Beast Slap

The whole battlefield erupted with a powerful explosion consuming both cockatrices and goblins alike. 

Alex covered his ears so he wouldn't get deaf from the earsplitting sounds.

With his eyes shut, he grinned heartily enjoying the sounds of system notification ringing in his head.

The [Blastshards] had finished exploding.

And Alex opened his eyes to see the damage he had caused. 

His mouth shot open, the whole place was like a scene from hell.

Trees fell and burnt on the ground, bushes caught on fire, and the body parts of goblins and cockatrices were everywhere.

The explosion had killed about 80% of the monster below. And the remaining were far too injured to be a threat. 

He turned towards, the cockatrice boss and goblin, and saw they were still alive. 

But they resumed fighting with each other despite the chaos.

He noticed the cockatrice, Dreadfeather was stealing glances in his direction while defending the attacks from the goblin. 

The cockatrice boss knew he was the source of the explosion,

But it couldn't do anything about it as its opponent was a persistent brute who lacked reasoning skills. 

Alex made a mental note to keep an eye on the cockatrice boss.

He did not to be caught off guard by any unexpected attacks from the avian beast, who seemed rather shrewd.

The remaining cockatrices alive had either, died, lost their body parts, or were burnt to a crisp and barely hanging.

Alex could only see two of the goblin alive and he could only consider them as lucky.

"Yep, my abilities are quite amazing."

Alex nodded proudly at the result. 

Though the scene was horrific, Alex didn't care too much about it.

These monsters exist to be hunted, to make players stronger. And they wouldn't hesitate to kill him if they got the chance, so he had no remorse.

At first, he contemplated finishing them up with more [Blastshards], but he itching to get some experience with his weapon. 

He had no one to train him, so he decided to start working on his sword skills.

The injured beasts were like practice dummies roaming around the field. 

So the situation was perfect.

With a wicked grin, Alex equipped [Eclipse edge]. And then put on [Scalewalk boot] which added five points to his agility.

He leaped off the tree and landed on the ground with a heavy thud.

"System add ten points to strength" 

He said as he charged towards the nearest cockatrice. 

The cockatrice could not even react, as Alex took the beast's head clean off his body.

With his strength boosted his sword went through the cockatrice's neck like butter.

He turned to the next:

A goblin with half its body burnt. It grunted at him in defiance, but Alex responded with a kick to its chest, which propelled the goblin's body into a tree with a fatal impact.

Ding!

[You have killed creature goblin]

[Level up!]

"Nice." 

With this he was now Level 7, adding the number of times he had leveled up from his [Blastshards] massacre.

This noise caught the attention of the cockatrice nearby and they attacked Alex. 

But one by one they met their demise majorly due to their injuries.

Meanwhile, the cockatrice and the goblin boss were still fighting. 

Dreadfeather with a worried expression on its face.

It had taken glances and had noticed the human slaughtering his troop 

However, the goblin didn't seem to have noticed this threat and that pissed it off.

"You idiot stop! there's a new enemy!" 

"No, this is all chicken's fault! Chicken set trap, kill everyone. Goblin must have chicken and be victorious, make king proud!" 

The goblin began to attack in a frenzy.

And the cockatrice shook his head realizing there was no getting through with the idiot.

Its initial goal was to take down the goblin clan once and for all, so they wouldn't come back to claim territory. 

But he couldn't do that without his men so his only option was to kill their leader.

And the human, and then return with new troops to face the goblin once again.

With a sigh and a plan to follow. 

The cockatrice's speed suddenly increased. Faster than what the goblin was used to.

Dreadfeather overwhelmed the goblin with a flurry of attacks. 

Its wings, tail, beaks, and all its weapons dishing out relentless assault.

The goblin bled unable to move.

 as he had taken most of the brunt from the bombs and was weakened, now he was suffering from assaults and wasn't able to keep up with the cockatrice torrents of attacks.

The cockatrice's tail pierced into the goblin's shoulder, and he was forced to jump back. 

The stab area began to change into purple indicating poison

The goblin groaned and fell on its knees. Severely weakened and hurt. 

"This fight is over, surrender and I'll make your death swift," 

The goblin grinned.

It wasn't ready to tap out yet.

With a thundering roar, it activated his special ability, [Bloodlust], which doubled the user's strength for a few seconds.

"If I'm going down. I'll take you along with me."

The goblin's skin began to turn red as strength flushed through its body.

But the cockatrice was familiar with the goblins' skills and was prepared.

It sucked in a deep breath energy bubbling in its throat, and fire out a wave of [Sonic Howl]. A move that stuns and damages the enemy using sound waves.

The goblin skin that was turning red returned to normal. And it coughed out blood. 

The [Sonic Scream] had interrupted the goblin [Bloodlust]. Nullifying the power.

And that caused a backlash.

The goblin boss fell to its knees coughing out blood. The last attack had sealed its fate.

The cockatrice then appeared behind the goblin and took its head off.

With a plop, the goblin's head dropped to the ground. 

But it was still conscious so it said its last words before life left its eyes.

"I, Baran, a loyal boss to king, will be back and I will have meat!" 

The cockatrice simply shook his head at this. Glad he was done with the goblin.

"Hey, birdface." 

The cockatrice suddenly heard a voice and sharply turned scanning the battlefield for the threat.

The human was nowhere to be seen and all of its troops were dead.

"Over here," Alex said appearing behind it

And as the cockatrice turned, it was met with a powerful slap that sent it sliding to the side.