Chapter 6
[Wood fruit shell - has many uses in alchemy thanks to it's strong vitality.]
The group spent over 2 hours walking around the forest, when Lorelei spotted a group of 6 goblins transporting scraps of meat. After brief discussion, the group followed the goblins in hope of finding their village.
[Goblin - Warrior LV.4 - Green]
[Threat - Low]
[Highest Attribute - 10Dex]
[Goblin - Warrior LV.8 - Green]
[Threat - Medium]
[Highest Attribute - 14Agi]
Half an hour later, they found the village, counting 8 tents and seeing 9 goblins creating more tents. The builder goblins, upon noticing the returning hunting party, dropped what were they doing and went foward to eat raw meat. Due to the commotion the curtains of the best looking tent in village opened, and from the tent came out biggest goblin Oliver saw so far at stagerring 1,6 meter. Goblin leader took biggest meat piece and three smaller ones, after which he walked back to his tent. Unidentified meat was quickly consumed and fur was taken by the hunting party.
[Goblin veteran- Warrior LV.14 - Green]
[Threat - Deadly]
[Highest Attribute - 24Str]
Oliver's group backed off and started discusing how to tackle the village.
[Local time: 13:11:28]
"Do we attack the goblins with just us or retreat and call another group?" asked Tye.
"I'd say we kill them by ourself, they don't look too hard beside the leader" said Oliver.
"I agree, we need as much expierience as possible, but we are going to need a plan." responded Lorelei.
"Without any kind of shaman they are supposed to be extremly stupid and the so called leader does not seems to be intrested in ordering others around". Oliver shared the informations that he got from his guide.
After a brief planing, the group agreed on waiting for the hunting party to leave the village, follow them and ambush the goblins away from village, then get back to village and kill any goblins that get outside village.
20 minutes after discussing plan 7 goblins from previous building party left the village. Oliver's group followed the goblins for 10 minutes, feeling that they made save distance from the village they started preparing an ambush. Following previosly agreed plan, Tye started charging
[Compass 0.3 -> 0.4]
In meantime Oliver and Tobias quietly closed on the goblins. Tobias whistled, to let the girls know that they are ready to attack.
Tye released her attack, Lorelei's following right after. Augmented arrow beeing much faster than the magic attack quickly hit a goblin in the head nailing it to the tree nearby. Surprised goblins turned back only to see the middle goblin's right arm and part of chest explode into cascade of blood. Two goblins died before making any noise.
Lorelei started shoting normal arrows, while Tye charged another
Oliver and Tobias surprise attacked goblins that were still looking at their dead allies. Goblins being perfect size to being attacked at the head, thanks to it 2 goblins had their heads split open, while third goblin's head exploded like watermelon after beeing hit with a mace.
Tobias was splashed by brain matter and backed away from the fight to puke, while Oliver stayed close to protect him from the goblins.
One of the surviving goblins was shot twice into the chest by Lorelei with third last luckly shot grazing it's neck making it bleed to death.
Last goblin ran at Oliver but before he got close, his leg was blown off by Tye. Oliver walked up close and hacked at goblin ending its life.
[Sneaking 0.2 -> 0.3]
[Iron stomach 0.4 -> 0.5]
[Killed
[Killed
[Killed
[Grinder activated. Gained +1 Dex]
[General passive skill gained - Surprise attack]
[Surprise attack 0.1 - Attacking unsuspecting enemies grow on you. +3% damage on surprise attacks.]
Tye gained another level while Oliver walked back to Tobias and patted him on the back while avoiding touching bits of goblin.
"I've got some blood on me, but man it was something marvelous" said Oliver trying not to make weird face at the smell coming from Tobias.
Tye and Lorelei joined to check on Tobias stopping 5 meters away from him.
"Thanks to
"Yeah, mine just leveled thrice" Tobias said weakly.
"You are going to take bath when we get back to
The group checked goblin bodies, and finding nothing useful, they started walking back to the village. On the way back Oliver found another
"Good thing that i picked metal toe boots" said Oliver while picking the fruit up.
