looked at his stats.

Name: Souta Ieshi

Race: Goblin

Level: 6 (453/1,300)

Class: «none»

Health: 40/40

Stamina: 20/20

Mana: 34/34

Strength: 20 (1010)]

Agility: 11 ]

Dexterity: 8 ]

Intelligence: 17 (710)]

Vitality: 20 (1010)]

Free attribute point(s): 8

Skill(s): [Dash, [Stab, [Sword Mastery]

Equipment skill(s): [Harvester of the Soul(Soul collected: 31/100)]

Skill point(s): 6

'It's enough.' Souta nodded while looking at his stats. His stats were enough for this Boss battle.

He also managed to collect the souls of those skeletons. He collected a total of 31 souls from those skeletons. He still needs a lot of souls before he could use the skill to increase his attributes.

"Okay, let's do this." Souta took a deep breath while closing his eyes. After a while, he opened his eyes with a will to fight.

It needs a party of players to take down a dungeon Boss. But Souta always fought alone in the game. He doesn't have any party members at all. All he need was himself.

He raised his hand and put his palm on the cold metal door. He pushed it opened and took a peek inside the Boss room.

Woosh!

A cold wind brushed his face.

Souta took a step forward and entered the room without hesitation. He couldn't see anything as it was too dark.

Suddenly, the torches around the walls lit up and it illuminated the entire room.

The room was circular, it doesn't have the four corners of a normal room. At opposite of his direction, there, a skeleton wearing a black robe. The skeleton was two meters in height and it's emitting a very ominous aura. On its left hand, there's a black staff with the black orb at its tip.

With one look, Souta immediately knows what it is.

"Undead Skeleton Mage!"

Chapter 4 - Undead Skeleton Mage

"Undead Skeleton Mage!" Souta looked at the skeleton which was standing in the center of the room.

Seeing this, he finally remembers where he was. At first, he wasn't sure where he found the [Soul Blood Earring, but now that he saw the Undead Skeleton Mage memories of this dungeon came into his mind.

He remembered that this dungeon was called Undead Sanctuary.

Undead Sanctuary was a very large dungeon. It consists of 12 low-level dungeons, 6 mid-level dungeons, and 3 high-level dungeons. The ruler of this place was the powerful undead inside the high-level dungeon.

He's currently inside one of the low-level dungeons. People didn't know that this place was hiding a Universal treasure because they don't expect that one of the low-level dungeons here was hiding the real treasure of this sanctuary. They thought that all the good items were inside the high-level dungeons.

At that time, the players already cleared all the low level and mid-level dungeons and they were preparing to clear the high-level dungeon when Souta accidentally opened the secret door. They wouldn't expect something like that inside the low-level dungeon.

The one in front of him was the Undead Skeleton Mage, one of the bosses of the low-level dungeons here in the sanctuary. If he wasn't wrong this undead level was between 15-20. A powerful opponent for the current him.

A cold wind strongly blew over him.

"Not good!" Souta quickly turned around and found the door closed on its own.

"Looks like I'm trapped here." a wry smile appeared on his face while looking at the Undead Skeleton Mage.

The Undead Skeleton Mage's eye socket flashed with red light and its aura grew stronger.

"It's coming." Souta murmured as he braced himself.

He quickly checked his equipment. He had a sword and leather armor. These were the only equipment he found in this dungeon this fits his current body. Some of the skeleton soldiers dropped a gauntlet, helm, and boots but those things were too large for him. It would make him uncomfortable if he forces himself to wear those types of equipment. This was not like in the game that he could just click the word "Equip" and it would fit him nicely.

"Let's do this."

The Undead Skeleton Mage lifted up its staff and the black orb emitted a strange white light. A fireball at the size of the human head formed on its left side and it quickly threw the fireball at Souta.

Swoosh!

Souta moved his body and avoided the fireball. He then charged at the Undead Skeleton Mage.

When the Undead Skeleton Mage saw Souta avoided its attack, it raised its staff higher. Two fireballs formed on its side.

"Oh~" Souta increased his speed as he moved in a zigzag pattern so that the Undead Skeleton Mage couldn't easily aim the fireball on him.

Swoosh!

Souta moved swiftly and in just a few seconds, he arrived in front of the Undead Skeleton Mage. He knows that this undead was weak in close combat battle.

Tap!

The Undead Skeleton Mage quickly tapped its staff on the ground. A barrier formed around the undead and it quickly expanded like a balloon.

Souta saw this and he quickly stopped on his track. He jumped backward while slashing his sword against the barrier.

Clang!

"It finally uses a skill," Souta said in a low voice as he observed the undead.

The undead pointed its staff at Souta. Several fireballs appeared around the undead and it quickly flew towards Souta.

[Fire Ball Dance]

Souta moved his body swiftly as he jumps side to side to avoid the fireballs raining down on him.

Bang!

He got hit by one of the fireballs. It pushed him back by one meter.

His HP decreased by 10 points in getting hit by one fireball. He had a total of 40 health points and it's pretty low compared to his HP when his avatar was demi. Monster type avatar was really weak at first.

If he doesn't have the [Soul Blood Earring, then his health points would decrease by half leaving him only 20 points. In other words, if he doesn't have the Universal treasure with him the Skeleton in front of him could two-hit kill him.

There were so many fireballs shooting in his direction. No matter what, he had to avoid getting hit. He would undoubtedly die when three more fireballs hit him.

Swooosh!

Swooosh!

"Shit!" Souta run as fast as he could around the room. He pulled back his arm and throw his sword on the Skeleton Mage.

Swooosh!

Clang!

The sword flew at a high speed and crashed on the barrier around the Skeleton. It fell on the ground without damaging the Skeleton.

The fireballs stopped shooting and he knows why. The Undead Skeleton Mage could only use one skill at a time. It couldn't use [Flame Barrier] and [Fire Ball Dance] at the same time.

Souta used wouldn't let this chance go. With a stomp of his feet, he dashed towards the Skeleton Mage using the skill [Dash].

He picked up his sword and smashed it on the barrier.

Clang!

He didn't give up as he continued to slash his sword producing a loud sound.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

After a few slashes, he noticed the crack formed on the barrier. He smiled widely as he increased his pace in slashing his sword.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The Skeleton Mage tapped its staff on the ground.

The barrier flashed dimly and it expanded.

Ohm!

"Ah!" Souta shouted as he used the skill [Stab]. His sword pierced through the barrier and he slashed it downwards.

The barrier was shattered like a fragile glass.

A red light glowed in the eye socket of the Skeleton Mage when the barrier broke. It raised its staff in the air and dozen fireballs slowly formed.

Souta quickly moved his body and dashed towards the Skeleton Mage. Once again, he throws his sword on the Skeleton.

"It's different this time!"

Clang!

The sword hit the Skeleton causing it to lose its focus. The red light on its eye socket glowed brighter.

It caused a change in the fireballs forming in the air. The fireballs spin faster and it grew bigger.

"Ah!" With a boom, Souta jumped and kicked the Skeleton Mage.

Souta noticed the fireballs were going wildly. He immediately ducked down and grabbed his sword.

Boom!

Dozens of fireballs exploded in the air. It produces a powerful shockwave that swept the area around it.

Souta was knocked back two meters away because of the shockwave.

He gritted his teeth as he stood up. That shockwave cost 5 health points. If he was directly hit by that then he would lose most of his health points.

He used the skill [Dash] and arrived in front of the Skeleton Mage in just a second. He launched a barrage of attacks on his opponent.

Stab!

Stab!

The Skeleton Mage swung its staff.

Souta saw this and he grabbed the arm of the Skeleton. He couldn't afford to get knockback once again as there's already fireball forming above the Skeleton.

He lifted up his sword and used it to blocked the staff.

Bang!

Although the Skeleton Mage was weak in frontal combat, its level was still higher than him. The damage he took was 7 points.

"Argh!" He groaned in pain as he felt that his arm was going numb from taking that hit. His health points were less than 20 and two more hits were enough to take him down.

He lifted up his feet and kicked the Skeleton sideways.

Bang!

"You wouldn't get away from me!" He shouted as he tightened his grip on the arm of the Skeleton. Once he leaves the front of the Skeleton, those fireballs in the air would start bombarding him.

Stab!

He swung his sword like a madman trying to butcher his enemy.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

He engaged the Skeleton in frontal combat. He dodges and attacks at the same time trying to maximize his damage.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

"Argh!" He was hit on the head and it caused him to loosen his grip on the arm of the skeleton.

The Skeleton Mage waved its arm and jumped backward.

Souta wouldn't let it go easily just like that. He quickly stood up and used [Dash] to chase the Skeleton Mage.

The speed of the Skeleton was slow compared to him who's using a skill to increase his speed.

Swoosh!

He grabbed the robe of the Skeleton and once again use [Stab]. He only has one-fourth of his total Stamina. He couldn't carelessly use his skill anymore.

"Just die!!" He shouted as he madly waved his sword.

Clang!

After a few slashes, the sword broke into pieces.

Souta tightened his fist and launched a barrage of punches on the rib cage of the Skeleton.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

He added 5 free attribute points to his strength attribute.

Strength: 25 (1510)]

He pulled back his fist and shot a powerful punch on the Skeleton.

Bang!

The rib cage of the Skeleton was shattered.

Bang!

Souta didn't stop his punch and he threw another powerful punch one after another.

He didn't stop until he heard the system prompts inside his head.

[You've received 1,972 exp from defeating the Undead Skeleton Mage!]

[You've level up!]

[All attributes increased by 1!]

[You've received 1 skill point!]

[You've received 2 free attribute points!]

[Congratulations on completing the Raid mission!]

[You've received 100 exp!]

[You've received 1 attribute point!]

[You've received 1 skill point!]

He sighed in relief when he heard the system prompts in his head. He fell down on the ground as he was too tired from fighting the "Boss" of this dungeon.

He lay down on his back as he looked at the prompts. He received a lot from conquering this dungeon.

He was now a level 7 Goblin and a few more levels were enough for him to evolve.

Goblins had a lot of evolution path. The most basic ones were Hobgoblin and High Goblin. He already crossed out these two from his evolution path. If he doesn't have the [Soul Blood Earring, he would be forced to choose between these two but now it's different.

He recalled one hidden evolution of the Goblin from the forum.

A powerful and extremely well-versed Goblin. The requirements for this evolution was that one of his stats must have reach 50. With [Soul Blood Earring] in his arsenal, he doesn't need to worry about 50 stat points.

The High End Goblin.

Its evolution depends on the stat that you choose.

Souta couldn't help but smirk thinking about his future growth.

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Chapter 5 - Loot and Relaxation

Souta stood up and walked towards the Undead Skeleton Mage.

The Skeleton was slowly crumbling and withering, vanishing into the air like a bubble.

There's still light in the eye socket of the Skeleton. It still has its will this time.

"W-Why?"

Souta frowned when he heard a voice directly in his head. It was a language that he didn't recognize but he still could understand it as the Skeleton was directly talking to his mind.

"We... didn't do anything... Why invade... us...?"

It was then that the Skeleton vanished and disappeared into thin air.

"Why...?" Souta muttered in a low voice. He understood that this was different from the game. The "Boss" was not a mindless monster just like in the game. They had their own will and thoughts. They weren't a 2d character anymore.

From their perspective, Souta was a monster that invades their home and kills their brethren without reason. They were just living here peacefully and he kills them, more like, he massacres them.

"I should be careful from now on." He said in a low voice as he squatted down and harvest the soul of the "Boss" using the skill [Harvester of the Soul].

He then closed his eyes and said, "Thank you for your patronage, the only thing I could do is I will always remember your help in increasing my strength... but I will not stop, I will conquer this whole dungeon!"

He really couldn't help it. At first, he was seriously treating this as a game. He fought and kill them for the sake of becoming stronger. It seems that he needs to think through his every action now.

He rubbed his chin and started to think about this whole dungeon.

Undead Sanctuary. There's a total of 12 low-level dungeons here on the upper floor of the sanctuary. Six of them were occupied by the undead and the other six were occupied by monsters.

He saw a corpse of a goblin inside this dungeon. It seems that the other dungeon which was occupied by goblins were going around here on the upper floor trying to conquer every dungeon.

It was different in the game. The monster here didn't spawn out of nowhere. The monster increases their numbers through breeding and that's what happened to the dungeon which was occupied by the monsters. There's nothing that could restrict them here so they could go out of their respective dungeon.

That's also the reason why Souta fought the "Boss" with a fifty percent chance of winning. He couldn't grind in the same dungeon as the monster didn't spawn like it did in the game.

Their numbers grew exponentially and at the same time, the "Bosses" of the dungeon grew ambitious. They started to fight on their own and fought each other trying to conquer each other's dungeons.

Once they know about his situation they will target this dungeon. Well, it doesn't matter to him as this will give him a reason to kill them. Once they attack him, he will not hold back at all and retaliate with his full strength.

Speaking of killing...

He hasn't felt anything at all when he defeated those skeletons. It just like when Humans kill ants or insects. They wouldn't treat it as killing. A human would only treat someone as a murderer when someone kills their own species.

Still, it doesn't feel anything like that when fighting the skeleton. It only feels like he's fighting a dummy. But it's not the same as fighting a humanoid monster. Those monsters have the vibe of humans and it was entirely different compared to skeletons.

Souta then shook his head hardly putting those gloomy thoughts in the back of his head.

"Stop thinking about things like this! I will do what I do normally and nothing will change. If someone helps me I repay them."

Souta smirked and turned his attention to the staff on the ground. There's also the black robe of the Undead Skeleton Mage.

"What a nice reward! A piece of Yellow equipment!"

He smiled widely as he checked the details of the staff. He held the staff in his hand.

[Staff of Undead(Yellow): It's a staff made negative energy. 20 mana, 10 magical damage, 5 intelligence. Durability: 8/10

[Undead's robe(Yellow): A robe formed when the dead rises from the grave. 10% magical resistance, 5% physical resistance, 5 intelligence. Durability: 8/10

He had a satisfied smile on his face when he saw the equipment. With its durability, it was enough to last until he went to the surface. Yellow equipment was enough for the current him.

There were different grades of equipment, artifact, and treasure. The lowest grade was Colorless and the highest was Universal. The grade of the sword that he was using before was Colorless.

Colorless, Yellow, Blue, Purple, Orange, Red, Dark, and lastly the Universal was the grade of equipment from weakest to strongest.

In the game, all of his equipment was Universal grade treasure. The most powerful one at that. Because of this that he became the most dominant player around the world. He conquered countless dungeons at that time to complete his set of equipment.

Souta stood up and wield the staff in his hand. He played with it for a while before he stopped. The robe was too large for his current 1-meter size so he couldn't wear it this time. He still needs to evolve first before he could wear it.

Staff, huh? He looked at the staff in his hand.

Back then, he was a powerful Battle Mage. His class was versatile too all ranges, be it melee or long-range.

He doesn't plan to change it. He will also become a Great Battle Mage in this lifetime. This class was a powerful class that he used before when he was still Blood.

A Goblin becoming a Great Battle Mage was certainly the things he's looking forward in the future.

For now, he still wouldn't be able to get a class as the requirements for getting the Mage class could only be found on the surface.

He shook his head and went to the back of the room. When he saw nothing there, he sighed in disappointment.

It's impossible for a chest containing gold coins to appear out of nowhere. He should be content by what he received.

There's only a door leading down to the middle floor here. The middle floor was impossible for him right now. The mob there were only slightly weaker than the "Boss" here. The "Bosses" downstairs were level 35-40. They were too powerful that even if he finishes his evolution he wouldn't stand a chance.

He could barely kill a level 15-20 monster so he shouldn't think about the middle floor for now.

"Okay, let's sleep for now." He said as he sat down and leaned his back on the walls. He falls asleep quickly as he was too tired from fighting the "Boss".

...

Souta woke up exactly six hours after he sleeps. He stood up and checked his surroundings.

"I'm still here, I thought that was a dream."

He yawned and stretched his body for a while. Picking up the staff and robe, he went out of the dungeon.

He stood outside and looked at the bright ceiling. The place outside the dungeon was like a forest on the surface. Trees scattered around and there's river silently flowing. There were crystals emitting light in the whole place.

"So much for the name Undead Sanctuary..." He muttered as he turned around and looked at the tunnel behind him. This was where he came from. For him, this was the same as the Newbie Village or Town in the game.

This place was truly beautiful. A person wouldn't associate this place to Undead if they don't know its name. It's true that only six out of twelve dungeons were undead but that's not the same for the dungeons below.

The dungeons below were truly dark and composed of powerful undead.

He walked ahead and squatted down in the riverside. He drinks a mouthful of water to satiate his thirst. He hasn't tasted water since yesterday.

"Hu~ it's too good!"

Words of satisfaction escaped from his mouth. It feels like he hadn't tasted any water for a very long time.

"I already miss going into hot spring... Ah~ earth-chan I miss you..."

He stepped in and he slowly submerged his body in the water. This time he fully intended to relax.

If his memory was right, there's only fish in this river. There's no monster here so he could peacefully relax here.

"Oh right! There's fish here! I also need to stack food in my stomach!"

He went to the surface and looked at the water. He observed and watched silently before he found his target.

Swooosh!!

In an instant, he jumped down towards his target like a lion hunting their prey.

With his current stats, it was easy for him to catch it in bare hands.

"Gotcha!"

He raised his hand and looked at the fish that he caught.

"Hahaha! This wasn't enough! I still need more!"

He once again dives down and caught fish with his own two hands.

It's not that bad to relax before he meets the monster here in the sanctuary.

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Chapter 6 - Fighting Kobolds

"Hmm... Although I've just arrived here yesterday, it feels like I haven't eaten seafood for a long time."

Souta muttered as he bit the roasted fish in his hand. He still has a general idea of how to make fire without using magic.

"I've already increased my Intelligence attribute but I still couldn't remember my past." He looked at his stats while eating.

He could only remember that he came from earth and played the most popular game, Battle World Online. When he first came here, his memory was hazy. He slowly remembers things from the past every time he increases his Intelligence attribute.

"It sucks being a monster with low intelligence."

Suddenly, he heard footsteps coming behind him.

"Hmm...?" He slowly turned his head and looked behind him. He saw five kobolds coming out of the bushes. They were armed with sword and spear.

Shing!

The kobolds pointed their weapons on his back.

'Oi! Oi! Why are you pointing that on me? Do you really want to die that much?'

One of the kobolds opened its mouth and said something that he couldn't understand.

"#[email protected]"

'This humanoid dogs?! I couldn't understand what they are saying!' Souta frowned hearing this.

There's no subtitles or speech balloon in his vision like in the game. If that's really the case, then he wouldn't understand a single thing in this world. No, there's an exception... and that's the Undead Skeleton Mage he fought before. But, it's different as the Undead Mage talked to his mind directly like some sort of telepathy. Well, he couldn't understand the logic behind it.

It seems that he needs to learn the language of this world first. He just hope that he still has time to learn that. It's important to learn it because he wouldn't be able to converse to other races without learning a language.

Ah! There's an item that will greatly help him.

He recalled one of the most powerful and advanced countries in the world, the Mechanic Country. The Mechanic Country had that technology. A technology where he could freely converse to other people even without knowing their language. That technology could translate thousands of languages around the world.

"I'll just get it at that time." He muttered as he slowly stood up and faced the kobolds.

The kobolds were still saying things that he couldn't understand. The kobolds got fed up with him as he didn't even reply to their question.

They raised their weapon and swung it downwards aiming at his head.

Souta saw this and moved his body sideways dodging the sharp weapons. He then picked up the [Staff of Undead] and drew a little distance to the kobolds.

"It's a fight, right? Okay, I will give you what you want!" Saying this, he charged straight on the five kobolds in front of him.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Metallic sounds echoed in the area near the river.

Souta ducked down and used his feet to kick the knee of the kobold. He then moved his hand and swung the staff.

Clang!

One of the kobolds protected its comrades by blocking his staff.

Swoosh!

The remaining three kobolds rushed at him and stabbed their spear in his direction.

Seeing this, Souta rolled backward avoiding the sharp end of the spears.

'They have a good combination and I praise that but... that's all' He used [Dash] and quickly zoomed the distance between him and the kobolds.

He swung his staff with greater force than before.

Bang!

One of the kobolds tried to block him but was pushed backward by his strength. The kobolds were pushed back to their comrades.

Souta smirked and he once again used [Dash].

Swooosh!

He arrived in front of them in an instant and it caught to kobolds off guard. He raised his feet and swept the kobold in front sideways.

Bang!

The kobold flew and crashed in the tree causing the leaves to fall.

Souta followed up by swinging his staff to the kobolds.

Bang!

The kobolds were hit in the head. It loosened its grip on the sword. Then a heavy foot bent its body before flying a few meters away.

He moved his body as he threw his staff on the other kobolds. He then kicked the sword to the air before he jumped and caught it.

Putchi!

Blood spurted out from the neck of the kobold.

It was so fast that the other two kobolds didn't see it clearly. They were shocked that one of them got slain by a mere goblin. There were five of them but they couldn't even handle a single goblin.

Two of them were down and one was dead. Only two kobolds were left.

Souta landed on the ground and looked at the remaining two kobolds with a smirked on his face. When he caught the sword in the air, he quickly used the skill [Stab] and slain the kobold.

[You've received 63 exp for defeating a Kobold!]

There's only one system prompts in his head. It means that the other two were still alive. They were unconscious.

"It's time to finish this." Souta waved the sword and dashed towards the two kobolds.

[You've received 67 exp for defeating a Kobold!]

[You've received 49 exp for defeating a Kobold!]

[You've received 54 exp for defeating a Kobold!]

[You've received 55 exp for defeating a Kobold!]

Series of prompts ringed inside his head.

...

Souta cleaned the bloodstains on his body in the river. He also cleaned the sword that he will use.

He just recalled that this river was near the dungeon of kobolds. It's not that surprising that he met them here as he already guesses it before.

If this was the same as the game then it's really shocking to see the monster inside the dungeon walking out of it.

"Should I go there?" He rubbed his chin and looked at his reflection on the water.

"Probably not..."

The monsters inside the low-level dungeon were 30 to 50. But... It's different now the kobolds could increase their numbers by breeding. So the monsters inside the dungeon were higher than fifty.

He wouldn't be able to conquer it with his condition. It's possible if he finishes his first evolution.

That's it! He decided that he will increase his level first by conquering the other six dungeons where undead lives, no, it's five now as he already conquered the first one.

He rubbed his chin as he tried to recall a dungeon that has a lot of loots that could bring him benefits.

After a few minutes of thinking, he decided that he would go to the dungeon where ghouls reside. By the looks of it, it seems that he doesn't need to go to the surface to get the basic Class needs.

There's no other treasure inside the dungeon before because there's a secret room there where one could find the Universal Treasure [Soul Blood Earring]. But it's different from other dungeon, he could find skill books and knowledge there. Back then, some players even found Spirit fruit.

Speaking of loots, the upper floor couldn't be compared to what's on the middle floor. The loots there were abundant and all of these were free to take. He doesn't have any competitor here cause he's the only one here beside the monsters.

Oh! He's also a monster.

Souta stood up and hanged the [Undead's robe] on his shoulder. On his left hand, there's the sword and the staff was on his right hand.

"Okay, let's conquer and evolve as fast as we can!"

Souta shouted even though he's the only one here.

...

Putchi!

A dog head flew in the air and sprayed blood on the area below.

"I forgot that I'm close to the kobolds dungeon." Souta sighed and gripped his weapon tightly.

He used [Dash] and crashed the enemies in front of him, giving him a bunch of exp.

He didn't show any mercy to these kobolds that want to take his life. He killed them as if he was harvesting exp just like in the game.

Blood flow on the ground and it turned the green grasses into crimson blood color.

Today, the kobolds lost ten men.

"Hu~ it really leaves a bad taste in my mouth."

Souta said as he turned around and leave the scene. Sinking a sharp blade into the flesh of a living being made him feel nausea. This was not a game anymore that he could ignore killing them. It's a different feeling when he's killing the undead as those were originally dead.

He rested the staff on his shoulder as he walked leisurely towards the direction of the ghoul's dungeon.

After a few minutes of walking, he arrived in front of a dark cave.

The dark cave was releasing a very dark aura. It was like he was back inside the skeleton's dungeon. The only difference was this dungeon was releasing a stinky smell.

"It stinks here!" Souta frowned as he pinched his nose.

The ghouls were rotten creatures. It's different from skeleton soldiers that don't have any piece of flesh. These ghouls smell was really bad as its flesh was rotten and there's even a worm crawling inside their body.

That's what he remembered inside the game. His knowledge of the game was really helpful to him.

"Well, let's go inside now."

Souta took a step forward and entered the cave.

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Chapter 7 - Sealed door

"Good." Souta looked at his stats and nodded. His health, mana, and stamina were full. He loses too much health and stamina in the battle yesterday. When someone was not resting, a player's ordinary recovery rate was 1 per hour but when they're sleeping their recovery would increase by five times.

In other words, it would become 5 her hour. He only had 42 health so eight hours of sleep were enough to get his health back to full. It's also the reason why some of the players will choose to go to an inn before they log out. Players wouldn't be able to move once they choose the activate the function sleep in the game that's why they have to log out.

"Well, let's enter..." Souta shook his head and stepped inside the cave.

...

This dungeon was different from the last dungeon. The floor, walls, and ceiling were made of stone bricks. It looks like an abandoned underground base or labyrinths.

The torches on the wall were organized neatly so Souta could see more clearly in this place.

Souta looked ten meters away from him. Five ghouls were standing there without doing anything. He could clearly see their rotten flesh.

He brandished his sword and dashed forward.

Swooosh!

"Die!!" He roared as he waved his sword.

The head of the ghouls flew and crashed in the ceiling. Thick blood scattered everywhere.

Souta ignored this and he kicked the body of the ghoul that he beheaded.

Bang!

The headless ghoul crashed on the two ghouls on the left side. It immobilized the two ghouls. The other two ghouls roared as they charged at him.

Souta pulled back his sword and used the skill [Stab].

Putchi!

The sword pierced through the body of the ghoul.

He lifted up his feet and kicked the ghoul, at the same time pulling out his sword.

He then moved his other hand and swung the staff.

Bang!!

He didn't stop as he swung his sword again.

"Die!!"

...

It took him a minute before he defeated the five ghouls. With his current stats, he could defeat these monsters without any problem.

Souta looked at the paths in front of him. He frowned as he tried to recall where's the Boss room.

"Ah! I remember now! It's in the front!"

Since the boss was on the path ahead, he decided to finish the left path first. He's saving the boss for the last. That's really the way.

He would get the other good things here before fighting the boss. The things on the left path were a treasure containing skill books that he needs to get a class. While the right path was a room full of more than twenty ghouls.

Even though he knew that the right path was a room full of ghouls, he would still enter it as he needed exp and soul the most right now. He wouldn't let it escape his grasp. Those exp and soul were all his possession. Not now, maybe later after he kills them.

"The basic requirements to get the class..."

He moved forward and kill some of the ghouls on his way until he reached a sealed metal door.

He was familiar with this door. A sealed door where treasure chest lies behind it. Characters were neatly carved in the metal door. Below the characters were things that he knew.

A coin, book, fish, and a bed.

He couldn't understand the meaning of these characters.

"Ah~ I really need to learn how to read and write in this world," Souta muttered with a sighed. If he wasn't familiar with this dungeon then he wouldn't be able to get the treasure inside this sealed door.

If he was in the game, the system would translate these words for him.

He sighed with a helpless expression. He then rubbed his chin as he began to delved back into his memories. Some parts of his memories were fuzzy, covered with thick fog.

After a few minutes, he opened his eyes and looked at the characters.

"If I'm not wrong these characters... It means 'It wears a coat to keep its skins in working order. Transport you to other realms without a magic portal." That's what he found in his memories. It's strange that he could look back in his memories like a book.

"If I were to answer this back on earth then I would answer Virtual Capsule, but it's not in the choices below. Well, I know the answer because I already tried this back then."

He stepped forward and pressed the book on the door. He then took a step backward as he waited for the door to open.

After a few seconds, he heard a metallic sound stirring inside the door before it slowly opened. It revealed a dark room without any torches.

Souta smirked as he looked inside the dark room. If he picked the wrong answer then it would activate a trap to kill him. He died many times because of the trap back in the game.

