Capítulo 4: Draugr and Target

[Status]

Name: ----

Race: Skeleton (Undead)

Level: 2

Class: -----

Sub-Class: ----

Health: 200

Mana: 10

Attribute Points: 0

Attributes: Strength: 6 Agility: 3 Intelligence: 1 Endurance: 4

[Talents] [Undead] [Sin of Wrath]

[Skills] --

[Remark: Weakest Undead that there is...Although they are spooky and scary, their Strength is at rock bottom! With you being the bottom!]

"So leveling up increases my attributes, I can already feel the difference of power that is flowing through my body."

"I should find a way to gather more XP in the future, but for now I should get out of here before something else like the goblins comes and finds me..."

After confirming that he got everything that he needed he went in a different way of the path from before and after walking for a few minutes he suddenly heard something.

*Thud!

"Where did that sound come from?" He said as he turn his head towards the noise direction.

An echo of a sound, although faint, it seemed like it came from somewhere at the top.

"It's probably a rock that fell into the lake...It shouldn't be anything to worry about." He thouhg before I continued to walk the path until my silhouette couldn`t be seen.

***

"Open the gates! They have returned! Hurry and open the gates!" Sounds of chains being pulled could be heard behind the massive gate slowly opening.

From the other side of the gate emerged soldiers with two different kinds of armor. Ones with shabby armor that didn't look like they were being taken care of at all, while the other soldiers had better-looking armor that wasn`t damaged at all together with some red cloth and a crest on their chest plate that had as a symbol of a hand holding an orb.

Leading these soldiers with the crest was a man with a massive build of 2 meters tall, with this full-body armor and a deep red cloth that resembles the color of blood, he looked like a knight that had his armor bathed in blood. This very knight called out those who were coming from other side of the gate.

"Young Master! Are you alright!"

Coming out of the gate were three similar-looking soldiers with those with the red cloth but only with fancier armor. Walking beside them was one young man that wore incredible-looking armor with some kind of red crystal that barely glowed, it showed that this young man wore enchanted armor.

This very young man answered the call of the blood armored knight

"So you even came...Raph-." Before the young man could finish his sentence, he collapsed to his knees while gripping his shoulder which showed signs of bleeding.

Seeing the pale face of the young man, the blood-armored knight dashed towards him and reached him in an instant. "Young Master! Are you alright?! What happend-" His glare was filled shock and his killing intent went towards the three soldiers beside the young man. Feeling the killing intent run through their spines the soldiers shivered from fear.

But on the inside, they felt more ashamed than afraid.

'We couldn`t protect the young master.' They thought internally.

But before the blood armored knight could finish, he was shortly after interrupted by the young master "Rapha... I am sorry...It took the sword that was given to me..."

Hearing this, the blood knight Rapha raised their brows and asked back "What!? Do you mean the sword that the son of the master blacksmith had given to you!? Who stole it! Which bastard dared to take it from you?"

Seeing the surprised Rapha, the young master's head looked down with shame. "I am sorry Rapha, I didn`t know that something like this- Something like this wasn`t supposed to show up inside that dungeon! That monster..."

Hearing this, Rapha's eyes went wide open. He knew that there was only one dungeon near their city and there wasn´t supposed to be anything strong inside that dungeon though. He trained the young master himself and he knew his strength the best, the worst that can come out from such a dungeon can be some goblin or some mindless undead...

A pure excuse for a dungeon.

With doubt in this voice, Rapha asked " What did you meet inside there?".

"It was a..." Recalling the monster with those ethereal blue glowing eyes that stared back at him in this cave, cold sweat came from his back.

"It was a Draugr!"

****

"K-Kgh!"

In the dark path inside the dungeon, a screeching voice could be hurt.

Those screams were of no other that from goblins.

Here was I fighting another group of 4 goblins not long after my first fight... or rather than fighting, it was more like chasing them to death.

Since this group didn`t have a `warrior´ goblin like the other group, he was easily able to kill that group without putting much of any effort, after all my attributes increased. Even though my overall strength was only slightly improved.

It was still dominating towards those goblins!

To the weaklings that these goblins were, the strength I showed terrified them. The Usual Skeletons that these goblins had faced before were the mindless ones that would only focus on one of them and forget the others, only changing their targets when one of the targeted goblin had either died or had run away and was out of their reach.

To the goblins, sacrificing one of their kind to kill their foes was a win-win situation for them! Killing their foe and looting their possession was their nature, but sharing the loot with their kind was not. Lowering the numbers allowed them to get more of the loot after all.

If there is no competition, there is also no sharing!

Two birds with one stone!

But such a tactic didn´t work on powerful enemies that didn´t lack any intelligence.

"Sigh, chasing those guys was quite annoying but at least they get tired pretty fast." He muttered to himself.

Now I understand what it means to never tire. While my enemies are bound to get exhausted, I will still be tireless!

"Kihaha~!, Undead are indeed the superior race!" After laughing and after fooling around for a bit, I decided to continue my path.

"Hmm, but still, where do these goblins come from? They always seem to be in a group, which should mean that they live somewhere together, right?" He pondered to himself.

After walking for a while longer it suddenly hit me.

"...A home huh? Right... It should be fine for now since I don't carry much, but I eventually would need a place to keep all those items that I carry, or rather junk..." He said while gazing at the fellow's sword with worry.

Although it was a good sword, it already showed signs of the blade losing its edge and having more tends.

"Sigh, I shouldn`t worry about that right now, I gathered around 800 XP with those goblins, rather that worrying about that, I should think if I should use the XP or not."

The three goblins had given me 200 XP while one gave me 150 XP. Since the 2 were level 2 goblins, they gave me a little more XP than the one goblin that was level 1. This confirmed that the stronger the enemies were, the more XP they would give me.

"What should I do now though? Spending 500 XP to increase my level or wait to get enough for [Lower Weapon Mastery Lv.1]?"

After thinking about it, he decided to wait until he could get [Lower Weapon Mastery Lv.1]. Since the only enemy seemed to be goblins. And since he was so dominating again them, he didn´t really see a need to increase his level as they were relatively weak.

`And If I find myself in an urgent situation I can still use the gathered XP to increase my level.´ He though.

"Well, nothing that can be done about it, unless I find another group of goblins of course. But now I should be focused on finding a place to stay to store the junk that I find, that, and it doesn`t look like my sword will last for long..." I looked at my sword again only to find myself sighing in depression.

"Sigh, maybe I should find another skeleton and get his weapon...He wouldn`t mind, right? They are mindless and the fellow was fairly friendly towards me (I think), maybe if I replace his weapon with one of the goblin's weapons he wouldn´t notice, right? I mean, since they are mindless they wouldn`t notice the difference between a dagger and a sword, right?"

With such thoughts in mind, several hours of walking aimlessly had passed. In those hours I was able to have a basic understanding of the area around the lake. They were two different paths that I haven`t explored yet, but that didn`t matter much now.

Why?

Cause I already found the place where I was going to claim as my home!

Near the opposite side of the lake where I started from, behind some stacked rocks that looked like they were placed by someone else was a hole, although the rocks were supposed to hide the hole behind, the rocks didn't help much with hiding it. The cave that I had my eyes on had unfortunately been already taken by a large group of goblins. But that didn`t matter in his eyes though.

"Ah, unfortunate, so, unfortunately. It's truly sad" I shook my head with an expression (not that I have one) similar to when you drop a double ball of ice cream after one lick in the ground.

"Well...it isn't like it is I that will face such unfortunate here though" Unconsciously I had put a vicious grin on my face and my eyes showed a spark of dark green light which instantly disappeared right after appearing.