"Do we eat it now or later?" asked Tobias.
"What about other people?" asked Tye.
Lorelei, Oliver and Tobias looked at each other, than all stared at Tye.
Beet red Tye flailed her hands and said "Fine! I already put point into Str."
Chuckling Oliver held the fruit with left hand, using the pick side of his axe to crack the shell. Group portioned it and started eating. While Tobias and Tye took canteens out to drink, Oliver noticed, that Lorelei did not have backpack, so he took out both of his canteens and gave one to Lorelei. Lorelei thanked and started drinking from the canteen. Tobias noticing the gesture whistled at the pair, that rewarded him with Tye's elblow to his ribs.
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[Consumed
After a meal, the group got back to the goblin village. The team intended to wait up to an hour, killing any goblin that walked out of the village.
[Local time: 14:33:48]
40 minutes later, 4 goblins walked out of the village, holding primitive stone axes as they walked away from the clearing. The goblins found 2 trees similiar in size, split into pairs and started chopping them down.
Oliver and Tobias closed up on diffrent groups, Oliver prepared himself to swiftly kill both goblins, while Tobias and Lorelei were going to kill one goblin each. Tye was not going to take active part in ambush, her magic being simply too loud on the impact.
Tobias whistled, Lorelei released an arrow and Oliver chopped at a goblin. Oliver crushed the goblins head with his left axe, then he threw the axe in his right hand at the second goblin, hitting it in the face. At the same time Lorelei's arrow flew through goblin's neck silently killing it. Tobias used the moment when his target goblin hit the tree, he come closer and hit the goblin in the temple area being careful to not obliterate the whole head like last time.
Whole assault lasted less than 15 seconds, accompanied by the sound of tearing flesh and breaking of bones.
[Killed
[Class - Warrior LV UP 8->9. +1 to Str,Vit,End,Will. +0,5 to Agi,Dex. +1 Free Point]
[Killed
[Surprise attack 0.1 -> 0.2]
Tobias gained his 6th level, while Lorelei caught up to the Oliver. Afterward the group went back to the village.
"We can just walk into the village, there should be 4 goblins and the leader left at best." started Oliver.
"Last time I checked the leaders
"If me or you, Lorelei, can cripple it's leg, that would make the fight a lot easier" said Tye.
"Cripple it and let Tobias kill it, I was hurt at the combat trial, beacuse of that if I can have strong healer nearby I'll take the offer" Oliver voiced out.
"I'm not going to say no to free kills" Tobias said joyously.
"I have 9 arrows left, so I'll help only with leader" said Lorelei
[Local time: 15:21:23]
Tye prepared
The team walked toward the village with Oliver at the front, Tye shot
[Killed
[Heavy Swing 0.4 -> 0.5]
[Basic weapon mastery 0.3 -> 0.4]
[Killed
[Class - Warrior LV UP 9->10. +1 to Str,Vit,End,Will. +0,5 to Agi,Dex. +1 Free Point]
[Grinder activated. Gained +1 Str]
[Class passive skill gained - Battle Lust]
[Battle Lust - Battle is your passion, war is your name. +1% to physical atributes every one minute of active combat. After 5 minutes out of combat bonus quickly drops.]
[Heavy Swing 0.5 - Double the effort of swinging harder with object in hand. Sometimes you need a little more oomph. Stat scaling 1.4STR 1.25End 1.15Dex. Cost 2xStam]
"TWO levels for this combat!" yelled twins in unision.
"Congratulations" said Lorelei smiling.
[Race - Human
Name - Tobias
Age - 23
Gender - Male
Class I - Healer LV.8
Highest Attribute: 27Wis
Threat - Medium]
[Race - Human
Name - Tye
Age - 23
Gender - Female
Class I - Acolyte LV.9
Highest Attribute: 31Int
Threat - Medium]
Oliver walked to the broken tent of the goblin leader, and he heard weak whimpering. Calling for rest of the group, Oliver managed to pull tent remains away. Surprised party found 3 wolves laying on the ground with visible broken paws, wolves noticing intruders started growling.
