[Mana Bolt has leveled up!]

[Congratulations! You have leveled up! Stat points +1.]

[Congratulations! You have defeated the Boss of the dungeon!]

[Dungeon Closing in 2:59:59]

[Accept Rewards?]

[Yes] [No]

Kyra spared a glance at her notifications but the remaining goblins didn't waste a second before trying to kill her... again. Jumping out of the way, Kyra pressed [Yes] and turned to smash away a wooden spear arching through the air.

[Rewards]

+ Status Recovery

+ 2 stat points

+ The Hobgoblin's Club

[Achievements Earned!]

Solo Clearing: An Underground Lair of the Goblins.

Dare Devil: Health drops below 5 for more than 3 times.

Mana Seeker: Discover and use mana.

Before the notifications could swarm her vision, Kyra shoved them to the side and focused on eliminating the goblins. She swung another strike but it never landed. Kyra was enveloped in a swirl of gold light, and she felt her muscles sigh in relief and her wounds magically close together. When the light receeded, her status bar was completely full. Kyra smirked.

Needing to kill the remaining goblins, Kyra utilized their large numbers against the them, brutally smashing into them to cause a large domino effect. Her [Mana Bolts] also helped to keep the numbers of goblins attacking her at a steady count.

Slowly but surely, there was a decrease in numbers, and Kyra was gradually making her way back to the entrance. Now that hobgoblin was gone, she had an hour or two to finish them off - she was going to do it at her own pace. Her master plan was having the goblins come in smaller groups to fit into the tunnel, and then finishing them off before the text wave rushed forward to their death.

Before that, she activated [Dash], and sprinted. She body-slammed quite a few goblins out of her way and drew a straight line through the horde of goblins remaining.

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Diving into the tunnel, Kyra grunted and pulled herself into a some-what steady stance. Using a [Mana Bolt] to first the mob of goblins, Kyra got ready for the long fight. Her endurance wasn't very high, and she just used [Dash], which dropped it by quite a few, but she was able to supplement that by dragging crystals down to smack the goblins to their death by taking advantage of gravitational acceleration.

Kyra swapped between using individual crystals and shooting the goblins to their death and stabbing them to death - allowing her MP and SP to have time to refill. But they barely did, and Kyra's status bar gradually decreased as the fight dragged on. Towards the end, Kyra was mostly using [mana Manipulation] or [Mana Bolt] and her new skill [Stab] a few times.

There were a few pieces of good news to brighten the mundane process of one-shoting the goblins - whose average level was 5, while she was a level 7 now.

[Mana Manipulation has leveled up!]

[Mana Manipulation has leveled up!]

[Stab has leveled up!]

During the "cleaning", [Mana Manipulation] leveled up twice and even with her small amount of SP, [Stab] managed to level up once too.

Once the goblins had all been exterminated, Kyra still had about an hour and a half - and she was aching all over. The adrenaline faded from her body, and her muscles were shrieking, even after status recovery. She needed to climb out the dungeon now, but Kyra also didn't want to give up all the loot the goblins dropped. Especially what the hobgoblin might have. Not to mention, Kyra should really sort through her stats.

So she dragged herself to her feet, crawling back out the tunnel into the cave where loot was piled at the entrance - and scattered throughout.

Another half hour later, Kyra was 462 coins, 74 Wooden Spears, 47 pairs of stone daggers, 10 stone swords, 54 pairs of leather boots, 32 pairs of leather gloves and... 9 pairs of Goblin Pants richer.

The boss had dropped regular goblin items apart from a [Hobgoblin's Hide], which was a hideous fur cape that gave the wearer a 25% bonus in attacking strength - but Kyra couldn't wear it because she hadn't reached level 10 yet.

After dealing with all the items, Kyra sat down in a corner by the tunnel, opening both the countdown of the dungeon and her stats.

[STATUS]

Name: Kyra Malixi

Path: Path of the Peasant

Level: 7

Class: N/A

Health: 32/41

Mana: 46/245

Stamina: 4/31

Vitality: 6

Strength: 5

Endurance: 5

Agility: 6

Intelligence: 16

Perception: 2

[SKILLS]

ACTIVE:

Mana Manipulation Lvl. 4, Stab Lvl. 2, Thrust Lvl. 1

PASSIVE:

Fortitude Lvl. 2, Mana Sense Lvl. 2, Mana Absorb Lvl. 1

There was a little + next to her stats, and an indication she had 3 stat points to spend - so much time spent, so little reward. Kyra pondered her choices for a while. She had tasted first-hand the importance of Vitality and Endurance since they helped with regenerating HP and SP, but her MP seemed like a good investment as well - her [Mana Bolt] was her strongest attack at the moment.

Right now, she was too weak to consider enhancing her other stats that wouldn't do her immediate good regarding survival. Strength and Agility were important, but when she was fighting, she'd rather have a higher HP regeneration than a a little higher attack point. Kyra also didn't rule out the possibility of her physically grinding up her stats - real life was still fundementally different from a video game. If she made changes to her body through exercise or training, her stats may reflect that.

At the end of the day, vitality, endurance, and intelligence were her choices, and she divided the 3 points evenly.

With the countdown counting the last hour, Kyra climbed out of the tunnel back to the maze, fingers-crossed that she wouldn't get lost. After twenty minutes or so, she finally found the way up.

As she emerged from the crystal-decorated tunnel up, Kyra saw the sunlight for the first time in what felt like months. As she walked to the cave mouth, the invisible barrier had vanished and her hand passed right to the outside. A breeze gently kissed her palm.

Taking a deep breath, Kyra dragged her heavy legs out into the forest, breathing the first breath of fresh air in days.

[You have left a Dungeon!]

[Dungeon: An Underground Lair of the Goblins has closed!]