Since the battle started , he had been taking about how human depraved him from everything he ever loved, the Owl was a unintentional mistake , i know that i'm new here and there were tons of information that i still don't know about, but wasn't this world always like this .
Now that i think about it, even in my previous world,my inheritance was stolen from me by those who have authority over me and those who were supposedly there for me , so even in my previous world it was the strong preying on the weak , something that i was able to realize clearly from a young age thanks to my part time jobs,that had me encountering different kinds of people .
So even in this world he was acting as if he was some kind of a victim , but weren't the goblins massacring humans too with no ounce of remorse, he was angry because his tribe was wiped out overnight , but how many humans had lost their lives in both the raids and in the wicked forest while looking for something that could help them to survive all by the hands of monsters in general .
Both parties were having their hands tied and it was either kill to survive or death for you and everything you care about .
And now that i'm seriously thinking about his situation, i found that i held no remorse toward neither of those parties , a kingdom that have a worthless greedy king that have nothing in mind other than collecting more money even at the expense of the misery of his citizens .
The other, a monster who i wasn't aware of his final goal but for now he wanted nothing other than destroying the humans who were responsible for the misery he was still suffering from even now .
But what his misery have to do with me, i only killed the goblins that were trying to attack me, i may could have one or two opportunity to let some of them escape but just like i said before, i really have no remorse for them dying, and if by them dying i can be able to increase my strength, then that was what exactly what i was going to do , everyone had to be responsible for the choices they have made in this world .
And my choice was to be a person capable of overcoming each and every obstacle in my way be it a Monster , a Demon King or even the whole kingdom , so it is all back to one thing and that's strength , if he had enough strength he would have already stormed the kingdom capital for revenge, but he didn't because he knew that he wasn't strong enough to do that .
So he decided to just target the weak humans and conquer enough territories , increasing his strength in the process with that unique skill of his .
His strength was strong yes, but so was the previous Goblin Lord yet his fate was still to die at the hands of the stronger humans Adventurers .
A cunning and ambitious monster , this world was really finding new ways to take people by surprise, one level up was all i need to turn the whole situation around and then i will be able to decide this monster fate , even though he had some rights to did what he did, his stance was still was to kill me as a tribute to his late friend , not that he will be able to succeed in doing so .
I was thinking about my next plan of actions when a hammer was swung at me by the now enraged Goblin Lord yelling angrily : why are you looking at me with pity, damn you , stay still and accept your fate .
Why bother asking, of course i'm pitying you , having your tribe massacred, then getting a lot stronger to take revenge, only to encounter me just as you began seek revenge,if that was not something worthy of pity , i don't know what was .
I said with a smile, i was really quite amused about how my first time in the Wicked Forest was able to stumble upon a Goblin Lord trying to take over the the area .
Your words are hefty as if you already won, aren't you jumping around because you are afraid of being squashed by my hammer .
Luckily he wasn't using the overwhelming skills of his or i would have been sent flying again .
But it was quite weird, since he used that domain skill of his , he didn't use any active skills since, were they just in their cooldown period, or was it related to something else , if that was true, i could try to attack him more freely now .
I evaded the strike and unsheathed my Frozen Edge then began to climb his arm, running towards his face i was beginning to think that there was no need to implement the plan i decided on from before , if i just landed a critical hit on one of his weakest spot s , i might be able to finish this battle without much effort .
Or so i thought as i reached my destination, i was currently standing a bit lower than the point i choose to attack him from , his neck .
In two seconds i was able to cover the distance and reach a bit below his neck, i thrusted my sword upwards and what happened next confirmed one thing for me, no matter how strong my skills was , in battles the thing that most actually matters was your attributes .
My Frozen Edge pierced through his think by 2 to 3 centimeters before it stopped moving and he aware of what was going on tried to catch me again but his whole body froze for 3 seconds and that was enough time for me to pull my stuck to his neck sword and i directly without a second thought began to implement my previous plan , using the Stun Curse skill to fix him in his place , now that i think about it i could have reduced his battle effectiveness from the start but i have no idea if that would have work .
I then sprinted towards the goblin army of his , and with the Aura Of Strong still active, i was like a death reaper, claiming the lives of these goblins left and right and in just 5 seconds, the goblin army that should have been able to cover the whole background scene, was now thoroughly slaughtered to last one of them .
At first i didn't want to finish them all off but because i wasn't able to hear the level up notification , i decided to finish what i started since their was no chance of reconciliation between me or that Javo and between our two races too,so that was an another factor adding to the other factor being, if i don't do it i quite might not be able to overcome him .
