Chapter 28: Chapter 28:- Kobold Nest [I]
"What kind of mission do you want to take?" Rosie left that decision to William.
"Let me go through all the available missions first?" It was early in the morning. Adventurers were coming to the guild to take on new missions. Everyone was busy with their own work, no one had time to look around. It was common to see newbies adventurers every single day.
[Kill slimes
[Level 1 monster]
[Mission: - collect Slime cores]
[Reward: - 1 copper coin per slime core.]
[Kill rats
[Level 3 monsters]
[Mission: - The rats have been troubling the farmers in a nearby village.]
[Reward: - 15 copper coins]
[Kill Evil Blood bats
[Monster rank: - level 10 to level 15]
[Mission: - Kill the evil blood bats that have built a nest in the nearby forest.]
[Reward: - 1 silver coin and 10 copper coins]
"Why don't we take the Evil Blood bats mission?" Rosie wanted to know why William avoided choosing this mission. Compared to other missions, this one was not that easy nor that hard.
"The problem is the reward. An average maternity colony sizes are about 50 bats. Killing 50 level 10 or higher level evil bats for only 1 silver and 10 copper coins are too low. Also killing bats would be too boring." Rosie smiled and said nothing. She also knew that however has put this mission on the board is stupid. No adventurer in their right mind would take this mission.
[Silver grass flower]
[Location: - mostly found in the wilderness. Silver grass flowers are loved by Zany rabbits.
[Reward: - 2 coppers per siler grass flower]
William directly ignored these kinds of missions. Who would want to collect or search for some stupid silver grass flowers in their first mission?
[Kobold Extermination]
[Monster level: - level varies from level 2 to level 40]
[Mission: - 9km away in the north-eastern direction, a kobold lair has been found. The Kobolds are rapidly multiplying in numbers. Exterminate the entire Kobold nest.]
[Reward: - 10 Gold coins and 9 silver coins.]
"How about this one." William showed the kobold extermination mission to Rosie.
"It looks nice."
"Young miss, we will take this Mission." The young Succubus widened her eyes in shock seeing a newbie taking one of the most difficult missions in silver rank.
"Sir, you're only level 1. Please rethink your actions." The girl didn't want another newbie adventurer to overestimate his power and end up dying. "Haha! Thank you for worrying but my teammate is level 50." The young Succubus reluctantly registered the mission under William and Rosie's names.
"Sir your registration expires in 7 days. Please, try to complete the mission before 7 days."
William and Rosie then walked out of the adventurer guild. "I think that girl had a crush on me."
Rosie rolled her eyes as she knew that the young Succubus was only being kind to them. "Do you I think I should make a move on her?" William obviously was joking. After being surrounded by world-class beauties, William's standards also have increased.
Ouch!
Rosie pinched his waist while walking out of the city. "That hurts"
"Why did you do that?" William rubbed his waist and asked innocently.
"Hmph! You should be glad that I didn't pull your ear. Though the Succubus girl is kind and gentle, she regularly has sex with multiple men.
"Seriously, how did you know?"
"I can sense multiple men's smells on her body. Even though she tried to hide, she cannot escape my senses."
"This is the reality of the Succubus and the Incubus. Most normal Succubus and Incubus would start acting this way. They would have sex with anyone. It can be said that royal Succubus and royal incubus prevailed as we can suppress our lust and control ourselves."
Both William and Rosie exited the city and walked 9 km straight in the north-eastern to the direction of the kobold nest.
"What do you know about Kobold?" Rosie asked as they sat on tree branches and observed the cave on the base of a small mountain.
"Kobolds are aggressive, insular, yet industrious small humanoid creatures. They are noted for their skill at building traps and preparing ambushes, and mining. They are said to be distantly related to dragons and were often found serving as their minions."
"Well said. Kobolds also have their hierarchy. The Champion Kobold is the commander of the Kobold army while the Kobold king is the most strongest and the leader of the Kobold nest. However, in certain extremely rare cases, it is possible for a Kobold to mutate and awaken a small part of the dragon bloodline."
"I never heard of a Kobold mutating."
"It's rare. It's so rare that even I have never seen it even though I have worked as an adventurer for multiple decades."