He took a step inside the dark room. A golden treasure chest was laying in the middle of the room. The darkness couldn't hide the golden treasure chest completely.

He squatted down and slowly opened the golden treasure chest. Inside the chest were two black books.

These two black books were the skill books that he wanted to acquire. He could also get these books in the academy on the surface or some mysterious guy that sells skill books. Well, there were many ways to get the basic skill required for basic class, and going into the dungeon was one of these.

Souta held it in his hands. A row of words appeared in his vision, as soon as he touched the books.

[Do you want to learn Mana Manipulation skill for 2 skill points? Yes/No?]

[Do you want to learn Fireball spell for 2 skill points? Yes/No?]

He had 8 skill points and learning these two skills would leave him 4 skill points. He received 1 skill point every time he levels up and 4 skill points weren't a loss to him if he could learn these two skills.

'Yes,' Souta said mentally. He then saw his skill points decreased by four.

Knowledge about the two skills was poured inside his head. It made him slightly lose his balance.

[You've learned Mana Manipulation skill!]

[You've learned Fireball spell!]

Souta took a deep breath when he read the words. He's one step closer before he could get a class.

The requirements for the Mage class were simple. A player needs to learn the skill [Mana Manipulation] and five magic spells for the class Mage. He already learned one magic spell. He just needs to learn four more spells to complete the requirements to Mage class.

But that wasn't important now. What bothered him was the strange feeling when he learned the skills. The knowledge of the skills that were poured in his head.

Souta raised his hand and it emitted a dim blueish light. He could somehow control the mana inside his body. There's no function like this in the game. The players thought that [Mana Manipulation] skill were useless. For them, and him, this skill was only a requirement to get the class Mage and learn other spells.

The feeling of this strange energy inside his body made him felt like nothing could defeat him.

He could freely control the mana inside his body. He could use it to coat his fist, legs, or his whole body when fighting an opponent.

"Really... This is making me excited." He said with a grin on his face. He's looking forward to going to the surface.

...

After he finished settling his things, he went back and go to the crossing paths before.

He finished the left path and time to exterminate the ghouls on the right path.

First, he looked at his newly acquired skills.

[Mana Manipulation] Level 1: A skill that will let you control your mana. No cost

[Fireball] Level 1: Creates a fireball that attacks the enemy. Mana cost: 5

These were enough for him. Undead was weak against fire, light, and holy type skills. This lessens the difficulty of this dungeon, no, the boss. He wouldn't use the [Fireball] against ordinary ghouls as he only had 36 mana. He would save it to finish the boss easier.

At the very least, he wouldn't suffer like when he fought the Undead Skeleton Mage before. He had a higher chance of beating a boss with additional fire type skills.

He hummed as he walked forward. He was in a good mood right now. There's no doubt about this but the other dungeons contain skill books. He would plunder them later and get the Mage class.

After a few minutes of walking, he arrived in the center of a wide room.

Bang!

The only exit behind him was closed and the walls slowly opened revealing a large number of ghouls inside.

"Grrraaa!!"

The ghouls looked at him with bloodshot eyes. They revealed their sharp nails and teeth.

Shiiing!!

Souta brandished his sword as he slowly turned around to face the ghouls.

He smirked and said, "Don't disappoint me! Just give me a lot of exp!"

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Chapter 8 - Boss Battle

Souta turned his body in the air while slashing his sword.

Putchi!

The heads of the ghouls fell on the ground with a loud 'thud' sound.

Souta landed and he quickly moved his body around the wide room.

He didn't get to close to the walls as he knows that there's a trap there. If he gets one meter close to the walls he will activate the trap. The walls, ceiling, and floors will sprout metallic spike that could kill him easily.

Souta swiftly moved his body as he avoided the ghouls from all sides.

Swiish!

He cut the arms the ghouls in front of him before he swept it with his staff.

Bang!

"Ten down..."

With every wave of his hand, parts of ghouls flew in the air. He cleanly cut their bodies into two before smashing it with his staff.

He crushed the ghouls brutally without a hint of mercy. He slash, slash, and slashed his sword until he cut them down.

In just ten minutes, he finished all the twenty-eight ghouls.

He sat down on the ground while panting heavily. Fighting almost thirty ghouls cost him large amount of stamina. He even took some scratches on his body.

"I'll rest for an hour..." Souta muttered as he lied down on his back. He looked at the ceiling with a blank expression.

Grrrr!!

The door slowly opened as the ground shook slightly. It revealed a path to go back to the entrance.

"Huff... Just twenty more souls and I will be able to use the effect of [Soul Blood Earring]." Souta muttered while looking at the interface in front of him.

Just a little bit more and he will be able to increase one of his attributes using the effect of his earring. The effect of [Soul Blood Earring] was permanent, so even if he unequip it his stats will stay the same.

When you're a goblin it doesn't matter if you level up or not, what matters was the evolution. The attributes only increased by one and it didn't even make a difference in powers.

"Haa~" Souta wiped his sweat using the [Undead's robe]. He doesn't have an inventory so he couldn't store the equipment he found in this dungeon.

"I will be fighting the boss soon..."

He recalled that the boss here was the Great Undead Summoner. A boss-type ghoul that could summon tens of ghouls in an instant. He guessed that this will be enough for his [Soul Blood Earring].

He will also level up to 8 if he could kill five or more ghouls.

He closed his eyes and fell asleep. He dreamed that he was Blood, fighting hundreds of enemies in the near Great War.

...

He woke up after 3 hours of sleep. He sat on the ground and rubbed his eyes.

"I fell asleep..."

He looked at his surroundings and found that he was still in the dungeon. How careless of him to sleep in a dungeon full of ghouls.

He stood up while grabbing his weapons, the staff, and the sword. He then exited the room after he finished checking his condition.

He arrived at the intersection and went to the path where the boss lies. He just checked his stats and this was enough for him.

Soon, he met five ghouls.

He didn't hesitate as he directly charged ahead while brandishing his sword.

"Finish the battle in an instant... Do not waste stamina."

Putchi!

The heads of the ghouls flew in the air as their bodies stopped moving.

Souta turned his head and looked at the body of the ghouls. He then waved his sword and the blood on it splattered on the ground.

"Just a little bit more and I will level up."

He walked ahead and found a huge metal door.

"A boss room, huh?"

He placed his palm on the door, feeling the cold metallic surface of the door. He put more force in his hand and pushed the door open.

Swooosh!

Cold wind burst out of the room. It brushed his face and felt a chill on his body.

"It's cold here..." He muttered and looked at the robe that was hanging on his shoulder. Placing down the staff, he grabbed the robe and wrapped it on his body.

"Okay, let's do this!" Souta took a deep breath and said to himself. He unconsciously emitted a faint killing intent as he stepped inside the room.

The room was so wide. It's circular like the room of the Undead Skeleton Mage. There were no torches on the walls as it was covered in ice. On the ceiling, there's a crystal that gives off light.

Souta saw the figure of a two and a half meter ghoul in the center of the room. Below its feet, a large magic circle was drawn on the ground. The magic circle was emitting a faint white light.

It was the boss of this dungeon, the Great Undead Summoner.

"Another long-range boss..." He muttered while looking on the gigantic ghoul.

He could feel the dense mana in this room. After learning the [Mana Manipulation] skill, he became sensitive to the mana in his surrounding.

The boss moved its head and looked at him deeply. It then roared loudly that shook the entire room.

ROAR!!

Souta smirked as he saw seven ordinary ghouls emerge from the ground.

"An exp pot, huh?"

He bent his knees and threw himself on the ghouls.

Boom!

In just a second, he arrived in front of the ghouls. He used [Stab] and pierced the body of the ghoul. He didn't stop as he headed to the next ghoul and smashed it using his staff.

Bang!

The boss took a deep breath and Souta noticed it. Souta quickly rolled sideways as the boss used its own skill.

[Air Wave]

A powerful gust of wind that could tear Souta's flesh shot out from the mouth of the boss. The wind didn't hit anything before it crashed in the walls causing it to shake a few times.

"What a powerful skill..." Souta said in a low voice while looking at the damage it caused. He then turned his head and looked at the boss with a smile on his face.

Ding!*

[Quest triggered!]

[Boss fight: defeat the dungeon boss and conquer the dungeon. Rewards: 400 exp, 1 attribute point, and 1 skill point.

Souta read the quest with a smile on his face. He turned to the ordinary ghouls and used [Dash]. He quickly kills one of the ghouls before jumping in the air. He could see that there were another seven ghouls emerging from the ground.

He opened his palm and shoot [Fire ball].

Bang!

"You're not the only one who has skills..." Saying this, Souta aimed his sword downwards as he fell down while piercing the head of the ghoul.

He quickly stood up as the rest of the ghouls were rushing at him.

This was the strategy of this boss. While the boss was charging the [Air Wave, the ordinary ghouls were going to rush at its enemy.

[Summoning, [Air Wave, and [Berserk Ice Shot] were the skills of this boss. Once a player grasped the boss's fighting style, they could eliminate it easily.

He runs in circles while slashing the ghouls. He kept moving his arms as he just slashed and smashed everything in front of him.

Then, he heard a familiar sound in his head.

Ding*

[You've level up!]

[All attributes increased by 1!]

[You've received 1 skill point!]

[You've received 2 free attribute points!]

'Level 8, huh?' He thought as he jumped in the air and barely avoided the [Air Wave].

He used the head of the ghouls to run before jumping towards the boss. He slashed his sword on the back of the boss.

Swiiish!

The boss grew angrier as it threw him rapid punches.

Souta jumped side to side barely dodging the punches of the boss. He shot [Fire ball] once again and it hit the face of the boss.

Souta turned around and leave the boss. He proceeded to kill the ordinary ghouls.

Ding*

[You've collected 100 souls!]

He heard a system prompts on his head. He looked and saw that he collected 100 souls. When he was about to use the souls he collected the boss used the most powerful skills in its arsenal.

[Berserk Ice Shot]

Ice blocks with the size of a human head kept coming straight at him.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Souta got hit on his shoulder and stomach.

"Argh!"

He gritted his teeth as he used the 100 souls to increased his Agility attribute by ten.

Ding*

[You've used the soul you've collected!]

[Agility increased by 10!]

Souta felt cold energy entered his body and it increased his ability.

[Agility: 23]

'This will be enough...' He took a deep breath while checking his attribute and...

Swooosh!

He disappeared from his position and appeared ten meters away. He moved so fast that the ghouls couldn't even see him.

He turned around him used [Stab] repeatedly, piercing all the bodies of the ghouls.

The boss grew angrier at this. It once again cast [Air Wave] as [Berserk Ice Shot] was cooling down. A powerful gust of wind went straight forward on Souta.

Souta turned his head and looked at the incoming powerful wind. When the powerful wind was about to hit him, he once again vanished.

The boss was stunned at this. It then noticed that Souta was running.

[Dash]

Souta increased his speed with the skill [Dash]. When he was ten meters away from the boss, he jumped in the air and used [Stab] on the face of the boss.

Roar!

The boss roared and waved its hand. Souta maneuvered himself in the air and landed in the ghoul's hand.

[Fire ball]

The fireball exploded in the face of the boss. Souta followed up by stabbing his sword.

[Stab]

Ding*

[Proficiency reached!]

[Your skill Stab level up to two!]

Souta was surprised when he saw the system prompts. He didn't think that he would be able to level up his skill in just two days. Normally, it would take a week or two to level up a level 1 skill to 2 without using skill points.

'Luck is on my side!' He smirked as he used the strengthened [Stab].

Putchi!

Dark red blood gushed out from the neck of the boss.

"Die!" Souta roared as he used [Fire ball] until he run out of mana.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

All of the fireballs hit the head of the boss. The head of the boss was covered in thick gray smoke.

Thud!

Souta landed in front of the boss and waved his sword and staff.

"AHHHH!!!"

"JUST DIE!!" He waved the two weapons in his hands trying to kill the boss. In just a minute, he threw more than a hundred blows.

'For the final phase!' Souta pulled back his sword before stabbing it madly.

[Stab]

Ding*

[You've received 1,830 exp for defeating the Great Undead Summoner!]

Souta breath a sighed of relief when he heard the system prompt. Then, he was filled with bewilderment. He hasn't finished the mission. He already killed the boss.

Soon, he found the answer as he heard a low growl behind him.

The ghouls were still here. He wouldn't be able to complete the mission until he kills all of them.

He turned around with a tired expression as he faced the ghouls.

"Ah~ I need to make it quick... I want to rest."

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Chapter 9 - Kobold again

[Congratulations on completing the Boss fight mission!]

[You've received 400 exp!]

[You've received 1 attribute point!]

[You've received 1 skill point!]

Souta lied down after he heard the system prompts. Fighting the boss and ghouls at the same time took almost all of his stamina. Plus, he also drained his mana pool. He only had 1 mana reserved in his mana pool.

Well, he also gains a lot this time. Unfortunately, the ghouls weren't wearing any sort of armor so he couldn't pick any decent items from their body.

"Well played Souta..." He said to himself as he looked at his stats.

Name: Souta Ieshi

Race: Goblin

Level: 8(2,725/3,500)

Class: «none»

Health: 29/44

Stamina: 3/22

Mana: 1/38

Strength: 27(1710)]

Agility: 23]

Dexterity: 10]

Intelligence: 19(910)]

Vitality: 22(1210)]

Free attribute point(s): 8

Skill(s): [Dash, [Stab, [Sword Mastery, [Mana Manipulation]

Spell(s): [Fireball]

Equipment skill(s): [Harvester of the Soul. Soul collected: 18/200]

Skill point(s): 6

He used the souls he collected to increase his agility attribute. Right now, all of his stats were balance except the dexterity. Dexterity and agility were somehow connected as he wouldn't be able to control his speed properly without raising his dexterity.

[Harvester of the Soul]. This skill was a cheat. It's one of the reasons that he got stronger in the past.

The souls that he needs to use the effect of the skill got higher. Currently, 200 souls were what he needed. To get this amount, he needs to at least conquer one or two dungeons. There were many opportunities to obtain souls in this world. There's no shortage of war in this world. Just by standing in the middle of a battlefield, he could get thousands of souls in just a few seconds.

A small war was participated by two countries. And the battlefield of this war was enough for him to increase his stats by a few times. Hundreds of thousands of people participated in a war of this scale.

Back then, the players gave him a nickname 'Wanderer of War'. It was because he always appeared on different battlefields around the world plundering the souls of the dead people. It was especially in the Great War where all countries join the battle. There were at least billions of souls there. He walked throughout the whole continents. Nothing could stop him at that time.

Souta put those memories in the back of his head. He then looked at his stats once again. Just a little bit exp and he's going to level up once again. He's slowly reaching the level cap before evolution and his stats weren't enough for the requirements. It seems that he needs to use his free attribute points to raise his stats.

Souta closed his eyes and pondered what he should do next. After getting out in this sanctuary, he will try to determine what version he's currently. There's a probability that the future he knows was different. There's a reason for that and that's because of the existence of players. Every day millions of players were doing an ordinary quest and some of them were doing hidden quest or main quest. Sometimes, it could determine the future of a kingdom.

There was once a war between two countries and five of the top 10 guilds join one side. The outcome was inevitable. The side that the player joined won the war.

While thinking this, Souta fell asleep because of tiredness.

...

Souta woke up after sleeping for almost eight hours.

"Ah~"

He yawned and stretched his body before he got up. He, the legendary player of Battle World Online, start his day in another world.

"I want to wash my body..." He looked at himself full of dirt.

He exited the dungeon and sneakily went to the river to wash.

On his way, he met the corpses of both kobolds and goblins. He sat down and checked the body of the goblin.

"It seems that they were killed recently..." Souta muttered as he stood up. The souls were still here so they didn't die that long. The souls will leave the body after 3 hours so he could guess what happened here.

It only means that the kobolds and goblins engaged in a battle based on their wounds and the surrounding. The battle was not small at all. At least it involves half of the force of a whole dungeon. He could see it because there were fifteen dead bodies here not including the kobolds. If he added it, then there's a total of twenty-six dead bodies here.

"I want to relax for a while but it seems that I don't have the time," Souta said in a low voice as he turned his head to looked at his left side. This was the direction of the dungeons where goblin and kobold lives.

He collected the souls of the kobolds and goblins before he left.

...

Clang!

Clang!

The kobolds and goblins were fighting. It was a large scale battle involving twenty monsters. It looks like the battle already starts half an hour ago because of the corpse scattered on the ground.

Souta was looking down on the battle on top of the tree. He could predict the outcome of this battle. The kobolds were pushing the goblins.

He waved his hand and collected the souls of the dead. He easily collected more than fifty souls this time. He guessed that it's time to increase his exp. He couldn't just watch everything while collecting souls leisurely. He also needs the exp to level up.

He opened his stats and looked over. His health, stamina, and mana were full. He would use a little bit of his stamina to kill all the kobolds this time.

He didn't hesitate anymore as he directly jumped in the air towards the battle. He brandished his sword and stab it on one of the kobolds.

The kobolds and goblins were startled at his sudden appearance.

[You've received 46 exp for defeating a Kobold!]

Souta smirked and threw himself towards the kobolds. He didn't give them the time to regain their composure as he sliced one of the kobolds in half.

Putchi!

The leading kobold roared angrily and shouted on its comrades. The rest of the kobolds came back to their senses.

Souta slashed his sword on the leading kobold. The leading kobold held its spear tightly and blocked the sword aiming at its neck.

The two exchanged blows causing sparks to flew around them.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Souta took a step back as he was quite surprised at the spear skill of the kobold in front of him.

'At least level 2 mastery, huh?' He thought. The kobold in front of him had a higher mastery of weapon than him. He once again clashed against the leading kobold.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Souta waved his sword faster than before. He also out more strength. He would dominate the kobold in front of him with his high stats.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

In just a few seconds, the two exchanged dozens of blows.

Cracked!

Souta's sword was shattered and the leading kobold smiled at this. Souta opened his palm and the handle of the sword slipped off. The kobold felt something was wrong but it couldn't figure out what's wrong.

Souta slightly opened his mouth and said, "[Fire ball]" Flame burst out of his palm and exploded in the face of the kobold.

Boom!

The kobold couldn't dodge it as their distance to each other was one foot. It was impossible to dodge with its stats.

Souta already knew that the sword was on the verge of the collapse before the battle. He could see the details of his equipment he register in his system as 'equip' so he could that the durability of the weapon he uses.

Souta clenched his fist tightly and threw a powerful punch on the stomach of the kobold.

Bang!

He threw another punch on the face and hurriedly picked a sword on the ground.

[Stab]

The sword pierced the neck of the kobold. It quickly drained its life and drew its last breath before falling on the ground.

[You've received 118 exp for defeating a Kobold Warrior!]

'Eh!' Souta was surprised when he saw the words 'Kobold Warrior'. So this kobold wasn't ordinary kobold, that's why it could exchange blows with him for a long time.

The level 2 [Spear Mastery] was great. It could suppress his skills like that. If not for his scheme he wouldn't be able to kill it with just his level 1 [Sword Mastery].

Souta hurriedly shook his head. It's not the time to think about that. There's still kobolds left here and he needs to kill them first.

...

Souta killed the rest of the kobolds easily. He waved his hand and collected the souls of the dead. He then turned his head to the goblin in front of him.

The goblin was saying something he couldn't understand.

'What the hell? I don't understand what this guy's saying!' Souta thought while looking on the goblin that kept blabbering something he doesn't understand.

Should he kill them? No, they're important to reduce the numbers of the kobolds and the other inhabitants of the dungeon here.

The numbers of the living creature here were greater than it was in the game. The kobolds that died this time were greater than fifty. He recalled that he collected only thirty souls back in the first dungeon, the dungeon of skeletons.

If he was chased by huge numbers of monsters with his current state then he could only flee on the surface.

Souta frowned and looked at the goblin in front of him. He will let them fought the kobolds until the kobolds took heavy casualties. It was then that he will strike.

He guesses that it happened because he killed those ten kobolds yesterday.

Since he couldn't converse with them, Souta decided to leave now. There's no point in staying here.

He turned around and leave the place quickly with his skill [Dash].

He was going to check the situation of the other dungeons, especially the orcs. They were the ones with the most power here on the upper floor of the sanctuary.

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Chapter 10 - Evolve Kobolds

In just a few minutes, Souta arrived in the area near the Orc's dungeon.

The orcs were the most powerful monsters here in the upper floor of the sanctuary. Their stats were naturally higher than the other monsters of the same level.

Pure strength. They only use their brute strength in a fight. They don't have any skills at all.

But it's different to an evolve orc. The evolve orc have higher stats and could use skills. The combat power of the boss of this dungeon was higher than anything else on the upper floor. Even he wouldn't dare to enter that dungeon with his current stats.

Souta was hiding on the top of a tree. He was observing the dungeon carefully.

Three orcs came out of the cave. The orcs had huge bodies. They were three meters tall and have bodies full of fat. They were armed with a huge butcher knife. They were literally what people called pig head.

Souta felt that they were oozing out power greater than kobolds and goblins. One orc could fight three goblins on the same level.

'Still, hunting in a pack, huh?' He thought as he saw the three orcs entered the woods. They were probably going to hunt foods here.

The orcs weren't moving suspiciously and it seemed that they only hunt the wolves from the other dungeon. There's no war going on in this place and they didn't try to invade the other dungeons.

"Good boy..." Souta muttered and then continued observing for half an hour.

When he confirmed that there's nothing wrong, he turned around and left.

He also checked the other dungeons this time. The hornet and slime's dungeon were still silent. They didn't even come out of their base.

After that, he came back to the kobold's dungeon. He waited in the tree and half an hour later five kobolds came out of the dungeon.

Souta silently moved his body and he followed behind the five kobolds.

Ten minutes later, he saw an opportunity. He quickly jumped out of the bushes and sliced the neck of the kobold.

[You've received 61 exp for defeating a Kobold!]

"One down..." Souta smirked and turned his head to the remaining four kobolds.

They kobolds clenched their weapon and charged straight.

Tch!

Souta faced them as he moved the sword in his hand faster than anyone present here.

[Stab]!

[Stab]!

Putchi! Putchi!

The four kobolds stopped charging. They stood silently and looked on their chest. They saw a small hole on their left chest.

Spat!

Blood flow down in their mouth and they fell on their ground without any signs of life.

[You've received 48 exp for defeating a Kobold!]

[You've received 55 exp for defeating a Kobold!]

[You've received 66 exp for defeating a Kobold!]

[You've received 53 exp for defeating a Kobold!]

Souta made a hole in their chest using his skill. Now that [Stab] reached level 2, it was now faster and stronger than before. A single [Stab] could kill two kobolds easily. The only problem was that it consumed two stamina per use.

He checked his exp percentage and found that he was about to level up once again. If he could conquer the kobold's dungeon then he would reach the level requirements of the first evolution. He would also gain enough souls to increase his stats.

"Evolution, huh?" He quite interested in his evolution and he wasn't going to deny it. After all, his character in the game was a demi. A demi doesn't have any evolution like monsters. They were already born stronger than the monster like goblins, kobolds, slimes, etc. If his character was demi or human then he already cleaned up the upper floor in this sanctuary.

He wanted to experience the effect of evolution. According to the players, the effect of evolution was great. Their powers wouldn't increase twice but thrice. It's not a simple increase in stats.

With a wave of his hand, he collected the souls of the kobolds and left the scene.

...

One day had passed quickly.

The battle between kobolds and goblins were heating up. The casualties on two sides could amount to a hundred men.

Souta collected all the souls and increased his strength attribute. He killed some of the kobolds that left the dungeon. This let him reached level 9 easier.

Now, he needs 5,600 exp to level up to 10. Kobolds were not enough, he also needs the goblin here or the other monsters. He needs the soul of the goblins and kobolds to reached the requirements in evolution.

He was quite surprised at the numbers of the kobolds. He estimated that their total number was higher than two hundred. This number gave him a surprise. This surpassed the numbers of what a low-level dungeon could hold.

But what surprised him the most were the goblins. The number of goblins exceeded the number of kobolds. As expected of a goblin, their fertility rate was higher than any normal monster. The only problem was they were not that of a great fighter.

Right now, the forces of kobolds and goblins were fighting in front of him. More than a hundred monsters participated in this battle.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Sounds of swords clashing echoed in the whole area. The numbers of goblins were greater than the kobolds but the kobolds fighting abilities were higher.

"What a great battle?" Souta observed the surroundings while fighting some kobolds.

He's taking it easy. He didn't reveal his abilities here as he just wants to plunder the souls here. Sometimes he would kill goblins and kobolds sneakily. He's slowly increasing his exp and souls here.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Souta crossed swords in one of the kobolds. He then looked around before he slashed the neck of the kobold.

Putchi!

[You've received 67 exp for defeating a kobold!]

He moved to another kobold and killed it.

[You've received 52 exp for defeating a kobold!]

"It's enough..." Souta muttered as he silently left the battlefield without anyone knowing.

"It's time to visit the kobold's dungeon..."

...

Souta run passed in the woods and arrived in front of the kobold's dungeon.

He saw twenty kobolds leaving the dungeon. They were armed with a sharp weapon. What caught his attention were the four kobolds in front of the group. The four kobolds were emitting a very extraordinary aura that no ordinary kobolds could emit.

"An evolve kobolds...!" Souta muttered under his breath. The four were evolve kobolds. They were much difficult opponents than ordinary kobolds.

"But they were still at the early stage of first evolution..." Souta squinted his eyes. If he could see their levels, they were probably between 11 and 14. 15 and 20 were the levels of the low-level dungeon.

"Huff..."

Souta took a deep breath and gripped his sword tightly. He also took out his staff and he slowly bent his knees.

He was going to take out one or two in an instant to decrease his burden in fighting them all at the same time.

Boom!

Souta speed was so fast that he arrived in front of the group in an instant. He moved his hand and his sword flew slicing the neck of the evolve kobold.

Putchi!!

[You've received 174 exp for defeating a High Kobold!]

The kobolds were surprised. They couldn't react at all as Souta's sword sliced one of their comrades.

He then smashed his sword on the kobold on his left side. Before they could regain their composure, Souta killed another kobold.

Roar!

One of the evolve kobold roared angrily at him. It slashed its sword on him.

Clang!

Souta blocked it using the staff. He felt the force of the kobold behind the attack. He was surprised that they were equals in strength.

"Damn!"

He jumped backward as he saw that the other two evolve kobolds rushed at him.

Swiiish!

He threw his staff in the mid-air and opened his palm widely. He fired three fireballs consecutively.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

The fireballs exploded in front of the two evolve kobolds.

Souta used this chance and kill two ordinary kobolds swiftly. He ignored the system prompts in his mind as he turned around and left.

"Grrrr!!" The three evolve kobolds growled angrily and started to chase him.

...

Souta entered the woods faster using [Dash]. He then hid his body on the top of the tree. It was hard to spot him in the tree because of the color of his skin.

The exp he received from killing a high kobold was high. He would get more than five hundred exp if he killed the remaining three high kobolds.

Swooosh! Swooosh!

Souta turned his head when he heard the sound of moving fast like a wind. He saw the kobolds went straight to the direction of the battlefield.

"Hey!" He raised his sword above his head and threw it towards the kobolds.

Swiiish!!

A kobold turned its head and it felt a strange sensation in its chest.

A sword pierced its chest.

The kobold looked up and saw Souta charging straight.

"Good!" Souta grabbed the handle of the sword and kicked the body of the kobold, pulling out the sword from its chest. He then turned around and used [Dash].

The ordinary kobolds couldn't follow him. Only the three evolve kobolds could react to his speed.

Before they could stop him, Souta already sliced the neck of the ordinary kobolds. He a series of sound in his head.

"Graaaa!!" The three kobolds threw themselves at him and slashed their weapon.

Souta slightly shifted his body as a spear passed beside him. He then waved his sword to the attacks of the two evolve kobolds.

Clang!

"Come!" Souta moved his faster and clashed against the evolve kobolds.

Clang!

Clang!

Clang!

Souta didn't back down at all even he took some deep cuts on his body. He fought all with all of his strength.

He forced the two evolve kobolds away and grabbed the sword of the other evolve kobold which was aimed at his head.

"Argh!"

Blood flows out of his hand when he grabbed the blade of the sword. Souta smirked and said, "Gotcha!" He then used [Stab] two times and made a hole on the body of the evolve kobolds.