[Wolf - Monster LV.7 - Grey]
[Threat - Low]
[Highest Attribute - 19Agi]
[Wolf - Monster LV.6 - Grey]
[Threat - Low]
[Highest Attribute - 17Agi]
[Wolf - Monster LV.6 - Grey]
[Threat - Low]
[Highest Attribute - 18Dex]
[Wolf - Grey - Born in areas with abudant mana, bigger and stronger, commonly found in forests rich in wood mana.]
"We should end their sufferings" said Tobias.
"Yeah, they won't survive long with the broken paws anyway" confirmed Oliver.
Oliver offered the axe handle first to the Lorelei, she looked at him and asked "shouldn't it be man's job?"
"Yeah, but you are the only one who didn't get a level" Oliver responded.
Lorelei looked deadpan into Oliver's eyes, sighed and took the axe. Tye walked away, while Tobias followed his sister. After the deed the twins were called back. Group looked around the village, finding only a rusty sword and old looking sack.
[Race - Human
Name - Lorelei
Age - 25
Gender - Female
Class I - Archer LV.10
Highest Attribute: 29Dex
Threat - High]
[Rusty sword - Old Medium-iron sword, without proper care rust coated the blade.]
[Sack of holding - Bigger on the inside than outside. Able to hold up to 2m x 2m x 2m of items inside. Decrease weight of items inside by 75%.]
The only thing inside of [Sack of holdin] were 4 [Wood fruit], group split up and ate one of the fruits.
[Consumed
"Guys, I did not get Vit point from fruit, is 2 a limit?" asked Oliver.
"I got a point" said Tobias.
"Half a point only" said Lorelei.
"Full point, what is your Vitality?" asked Tye.
"Right now 22" Oliver responded.
"19" said Tobias.
"Now it's 20" Lorelei said after checking her stats.
"Maybe fruit can't give more Vitality than up to the 20" concluded Tye.
"How much Vitality do you have Tye?" asked Oliver.
"13" responded Tye.
"Let's discuss what to do with the fruits, I'm voting to top off Tobias and Tye, and give the last one give to
"That's good idea, but lets say that we found only 2, while saying that Oliver didn't get point while being higher than 20 Vitality" Lorelei formalized the plan.
"Are you sure guys that you want to waste Vitality on a mage?" Tye wasn't sure of the idea.
"That is even more the important, to give free attributes to the classes that don't get those points for leveling" sagely said Tobias.
"Yeah, eat up, so any stray attacks won't be as dangerous" Lorelei chimmed in.
"But what about shells from other fruits?" Oliver noticed a problem.
"Hmn, on the way back let's just burry them in dense shrubs, maybe some will grow again." said Tobias while eating his part of fruit.
[Local time: 16:13:48]
After Tye was done eating first fruit, the party started moving toward
Another 10 minutes passed by, closing on
Stat Sheet
Race - Human
Name - Oliver Hormoz
Age - 21
Gender - Male
Class I - Warrior Lv.10
Class II - N/A
Specialization - Grinder(U)
Title - Monster Slayer II
Sanctuary Coins: 0
Stats:
HP: 500/500
HP Regen: 27,5/Hr
Stamina: 410/440
Stamina Regen: 47,92/Min
Mana: 210/210
Mana Regen: 32,2/Hr
Attributes:
STR:25
AGI:19,5
DEX:22,5
END:20
VIT:22
WILL:23
INT:15
WIS:14
CHA:11
Free Points:2
General Skills:
Active:
- Observe 0.6
Passive:
- Compass 0.4
- Iron stomach 0.5
- Sneaking 0.3
- Path to Sanctuary 0.1
- Suprise attack 0.1
- Information resistance 0.2
- Pain resistance 0.3
I Class: Warrior (+1 to Str,Vit,End,Will. +0,5 to Agi,Dex. +1 Free Point per level.)
Active:
- Heavy Swing 0.5
Passive:
- Battle Lust 0.1
- Basic weapon mastery 0.4
- Basic armor mastery-medium 0.3
II Class: N/A