CH 9: clearing the building

John stopped looking at his status and looked around the room

'damn it, to many died' John lamented to himself

He looked at the dead body's and counted

'one, two... Eight, Nine. Eight students plus the teacher' John looked at the faces of the dead body's to see who died

John stopped as he saw one of the dead body's. It was James, his best friend

"damn it!" Josh somehow shouted quietly

"what the f**k is happening" David chimed In

Terry just stared at the body's Im silence as the other two students who survived stood up as they wiped away their tears

"The-their d-d-dead" the boy named Jack mumbled

"h-h-how did t-this h-appen" the girl katelyn cried

John just looked at them with a blank expression as he thought of what to say

'what can i do' John thought

(author note- just to make sure you guys understand these-> " will be used for speech and these-> ' will be used for thinking so

"hello" would be verbal and 'hello' would be the character thinking)

"everyone we need to grab the items and leave" John finally spoke as he walked to a goblin

"how can you be so calm about this." josh and David spoke simultaneously

"we need to be calm or we can get ourselves killed" Terry spoke before John could

Josh and David bit their lips before grabbing the items from the remaining items and gave them to John. The items were stored in John's inventory but the others didn't question this, in their minds to many strange things had happened today

They all gathered together and John allocated the items between them. They had seven rusty daggers so John kept two as despite not having the dagger proficiency yet he had grown accustomed to duel wielding them he then gave josh, David, Jack and katelyn a dagger each as well as one to Terry as a backup incase her bat broke, it was only wooden after all and it seemed to be nearing it's end as he could see a few bits splintering off from the main body.

[goblin bones x13]

[goblin skin x4]

[goblin helmet x3]

[goblin leather shoulder pads x2]

They couldn't decide how to split up the remaining items so John kept them in his inventory. After talking they came to a vote either leave the building or clear it in the end they decided to clear the building first as it was safer.

They were on the 3rd floor of the building the very top so they checked through the rest of the rooms but they only found more dead body's

"wheres the other goblins? There couldn't of only been seven on this floor." Josh asked

"maybe they left as the other six came to our class, after all they did seem to speak to each other when John and Terry fought two of them together" jack answered

To John's amazement Jack and katelyn seemed less scared now and more used to what had happened

"we should head down to the second floor and continue" Terry spoke as she left the last classroom on their floor

John agreed and followed and the others walked out after them, there were eight classrooms on each floor aswell as a teachers room so for the next two floors they checked through the eighteen rooms in total they encountered twelve goblins and found only two survivors from seperate rooms both students named jake and ole

[Lv 2 (16/20 xp)]

John felt disheartened when instead of increasing by increments of five his xp requirement instead doubled but there was one upside to this he did gain one stat point which he promptly added to his agility.

[goblin bones x23]

[goblin skin x7]

[rusty daggers x3]

[goblin helmet x5]

[goblin leather shoulder pads x8]

Everyone now had two daggers including Terry who somehow had her bat still intact next between the eight people everyone had one shoulder pad on and the helmets were given to John, Terry, Josh, David and jake as they were fighting the most

Going downstairs to the ground floor John and Terry took the lead and Josh and David took the back and jake and ole took one side each with Jack and katelyn In the middle. They got downstairs and searched through the remaining rooms. Fortunately there were only two large rooms as they belonged to the head of years, teachers who looked over the different year groups, the original group were year 11 and the other two, jake and ole, were both year 10

"all clear." Terry spoke as They finished the reconnaisance

"so we finally cleared the building then?" jake asked

John confirmed and they talked on what to do next. After a few minutes of talking they decided on travelling to the sports cupboard as it wasn't to far from here and they could grab some bits such as javelins and some aluminium bat's as the rusted daggers were starting to crack slightly