[You've received 181 exp for defeating a High Kobold!]

Before he could turn to look at the other kobold, a spear pierced his left shoulder.

"Argh!!"

Souta groaned from the pain he felt. Lifting up his left hand, he forcefully grabbed the spear on his shoulder before he threw his sword on the other kobold. He then turned his head to the kobold who stabbed his shoulder. He grabbed tightly the spear and didn't let it go even when the kobold pulled it away.

Souta opened his palm widely and grabbed the face of the kobold. He cast [Fire ball] consecutively until he heard the system prompts.

He then released his grip on the face of the kobold. He pulled out the spear on his shoulder and jumped in the mid-air.

Swooosh!

He looked down and saw the remaining kobold looking at him with fear.

"Once you start to feel it you're bound to lose..." Souta said before putting his strength on his arm before forcefully throwing the spear.

The spear traveled in the air going straight towards the kobold.

Swooosh!!

The spear nailed the kobold on the ground. It drew its last brew looking at Souta.

[You've received 192 exp from defeating a High Kobold!]

Souta sat down on the grass. He lost one-fourth of his health from this battle. He could actually end it faster if he uses [Stab] but he wants to reserve it because he was going to fight the boss today.

He rested for a few minutes and left after collecting the souls.

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Chapter 11 - First Evolution: High End Goblin

Souta went back to the battlefield. The battle was still ongoing and the goblins gained the advantage. They were pushing back the kobolds. He knows why they could push back the kobolds.

He just killed the reinforcement of the kobolds. A powerful reinforcement at that. If that group of evolve kobolds arrived here then it's going to be hell for the goblins.

New souls went towards his earring. Just a little bit more and he would be able to increase his stats. His exp also was 90%, a few kobolds or goblins were enough to level up to 10.

Today. He's going to evolve today.

Souta felt his blood boiling thinking about evolution. Feeling the excitement building up, he charged towards battle while brandishing his sword.

He ignored his wounds and he used [Stab] three times.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The force behind his skill was powerful that it killed several kobolds. Some of the goblins got caught up and died.

The kobolds and goblins were startled when several of their comrades died easily. They took a look and saw a little goblin armed with a sword. The skin of this goblin was darker than a normal goblin. The posture and aura were overwhelming to be called amateur in battles.

They know one thing for sure. This goblin was a veteran fighter. And a very powerful one at that.

Souta followed it up by raising his other hand. He fired [Fire ball] until he drained most of his mana. One fireball wasn't enough to kill a kobold or goblin.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Several explosions appeared in the middle of the battlefield. It slightly shook the ground.

The kobolds and goblins were shocked. They didn't understand how a fireball suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The fireballs were not that powerful but with several fireballs, it could threaten their life.

...

Souta heard a notification in his mind saying that the soul he collected reached the limit. 300 souls were the maximum he could collect. It was impossible for him to exceed this limit until he uses it.

[Harvester of the Soul. Soul collected: 300/300]

He didn't hesitate and used the souls to increase his strength attribute. Cold soul flow in his body transforming into energy and it increased his strength.

He felt his muscle building up solidly. His muscle was densely packed and it was filled with strength. The strength he could exert was greater than before.

He turned his head on the kobolds and goblins with a smile on his face. "Now, it's time to grind some exp."

He dashed forward killing any monster he met.

The battle continued and he killed the kobolds and goblins without mercy. The goblins were shocked when they saw him killing their comrades. They thought that he's gone insane killing everyone in the middle of a war.

Slash!

Slash!

Slash!

His killing continued for half an hour until the kobolds and goblins showed their fear. They were different from the undead who doesn't fear death. They were living creatures that could feel the word death. It was different when they were fighting someone on their level. They could see that they had a chance of winning but Souta was different. They know that everyone who approached him died.

The kobolds and goblins started to run. They tried to escape as Souta chased after them.

...

The battlefield was turned into blood-red color. It got dyed completely. The corpses of goblins and kobolds were scattered across the whole area.

The whole area was devoid of any sound. The kobolds and goblins that managed to survive escape this place. So, right now, there's no one here except for him.

Well, they will come back later after they calm down. They will realize they he's exhausted and easy to kill right now.

"I thought that I will need to exp of the boss to level up."

Souta was covered in blood looking on the crystal attached to the ceiling. Actually, he was looking at the interface in his vision.

[You've level up!]

[You've reached level 10!]

[Opening up evolution path!]

[Processing information...]

Ding*

[Three evolution path detected!]

[High Goblin]

[Hobgoblin]

[High End Goblin]

[Pick one of the evolution paths!]

Souta didn't hesitate and picked the High End Goblin.

Ding*

[Strength reached fifty!]

[It will take one minute to finish the evolution!]

A white light appeared and it covered his body like a cocoon. Souta felt warm energy covered him. It felt comfortable contrary to his convulsing muscles. He didn't felt pain at all.

When he was about to fell asleep, he heard the system prompts.

Ding!*

[Evolution completed!]

[High End Goblin: A very rare species of goblin that lived since ancient times. They were powerful and extremely versed in all kinds of fighting styles.]

Ding!*

[All stats increased by 15!]

[Health increased by 50!]

[Stamina increased by 50!]

[You've received 2 free attribute points!]

[You've received 1 skill point!]

Ding*

[From now on your Agility, Dexterity, Vitality, and Intelligence attributes will increase by 5 every level while your Strength attribute will increase by 8!]

[You've learned the inherent Goblin's Language!]

[All skills level up!]

Ding!*

[Traits detected!]

[Extraordinary Body]

[Night Vision]

[Alloy Body]

[You can pick one of the traits!]

Souta read the notification one by one. The increase in his stats and powers were great. The increase in his stats every level was higher. Also, all of his skills level up to 2 and the [Stab] reached level 3 in advance.

The benefits of the evolution of a monster type character were really great just like what they said in the forum.

Then, he looked at the traits. He pondered while looking at the three traits. He could only choose one of the three.

[Extraordinary Body] was focused on his strength and recovery rate.

[Night Vision]. As the name it says, he could see clearly in the dark with this trait. It was important as most of the dungeon doesn't have any light.

[Alloy Body] were most focused on the defensive abilities of his body.

All the three traits were great but sadly he could only choose one. In the end, he chooses the [Extraordinary Body]

[Extraordinary Body: Increase the recovery rate by two times. 10 strength.

Once again, he felt his strength increased by a notch. He then quickly opened his stats.

Name: Souta Ieshi

Race: High End Goblin

Level: 10 (0/9,100)

Class: «none»

Health: 126/126

Stamina: 88/88

Mana: 70/70

Strength: 75(6510)]

Agility: 39]

Dexterity: 26]

Intelligence: 35(2510)]

Vitality: 38(2810)]

Free attribute point(s): 9

Skill(s): [Dash, [Stab, [Sword Mastery, [Mana Manipulation]

Spell(s): [Fireball]

Trait(s): [Extraordinary Body]

Equipment skill(s): [Harvester of the Soul. Soul collected: 0/400]

Skill point(s): 7

He looked on his stats with a satisfied expression. This will do for now. He picked the strength attribute because he knows when he got the class his other attributes will catch up to his strength attribute quickly.

First, he will balance the dexterity attribute to the agility attribute using the effect of [Harvester of the Soul]. It's easy to level up with his current level but once he passed 20 it will become harder.

Souta moved his eyes and looked on the left side of the interface. He could see his figure standing there. The figure of a little goblin before became taller and grew short black hair. His build wasn't huge, it's perfectly balanced. His pupils changed into gold color after he evolves. His skin also became darker.

"My face..."

His face was slightly similar to his face before. He looked like a goblin with the blood of an Asian. Black hair with round eyes but his pupils were golden in color.

"Argh!"

Suddenly, he felt his head hurt slightly. When he recalled his past face his head felt like it was about to split. "I still couldn't remember anything." He said with a frown on his face. He could only recall the basic things but his family and his social stature he couldn't remember those things at all. He couldn't even remember if he has a friend back on earth.

"Why? My intelligence is higher but why I can't remember it at all..." He muttered in a low voice. His breathing became ragged as he clenched his fist tightly. His power was boiling up like it was about to explode.

Pak!

A loud sound echoed.

Souta slapped himself on the face to calm himself. He then took a deep breath and he closed his eyes.

Inhale!

Exhale!

After repeating this cycle a few times, Souta opened his eyes. His eyes were clear and his heart rate became normal again. He was calm as water now.

Let's worry about something like that later. He wanted to do something after evolving.

And that was conquering the dungeon like what he always did in the game. He's going to try his newly gained abilities to the boss there. After evolution, his health, stamina, and mana recovered.

Be prepared dungeon boss... As I was going to raid your precious home.

But before that, he collected the souls of the dead first. The evolution prevented him from taking the souls as it was blocked by the white light before. Now, he could see the souls increasing from the interface.

He then walked to the direction of the kobold's dungeon.

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Chapter 12 - Strength of the High End Goblin

Tak!

Tak!

Footsteps echoed inside the dark cave. The area was silent and the footsteps could be heard clearly.

Souta was walking straight to the direction of the dungeon boss. He then stopped on his track and looked ahead with a smile on his face.

A group of kobolds came out of the shadow. They were holding sharp weapons such as sword and spear.

Souta gripped his sword tightly. He fixed his posture and he raised his sword at the level of his eyes. His muscles bulge out as he stabbed his sword in front of him.

[Stab]

It was so fast that the kobolds only felt a gust of wind. They couldn't follow his movements at all.

Drip!

The kobolds looked down and saw a hole in their chest. The kobolds on the back were also caught in the attack. The only ones who were safe were the ones on the left side.

Blood flows out of the mouth of the kobolds as they fell on their knees and drew their last breath. One by one those kobolds who took lethal damage fell down.

Dang! Dang! Dang!

The other kobolds were frozen in fear. They didn't know what happened just now. Fear was slowly spreading in their heart. All of them gulped at the same time.

Souta lowered his sword and looked at the kobolds five meters away from him. A simple basic skill [Stab] grew this powerful. The skill could create a powerful force that travels in the air. It was powerful that it could even pierce a metal bar.

He could attack anyone within ten meters from him. A level 3 skill was really different. It was the major realm of every skill. Once a skill reached level 3, a great upgrade will occur and the effect and power of the skill will greatly enhance not just by two times but by five times.

Crack!

Souta noticed something in his interface. The durability of the sword decreased by one. The sword of this level couldn't handle it when someone used a skill at the level of 3. If Souta wants a weapon that wouldn't break easily then he should find Yellow or Blue grade equipments. Most of the weapons here in the low-level dungeon were just Colorless grade equipments.

"Well, there are so many swords scattered in this place," Souta said as he glanced on the swords scattered on the ground. These were the weapons of the dead kobolds.

He turned his attention back on the remaining kobolds. He once again did the same posture and executed the skill [Stab].

Swooosh!

Holes appeared on the bodies of the kobolds at the same time. The kobolds couldn't even react to his skill.

Crack!

The sword in his hand cracked. The crack quickly spread and it crumbled down.

"Hu~"

Souta closed his eyes as he heard a series of sound in his head. Before his attributes were one digit at that time. His Intelligence attribute was merely one at that time. But now his attributes reached thirty or more. His attributes increased by one every level up when he was a simply normal goblin.

"Well then, let's go to the boss room," he said and he picked one good sword on the ground. He then walked ahead and stopped in front of a metal door.

The metal door was huge depicting the boss of this dungeon.

"This is the boss room where the Kobold's leader resides," Souta muttered as he raised his hand and slowly pushed open the metal door.

Inside the wide room, a kobold wearing full body equipment was sitting on a throne. A leather armor, pair of a gauntlet, leather pants, and black gloves. The kobold was holding a spear in its right hand.

Beside the kobold, were another four kobolds kneeling on the ground. It has the same pose when someone was kneeling or seeing a king. Well, that kobold was the king of this dungeon.

Souta's eyes twinkle when he saw this. Yellow grade equipment. It has the same level of the robe and staff that he looted from the Undead Skeleton Mage.

He directly walked inside the room while he's stretching his body. He said with a smirk, "I'm getting excited over a set of Yellow equipment." Then, a notification ringed inside his head stopping him from moving.

Ding!*

[You've entered the boss room!]

[Quest triggered!]

[Boss Battle: Defeat the boss and conquer the dungeon. Rewards: 400 exp, 1 attribute point, and 1 skill point

Souta accepted the mission without hesitation. Actually, he could decline a quest like this. A quest of this type will only appear in a given situation. There's also the other type of quest that came from the NPC. That type of quest has a penalty. The penalty will be either somebody was dying or some will be put in jail. It depends on the quest a player pick. When a quest was about a medicine bringing in time it means that the player needs to deliver the medicine or else the NPC who had a sickness will die.

The four kobold guardian stood up and pulled out their sword while the leader just watched them with interest.

"You know, these four aren't enough," Souta said as he slowly walked towards the four kobolds.

One of the kobolds charged with a sword in its hand. It swung its sword powerfully. Souta slightly shifted his body and he tightened his fist before he threw a punch on the stomach of the kobold.

Bang!

The punch was strong and fast that the kobold flew away and crashed in the wall behind the boss. The power behind the 75 strength attribute was so strong that it could crush a normal monster.

Souta quickly turned around and faced the three kobolds. The three kobolds were rushing straight at him. They reacted fast when they saw their comrade crashed in the wall.

Swooosh! Swooosh! Swooosh!

Souta avoided the sharp weapons aiming to cut him. He stepped backward while dodging the attacks and he slowly raised his sword.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The three kobolds were pushed backward as a hole appeared in their bodies. Souta just used [Stab] consecutively and it easily killed the three kobolds.

Thud!

The kobolds fell with a loud sound. Blood slowly formed beneath their bodies.

Several notifications ringed in Souta's head. Souta then looked towards the boss of the dungeon.

This boss was a High Kobold, just like kobolds he killed before. But this kobold was stronger than those newly evolve kobolds. The boss monster was naturally stronger than the other monster even if they were in the same species. The boss was three to five times stronger and its health was higher than the rest. A boss wasn't called a boss for nothing.

"I've already killed two dungeon bosses," Souta muttered while looking on the boss. He could already kill a dungeon boss when he was still an ordinary goblin. This boss was not much different from the other boss. He was much stronger now and he could handle a boss easier with his stats.

The boss slowly stood up and grabbed the spear on its side. It exudes an aura of a veteran warrior that undergoes hundreds of battles.

"Hais..." Souta sighed and dashed towards the boss. In just a second, he arrived in front of the boss. Gripping the handle tightly, he slashed his sword.

The boss the spear and parried the sword. Then, it quickly stabbed its spear.

[Fast Stab]

Souta tightened his muscles and swiftly moved his hand blocking every attack of the boss.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

'Level 2 [Spear Mastery, huh?' Souta thought while blocking every stab of the spear. He focused his eyes on the moving spear of the boss.

Swooosh!

He moved his hand and grabbed the spear. "Caught it!" He smirked and used his strength to raise the spear in the air. The boss didn't let go the spear and it was pulled in the air.

"Ahhh!"

Souta shouted and he smashed the boss in the ground.

Bang!

Spider web like cracks appeared in the floor.

Souta raised his sword and slashed it down. The boss learned from before so it let go the spear and rolled sideways avoiding the slash.

Swooosh!

The boss pulled himself up and jumped backward. It saw Souta rushing at a fast speed.

"This is the end!" Souta raised his sword and used [Stab] consecutively.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

He made several holes in the body of the kobolds. Some of the attacks were blocked by the leather armor. Some wear in the neck, shoulders, and arms. He always wanted to try this but he couldn't before as it needs a lot of stamina. He would only use [Stab] three to five times in a battle. But now, he could freely try it with as he had a lot of stamina.

Souta purposely attacks the part that wasn't covered in armor, still, some of his attacks hit the armor. He still couldn't control the level 3 [Stab] when using it consecutively with his Level 2 [Sword Mastery].

Souta only stopped his movements when he heard the notification in his head.

[You've received 1,598 exp from defeating a High Kobold!]

[Congratulations on completing the mission Boss Battle!]

[You've received 400 exp!]

[You've received 1 skill point!]

[You've received 1 attribute point!]

The health of this boss was much higher than he expected. He consumed more than half of his stamina in using level 3 [Stab]. It was much sturdier than the two bosses he fought before. At least he killed this boss faster than the rest.

"Let's stop thinking about." Souta shook his head and he squatted down in front of the corpse of the boss. He placed down his sword and started to loot the dead body.

[Bear's glove](Yellow): A gloves made from the hide of a giant bear. Effect: 5 dexterity, 20 health. Durability: 14/15

[Rock Gauntlet](Yellow): A gauntlet made from the pure rock and high mana. Effect: 5 vitality, 20 health, 10 mana. Durability: 12/15

[Kobold's Armor](Yellow): An armor made from the hide of a High Kobold. Effect: 20 health, 20 stamina, 5% physical resistance. Durability: 8/15

[Kobold's Pants](Yellow): A pants made from the hide of a High Kobold. Effect: 20 health, 5 agility, 5 damage resistance. Durability: 9/15

Souta wore gloves, gauntlets, and pants. The armor was huge for him and it was uncomfortable to move. If he wasn't feeling uncomfortable he would wear it even if it was loose on him. He was afraid that it would hinder his movements or bother him in a battle. The pants was also huge on him but after he made an adjustment it fitted him.

"Hmm... What should I do now? I should finish all the dungeons here in the upper floor before leaving the sanctuary."

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Chapter 13 - Leaving the Sanctuary

One week had passed since Souta's evolution to High End Goblin.

He completed the [Survival] mission which he needs to survive for five days. Well, if he failed in completing the mission it means that he died. He already expected it to complete this mission easily. If he was on the middle floor then he would die without even killing a single monster.

After becoming a High End Goblin, it became easy for him to complete the rest of the dungeons here on the upper floor. He spends his week in conquering all the remaining nine low-level dungeons. Although he level up quite a lot this time and increased his stats higher he still wouldn't dare to go down on the middle floor. The monsters there were completely different from the monster in the upper floor. A person will truly know why this place was called Undead Sanctuary once he/she goes down there. The Undead Lich, Death Knight, Greater Ghouls, Bone Tiger, etc. were a monster that can be found on the middle floor. Their levels were completely higher than the monster here on the upper floor. If he wasn't wrong the highest level of monster here was 19. And that level was average on the middle floor.

If all the undead here got out of the sanctuary, the undead would be able to destroy a few weak countries out there on the surface.

He became level 16 after conquering the whole upper floor of the Undead Sanctuary. His status became quite pleasing in his eyes especially his strength attribute. His strength attribute was now over one hundred. He could now literally punch a hole through iron without taking any damage.

He also collected enough souls to use the effect of the [Harvester of the Soul]. He used it twice and increased his dexterity and intelligence. He finally balanced his agility and dexterity. This made him even faster.

He used the souls in his intelligence because he got himself another spell. He got himself two spellbooks from the dungeons that he raided. He learned [Ice shot] and [Light Heal] by using four skill points. In truth, he found three skill books but the other one was also [Light Heal]. Unfortunately, the [Light Heal] cannot be used in one's self. In total, he already learned three spells. He only needed to learn two spells and he would reach the requirements to get a class.

Currently, Souta was bathing in the river. He was cleaning the wounds on his body that received from invading the Orc's dungeon. The power of orcs wasn't something he couldn't take lightly.

"Ah~ I will go out of this place tomorrow." He muttered with a satisfied expression. He already cleared all the dungeons here so it's normal for him to go out. His stats weren't enough to go down on the middle floor so he will get himself a class first. A mid-level dungeon was housing two hundred level 20 monsters. He would stand a chance if he has a class and some powerful skill but unfortunately for him, he still doesn't have any class even if he's already level 16 and his skill was pretty much the basic ones.

"It sucks here!" He said as he looked up on the ceiling. He then stood up and went to the shore.

He picked his equipments and wore it. He hung his sword on his waist while the staff was on his back.

"Let's exercise first," Souta said as he did some exercise. Based on his experience, he knew that training or practicing could increase his exp.

He then practiced swordsmanship to increase his proficiency. He did not only trained sword skills he also trained his other skill to increase proficiency. The system didn't have a function to see the proficiency of skills. It was the same in the game.

After training, he roasted a fish and then ate it. He was happy that he learned the [Fire ball] spell. Using this spell he could create a fire to cook his meal. He doesn't want to eat any raw meat at all. It tastes bad.

"Hahaha! It tastes great!" He said as he bit a mouthful of roasted fish. It didn't have any seasonings but for him, it was good compared to the meat of goblin and kobold.

"This is the only time that I could truly relax my tense muscle."

He could relax as he knew that there's no other monster here in the upper floor except himself. He doesn't need to worry about the monster attacking him when he was sleeping. For the past week, he was tense and couldn't relax properly. He was serious in keeping himself alive.

"If I could get some alcohol then it would be perfect! Ahhh~ thinking about alcohol really made me want to rush in the city!"

After enjoying his meal, Souta fell asleep. He could finally sleep comfortably.

...

Souta woke up exactly after eight hours. He does some maintenance on his equipment before he packed up his belongings. Well, he only has equipments as his belongings and the skill books. He would sell these skill books in the city. In the game, after a player learned a skill the skill book or spellbook would vanish into the air.

"Let's go!"

He went to the center of the upper level. It was in the middle of the woods. There were no trees anymore as it was replaced by a huge flat rock. The surface of the rock was smooth and it contains a bit of magical power.

He went around and found stairs leading to the top. He walked to the top and found a huge magic circle on the ground. The magic circle was carved on the surface of the rock. It was a high-level teleportation spell.

"I wonder what will those people do once they knew that I've arrived in the real world of Battle Worlds Online," Souta smirked as he extended his feet and stepped inside the magic circle.

He waited for a while but nothing happens.

"Huh? Why didn't a prompt appear asking if I want to exit this place?" Souta muttered with a dumbfounded expression. He thought that it would work once he stepped inside the magic circle. Well, that's only in the game. It was completely different in the real fantasy world.

He then rubbed his chin, pondering what he should do. He lifted up his head and looked on the ceiling. He could burst out the ceiling if he was level 60 but with his level, he couldn't do that. A level 60 character could destroy landmass.

An idea came into his mind. He recalled that he has the [Mana Manipulation] skill.

He squatted down and placed his palm on the surface of the rock. He closed his eyes and felt the mana inside the rock. He controlled his mana and he flowed it to the magic circle.

Shiiiing!

The magic circle emitted a dim light. The more mana he poured in the magic circle the more brightly it became. Then, he felt the ground shook slightly. It was then that he opened his eyes and saw the magic circle glowing in red light.

Shiiiing!

The light got stronger and it swallowed him. When the light disappeared he was also gone.

...

Souta opened his eyes. He saw the magic circle beneath. It was glowing with red light. After a few moments, the magic circle turned back into an ordinary magic circle. It was covered in soil and grass so he couldn't clearly see the magic circle anymore. He could only see the rough outline before because it was emitting a red light.

It was the secret path to go down in the Undead Sanctuary. The player accidentally discovered it back then. But now there's no player to discover the place anymore. It would become his farm site in the near future.

He stood up and looked around him. This place was full of graveyards. He could even see some zombies around him.

"Curse Cemetery, huh?"

The place above the Undead Sanctuary was called Curse Cemetery. It was also a place full of undead and one of the forbidden zone. It was located near the edge of the Giza continent.

It was daylight now so the zombies were quite weak. A powerful monster over level 50 would only appear at midnight.

"Luckily, it's morning!" Souta said as he turned his head.

On the other side of this place, he saw the sea. A body of water, the Great East Sea. Over there was another huge continent, the God's Continent. Players also called it Earth Continent. They called it Earth Continent because of the living being there. The mythology of earth were living there. The Norse Mythology, Greek Mythology, Gods of Egypt, Japanese Shinto, Chinese mythology, etc. All of them were in the God's continent.

He recalled that he became a Hero of Athena back then. He became part of her Hero when he was trying to capture his mount.

But Souta's destination wasn't there. It takes a lot of time to go there without any preparation. He also doesn't have any boats or sh.i.p.s. So he will go to the nearest city to acquire a class. He would also study the language of this world.

"I wonder what version it is right now," Souta muttered in a low voice.

-End of Volume 1-

Chapter 14 - Red Fur Bear concede

Souta placed his left hand on his and felt the bag he made. Inside it was the precious stones that he looted in the sanctuary. Mana stone, gold, silver, platinum, etc. were all inside the bag. He will use this stone as a currency to enter the city.

Even though some of the countries in this continent were quite advance they still haven't changed the currency system. The currency system was arranged base on the magical value. It was arranged like this; copper coin -› gold coin -› silver coin -› platinum coin. Copper and gold have low magic conductivity so their value was lower than silver and platinum. In this world, where magic reigns the value of gold dropped.

"A piece of silver and gold is enough for the city guards to let me pass," Souta said with a smile on his face. Then, he saw four zombies ahead of him.

"It seems that I need to exit this place first before I could relax!"

Souta dashed towards the four zombies while brandishing his sword.

"Graa!!" The four zombies noticed him as they growl with a coarse voice.

Souta imbued his mana on his sword and slashed it.

Putchi!

[You've received 57 exp for defeating a Zombie!]

[You've received 57 exp for defeating a Zombie!]

[You've received 57 exp for defeating a Zombie!]

[You've received 57 exp for defeating a Zombie!]

Souta heard several sounds in his head as the four zombies were cut in half. Their upper body slowly fell on the ground.

"Still this is good," Souta said while looking at the sword in his hand. Since leveling up the [Mana Manipulation] skill, he could now use his mana to strengthen his sword. There were no features like this in the game. It's pretty convenient if he was to say it.

Boom!

The ground shook heavily. It felt like someone was approaching. The air became heavy and turned cold.

Souta turned his head and saw a three-meter tall undead. He frowned and muttered, "A gigantic zombie, huh?"

A gigantic zombie was an evolved form of an ordinary zombie. It has a huge body and a powerful strength. But it's speed was still slow as the ordinary zombie.

"If it's midnight then I would meet an undead more powerful than this," Souta said as he poured his mana on his sword.

The Curse Cemetery was more terrifying when the darkness covered the sky. Terrifying undead would start appearing one by one. Compared to those undead this undead here was too weak. It's like comparing an ant to an elephant.

Thud! Thud!

The loud footsteps of the gigantic zombie shook the ground.

Souta fixed his posture and he poured his mana in his sword. The sword glows dimly as it contained his mana.

"I will finish this easily!"

He said before he used [Dash] appearing in front of the gigantic zombie in just a few seconds. He then executed the [Stab] skill.

The gigantic zombie lifted up its arm and tried to block Souta's attack.

Boom!

The power behind [Stab] pierced the palm of the gigantic zombie. The force continued and made a huge hole on the chest of the zombie.

The skill [Stab] added with mana was much stronger than before. It could even pierce the tough defense of the gigantic zombie.

Souta stopped in front of the gigantic zombie before pulling back his sword. Pouring his mana, he thrust his sword forward.

Swiiish!

It was a normal stab without the usage of skill. He could stab his sword without skill but if he uses the skill its firepower and penetration were stronger than normal stab.

Swiiiish! Swiiish! Swiiish!

Stabbing his sword like a madman made the gigantic zombie fell backward.

Bang!

"For the finishing touch!" Souta kicked the ground and once again executed the skill [Stab].

Bang!

The force behind the skill burst the head of the gigantic zombie. It staggered backward before it fell on the ground.

[You've received 198 exp for defeating a Gigantic Zombie!]

The soul inside the undead went straight to the [Soul Blood Earring]. He just needs to activate the skill and all the souls of the undead that he defeated would come inside his earring. No, he's already activating it ever since he wore the item.

Souta looked around and saw a few zombies wandering aimlessly.

"I need to get out of this place before it gets dark." Saying this, he dashed forward to the direction of the woods. He wouldn't survive this place if it gets dark. It wasn't a forbidden place for nothing.

...

After a few hours of running, Souta finally stopped. He was exhausted and there's only a few stamina left within him. Even with [Dash] skill, he still hasn't left the Cursed Cemetery. The skill consumed almost all of his stamina as he was using it nonstop.

"I need to rest for a few minutes." He said while gasping. He was closed to the woods. Once he entered the woods, he wouldn't meet any undead there.

