They formed a party and set off from the north gate to the mountains. Mountain side is thirty minutes walking distant. Road to the mountains is covered with dense forest and wild animals. Wild animals are mostly consisting of deers, hinds, rabbits, mountain goats, a few monkeys and rarely wild horses. They kept walking as they speak and get familiarized with each other.
“Last time I went to small mining site on the rear side of the mountain, this time we should try bigger one. Miner said there are 12 mines in total around the mountain”, Kevin told to Sky.
Mountain was visible from the current location, it was not high as much as Sky expected. At hillside of the mountain tunnels were visible and at front of the tunnel there was a few guards and other who seem to be miners.
“Halt”, one of guard shouted.
One of the Miners holding a half meter long pickaxe rushed towards them and talked.
“I am Jack, leader of Caolia Miners. Currently this Mine is sealed, you should go another one if you came for mining” he said politely looking to the Kevin.
“Why what is wrong with this one?” Kevin asked.
“This mine is filled with Kobolds. Currently we are waiting for a special team to arrive and take Mines back from the hand of Kobolds.”
“Is it possible if we take the task of cleaning the Mine”, Sky asked to the miner.
“I would not recommend with just two people party, but I wouldn’t say no, if you are willing to kill a few Kobolds”
Clean Caolia Mine Coalia mine has been raided by Kobolds, leaded by a strong Kobold Captain.
Kill as much as possible kobolds as you can.
Return Miner Jack for rewards.
Recommended 3+ players’ party because of kobold density
Reward:200 exp per Kobold
100 gold per Kobold
5000 golds and experience for Kobold Captain
“I will gladly accept the task”, Sky said.
“We couldn’t even check level of Kobolds, are you sure?”, Kevin asked to Sky.
“Ya, trust me. Kobolds are weakest in most of the games. At most we can abandon the quest and go to another mine.”
“Did you learn Mining” Kevin asked to Sky
“Ohh, I forgot that Kevin”
“One of Miners standing there should be teacher go ask them”
Sky asked one of the miners about Mining, he gladly accepted teaching him mining for 300gold. Mining was easy. Miner went near mountain hills and hit one of the boulders with his pickaxe. He kept hitting without losing momentum for ten times and gave his pickaxe to Sky and told him to try. After a few try he understood the logic of using reflection of pickaxe from the hard stone, using less strength to dig further. Not losing momentum was important, because with each swing of pickaxe, stone was showing less resistant using less strength. If he stopped for a breath, he would need to start over to catch the pace again.
Strength increased by 1
Mining Learned
“I see, mining is great way of increasing Strength”, Sky talked loudly to Kevin who was standing distant.
“Yes, if you want we can mine while we kill kobolds inside. What you hit is just a stone boulder, you won’t gain iron from it.”
“Let’s go!” Sky said with high spirit and they entered the mine.
The entrance to the mine was made of a large tunnel, big enough for 5 men to fit alongside. The tunnel was lit by gas lamps and was supported by wooden columns, but it was still a bit gloomy. Inside the mine, there was intense smell of sulfur in the air and floor was wet.
“This mine is a bit different than the one I visit previously” Kevin said.
“How so?”, Sky asked.
“It was natural, this one is man-made”
After walking in the tunnel around 15 meters, they arrived a large mining site lit by torches around. In the middle there was a half mater long, rat faced man was standing holding a pickaxe in his hands. On his head there was a candle that lights around.
Kobold Miner Lvl 3
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Sky rushed towards mining kobold telling Kevin to wait. Took his Chudan stance and swing his sword over its head.
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Miss
“Small target .. Damn”, he cursed a few time and tried taking sword to rear side and slash with Power Strike.
30 Damage
After this successful blow, he kept attacking using this stance. Sword at his rear side, he kept swinging left and right.
12 Damage
14 Damage
Kobold lifted its pickaxe high and bashed towards Sky’s foot.
18 Damage Recieved
After a few more sword slash he killed the Kobold Miner which had 130hp.
Together with Kevin, they killed another Kobold Miner. It was a lot easy to kill with two people without taking damage. After killing a few more kobolds, Sky understood more about his new stance from the response of kobolds. Sky hid the length of his own blade behind his body only exposing the pommel to the opponent and used as deterrent to opponents who did not know the range of the sword being hidden. Since his guard was down while in this stance, could be used as a sort of bluff technique which had taunting effect on kobolds. It was making them rush in to attack stupidly. Stance also serves to conceal the orientation of the blade to opponent, as to give no hint about your own intention for the next attack.
Sky began to take liking to this stance, it was easy to hit twice in a row as well and opponent was rushing into battle without taking defensive stance. They killed 20 of kobold miners and moved forward further into the mine.
Kevin was also useful in battle as well. He was using a sword too, as you can guess from the name Hattori Hanzo, one of the great samurais of history. He was swiftly getting begin Kobold and striking weak spots while Sky was keeping them busy.
Once they are in middle of mine, they saw a bigger kobold. This one was armed with sword rather than pickaxe and was wearing some kind of armor on. They got near stealthily, without getting seen by big kobold.
Kobold Soldier Lv4
“I thought this one was, captain. But it seems there is still too much way to captain” Sky whispered towards Kevin not to attract any kobold around. He rushed towards kobold soldier without thinking. Kobold soldier was harder than miners, but it was piece of cake for Sky who killed skeleton knight before. Together with Kevin they swiftly killed kobold soldiers along the path and suddenly.
Wakigamae learned
“At last, I perfected this stance”, Sky said to himself and checked the book of combat arts.
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Wakigamae :RequirementBeginner SwordsmanEffect:Only effective when this form is taken while attacking
Taunts opponent
%30 increased Damage
%10 increased hit chance
%10 increased Received Damage
Sky looked skill description extremely satisfied. There was penalty of taking %10 more damage, but he already felt it before so this was expected. They continued killing kobold soldiers, in meanwhile Kevin got level 3 and Sky’s strength is increased by 2, and they reached to the end of the mine.
At end there was a kobold which was uglier than others. So ugly faced that you would vomit upon seeing once. It was about same size of kobold miners but had bigger tail, was holding a golden pickaxe wearing some kind of chain mail. After checking the surroundings, Sky came out of the rock facing the kobold.
Kobold Captain Lv7
“It is gona be hard”, Sky said to himself.