And why shouldn't i just run away, he probably won't be able to stop me if i was trying to escape thanks to Camouflage and Stealth , but can i really be able to escape from the first true obstacle that came my way .
I don't believe, i'm capable of having a clear state of mind if i done that , as i feel my emotions got agitated at the mere thought of fleeing from the fight .
You leveled up × 1 .
All those monsters slain and i was only able to get a one level up and why did it only appeared now, could leveling up be really this hard , a full army of goblins was required before gaining another level or could it be that whatever or whoever was responsible for those level up notifications had malfunctioned or something like that .
I waited for a few more seconds but nothing happened other than the Roaring Voice of the now unbound Goblin Lord yelling :
Huaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmaaaan .
What it isn't like you would have left me alive anyway .
Die, Die, Die, Die .
Notice : Goblin Lord Javo had entered berserk mode and his strength now doubled but his agility and stamina are increased by 40% , please be aware .
I hurriedly opened the status window using appraisal :
Name : Sakurai Ryuu .
Age : 16 .
Level : 5 .
Job : undetermined !!
Free attributes points : 5
Attributes :
Strength : 880 . (New) (+)
Stamina : 960 . (New) (+)
Agility : 410 . (+)
Mana : 94 . (+) .
Spirit : 5 . (+)
Hidden attributes :
Constitution : 40 . (+)
Will : 50 . (+)
Luck : 20 . (+)
Fate : 60 . (+)
Spirituality : 5 . (+)
Comprehension : 13 . (+)
Skills :
( Troll Force ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Novice Swordsmanship Lvl1 ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Physical Fortitude ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Pain Resilience ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Appraisal Lvl4 ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Stealth Lvl1 ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Healing Magic ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Well-balanced ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Battle Frenzy ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Transmutation ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Rock Slide ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Cave Resilience ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Camouflage ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Curse ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Obsidian Armor ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
Special Skills :
Aura Of The Strong .
Unique Skill :
Steal .
.... .
Now, i put all my free attributes points in Spirituality and the refreshing feeling came again and just a moment before i sank into that feeling, i came out of it because of the roar of an enraged Goblin Lord and the weird notice from the World's Will .
I turned around and he was burning with red aura and the clear eyes from before was now again and being replaced by a complete red eyes as he again held his warhammer and was walking not running but walking towards me with heavy steps that left craters on the earth beneath him with his footprints in it .
He was just walking, but i had some difficulty in keep on following him with my eyes currently, and suddenly it was as if he just teleported above me and i was only able to see a shadow of silhouette falling down on me from the sky, i looked up and the Goblin Lord was 1 meter away from me and wasn't alone his warhammer gleamed even than before with a red light as if it was mirroring how anger its user was .
The whole area caved in around me as if there were some invisible weight fixing me in my position, so he was able to use his skills again, since there was no way to evade i will have to just take his attack head on but i won't take it willingly .
I for the first time used my new skill Obsidian Armor and my whole body began to change,i was approximately now 4 meters tall and my whole body was now tanned in obsidian like color even my face was the same and i felt it my whole body was giving out a new aura , the aura of someone who is very very strong, and that was something very noticable from how easily the invisible restrictions that were fixing me in place disappeared .
The next thing that i felt was as the air around me turned heavier as if was something trying to hold me down but it wasn't the doing of Javo, no Javo was currently still smashing his warhammer at me with only the sounds of clang appearing but i wasn't feeling a thing, even after getting hit unguarded as a result of getting taller, the active skill of his didn't move me backwards for even one step , the pressure on me was so massive that i felt disturbance in the space i was in and it wasn't affecting the enraged Javo one bit .
I paid him no mind and just looked at my my status window for answers and my current attributes stunned me to the point that i thought there was some kind of error, after i used Appraisal my status window was as followed :
Name : Sakurai Ryuu .
Age : 16 .
Level : 5 .
Job : undetermined !!
Attributes :
Strength : 15080 . (NEW)
Stamina : 15360 . (NEW)
Agility : 6410 . (NEW)
Mana : 20 . (-) (NEW)
Spirit : 5 .
Hidden attributes :
Constitution : 640 . (NEW)
Will : 50 .
Luck : 20 .
Fate : 60 .
Spirituality : 10 .
Comprehension : 13 .
Skills :
( Troll Force ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Novice Swordsmanship Lvl1 ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Physical Fortitude ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Pain Resilience ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Appraisal Lvl4 ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Stealth Lvl1 ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Unique Insight ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Healing Magic ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Dark Vision ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Well-balanced ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Battle Frenzy ) ( PASSIVE SKILL ) .
