The goblins slowly closed the gap between them and Kyle and the red-haired girl, they were only holding primitive weapons such as spears and maces made from wood and sharpened stones. Though they were relatively smaller than humans, they outnumbered Kyle by 7 to 1, not to mention, they were physically stronger than the average human. Things were not looking great for Kyle, it would not be so bad if he was on his own, but he got a helpless girl next to him that he needed to protect.

“Ah Shit, I should have minded my own damn business” Kyle thought to himself. The goblins were getting closer and closer, once they reached their attack range, they would strike with everything they got. Kyle knew there was only one way to get out of this, with the swords in his hand, he put it onto the girl's neck and grabbed her close to him and yelled

“All right you bastard, one more step and the girl died, got it?”.

The goblins and humans are nothing alike really, goblins act only for one purpose and that is survival, they would not care about other species but they do however live in packs and care for their own. Humans don’t just want to survive but to live, so they want to make peace with everyone in general if it is possible. But at that exact moment, when Kyle put the sword on the young woman's neck, both the goblins and all of his human companions had the same feeling of confusion.

“What the fuck is going on over there, how did it become a hostage situation and the goblins look like they are trying to save the girl” Allan said out loud.

The goblins did not know what was going on either, they had never seen two humans reacting to them like this, normally they would run or try to fight back, not this time though, it looked as if the raven hair human was trying to scare them by killing the female human. They did know how to respond l, so they stopped approaching but they still maintained their focus and tightly holding on to their weapons aiming at Kyle, all of them, unfortunately except for one, that goblin was so confused that it loosen its grip on the spear and diverted its eyes to see how the others react to this. That was a big mistake, Kyle notice that instantly an charged directly at it with his sword and one hand and the girl on the other, he easily disarmed the goblin and stabbed it in the eyes, although that goblin did not die, he and the girl got away from the goblins once again, buying time for Liam and the group to catch up to the two of them.

Liam let the girl run ahead of him, he stayed behind her and tried to fight back the goblins while moving. Noticing that it would be too hard to keep her safe while himself as well, Kyle made a decision, he stopped running. Kyle was gonna stand his ground against the 7 goblins so that girl could run away and buy some time until help arrived.

“Okay then, just one at a time, I got this”, Kyle whisphered, Kyle swung his sword horizontally at the charging goblins in front of him, cutting its neck, however, the wound was not deep and he can she in his vision, -40hp, and that goblin was 300hp. “ Oh fuck me !” Kyle yelled internally. The rest of the goblins soon reached Kyle also and immediately started to attack.

-26,-31HP,.. that was all he could see as Kyle and the goblins exchanged blows to each other, Kyle obviously got the worse out of it. Cuts are all over his body, on his arms, legs and back, his clothes were once again painted red with his own blood, 187 HP left, somehow Kyle can sense the exact number of HP he got without looking at the paper sheet. It was only due to his C skill: Assassin luck, and his martial art skill that he manages to dodge many of the goblins attacks, or else he might be dead by now.

8 hits, that what it took in order for Kyle to kill one goblins and in return of those 8 hits, he received 14 hits from the goblins, “not bad” Kyle told himself, but his injury was getting the better of him, he was able to doge a lot of attacked by his instinct but with the wounds, his body is slowing shutting down, now he could only really on that skill he level up from before, when it activated, somehow, Kyle could feel as if his body move on it own, dodging the attack for him. However, his attack was getting faster as well.

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There were only 6 goblins left standing, however, those goblins did not have a scratch on them, and they were very angry at Kyle having killed one of their own. Kyle tried to take one of his HP potions, but the goblins immediately jumped on him again, not giving him any time to rest. But the goblins did not expect Kyle to retaliate even stronger than before, 200% time faster to be exact, (Kyle’s Unique passive skill activated), now for everytime a goblin can take 1 swing at him, he could land 3 back at them.

“ 1, 2,3,..4,5,6..7,8” Kyle counted in his head, and when he stopped counting, another goblin fell to the ground. However, it was not without a cost, 40HP that was all he got left, and that was after he killed the goblin and got 24HP back from it from his C skill.

“Dammit” Kyle yelled, one of the goblins got a direct hit to his right leg, seriously preventing his movement.

“I don’t think that was such a good idea” Kyle smiled to himself, then another goblin came right at him, normally, he could have easily dodge this simple attack from the goblin but his injured right leg prevent him from doing what he want, his arm can barely hold on to the sword, still he hold on to his weapon as tight as possible, bracing himself for what to come.

“Healing”, “Sun Strike”, a fire energy ball came flying and hit the goblin pushing it away from Kyle. Allan and Maria chanted, Sun Strike ( CCC: a bust of energy gathered from the SUN, damage lvl 1: 60, mana cost 60, cooldown unknown).

“Took you guy long enough” Kyle spoke faintly, energy them slowly came back in Kyle eyes, Luna and Liam soon reached to where Kyle was standing,

“ What the hell was that all about, why did it look like you were taking the girl hostage ?” Luna asked, she then shot an arrow at the wounded goblin just then.

“ You really want to talk about it now?” Kyle said, then he went straight at the goblins with Liam followed closely from behind.

“ You better have a damn good explanation for them after this” Liam spoke to Kyle.

Liam take advantage of his Gladiator (Passive) skill, stacking up armors and HP regen by tanking up attack from the goblins, Kyle with his high attack speed fighting right beside him, one block, the other strike, Luna shooting arrow from the back, her aim now was surprisingly good, it might be because of her new Archer class that was given to her, Allan and Maria standing by the side of Luna, using Healing and Sun Strike to help the party. One by one, the goblins fall to their death.

“ I fucking hate goblins” Kyle spoke loudly, his blood still bleeded through all the wound he had received,

“ Now can we know why you took that girl as a hostage earlier?” Maria raised her voice.

“ Good question, if only I actually have a good answer” Kyle smiled, “ We got more important things to worry about '', Kyle nodded his head to the direction where the red-haired girl was hiding. She did not hide herself well, you could easily spot her hiding under some fallen tree about 100m from where the group was standing.

“I think Allan should be the one who should approach her first,” Kyle suggested. Yeah, the situation did not look too good for the other guys at the moment, Liam and Kyle got blood all over them and not to mention the small fact that Kyle just took the poor girl hostage, though he got his own reason.

“ Why me though, shouldn’t the girls be better at this than we are?” Allan replied.

“ Oh come on, you use that natural charm of your, trust me she will listen to you” Liam said

“ And not like it had not worked before since we got here” Kyle whispered to Allan, he then redirected his eyes toward Maria and Luna direction and smiled slightly.

With a little pat on the back, Allan had “volunteered” himself to go get her.