Adam backed off slightly as another goblin swung at him only to be jumped from his back by another that grabbed on to him and started chocking him while screeching at his ear.
Wincing Adam seethed with anger but did his best to keep his calm as he pulled at the arm of the goblin with his burnt hand, though it hurt like hell it gave him room to breathe when he kicked another goblin that swung for his leg.
"AHHH!!!" he couldn't hold it in any longer and yelled out while veins pulsed on his forehead as another bone stabbed him in his waist covered in that damn slime that made him sluggish, he found an opening in the circle that the goblins made and ran towards a tree as fast as he could.
Twisting around he slammed the goblin into the tree weakening its grasp enough for Adam to free himself, he only glanced at the male hobgoblin that was rushing at him again after it got up before he started running towards the goblin that was holding Hunter in the distance.
Hunter had his mouth tied by some rope and was trying to wiggle away from the female goblin that held it tightly against her chest, seeing Adam rushing towards her the little goblin was scared as it turned away and tried to make some distance between herself and the mad human.
Adam seeing this quickly bent down and grabbed a rock from the ground as another bone flew by him missing him as the shooter didn't expect him to bend down, picking up the rock he quickly got back up.
Adam grit his teeth as he wound back his hand and threw the rock as hard as he could hitting the female goblin in the leg, she yelped in pain as she fell down, however Adam couldn't exactly see what happened as he was tackled from the back in the next moment.
He was able to shield his head from the fall at the cost of more pain in his arm, he was pinned down but since the hobgoblin wasn't holding him down well enough he was able to start elbowing away at its face trying to throw it off, but it was useless as it was still stronger than him probably with superior stats.
Soon the other goblins caught up and started beating down on him aiming for his head while the ones without a club held him down by his limbs, he could only be a pain in the cheeks for a bit and hurt them slightly with an occasional punch and kick before he was hit over the head and knocked out.
The male hobgoblin stood back up quite exhausted and with a bruised face, their target was much more vigorous and tougher than expected, the females would surely love to have some time with it, but that won't be happening, after all such a rarity would surely bring great benefits to their tribe if offered to the moon goddess and their chief would surely reward them well.
After all not only is it a human but its one that is the father of a moon beast, The Lunar Mother would surely be happy with this cycle's offering.
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Adam slowly regained consciousness lightly opening his eyes before quickly closing them again as his ears registered the voices of the goblins around him and the fact that he was tied up and bobbing up and down in the air while hanging from a piece of wood as thick as his thigh, he felt his arms and legs tied around the log, they were going numb from the uncomfortable position.
Besides that he felt something tightly tied around his arm and feet but currently he was too distracted to worry about that, 'Shit! Calm down, calm down, I am alive! I need to escape, I need to figure something out, I just hope Hunter was able to escape.' Adam relaxed his body acting like he was still unconscious, luckily the surrounding voices did not seem to notice him.
They were talking in some weird language that Adam couldn't recognize at all even when he himself knew how to speak three different languages well not fluently but good enough to speak, after a bit he noticed that the way the goblins around him spoke sounded broken as if they only knew words and not how to properly form sentences with them.
However, there were two voices that could actually speak properly they were also the ones that were carrying him, he barely opened his eyes and tried to look around, most of what he could see was earth and grass except the green legs walking around him.
The legs resembled a human's legs except the nails which looked more like claws for most of them though some still had normal human nails, each of the goblins had green skin though in different shades, all of them also wore animal hide around their waist like skirts.
Most of them also had some form of a makeshift weapon with them, a stone dagger, a spear, a club one even had a bow, there were over a dozen of goblins and there were five hobgoblins two that were carrying him, one of which was the previous male and another male that helped from the other side.
In the front were the other three there was an older one that was leading them, one muscular one walking close to him and the female that was shooting him with the bone darts however what made him frown was that he saw her carrying Hunter who was also unconscious.
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This made Adam's eyes burn, but he did his best to cool down and observe the situation looking for any possibility of escape, he also wanted to know where they were taking them, but he couldn't understand what they were saying only guess away at it.
Though for some weird reason he felt like he could almost understand them, and unknown to him, he was actually correct with most of his guesses he was able to understand that they were talking about some sort of moon god and a cavern of the moon.