( Transmutation ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Rock Slide ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Cave Resilience ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Camouflage ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Curse ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
( Obsidian Armor ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
Special Skills :
( Aura Of The Strong ) .
Unique Skill :
( Steal ) ( ACTIVE SKILL ) .
.... .
Officially, i'm more powerful than the SSS Rank figures that Regard told me about , i was about to bully the Goblin Lord when a set of notifications suddenly rang in my ears and they weren't only ringing in my ears they were being broadcasted to the whole people and lands of Tora .
Error, incomprehensible outcome, error, error, error .
A new SSS Rank figure appeared in the human race , cong error, impossible outcome for someone whose level isn't even 10 yet, request another immediate evaluation .
Failed evaluation the target attributes don't meet the basic criteria for him to be an SSS Rank entity request more throughly evaluation of his skills and job .
The target skills doesn't qualify him for the Rank SSS .
The target job is undetermined and doesn't qualify him for the Rank SSS, either .
Evaluation of his level :
Negative, the character is still short of 995 levels for a chance to reach SSS Rank .
The character currently had a possibility of 0%to become a Rank SSS individual , Will Of The World can't find a reason for such an outcome .
Trying to terminate the anomaly ... .
Negative, can't guarantee the safety of the world if the World's Will were to be injured .
The character in discuss have a huge impact on the world as it is , that needs to be removed immediately .
Taking into account his current impact on the world , the character in discuss would be ejected out of the world in 10 seconds , counting : 9 , ... .
Don't tell me, i'm the one who will be currently getting ejected from the world, and where would i even be ejected too, damn it what was going on here, should i just deactivate it but that would strip me of all my attributes again and turn my attacks on that Goblin Lord futile again .
I still have 10 seconds, then i will make every second of it count, better yet i will end this whole battle in 1 second .
I vanished from where i was with how much speed i was moving at i was able to leave an afterimage that looked as if i was really there and even when moving at such speeds i felt no resistance from the wind so my movements have become increasingly fast but were also very much still swift too .
I removed my sword and jumped in the air, i said jump but to be exact i took off would be the best to describe the leab i was now able to made , i then clenched my hand in a fist and began to free fall towards the colossal Goblin and give him a punch, just one punch from the current me towards his head was enough to crush the skull of the Goblin Lord in seconds but he didn't die, i made sure of that, my calculations were wrong i took 3 seconds to knock out that abomination of a monster down .
I watched his eyes regaining some of their clarity just some milliseconds before i struck him his expression at that moment was one that of fear and clouded with a bit of awe in their too , that what led me to choose to control the amount of strength i was using to be just enough and barely enough to knock him out but another mistake in calculations was what led me to severely injure him unintentionally , he took the punch and his face was suddenly bloodied all over then he began to fell down .
He was still alive but was badly injured he might not be able to make it not that i cared actually i cared a bit, since the another reason that i let him live for was to harness those skills of his to increase my strength even further since i have a feeling that i won't be able to use Obsidian Armor as freely as i want and like .
As for whether to kill him or not after that, i really don't know but what i certainly know that i will have to deactivate Obsidian Armor and only after 5 seconds after it was activated sadly or else i would be ejected out of the world to who knows where , i turned off the skill and the next notification allowed me to finally take a breath of relief since i wasn't sure that it would work but luckily it did, after i turned off my skill another notification appeared saying :
Request of an immediate adjustment , the heavy impact on the world had currently disappeared, no change were to be done to the SSS Rank individual , abort the ejection .
I took a long breath and was about to calm myself down when a horrendous scene appeared in the sky above me .
A mechanical looking eye consist of a lot of devices compined together with a lot of beeping sounds , something that i had never seen before even in my most ridiculous dreams the eyes were looking at me intently for a minute or so at first then after that i was astonished that its gaze on me actually changed to one that of contempt before it left , and the scene that was deadly quiet was broken by me falling down on the ground suddenly and that crack in the sky repaired itself and i got 4 Level up notifications and all that was in front of me went black even before i was able to check my new status .
But luckily, i fell unconscious for only two minutes only and i then woke up and don't know if it's before or after i fell unconscious, my back was unconsciously soaked in sweat , i used appraisal and my status window now was looking back to how it was before the huge enhancement i got from Obsidian Armor and my skill Steal cooldown period also finished .
I looked towards the huge goblin that was now in front of me and smiled, a tiring day but in the end a worthwhile one for sure .