The Curse Cemetery was a very large place. It was like a city of the undead. This place was 600 kilometers in diameter. That's why no person would dare to enter this place if they weren't sure that they could get out before it gets dark. Thousands of undead will swarm those people when the night falls.

Back then, the top ten guilds formed an alliance and invade this place. It was a grand battle between the players and undead. Thousands of players fought the countless army of undead here in the night. That battle promoted thousands of players to a higher level. It was at that time that they discovered the Undead Sanctuary.

There's a lot of good items and skill book here. There's also a cursed weapon here. But Souta didn't have time to find those things. He had limited stamina and couldn't fight for a long time. He couldn't afford to fight the undead here with his current stats and equipments.

Souta looked at his stamina and said, "I think this is enough to get out of here." He then stood up and started running.

Using [Dash] to increase his running speed. After a few dozens of minutes, he made a decision to use his free attribute points.

He had thirty-one free attribute points. These were enough to increase a few of his stats by ten. He added ten points to his vitality attribute. Vitality was connected to his health and stamina. So by increasing vitality, he could increase his stamina.

Vitality: 68(5810)]

He tapped the "" in his mind to add ten points.

Vitality: 78(6810)]

He felt warm energy entered his body. It decreased his tiredness by a little amount.

"Hu~" Souta took a long breath before he continued adding free attribute points in his stats. He added ten free attribute points in his agility attribute. His agility became...

Agility: 79]

Before it was sixty-nine but now it became seventy-nine. He only had eleven free attribute points and he doesn't have any plan to use it for now. With a "boom" he dashed faster than before.

Swooosh!

He met some zombies that tried to block his way. He sliced those fools without hesitation but he avoided the evolve zombies as it would take him some time to kill those evolve zombies. Luckily, it was daylight and he could everything around him. So he could differentiate those zombies even if it was far.

He already met ordinary zombie, gigantic zombie, slick, and toxic ghoul. He naturally avoided the gigantic zombie, especially the slick and toxic ghoul. Those two undeads were much more powerful than the gigantic zombie. Their level was between 30 - 40. Instant death would await him if he went to their direction.

He was already running for an hour now. Then he saw the woods ahead of him.

"I can see it!" Souta smiled burst out from the ground. He controlled his mana and imbued it in his feet. This increased his speed once again but the consumption was high. He was using mana in [Dash] already.

...

Souta stopped as soon as he entered the woods. He leaned his back on the tree and took a deep breath.

"Hu... That was tiring..."

He lifted up his head and looked at the trees around him. If there's some fruit then he would take it. Unfortunately, he doesn't find anything. Well, the fruit was not the only edible thing here in the woods. There's also those wild animals and monsters.

He lifted up his head and looked at the sky. The sun was setting down and in just an hour, darkness will cover this entire place.

"Let's go!"

He doesn't have the time to rest. He needs to find a place to stay for a night and some food.

Suddenly, a snake thrust forward trying to bite him. It revealed its sharp poisonous fangs.

Souta reacted by grabbing his sword on his waist and slashing it on the snake.

The snake was sliced in half. The snake didn't even feel the pain in its death.

[You've received 39 exp for defeating a Toxic Snake!]

"A toxic snake, huh?" Souta muttered while looking at the carcass of the snake. The poison of the snake could paralyze a level 20 monster.

He crouched down and picked it up. This was going to be his dinner for tonight.

...

Souta was hiding in the bush thinking about what he should do. There's a cave in front of him. He could stay inside there comfortably. But there's one problem and that was the wild boss.

There's a Red Fur Bear that was living in that cave. It was one of the powerful monsters in the forest. In the game, its level was between 20 - 40.

"Okay I will check its level first," Souta muttered as he stood up and walked towards the cave. He brandished his sword and gripped it tightly. He looked in his stats and saw that he still have twenty mana and eighteen stamina left.

'This is enough as long as I do it swiftly.' he thought.

ROAR!!!

A powerful and loud roar shook the entire cave.

"A skill, huh?" Souta's brows knitted tightly and he started to circulate his mana inside his body. He poured it in his sword as he prepared himself.

Boom!

A three-meter tall figure came out of the cave. The red fur bear looks dominating. It deserves the title one of the powerful monsters here.

'Swiftly without any sound,' Souta dashed towards the red fur bear. In just a second he was beside the bear. He pulled back his sword and used [Stab].

Bang!

The sword pierced the thick hide of the bear. Blood flow out and dyed the soil.

This attack surprised the bear. It didn't think that Souta would attack immediately. Souta turned around as he poured mana in his feet.

Bang!

He kicked the wound he gave to the bear.

Roar!

The bear roared in pain and it swept out its arms towards the perpetrator. Souta raised his arm and guard against the attack.

Bang!

Souta gritted his teeth as he felt the shock of the attack. Cracks formed in his gauntlet. His health decreased by twenty points in just a single attack. Its firepower was greater than anything he fought before.

"Once again!"

Souta jumped and poured his mana in his sword. He then noticed that the arm of the bear was heading towards him. He grinds his teeth and executed [Stab].

Putchi!

Bang!

His sword pierced the eye of the bear. Blood drip on the ground while Souta was smashed on the ground creating a small crater.

Roar!

The red fur bear roared angrily as the sword was stuck in its eye.

"Argh!" Souta spat a mouthful of blood before turning his head to looked at the red fur bear. It was shallow. If he put more force in his attack he would have reached the brain of the bear.

Swooosh!!

He ignored the pain and charged towards the bear. He could only use two spells with his remaining mana.

[Ice Shot]

A block of ice smashed the wound on the feet of the bear. He then jumped in the mid-air and shoot [Fire ball] towards the roaring bear.

Bang!

"Just die!!" Souta roared and when he was about to push the sword deeper a system prompt ringed in his mind.

Ding!*

[The Red Fur Bear conceded!]

[Congratulations on acquiring your first pet!]

"Eeehhhhhh!!!"

Chapter 15 - Yuko

[Congratulations you've acquired your first pet!]

"Eehhh!"

Souta stopped his and twisted his body in the mid-air before he landed on the ground.

"This...?"

He looked at the system prompts that he received. He didn't expect that he would acquire a pet this time. Now that the bear was registered in the system he could see the details of the bear.

Pet/Mount(1/1):

Red Fur Bear Level 21= A powerful bear with blood-red fur that lives deep in the forest. An evolve species of Mountain Bear. Like to eat fruits and honey.

'A level 21, huh?' Souta thought while looking at the interface. It means that this bear just evolves recently.

He actually got himself a pet on his way to the Hebrei Kingdom. He had a plan to level up first before getting his pet in the God's Continent. His pet in the game was a powerful dragon that was sealed a long time ago. She's Hydra, a Nine Head Hydra. He got that pet when he was doing a quest for Athena back then.

He could let her be but he decided that it's better to have a pet than nothing in his current situation. The system would register those monster who submit to the players but there's a limit. Only those who have tamer class have higher limit than the other class.

The limit of a normal player was three while the normal tamer was five. The limit as the tamer levels up its class.

Souta shook his head and turned around to face the bear. He looked at the bear who was groaning in pain.

"Is this really my pet...?"

He stepped forward and placed his palm on the head of the bear. He said, "Stay still, it will hurt for a few seconds." He then grabbed the handle of the sword that was stuck in the eye of the bear. He forcefully pulled it out as blood spurted out from the eye of the bear.

[Light Heal]

Souta immediately casted [Light Heal] to stop the bleeding. He once again casted it until the bear stopped groaning in pain.

The bear looked at him with fearful eyes as she lowered her head. She carefully stuck her tongue out and lick his hand.

"From now your name will be Yuko," Souta said as he caressed her red fur.

While caressing her red fur his thoughts were flying. He recalled the pets he had in the game. Those were powerful monsters that could destroy a city. All of them could put up a fight with top players. They could even kill those players in one on one battle.

There's one player who's class was Divine Tamer. That player has a monster ranch of different powerful monsters. That player contacted him and wanted to buy his pets. Unfortunately, he declined as he had a hard time getting those pets. He wouldn't exchange them for anything.

Souta shook his head and looked at the dark cave. "Let's go!" Saying this he walked forward and enter the cave.

Yuko lifted up her head and looked at her master. She followed behind as both of them enter the cave.

The cave was quite deep so he didn't explore it anymore. He was tired the muscles on his legs were aching because of running nonstop. It was morning when he left the Undead Sanctuary but now it's already dark. It took him more than nine hours before he managed to exit the Curse Cemetery.

He leaned his back on the walls and closed his eyes. He quickly fell asleep as both tiredness and exhaustion hit him.

Yuko quietly looked at him. She was still fearful of him because of what he did to her. She slowly moved her huge body and went beside Souta. She kept him warm with her thick fur as she also fell asleep.

Pet/Mount(1/1):

Yuko Level 21(Red Fur Bear)=

...

Battle Worlds Online, was the most popular game that millions of people played this game. It was a mix of fantasy and futuristic world.

A world with different cultures was all around for the player to explore. Sword, Gun, Magic, Mecha, etc. were inside this game. The players could pick from hundreds of races and jobs to start from.

That's the Battle Worlds Online.

There's a legendary player called Blood in the game. He was called the most powerful player in the Battle Worlds Online. He doesn't have any guild or joins any party. His skill combination, precise intuition, and his perfect control over his character skills were all above the other players.

A man wearing a black sleeveless long coat with silver linings. The front part of his collar was extended on his back fluttering in the wind. His left arm was covered in silver-colored armor while on his right arm was the same armor. He wore grey pants with the same design as his coat. On his hand, he was holding a huge scythe. The scythe looks ominous with its design as there were eyes on the blade of the scythe.

The man jumped down from the top of a tall building and waved the scythe to the huge army in front. Every time he waved his scythe people would die. The souls of the dead went to his earring and the corpses would also disappear. It was the cause of his powerful weapon, the [Flesh Eating Scythe].

He was called the most brutal person as he didn't even let a corpse and soul leave easily. He was standing on the top-ranking ever since the launch of the game. The only thing that limits him was the level cap of each version.

...

Souta opened his eyes and it was already morning.

"A dream..."

He looked around and saw that Yuko was cuddling him. He stood up and patted her.

"Hu~" He still hasn't fully recovered all the stamina and mana that he lost yesterday. The basic recovery rate of health, stamina, and mana was one per hour. When sleeping it would increase by five times. Sleeping for a few hours was enough if he was still a goblin with low health, stamina, and mana but now it wasn't enough as he had more than a hundred.

It seems that he will stay here in the woods this time.

Souta turned his head as he felt Yuko moved. He looked at her as Yuko also looked at him. Yuko stood up and went deep inside the cave. Souta looked at her with a curious gaze. He doesn't know what she intends to do.

After a few moments, Yuko came back and she presented a bunch of fruits in front of him.

"Hmm... You are giving this to me?" Souta looked at the fruits.

These fruits could help him recover his stamina as it has that effect. But there's something that caught his attention. He reached out his hand and picked up a green fruit with white dots.

"This is Green Mana Fruit...?" Souta looked at the fruit on his hand. He didn't think that Yuko has this kind of fruit. Oh? She loves fruit as it was written in the description.

Green Mana Fruit was a fruit that could increase a person's mana. Yes, increase, not recover. It means that it could increase his mana pool.

Souta looked at Yuko and said, "Alright, I will take this." He then bit the Green Mana Fruit in his hand.

Ding*

[Your mana have increased by 20!]

It was hard to find a fruit like this one in this world. It was also hard to cultivate this kind of fruit and only a few people have this kind of skill. Even he only ate a few back in the game.

Yuko looked at him with teary eye. She really doesn't want to give him those fruits as it was her treasure. She felt pain as she saw Souta eating the fruits she collected for a long time.

Souta looked at Yuko and said, "You can have the rest."

Yuko tilted her head as she couldn't understand what he was saying.

"You can have the rest," Souta repeated and pushed the fruits to her.

This time, Yuko vaguely understand his words thanks to the master and pet contract in the system. She moved her big hands and grabbed the fruits. She then stood up and went deep in the cave.

Souta guessed that she hide the fruits back. He stretched his body and exited the cave. The sun rays hit his body and he felt warm energy coursing through his body.

"At most, it will take me a month before I arrive in the Hebrei Kingdom."

If he could fly or have that airship of Mechanic Country it would be easy for him. The distance between the Hebrei Kingdom and the Curse Cemetery was large. Without any sort of transportation, it would take him a long time to travel between kingdom. Actually, there were few villages nearby but he doesn't know their language so it will be hard to communicate.

Only large kingdom such as Hebrei Kingdom sells the technology of Mechanic Country. He would buy the communicator there first and find a way to learn the other spell. He wouldn't be able to receive a quest if he couldn't understand their language.

He would also know what version if he go there and gathered some news about the powerful countries.

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Chapter 16 - Special Quest

Souta rest for a whole day. He just stays inside the cave and he let Yuko hunt the food for the two of them. Yuko was one of the powerful monsters here so he doesn't need to worry about her getting in trouble.

"Let's continue our journey," Souta said as he stood up and stretched his body. It was morning and the weather was nice. It's perfect for traveling.

He turned around and looked at Yuko. "Yuko, come on! Let's go!"

Yuko followed behind him quietly.

Souta has a plan. He recalled that there were valuable things in this forest. Every place of this world has something that's valuable. Especially with his current strength, he needs those things as long as it could help him a little.

Souta followed his memories and walked for about one hour before he stopped. Yuko also stopped and looked at him with a confused expression. She was wondering why did he stop all of a sudden.

Souta ignored her and carefully looked at his surrounding. Towering trees were around them and it still the same as before.

'Hmm...? Okay, I get it,' he then ducked down and pressed his palm on the grass. He then felt a stone hiding beneath the grass.

This stone was different from normal stone as characters that he couldn't understand were carved in the surface of the stone. There's a red dot protruding in the center of the carvings.

Souta smiled and looked around him. He noticed a flickering light hiding in the tree fifteen meters away from him. He pressed the red dot and slowly raised his hand. He showed the stone to the flickering light.

The flickering light vanished from his sight and he felt someone appeared behind him. Souta slowly turned his head and saw a strange creature behind him.

It has the same height as him when he was still an ordinary goblin. It was a humanoid creature that has a furry lower body and two goat horns on its head. It was a Great Lumb. A special type of monster that can only be found in a forest. It didn't have great combat skills but it has great magical powers. In the game, if a player encounters this creature they will receive a special quest. Those special quests were easy to do and have a high reward.

The Great Lumb opened its palm. Souta understood what it meant so he placed the stone on top of its palm. It then turned around and started to walked.

Souta followed the Great Lumb without hesitation. He gesture from behind and Yuko started to walked. She was confused and didn't know what's happening.

Swooosh!!

Suddenly the atmosphere changed. Souta looked around and found that they were in front of a beautiful lake. He then heard a system prompt in his head.

Ding!*

[You've entered the Secret Ground of the Great Lumb!]

[Quest triggered!]

[Give Me: the Great Lumb wants you to give him your treasure. Rewards: ???

Souta read the quest that he received. He just needed to give the Great Lumb his treasure. Just like what the forum said. The quest was easy but the reward was still unknown.

He picked up the bag that was hanging on his waist. He opened it and revealed the precious stones that he got from the Undead Sanctuary. These stones were valuable. It has a high price in the market.

He gave all the stones to the Great Lumb. But he still hasn't heard that he completed the quest. It means that it wasn't enough. He took out the three skill books and also gave it but it wasn't enough.

"I could get this anywhere. The most important is to complete the quest." Souta said in a low voice as he grabbed the staff on his back. He gave it to the Great Lumb.

Ding!*

[Congratulations for completing the mission "Give Me"!]

[You've received a skill "Blessing of the Great"!]

Souta sighed in relief when he heard the notification. He doesn't know what to give if it still wasn't enough. No, he would give his leather armor or his pants. Thinking about this, he read the notification.

He was surprised as he received a skill from this quest. This simple quest gave him a skill? So that's why it called a special quest. The only downside of this quest was he could only do it once. Well, he couldn't learn the same skill twice.

There's no other player here. So he was thinking that he could monopolize all the special and hidden quests here.

"7hgy#kw#5"

Souta looked up as he heard the Great Lumb saying something he couldn't understand. It felt like it was important.

The Great Lumb stopped speaking and it quietly waved its hand.

Suddenly, he was back in the middle of the forest with Yuko. He looked around and saw that everything was still the same. It felt like that meeting the Great Lamb was a dream.

"Hu~"

He shook his head and checked the details of the skill that he received.

[Blessing of the Great: The power of the Great Lumb. It enhances all the abilities of the user. Effect: 5 all stats, 20 mana

It's equal to one level up in High End Goblin. Well, this was enough for him as it could also help him.

"Let's go Yuko!" Souta said as he started to walk. Yuko quietly followed behind him.

...

The Great Lumb looked in the sky and said quietly, "The great change will start just like in the prophecy. I don't know whether it's good or bad that they brought you here in this world.

"The flames of destruction will slowly consume the whole world. Even the Gods will not be able to escape it. So what will you do Ieshi's savior?"

...

The two traveled at a very slow pace as Souta get the other things that he could sell. They ate together and sleep together. They would also hunt together. Even though he couldn't understand what she was saying it was enough for him. Traveling with someone was better than traveling alone. It's not boring, to begin with.

In the game, he preferred to travel alone as he knew that it was only a game. He could vaguely recall that he had friends outside the game. And he would help those friends of his sometimes in the quest in Battle Worlds Online.

A week had passed before they managed to get out of the forest. They experienced many things together this week.

"Finally!" Souta exclaimed as he looked at the vast grassland in front of him. He was riding on the back of Yuko and he could see far away.

"Good! Yuko, go ahead!" Souta said as he patted Yuko's head.

Roar!

Yuko roared in response to Souta. She then charged ahead at full speed. Her speed was slower than him but it was enough for him.

She could only vaguely understand his words but this was enough for him.

"Hmm?" Souta saw a small village. He squinted his eyes and patted Yuko. "Yuko, stop!"

Yuko stopped and she lifted up her head and looked at him with a confused expression. Souta got down and caressed her fur.

"It's okay, it's just a village."

Souta said and observed the village. The distance between him and the village was far. If he walks it would take him a few minutes.

Yuko looked at Souta and followed behind him. Every time that Souta took a step forward she would also step forward quietly behind him.

The village was quite lively. There's a reason for that. A merchant arrived here and was selling things from a large city and kingdom. The villagers always look forward to when a merchant caravan would arrive. They were looking forward to the things that the merchant brought.

"A merchant, huh?"

Souta turned around and face Yuko. He caressed her head and said, "No matter what happens, don't attack anyone."

Yuko tilted her head in confusion so he repeated his words. After he repeatedly said the same words, it was only then that Yuko understood what that means.

"Good, good girl." Souta smiled and patted her head. He then turned around and walked towards the village with Yuko.

...

"Ahhh!!"

"Monster!!"

"A monster is attacking us!!"

The villagers shouted at the same time. Their voices echoed in the whole village. The villagers started panicking especially the women. The men quickly went to their house and armed themselves with sharp weapons.

The merchant raised his eyebrows when he heard those words. He stood up and called his guards.

"Hey! Can we check it?"

The female guard nodded and called her comrades. Soon three more guards approached the merchant.

A man wearing an armor stepped forward and said, "Sir, a Red Fur Bear was in the entrance of the village!"

"A Red Fur Bear? Let's check it, if we can kill it we could get some money by selling it." The merchant said.

They arrived at the entrance and saw a huge bear with red fur. It looks dominating as it has a scar on its left eye. In front of the bear was a man with dark green colored skin. He was wearing a pair of gauntlets and leather armor. On his low body was a pants made from High Kobold's hide.

"A Demi...?" The merchant said when he saw Souta. He turned his head and shouted on the villagers, "Shut up! Is this your first time seeing a Demi!"

As a merchant that traveled from one place to another, he has seen a lot of different races. It not his first time seeing other races.

The merchant walked forward and took out something from his neck and put it in his ear. It looks like an earphone.

Souta widened his eyes when he saw this. This was the communicator that would let him converse to other races even if he couldn't understand their language.

"Good!"

Chapter 17 - Getting to know the Merchant

Souta smiled inwardly when he saw the communicator from the merchant. The merchant was a fat man wearing luxurious clothes. Although the merchant was looking like that, Souta knew that he was as strong as him.

With the merchant wearing the communicator, he would be able to converse with them.

'Okay, let's ask if he's selling a communicator.' Souta thought as he walked forward to the merchant.

Yuko followed behind him quietly. She glared at the people around them but she still followed Souta's order so she could only glare at these people.

The merchant looked at the female guard beside him and said, "Brianna, lend him your communicator."

Brianna, the female guard, nodded and removed the communicator on her neck. She then threw it towards Souta.

Souta caught it and placed it on his neck.

The merchant saw Souta walking towards him. He checked if the communicator was running before he opened his mouth and asked, "I'm Jimmy of the Lanny Corp. and who are you, sir?"

The merchant called himself Jimmy. Jimmy asked Souta with a polite tone. A demi who could tame a Red Fur Bear was hard to find. Souta was extraordinary in his opinion and worth befriending.

"I'm Souta Ieshi and this is my partner Yuko." Souta introduced himself and Yuko to the merchant named Jimmy. He then goes straight to the point, "Do you have another communicator? I can pay for it."

"Oh?!" Jimmy was surprised but he didn't show it on his face.

The fact that Souta knew the existence of a communicator means that Souta came from a large city or kingdom. A rural village could hardly get news from those countries. It didn't have any access to advance technology. Airship, communicator, automatic vehicle, etc. couldn't be found in a rural village like this one. People of this village didn't even know what's airship.

"I'm sorry, the only thing I brought were the items that were approved by the Mechanic Country." Jimmy shook his head in regret.

"Is that so?" Souta could understand that. The Mechanic Country and the other powerful countries don't want to sell their technology to rural villages and small countries. 'A weak country should stay a weak country' was what they say. Those who violated this would be completely destroyed. There was once an ambitious merchant that sell their technology here and there. That merchant and the place he sells the technology vanished in one night.

"Sir Ieshi, do you mind if I ask where do you come from?" Jimmy walked beside Souta and asked. He waved his hand to his guards and nodded. The guards help the crowd calm down.

Souta turned his head and saw a beautiful female wearing a silver-colored b.r.e.a.s.tplate. He felt his blood rising from his body. He gulped unconsciously.

"S-sir Ieshi?" Jimmy called him as he saw Souta was in daze.

"Huh?" Souta turned to look at Jimmy.

The instinct of a goblin was something he couldn't imagine. The instinct to engage in s.e.x.u.a.l intercourse with a beautiful female. This was something he didn't expect. He hasn't met a single female ever since he came here. No, actually he met a female kobolds, goblins, and other monsters. He just couldn't differentiate with their appearance. Also, Yuko was a female bear.

Biting his tongue slightly to calm down his nerves, Souta asked Jimmy.

"What is it?"

"Where do you came from?" Jimmy repeated his question while looking at his female guard. It seemed that he guessed what Souta was thinking.

"I just came out of the Deep Woods and luckily I managed to tame a Red Fur Bear." Souta came while looking around the village. This village was much worse than a newbie village.

"Oh?" Jimmy turned to look at the Red Fur Bear behind Souta. He then turned back his gaze to Souta and asked, "Where do you plan to go now?"

"Border city of Hebrei Kingdom, Ladros city. I plan to enroll in the Ladro Institute." Souta said.

"Carriage?"

"I'm sorry, since you know the communicator, you must have seen the automatic vehicles. I'm just an ordinary merchant so I don't have the luxury to buy those things." Jimmy said with an apologetic tone.

"It's okay," Souta nodded in understanding. The three great countries were far away here so they have no influence here.

Jimmy glanced at Souta. He was sure that this demi really know the things inside the huge kingdom and countries. To even know the Institute of Ladros city.

The two talked for a while. Jimmy offered Souta to join them as they were also going to the Hebrei Kingdom. Souta agreed to him. This will slow down his journey but it's worth befriending a merchant. He could get inside the city without much inspections with a merchant backing him up.

...

At night...

Souta, Jimmy, and the guards were around a bonfire. They were roasting some meet that they hunted this afternoon.

"Good!" Souta exclaimed as he bit a mouthful of meat in his hand. He reached his hand towards Yuko. Yuko looked at the meat and his hand before she opened her mouth and bit the meat.

"Eat well." Souta smiled and patted Yuko's head.

"You really treat your pet well," Jimmy said while looking at their interaction.

"It's not that bad," Souta answered with a smile. He recalled the time he met Yuko. Both of them tried to kill each other at that time.

"It's really rare for someone to be a tamer."

It's rare for someone to become a tamer. The fact that finding some monsters were dangerous so no one would take a tamer lightly. The tamer also needs to provide his/her pet its meal.

"What course do you plan to take in Institute?"

"Mage," Souta replied without hesitation.

He could learn a lot of basic spells in the Institute. He would become a full-fledge mage once he learned two more spells. He wouldn't changed his class no matter what. He was the most familiar with this class. He would become just like what he was in the game or maybe stronger.

"Then, I would congratulate you in advance that you pass the entrance examination," Jimmy said.

"Hahaha, thank you!" Souta laughed and asked while looking at the guards, "By the way, what rank are they?"

Jimmy looked at his guards before he answered, "They were the Rank D adventurers that accepted my quest."

"Rank D, huh?" Souta observed the guards or the hired guards.

The Adventurers Guild was a very influential faction. In terms of influence, the guild had more influence than the three great countries. The main base was situated in the Nivari Kingdom.

Adventurers were divided into eight ranks. S rank was the strongest and F rank was a newbie. The power of a D rank Adventurer was much stronger than the current Souta.

"So they are powerful, huh?" Souta said in a low voice while looking at the five of them.

Two of them were female and three were men. The woman that has honey-colored hair was the leader. She has long silky hair that dr.a.p.ed down to her back. Wearing a silver-colored armor was the proof that they weren't ordinary Adventurers. An Adventurers would be called a veteran once they became a rank D.

"Hahaha, of course, I wouldn't hire them if they weren't powerful." Jimmy laughed at Souta's words. He then turned at the female guard and said, "Brianna, this is Souta. He will join us in our journey so get to know each other."

"Hello, I'm Brianna, leader of the Gale Group." The leader introduced herself as Brianna.

"I'm Souta, an aspiring mage," Souta said while looking at her honey-colored eyes.

Then, the rest of the Gale Group introduced themselves. By the way, Gale Group was the name of their party.

"I'm Tidor, oh? An aspiring mage, huh? You can ask our mage some questions if you like, right Tim?" Tidor was a huge man wearing full plate armor. He's almost two meters in height. Black hair, black eyes, and his sharp feature make him popular in women.

"Ah! I don't know." Tim said with a lazy tone. He was a short man wearing a red robe with blue linings. His black hair almost covered his brown eyes.

"I'm John," A man with cat ears introduced himself. He was wearing leather armor and black pants. There's a dagger hanging on his waist. It seemed that he was a rogue.

"Hello, I'm Jane," She had a shoulder-length black hair and was wearing glasses. She had a beautiful face unfortunately the scar on her left cheek ruin it.

"You were lucky that you found a young Red Fur Bear! The ones I know were five meters tall!"

"Yeah, that must be a level 39 a.d.u.l.t Red Fur Bear."

"Level 39?"

"Nothing forget about that."

"Hahaha, you're quite a funny guy Souta!"

They talk for a whole night and got to know each other.

...

Souta woke up early in the morning before the sun rises. He stood up and did some morning exercise to warm himself.

He found that the hired guards were awake. It seemed that they were used to this lifestyle. As expected of an Adventurers.

He woke Yuko and went to hunt food. She wasn't included in the food that Jimmy provided. After all, she was just a pet and her master should be the one taking care of her.

If Souta became a tamer rather than a mage, then he would be able to open up the inner world to store his pet. But sadly, he doesn't have any plan to become a tamer.

"I might neglect you once we go to the city," Souta said as he caressed Yuko's head.

"Muu..." Yuko looked at Souta with her one eye. It seemed that she understood what he said.

After they finished hunting food for Yuko, they went back to the village.

"Come on, let's go Souta!" Jimmy shouted.

"Alright, alright," Souta sighed and smiled.

Today was the day that they will leave this village and will go to the Hebrei Kingdom. It will take two weeks to go there using the carriage.

And so two weeks had passed and they arrived at their destination.

