Chapter 205 Her Strategy

Dana delivered the blow that eventually marked the end of her brawl with the Kobold.

When she was done, she turned her head over to Dexter who was in a daze while staring at her with unbelievable eyes.

"is that all? Or are we still venturing further in".

She asked, wiping off the trail of the kobold's blood on her face.

Dexter could not give her an immediate reply, how could he? This was not the outcome nor the thoughts he had in mind when he brought her here.

His plan was to teach her the value of not underestimating her opponents, but he was unable to do that, because she had performed better than he thought, going beyond his expectations of her.

'this is how you want to play it? I will show you, what differentiates an elderly from a kid'.

Dexter made up his mind to thoroughly teach her a lesson, he was done playing nice with her.

Little examples will not matter at this point, he has to keep pushing further ahead until she breaks and realizes the point he has been trying to get her to know all this while.

"no, we are not done. Like I said earlier, this is a kobold's dungeon, and deeper in, are a lot of kobolds waiting to be exterminated by you".

Dexter says, with Dana replying with a grin on her face.

They passed by the kobold's corpse and went further into the dungeon looking for more of its kind to hunt down.

It did not take them too long to sight what it is they were after.

This time around, they did not meet with one kobold, but four of them, each with slightly differing heights from the other.

Dana as usual was quick to move on her feet, leaving Dexter behind to act as an overseer to her accomplishments.

She has learned from her earlier encounter with the Kobold, that killing them in one strike was not going to be possible with the weapon in her hand, and what she needs to do, is improvise, leaning on a long-term combat that will slowly drain them of their stamina.

Dana has analyzed the kobold's constitution using the former kobold as the base for her assumptions.

For one, she knows their speed does not compare to her's, and the only advantage they have over her, is their tough skin covered by hair, and also, their reflexes is quick to react to any attack from any direction, so she knows she won't be aiming for the same spot, nor relying too much on sneak attacks.

Besides, there are four of them now, she has to put into consideration, the thought on how coordinated they will be, and also time her attacks to not match with theirs.

​ Dana with such thinking process going through her mind, she ran towards the four kobold who had already noticed her, and on their way to her.

Almost getting to their midst, she slightly lept her feet off of the ground, and thrusted it forward, bashing through a kobold's face with it.

With Dana's foot on the kobold's face, it lost its footing and fell right to the ground.

Dana now in the midst of the other three kobold's, hurriedly moved her leg away from the kobold's face, and went after another one on her right side.

She swung her right hand that was holding her sword, and aimed it at the Kobold.

Dana made sure it was not the bladed side of the sword that made contact with the Kobold, but the flat side of it.

Her goal, was not to slash the kobold, but to push it away using the force of swinging her sword.

Using the flat surface of the sword, she succeeded in her aim and the kobold, was pushed to the back with its body hitting the wall.

Daba ran after the Kobold she had just pushed back, and pierced its left shoulder with her sword.

She has once tried piercing the first Kobold she fought with by the shoulder, but it did not work as intended, Dexter wondered why she would try it a second time knowing that the result would still be the same, and this time, the outcome could prove to be even more disadvantageous for her seeing as how she is faced against four kobolds and not one.

He wondered and pondered, but could not come to a reasonable conclusion on why she made such a dumb move.

"am I starting to get too old that I can't even read the thoughts of a kid?".

He said to himself, still questioning the rationality guiding Dana's thoughts.

Dana on the other hand, had a very good reason for why she made an attack she had tried the first time, and ended up in disappointment for her.

During the time she tried the attack o the first kobold, the cut did not penetrate deep thanks to its fur repelling it from going in deeper, and only ended up pushing away the kobold while giving it a slight wound.

Back then, she did not know that is what the outcome was going to be.

When Dexter told her that they were still going to go hunt for more Kobolds, Dana already made up her mind to think of ways that she can swiftly kill them, and more importantly, how to make her sword penetrate through their skin without being repelled by their fur.

The idea she came up with, was simple and could be thought of by anyone who focuses well, paying close attention to what they are surrounded by.

The strategy Dana settled for in helping her achieve maximum efficiency with the minimum amount of time spent on killing a kobold, is by using her surroundings to her advantage.

They are surrounded by the dungeon walls, and fighting in a tunnel like settings, only having more space than an average tunnel does.

She took notice of what happened when she stabbed the first kobold, and did the same thing to this very kobold, with the difference being that, she rectified the position the Kobold is placed in.