Elias let out a smile after seeing his agility increased — he know that agility was the most useful stat out of the beginnings stats. After all, agility runes didn’t come out easily and he got this rune at his first kill.
‘My luck isn’t that bad.’
His body, which he wasn’t accustomed to due to the status gap, move quickly according to his will.
He killed another goblin and took the rune from its dead body, with his battle experience he knows to don’t stop moving his hand — killing other goblins while collecting those runes. Even though his stamina depleting like water-current, he still can’t stop — he needs to show to those goblins that he is a hard prey. If they want to kill him and his master, they will pay steep prices.
From time to time, his word becomes broken, either because deflecting goblin swords or because stuck inside goblins body. However, he keeps changing those broken weapons with another dead goblin’s sword. Without hesitation he’s attacking goblins weak spot, it’s messy and gory — but effective. He doesn’t care about splattered brain or blood from those goblins, but that isn’t the case for those goblins.
Kieeek!
The goblins start to hesitate to go towards this man after seeing his ferocity. More and more of goblins go towards other humans, reducing his pressure in this battle. He doesn’t like to make people as bait, but when life is on the line — a man life is on his own.
After all, He can’t risk his master's life for some strangers. Even though in his previous life she survive, it can change from the deviation of his action earlier — he didn’t want to take that gamble. Some of them maybe will get lucky like himself in the previous life and got away from those goblins.
He tosses aside his doubt and moves both his hands to slay and collect those runes, his stamina is starting to diminish, but with fewer goblins on the field he can observe and move easier. He released all the strength that he had built up.
All his runes are gone.
All his skills are gone.
However, even a low level of strength and stamina will yield different results when used by an experienced person. His body is a weapon for survival, and depending on how he uses that weapon, the outcomes will have differences like heaven and earth.
He’s slashing those goblins like a madman that even make some of them running.
After a while, he can clear his way — after cutting those goblins into pieces, he turns back towards Emily and sees her terrified expression.
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“Are you afraid of me?”
It’s understandable for her to be afraid with him. After all, people who can fight against those monster effectively after transferred to this world has some screw loose in their head. He knows that feeling — the feelings of uncertainties about whether to trust his life to someone or not.
However, he genuinely wants to help her. He wants her to believe in him.
She silent for a while and then nod, “Yes, I scared of you. However, my gut tells me that I can trust you.”
He smiles, “I won’t let down your trust.”
‘As expected from someone who will become one of the heroes.’
He looks at twenty or so small runes he got, there are only one with green color, and the rest either yellow or red. He looks depressed for a fleeting moment, but his expression soon becomes normal.
He consumes every rune he got — at this moment, giving those runes to Emily who doesn’t have fighting experience is a foolish decision.
“Show me my status.”
Name: Elias
Rank: Colorless
Strength: 10.6(9.5)
Stamina: 9.9(5.4)
Agility: 10.2
After killing more than twenty goblins, he only got one agility rune which increases his agility by another 0.1 points.
‘At least my strength and stamina became equal as an adult,’ he comforts himself.
Ordinary men have values about ten points in each status. He, on the other hand, in his previous life never an athletic type and had a weaker body than average people. However, after consuming those runes, he has the same capability as those healthy adults — this is the power of runes.
In a simpler explanation, strength runes used to increase power and speed while stamina runes used to increase endurance and body’s recovery rate.
Agility runes, on the other hand, have the effect to increase reaction time for people who consume it. However, how it works is a little different from previous runes — for example, it twists his time to become o.2 times faster than ordinary human which make his reaction quicker — from the third-person point of view, his movement appears to become slightly faster.
As agility rises, he starts to live in a different dimension.
He looks at his stamina which nearly half left, he knows that it will need a long time if he waits for it to recover. Therefore, he decided to rush with this state while those goblins still pursuing other people.
He closes his status and then facing Emily, “Let’s go.”
She nod.
They run and run, he often looks behind and notices Emily’s erratic breath — she’s sweating but never let out a complaint. He observes his surroundings and notices that there no goblins around and want to suggest to rest for a minute.
However, before he let out a sentence — he felt something off.
“Watch out,” he change his direction 180 degrees and tackle Emily down to behind a tree.
Emily who falls down open her eyes want to ask, “what hap…,” her question stopped after seeing dripping blood on Elias’ left hand. She notices there steams and black spots on where she stands earlier.
“It’s poison,” Elias mumbles quietly, however, Emily hear those words.
“What do you me…” her words cut off again by Elias' unexpected action.
He cut off his left arm without hesitation and then bind his wounds with his shirt — today she saw many gory things, but, seeing a person who mutilated his own arm with a cold expression is still too much for her. She wants to faint but understands that this isn’t the time — she bits her lips to stay conscious.
Elias peeps towards the attacker.
His face became pale after looking at the man who attacks them.
“Why a Dungeon Master in this place?”