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Chapter 18 - Ladros City

Battle Worlds Online was the most played game in the world.

There, there's a legendary player called Blood. The players and NPC called him in many titles. The "Solo Player", "Mysterious Gamer", "One Man Guild", "Perfect Armory", "Commander of Mechanic Country", "Athena's most love Hero", "Demon Annihilator", "Pioneer Player of the Mars Archipelago", and "Master of Nine Headed Hydra" were the nicknames that players and NPC gave him.

"Solo Player" as he prefers to raid a dungeon alone. He doesn't join a party nor join a guild, even the guilds of his friends. He even created his own guild with him the only member.

"Mysterious Gamer" as no one knew his true identity except his friends. Even the various game clubs tried to recruit but to no avail, they failed.

"One Man Guild" because he's the only member of the guild that he created. He even won a guild war with just him alone.

"Perfect Armory" was because all of his equipments were Universal Treasure. All his equipments were skill holder.

"Commander Mechanic Country" was because he became a commander of the most powerful country in the continent. No other player managed to raise in rank in this country.

"Athena's most love Hero" was because he's the first one that maxed a goddess affection rate. He received the most gentle affection from a goddess of Greek mythology that caused many players to hung their jaw.

"Demon Annihilator" was because, in the war against the demons, he once fought a single army on his own and annihilated the demons.

"Pioneer Player of the Mars Archipelago" was because he's the first player that stepped foot in the unknown lands. He explored the unknown lands as the Commander of Mechanic Country.

The "Master of Nine Headed Hydra" was because he managed to make the famous hydra to become his pet.

His deeds were something that no other players could do. He was the player that stood at the top of the rankings. He was recognized as the number one player in the Battle Worlds Online.

And now the legendary player transmigrated into the real world of Battle Worlds Online. He somewhat became a goblin much to his dismay.

Even then, the legendary player was like the other players. He suffered from getting killed in a high difficult quest. He even failed some of those.

Now that he came to this world, he would do his best to survive this brutal world full of danger.

"We're here!"

Souta opened his eyes at Jimmy's voice. He took a peek outside and saw the thirty-meter walls of Ladros city. It was just a border city but the looks of it could be compared to the capital.

"Don't worry about it, I will handle the procedure," Jimmy said to him with a wink.

"Thanks for the trouble." Souta smiled wryly. He was thankful to Jimmy for this. He then glanced at the line and sighed.

The line was long and it will take a long time before they could enter the city. Many people enter and exit the city every day. Different races coming from different places.

After half an hour, Souta, Jimmy, and the rest managed to enter the city.

"We will part ways here!" Jimmy said to him.

"Yeah, I'm very thankful for your help!" Souta thanked Jimmy as he slightly bowed his head.

"No need to mind it, I also received something good from you. Don't forget to come to me if you've got something good, I'm always in the Lanny Group! Don't forget that!" Jimmy said with a laughed. It's true that he received goods from Souta. Souta gave him something that he found in the Deep Woods. It was pretty valuable.

"I know, I'll go now," Souta said to the Gale Group. He then gives back the communicator to Brianna, which she lent him back then.

"Thanks."

"Yeah, good luck!" Brianna, the leader of the Gale Group, said.

Tidor and the rest of the Gale Group also bid farewell to him. They got closer to each other in their two weeks of journey. Then, they parted ways just as planned.

...

"Yuko, we will find a shop and buy a communicator first," Souta said to Yuko who was following behind him.

Yuko as a Red Fur Bear gathered some attention to the folks here. It's rare for someone to be a tamer so some people paid attention to him, the tamer of a Red Fur Bear.

Souta ignored those eyes as he looked around the city.

The Ladros city was the same back in the game. It was a bustling city that looks like it came out of medieval period. Houses made of bricks were built side by side. People of different races were walking around the city.

This city was divided into five districts. District 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. He was currently in district 1 and this place was full of different kinds of shops. The weapon, armor, potion, clothes, foods, etc. were all around the place.

Soon, Souta found a shop. He turned to look at Yuko and patted her head.

"Stay here for a while, I'll just buy something inside."

Souta turned around and entered the shop. He quickly goes to the counter and asked, "Do you have a communicator here?"

The salesman couldn't understand him. He tapped his neck to activate the communicator.

"I'm sorry sir, what is it again?"

Souta pointed on the communicator that was attached on the neck of the salesman and asked, "Do you have communicator here?"

"Ah, yes sir, we have two types of communicators here. The non-magical and magical one." The salesman said with a smile.

"Okay, give me one of magical." Souta nodded and took out a silver coin from his pocket. He sells some of his items to Jimmy before so his wallet was filled with coins.

"Please wait for a moment, sir!" Saying that, the salesman went to get the product.

After a few moments, he came back with a palm-sized box in his hand.

"Here, sir!"

Souta opened the box and saw a black palm-size object with white button, attached to it was a black circular wire. It was different from Jimmy's communicator that had an earphone. This communicator was using magic to send the information in his head. He just needed to insert his own mana and it will activate on its own.

"Good, I will take it!"

"Thanks for buying, sir!"

...

"Sorry for the wait, Yuko!"

Souta came out of the shop and looked at Yuko.

"Muu."

Yuko lowered her head and looked at him. Souta looked back at her with a questioning gaze. It took him a while to understand her.

"Ah, you really like it when I pat your head."

Souta patted her head and Yuko released a blissful sound.

"Unn."

"Well, let's go. I'll let you eat anything you want."

The two continued their tour around the city. Souta went to the inn that has a ranch so Yuko could stay with him. He checked in for 200 copper coins for one night. He paid for a whole month of stay using the coins he got from Jimmy.

Leaving Yuko in the ranch, Souta went to the Adventurers Guild to register as an adventurer. He needs to have a way to get an income for enrollment in the Ladro Institute.

Arriving in front of the wooden door of a large building. This was the Ladros' city Adventurers Guild branch. As a continental faction, the Adventurers Guild had many branches in different cities throughout the whole continent.

From the door, Souta could hear the noises inside the building. Stepping forward, he entered the building. The first thing he saw was a wide hall that was full of different people laughing and chatting in a round table, there were also in the corner who seemed to be waiting for their party members. Some people looked at him and some didn't bother looking at him as they know that different kinds of people always enter the guild every day.

Souta looked around and didn't see the Gale Group. It seemed that they were not here in the guild. After confirming that, he went in front of the receptionist.

The receptionist was a beautiful middle-aged woman. She has a porcelain skin, brown eyes, and her brown hair was tied in a bun.

"Hello sir, what can I do for you?" The receptionist asked him in a polite tone.

"Hmm... I want to register as an adventurer." Souta replied to her question.

"...wait for a moment, sir." The receptionist said before she opened up the drawer below and took out a piece of paper. She placed it in front of him and said, "Please fill up this first."

Souta glanced at the paper and frowned. He couldn't understand what's written on it. He looked at the receptionist and embarrassedly said, "Umm... I couldn't understand it."

With the help of the receptionist, Souta managed to fill the paper. He already planned before what he should write in his information.

The receptionist patiently told him every rule of the adventurers. She explained every important part of being an adventurer to him. Souta listened to her as he knew that it was her job to explain that to every newly joined adventurer.

...

It was late at night when he came back to the inn.

He was in the ranch feeding Yuko some meat that she likes. While doing that, he arranged the information that he gathered in his head.

He was sure that it was version 1. There's nothing huge that happened in the world base on the information that he gathered.

Version 1 was a version that every player would explore the continent. They would do anything they want and do some quest on their way. It was also called "Free to Explore". Nothing big happens in this version.

The beginning of chaos was the opening of version 2. It will start with the "Demon Invasion", "Rise of the Mechanic Country", "Age of Exploration", "War of Titans and Giants", "The Death Plague" etc. All of these were big events that shook the entire continent. The power balance will shift many times and war will spread. Even the three great countries were forced to move.

It will start with small scale war and then it will gradually spread and before anyone become aware of it, the whole continent was already in war.

Souta was only familiar in the quest that he did. He didn't know the full details of the other events as he was busy gathering his equipments at that time.

"Hmm... After this, should I try to find the pair of [Soul Blood Earring] so that I could unlock its other skill."

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Chapter 19 - Registration

Souta woke up and he slowly opened his eyes. He found himself being covered by red fluffy fur. It was none other than Yuko.

"Hmm... Good morning, Yuko." Souta said and he stretched his body. Yuko lifted up her head and licked his cheek. Lately, she came to like licking him on his cheek.

"Ah, stop that," Souta said as he patted her head to make her stop. Yuko stopped as soon as he patted her head. She closed her eyes and enjoy his patting.

He looked around and found himself in the ranch. Inside one of the rooms of the supposedly pet. It seems that he fell asleep here yesterday while thinking about what will happen in the future. He didn't even go to his room inside the inn.

"I will feed you later just stay here for a while," Souta said to Yuko. He already had a plan for today. He needed to go to the library and get some books about the languages of this world. He needed to learn to write so that he wouldn't fail in the entrance exam of the academy.

"Uu." Yuko looked at him with teary eyes. It seemed that she didn't want to stay here where she couldn't even move her huge body. After all, this place was too small for her.

"Okay, okay, I won't forget to bring you the meat that you like," Souta said as he forces himself to smile. He then stood up and went inside the inn.

The middle-aged woman wearing a simple clothes looked at him with weird eyes. She was the owner of the inn.

Souta looked at her and smile wryly. He could guess what she was thinking. He, after all, slept in the ranch with his pet.

He sat down and ordered breakfast. While waiting for the breakfast to arrive, he took out a card from his pocket. This was his Adventurer's ID. A simple identification card that confirmed him being an adventurer.

A picture of him was in the upper left part of the card. Beside it was his information and his rank. He was a Rank F adventurer as he just joined the guild yesterday. He needs to complete various quests to acc.u.mulate merits and raised his rank.

After a while the waitress brought his order, he placed his card back and focused his attention on the food.

"Here's your order, sir." The waitress said as she placed down the meals that he ordered on the table.

"Thank you." Souta thanked the waitress and turned his attention to the meals before him.

"It's really good compared to those things that I've eaten in the Undead Sanctuary," Souta muttered as he recalled that he needed to eat the raw meat of a goblin before just to survive. The first few days were a nightmare for him.

"Ah~ I'm really glad that I've survived."

...

Souta left Yuko in the ranch and he went into the library.

He paid the entrance fee and entered the library. In this place, a person needs money to get an access to information. Only in a country like this have a library. Among all the countries in the continent, only the three great countries and Mechanic Country were advance enough that they don't need a library. All the information was digitalized.

Souta looked around the countless books inside this huge library. All sorts of information were in this place. The books were arranged neatly. It seems the owner always took care of the books in the library. He then found the book that he wanted.

Raising his hand and picking up the book. He opened the book and read the first few pages of it.

Suddenly, a familiar sound ringed in his mind.

Ding*

[Do you want to learn Nurman Language for 1 skill point? Yes/No?]

"...ehhh?!" Souta was surprised when he saw the words written in the interface.

Learning a language for a skill point? This... This wasn't in the function. In the game, all the languages were automatically translated by the system so the players could use their system points for something like this.

It's really different now. He doesn't know what other function the system hide. At first, he couldn't see the level of other creatures and also the inventory. He couldn't use the most convenient inventory. Then, he could earn exp by practicing or training. It's really a wonder how the system changed after he came here.

Souta calmed down and he rubbed his chin. He pondered the pros and cons of using skill points to learn the Nurman Language. Nurman Language was the universal language of this world. A lot of races knew how to speak Nurman Language. Learning this, he could quickly go to the Ladro Institute and take the entrance examination.

The examination consists of two types of exam. The written exam and practical exam. He doesn't need to worry about the practical exam as he already knew how to cast a spell. The only problem was the written exam. He doesn't know how any language of this world except the language of the goblin.

He doubted that those people would understand him if he uses the goblin's language. The humans and demi only killed the monsters they wouldn't try to communicate to them. Only those strong monsters have the right to do so. Otherwise, they would kill any monsters. Luckily, he looked like a demi so there's nothing to worry. There were hundreds of humanoid races here in the continent and there were also those halflings so people guessed that he was a halfling of some unusual race.

'Yes.' Souta mentally said and he used 1 skill point to learn the Nurman Language. Knowledge about the Nurman Language was poured in his mind.

After a few seconds, Souta opened his eyes. He really wondered how can he learn something just by using a skill point.

Souta smirked and said, "I'm out here." He will speed up his plan now that he learned the Nurman Language.

Since he doesn't have any business here, he left the library. The librarian looked at him with suspicious eyes. Well, he just entered the place and quickly leave. Who wouldn't find it weird?

...

Souta exited the library and went straight to the Adventurers Guild. He would take a quest now to earn some money before taking the entrance examination of the Ladro Institute.

He walked to the quest board and looked at the quest that he could take. He was a Rank F adventurer so he could only take the Rank F quest. The guild wouldn't permit it if he took a quest beyond his rank.

Souta saw a lot of quests on the board. Monster Subjugation, Escort, Herb Picking, Finding the Missing Person, Investigation, etc.

"For now, I'm still a Rank F adventurer so I couldn't take some good quest." Souta took the Herb Gathering quest. He placed it in the counter and the receptionist registered the quest he took in an object that looks like a computer.

"Okay, good luck in your first quest, sir." The receptionist said with a smile on her face.

Souta nodded and heard a sound in his mind.

Ding*

[Quest triggered!]

[Herb Gathering: Pick up 5 Green Silk Grass. Rewards: 100 exp

"Hmm...?" Souta looked at the system with a surprise expression. To think that he would receive a quest like this. It must be triggered because he accepted the quest from the guild. Other than that he couldn't think of any reason.

Getting the rewards from the guild and the system was a happy thing for him. He would earn money and exp at the same time.

"What is it, sir?" The receptionist asked as she slightly tilted her head.

Souta came back to his senses when he heard her voice. He shook his head and turned to look at her. When he turned to look at her, he saw the deep valley between her chest. He unconsciously gulped because of this. His instinct was once again rising.

"Sir?"

"Ah, nothing." Souta quickly turned around. This body of his was too eager.

He quickly left as he doesn't want to become a pervert. It seems that he needed to visit the red light district this night to calm himself.

Souta walked back to the ranch and let Yuko out.

"Come, we have a quest," Souta said while opening the gate.

Yuko came out of the ranch and she quickly licked his cheek as soon as she saw him.

"Stop that," Souta patted her head before he closed the gate and tell the owner that he will leave to do some quest.

Souta and Yuko leave the city using the east gate of the city. The city has four gates. The north gate was located in district 2, the south gate was located in district 3, the west gate was located in district 4, and lastly, the east gate was located in district 1.

After falling in line for a few dozen minutes, Souta and Yuko walked out of the gate. He just showed his Adventurers ID and the guards let him leave the city.

"Let's go, Yuko! I will let you play this time!" Souta said to her and he started to walked forward. Yuko looked at him for a while before she followed him.

The quest was simple Herb Gathering. He doesn't need to fight any monster. In the game, this type of quest was called repeated quest. It was because a player could complete this quest over and over again.

He just needed to find a Green Silk Grass. It was a basic ingredient needed in concocting health recovery potion.

Souta and Yuko walked one kilometer away from the city. They were in a grassland. The scene here was very beautiful and the air was fresh. In this place, he could find the Green Silk Grass.

"Okay, Yuko! You can play around here! Just don't wander too far!" Souta said as he crouched down and began looking for the grass.

"Muu." Yuko looked at him as she tilted her head. She walked beside him and copy him.

"Oi! What are you doing?" Souta turned his head and asked.

Yuko looked back at him. The two of them looked into each other's eyes.

"Hais..." Souta sighed and he ignored her as he continued looking for the grass.

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Chapter 20 - M-master?

Souta received his reward in the guild for completing the quest. At the same time, he heard the system in his mind.

Ding!*

[Congratulations on completing the Herb Gathering quest!]

[You've received 100 exp!]

Right now, 100 exp was too little for him. Well, he couldn't do much as he only accepted a Rank F quest. If he accepted a higher rank quest then the reward would be higher.

"Thank you for your effort!" The receptionist said with a smile to him.

"That's nothing," Souta replied as he turned around and went to the quest board. He looked at the request there and pondered what he should do.

In the end, he picked the Monster Subjugation quest before turning back to the receptionist.

"You want this quest, sir?" The receptionist looked at him with doubtful eyes.

"Yeah." Souta nodded. He just placed the quest in hunting the slime in the outskirt of the city.

"You know sir, it's hard to kill a slime without magic." The receptionist said worriedly. It's her job to give advice to the adventurers that took a quest here.

"Yes, I know that." Souta nodded at her words. He knew that a slime was hard to kill without magic. But he... He could use three spells; the [Fire Ball, [Ice Shot, and [Light Heal]. His spells were enough to kill a slime.

Also, he doesn't need to use spells to slay a slime. He knew the weakness of the slimes. With his passive skill [Sword Mastery, he would be able to destroy the core of the slime. A slime would instantly die if its core was destroyed. It's not a secret as many people know this already.

It's not his first time hunting a slime. Back in the Undead Sanctuary, he conquered a dungeon full of slime and even took down an evolve slime.

"Okay sir, but be careful..." The receptionist said before she recorded the quest that he took.

"I know that," Souta smiled wryly as this woman was too worried about him.

Ding!*

[Quest Triggered!]

[Monster Subjugation: Kill ten slimes and retrieve its core. Rewards: 300 exp

'Oh?!' The rewards were much higher than before. As expected of a Monster Subjugation quest.

After that, he exited the Adventurers Guild and patted Yuko.

"Let's go, we have another quest!"

"Muu..."

"Hahaha!" Souta laughed at her voice. It lacks enthusiasm. It was like she forcing herself.

"Well, you know that we will be able to rank up after we completed nine Rank F quests including this," Souta said while holding the Monster Subjugation quest paper.

A Rank F adventurer needed to complete 10 Rank F quest before they rank up to Rank E. Then, the Rank E needed to complete fifteen Rank E quest. Above that, the Rank D was much different than lower ranks. A Rank D adventurers were already called veteran adventurers. To increase their rank, people needed strength and merits. Completing various quests wasn't enough to rise up in rank.

"Muu." Yuko tilted her head at his words.

"Well, I'll tell you more while we walk," Souta said as he began to walked. He noticed that the people around were looking at him with a weird gaze. It's strange that he was talking to a monster that couldn't understand him.

'How can they understand the connection between Yuko and Me?!' Souta thought. Suddenly, an idea came into his mind.

What if he let Yuko wear a communicator? Wouldn't she able to talk that way.

"Yuko, let's go!" Souta laughed before he quickened his pace.

Yuko dragged her huge body as she followed him behind.

...

Souta removed the communicator on his neck.

"Come here." He said to Yuko as he lifted up his hand and made a gesture to come.

Yuko looked at him with confusion before she stretched her neck to him.

"Damn, your neck is too thick! I couldn't even put the communicator!" Souta cursed as he sighed. It seems that he needed to add some wire to that it could fit her size.

"Muu." Yuko looked at him sadly. She thought that Souta was angry at her.

Souta ignored her and rubbed his chin. He muttered, "Anything is good as long as it could fit her neck."

He looked around him and do something that Yuko couldn't understand. She just watched him pick up as different kinds of grass.

Souta looked at her and said, "Why don't you hunt some slime while I'm finding a strong enough grass so we could complete the quest faster?"

Yuko just looked back at him.

Seeing this, Souta sighed and took out the quest paper. He pointed at the picture of a slime on the paper. "Here, defeat this and take out the core!"

Yuko nodded her head. It seemed that she understood what he meant but Souta was really doubtful about that.

...

"Finally! I've finished modifying it!" Souta exclaimed in a loud voice as he raised the communicator above his head.

He looked around and saw Yuko running towards him.

"What?!"

He was surprised when he saw her. After all, she was holding a slime in both of her hands. One on the left and one on the right.

She stopped in front of him and opened her arms showing the two slimes. She then lowered her head as if waiting to be praised.

"This...?" Souta was speechless. He brandished his sword and stabbed the slime in the core.

The slime disintegrated leaving only the core.

"Muu!!" Yuko was shocked when she saw him killed the slime. She thought that he wanted to play with slime so she brought them here. She never thought that he would kill them.

"I order you to hunt them. Well, it doesn't matter." Souta sheathed his sword and picked up the core.

"Well, let's think about that later. Let's see this first." Souta said and he showed the communicator to Yuko.

Yuko looked at it before she sniffed it.

"Come let me put it on you," Souta said and he carefully put the communicator on her neck. He picked a tough grass before so that it could support the communicator on her neck. It will not snap easily.

"Here, and it's done!"

Souta looked at the communicator on her neck with a satisfied expression. His effort wasn't in vain. It fitted her right.

"Come on, try saying something..." He spoke eagerly.

"Muu..." Yuko was confused.

"What?! What's wrong with this communicator? Ah, I forgot this is a magical one. I need mana to activate."

Souta put his hand on the communicator and controlled his mana. He poured a little amount in the communicator.

Yuko couldn't control her mana. She couldn't even manipulate it. In the battle, she always used brute force to dominate her enemies.

The communicator lit up as it started functioning.

"Come... Say something!" Souta said with a smile.

He waited for a while before he heard a small little voice coming out of her.

"M-master...?"

"Oh!! It works! It works!" Souta laughed loudly. Although he couldn't understand it, it seemed that she pronounced some word. From now on, he would be able to communicate with her.

It just that this communicator needs mana to work. If it didn't receive mana it will stop functioning. It seems that he needs to buy a non-magical one. But it needs a battery. It would drain his wallet.

Well, if he could communicate with her then it's worth all the money.

"Okay, let's finish the quest and buy communicator as soon as possible," Souta said before he turned around leaving Yuko with a dumbfounded expression.

After a few minutes of walking, Souta found a slime.

"Let's finish it quickly." He brandished his sword and rushed towards the slime.

Swoosh!!

He didn't even let the slime react as he pierced its jelly body directly to its core. With the level of his [Sword Mastery, he could accurately pinpoint the core of the slime.

Souta didn't stop and continued to hunt more slime. He only stopped when he collected ten slime cores. With this, the quest was complete. He just needed to report it to the guild.

...

Souta went back to the guild to report.

"You've finished it?" The receptionist asked him.

"Well, the slime was not that powerful. As long as you've found its core, you can kill it." Souta said as he placed the ten slime cores on the table.

The receptionist counted the cores before she gave him the reward. She also recorded the quest that he did to his ID.

Ding!*

[Congratulations on completing a Monster Subjugation quest!]

[You've received 300 exp!]

Souta ignored the system prompts and picked up his Adventurers ID. He then exited the Adventurers Guild.

Souta went to the shop and bought a communicator for Yuko. He spent his money on this as it was important to him. He also bought a lot of meat for her as he knew that she was hungry right now.

...

Another day had passed and nothing big happens. The city was still lively and there were new people that's coming in and out of the city every day.

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Chapter 21 - Registration in Ladro Institute

"Souta, don't forget what I taught you. This is what you will need in the near future." A faint image with a male voice spoke.

"I understand, grandpa," Souta answered. Then, he noticed a large machine shaped circle. It's white and has a transparent glass surface.

"What is this?" Souta asked.

"It's called Virtual Capsule, you play and be number one in this game."

"All right..."

"You will understand everything someday."

...

Souta woke up just before sunrise. He looked around and saw that he was in his rented room.

He stood up and did some warm up exercise before going to the bathroom to wash his face.

After he washed his face he went down for breakfast.

"Good morning!" Souta greeted the owner when he saw her. He first orders food before sitting in the vacant chair.

A few minutes later, the meal was served by the waitress at the top of his table.

"Thanks for the food!"

He didn't even have a second thought before he ate it. The cooked food was very different from what he ate when he was in the Undead Sanctuary.

What he ate there were kobolds and goblins flesh. When he thought about it, he did cannibalism. He was a goblin and he ate goblin flesh. He had nothing to say about it as he had to eat anything to survive.

He had finished his breakfast a few minutes later. He drank water and thanked the food.

Then, he got up and paid for the food before he came out. He went to Yuko and fed her.

"Just be here Yuko. I'll be back later, too." Souta said before leaving.

Yuko just stared at her back.

...

Today is the day Souta will register with the Ladro Institute. He must register before getting the entrance examination.

"It's better than what it is in the game!" Souta said as he gazed in front of a large building.

This building was the Ladro Institute. The best and most popular school in the city of Ladros. Many have completed their studies here which have become popular throughout the country. Some of them became the city lord and the leader of the royal guard.

Souta is in front of a large gate with the inscription "Welcome to the Ladro Institute".

He no longer hesitated and he quickly entered the Ladro Institute. There were many students inside the school. Different breeds of creatures can be found here. The beast, the human, and even the elves were here.

He went around the place before finding the place where he would register.

Souta walked over and stopped in front of a man. The man was wearing a dark blue colored coat and it has a white pattern on its end. He had blue hair at shoulder's length.

Souta approached the man before he said, "Sir, I will register here to get the entrance exam."

"Just ask the lady over there at the counter." said the man.

Souta nodded and said "thanks" before looking at the counter. He saw a beautiful woman with brown hair and brown eyes.

He approached the woman and repeated what he had said to the man earlier.

The woman understood what he was saying so she took a piece of paper and placed it in front of him.

"Please, fill this up first." said the woman to Souta.

Souta nodded before taking the pen and writing his information on the paper that the woman had given him. After he wrote his info he handed over the paper to the woman.

The woman glanced at the paper before looking at Souta. She opened her mouth and spoke. "Sir, you have to pay 100 gold coins for the entrance examination."

Souta put his hand inside his pocket and took out his purse. He counted the coins before he placed the coins on the desk.

"Thank you for registration sir, you can come back in a week for the entrance examination." The woman smiled after giving her the money. He gave Souta a role. "That's the stab, don't lose it because you need it in the examination."

"Thank you!"

Souta first toured the institute before leaving. He had one week to do what he needs. The test will cover the history of the city and the country. He wasn't worried about it cause he knew the history of this country. For other people, a week was a time given to them to prepare for the exam but for Souta, it's his chance to raise his rank as an adventurer.

...

Souta went to the store first and bought the meat and fruit that Yuko likes. Yuko didn't really eat the fruit. She just kept it like a treasure. Even he doesn't know why she likes keeping fruits.

"I'm back!"

Yuko yanked Souta and the two of them fell to the floor. He patted Yuko's head so she stopped.

Sniff! Sniff!

Yuko turned her attention to the bag that Souta was carrying. She quickly opened it and picked up the fruit inside the bag. She picked up the fruits and hid them before returning to Souta.

"Hahaha, do you like it?" Souta laughed at what Yuko had done. He even thought that Yuko wouldn't hesitate to exchange for some fruits.

"M-master..."

Souta heard Yuko's gentle voice. It was a little girl's voice.

"Is 'master' the only word that you know?" Souta said as he patted Yuko's head.

"Master ..."

Yuko stuck out her tongue and licked his cheek.

He had already given the food he had bought to Yuko. He sat down to the side and watched Yuko eat.

He confirmed something since the first time he meets a person in this world. The people here in this world were not bound by any computers. They were not artificial intelligence that has limited actions. The talks and laughs between Jimmy and the Gale Group were the proof of it. An artificial intelligence wouldn't be able to do that.

Their conversation. It's not scripted like in the game. They have their own thoughts and intentions that do not belong to artificial intelligence. If so, then this world will run into a future he does not know. Being a game, all moves of the NPC were limited. They just do what they were program to.

It looks like he needs to be careful about his next step. He will understand and observe what will happen before he made a move. Well, it's not that those powerful people will notice him as he was too weak right now.

First, he will enter the Ladro Institute to become a Mage. His ability will be greatly enhanced when he became a Mage. It's not just the increase in stats. He will also have a specialty and the Mage's skill tree will open up for him. That's why it's important to have a class.

Also, now was the right time for the second evolution. He contemplated the next evolution of the High End Goblin. His first evolution was focused on strength attribute. After a few minutes, he thought of the path that he will take.

"This will be good for my next evolution." Souta couldn't help but smile.

Level 20 was the level where the difficulty in leveling up was starting to increase. The exp required to level up were more than fifty thousand. There's also a change after a player reached level 20. The next evolution wasn't level 30 but level 40. Twenty levels are needed before he can evolve again.

