Chapter 33 First Quest(3)

In a primitive village made of wood and inhabited by monster stood a lone human holding a crimson blade. The inhabitants of the village stood and silently observed the arrogant human that dared to enter their village. This created an eerily peaceful scene with hundreds of little monsters surrounding a lone human...

*Thump*

*Thump*

But such a scene was never meant to last forever as a human sized green skinned creature walk towards the human with hate filled eyes.

[Analysis]

Name: None

Species: Hobgoblin

Rank/Level: E

Skills: Berserk, instinct]

Like it's smaller brethren the hobgoblin was ugly and only wore a dirty loincloth. Instead of a wooden club it carried a rusty broadsword had red maddened eyes.

*Gwarrrrrrrrrr*

With a maddened shout the hobgoblin ran towards Alex and swung it's rusty broadsword at Alex's head. Ducking under the blade, Alex punched the creature in it's gut causing it to take. Frothing at the mouth the creature once again angrily charged at Alex but Alex calmly dodged the attack.

'This guy is way weaker than the Greater Imps.' With that thought Alex swung his sword creating a deep wound across the creatures chest. The hobgoblin fell to it's knees clutching it's chest walking over to finish the beast Alex saw steam rising from it and it's skin taking on a red hue, intrigued Alex watched as the creatures skin got reader and redder and more steam rise from it's body.

"You fool kill it while it's down?" Shouted Bayal over through the helmet. He had been amazed at how easily Alex was able to deal with the hobgoblin but he didn't believe could do the same if it finished whatever it was doing.

*GWARRRRRRRRR*

But it was too late, finishing it's transformation the monster's body was radiating a lot of sweaty steam from it's body, it's skin was crimson red and Alex could tell that it's strength has increased by a lot but this did not scare Alex only made him intrigued. The monster kicked off the ground towards Alex moving as fast as a bullet and swung his broadsword onto Alex forcing him to block. Pouring mana into his muscles Alex pushed back the monster more than a few steps backward. Activating the [Fire Enchant] enchantment of the [Impish Shroud] his sword was ignited with red hot flames. Dashing forward Alex swung his sword onto the monster cutting into it's arm as it's flesh was sliced apart and it's blood evaporate due to heat. Ignoring it's ghastly wound, it tried to bite Alex but received a kick to the face instead. Spinning around Alex sliced into the hobgoblin's slicing and melting it's flesh apart and this time the hobgoblin tried to scream but it's neck was melted apart before it could.

[You have slain E ranked monster, Hobgoblin. You have gained 375 exp. ]

Once again the village was filled with eerie silence only this time the goblins were staring at Alex with fear and rage.

Eventually, they're rage took over and they charged at Alex bearing their fangs. Looking at the charging horde of monsters Alex didn't falter he swung his cutting them down by the tens as they screamed in agony of being burnt to death. Alex used his enchantments and his limited sword skills with the intent of eliminating the entire horde and soon his efforts bore fruit.

[You have slain the F rank monster, Goblin. You have gained 100 exp.]× 112

[Congratulations, you have gained a level.]

Status

Name: Alex Shaw

Titles: Imp Slayer

Level: 12( 11,075 exp to next level up)

HP: 990/1200

MP: 80/120

Grace: Shadow Monarch

Skills:[Mana Manipulation, Mana Sense, Simple Regeneration(10 SP to upgrade), One with shadows, Shadow Sense]

Grace abilities:[Shadow Manipulation]

Arnament:[ Impish Shroud(E), Crimson Dagger(F), Crimson Fang(E), Large Water Canister(E), Large Chest(E)]

SP: 25

Shop:[]

Alex tiredly slumped down unto the blood soaked ground under him panting loudly.

The ground around was littered with corpses, from an outsider's perspective Alex would look like some kind of War God as he sat on the ground littered with corpses while his face and crimson body suit was splattered with the blood of his enemies. Chris who had watched the entire thing ran over towards Alex with his eyes gleaming in admiration.

"Holy fuck dude. How the hell did you do that?"

"By swinging my sword a lot." Alex said

"Can you teach me how to do that?" Chris asked with puppy eyes

"(Sigh) it's not as hard as it looked. All you have to do is stop avoiding all the fucking monsters that come your way and actually fight them and you'll get strong in no time." Alex shrugged. He was a bit pissed off about Chris not helping him fight the horde but he got over it quickly since he wasn't expecting him to help in the first place.

"The dungeon boss isn't here, if it was it would have come out to fight alongside it's brethren. So we're heading back." Alex said into the helmet.

"O-oh yeah you can head back now." Bayal said nervously. And with that they headed back towards camp but before they did Alex carved out the hobgoblin's monster core. Unlike the Greater imp's core this one was light green in colour and was less rigid around the edges. Pocketing the core, Alex and Chris went back to camp.