'I really hope they aren't some sort of cult... but let's be realistic here, they seem to be talking about their god while kidnapping someone, what else could it be for except sacrificing they surely won't have a nice chat over tea with me'
After waiting for about ten minutes Adam decided to open up his system waiting clearly wasn't working all too well.
Name: Adam Creed
Species: Human
Health Points: 57/65
Base: 50
Mana Points: 41/65
Base: 50
Energy Points: 39/68
Base: 50
Stats:
Grade:
Body: 8
L-[IV]
Health: 5
L-[III]
Energy: 6
L-[III]
Mind: 6
L-[IV]
Arcana: 5
L-[III]
Soul: 9
L-[IV]
Traits: +
'Thank god for pain nulification... I assume getting bashed on the head would hurt way more without it’ Distracting himself he focused on the screen ‘firstly almost sixty-nine energy damn, anyway did they heal me? It seems to be almost dusk I don't think I normally would have healed so much unless having my vitality raised while I am injured does help with regenerating faster just that it isn't instant...'
Adam opened the traits tab by focusing on the plus next to it which caused the screen to expand, and while absently staring at the only trait he had a thought that other living beings might be able to see his open status too crossed his mind, cursing to himself as he looked around he felt a little of the tension in his chest drain when no one seemed to be reacting but just to be sure he closed the system by simply desiring to do so.
He thought for a bit and decided to try and see if he could do something with mana, of course he had no idea where to even start, so while trying to pull some kind of idea or whatever on how to do it out of his arse he turned some of his attention to the creatures that captured him.
The only thing that he got out of that was that he noticed the less equipped and smaller goblins seemed to be walking closer to him in the center of the group while the bigger ones a few of which that had leather armor and chainmail together with an occasional old rusty spear or sword were at the edges of the grouping, and as for the mana portion he honestly had no clue what he was doing except from the shiver he got when he gained the traits extension or whatever it is.
Adam was happy to see the medieval equipment since that meant that there was someone making them, and it most likely isn't these goblins with the condition the armor was kept in, which could only mean a civilized society that should be somewhat near the territory of these goblins.
Still even if there was a town or something nearby that did not change his situation in the slightest, he knew he could not win against these goblins, there was a good chance he could die to even one of the goblins.
After all each of them was very fast and most had weapons, he could only hold out and keep some space between them until he was rushed down and taken out, another big problem is that he could not outrun them either.
He felt his teeth clenched, his anger seething but all he could do was lay limply, he did his best to discard it, closing his eyes he did the only thing that could be of any help in this situation, which would be power, and how does one get power in a magical world? Magic!
Adam reminded himself of as many novels as he could, remembering how their magic worked, how the characters felt when they used mana or any other mystical power and then trying to replicate the same results, to his surprise after a couple of minutes he felt a weak vibrating pulse that started in his chest and moved through his body.
The pulse would go through him every ten or so seconds and start gathering again after about another five seconds, he lightly swallowed his saliva before he tried to control the pulse, he tried to send as much of it as he could down to his legs.
However, he was rather unsuccessful no matter how hard he tried forcing his mind and body to do something, it didn't seem like he could control the pulse in the slightest even after ten minutes of trying at least not in the way he was trying.
'I am getting nowhere with this, the goblins are probably getting close to their destination I should try something else' Adam stopped trying to mess with the pulse and instead focused on where it came from, in the middle of his chest.
He could feel the pulse come from the middle of his sternum, after a bit he could feel the buzz gather in the sternum growing stronger before it sent out a pulse 'Interesting, Interesting, Is it a mana core or something? Also, why wasn't I able to feel it before?'
With the thought he stopped focusing on his insides and soon the feeling disappeared as if it was never there before, Adam started becoming more and more annoyed ever since he came to this world it's been nothing but danger and questions, though that would end soon either way as the goblins seemed to have reached their destination as they stopped moving.
He heard the older hobgoblin in front say some words before every goblin started to move, though Adam didn't know what they were doing exactly as he still had his eyes closed, he tried to peer through his eyelashes but stopped after the two carrying him started moving again.
He could only take occasional glances trying to look for anything helpful only for a deep frown to appear on his forehead.