Level 40 was the level cap of version 2 in Battle Worlds Online. This was also the beginning of the players' ability to change the game's story started to appear. This level already has the potential to become a top rank adventurer. It's was especially to the monster type player. The change in level 40 was no small feat for the monster type player. This level was the start and they will slowly catch up with the other players. The increase in abilities was incredibly huge to those monster type players.

Before all those things, Souta needed to raise his adventurer rank first. To make that happen, he needed to complete ten Rank F quest.

"Have you finished your meal? Let's go out now, we will do some quest." Souta said to Yuko who was cleaning her red fur.

Yuko stopped what she was doing and looked at Souta. Even though she has a communicator, Souta was still having difficulty communicating with Yuko. After all, the only word that she knew was master.

Souta stood up and patted his clothes before he approached Yuko. Hee grabbed Yuko's soft fur and repeated his words.

"Let's go now, Yuko. I know you want to get out of this place, right?"

Yuko stared at Souta's face. After a few seconds, she stuck out her tongue and licked Souta's face.

"Stop! Stop doing that! I will always tell you that I don't like it!"

...

Both of them went to the Adventurers Guild and took a quest.

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Chapter 22 - Examination

"Souta, don't put your real name on it use your name if something real happens." A man with a faint image said.

"Why?" The boy asked.

"You will know when the time is right. Just remember that our family was one of the strongest in ancient times." The man calmly told the boy.

"Ieshi? But I have never read Ieshi in Japanese history." The boy looked at the man in doubt.

"I'm not from this country. I'm from a far distant place. Go ahead and play." The man looked at the cloud before he said.

"All right, grandpa."

"Blood? Is this your chosen name here in this game?"

"Yes."

"Next time when something similar happens then use your real name, Souta Ieshi. There will be people who will help you because you are an Ieshi."

"I understand."

"No matter what happens don't forget what I had said today."

...

Souta woke up early in the morning. He quickly got up and took a shower. Afterward, he came down and ordered breakfast.

"The same as always." He said loudly for the waitress to hear.

The waitress understood what he was saying so the waitress went inside the kitchen.

After a few minutes, the waitress came out with Souta's order. She put the food on the table.

"Thanks for the food!"

He quickly eats his breakfast. He's in a hurry because today was the exam day at the Ladro Institute. Right, today the test will be held. He cannot be late on this test because it depends on whether he enters or not.

Since it's the examination day, this only means one week had passed.

A lot of things happened this week. One of these was Souta becoming a Rank E adventurer. During this time he completed ten quests that needed to rise in rank. He has an outstanding record. The completion rate and completion speed were high. He quickly finishes the quests he had taken.

Within a week, he already became a Rank E adventurer. He completed the quests he had taken with Yuko. The Rank F quests are easy to complete so it's not surprising that he completes it within a week.

After he finished his meal and paid the bill, Souta went to Yuko and he fed her the delicious food that she likes.

"Just stay here, for now, I will quickly finish the test," Souta said to Yuko while patting her head.

"Muu." Yuko stopped eating and she looked at Souta.

"Okay, I will bring you back the fruits that you like so much." Souta smiled wryly at her.

...

He changed his clothes and went to the Institute to take the exam. He arrived in the place twenty minutes before the exam.

He opened the door and stepped inside. There, he saw a lot of people were already in their seats.

The other examinees looked at him and he just ignored those gaze. He took out his stab and looked at his seat number.

"Seat 52, huh?"

He looked around and found his seat in the back. He sat there and observed his surroundings. The people here were too tense as he could see sweat forming in the forehead, even though the weather was quite cold today.

The whole room was devoid of any sound as nobody dared to make a noise here.

Turning his head to the left side, he saw a beautiful girl seating beside him. She has beautiful silver hair that dr.a.p.es down to her shoulders onto her back. Her golden pupils that have a hint of red were like a piece of expensive gem. She was wearing a simple white blouse and a black mini skirt with red linings.

Souta could feel some sort of strange aura coming out of her. Yeah, it was really weird. It feels that was not her true appearance and she's concealing her real identity.

The girl noticed his gazed so she turned her head and looked at him in the eyes.

"What is it?" She asked with a cold tone.

"N-nothing..." Souta gulped and turned his head. He was captivated by those beautiful eyes of her. He took a deep breath to calm his nerves.

After thirty minutes, a man with short orange hair wearing a black coat entered the room. He walked straight to the table in front which was reserved for the examiner.

He placed down the bunch of paper he was carrying on the table before looking around.

"Cough... I'm John Myer your examiner in written exam." The man cleared his throat and introduced himself. "There are seventy examinees in this room so don't cause any noise as you all could overwhelm me."

Some of the examinees sighed in relief when they heard his words and tone. They were glad that he's not a strict person like the other examiner. It feels like a huge burden has been lifted off their shoulders.

"As you have known, the entrance exam has two types. The written and practical exam. You need to pass these two for you to enter the institute." John, the examiner, said while looking at every people's face inside the room. "Alright, we will start the written exam now."

John placed a stack of papers on the desk of the people in the front row. "Take one and pass the rest to your back."

The examinees started to pass the test paper around. In just a minute, all the people here were holding a test paper.

"The passing score is 70 and below that is fail so answer it carefully. You all have two hours to answer the test, that's it and good luck." John said before sitting down in the front. He was observing every examinee looking out for cheaters.

Souta turned his attention to his test paper. He read it silently.

'I don't know some of the questions but it will not hinder me.' he thought when he finished reading all the questions. He will still pass the test even though there's a question that he doesn't know the answer. After all, the passing score was 70.

Time passed by quickly and one by one the examinees finished answering their test papers. And he, Souta, was the first one who finished answering the test. Everyone looked at him but he knew that he had only answered all the questions that he knows. Why would he answer a question he doesn't know the answer? So some of the questions in his test were blank.

"Since you've all finished before the time, you can go now to take the practical exam," Jhon said as he arranged all the test papers.

The girl beside Souta stood up as soon as the examiner said those words.

Souta looked at her as she leaves the room. He then also stood up and leave the room. The others followed them and went to the place where the practical exam will be held.

The practical exam where the place were examinees going to showcase their skills and abilities.

...

They were in a very wide place. Dummies for practicing close combat were neatly arranged at the corner. There were also weights and shooting targets here. This place was one of the training grounds of the Ladro Institute.

Those things that needed in training were all made from tough materials. It couldn't easily break or shatter.

Even using a yellow equipment wasn't enough to break those things here in the training ground.

The examinees were gathered in the center of the training ground. In front of them was a man wearing a black tank top. His muscles were bulging out of his clothes.

"Yo! I'm the one that's going to test you." The examiner said with a smile on his face. "I'm going to record your abilities here and check if you're really eligible for the institute."

Souta knew that as long as a person knew some skills or have enough firepower that person will pass the exam. It's a simple test to check the potential of a person.

Right now, he has three spells in his arsenal. [Ice Shot] and [Fire ball] were enough for this kind of test.

"Who wants to go first?" The examiner asked while looking at the examinees.

"Me." Souta raised his hand while walking to the front.

"Okay, as long as you've hit me that's enough. I will give you one minute." The examiner said with a smirk. He then placed an alarm.

Souta nodded and the other examinees took a distance away from the two.

"I'm going," Souta smirked and he dashed towards the examiner. He doesn't need to defeat the examiner, he just needs to showcase his abilities. He knew that even if he used his full power he wouldn't be able to defeat the examiner.

Souta opened both of his palms and casted two spells simultaneously.

[Fire ball]

[Ice shot]

The two spells went straight towards the examiner. He was surprised for a second but he quickly regained his composure. He lifted up his thick arm and waved it towards the two spells.

Bang! Bang!

The fireball and ice exploded in his arm. But it didn't leave any scratches at all.

Souta expected so he once again dashed towards the examiner using the skill [Dash].

"You are going for close combat." The examiner looked at Souta who arrived in front of him.

"Of course, after all this is my specialty," Souta said and he threw a powerful punch containing his mana.

Swooosh!!

The examiner tilted his head and avoided the punch. Then he noticed a light above him. He looked up and saw two fireballs going straight at him.

"Good!" The examiner smiled and took a deep breath. Powerful mana burst out of him. Pouring his mana, he blew the two fireballs away. He then quickly waved his arm towards Souta.

Souta bent his body barely avoiding the arm of the examiner. He kicked the ground and using his feet as a medium, he casted [Ice Shot] twice. He then opened his mouth and [Fire ball] came out.

"This level of control...?" The examiner crossed his arm before him to blocked the spells.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Souta was about to attack again when a powerful aura swept out. He then saw a fist appeared in front of him.

"You're still smiling, huh?" The examiner said as his fist was going straight to Souta's face. The shadow of his fist slowly covered Souta's smirk.

Suddenly...

Ringgggg!

A sound of alarm echoed in the whole training ground.

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Chapter 23 - Three spells

Ring!!

The sound of alarm echoed in the whole area.

The fist of the examiner stopped an inch away from Souta's face.

"That was close..." Souta whispered before he moved away from the examiner. He patted his clothes before looking back at the examiner. He asked, "Did I pass the exam?"

He knew that he doesn't necessarily need to defeat the examiner. He just needed to showcase his skills and if his performance was good he would automatically pass the exam.

"You're good but whether you pass or not you will know it later." The examiner said with a smile. He was impressed by Souta's ability and he wouldn't deny it.

He then turned around and looked at the rest of the examinees. He opened his mouth and said, "Alright, who wants to go next?"

"I'll go!" A cold voice sounded.

Souta turned his head to look. He saw the girl with long silver hair. She's the one seating beside him in the written exam before.

"Be prepared as I will give you one minute." The examiner said as he walked towards the center of the room.

The girl distanced herself from the examiner. She just stood straight at her place while waiting for the signal of the examiner to start the examination.

The examiner set the alarm before giving her a go.

"Go!!"

The girl lifted up her right hand and her magic power flared up.

[Freeze]

The floor beneath the girl's feet quickly turned into ice. It spread out and the examiner observed the spell before he jumped backward.

[Ice Spike]

Sharp spike that was made of ice burst out of the ground.

The examiner looked at the spike coming at him. He imbued his mana in his hand before waving it.

Bang!

His force shattered the spike and he looked at the girl that was continuously casting magic spells.

'The quality of this spell is much better than the boy before.' He thought as he landed on the ground causing the ice to break into countless tiny particles.

The boy before was a fighter that was an expert in managing his spell. He knew how to utilize it perfectly. And this girl was a textbook example of a magician.

[Cold Wind]

Cold and powerful wind swept out in the area. The examiner raised his mana to protect himself from the cold wind.

"It's time for me to attack."

He took a deep breath and roared loudly that shook the entire ground.

[Tiger's Roar]

Boom!

The examinees who're watching the fight covered their ears. They felt their strength leaving their body.

[Ice Wall]

A wall of ice appeared in front of the girl but it was shattered immediately when it made contact with the sound wave.

Boom!

The examiner burst forth towards the girl leaving a trail of smoke behind him.

[Ice Blade]

A blade made of ice formed in the mid-air and the girl grabbed it before launching towards the examiner.

Bang!

The blade and the fist collided creating a loud sound.

"Oh? So you know close combat!" The examiner was slightly surprised at this development. He didn't expect the girl to know close combat.

Ring!

The alarm sounded. It means that one minute had passed since the battle started.

The ice blade disappeared in the hand of the girl and she turned around and left like nothing happened.

The examiner looked at the girl's retreating figure and shook his head. He then turned to the rest of the examinees and said, "Okay, next!"

Souta peered at the girl. He didn't expect that she was that strong. The magic spells that she cast were much more powerful than his magic spell, and it seemed that she was still hiding her real strength.

He tried to recall if there's someone that's proficient in ice magic in the powerful influential figure in the game. He recalled a lot of people that we're proficient in ice magic but nothing looks similar to her.

...

It took one hour to finished the examination. Not all the examinees demonstrated skills like Souta and the silver-haired girl. But there were also others that show skills not losing to Souta. Some of the beast folk demonstrated strength surpassing Souta.

John came inside the training ground. He went straight to the examiner and whispered something in his ears.

"Sir John, the one in the written exam, have finished checking your papers. Now, with me here, we will show you who passed the entrance examination." The examiner said in a loud voice.

John stepped forward and opened his arm, and a semi-transparent screen appeared in the mid-air. It was made of magic.

Names of examinees were written on the screen.

Souta and the other examinees checked the words that were written on the screen. In just a few moments, Souta found his name.

As expected, he passed the entrance examination.

The other examinees look dejected. They were the ones who didn't pass the exam.

"For those who pass the exam, come with me!" John said before he turned around and left.

Souta and the other examinees who passed the exam followed John. Souta looked around and just as he expected the silver-haired girl also passed the exam.

Thirty out of seventy examinees passed the exam. They were cut above the other and all have superb skills.

The group entered a door and inside there was another wide area. It was as wide as the training ground. This was the stadium of the Ladro Institute. This place could host more than twenty thousand people at the same time.

At the front, on the stage, there was a group of people who were standing on the stage. They were all wearing a black coat with black pants.

"You can pick your major course," John said to the examinees.

The people on the stage said their class.

"Swordsman!"

"Brawler!"

"Healer!"

"Mage!"

It was until that Souta heard his main class that he started to move. He looked up and saw a middle-aged man with short blonde hair. He was a professor of mage students at Ladro Institute.

Souta was major in magic spells so it's only natural that he's taking the mage course. The silver-haired girl also took the mage course.

He looked around and saw that the other people were already forming their own group. He then looked at his own group and found five people, including him and the silver-haired girl, took the mage course out of thirty examinees who passed the exam.

"I'm Bargan, one of the professors in mage course." The middle-aged man introduced himself first. He added, "Follow me!" before he started walking.

Bargan toured them around the Institute before they went to the mage building. He explained a lot of things about the Institute and history about how it was built.

The group went inside a room. The room was huge and at the corner were spell books piled neatly.

"This is the gifts of the Institute to all of you so pick three spell books there and learn it," Bagan said to them with a smile on his face. "The Institute is generous to its students so don't worry about it. As long as you study earnestly it's okay. And the Institute will not hesitate to provide you more resources."

This was what Souta was waiting for. The free gifts of the Institute. This was what he wanted. The spell books to complete the requirements in getting a class.

Thanking Bargan for the gifts, the other three went to check the spellbooks.

Souta noticed that the silver-haired girl wasn't checking the spellbooks. She was just standing there on her position looking at the spellbooks.

He opened his mouth and asked, "Do you also want to check the books?"

The silver-haired girl turned her head and looked at him. She slowly opened her mouth and replied, "No, I'm okay with leftover."

"I see..." Souta nodded and turned his attention to the spellbooks.

He didn't hesitate anymore as he went there and checked the spell books one by one.

Most of the spells we're basic spell just like his [Fire Ball, [Ice Shot, and [Light Heal]. There were a few high-level spells. But, all of these were in the range of Tier 1 spell.

Well, even if there's a Tier 2 spell here he wouldn't be able to learn it. It was because only those that promoted their class to level 2 class would be able to learn it.

Mage was just a level 1 class. There were a lot of paths after the mage but he would choose the path he chose in the game. Mage becoming a Battle Mage then a Great Battle Mage.

In the end, he picked the [Agility Boost, [Strength Boost, and [Mud Slide] spells.

The two spells that he picked were buff spells that he needed. Back in the game, he was proficient in buffing himself while adding debuffs to his opponent. He got stronger while his opponents got weaker. Even those abnormal status wouldn't affect because of his different kinds of buffs he casted on himself.

Well, he was experts in different styles as a Great Battle Mage.

"These three are the ones I choose," Souta said while looking at Bargan.

Bargan looked at Souta and then at the spellbooks that he choose. He was wondering if Souta was planning on taking a support type mage.

He was wrong at that Souta was planning on supporting himself.

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Chapter 24 - Rank 1 Mage

Souta finished choosing the spellbooks. He picked the spell that's suitable for the current him.

The silver-haired girl picked random spellbooks after they finished picking their own spellbooks. She wasn't that excited like the other people. More like, she doesn't show her emotion.

"Okay, now that you've chosen your own spellbooks it's time to measure your body for the uniform," Bargan said. He turned his head and added, "Don't worry you don't have to pay anything."

The group walked out of the room as they followed Bargan.

"Hello, since we're all in the mage course I hope I got along with everyone." A boy wearing a simple white shirt and black pants said. He has short spiky black hair and some strands of his hair fell on his forehead. He has pitch-black eyes and his build was average, not too thin and also not too bulky.

"I will start with myself. I'm Bryan Dagruel, I hope we got along." The boy introduced himself as Bryan Dagruel.

"I'm Joshua, I've been living here in Ladros city ever since I was born."

"I'm George, it's really my dream to enter the Institute."

The other two introduced themselves. George was a beast folk specifically, a rabbit people. Joshua has dark brown skin and he was also not a human. He was a wood elf.

There were many types of elves in the whole continent. The high elf, wood elf, sea elf, mountain elf, dark elf, etc. They were very proficient in controlling their mana and have a high mana pool.

Souta then turned his head to the silver-haired girl. He saw that she was staying silent. He sighed and opened his mouth, "I'm Souta, I just arrived here in the city last week."

Then, the silver-haired girl opened her mouth and said, "I'm Alice."

"That's good, I hope we all get along," Bryan said with a smile.

"We're here!" Bargan's voice sounded.

The group arrived in front of the two rooms. One for the girls and one for the boys.

"You can go inside the room and someone will assist you there. You will get your uniform next week and you will start attending in class." Bargan said to them.

Souta, Bryan, and the rest nodded and went inside the room designated for boys. While Alice went to the room beside it. It was the room for the girls.

In the room, they could choose whether the uniform could enhance their mana or a defensive uniform.

Souta has chosen the one that could enhance his mana.

After half an hour, all of them finished measuring their size. They come back in a week to get their uniform and start their class.

"Okay, you can go now don't forget to come back next week," Bargan said to them.

"Yes, sir Bargan," Bryan said enthusiastically.

Souta, Alice, and the other just nodded their head.

"Good." Bargan nodded and left.

Bryan looked at them and asked, "Do you want to eat something? We can use this chance for us to know each other."

"I have another plan for today," Alice said before she turned around and left.

"Sorry, I also have something to do." Souta smiled wryly at Bryan.

"I understand..." Bryan nodded and looked at the other two. "How about the two of you?"

George and Joshua looked at each other before they nodded at Bryan.

"That's good." Bryan smiled widely.

...

Before coming back to the inn, Souta didn't forget to buy Yuko the food and fruits that she likes so much.

He gave the fruit and meat to Yuko before he went to his room.

He closed the door and took out the three spellbooks he got from the Institute.

"Okay, I will start." Saying this, he opened the spellbooks and he heard system prompts inside his head.

Ding!*

[Do you want to learn Agility Boost spell for 2 skill points? Yes/No?]

[Do you want to learn Strength Boost spell for 2 skill points? Yes/No?]

[Do you want to learn Mud Slide spell for 2 skill points? Yes/No?]

'Yes.' He said mentally and used six skill points for learning the three spells.

Ding!*

[You've learned Agility Boost!]

[You've learned Strength Boost!]

[You've learned Mud Slide!]

The knowledge about the three spells was poured in his head. About the structure and composition of each spell.

Other people would need to read and studies the content of the book before they could understand its spell structure. Understanding the spell structure didn't mean that they could cast the spell. They still need to build it in their mind for them to cast it.

But Souta was different, just using skill points he would understand all the content of the book and even cast it without a problem. But getting skill points was hard. Apart from leveling up, he could only get it from the quest he received. In the latest version of the game, the level cap there was level 80 and it means that a player only gets 80 skill points from leveling up.

Soon, another system prompt pop in his head.

[You've reached the requirements for Mage Class!]

[Do you want to become a Mage? Yes/No?]

'Yes.' Souta said without hesitation.

Ding!*

[Processing information...]

[Getting the class Mage...]

Ding!*

[You've successfully become a Mage!]

[Strength, Agility, Dexterity, and Vitality attributes have increased by 10 points!]

[Intelligence attributes have increased by 20 points!]

[Mana pool increased by 50!]

[Magical damage increased by 100%]

[Magical resistance increased by 100%]

[Mana recovery increased by 10!]

Souta sighed when he read all the system prompts. His magical damage was much more stronger now. Before his spells couldn't damage the examiner but now he was sure that he could damage him.

But this wasn't all the benefits he received in getting a class. There's also the skill tree of Mage class. With him becoming a Mage, he would be able to unlock its skill tree.

Ding!*

[Please choose your attribute!]

[Darkness]

[Light]

[Fire]

[Water]

[Earth]

[Wind]

[Choose one of the elements and you would be able to use its skill tree!]

Souta didn't hesitate and select the [Darkness].

[You've unlocked Darkness Element Skill Tree!]

A skill tree appeared in front of his vision. Various spells were still locked but he would be able to unlock it with enough skill points.

Looking at this familiar skill tree, a smile appeared on his face.

He could see a single spell from the lowest part of the screen.

It was the [Shadow Bind] spell. Above it were three more spells that were still dark. The requirements to unlocked it was leveling the [Shadow Bind] to level 5 spell.

[Shadow Bind] was a spell that could restraint and slow down his target. It uses the target's shadow to bind them.

He tapped the [Shadow Bind] spell and a prompt appeared.

Ding!*

[Do you want to learn Shadow Bind spell for 2 skill points? Yes/No?]

"Yes."

Ding!*

[You've learned Shadow Bind spell!]

He once again tapped the [Shadow Bind] spell.

[Do you want to level up Shadow Bind spell for 2 skill points? Yes/No?]

Leveling up a skill to level 2 needs 2 skill points and leveling it up to 3 needs 3 skill points. That was the pattern of leveling up a Tier 1 spell.

He used all of his skill points to level up the [Shadow Bind] spell to level 5 and unlocked the three spells above it. Unfortunately, he doesn't have any skill points to learn it.

Ever since he came here in this world, he earned a total of 31 skill points. He used 8 for his first three spells and one skill. Last week he used 1 skill point for learning Nurman Language. Lastly, today he used the remaining skill points to learn four spells and leveling one spell to five.

He earned most of his skill points in leveling up and the quest to conquer the dungeon. Rank F and E quest in the Adventurers Guild could give him more exp than the quest in conquering the dungeon but it doesn't give him skill points.

Although the exp rewards in conquering a dungeon were 100, it still has a skill point as a reward so it's better. It only if he was conquering low-level dungeon. If it's about conquering a mid-level dungeon then the reward he would get was higher. 5,000 exp was the minimum reward plus the skill points and free attribute points. After all, the bosses in low-level dungeons were just ordinary monsters in mid-level dungeons.

Souta shook his head once he became a Rank D adventure, this thing will not be a problem for him. The reward has at least one skill point. It's better than nothing.

He checked his stats.

Name: Souta Ieshi

Race: High End Goblin

Level: 17

Class: Rank 1 Mage - Darkness

Health: 246/246

Stamina: 148/148

Mana: 260/260

Strength: 138 (12810)]

Agility: 104 (995)]

Dexterity: 91 (865)]

Intelligence: 105 (9510)]

Vitality: 103 (8815)]

Free attribute point(s): 13

Skill(s): [Dash, [Stab, [Sword Mastery, [Mana Manipulation, [Blessing of the Great]

Spell(s): [Fireball, [Ice Shot, [Light Heal, [Agility Boost, [Strength Boost, [Mud Slide, [Shadow Bind]

Trait(s): [Extraordinary Body]

Equipment skill(s): [Harvester of the Soul. Soul collected: 162/600]

Skill point(s): 0

He was satisfied in the improvement of his status.

He was a Rank 1 Mage. He would be able to rank up by learning 3 spells of his specialty and upgrading one spell to level 10. Once he rank up, his stats would increase once again.

Every class has 3 ranks and promoting to rank 3 was a requirement to upgrade a class to a higher class.

Well, he doesn't need to worry about this for now. The institute gave him another one week so he would use this time to complete some quest.

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Chapter 25 - Escort Quest

Souta stretched his body as he finished getting a class. He checked his equipments and nodded.

He then went downstairs to Yuko. Yuko was in her room taking a good rest.

"Come let's go." Souta shook Yuko's body.

"...muu..." Yuko slowly opened her eye and looked at Souta.

"Yuko, we'll leave this city and do some quest," Souta said to her.

Yuko stood up and licked his face.

Souta planned to get some of his equipments this week. Getting a piece of Dark grade equipment was enough. Dark grade equipment was just lower than Universal grade equipment.

The [Vajra Sword Saya].

He had a lot of equipments back in the game and [Vajra Sword Saya] was one of his weapons. Aside from [Flesh-Eating Scythe] and [Hell Fiend Spear, the [Vajra Sword Saya] was his favorite to use.

It was also the easiest to get among his other powerful weapons. It was within the vicinity of the Hebrei Kingdom so a week of time was enough for him to get it.

For his current style, [Vajra Sword Saya] was suitable for him.

"Come let's go!" Souta patted Yuko and opened the gate.

Yuko kept licking his cheek. She showed no sign of moving away from him.

"Hahaha, I've gotten stronger once again. I could easily defeat you now." Souta said as he laughed.

Since she was his pet, he would train her to become powerful. He doesn't want her to stay at her level forever.

...

Both of them left the inn. They went to some shops and bought the food they need. Then, they went straight to the Adventurers Guild.

Like always, a lot of people gathered inside the guild. Some of them were drinking and some were laughing.

Souta went straight to the quest board. He looked at the quest board looking for a suitable quest.

"This is good." He lifted his hand and picked up an escort quest. He then went straight to the receptionist.

"I want this quest."

The receptionist nodded and she recorded the quest that he picked. She recorded it in a machine that looks like a computer.

Ding!*

[Quest Triggered!]

[Escort: Escort a merchant to Bullmar village. You will fail if the merchant died. Rewards: 500 exp

The reward was only exp for a Rank E quest. Skill points would only appear in Rank D quest or above Rank D.

...

Souta was going to the Bullmar village that's why he picked an escort quest. He just needs to protect the merchant and he wasn't the only one who accepted this quest. There were also other adventurers going to the Bullmar village.

Souta picked up his luggage. "Sadly, I don't have inventory." He then turned toward Yuko and said, "Let's go."

Both of them went to the gate of the city. It took them a few dozen minutes before they arrived near the gate.

"Is that it?" Souta saw carriages lining up near the gate. He walked towards the carriage with a red falcon symbol. It was the symbol of the merchant that he was going to escort.

A huge man wearing a leather armor saw him walking. "Oh? So I'm going to work beside the tamer of Red Fur Bear."

Souta smiled wryly at the man and asked, "Where is the owner?"

"He's inside." The man replied while pointing at the carriage behind him.

"Thanks!" Souta thanked the man and knocked on the door of the carriage.

Knock!

Knock!

After a few knocks, the door opened and a short man came out. He has curly hair, a long beard, and a thick mustache. He was a dwarf.

The dwarf looked at Souta for a while before he nodded. He then looked at the adventurers gathering near the carriage and said, "Since all of you are here, we will leave now."

The adventurers nodded at the dwarf before they packed their belongings.

The man before walked towards Souta and extended his hand. "I'm Jack, a Rank D adventurer, I hope we get along during our quest."

"Me too, " Souta shook hands with Jack. He added, "I'm Souta, a Rank E adventurer."

Jack laughed and looked back at the other adventurers before shouting, "Guys, we're doing a quest with the tamer!"

"Hoo!!"

The adventurers shouted. They were excited because they were doing a quest with the tamer. Souta was quite famous in the circle of adventurers. He always brings Yuko with him when he entered the guild. So a lot of people knew him and his pet.

Souta smiled wryly while scratching the back of his head. He then called Yuko to come.

Yuko walked forward with small steps. He introduced her to the adventurers.

"This is Yuko, my partner. We're counting on you."

"Yeah. We're also counting on you this time."

One by one the adventurers introduced themselves. There's a total of eight adventurers that was going to escort the dwarf. Three Rank D and the rest were Rank E including Souta.

The dwarf peeked at the window and said, "I'm counting on you guys until we reach Bullmar."

"Yeah, leave it to us!"

They started packing and went inside the carriage.

"Is everyone aboard? In that case... Let's go!"

...

The carriage was being pulled by a lion horse. It's a horse that has a lion's hair around its neck. It was stronger than a normal horse. So one lion horse was enough to pull a carriage.

But the lion horse didn't know how to fight like a real lion. So the people only used it to pull carriages.

