YM778.TV Chapter 51: Rank 2 Battle.
The big ape was furious at the goblins who had invaded their home and killed many members of its tribe, while the huge goblin was angry at its partner, the mage who had failed to do as they had planned and thus unleashed all of its wrath on the ape.
Wind crashed in the surroundings from their powerful attacks, making the spectators squint their eyes for a better look.
There were about a dozen other monsters left, who had no strength to fight anymore and were only waiting for their leaders to end the battle hopefully making them win.
Felix ran his eyes over them and shrugged his shoulder not wanting to waste more skill points.
\'Well, nothing is more expensive than some missed skill points....\'
He swam underground and continued to move around the area, stealing the lives of the monsters who had no knowledge of their predator.
Leaving some of his attention toward the two monsters, he collected 60 more skill points with 6 of his spikes every minute.
[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]
[You have gained 10 skill points.]
[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]
[You have gained 10 skill points.]
Taking advantage of the spectacular scene on the battlefield which stole their focus, he harvested the monster\'s lives until a few minutes later there were no spectators left except for him.
In the end with his head out from the ground surrounded by the corpses, his eyes finally focused deeply on their battle and noticed the reason behind their power.
\'So they were using aura in their attacks...\'
The big ape\'s fists and the goblin\'s club glowed a dim color of white every time they attacked. It was the result of applying aura in their fists and weapons, and obviously, they could not manifest it out from their bodies.
Red eyes and twisted expressions were etched on both of their faces as they crazily attacked one another without glancing around them.
After some time, the goblin landed a decisive hit on the ape\'s head with its club, and its wooden weapon finally broke apart.
But the attack had damaged the ape a lot, upon which the goblin didn\'t ruin the chance, and took out its hidden knife from under its cloth before stabbing it into the ape\'s chest.
The knife penetrated deeply making the ape fall on its back as it struggled to move.
\'Chance!\'
Felix\'s eyes lit up when he noticed the ape fall down on the ground.
He quickly swam underground and moved ahead before using his skill.
\'Earth Spike!\'
Instead of one, he had used three spikes this time which impaled the fallen ape\'s back from underground.
The ape was already feeling helpless when a knife was stabbed into it but before it could try to get up, three sharp objects plunged into its back with one of them reaching just above its butt.
Even though it sighed in relief for not getting pierced inside his hole, the pain that followed made it frown.
It raised one of its arms upward hoping to get the body out of the sharps spike when another spike ejected out from the ground and punctured into its neck.
[You have killed a being higher than your own rank.]
[You have gained 100 skill points.]
A victorious smile emerged on his face when Felix heard the system\'s notification. His eyes gleamed in a dark light for a while as he glanced at the ape\'s corpse and later turned to look for the other Rank 2 monster.
\'Huh, where did it go?\'
Felix frowned in confusion and looked around the area but he could not even find a trace of that huge goblin\'s shadow.
A few seconds earlier, just after it had stabbed the ape, the goblin surveyed its surroundings to see what had happened to the other monsters.
Its eyes widened in horror looking at all the dead corpses without a single monster left breathing.
The fear of knowing all of its group members had died and feeling its growing weak body, the goblin decided that escaping this place was the best option before the other monsters of the forest approached smelling the thick blood spread around the area.
Giving the fallen ape a last look, it turned around and quickly limped away cursing its partner for their downfall. The goblin promised it would crush that traitor\'s skull if it was ever encountered again.
Felix finally realized that the goblin had escaped and could only sigh in losing the huge number of skill points.
"Sigh, it\'s not worth it to follow that guy. Even weakened, that monster is still strong enough to easily defeat me so there\'s no need to risk myself."
In fact, Felix could himself feel getting weak right now. It seemed that using the skill \'Earth Spike\' repeatedly had made his mind slightly overloaded.
He slowly came out from the ground clutching his head and walked toward the goblin mage that he had killed previously.
Parting the bushes, he bent down and picked up the black staff which he had hidden there..
"Hmm...what should I do with this?"
Felix stared at the weird weapon but didn\'t know how to use it, so he shrugged his shoulders and decided to sell it in the city.
"Whatever I\'ll think about it later, but before that I\'ll have to hurry and leave this place."
He didn\'t forget Steve\'s advice, which was to retreat after killing the monster as that would make the other monsters in the area gather from the smell of the blood.
Giving the battlefield one last look, he turned around and ran in the direction from where he had first come at the cave.
The whole struggle had taken two hours from when he had come here and followed the several groups of apes to finally participating in the battle albeit without making his presence known.
Rushing back in the same direction, Felix escaped from several other monsters who were arriving at the scene as he couldn\'t afford to waste his time fighting which would only make more of them gather.
On the way, he could finally not hold back his curiosity and asked the system in excitement.
\'System, show me my status\', he had killed many monsters this time, so he was expecting to save all those points and use them in the war to aid him.
[Affirmative.]
[Status]
[Name: Felix]
[Race: Human]
[Age: 15]
[Sex: Male]
[Mage Cultivation: Rank 0]
[Warrior Cultivation: Rank 0]
[Talent: ★★ ]
[State: A better body but there\'s still a place for growth.]
[Skills: Silent Steps, Flashback, Earth Swimming, Ratio Technique, Parabolic Hearing, Earth Spikes.]
[Skill Points: 620.]
His eyes read the status information before arriving at the skill points.
\'Nice! With these many points, I can create some strong skills.\'
Clenching his fists in joy, he continued to run in the forest moving toward the city.
*****
Back at the battlefield.
Several monsters gathered and excitedly looked at the dead corpses before coming closer and feasting upon them.
It was rare for such a big battle to occur in the forest, so the monsters didn\'t waste the opportunity to fill their stomach with dead bodies. They distanced themselves from each other but still growled when another one came near to them.
Suddenly, they felt a strong pressure descend in the area as a figure wearing blood-red robes appeared on the scene.
It was not walking on the ground but instead floated a bit above the earth. The figure had its face covered with the hood of the robe but the monsters could still see those greyish eyes that made them terrified to not even make a move.
Arriving at the middle of the scene, the figure glanced around before speaking in a low cracky voice.
"Ahh~ The delicious smell of blood...."
The figure swayed a bit while rubbing its shoulders but then turned serious the next moment as a dark presence revolved around it.
"Too bad I came a bit late, I wanted to see the one who ruined the plans of the great one...Moreover, that goblin proved itself to be weak so it should be better used for the ritual."
Shaking its head, the figure raised its head and stared above at the slowly rising moons.
"No matter what, our plans won\'t change. This world will need a new ruler and we shall be the ones to sit at the top...."
Its words seemed to be molded with power as the monsters couldn\'t handle the sheer pressure the figure was releasing and fainted in their spots.
"Let\'s go, we have a lot of work to do...."
The enigmatic figure uttered the words to itself, ascending weightlessly into the air before abruptly vanishing at breakneck speed, leaving behind not a single trace of its presence.