NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 6: First Exploration
"Get ready, we're leaving"
"Wha- where? Wait. Milly" I followed her downstairs "What do you mean we're leaving?"
"It's a test" Karla stood in front of me, handing me my daggers.
"Three weeks of training almost every day" Khyle hands me a hood and a utility belt.
"Ye likely can clear a simple dungeon on yer own" Barret hands me three packs full of throwing knives.
"But both Karla and Milly'll watch over you as you conquer it" Magnus hands me some potions to refill my mana... I'll definetely need that... wai-
"A simple goblin dungeon" Milly dropped me at the entrance of the dungeon
"You've become stronger" Karla gives me a thumbs up "You still can't even touch me though" she laughed and patted my head
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"Wait. Why are we doing this!?!?" Even after three weeks of training, I don't feel like i've improved.
"You can do it" Milly was clearly expecting a lot from me "We know you can do it" the way she was looking at me made me feel a bit more confident.
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Wait.
Why am I easily accepting this? "Yea, I've been training, and maybe I've gotten stronger. But I've never killed anyone before"
"Hahaha, there's a first for everythin' kid" Karla looks like she's having the time of her life.
"And you won't die, we'll be there for you" Milly opened the door to the goblin dungeon.
I can only sigh and accept what I gotta do.
The door closes behind me.
"We'll be behind you"
I adjust my hood, and tighten the grip on my daggers.
Maybe it's because it was a game, but dungeons are darker in real life... the thief class passive is better than I thought, as I have amazing vision even on dark places outside dungeons.
I start advancing. Maybe it's because this is my first dungeon, but I feel like I'm advancing really slow, even though I'm running...
There...
A goblin... alone...
Keeprunning?stop?jump?henoticedmenohedidn'tordidhe?
I started going faster... faster... faster... my daggers ready to attack... he's moving slow, really slow.
JUMP
I leaped forward and attacked with my right dagger. It ended getting stuck in the goblin's throat, and before he could react,I stabbed his skull with my left hand.
So much blood. I felt weird, I felt this goblin's body lose his life. I felt... the presence of another goblin.
I got into my deffensive stance. I see an over-head attack with his club.
Out of all my available options, I decide to dodge it. And, even though i succesfully dodged, I felt weird, as if i could've done something better.
A right swing follow-up after landing... his hand... no i'm not on the right timing to stop his hand before he launches that swing.
A quick duck was all I needed to avoid that swing... NOW.
I stabbed with both of my daggers, succesfully piercing his throat with only one of my daggers. This goblin grabbed my arm and tried to take my dagger off of his throat. But I quickly used my free hand to stab him in the right side of his abdomen.
In a desperate attempt he used his sharp nails to make cuts on my arm. It hurt, but it was nothing I couldn't handle.
I dropped this second goblin to the ground. Breathing heavily, I checked to see if there were any other goblin, while I could probably individually handle two more at most, I'd rather avoid any confrontation right now.
"But my luck isn't that good, isn't it?" three more goblins stood there, two held clubs and the leader of the group held a machete.
They all started running at me.
It'd take them eight seconds to reach me at that speed.
I grab two throwing knives.
Seven
I focus, the sword one is on the middle, while both club goblins are on his right and left side.
Six
I remember my lesson with Milly about long range combat.
Five
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"When aiming at a moving target. Don't aim where they're at, aim where they'll be"
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Four
NOW
I throw one knife at each of the club weilding gonlins, succesfully piercing the head of the one on the left, and the right shoulder of the one on the right.
Three
The one on the left died instantly, while the other two kept their run. I get ready for my own attack
Two
I lunged forward attacking in a wide swing with my right dagger, slicing the right goblin's belly. I kept moving forward to meet the last goblin, the one in the middle.
He jumped and went for a big over-head slice.
"Those weak points... I see them" that machete is a bit to big for a goblin's body so he has to two-hand it. With both of my daggers in front of me, I lunged at the goblin, while he still had his machete over his head, and I pierced his stomach.
Thanks to the pain of being stabbed and the impact of someone bigger crashing into you, the goblin dropped his machete.
He ended up falling on his back, and I landed above him, the impact against the ground helped my dagger get stuck even more on his stomach.
He started screaming in pain, I decided to slice open his stomach and get away. With all that blood, screaming and thrashing... it was a pretty horrible death. But after a few second he stopped moving.
I wanted to sit down or run away, but doing that won't help me in my future.
I recalled Khyle's teachings on looting monsters.
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"Monsters have a magic stone inside them, always make sure to take them, they can be sold for good money"
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"Goblins, have their magic stone on their heart, so let's start with these ones"
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I gave the bag I'm storing all the equipment and magic stones I loot to Karla.
"We knew you could do it" Milly was praising me with her unchanging calm expression.
"You could've done better, but I guess you did well" Karla's own way of praising also felt good "Anyways. Let's continue, this is only the entrance to the first floor, and there's three floors"
*sigh* I wanna cry.
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