"So you went to Ladros city to enter the Ladro Institute."

"Yeah, that's the gist of it." Souta nodded at Jack.

"Then, why did you become an adventurer?" Jack asked.

The other adventurers just listen to their conversation. Sometimes butting in making everyone laughed.

"Well, I need money in the institute so I became an adventurer," Souta replied to Jack's question.

"Life is really hard, huh?" Jack said as he looked outside through the window.

"Yeah." Souta nodded and he also looked outside. He reached out his hand and patted Yuko.

Yuko was walking outside the carriage. She couldn't fit inside this place so she had to walk outside.

"Sorry about this Yuko," Souta said to her.

"M-master..." A small voice escaped from her mouth. She then turned her head and looked around.

"Grrr!!"

Souta knew that something was wrong when she was acting like this. "There's an enemy!" He shouted.

Jack knocked on the front wall of the carriage. He told the dwarf to stop moving because there's an enemy.

"You sure about this?" Jack asked while getting out of the carriage.

"Yeah, Yuko is the one who sense them." Souta nodded and he also exited the carriage.

The other adventurers followed suit. They pulled out their own weapons and looked around them. They were inside a small forest so trees were all over the place.

A few silhouettes appeared in their vision.

"As I thought." Jack frowned when he saw this.

"Terror Wolf," Souta said in a low voice when a pack of wolves walked out of the shadows. He grabbed the handle of his sword and pulled it out.

"Go! Yuko!" Yuko dashed forward as soon as he shouted. The huge bear charged straight to the pack of wolves.

Terror wolf was just a low-level monster. In the game, their level was between 1 - 10. Some players wouldn't even bother killing these wolves.

They were no match against a level 21 Red Fur Bear.

"Graa!!" Yuko roared as she waved her arms towards the wolves.

Bang!

Two wolves flew and crashed in the tree. A loud cracking sound could be heard from their bodies.

She grabbed the wolf in front of her before smashing it on the ground.

Bang!

The impact caused the dust and smoke to shot up in the air.

Swoosh!!

Two wolves jumped on her back and bit her flesh.

Souta just watched her fight while holding a sword. He wanted her to gain more battle experience. She was a level 21 Red Fur Bear. A pack of wolves was nothing to her.

The other adventurers were fighting the other wolves. Looking around, Souta estimated that the number of wolves was more than thirty.

But this number wasn't a problem for a Rank D adventurer.

Jack was killing wolves left and right. He didn't even use his weapon. The blood of the wolves coated his fist.

He then turned back his attention to Yuko. Just like before, she was still rampaging but there were some bite marks on her body.

"Hmm..." His mana started to circulate around his body and the aura around him slowly changed. He focused his attention on the wolves that fighting Yuko.

[Shadow Bind]

The shadows of the wolves moved upwards and strangled their bodies. All of a sudden, the five wolves in front of Yuko stopped moving.

The level of his [Shadow Bind] was 5. The wolves had no way out of this even if they were an evolve wolves. A level 5 [Shadow Bind] could restrain a total of twenty-five targets. Every level, it increases by five.

Hais... With a sighed, Souta walked towards Yuko. He placed his palm on her body and casted [Light Heal].

"That's enough Yuko."

Souta raised his sword and walked towards the wolves.

The wolves couldn't do anything as the [Shadow Bind] was restraining their movements. They watched Souta kill them one by one.

"One... Two... Three... Four... And five! All of your soul will become a nutrition to make me stronger."

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Chapter 26 - Triggering a quest two times in a row

Souta turned around after he killed the wolves. He noticed that Jack and the others were looking at him.

"What?"

"As expected of a student of Ladro Institute." Jack praised him.

The other adventurers nodded at his words. They saw how he bind those wolves using magic. They only thought that he was a swordsman but to think that he was also a mage. Nothing less from the one who passed the entrance examination of Ladro Institute.

"Back then when I was young, I also took the entrance exam of Ladro Institute sadly I failed," Jack said.

"You took an exam...?" Souta looked at Jack.

"Yeah, it was ten years ago." Jack nodded at Souta. "Well, enough talking let's go back now."

They packed up and went back to the carriage to continue their journey. It was late at night when they arrived in Bullmar villager. They settled themselves in the plaza of the city.

Bullmar village was a prosperous and huge village. More than five thousand people lived here in Bullmar village. But compare to Ladros city that have a population of fifty thousand people, this village was small.

This village was close to the kingdom so it receives some of its benefits.

The Adventurers Guild had a branch in this village so Souta and the rest of the adventurers could record their quest here.

"Thank you, I'll give you your rewards and I hope that I can work with all of you again. Bye!" The dwarf said to Souta and the other three adventurers.

The remaining adventurers, such as Jack, would continue to escort the dwarf to the next village.

They would stay here and sell some of the dwarf's products before they leave this village.

Ding!*

[Congratulations on completing the Escort quest!]

[You've received 500 exp!]

Souta heard the system prompt in his head telling him that he completed the quest.

"I hope I can see you in Guild War," Jack said to them.

"I hope too." Souta nodded and he patted Yuko. Both of them left and went to the nearest inn.

The Guild War that Jack was talking about was the tournament of the Adventurers Guild. Countless adventurers would go to the Nivari Kingdom to participate in this tournament. Rank D to the highest rank were all going there to join the tournament.

There's no solo battle in this tournament. All the fights were group battles.

It was a chance for the other adventurers to raise their rank. Also, the rewards in the tournament were huge.

It held every year in Nivari kingdom.

Souta was laying down on Yuko's fluffy fur. He was trying to recall every quest in this village. The quest related to the [Vajra Sword Saya].

Actually, he could go down in the underground and get the [Vajra Sword Saya] but that wouldn't do at all. He wanted to maximize his benefits and get some quest along the way.

After a few minutes of thinking, he stood up.

Yuko lifted up her head and looked at him with confusion in her eyes. It was like she's asking him 'why did you get up?'.

"Let's go Yuko! We will go to the Adventurers Guild!" Souta said to her.

"Muu."

...

Souta went to Adventurers Guild and completed his quest. The receptionist recorded his quest in his card.

"A few more quests and I'll meet the requirements to promote to D rank," Souta said while looking at his adventurer's card.

He then looked at the quest board and picked up the herb gathering quest. He walked back to the receptionist and placed the quest on top of the desk.

The receptionist picked the quest and read it. She then looked back at him and said, "The one who made this quest have a little request. He wants to meet the one who accepted this quest."

"Okay, " Souta nodded his head. He knew this already and the quest was connected to the place where he found the [Vajra Sword Saya] in the game.

"Please wait here for a moment, sir!" The receptionist said with a polite tone.

Souta just stood there in the corner waiting for the man who made the quest. He crossed his arms in front of his chest and closed his eyes.

The receptionist sighed in relief when she saw him waiting patiently.

After a dozen minutes, the receptionist called him.

"Sir, this way please..."

Souta opened his eyes and saw the receptionist. She guided him in a closed room. There, he saw a man in his forties looking well. He has short white hair and a wrinkled face.

"Good evening, sir. I'm Mark the one who made the quest." The man stood up and introduced himself.

"I'm Souta, an adventurer!" Souta replied and sat down in the chair opposite of the man.

The receptionist bowed down and left the room.

The room was devoid of any sound as no one said anything. Souta was the one who broke the silence.

"I need to find the Evening Grass, right?" Souta said to Mark.

Mark nodded in response.

"But Evening Grass is not something that can be found here," Souta said. Evening Grass can be found in a place rich in dark energy like Curse Cemetery.

"But there is a place where Evening Grass grow in this village," Mark replied to him.

'There it is!' Souta smirked inwardly.

"I'll tell you where it is if you really accept the quest," Mark said to him. He proposed a condition that Souta shouldn't tell anyone about this.

"I understand, I will not tell anyone about this," Souta said while closing his eyes.

"Good. Go to my shop tomorrow morning, I'll warn you don't wander in the night. They only attack the outsiders." Mark nodded before he stood up. He didn't forget to tell Souta the meeting place before he left.

At the same time, Souta heard a familiar sound in his mind.

Ding!*

[Quest Triggered!]

[Herb Gathering: Mark asked you to bring him the Evening Grass. Rewards: 5,000 exp, 5 free attribute points

Souta smiled and he opened his eyes. There's still one quest that he wanted to get before meeting Mark.

"Sir, don't wander in the night." The receptionist warned him before he left the guild.

...

He went out of the guild and met with Yuko. She was always waiting for him when he goes inside the guild. It was the same in Ladros city.

"Let's go! There is a place that we need to go first!"

Souta and Yuko went to the southern part of the village. It was a place where slum lives.

He told Yuko to hide and he concealed himself behind a box. He looked at the dark sky while waiting for someone to appear.

The players called this event encounters. An event where a player would accidentally encounter a special person. That person would give them a quest with high rewards.

But what he was doing was not accidental encounter. He's waiting for that person to appear and make it look like an accidental meeting.

Back then, he's the one who triggered this quest. This quest led him to the [Vajra Sword Saya].

After a few minutes of waiting, Souta heard a sound of crying.

'Here it is!' Souta smirked before he stood up and patted his clothes. He waited for a few moments before he walked forward and turned in an alley.

Pak!

He bumped there into someone. The figure who bumped on him fell on the ground.

"Sorry..." Souta apologized and saw a little boy.

The boy has tears in his eyes. He has short black hair and big black round eyes. He was wearing ragged clothes full of dirt.

"Boy, why are you crying?" Souta asked while helping the boy.

"Mister, thank you!" The boy thanked Souta for helping him.

"It's okay, but why are you wondering this in this place? It's already dark and children should stay in their home." Souta asked the boy with a hint of concern in his voice.

He noticed that the boy have bruises all over his body. He lifted up his hand and casted [Light Heal].

The boy felt a warm energy entered his body. He looked and saw that the bruise on his body was gone.

"Thanks, mister!" He looked at the man in front of him. He doesn't know what happened but he knew that this must have done something to heal his bruise.

Souta smiled and he patted the head of the boy. He asked, "Can you tell me why you're wandering here at night?"

The boy hesitated first before he explained.

At first, he and his sister were living here in this village peacefully. His sister was the one who took care of him after their parents died. She did all kinds of jobs to raise him.

But one day, everything changed. His sister started to act differently. She was always in daze and muttering some words. Last month, he personally witnessed his sister killed a man using a strange sword. A demon with horns appeared behind her.

After that day, his sister didn't show up. She didn't leave any trace so he doesn't have any idea where to find her.

"A demon possessed my sister and took her. I don't know where my sister is but I saw it with my own eyes. A demon possessed my sister. Do you believe me, mister?"

"Yeah, I believe you. There's really a demon in this world." Souta nodded with a smile.

The boy looked at Souta and recalled that he was a mage. The people didn't believe him when he told them that a demon took her sister. They just told him that his sister got tired of taking care of him. That's why she left.

"Um..." The boy looks like he wanted to tell him something.

"What is it?" Souta asked.

"Can you help me find my sister?" The boy asked him to help him find his sister.

"Sure, the sword that your sister was holding at that time. I came here to retrieve it." Souta said to the boy.

"Really, mister!" A bright smile appeared on the face of the boy.

"Yeah." Souta nodded.

Ding!"

[Quest Triggered!]

[Rescue: Find and rescue the sister of the boy. Rewards: 10,000 exp, 10 free attribute points, 2 skill point

'2 skill points, huh?'

Souta smiled and said, "You don't have to call me mister, just brother will do."

"Okay, thank you, brother!" The boy smiled at him.

A pair of deep red eyes gleamed in the shadows. It looked at Souta with crazed eyes.

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Chapter 27 - Abnormal People

Souta finally noticed that the rewards were higher than before. It only means that the difficulty was higher.

2 skill points were one of the rewards of the quest to rescue the boy's big sister. It means that this quest was harder than conquering a low-level dungeon. Conquering a low-level dungeon only gave him 1 skill point.

"It seems that getting back that sword is not that easy, huh?" Souta said in a low voice.

Tak! Tak! Tak! Tak!

A sound of footsteps echoed in the dark alley. No other sound can be heard except the sounds of footsteps.

Souta turned his head and saw a figure of a man approaching him and the boy. The man has deep red eyes that gleamed in the dark.

He frowned and observed the man. The man was walking in unsteady steps. It feels like he would fall any second and white liquid was flowing down from his mouth.

"What's this? This is not an undead..."

Blood vessels pop out in the forehead of the man. The man gritted his teeth before pouncing towards Souta.

"Yuko!!"

Souta shouted and a huge bear appeared in the corner. Yuko stood up and pinned down the man on the ground.

"Argh!! It hurts!! It hurts!!" The man groaned in pain as a huge bear was pinning him down.

"Don't move," Souta said to the boy before he approached the man.

He squatted down and observed him. He was sure that it was not undead. The man has berserk energy around his body. This energy drives him wild and insane. This led him to attack Souta.

Souta suddenly recalled what Mark said before.

"I'll warn you don't wander in the night. They only attack the outsiders." was what he said.

There's no scenario like this in the game. Also, the boy saw a demon behind his sister before she disappeared.

Souta knocked the man unconscious using his fist. He looked at Yuko and said, "You can let him go now, you did a good job today."

Yuko then turned around and growled angrily. Souta also turned his head and saw a dozen figures in the shadows.

"This is bad, there is something wrong in this town."

Souta raised his hand and the shadows beneath the figures burst out of the ground. It moved quickly and restrained everyone.

[Shadow Bind]

"Let's go Yuko!" Souta turned around and he carried the little boy on his shoulder before he left.

"W-what's happening, brother?" The boy was fl.u.s.tered.

"I don't know." Souta shook his head and made a turn in the alley.

There were people there waiting for him. Souta clenched his fist and restrained those people using [Shadow Bind].

Souta ran over those people while Yuko smashed them on the walls with her thick arms causing them to fell unconscious.

'If I'm alone I could just jump over the roofs but Yuko is here with me.' Souta thought while glancing at his back.

Yuko was following him. Every step that she made caused a loud sound attracting other people.

Souta smiled wryly at this. He then ran at the direction of the carriage of the dwarf, the plaza.

...

Just like what he expected, the carriage was also under attack by those abnormal people. The three adventurers who left with him were also here.

Jack was knocking unconscious those people with the help of the other adventurers.

"Damn! What is wrong with these people?"

Jack cursed loudly as he delivered a blow to the stomach of a crazed man.

Bang!

The man was knocked back to the other people before falling unconscious.

"They keep coming!"

"There's no way end!"

Then, they saw a huge bear behind the crowds. They were familiar with this bear.

Souta circulated his mana around his body. With a "boom" he rushed towards those abnormal people.

"Smash them, Yuko!"

Yuko roared and followed him. She smashed those people that tried to stop him. She kept waving her hands while following behind Souta.

"Help them!" Jack shouted as he rushed towards the abnormal people to make a way for Souta and Yuko.

"Hoo!!" The other adventurers followed Jack.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Souta waved his arm and smashed the abnormal people in front of him. Those people flew away knocking the other abnormal people.

He speed up and broke through the group of abnormal people.

"Hoo~" Glancing back at the abnormal people, Souta went directly to Jack.

"I have a plan," Souta said to Jack.

"Tell me," Jack replied.

"I will stop all of them, I will need you and the others to knock as many as you can before they break free from the restraint." Souta explained his plan to Jack.

"Can you really do that?" Jack asked with a doubtful expression. There were more than a hundred abnormal people here and Souta told him that he could stop all these abnormal people.

"Why would I lie in this situation?" Souta replied as he shrugged his shoulder.

"Hahaha, good, as long as you stop them! I can knock them out easily!" Jack laughed loudly. He then looked at the boy on Souta's shoulder. "By the way, did you kidnap that child?"

"No, I just met him and the abnormal people attack us all of a sudden." Souta shook his head. His expression turned serious and said, "I will start now..."

He placed the boy on the ground telling him to wait. He then focused his attention on the abnormal people. Jack, Yuko, and the rest of the adventurers were defending the carriage. The abnormal people kept coming in all directions.

His magical energy flared up and reached the peak. With a waved of his hand, he casted [Shadow Bind] consecutively. He felt that he consumed more than half of his mana.

Casting [Shadow Bind] consumed 10 mana. Using it consecutively drained half of his mana.

Swoosh!!

Hundreds of shadows burst out of the ground.

Seeing this, Jack and the rest stopped moving. They watched as the shadows bind every person in the whole area.

"Go!"

They regained their senses when they heard Souta's voice.

"Hahaha, let's finish this!" Jack laughed and he charged at the group of abnormal people.

Souta didn't sit idly as he rushed towards those people. He looked at Jack who was knocking unconscious those people left and right.

He asked, "I thought you would kill them. Why did you let them live?"

"Someone came and warn us before but we didn't heed his warning," Jack said while punching the abnormal people. He added, "He came and request us not to kill them. We didn't kill them as we also didn't heed his warning before. We all treat his warning like a joke but... look now."

"Who's that man?" Souta asked.

"The village chief came to us after you left," Jack said. "I'll tell you more later after we finish this."

Souta nodded at his words. He rushed towards the abnormal and chopped the back of their neck knocking them out.

...

It took them half an hour before they knocked all those people out.

It was tiring to hold back while fighting against many people at once. So Jack and the rest were gasping as beads of sweat formed in their forehead.

"Thank you for your effort, everyone!" The dwarf came out of the carriage and thanked them for their effort.

A green man was following the dwarf. This man gathered everyone's attention.

"Village chief!" One of the adventurers called out.

'So that's village chief.' Souta thought as he observed the man.

The man has a green colored skin. Some part of his body has green scales and a green long tail was moving on his back.

The village chief noticed Souta and exclaimed, "Oh! A brethren!"

"Eh...!" Souta was surprised that the village chief called him his brethren. Well, it's not that surprising as both of them have green color skin.

"You're a halfling, huh?" The village chief said after he observed Souta. He noticed that Souta doesn't have a tail and scales so he thought that he was only a half-reptilian and half-human.

"Uh... Yes..." Souta smiled wryly. It's fine for them that they misunderstood his race.

A High End Goblin was a rare species of a goblin and only a few people have seen it. They were almost extinct because of the constant killing that humans and demis did in the past. Those rare species can only be found in those forbidden areas.

"Thank you for helping these people!" The village chief thanked him.

"I'm also an adventurer also, can you please tell why is this happening?" Souta said. Even though he formed a speculation in his head, he still wanted to hear it from the village chief's mouth.

"Yeah, can you tell us what happened to them that made them like that?" Jack asked while glancing at the unconscious people.

The village chief looked at their face before he started to narrate them what happened.

All of this started two months ago. Back then, the residence of this village started to disappear. Day by day received many reports about the disappearance of their husband, child, neighbor, etc. Every day one or two people would vanish. It happens every night. It was strange that no one found them.

About a month ago, he received a report about people going crazy attacking other people. It was like a disease that slowly spread out in the village. But they didn't attack the people living here in this village they only attack the outsider.

When he looked at those abnormal people it feels like those people wanted to attack them but they were holding back. It feels like someone was telling them to attack people but they resist it against the people here in this village. They let it all out when outsiders came here.

Many people got infected by this strange disease. They attack and killed every outsider that came here. He sent a report to Hebrei Kingdom to help them fight this strange incident. But no one came, up until now the Hebrei Kingdom didn't even bother to investigate this incident.

Those people went wild during night and they would forget everything that happened the next morning. It was really weird. Right now, half of the village folk have that kind of disease.

"Half? The population of this village is five thousand and half of that is..." Jack said with widely open eyes. If that's really the case then they would have to fight more than a thousand people and what happened this time was just the first wave.

"Come to me, to my house. They wouldn't go there." The village chief said. He led the group to his house.

They should not expect the help of Hebrei Kingdom. A village like this wasn't even drawn in the map of the continent. For huge countries and kingdoms, this kind of village could disappear at any time. It was either by the monster tide or strange disease like this one.

Souta looked back and saw that Yuko and the boy were following him quietly.

He was sure of one thing. This incident happened because of the [Vajra Sword Saya]. The difficulty of the quest was many times harder than in the game.

This world was going into the future that he doesn't know. There were no players to investigate and complete the incidents like this one. There were no adventurous players that would discover weird things left and right.

He even wondered what's happening in the other village right now.

It seemed that his sword, the [Vajra Sword Saya, was taking the route of "hard to get".

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Chapter 28 - Underground

Souta, Jack, and the rest arrived in the village chief's house. The house was quite wide so it could hold all of them including Yuko.

The group listened to the story of the village chief. The story about the mysterious possession or what they called disease spreading in this village.

"Based on what you said it started two months ago... and from my analysis, it will take another month before all of you become like those people," Jack said to the village chief.

"I also thought about that but what can we do about it... There is no point as we could only wait for the people of Hebrei Kingdom to arrive." The village chief said with a sad expression.

"I don't think I've heard this kind of disease at all nor I've seen something like this." Jack shook his head. He wouldn't be able to help if he knew nothing about it. He was an adventurer expert in fighting, not a doctor.

"It's hard to dispatch a knight. The kingdom only uses them in war or other big situations. If this situation got worse to the point that it could harm the kingdom, only then they would dispatch a force to eliminate the threat. First of all, this village wasn't a part of Hebrei Kingdom. That's the reason why they wouldn't send a force to help." The dwarf said. As a merchant, he knew a thing or two about the affairs of the kingdom.

"Boy, tell them what you know!" Souta said as he patted the little boy's back.

His words gathered everyone's attention. All of them turned their heads and looked at Souta.

"What do you mean?"

"Did this boy know something?"

Souta shook his head and said, "It's better if you hear it directly from him. Come on boy tell them what you told me before."

The boy lifted up his head and looked at Souta. Souta nodded when he saw the look of the boy. The boy didn't hesitate anymore and he began to tell them what he told Souta before.

"There's something like that?!"

"A demon? A monster from legend!"

"I've heard that there's no demon right now. The ancient civilization destroyed them all."

Various exclamation sounded after they heard the boy's story.

Even Souta, the owner of the [Vajra Sword Saya, doesn't know the origin of the sword. He only knew that it was a piece of Dark grade equipment.

Suddenly, the village chief bowed before them and said, "Please help us solve this case. I'll give you anything that you want."

The village chief begged them to find the boy's sister. After listening to the story of the boy, he was now sure that the sister of the boy and the demon the boy saw that day was the culprit in this incident.

The culprit why all these people were going insane was because of the demon.

"We don't know the strength of the demon so it's better to check it first before we promise you," Jack said and the rest of the adventurers nodded.

They wouldn't accept a quest that easily. They couldn't determine the difficulty of this quest so they couldn't accept it easily. There's a reason why the Adventurers Guild divided the quest into different ranks.

The village chief looked at Souta with hopeful eyes. Souta was still the one who hasn't decline him.

But Souta wasn't looking at him. He was looking at the prompt that received.

[Quest Triggered!]

[Elimination: Find and eliminate the cause of this incident. Rewards: 15,000 exp, 5 free attribute points, 2 skill point

[Savior: Don't kill anyone and help them regain their senses. Rewards: ???

Looking at the quest, Souta felt that he really was quite lucky today. He didn't expect that he would receive more quests and the rewards for these quests were as high as the previous quest.

But the difficulty was also high. He doubted that he could finish this quest with this current strength. He also had to hold back as once he killed one of those people he will fail the quest.

Souta accepted these quests without hesitation. He then looked at the village chief and said.

"I'll do what I can to help..."

"As expected of my brethren, a really good heart." The village chief felt like he was about to cry from Souta's reply.

"Oi oi! Souta, do you know what kind of danger lies in this quest?" Jack said to him.

"I have a vague idea," Souta replied.

"No, you don't have any idea what a demon is..." Jack said.

"If a demon is really here then they would be long dead," Souta said seriously.

He received a lot of feats in the game and one of these was the "Demon Annihilator". He received this feat from annihilating an army of demons. So his knowledge about demons far surpasses the people present in this place. Also, he knew that there's really no demon here. That was just the [Vajra Sword Saya].

"Don't worry I know what I'm doing..." Souta said.

Jack nodded when he saw how serious he was.

"Anyway, let's rest for now. Let's continue this later." Souta shook his head and said.

"Yeah, I will prepare your room for now." The village chief said.

"No need, I will sleep with Yuko," Souta said before he walked towards Yuko. He preferred to sleep in her fluffy fur.

Just like what the village chief said before, the abnormal people didn't enter his house.

The group fell asleep quickly as they were quite tired from what happened this night.

...

Souta woke up before the sunrise. He felt a heavy feeling pressing on his chest. He looked down and saw that Yuko was hugging him tightly.

He removed her hands and stood up. He looked outside and found that everything went back to normal. Only the traces of fight can be seen outside. The abnormal people were already gone.

"Oh? You're up..." A voice sounded behind him.

Souta turned around and saw Jack. He nodded at him before turning back to look outside.

"Are you really planning to help them? You don't know what danger lies here." Jack said as he walked beside Souta.

"I just want to eliminate the cause of this incident," Souta said. Then, he turned around and walked toward the bathroom.

Jack looked at Souta's back without saying anything.

...

Souta washed his face and thanked the village chief for letting them in. He ate the breakfast that the village chief made before he left the house with Yuko.

He went to the shop of Mark. Mark was a herbalist and he made some medicine using his knowledge. That's why he needed the Evening Grass.

He found that the shop was still closed. Nevertheless, he knocked on the door before he entered the shop.

"Oh? You're here. It seems that you've heeded my warning yesterday." A man with white hair greeted him.

"Nn." Souta sat down in a chair and said, "Let's talk about the quest. I want to complete it quickly."

"How about some tea?" Mark said to him.

"No, I want to go there right now," Souta shook his head as he declined the tea that Mark offer.

"Okay, wait here for a few minutes," Mark said before he went inside the room.

"Good." Souta closed his eyes while waiting for Mark.

After a few moments, Mark came out with a small bag. He looked at Souta and said, "Let's go!"

Souta nodded and walked behind Mark.

...

Mark led him to an abandoned church in the village.

Souta looked around the church. Moss already covered the entire walls and ceiling of the church. It seems that no one was maintaining this church for almost ten years.

At the back of the church, Mark opened a secret compartment that will lead someone under the ground.

"There are other paths but this is the safest among all the paths," Mark explained to Souta. He then gave the small bag to Souta.

"Just put the Evening Grass inside the bottle there in the bag," Mark said while Souta opened the bag and saw a transparent bottle.

"I just need to put the grass here," Souta muttered as he closed the bag and hung it on his waist.

"Be careful there, although it's the safest this place there are still dangers lurking in the dark," Mark warned him. Of course, there's a danger downstairs, if not Mark would go down personally and he wouldn't place a quest in the Adventurers Guild.

"Yeah, I know." Souta nodded at Mark. Just looking at the rewards, he could vaguely guess the difficulty of a quest.

"I'll go now," Souta said and he turned to Yuko. He asked her to stay here with Mark. She was too big to fit inside the narrow path. She wouldn't be able to move comfortably and she would only become a burden if she followed him downstairs.

...

The underground was an abandoned place and it became a dungeon. A place where Vajra Sword Saya stayed. He doesn't know the lore of this village but he could guess that this was a prosperous city before it became the Bullmar village.

He raised his hand and tapped the walls made of bricks. The bricks were still sturdy despite its looks. The floor was wet and sticky.

"Graaa!!"

A pair of deep red eyes appeared in the darkness.

"Just like what I expected, some of them are here..." Souta said with a laugh.

It seemed that there was a type of abnormal people that live here underground. They didn't return back to normal even though it's morning.

"Come, It's getting exciting this way, the power of the Vajra Sword exceeds my expectations!"

Back in the game, the only person that [Vajra Sword Saya] possessed was the sister of the little boy before. The existence of abnormal people wasn't present in the game.

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Chapter 29 - A Strong One

Souta dashed forward and the figure also charged at him.

Swoosh!!

Souta ducked down to avoid the hands of the figure before he delivered a blow to the stomach of the figure.

Bang!

The figure flew away and Souta chased after it. He chopped the neck of the figure knocking it down.

"It's harder to hold back against this kind of people," Souta said in a low voice while looking at the unconscious man.

He won't kill anyone in this place. It's not that he's against killing someone. It's just that he still retained a part of his humanity and want to avoid killing as much as possible. If it comes to the situation that he needed to kill someone then he won't hesitate and he will do what he needed to do. Also, the quest this time was asking him to save them from the possession of the [Vajra Sword Saya, not to kill them. Help them regain their senses and clarity. Release them from the grasp of the Vajra Sword.

