Chapter 13: My Adventure in the Wild (2)

Chapter 13: My Adventure in the Wild (2)

The battle was over before it even started.

I only used a Shadow Bolt once, and it was done. It died after it got hit once.

I used the Shadow Bolt skill because that was what was important for me as a spellcaster. I needed to adjust my mind and be able to cast spells when there was an enemy and no support to save me. I have used the skill when I am in the training grounds, against a dummy, which has no offense.

It was easy to use it against, but in a real battle, many would freeze up and wouldn't be able to cast the skill. I did, but that doesn't mean I am not afraid.

First, there was only one goblin and also it didn't see me. I attacked it from a safe and secret position. It would only be exposed once I used a skill, which gave me an advantage over it as I could attack it first.

[Shadow Bolt]

After I did, the goblin screamed for a second, before going silent forever. Its death was validated by the two status notifications that I got.

[You have killed Tier-0 Level 1 Goblin.]

[You have gained +10 EXP.]

I need 100 EXP to reach level 1. The goblin that I just killed yielded only 10 EXP which is only 1/10th of the required EXP. This means that I have to kill ten level 1 goblins to reach level 1.

This is not the most important thing that was discovered from this short and one-sided battle.

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A day later...

I returned back to the cave that I found on my first day. It proved to be a safe place for my stay and would be my house for the next few days. I can't stay here because the monsters around here are not of high levels. This is in the outermost section of the forest.

It means that there won't be much to hunt.

There are a lot of slimes and weaker goblins to hunt but it is so tiresome, especially with those goblins. Most of my time here is wasted on them.

Goblins appear in groups and rarely stray away from such a way. So even when I spot a goblin, I have to make sure that there are no other goblins in the vicinity first. Only then I can kill the lone one.

It was not always how things went. I wasted two days on this. To kill one of the goblins, I have to wait and wait, patiently so that one of the goblins would stray from the group.

I could easily eliminate the group of three or five easily. Heck, I can easily decimate the entire goblin village using the items that my parents stuffed inside my Magic Bracelet but those are for emergencies.

If I use those this early, it would defeat the purpose of this training. This training was not just to level up faster, but also to build character. Many things can be learned from this exercise.

Even then, I have my own limits. A few more days, and I will leave this place. I would proceed further into the forest, only then can I be able to level up easily. The character maybe important but so is strength.

Only the words and character of someone alive matter. Without sufficient strength, living long would only be a dream.