Ramming Through

"Taudera." I said.

*Vzzoom!*

A small blue pulse erupted out and Taudera appeared beside me.

*Pssh!*

Taudera shot steam from his nose and shrugged himself. I patted his torso and spoke into his ear.

"You see that? Break right through." I said, pointing at the camp. The goblin camp is protected by wooden planks sloppily put in place, but can be used for cover. However, seeing that he rammed through a wooden gate and the mercenary army, this is nothing to him.

*Psssh!*

Taudera snorted and dug the ground with his hooves, preparing his run. The goblins remain unaware.

*THROMP!*

Taudera then went running at the camp with his horns pointing at the walls. His running footsteps rumble the ground like miniature earthquakes.

In the goblin camp, the few goblins caught wind of Taudera's footsteps, but it was too late.

*CRASH!!!*

Taudera crashes through the camp walls, splintering the wood that protects them with futility. The majority of the goblins managed to evade, but...

*Crunch!*

The four of them were not so lucky. Taudera's horns were too high, but his hooves crushes the goblins' vital organs, killing them instantly.

*CRASH!!*

Taudera also breaks through the other wall and turns around to break the other walls.

*CRASH!!*

*CRUNCH!*

The goblins that were scrambling around left the camp to escape the raging bull. However, that bull wasn't alone.

Hyoran dashed forth with her Falchion and swung her sword horizontally at the goblin's neck.

*Slash!*

The goblin's head flung into the air, causing instant death. The goblins recollect themselves to retaliate, but Hyoran did not relent on her attacks.

*Slice!*

*Slash!*

Hyoran is utilizing her sword and her claws to use what advantage she got. It won't be long until we're finished with the quest.

"Gyyiieh!" the goblin screeched and began running away, but I don't plan on letting it get away.

I summoned an Ice Spear and threw it at the goblin.

*STAB!!*

The frozen spear impales the goblin's torso, causing it to vomit blood and fall limp.

[17 G rank targets slain. +85,000 EP]

[2 F rank targets slain. +20,000 EP]

[E rank target slain. +15,000 EP]

[120,000 EP awarded.]

All of the goblins that were staying there are thoroughly dealt with and Hyoran began cutting the ears of each and every goblin. When she was done, she turned towards me.

"Kain~! We did it!" Hyoran shouted as she ran towards me, waving her arm covered in blood of the goblins. Taudera followed her back to me. "That was quicker than we thought!"

"Yeah and we can advance further in rank faster." I said. "Let's complete and head back."

I summoned a rift for Taudera and he walks back in, waiting for my call again.

*Vzzom!*

We head back to the village of Nyta and showed them the goblin ears.

"No worrying about the goblins anymore, right?" I said, showing them the ears.

"Ohhh...we are in your debt, young ones! We're just recovering from the bandits and can't afford another." the chief said.

"Just focus on recovering, okay?" Hyoran said.

"We will, Noltia will bring people to help us recover and turn it into a city soon." the chief said.

We jumped on Zala and turned the other way, I flicked the reins and Zala began sprinting back to Noltia.

I used my Space Magic to open a rift and jumped right through to see Noltia in the horizon instantly.

*Vzzom!*

The reason for it is because I can't attract too much attention and some people go around here in this area. However, we go into Noltia to turn in our quest.

{Later...}

We returned to the guild to get our rewards and the receptionist informed us something important.

"You can now be promoted via exam." The receptionist said. We looked at each other knowing we can be Iron Rank adventurers now.

We briskly went to the room to get ready for our promotion to take on more quests and went to the place we went to get promoted since we were Wood Rank.

"You here for promotion?" a man said.

"Yeah. We're going for Iron." I said.

"You're in luck, kids. Despite the fall of the bandits, no adventurer came. I don't blame 'em, those bandits very much scared them off. Some higher ranked ones had to sit one out due to how many bandits they encountered." the man shrugged.

Just like when in MMOs, I remember a streamer playing a game called Realms of War* where he was one of the high ranking players at the time, but he then quit when multiple enemies from many guilds tried to PK him because he's never been into a guild since the game was launched 8 years before Evolutionism MMO.

He said that he can't play for 1 hour without anyone trying to PK him and it has gotten to the point he starting to not enjoy the game anymore.

For me when I was a rebel, I can't go one day without Timothy supporters running out and throwing rocks at us. We tried to avoid shooting them as we're not mindless murderers...at first.

It has gone to a point where many more people are being homeless and STILL had hopes for Timothy. Soon, their utter irrationality made them more violent towards us until they pulled a gun and opened fire.

It was when I finally killed someone that is not a soldier. I was fully aware of my actions and at first, it was self-defense...now I'm killing them other than soldiers by the dozens. No matter how hard I tried to forget, the fact remained that I killed them in cold blood and I soon came to terms, branded as a terrorist who killed innocents in Timothy's view and shared it to other supporters.

We reached the arena and await for our testing. The gate opened up and showed a Brown Bear walking through.

Unlike Steinberg who has plated rock armor on him, this one got nothing at all. No magic, no resistances, nothing.

"The exam will now begin!" one of the examiners said and the Brown Bear began charging at us.

*Grooaaar!*

The Brown Bear roared as it is charging at us with the intent to kill.

"Let's try the Tyrant skill." I thought to myself. I glared at it and a murky dark red pulse exploded forth and struck the bear.

As the pulse struck the bear, the bear fell over.

*THWUMP!*

The bear skidded until he was a few feet away and remained motionless. Hyoran walked towards it and placed her ear on the bear's body.

"It's dead." Hyoran said.

[Rank E target slain. 5,000 EP awarded.]

"It's over that quick?!" one archer said.

"What kind of technique did they use? I couldn't see it." one warrior said.

The crowd clamored at the sudden death of the Brown Bear that didn't even touch any of us.

"Uh...exam over! You two are now Iron ranked!" the examiner announced.

Wow...I killed the bear just by glaring at it. This Tyrant aura is kind a nasty.