Fight with a Goblin

As time pass by, Adam was still not able to synchronize the absolute defense with his fighting stance. He always feel like he's missing something.

As he was contemplating about it, he suddenly hear a rustle coming from trees behind him.

He tilt his head to look at what's in there. As he look, a smirk starts to form on his lips.

It was a goblin!

When he look at the monster, an idea starts to form on his mind. Now he knew what he's missing whenever he fails to synchronize the skill, its Experience!

During the three days of being in the outskirt of the mountain, he never encounters any human nor monsters, so he was not able to build experience, a real one!

His thought was stopped, when the goblin jumps out to him.

Goblin was only 1.5 meters tall, and green in color. Goblin comes with different subspecies and the one that Adam was fighting right now was the most common kind.

As the goblin jumps at him, he immediately optimize a fighting stance, with his foot on the two angle of his imaginary triangular footwork.

When the monster was near, he quickly change his stepping on the other two angles of the triangle, moving backways.

He was overjoyed as he was able to avoid the monsters sudden attack at him. He was just taken aback as he thought that he could have killed the monster earlier, when he switched footsteps, yet he was not able to do it.

After the monster lands, it quickly change stance and attack adam again.

This time, adam issued the third dagger positioning, he put his hand horizontally, at same level as his shoulder, making his total reach expand and aim for the neck of the goblin.

The goblin was suspended in the air, it had no time to avoid the attack, so in its desperation, it used its skill called 'throwing'

It let go of the crude knife it was holding and throw it to Adam.

Adam thought that the monster would surely die when his attack lands on it so he got overjoyed, this moment of being overjoyed cause him to lose focus and only notice the knife thrown by the goblin at the last minute.

He immediately activated the absolute defense and a golden shield appeared on the front of him, blocking the knife that's only 5 inches away from his face.

He gulped at the thought of nearly being stabbed by the thrown knife, precisely at his face.

Soon, his attack hits the monster's neck and penetrate it cleanly. Goblin was only an F-rank monster and defense was not its forte, so his attack using the third dagger positioning which have a great piercing property and expand reach can instantly penetrate its skin.

Blood flows out of the goblin's neck like a fountain, adam had no time to avoid this as his knife was still embedded on the monsters neck. He got showered with goblins blood all over his body.

' it stinks! '

A minute later, the goblin instantly died, and a skill book and monster core drop from the dead goblin, along with an announcement on his mind.

" Ding! "

" 10 experience gained! "

Adam was overjoyed again upon seeing it, not caring about his now bloody and stinky body.

He immediately retrieve his knife from the goblin, he found it hard at first as it was so deeply penterated, but after a moment, he was finally able to retrieve it with full force.

Now he learned that he should not use this dagger positioning when killing a group of monster, as retrieving the knife takes time.

The sun starts to set, and Adam decided to end his practice for the day.