13 Eating Some Pellets

"What would your requirements be?" Leo asked Nathan as he pretended to not notice the screen beeping in front of him.

"You must bring me back the head of a monster within the mountains. The mountains behind this village has a very high level of danger, but there are also goblins who have hidden themselves there was well."

"Us humans do not have a very good relationship with the goblin race, and so, you not only need to be careful of the monsters, but, also of the goblins who lurk in the shadows. Seeing your current strength, as long as you do not get surrounded by a large group of goblins, you should be able to arrive back here safely, given you complete the requirement." Nathan explained, loud enough for those listening in, could hear him as well.

"Oh? That sounds simple enough. I hope that once I return, that I will not be bothered by anyone?" Leo asked as he started to turn around to leave towards the mountains.

"If you complete that simple requirement, I am sure that no one here, including myself, would have a problem with that." replied Nathan as the other villagers all nodded in approval.

Once Leo left the area, all of the villagers started to make bets with one another.

"If he completes that requirement, I would even allow him to be my boss!"

"Oh yeah? Seeing him fight evenly with Hans, I bet a week's worth of meals that he would surely return."

After exiting the village gates that led to the mountains, Leo quickly started sprinting ahead. After several miles, Leo decided to sit underneath a tree and to finally take some time to check his screen.

-New Quest: Complete Nathan's requirement to earn a reward-

"Weird, this time, it is allowing me to click a drop down menu to see what rewards I will earn?" surprised to see this new development, Leo decided to click the drop down menu to see what he would earn.

-15 attribute points, 2 skills, 1 exp pill-

"How is there so many rewards?" shocked to see the type of rewards he would gain from completing this trip, Leo couldn't help but to get excited.

"Wait, if I add that to what I would already be earning by hunting down some monsters and goblins, wouldn't that mean?" Leo's eyes started to shine brightly as he quickly started to dash towards the mountains at full speed.

"When I return to that village, I will make them beg me to be their leader!" pondered Leo as he finally got to the entrance of the first mountain path.

"Huff... huff.... huff...." after heading into the mountains, Leo was targeted almost immediately by nearby goblins.

He was now dodging their collective attacks the best he could. He wanted to find an opening, but he was surrounded by eight goblins!

These goblins were dark green with red eyes. They were no larger than a human child, but, they had an unusual amount of strength and speed!

Using a group battling type tactic, five of the goblins were throwing big rocks at Leo, while three were facing him in close combat. The goblins seemed as if they were playing with their food!

This battle had gone on for several minutes now, and Leo was panting in exhaustion.

"What am I going to do? These three goblins have enough strength to block my attacks while the others are just trying to divert my attention." pondered Leo as he quickly dodged one of the goblins from behind.

"Though my Bronze Skin skill has been effective against the goblin's daggers, it is not like I do not feel any pain from them. If I become too exhausted, I might be able to slay all of these goblins, but, that is not the case if their backup arrives."

"Though I hate the idea of using it, that poison powder might be my only chance of surviving through this ordeal!"

Suddenly, all of the goblins who were throwing rocks, decided to rush Leo with their daggers. It was in the goblin tribe's nature to be impatient. Although, they were having some fun with Leo, it seems that their bellies felt otherwise.

"Now is my chance." thought Leo as he quickly jumped into the air while pulling out the poison powder.

Holding his breath in tightly, Leo threw a small handful of the poison powder into the faces of the two closest goblins.

"Pant... pant.... pant!" halting their movements, the remaining goblins watched on as their two friends started to cough uncontrollably. In the matter of a few breaths of time, the two goblins died.

Disregarding the remaining goblins who stood silently a short distance away, Leo dashed towards the two dead corpses that were now present.

"Nice!" Leo thought as he shoved two cards he looted from the goblin corpses before fleeing at his maximum speed.

Seeing their companions dead by some type of weird powder, the remaining goblins decided to flee back to their hideout. They were now deeply afraid of this human who seemed to be able to kill them without the use of a weapon. This was something that needed to be reported to their clan leader!

In this world, there were many races scattered around the planet. However, in the smaller areas, were a collective of the same race who would create a clan. Such a case was like the small human village or this small hideout of goblins.

Speaking in their own language, the goblins all reported their findings to their clan leader. Handing over the corpses, the leader started to examine the bodies with the help of several elders within the clan.

"Kikiki!" the leader yelled out to all of its clan members. In the goblin language, this meant that they would all search the mountains for this enemy and destroy it at all costs. The leader and elders from examining the corpses, have decided that this human was too dangerous to leave alone!

Gathering throwing spears, putting on weird wooden armor, and sharpening their daggers, many goblin patrols started to form. Their plan was to form many small patrols to hunt down this human and its location, so that they can kill it as soon as possible.

Of course at this point however, Leo was hiding in a large bush several miles away in the opposite direction.

After examining what the cards could be traded for within the screen, Leo decided that right now what mattered was only the exp pills. Leo felt that if he was able to raise his level, he would receive attribute points as well. The more attribute points he had, the better his foundation would be!

Upon swallowing the little pellets, Leo pulled up his Status screen so that he could see how much his level had increased. However, to his surprise, he was still level three!

"Strange, after killing the two goblins, my level increased up to level three, but shouldn't the pellets have pushed me higher as well since there were two of them?" Leo then looked at his remaining unused attribute points.

"Well, at least I now have nine attribute points from lev-" shocked, Leo blinked several times while wiping his eyes to look at the screen again.

"So I received five attribute points for leveling myself up, but the exp pills were actually pills that gave me even more attribute points instead of leveling me up? And not just one point per card, but two?"

To Leo, he understood that his level did not mean much compared to his attribute points. Though, he did not have time to try to train to see if he was able to gain more attribute points in that way, he realized that attribute points was what meant higher power and not his level.

"The more attribute points I earn, the more powerful I will become. Maybe it makes more sense to skip trying to farm enemies in the future for random skills, but just solely for more attribute points?"

At this point in time, Leo felt a little relaxed and started to brainstorm what he would do with the cards he would earn from this point forward.

To Leo, the goblins were not a big threat to him, unless there were dozens of them surrounding him at a time. Leo, not knowing how this world worked, did not realize that the goblins actually had their own hideout and were rather organized.

"Well, I might as well rest up. Tomorrow I should spend some time doing some basic training regiments to see if I can earn anything. Who knows, maybe I will receive a random training based quest?" yawning in exhaustion from the earlier ambush, Leo decided to dig a small hole underneath the big bush and fell asleep.