Getting fooled by someone

"Huh? Chief? Me?" Rei was pointing his nail under his chin, wondering why these seven kobolds were calling him a chief.

Chief, we need your help!

We can win against these skeletons by using your power!

A pure kobold was asking for his help, also by simply looking at them, he can easily say their level was around 5 or 6.

Boom!

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Monsters' screamed, medium explosion, scent of iron, and the sound of their metallic weapon colliding with each other the first he noticed. Around them, 9 kobolds were lying on the ground and bathed in their blood while the 7 mage skeletons and 10 warriors skeletons had the advantage of this war.

"Chief! How long do you plan to watch us? They're already killing our members!" A kobold who looked like a lizard and had green scales approached him.

He narrowly flinched, then took a glance at that creature with his clueless eyes. "What would I? I didn't even know you?" Rei responded nonchalantly, watching how this creature would react.

To be exact, he said these words for a purpose. By this, he can simply gather information from them and found out how he drowned in this dungeon.

"What are you saying, chief?! You are the one who asked for us to help you to raid the dungeon located in the Junra Forest! Then now, you are telling me that you didn't know us?" The green kobold replied in a high tone.

Of course, Rei couldn't remember any memories of him doing what the kobold spits to him. Moreover, they were in the same bloodline, so he don't mind if he would help them.

"Fine! But after this, tell me the information you know about me." He said in a deep tone and have furious eyes, showing that he'll not hesitate to kill the creature once it lies.

"Why I would do that, chief?! I'm not crazy to do that to you..." The creature replied along with a malicious smile on its face and blocked the magical attacks coming with its spear.

Swoosh!

[Charge!]

Rei enhanced his movement speed with this skill in order to reach the skeleton warriors that were 45 meters away from him. At the same time, he discovered by using the [Charge] skill, it was like he was locking out the target.

'Hmm... Once I darting my eyes to my target. This skill allowed me to have extra movement speed. On top of that, using a certain skill I could see my stamina easily decreasing.' He uttered to his mind.

Not like walking, running, jumping, or climbing, it wasn't consuming a lot of stamina than the skills [Charge], or [Slash]. To put it simply, the stamina was like mana in the game, as he'll lose accumulated stamina as long as he used that skill. Why? It was because stamina would be the way to enhance the physical strength that the ordinary body couldn't do.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Rei was killing all the skeletons that were blocking his way by just using his keen claws.

[Slash!]

[Slash]

He was stabbing the monsters' heads as it was the fastest way he knew how can kill them. 30 minutes had passed, the 8 kobolds survivor were celebrating in the middle part of the golden-brown platform.

Yes!

We killed the skeletons!

Chief saved us!

[You've received 350 exp from killing the 7 skeletons!]

[Level up!]

+1 to all stats

+2 free attributes

[Level 4 (10/450)]

Of course, Rei wasn't the only one who could kill the monsters as it seemed the kobolds boost their confidence after noticing that they took the upper hands of this war.

Before asking that creature for further information, first, he seized their cores, and all the monsters disappeared into this room just like a bubble.

Meanwhile, he was standing in front of the 8 kobolds and each one of them had similar appearances. Green faded scales, tails, 100 centimeters in height, yellow gleaming eyes, and face of a lizard. It was how those monsters.

"First thing first, can I get your names so that I have an idea how I would address all of you?" Rei asked the creatures.

Suddenly, 8 kobolds were looking at each other and slightly raising their eyebrows as it seemed they were scheming for something.

"Wait Chief, you are saying that you didn't know us?" One of the creatures him politely.

He gradually nodded his head to them, hoping he can get useful information from those creatures. "Yeah, I don't have any who are you? So could you please tell me?"

He confronted them in a manner as he thought it was the main reason why he felt that he had already gone to this place before. On top of that, when he awakened in this place, he had mild bruises on his entire body so he also thinks that was the reason why he separated from them.

"Of course, chief! There's no any problem with that." Kobold replied while moving its hand just like making a signal.

Swoosh!

And all of a sudden, he heard the creature's footsteps swiftly coming at him, so he spun around to see. But as soon as he faced in that direction, he received a deep stab in his stomach which made him cough some blood out of his mouth.

"What the hell? There's a skeleton left-?"

He couldn't complete his sentence as he saw that the skeleton wasn't the one who attacked him it was a kobold.

-20

[HP: 30/50]

A red screen appeared right before his eyes, showing how much damage kobold dealt with him. At this point, he also discovered that kobold's number wasn't 8 it was 9. It appeared the remaining creature conceal its presence behind the thick post so that they can easily kill him.

"What would I know someone like you? Do you really think that you are our chief, isn't it?"

The creature he had a conversation with earlier approached him in rude behavior. It was licking its knife that was filled with Rei's blood.

Hahaha! He's dumb! He thought that he was chief!

Chief? How does the feel to fool you by your men?

I thought that tricks would just click with the kids!

He saved us! But no one could save him! Hahaha!

Monsters were mocking him by these words as they were already confessed that they tricked him.

Despite the fact that he was clueless about how the pure monsters can think like this. Still, he should care about his current situation as his blood was spilling out of his stab wound.

He was gritting his teeth while stepping back a couple of meters against them. "You..." It was the only world he could say since the emotion to kill them was overtaking his mind.

"Based on your appearance, it's way obvious that you are half-human and half-kobold." The creature walked closer to the place where was the torchlight illuminated its entire body. "You didn't see we come from the race of Alligator, so it's impossible that you're our chief. Hahaha!"

Well, Kobolds and the alligator's race had huge similarities if we are talking about the outward appearance.

"Why? Do you call me chief back then?" Rei asked in a serious tone, then trying to stop the blood.

-2

[Bleeding effect activated!]

[You'll lose -2 health points by losing blood!]

[Suggestion(s): stop the bleeding!]

"You're dumb? Of course, we call you chief to help us. Aside from that, you looked like a chief in a certain village, but after seeing the way how you think, I can easily say that you're not qualified."

His eagerness to know about his information dragged him into a bad situation. Yet, it wasn't the right time to regret knowing that he had a huge chance to win against them.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Rei ripped the part of his clothes to turn it into an improvised bandage. When he got done, he wrapped around in his stomach and somehow managed to stop the bleeding. Nevertheless, he can still be felt the pain given by his wound and how it affects his movements.

"I'm a bit slower right now, but I don't think they can catch up with my speed."

Since the creature revealed its race, for some reason, he had information about them. [Alligator] it was an aggressive monster who had low movement speed and because of that, they were just waiting for the prey to come into their territory.

"Their jaws and massive strength are the main threat in this fight. I should avoid all of them."

[Chain quest(s): Killed the alligator]

[Find the mage who was controlling these monsters!]

[Reward(s)]

•Unlock passive skill

•+2 free art

•+1 skill point

"Controlling them like a witch? Don't tell me, that's one the who I am talking with, not these monsters?"

Based on these alligators, there was a pure monster that had a black bloodline that was made to destroy and killed everyone around them.

"If that's the witch? I think it's watching me for too long as it knew that I'm eager to find information."