14 Leo The Hero!

"Ki! Ki! Ki!" finally finding Leo within many hours later, a patrol of ten goblins started to screech out to try to alert all of the other patrols within the nearby areas of the mountain.

Unfortunately for the goblins, their screeching actually woke Leo up. Now completely refreshed, he was ready for a battle to the death.

Leo placed all of his unused attribute points into his strength attribute and actually saw his muscles expand and become much more chiseled.

Coupled with his weapon that gave him an additional boost in strength, Leo now felt confident enough to try his luck against so many goblins.

By the time Leo finally finished preparing, two more patrols of goblins arrived in the area and closed off any escape paths for Leo.

This would have frightened Leo if he hadn't just forcefully increased his strength greatly with his attribute points. Now, Leo felt like he was now he hunter, instead of the prey!

"Ki ki!" over thirty goblins that were surrounding Leo cried out before rushing towards him in a swarm. When facing an enemy such as Leo, that threatened their entire clan's existence, the goblins would swarm the enemy in order to overwhelm them with their numbers.

With a single swift motion of his arm, Leo was able to cut down the first two goblins who were the closest to him with his dagger. However, he did not stop there!

In the next moment, Leo actually pulled out the low ranked sword within his inventory and slashed another goblin's head right off.

Without the slightest hesitation, the remaining goblins continued to charge Leo. They wanted nothing more, than to take Leo's life quickly.

The battle continued on for several minutes, however, despite their overwhelming numbers, Leo actually was the one to hold the advantage!

To Leo, he was not surprised at all. According to the screen's effect, all of the goblins around him were extremely weak and had white above their heads instead of orange. This meant, that Leo was more than capable of taking care of them alone.

After several more minutes, Leo had finally finished cutting down over twenty of the goblins. The goblins that remained were frightened beyond belief and actually chose to make a tactical retreat.

"Phew!" spitting out a mouthful of blood, Leo was feeling relieved. Never in his past life, would he ever be able to take on anyone in a fight. However, at this moment, he was like a god of war who slashed down his enemies with simple strikes.

"I guess this is to be expected since they were so weak?" Leo thought to himself as he looted the corpses of the dead goblins only to find two cards.

Leo felt that due to the low amount of cards he received, that it must have been due to the enemies being so weak. He quickly put the cards away into his inventory screen before making his way further into the mountain range.

"With so many more goblins coming together in bigger groups, that must mean that the ones I failed to kill earlier, must have alerted the rest of them who live in these mountains?" pondered Leo as he rubbed his forehead, trying to prevent himself from getting a headache at such a thought.

After swiftly moving using the shadows to his advantage, Leo found himself surrounded by countless goblins who were all searching for him.

Traveling for so many miles away from the entrance of the mountain path, Leo realized that after he passed a specific group of trees, that no goblins were in the area.

Climbing the biggest tree he could find, he was finally able to get a good look at the area around him.

"This must be where the mountains split into a valley?" pondered Leo as he looked around.

All Leo could see was an endless amount of forest, with a large waterfall area several kilometers away from where he currently was.

In the sky, Leo saw many birds chirping, while in the trees, he saw different smaller monsters jumping around and trying to catch each other. Some looked like gorilla type monsters, while the others resembled insects.

Before he could make his way down the tree, Leo could hear human voices nearby accompanied by roars.

Beep Beep Beep!

-Hero Quest: Save the humans from being eaten by the monster, kill the monster for additional rewards-

"Well, since I am much stronger now thanks to those pellets, it is safe to try to take down a monster. If those humans have their own weapons as well, it would make this quest doable." thought Leo as he decided to accept the quest.

"No wonder those goblins do not dare to approach this area."

Making his way over to the small battle between the humans and monster, Leo saw claw marks on some of the trees. Thinking about it, Leo realized that those marks must be the monster of this area's way of warning others about its territory.

As he got closer to the battlefield, Leo saw three humans engaged in a life and death battle with a monster that resembled a bear.

Two of them were male, while the third was a female.

One of the male warriors wore heavy armor while wielding a battle mace. It was if this warrior was of a paladin type class of warrior.

The other male warrior wore very tight clothing that allowed him to move at high speed. With two sharp daggers in his hands, he seemed like an assassin type.

However, what caught Leo's eye, was the female in this small three person squad.

This female could be considered to be a young witch type. With a light blue cape, with a small wooden staff and pointy light blue hat, this female was yelling out words. What surprised Leo, was, once she stopped yelling, a glow would come out of her staff and different forms of fire would appear and tangle the bear monster!

Though, this three person squad seemed to have great teamwork and to have a massive amount of battle experience, the bear type monster seemed to be unaffected by their attacks. The closer Leo looked, the easier it was to see that the female was sweating to the point of fainting, while the two males were trying to discover an escape route.

"Well, it looks like that bear type monster is very slow, I will use its weakness to end this battle as quickly as I can." thought Leo as he dashed forward with his dagger in one hand and his sword in the other.

"Natalia, keep it up, we are almost ready to try to retreat!" the paladin type warrior yelled out.

"Jack, I need you to continue circling around that monster. Your speed is our best advantage right now!"

"I understand, but, Martin, be careful!" Jack called out.

Thanks to their teamwork, the three person squad was able to stand on equal footing with the monster. Jack circling the monster with his speed, Natalia unleashed wave after wave of fire magic, all while Martin took the monster on with his brute force.

This formation allowed them to survive up until now. However, the bear type monster was bulkier than they thought. This made the formation shake constantly due to the endurance type of battle this had become.

Right when Martin was tackled backwards by the monster, Jack tried to leap towards Martin to save him.

"Roar!"

The bear type monster swiped Jack's torso with its claws which sent Jack flying back and hitting a nearby tree before he fainted.

"Jack, no!" seeing the situation becoming even more dire, Natalia tried to unleash a very strong spell in order to try to give Martin enough time to not become stomped to death.

Unfortunately, due to the fact that she was only an apprentice witch, the time it would take Natalia to finish chanting the spell, would be too late.

Frozen by the fear of being so close to death, Martin was paralyzed. The only thought that raced through his mind, was that he hoped someone would save him.

Taking the opportunity it was given, the monster, instead of finishing Martin off, decided to charge towards Natalia instead!

"Hmph!" before the bear type monster made it only a few yards away from Natalia, Leo quickly dashed out in an offensive stance above the bear type monster.

The monster looked above its head to see Leo, except, it was only able to see him with its left eye. Without hesitating in the slightest, Leo had already plucked out the monster's right eye with his dagger.

Being in such pain by Leo's attack, the bear type monster started to stumble as it shifted directions and completely missed its charge at Natalia and instead, hit a nearby tree.

Without giving the monster any time to recover itself and to prepare its next charge, Leo made his finishing move. Dipping his dagger within the remaining poison powder, Leo with all of his strength, stabbed the monster on its head.

After just several breaths of time, the monster's roaring became lighter and lighter, until it eventually passed on.

Quickly looting the single card he received from its corpse, Leo took his dagger out of the monster's skull and put it back into his inventory screen along with the small bag of poison powder.

At this moment, Martin was forcing himself up by relying on his battle mace, while Jack was finally awake and trying to understand what was happening.

However, Natalia was completely taken back. The way the sun hit Leo's figure, it made him shine with a noble and heroic aura. Seeing such a sight, Natalia was the first to bow towards her savior while Martin and Jack looked on, not knowing what to expect.