Chapter 60 Confidence

finishing all I had to do, I made my way out of hanging on the ceiling staring a lava face down.

Using my newly gotten unique skill Thorn crafting to craft a ladder I could swing myself on and get out of there.

There were mixed feelings on leaving behind the precious lizard meat I went through hell to put down.

The only problem is, it's body is inside the lava.

I had no way of dragging it out of there because my skills don't work very well with lava.

Sure they do work outside of the lava after getting a massive overdose of mana,

But inside the lava, I haven't tested how much mana overdose will be needed to maintain the skill.

Frankly speaking, I don't even want to know.

Attacking my opponents from the ceiling is one of the best decisions I have ever come up with.

Gives me distance advantage,

plus with my weapon being a bow, It will be pretty stupid of me to engage in a close combat unless forced to.

Though I say that, I am well aware that I have to be prepared for basically anything.

This tomb, no the entire floors including where I was born, the Goblins dungeon, and this tomb,

Everything is a living hunk of surprise package.

Popping up like, hey guess what, I got a monster who will take your hand in exchange for the sweet tender monster meat.

"...."

That face, is the exact same as the one I made.

Definitely not interested.

I finally got to where the lava ends, and could see the land below,

I came down from the ceiling and landed on the flat land.

how I so missed being a normal Goblin walking on land than crawling on ceiling atop an hot flaming lava like a spider.

Hope I never experience this again.

Having gotten out of the river of lava, the first thing I did was to check my body out.

I had evolved into an elder Goblin and did not have the leverage of seeing how far my body had advanced.

I felt my hand had gotten bigger while I was climbing the ladder, and I was right.

My hand wasn't the only one, my whole body itself had gotten even bigger than being an adult Goblin, it's like taking two adult Goblin together and combining it into one.

That is how big my body is now, though it still doesn't compare to the body of the Goblin general's I saw or even the king.

If I were to find a good match for it, would pale it in comparison to the Goblin champion I fought with.

There is also my abs that makes me appear as a professional weight lifter, I so love it.

Done admiring my new beautiful but deadly body, I continued on my journey in the passage alley lit up.

At the end of this passage way,

I get the feeling that whatever monster I am going to be meeting with, will be an intelligent one.

Reasons being the lit torches hanging on the walls and arranged in an orderly manner,

Guiding the way for me.

Only an intelligent monster or person is capable of doing something like this.

"sighhh..."

This is really worrying.

I am confident?...

That came out wrong.

The right word is, I am half confident in being able to go up against non intellectual monsters because, they are non intellectual.

in battle, I have noticed that what most of them do is react aggressively, and throw around their most dangerous attack at me.

The same goes for that fire lizard,

If I was the one blessed with its body structure, I will make certain to cover my one weakness I know can bring about my doom.

The fire lizard however, has no intelligence to think up to that point.

What interest it, I presume is killing, and even more killing.

It's weakness, it leaves it open and only make attempt to cover it when it saw me trying to attack there.

that is why I had to use the cage to first trap its movement,

thorns coming out from all parts of the cage to misguide its instincts into thinking all parts of its body was in danger,

the final touch, stabbing a thorn through its eyes and embedding it in, before sprouting thorn branches from the thorn embedded inside of its eyes to take away its fast regeneration and destroy it from the inside out.

I was able to do all this because I was intelligent enough to have thought of it.

The fire lizard however, had no intelligence to think that far ahead.

In a way, I can say the biggest advantage I have over all the monsters I have come across, is being intellectual.

The result of what will happen if I were to ever come across another intelligent monster can be seen during my encounter with the Goblins.

I am powerless against other intellectual monsters.

The only saving grace I can have is if my stats are above their's, then I can be confident in the encounter.

As for the one that lies ahead at the end of this passage, I am pretty sure they will be levels beyond me.

But wait...,

The quest only said to find the temple of successor located in the fire guardian tomb,

It never said anything about finding a person, but a temple.

if the quest is exactly as it says, it would mean that there is no one waiting ahead.

Then again, it never said anything about me encountering monsters on my way there, yet I have come across monsters I almost lost my life to.

It's plain obvious that the quest did not dive into details and only gave me the important information neglecting the rest.

There is also a problem of, if I am really going in the right direction, or if I am just trending on vanity.

"argrgh...."

This is all just so frustrating.

Granted I know nothing about the terrain, but to have still followed the route without considering the possibility of it being a trap.

How could i have been so foolish.

This isn't just me going in blind,

This is me going in blind and brain dead.

just when did I start placing so much of my trust in something that I cannot see?.

No, that isn't it.

From the get go, I had resolved myself to bear whatever outcome I get after going through the gate.

This is a gamble,

A gamble I made after weighing the odds.

If I had not entered the gate, sooner or later I would have been found by the Goblins.

I thought of going to miss dragon for safety, but that would just make me even more pathetic.

I refused to stay with her because I did not want to rely on her,

Going back to her just so I can rely on her.....

"yeah, definitely not happening".

The gate was my last resort, and I grabbed it with the intention of losing my life.

So yeah, trap or no trap,

I have to see it through till the end.