"I wonder if the Vajra Sword can possess me," Souta muttered before turning to look at the dark path.

There was some grass on the floor but this was not the Evening Grass. Evening grass looks like an ordinary grass but it has a different color. There were blue dots across the leaves of the grass.

The unusual energy here was getting thicker the more he got deeper in the underground.

"Then, I will turn here and..." Souta stopped as he saw five figures with gleaming red eyes.

"Here they come..." He clenched his fist and charged straight to the five figures.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

...

"Hu~ really, they attack anyone who enters this place," Souta said as he wiped the sweat forming on his forehead.

There were locked rooms everywhere. This place was really an underground base built for sheltering people but who knows how long people abandoned this place.

He walked to the end of the corridor, and he found that one of the rooms was not locked. The door had been left half-open, and the lock was broken.

He noticed some scratch marks on the door. He reached out his palm and traced the scratch marks.

"There's no dust..." Souta muttered. Just from seeing the marks, he could guess that someone made this recently. Maybe a few days ago.

He slightly pushed the door open, only to find rows of tables placed in the corner of the room. Transparent bottles with an unknown liquid were neatly arranged on top of the tables along with strange devices. Opposite of it was a cabinet full of books which were covered in dust.

Picking up one of the transparent bottles, he shook it a few times. The orange liquid inside the bottle emitted a dim light. The light wasn't that bright but in this dark room, it was extremely noticeable.

"A monster potion, huh?"

A monster potion was a potion that will let someone borrow the power of a monster. But it comes with a side effect due to harnessing the beast's energy.

Beast energy or also called Best feram by ancient people. Powerful and destructive energy that monster uses. A monster that could harness beast energy was a dangerous individual and countries would use forces to eliminate those monsters when it appeared in their territory.

Only level 40 monsters have this kind of power. Once he reached level 40 he would be able to use beast energy or best feram. But that's far in the future.

"The side effect of this potion is something I don't want to experience." Souta shook his head and then he placed the bottles inside his bag. He could sell these potions or used this in an emergency.

He then walked towards the books.

The books were covered in thick dust. He reached out his hand to pick one book.

He used his other hand to wipe the dust off the cover of the book. He saw the characters that he couldn't understand.

"It's not a nurman language, huh?" He said in a low voice and opened the book.

He saw a humanoid creature. A man with a horn sticking out on the side of his head. He has red hair and a pair of deep red eyes. The sclera was black and the pupils were red. Black stigmata were on the forehead of the man.

If he wasn't wrong this was one of the ancient races, the Vajra race. But even when he spent more than ten years playing the Battle World Online, he still hasn't met one Vajra race.

Souta frowned and he closed the book. He placed it inside the small bag that Mark gave him. He will have a time to study it later after he finished the quests here.

He exited the room and a thick stench hit Souta.

"What's this smell?" Souta said as he pinched his nose. He walked forward and saw two pathways. One on his left side and one on his right side. And behind him was a path going straight to the surface.

Souta looked at his left side and said, "If I'm not wrong there's an Evening Grass in this direction."

He walked forward while looking around. When he looked at the walls, his gaze was attracted by something. The walls were filled with scratch marks. It looks scary like some beast was rampaging here recently.

Soon, he reached the end of the path. There's another path on the right side, and there's a half-opened door on the left side. The wooden door was slightly twisted and it was also full of scratch marks.

He approached the door and pushed it open without hesitation. Inside it, was a wide room filled with grass. At the center of the room, he could see a grass with blue dots. At the back, he could see a figure with crimson eyes.

The man was exuding a very dangerous aura. This man was clearly different from those abnormal people.

"Ho~ of course, I wouldn't get the Evening Grass that easily. It wouldn't give me such a reward if those weaklings are the one guarding it." Souta said with a smirk. He stepped forward and revealed himself to the man.

Souta attracted the attention of the man as soon as he walked forward. Souta clenched his fist as his magical energy started rising at a fast rate.

The man gritted his teeth and veins pop up on his arms. Souta didn't stop as he continued to walk forward with a smirk on his face.

Boom!

A gust of wind swept out the whole room as both of them collided against each other in an instant.

Souta smiled and he once again dashed towards the man. He coated both of his fists with mana.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

He launched a barrage of powerful punches containing great force behind it. But it only causes the man to stagger backward.

The nails of the man grew longer and sharper. He swung it towards Souta.

Swoosh!

Souta slightly bent his body backward and the sharp nails passed in front of his face. He twisted his body and took a distance away from the man.

But when he looked up, he already saw the man was rushing straight at him.

[Shadow Bind]

The shadow beneath the man moved. It emerges from the floor and strangled the man.

Souta opened both of his palms and casted [Fire Ball] and [Ice Shot] simultaneously.

Boom!

He then placed his palm on the floor before looking at the man covered in smoke. He knew that he would not be able to defeat that man with just that. [Fire Ball] and [Ice Shot] were just a level 1 spell.

"Graaa!!"

The man roared loudly and it swept the smoke and dust around him. His aura was continuously rising. It also snapped the shadow that was binding him.

"You're finally getting serious, huh? Then allow me to show you a bit of my power." Souta said with a smile. He then used [Agility Boost] and [Strength Boost] to buff him up.

[Agility Boost] was a spell that could raise the target agility by 10. It has a time limit of ten minutes. During this time his agility attribute would increase by ten points. It was still a level 1 spell so the increase in attribute was quite low. If he levels it up the added attribute and time limit would increase.

[Strength Boost] spell was the same as [Agility Boost] spell. The only difference was that it increased the target strength instead of agility.

He cannot stack up these spells. Even if he used it on himself once again the added stat wouldn't increase. These two spells consumed ten points of his mana.

"Good, this is enough."

Souta looked at the man, and the man also looked at Souta.

After a few seconds, the man rushed straight at Souta. But before he reaches Souta he stopped. He looked down and saw his foot was sinking in mud. He was confused. He knew that there's no mud in this grassy room.

[Mud Slide]

"I've already prepared it before," Souta said before dashing towards the man.

In just a second, he arrived in front of the man and pulled back his fist. Souta poured his mana on his fist and threw it on the stomach of the man.

Bang!

Pulling back his other fist, he threw another powerful punch.

Bang!

"Argh!"

The man groaned and he raised both of his hands.

"I won't let you!"

[Shadow Bind]

Once again the shadow emerges and strangled the man. It restrained his movements.

"Good, let me finish this," Souta smirked as he clenched both of his fists.

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Chapter 30 - Evening Grass acquired!

Boom!

The man flew away and crashed in the wall of the room creating a spider web cracks on it. Debris of rocks fell on the ground and it caused the smoke to rise up.

Souta looked at the man with a frown. After a few moments, he opened his mouth and said, "Still conscious, huh?"

He bent his knees and launched himself towards the man like a rocket.

Bang!

The man suddenly lifted up his head and looked at Souta. He clenched both of his fists and collided with Souta.

Boom!

"You're really good. Unfortunately, the quest said the I need to save everyone including you. If I only didn't accept the quest then I would kill you right here because you're giving me trouble right now." Souta said as he used more force and pushed his fist against the man.

"Graaa!!!"

The man roared in front of him and his aura burst out. He managed to resist Souta's strength.

"Good," Souta smirked and his mana flared up.

Boom!

A figure flew away and landed on the ground. It was Souta.

Souta looked up and saw the man rushing at him. He hurriedly moved sideways avoiding the man.

Bang!

The fist of the man missed Souta and it went straight to the ground. But before it reaches the ground, the ground suddenly turned into mud. His first sunk through the mud deeply.

"And follow up by [Shadow Bind," Souta casted his spell once again.

He grabbed the face of the man and casted the [Fire Ball] spell.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The flame exploded on the face of the man. Souta gritted his teeth and he smashed the man on the wall.

Bang!

Souta removed his hand and observed the man. The made was convulsing like he has some sort of sickness.

The shadows moved and restrained the man.

"This is enough, with his current strength he wouldn't be able to escape easily," Souta said before he turned around.

He looked at the Evening Grass in the center of the room. It was still standing there like nothing happened.

Souta approached it and he squatted down. He opened his bag and took out the transparent bottle that Mark gave before.

He carefully pulled the grass and placed it inside the transparent bottle.

"Okay, I just need to get out of this place," Souta muttered as he placed back the bottle inside the bag. He then stood up and exited the room.

"Oi! Oi! You people really wouldn't let me leave this place peacefully."

He saw a group of abnormal people waiting for him outside the room. They were crammed together on a narrow path. There were so many of them that he could not see a way out of this except fighting them.

"If I didn't get a class before coming then I would truly be in trouble," Souta said before he casted [Shadow Bind] repeatedly.

Luckily, he learned a spell that could restrict the movement of a target, or else he would be having a hard time this time.

Swoosh!!

Souta gathered his mana on his fist before throwing it towards the people in front.

Bang!

The abnormal people couldn't do anything about it. They could only watch Souta knocked them out.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Several bone-cracking sounds echoed in the whole area.

It's not that he couldn't break their bones. As long as he doesn't kill anyone he will not fail the quest. It will be fine if he beat them close to death.

"Even if I break your limbs it's fine as long as you're still alive!" Souta smirked as he used his strength to smash the abnormal people.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

He threw powerful punches in all directions. He doesn't need to aim at all as there were so many of them.

...

On the surface...

"Hey, do you think your master will be okay?" Mark looked at Yuko and asked.

"Muu." Yuko looked at him and she tilted her head.

"What am I doing, talking to a bear?" Mark shook his head. He should have put a quest for more than two people.

He knew that some of the people with a strange disease were living underground. Although those people wouldn't attack the residents of this village, there's always an exception to rules. If they, the residents of the village, came down then the people with a strange disease wouldn't hesitate to attack them.

"Your master looks like a strong man so he should be fine, right?" Mark said in a low voice that only he could hear.

Several footsteps sounded behind him. Mark turned around and saw the village chief with other adventurers.

"Village chief!!" Mark was surprised to see the village chief here in this place.

"Mark. Is Souta the one who accepted up your request?" The village chief asked.

"...Yeah..." Mark nodded in response to the village chief's question.

"And he's there right now?" The village chief pointed on the stairs leading to the underground base.

"Yes, but why are you here village chief?" Mark nodded and asked the village chief while glancing at the adventurers behind the village chief.

"They... They are the ones who will help us." The village chief said while looking at Jack and the rest of the adventurers.

"Help us...?" Mark looked at the village chief with confusion in his eyes. He doesn't know what the village chief was saying.

"Yes, help us save the village." The village chief said.

Mark turned his head and observed the adventurers behind the village chief.

Jack and the other adventurers accepted the village chief's request. They didn't accept it to help the village but they accept it to help Souta. They will go there and see for themselves if there was really a demon here. If there's really a demon then they would take back Souta with them and report it to the kingdom. The kingdom wouldn't sit back if they knew that there's a demon here close to their territory.

Jack stepped forward and asked Mark how long Souta has been underground.

"About 30 minutes," Mark replied to Jack's question.

Suddenly, Yuko moved forward and stopped in front of the stairs leading to the underground base.

This gathered everyone's attention. They focused on Yuko wondering what she's up to.

"What she's doing?" The village chief asked.

"I don't know." Mark shook his head.

"Maybe her master is coming now," Jack said with an unsure expression.

After a few moments, Jack's words came true. Souta really came out. Yuko greeted him first as she wrapped her huge body around him.

He just finished putting those abnormal people in their place. They wouldn't be able to bother him even if he went there a second time. Still, he knew that that's not all the abnormal people. He knew that the strong one must be beside the host of the [Vajra Sword Saya].

After hugging Yuko, Souta noticed the village chief and Jack. He looked at Mark and asked, "What are they doing here?"

"They are here to help you."

Before Mark could answer him, the village chief opened his mouth first and answered his question.

"We're here to help you. Once we see if there's really a demon then we would force you out with us." Jack said with a serious expression.

"Oh..." Souta didn't know what to say in this situation. He didn't think that Jack was that close to him.

"Well, suit yourself." Souta shrugged his shoulder before giving the small bag to Mark.

Of course, he took the book he picked first before giving the small bag to Mark.

Mark received the small bag and took out the transparent bottle inside it. He inspected the grass inside it. "Good, this is really the Evening Grass."

Ding!*

[Congratulations on completing the Herb Gathering quest!]

[You've received 5,000 exp and 5 free attribute points!]

[Experience points reached!]

[You've level up!]

[Strength attributes have increased by 8!]

[Intelligence, Agility, Dexterity, and Vitality attributes have increased by 5!]

He levels up from the exp he received from this quest. He was now a level 18 High End Goblin. Two more levels and he will reach the level requirements for the next evolution. But it will take him more time to reach that level. After all, he played the game for ten years and all he reached was level 80.

His leveling speed was quite fast. He's been here for a month and he almost reached the level cap of version 1.

It's easy to level up from 1 to 10 as the exp needed was quite low. But after that, especially level 20 and above was really hard to increase level even by one.

He knew the pattern of the exp system. It was the Fibonacci system. That's why after level 20 it will truly be hard to level up.

Souta turned his head to the village chief and said, "Well, we'll submit it first to the guild."

The village chief nodded and Souta left with Mark.

"So what should we do?" One of the adventurers asked.

"Let's wait for him," Jack said as he shrugged his shoulder.

"That's a good idea."

...

Souta and Mark went to the guild to submit the completion of his quest.

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Chapter 31 - As long as they are breathing it's still passable

Souta, Jack, and the rest were in front of the pathway that leads to the underground base.

"Shall we go now?" Asked Jack.

"Let's go!" Souta nodded at him and the rest of the adventurers also nodded.

"Good luck! I hope you return well." The village chief said with a nervous expression. He and Yuko would wait here outside.

"Well, I wouldn't return if I don't finish it." Souta shrugged his shoulder and he walked downstairs.

"Let's go!" Jack said to the rest of the adventurers and they followed Souta.

The village chief and Yuko looked at their back with a worried expression.

...

They reached the underground and there was a split in the road. The corridor on the left was open, and the one on the right was close. A lock wooden door was blocking their way.

Before, Souta went straight to the left road, but now that he came here to subdue the host of the Vajra Sword, he would take the road on the right.

"Where should we go?" Jack asked Souta. He asked Souta because he knew that Souta came here before.

"Here." Souta pointed at the locked wooden door.

"Let me do it." One of the adventurers stepped forward. He was the one expert in this kind of situation. He was a scout and was an expert in opening a lock. With his skills, he could detect some traps.

Souta made a way for the adventurer. He just watched the man opened the lock in just a few seconds.

"Good job!" Jack said.

"Don't worry about it! That's not a problem for me!" The scout said.

"Good." Souta nodded and stepped inside.

Perhaps it was their imagination, but once they entered the corridor, it felt like someone was observing them.

The atmosphere here was clearly different from the other corridor. A chilly wind would sometimes caress their faces.

'This atmosphere? It felt like I enter a mid-level dungeon...' Souta thought. But only he knew that the strength of the abnormal people was far enough to become a mid-level dungeon.

They walked for a half minute before red letters started surfacing around them.

"I'm warning you! Don't come here!"

"I don't want to kill you!"

"We don't want to kill someone!"

"It's not us! It's a demon!"

"You should go back now!"

"I know, you also want to become like us, don't you?"

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Some of the words appeared on the walls, some were on the ceiling, and some were on the floor.

Souta stopped when the red words appeared. He looked around and read the words.

'The abnormal people are warning us.' Souta thought. This scenario wasn't in the game at all. Ever since he came here in Bullmar village, he discovered many things that can't be found in the game.

"What's wrong with this?"

"Are they warning us?"

The adventurers started to discuss among themselves. The red words spooked them but as an adventurer, they have their own fair of experience. They quickly regained their composure.

"Let's go!" Souta shook his head and he continued to walk straight not minding the red words around him.

Then, words appeared in front of him saying "You'll regret coming here in this place".

'You're wrong, I'll regret it if I don't get that [Vajra Sword Saya].' Souta thought as a grin slowly appeared on his face.

He felt funny that they were threatening him. Do they really think that they could easily kill him? They should at least know it from the abnormal people that he took down before.

He wouldn't go down without taking some of them with him. At least he would take the mastermind behind this, the [Vajra Sword Saya, with him.

He thought that he should threaten them too. If they don't give the Vajra Sword then he would beat them half to death.

'Well, let's leave it like that and see it for myself.' Souta shook his head and continued to walk.

...

At the end of the corridor was another split road. One was a stair going deeper, and the other one was dark there's some words painted on the walls. The words were different from those threats.

Unlike the words, before that was written in nurman language, these words were written in an ancient language.

"So where should we go now?" Jack asked him.

"Let's go here first." Souta went to the left side where the ancient characters were written on the walls.

Actually, the path downstairs was the one that will lead him to the Vajra Sword but there's something here in this road that he needed to take.

"Okay, let's go." Jack nodded at him.

They walked for half a minute before the found themselves in front of a metal door.

The metal door was left half-opened and there was a key inside the keyhole.

The scout walked forward attempting to push the door open but Souta stopped him before he could do so.

"Don't." Souta grabbed the wrist of the scout.

The scout looked at Souta with confusion but he didn't resist and let Souta opened the door.

Souta walked forward and wrapped his fingers around the doorknob. He pulled it in, closing it tightly.

He knew a trick about this door. If he opened the door just like that then it would lead them to a room full of traps that could kill all of them, but if he closed it and used the key to open the door then it would lead them to another room.

He couldn't forget those vicious traps that killed him in the game. He got careless in the game thinking that it was an ordinary door but who knew that it hides some sort of secret room. If not for him accidentally closing it and using the key then he wouldn't discover the secret room.

Souta sighed and he twisted the key before pushing the door open.

Inside the door was a room with a single table in the center. A cabinet filled with books was on the left side of the room. Opposite of it was another cabinet but above there were transparent bottles with green liquid inside. And old papers were scattered across the floor.

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"This is it..." Souta muttered as he entered the room without hesitation. He directly walked towards the cabinet on the left side of the room.

He tapped his chin and tried to recall where was that item that he wanted. After a few moments, he squatted down and pick up the red book without title in the cover.

Actually, this was not a book. The book was just a cover to hide the item inside.

Souta opened the book and saw a silver amulet with a silver string.

'Good, a blue equipment.' Souta was satisfied with this. He picked the amulet and wore it around his neck. This amulet was higher than all of his equipments except the [Soul Blood Earring].

He registered it in the system as equip and saw its details.

[Amulet of Psychic](Blue): An amulet that was made of dark stone and psychic serpent's scale. Effect: 20 vitality, 10% energy resistance, 50 health, 3 health recovery. Durability: 15/20

He checked his stats and nodded. The resistance and recovery rate was the most important things in the effect of the amulet.

Energy resistance has more worth than magical resistance. It was because magical resistance could only resist those mana related skills and spells. But the energy resistance could resist all types of energy such as mana, best feram/beast energy, ki, etc.

Souta stood up and went to the bottles with green liquid inside.

Jack and the rest of the adventurers were already checking all the corners of the room if there were some sort of treasure here.

Jack saw Souta and he asked if he knew what's the green liquid inside the bottle.

"You can divide it yourself, this one was an antitoxin potion. It can increase your resistance by one hundred percent for five minutes." Souta said before he picked up three bottles and placed it inside his pocket. Three was enough for him and he will share the rest with others.

"After you're done, we will continue deeper," Souta said as he leaned his back in the walls.

Ever since they walked this path, they haven't met a single abnormal people. They only warned them through the writings on the walls. Even Jack and the rest of the adventurers talked about why they haven't met a single abnormal person here.

It will get serious once they go deeper. That's what Souta thought. It was strangely calm and peaceful here but he knew that it was just a calm before a storm. Although there's no scenario like this in the game, he could still guess that the strong abnormal people were deeper, close to the Vajra Sword.

It took them five minutes before they settled down.

"Are you done?" Souta asked them.

"Yeah..." The adventurers nodded at him.

"Then, let's go!" Souta turned around and left.

...

The group went downstairs and the scenery here was different from the floor above.

The ceiling was high and the area was wide compared to the floor above. The place looks like a mining area and carts specialized for moving pieces of rocks were around. Also, the density of the energy here was quite high even those people who were not sensitive in energy would feel it.

"This place is really creepy..."

"Yeah, I haven't been to a place with a chilly atmosphere like this one."

"Of course you haven't because you're only taking a quest near the kingdom."

The adventurers talked to each other in a low voice.

Suddenly, the scout shouted.

"They are here!!"

The adventurers stopped talking and quickly brandished their weapons. Their expression quickly changed into a serious one.

"Oh?" Souta looked ahead and saw several pairs of red eyes in the dark. He opened his mouth and said, "Guys, we will not kill anyone so you shouldn't use a weapon that could easily kill them." He paused for a moment before he added, "Well... if you're having a hard time holding back then it's okay if you break one or two of their limbs. As long as they are breathing then it's still passable."

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Chapter 32 - It's been a while!

Jack rushed forward in the group of abnormal people. He clenched his fist and threw a very powerful punch.

Bang!

Three abnormal people flew because of the power behind his fist. A few of their bones broke as they crashed in the walls.

"I will stop holding back!"

Jack stretched out both of his hands and grabbed two abnormal people in the head. He smashed them together before kicking them away.

Bang!

He once again grabbed one abnormal person and used the person to bashed the other abnormal people.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The scout moved swiftly as he appeared behind the abnormal people and chopped the back of their neck knocking them out.

The other adventurers too were doing their best to knock those abnormal people down.

The battles started in this wide place. The adventurers were facing more than a hundred of abnormal people. Bone cracking sounds echoed in the whole area.

The abnormal people have simple movements so they were easy to predict by the experienced adventurers. Even though they were easy to predict if a veteran adventurer got surrounded by a hundred of them then the outcome would be the adventurer's defeat.

After a few dozen minutes, the adventurers knocked out hundred of abnormal people but the abnormal people kept appearing with more numbers than before.

They started to show the signs of exhaustion as sweat flowed down from their bodies. Nevertheless, they didn't stop moving and continue to beat those abnormal people.

Boom!

A loud sound crashed behind them as one of the adventurers crashed in the walls. It shook the ground a few times as smoke rises up and covered the area.

Jack and the other adventurers stopped moving. They turned their head and looked at the adventurer that was embedded in the wall.

"How...?"

"What happened?!"

Souta turned his head and saw a strange one in the middle of the abnormal people. That one was giving off a different aura and vibe compared to the other abnormal people.

"It's the same as that one," Souta muttered as he recalled the one he fought when he was trying to get the Evening Grass. The one that gave him trouble. A strong abnormal person.

"We have a strong one here," Souta said to Jack and the rest of the adventurers.

They all looked ahead and saw the man with a black veins popping out on its forehead. Just looking at it, they immediately knew that this one was a strong one.

The man was panting heavily while looking at them with crazed eyes.

"Jack follow me let's finish this quickly," Souta said before he dashed towards the man. He lifted up his hand and casted [Shadow Bind].

The shadows strangled the other abnormal people so that they could not bother him while they finish the strong one.

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"Okay." Jack nodded and followed behind Souta.

He saw Souta clashed against the strong one. They exchanged dozen of blows within a few seconds.

When Souta ducked down, he jumped above Souta and punched the face of the strong man.

Bang!

The strong man didn't fly away because the shadows were grabbing his limbs. He couldn't escape even if he wanted.

"Let's finish this!"

"Yeah!"

Souta pulled back his hand and Jack too. Then both of them delivered a devastating blow on the stomach of the strong one.

"Argh!" The strong man's body bent backward as he received the fist of Souta and Jack.

The man fell down on the ground with a loud "thud" sound.

"Now, let's finish the others..." Souta said as he turned his head and looked at the rest of the abnormal people.

"You're right, let's finish it quickly," Jack said with a smirk.

Both of them rushed and best those abnormal people.

...

After half an hour, they finish putting all the abnormal people down. They checked the other adventurers and found that they only received some bruised in their bodies.

They still have the energy to continue deeper.

"We are good!"

"Yeah, we still have enough power to knock dozen of those people!"

"Good!"

The group continued to walk forward.

Souta looked around as they walked deeper.

Trolleys were everywhere and it was carrying huge boulders of rock. The railway was already covered in rust. It's hard to determine how long it has been since someone left them here.

'I don't think there's precious stone here.' Souta tried to recall if there were any good items here or any other things as long as it could give him some money.

"What's really this place?" Jack looked curiously around him.

He knew what was the railway and it uses. It was common in the eastern part of the continent where the Mechanic country lies. But here in the southern continent, it was pretty rare.

"The Mechanic Country is a newly founded country so why is this railway here," Jack muttered while looking at the rusty rails.

He's right. The Mechanic Country was founded twenty years ago after the brutal war of the calamity desert. The country rises too quickly and in just a mere twenty years it could be compared to the three great countries. It was so fast that it bothered the surrounding countries beside it.

This will lead to the event that Souta knew. The Rise of the Mechanic Country. In this event, the Mechanic country will become unstoppable and will truly rise to the ranks of the three great countries.

But this base has the technology of the Mechanic country. It seems that the ancient civilization was quite advance than he could imagine.

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Souta glanced at Jack. Even though he played the game for ten years he still knew nothing about the ancient civilization. The chaotic era before this fake peace era of the three great countries.

He only knew that the ancient civilization fought the demons and pushed them out of the continents.

...

The more they go deeper the wider the place becomes. There were many small paths on each side of the place but Souta knew that place was just like a maze.

Soon, they reached the end of the path. The area was wide and it was filled with hundreds of abnormal people. There were fifteen noticeable auras in the group of abnormal people. They have the same aura as the one they fought before.

These fifteen were the strongest among these abnormal people. There's no doubt about it.

Behind the abnormal people was a girl wearing a simple pink one piece dress. She was different as she looked at them calmly with those blood red eyes. In her hand was a simple plain looking sword. It was a one-handed sword and the color of its blade was different from a normal sword. The blade has a deep red color and there's a black orb attached on the handle of the sword. Except for these two characteristics, the sword looked plain.

Souta remembered this sword. It was one of the most familiar weapons to him, the [Vajra Sword Saya]. A dark grade weapon.

"Hmm... I finally see it after a long time." Souta said with a smirk and he circulated his mana around his body. He turned to Jack and the other adventurers and said, "I'll leave all of them to you and I'll fight the mastermind in the back."

"What?! Wait-wait... what are you saying?" Jack couldn't understand what Souta meant in those words.

"That girl in the back is the sister of the boy before. Do you remember the boy before right?" Souta said while pointing at the girl with a sword in her hand.

"Yeah, I remember that boy." Jack nodded and he looked at the girl in the back. "So that's his sister. Wait!! How did you know that is her sister?"

"Easy, the boy asked me to save her sister so I let him describe her appearance..." Souta shrugged his shoulder before pointing at the girl. "And that girl matches the one that the boy described."

Actually, Souta didn't ask the boy about the appearance of his sister. He just knew it in the game. Because in the game the only enemy here in the underground base was the host of the [Vajra Sword Saya] and that was the girl.

He just made the excuse so that Jack wouldn't be suspicious of him.

"I see..." Jack believed his words. He looked at his opponents the hundreds of abnormal people including those strong ones. He looked back at his comrades and asked, "Can all of you still fight one more time?"

"Yeah!"

"We don't have any problem!"

"As long as there's a reward, we would do this!"

"We're all adventurers!"

The adventurers replied to him with confidence in their voice.

"Okay, then let's do this!" Jack shouted as he raised his fist in the air.

"I'm going first!" Souta smiled at this and he charged forward in the group of abnormal people.

He looked at his stats and saw that he have a total of 18 free attribute points. He allocated 5 to his intelligence attribute, another 5 to strength attribute, and divided the 8 points to agility and dexterity attribute.

Then, he casted [Agility Boost] and [Strength Boost] on himself.

'Good this is enough!' Souta clenched his fist tightly and with a boom, he charged toward the girl leaving a trail of smoke behind.

The girl looked at Souta and she slowly raised the sword in her hand.

Swoosh!

Souta pulled out his sword and collided against the girl.

Clang!

"Hehehe, it's been a while, [Vajra Sword Saya]. The true owner of the sword is here." Souta grinned.

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