Capítulo 38: Delving Deeper
Wiping my claws against the stone walls to get rid of the blood, I approached the doors in front of me. It was most likely the boss room of this level of the dungeon. As most of the monsters on this level were much weaker than me, I shouldn't have much trouble fighting the boss. Pushing against the door in front of me, I entered the boss room.
The room was a large dome, with a massive chunk of glowing crystals emerging from the centre of the ceiling. Scattered around the arena were large stones that grew out of the ground, providing a good place to hide. Looking for the enemy I had to face, I spotted a tall goblin sitting against one of the rocks. It was as tall as me, with green skin slightly darker than the goblins elsewhere on this floor. It had leather and fur leggings, which looked comfortable and practical, but no other armour, which let me see that, unlike the other goblins, it had some muscles. Laying on the ground next to it was a wooden cudgel with a few wooden spikes on it. At the same time I saw it, it also noticed me. Quickly grabbing its weapon and jumping to its feet, the solitary goblin shouted at me. 'Why is there only one?' I thought. Anyone who could defeat the group of goblins outside the door would easily be able to defeat a single goblin, even if it was stronger than normal. 'Still, I won't let my guard down. I'll try to finish this quickly' I told myself, before brandishing my claws and moving forward.
Contrary to my expectations, the goblin did not change at me straight away, instead it waited until I was 6 metres away from it, before pulling back its free arm and throwing a rock at me. As my stats were superior, I easily knocked it out of the air when it arrived in front of me. As I refocused on the goblin, I saw it was much closer to me than I expected, having started moving as soon as it threw the rock. Stepping forward, I slashed with my left hand, aimimg for a diagonal cut across its body. In response, it moved my left, completely avoiding my attack before swinging its weapon horizontally at my side. Stepping backwards and holding my arm against my side, I took the hit from the cudgel. I moved my body so that the spike it had on it landed on the inside of my elbow - not dealing any additional damage. As it hit my arm, I regretted not turning into my werewolf form, as the impact hurt a lot. Sadly, I couldn't transform in the middle of a fight, or the pain would incapacitate me for a few seconds, more than enough time for this goblin to knock me out. The force in the goblin's attack almost pushed me onto the floor, but I used the force to gain a little distance, planning my next attack.
However, the goblin didn't give me any time to think, and chased me as I backed away. 'Damn. I should've pushed back against it to slow it down' I thought. Then, I stopped retreating and kicked towards its chest. Snorting, it grabbed my leg with its free hand and pulled me towards it. Panicked, I propelled myself towards it with my other leg, gaining quite a lot of speed. I didn't have enough time to think, so I didn't slash at it while I was in the air, so I ended up colliding with it head first, pushing us both to the ground. Due to the sudden imapct, the goblin lost its grip on its weapon as it fell over. I had landed on top of it, so the goblin immediately tried to push me off. Holding my ground against the goblin, I punched towards the goblins face, completely forgetting the weapons I was using. Moving its neck, the goblin avoided my attack. Noticing that I could hold against its pushing, it turned sideways, so it was lying on its left arm. As it rolled, I fell onto the stone floor, before it got onto its knees and tried to strangle me.
In any other context, the goblin would've loved this. Rolling around on the floor, feeling up a resistant girl with a great body. However, it was currently fighting for its life, which put any unsavoury thoughts out of the goblin's mind.
Knocking aside its hands, I cut its wrists slightly. '...' I thought. 'HOW COULD I FORGET?' as the goblin's blood dripped onto my clothes, I rememberd I had extremely sharp claws. In the panic of the fight not going how I expected it, I had completely lost control of my thoughts. Mentally slapping myself in the face, I scythed my hand towards the goblins chest, leaving five relatively deep marks. The goblin tried to jump away, but I kicked my legs up and tripped it up before it could move far. Taking this chance, I frantically scrambled towards the goblin. Seeing my approach, it started screaming. The screaming only stopped when I had thoroughly eviscerated the goblin.
Gathering my thoughts, I stared at the disappearing body of the boss goblin. 'This should've been simple' I thought with a frown on my face. If I wanted to face soldiers in combat, I need to be able to kill an enemy on this level easily. Retrieving my bag, and extracting some food from it, I sat down to think about what I should do next. Before I took even a few bites from my food, I noticed something different. The boss goblin's body didn't simply turn to dust and diseappear. Instead, light blue strands of what I assumed was mana came out of the goblin's corpse and flew to the center of the domed arena before being joined by the ash-like remains. Scared that it would reform, I scrambled to my feet. Dungeon bosses do regenerate occasionally, the speed of which depending on the dungeon. I had never expected it to happen so soon! I got into a fighting stance while watching the boss' remains. However, instead of becoming the shape of a goblin, it became the shape of a long cuboid. Then, with a flash of light, the grey colour of the remains suddenly changed into dark wood and iron clasps, forming the shape of a treasure chest.
'...'
"A treasure chest?"
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