Chapter 52: Explosive Entry

Kanazawa punched through the shabby fort doors. The punch amazed me because of the explosiveness in the force of it. He has 20,000 power but is still able to knock down doors that are three times my size. The demonic beasts inside are confused that their defenses were knocked down so easily. An oversized goblin was facing the back of the explosion, yelling.

I grabbed a sword I had bought from my cursed systems shop tab and quickly sliced through the air. I cut a deep wound in the hobgoblin. This attack made the hobgoblin flinch. The oversized goblin flinched and gave me time to slice him with my item called The Blade of Cultivators. I received a message that appeared in my mind.

The hobgoblin slashed with his spear in a wide swing. I was able to dodge his spear at the last second because Avelia grabbed my collar. She had to jump and grab my collar, but with her struggle, I was able to go undamaged.

With the opening that the hobgoblin gave me, I slashed with my common sword and was able to kill the demonic beast. "88 down, 12 to go," I said aloud. Stop thinking of the process. Think of the goal—the goal to become stronger and smarter.

"Wow, being two feet tall is a struggle, shorty. You're too kiddish for me." Layla mentioned while killing regular goblins.

"You're rude even bat-!" Avelia said, getting interrupted by a wolf biting on her face. The wolf ignored me and targeted Avelia. I hope she is okay. She does not have a lot of defense.

"Avelia!" Jael said out loud, worrying for Avelia, and ran towards her. I heard a whimper from the wolf demonic beast, and then it went limp! Her skill came in handy!

"Avelia cannot die from such beasts on four legs!" She said loudly and proudly. She did have a big bite mark across her face, but it seemed like the wound was not bothering her at all.

I had to move forward because our enemies were getting closer. Thankfully, my other monsters came from my sides to attack the demonic beasts closing in on us. They are making way for me to target the goblin knights. Granted, I need to focus on finding goblin queens, too. I have a spell card for that, thankfully. I have a generic card called Finder.

The Finders spell card effect is this. Pay 2 Mana and you can find anything in a 500 feet radius if the thing you are looking for is something that is more than one. You will be given the location of all those things regardless of the quantity. I grabbed the card and said its name out loud.

Mana 10/10 -> Mana 8/10

The card effect activated after it disappeared from my hand. I then found all the goblin queens in the area. Five of those demonic beasts to be in this area seems like a lot. Maybe the demonic species war is bigger than I thought. Anyway, I must move forward.

I saw a couple of goblins ready to stop me in my tracks. I broadly slashed down the closest one to me. The goblin tried its best to block the attack. My sword was just of better quality, and I sliced through the goblin's blade and killed my target—the next one reacted to his comrade's death by lunging at me.

The goblin cut my left shoulder pad. Thankfully, it was shallow enough that it didn't cut my skin. It was deep enough that I felt a breeze of cold air. Meaning it fulfilled its purpose. Time to go on the attack! I sliced at it with my blade with a weird name. A message appeared.

I am surprised that almost everything has a skill. So far, in just a few minutes, I have obtained a couple of skills that can be purchased. Regardless, if I do remain focused, I will die on the battlefield.