Goblins are foul

Usually, goblins were green, however, these ones were purple. They still had the same shape though, 40 cm tall with a slanted nose and greedy eyes. Their teeth looked as if they belonged to a shark, being strangely sharp. A majority of them had small bone daggers, some of them had bone bows. The goblins numbered around 200, they were a scary bunch. Among the goblins there were hob-goblins. They were bigger and stronger versions of the goblins, their skin had a dark tint of purple. The hob-goblins numbered around 20.

Rudolf could still run away, and honestly, he should of. One or two goblins were weak, but together they were strong. Picking them off one by one was a much better tactic then facing them head-on, this was bound to get messy. Jake got worried and almost wanted to shout at Rudolf to run, on the other hand, Rudolf felt the blood circulating around his body. He was pumped.

The fire that was previously red turned bright blue. He started walking forward leaving a burned mark on each step, his mind was on cloud nine. The goblins got quite confused by his movements. They were predators and right now they did not sense an ounce of fear inside him... no, the fear was inside of them. A wide smile crept up on Rudolf's face.

The fear was turned into recklessness as one goblin could not take it and shouted "CHARGEEEE". The goblins collectively ran towards Rudolf, it was an astonishing sight. Rudolf's charge attack was on cooldown, instead, he stood still waiting for them to attack him.

Jake had his eagle eye skill on, his arrow was charged to the brim with black magic. He targeted the hob-goblin at the front of the charge and released his arrow. The arrow flew quicker than lighting and pierced his head. The hob-goblin fell down on knees before face planting. Jake charged another arrow, Jake then suddenly felt as if his life was endangered, however it did not make any sense. He looked around him before looking down, what he saw shocked him.

In front of him, there was a goblin. However the goblin was extremely strange, it was not tiny or purple. This goblin was tall and light green, the scariest part was that it looked as if it was on steroids. It was jacked with muscles, every part of its body was a muscle, it looked as if it was balloons and not muscles. The goblin was two meters under Jake staring at him with his red eyes, it had been caught redhanded. They both stared at each other with a sense of shock before the goblin suddenly charged at Jake.

Jake instantly turned into his demon form, he pointed his arrow towards the goblin and shot. The goblin completely ignored the arrow as it entered five cm into his shoulder. He used his arms to propel him forward, before attempting to bite Jake. As he flew towards Jake, hee was stuck in a set motion, Jake used this opportunity to sidestep the goblin. He tried kicking the goblin in its jaw, he succeeded but it did not so much as tickle the goblin. The goblin used his free hands to grab the tree, he gained his balance and was practically 30 cm away from Jake.

Rudolf was currently circled by the goblins. Nobody wanted to step forward as they knew it meant death. Rudolf decided to try something. He gripped his sword and started spinning it at 40 cm height, the flame radiating from the sword made it look as if there was a barrier of flames around him. He killed a lot of minions this way, all of them getting beheaded by the sword. Unanticipatedly his sword got stopped, it was a hobgoblin who was holding his sword, the sword had cut slightly into its skin and was burning its hand, however, it was unresponsive and staring at Rudolf with its dead eyes.

Rudolf tried to take his sword back, but it would not budge. As Rudolf tried to take back his sword, the goblins took their chance and jumped onto his back. They quickly got burnt into a crisp, nevertheless, it had made Rudolf lose his balance and stumble forward. The hob-goblin took his chance and jumped on him pinning him down. The goblins took their chance and started stabbing Rudolf all over his body, however, it quickly regenerated. Now that the enemy was down on his back, the foul nature of the goblins showed itself. They all wanted a chance to stab him, they pushed and shoved. Eventually, they made a pile of goblins above Rudolf, each one wanting to stab him.

Jake had to run away, but he did not see an escape route. He made a quick calculation before taking a leap towards the tree closest to him. With his sensitive sight, he could accurately grab the branches. He made sure to grab the branches with his bone arm. By the time he was on the ground, his bone hand was sizzling from all the friction it went through. At the same time, the goblin simply jumped down and landed on the dirt two meters away from him.

The goblin had a mocking smile on his face as he said.

"I am king Terath, what is your name adventurer? I might just let you go away" '

That was a clear lie, the goblins nature was foul. Jake started moving backwards trying to put space between him and Terath, Teraths smile grew wider. He let out a chuckle and said.

"I was never going to let you go away, but now I might just skin you alive."

At this point Jake was not listening to Terath, instead, he was in deep concentration. The kind of concentration where everything gets faded out, you stop thinking, time feels as if it goes slower. Gamers usually called this state of mind, the zone. It would come after you were heavily practised and were in a high-pressure moment, being forced to perform. Right now Jake was really deep inside the zone.

Without noticing it he was flowing more black magic throughout his body than usual, the energy was also moving very effectively with little flowing outside his body. He had practically forced his skill to upgrade and so it did.

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"Ding! A skill has been upgraded"

Active skill(owned): Demon form(tier 2) ~ Circulating black magic in the body

Side effect: Increased strength and speed

Side effect: skin becomes black, scales start appearing on the skin. Scales harden skin

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Everywhere in his body except his bone arm, his skin turned into black scales. The result of this was his skin hardening, Jake also felt a sense of speed and strength he had never felt before. He was moving 1.5x times very than before which was a huge upgrade.

Jake jumped backwards and charged his arrow, ready to shoot it at Teeth. Out of nowhere, Jake found Terath just in front of him. He swung his right arm and it hit jake straight to the face. Jake flew into the tree behind him.

When Jake got out of the debris created by the tree, he saw Terath standing with his mocking smile. Jakes fury turned in to full-scale wrath, he stared at Terath hard enough to burn his skin. A white mist started seeping out of his eyes.

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"Ding! A skill has been upgraded"

Active skill(Owned): Snake eyes ~ Eyes gain a feeling of death

Side effect: it can frighten creatures with weak souls, like goblins

Side effect: Weak night vision

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