“SZING!!..ZING!!..CHIK!!!…”.(Feral Goblin Fighter)
“Magic Missile….
“KAARRGGHHHH~!..
“Well….at the very least…you were an upgrade from the usual boring goblins…good try, new goblin…”.
Right now, I am on the 2nd floor of my dungeon, about a halfway through the floor already in my estimation, it has been 3 hours since I started moving about on this floor, walked almost 1.5 kilometers and already encountered 30 goblins so far, this 2nd floor do have something new in them, for example, the terrain of the cave, is slightly damper, the air were a little bit moist. There is some mud puddle here and there and stalagmites dripped with water all over the place, but that is about it, when it comes to the terrain changes, in the end, the entire thing was still a dirt cave, and it does bear a similarity to the first floor when it comes to the floor layouts.
Another new thing about the 2nd floor is that there is a new type of monster, it’s the Feral Goblin Fighter an upgrade from the normal Feral Goblin, and unlike the Feral Goblins, this one carried a weapon with them. Their weapons varied, some were using just wooden clubs, some were wielding rusted daggers or swords, and some just wearing a leather glove and still identified as Feral Goblin Fighter, when it comes to the overall stats, Feral Goblin Fighter is slightly stronger, but not by much. Even now, they still got one hit KO’ed by my Magic Missile or my firearms. They yielded 10 EXP and dropped more items, most of them dropped the weapon that they were holding, and something extra, I even got a single Free Status Attribute point from one of them, which officially made them my new favorite monster to farm on.
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Name: Feral Goblin Fighter
Type: Monster/Small Humanoid
HP: 20 MP: -
Strength: 6 Agility: 6
Intelligence: 2 Sense: 5
Description: A small humanoid monster, known to be a vicious, savage and hostile to everything. A mindless monster exists to kill, destroy and consume, this Feral Goblin knows how to wield and uses a weapon, and using that weapon they will cause terror and menace everywhere they go.
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“.…Even the description was the same as the game wiki…then again, at this point, I should just accept it…at least rather than just a 2D image, I got a real picture for my records…”.
Right now, I am starting a new thing as I went and adventuring my dungeon, just so this won't become a mundane thing, so I decided to make sure that while I am down here, I have a new set of goals as well. Hence I started to record my every findings and compiled them in order for me to make my very own encyclopedia, and it will all be based on my very own findings. The real thing naturally needs to be based on the real information, so I took pictures and noted down the information that I got using my [Identify] skill. So far I have yet to have any entries other than the terrain records and the monster records, by I am confident that as my adventure goes on, my personal encyclopedia will get thicker and thicker.
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Done with my side work, as always I started to move again, this time for the next half of the journey, I decided that I would be fighting the goblins in close combat, long-range combat is safe and easy for me to do. But I am not one to always opt for safety, especially when I am in need of more tampering in terms of combat experience. At this early stage, when the enemy was still a bit weak, it was a good time for me to absorb all the experience that I could, I didn’t want to be someone who got flustered and whimpered when the enemy able to get close and fight, safety is good, but to be able to perform at all sort of situation is even better.
So I will strive at this goal, make sure that I can do everything, knowing that I will be going into a new world, I had to educate myself on everything. For me, rather than expecting only the good thing, I am more comfortable to expect all the bad things that may or may not happened to me. This is the mindset that I always lived on, and through this mentality that I made it to where I am right now. After walking cautiously for 10 minutes, this time I encountered a place where I could say the usual monster spot, but surprisingly the simple clearing about 20 meters in front of me was just empty, the goblins that were supposed to be there, were not there.
“...it’s an ambush…oh….now they are getting crafty…”.
For anyone with a logical mind, they can see the obvious, and I too am able to come to the same conclusion, muttering my amusement in a low voice. I decided to utilize one of the loopholes that is well-known in the game, of which I know works like wonders in real life as well.
“...Identify……heh…gotcha…”.
[Identify] is a universal and also an amazing skill that was cast by the user on what is going on in their sight, that is the concept of this particular skill. So, when I cast it, like right now, it would automatically identify whatever that is, that was in my sight. Hence casting this skill without a specific target, this skill will instantly pick the closest target that it can pick up on. And thus, about 20 meters right in front of me, behind a boulder on the right side, there is a small window appeared and it stated [Feral Goblin Fighter], there were 2 of the same window, one behind the boulder that was about 20 meters away from me and one of it was right up at the ceiling, more accurate, on a stalagmite that was about 15 meters away from me.
“You can never get ambushed by anything if you got Identify with you…Damn, even that in-game quote got real now..”.
This is why [Identify] skill was well loved by players, as it got others, more practical use aside from getting information, using this skill, you can’t get ambushed at all. And that is what happened to me right now, unsheathing my machete, I gripped it tight in my right hand, I picked a pebble on the ground, as I slowly closed in on the first Feral Goblin Fighter that was currently hanging from a stalagmite.
“Clack!..Clack!…..”.
I throw the pebble right underneath the stalagmite where the first Feral Goblin Fighter was. And just then noting that there is an unsuspecting ‘prey’ underneath it, the Feral Goblin Fighter dropped down.
“CHIIIKKKK!!!!!…..KIII!!!!..
Viciously it dropped down while swinging its rusted sword in hand down as well, crude movement, but it did hit the target. Feeling that what it hit was just an empty target, and what it got was simply the tingling vibration on its sword as all the sword did was hit the earth floor. The Feral Goblin Fighter makes a puzzled face and sound, baffled as to why there is nothing died from its attack.
“Wobbly swing, goblin….but unlike you….my ambush worked…
“CHIK!!…GUKK!!!….
Mocking the Goblin as it figured out that the target, that is me was looking at it, just as it was about to react, I swung my machete, cutting the goblin's head, cleaving it in half from its side, ear to ear, no skin, flesh, nor skull stopped my sharp swing. The dead Feral Goblin Fighter's body lingers for a few seconds before falling forward towards me, making a loud thud. The top cut head, then fell right before the boulder where, the second goblin hid, like on cue, the second goblin also jumped out of its hiding place. Stabbing with its wooden spear precisely at the fleshy half-head that fell on the ground, since it could feel the fleshy sensation as its spear stabbed some meat, the grin on its face widened.
“Kikikiki!!!..
In the middle of its happy laugh, its face kissed a steel cap military boot, and a roundhouse kick hit squarely on its face, crushing its nose and breaking its skin. Blood spurts from its broken nose and shattered teeth and mouth, its entire body rag-dolled across the floor. Yet before it was able to realize what happened, all it saw was a gleaming blade coming down at it.
“CHIKK…..
I ended its life with a simple, strong downward hack, bisecting its head from the top skull all the way to its chin. Let the machete stay for 2 seconds for good measure, ensuring it is truly dead, before I retract by machete, fling the blood off it, and sheath it back on my waist.
“.…this is a new one…..it wields a wooden spear…..and it is quite good at it…”.
It is a Feral Goblin Fighter, a spear variant, so I took its pictures and recorded them. One would think that this is a goblin spearman, but it is not, it’s just a Feral Goblin Fighter that uses a spear.