After waiting for a few more minutes, from 50 meters distance, William and Rosie saw a kobold coming out of the cave while holding a small damaged and rusty sword in his hand.
The Kobold's skin was red. It was about 1 meter tall in height. Though it looked somewhat like a human child, its hideous face made William feel a strong disgust toward them.
[Kobold
[Level 22]
[Skill: - Critical strike, digging, mining, basic sword slash]
"Do you want any help?" Rosie lightly asked seeing William preparing to go down.
"No. You just sit there and watch in with some popcorn."
The Kobold was the guard of their nest. Every 10 or 20 minutes, it would come out of the nest to see if there are any enemies preparing to ambush them. It was doing is regularly checking and was about to go back.
Swoosh!
Without even noticing a figure appeared behind its back.
Bang!
The Kobold widened his eyes in disbelief as he looked at the silver sword that had made a hole in his chest.
"Hehehe! He is fast. When I started my journey I was way weaker than William."
[Ding! You have absorbed the soul of level 22 kobold guard]
[Ding! You have obtained 1100 experience points]
[Ding! You have leveled up. You have received one free stats point]
[Ding! You have leveled up. You have received one free stats point]
[Ding! You have leveled up. You have received one free stats point]
[Ding! Strength [05+], Agility [07+], Stamina [07+]
"William, how was it?" Rosie asked.
"Pretty good. I leveled up 3 times in a row."
"Hehe! That's to be expected. You killed a level 22 Kobold."
"I have a question."
"Hmmm?"
William opened his status panel and looked at his stats and asked. "I killed a level 22 kobold and I only leveled up 3 times. I thought my level would instantly jump to level 20 or at least level 15."
"That's not how things work Will." Rosie jumped down and landed on the ground.
"The amount of experience points you will get depends on how pure the soul is. As you have noticed, the system said that you have absorbed the soul of level 22 kobold. When we kill monsters or any living being, the soul of that being is absorbed by us making us stronger." William nodded with a complicated look.
"Low-rank monsters like Kobold, goblins, slimes, rats, and bats have weak souls. The purity of the soul is decided by the amount of soul a living has absorbed. Generally, monsters are born at a certain level and as they grow up their levels keep increasing."
"The Kobold is a good example of that. All Kobolds are born at level 2 and depending on their bloodline, their levels keep on increasing as they mature. Meaning that their souls always remain weak as they level up naturally instead of absorbing souls of other beings."
"For example, if I compare a level 22 human or level 22 Incubus who has killed hundreds of low-rank monsters to reach that level with the level 22 Kobold who naturally leveled up without absorbing any soul power, the level 22 human's soul will be 100 times purer than the kobold. Hence if you kill that human or incubus, the soul you will get to absorb will be purer and might even be comparable to the soul of level 50 kobold.
"So this is why." William nodded in understanding.
"For this reason, the leveling process is extremely slow and hard. As you keep leveling to higher stages, the number of experience points you will need will also keep increasing. Most people stop trying to level up after reaching level 100."
[_Level: - 1 → 3
_Strength: - 57 → 62
_Agility: - 65 → 72
_Health: - 66
_Stamina: - 125 → 132
_Mana: - 600
_Intelligence: - 17
_Free stats: - 3]
"This is also why Laura trained you so hard for 4 years. I did the same thing for her when she was your age. Before one starts leveling up, there is a way of increasing the stats points naturally through extreme training." William couldn't help but feel a strong sense of appreciation and gratitude toward Laura and also Rosie. He wouldn't be this strong without Laura's hard training.
"Let's go inside."
"Are you sure? We could find ourselves being surrounded by hundreds of kobolds. Wouldn't it be better for you to try to lure them out of their nest?"
"I am tired of waiting. It's already afternoon. I don't want to wait here till sunset. Also judging from the power of the kobold that I killed, things shouldn't be difficult for us as long as a gold rank kobold doesn't appear."
"Also we have the former queen with us. With your illusion and wood manipulation powers, I don't think there is any need for me to get worried."
"Hehe! Alright, let go in." Rosie smiled and then activated one of her passive skills, Illusion of Heaven.
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