The dagger wheezed past the other two goblins and hit the tattooed goblin in the middle, who was carrying the sack. Crimson started flowing from its arm as it got ripped off by the dagger.
"Your aim is so good, Nyx," Varkas remarked sarcastically
Nobody was worried about the tattooed goblin as it fell on its back, screaming in pain, before it seized completely, lying there motionless. The other looked in the direction from which the dagger was thrown; their location was exposed.
"Great, we killed none and lost the dagger." Varkas was growing angrier by the minute, due to the constant ignoring of his words, and feeling the anger, Nyx spoke just one word
"Poison."
The goblin didn't fall because of the pain or the excessive bleeding; it was the poison on the dagger that caused its demise. Varkas's pride held his praises back
"I knew that, but the question is what to do with them?"
Nyx looked at the charging goblins, equipped the rapier, and switched with Lucian.
To Lucian, the world was gray, nothing more and nothing less. He saw the charging goblins and decided on the best course of action.
He hid in the shadows of the trees, and lo and behold, the goblin with the dagger entered, carefully checking behind the trees for any presence.
The goblin slowly started entering deeper into the forest when it heard a squeal from one of its own kind the goblin archer.
It quickly came out and found the archer on the ground with both its eyes stabbed out dead blood flowing from the now empty sockets.
And as it turned around there was the human it was trying to hunt standing with a broken arm and before it could even charge its heart was already stabbed by the rapier.
Lucian sat on the ground with his back against a tree, huffing from exhaustion, his brown hair sticking to his forehead.
"Man, really could've used a hand huh?" A raspy voice that was just a tad bit irritating.
"Not now Jax please. You aren't funny." Kalen wheezed
"Well, I am maybe you guys should develop a sense of humor Kaelen."
Among the ten of them, Jax is the only one who can be considered good with people, and that was one of the reasons the other alters didn't like him very much. A very tired Lucian asked Kaelen
"Now what?"
"We wait for the rewards; that's all we can do i dont think we will be able to move around like this."
"And bleeding to death because of a broken wrist?"
Before Kaelen could come up with another excuse about how that wouldn't be their death, the now-familiar blue screen popped up and his bones and split skin seemed to weave themselves together.
[Congratulations on being the first player to complete the second quest]
[Rewards will be handed out immediately]
[Experience gained for killing two combat goblins and a single non-combatant: +800]
[Experience gained for clearing the quest: +3000]
[Experience gained for ranking first: +2300]
[New skill will be acquired as a reward]
[The skill rank will be changed to Mortal]
Kaelen started praying for a skill that would help him in this situation something like fireball or lightning bolt but the tower had something else made for him entirely.
"Please please please be an attack skill please please."
[Skill acquired: Detect]
"Fuck my luck."
"D-don't worry, I-it will come in use."
"Tristan I don't want motivation right now."
"I-I am sorry."
Kaelen pressed his index finger on the system interface the system interface was cold unlike the warm blood of the goblin on his hand soon the description of the skill Detect opened
[Detect (level 1): Mortal rank skill that allows the user of this skill to find any living being in a three-meter radius.]
[Cool down period: 15 minutes]
Kaelen seemed to lose his temper not just at the skill he gained but at the situation itself causing him to lash out at a blue screen in front of him.
"Great so how am I supposed to use it? Huh, isn't this the tutorial stage? At least tell me how to use it."
Jax scoffed at Kaelen's remarks as he spoke up "So, like think about the skill just like how you summon the status screen."
Kaelen who was already frustrated at the situation and now the remark by Jax of all people, lashed out "Maybe I would have thought of that if you didn't have to sit in this pile of blood and gore!"
Kaelen seemed to notice his surroundings better now and looked at the site and the goblin whose eyes were gouged out and retched at the sight his stomach lining was on fire as he turned around and tried to vomit but couldn't because of his empty stomach.
"Fucking hell we need to find food."
***
He was sitting in another cave sitting on hard rock, which was doing real good to his backside but he was staring into the system interface staring at the starting time for the next quest.
[Time till next quest is given: 2 hours 15 minutes 13 seconds]
For him watching time trickle down was much better than listening to his alters discuss why blueberries are called blueberries even though they are purple.
"We have to do something about our food situation at the rate the quests are going we probably need to stay here for 2 to 3 days." Garrick tried to talk some sense into their conversation
"So what do we do then?" Considered by the remark of Garrick Kaelen tried to talk to the only person he could trust with this type of stuff.
"Hey Agnos what do we do now?"
"I have been thinking." A prolonged pause later the voice spoke up again "Maybe there are more species here than the goblins since well the first quest told us to kill a living being it didn't specifically ask for a goblin did it? So we can probably hunt some other animals."
Kaelen stood up from his position and they start allocating the new stat points they acquired "That seems good enough."