Gripping the dagger tight in his hand, he charged ahead with a plan in his mind. Now he had an extra point to consider because he had to make sure that the dagger didn't break midway.
This would make Ramon_Night win by default and Reyansh was somewhat sure that he would probably be betting on that.
He could use his fist only once, which he wanted to save for the elite monster, final boss of grade I dungeon.
First goblin was armed with a short sword, Reyansh blocked his attack with his shield and slashed at his neck, causing a deep cut. The goblin clutched his neck, becoming incapacitated.
Next, two goblins came from both sides with club and dagger respectively. Reyansh ducked and slashed one goblin on thigh, leaving a deep gash and goblin writhing in pain.
Other goblin became a bit flustered seeing the condition of his colleague, hesitating for a moment. This gave Reyansh an opening to slash the goblin's neck, the goblin followed his predecessor to the grave.
Now with three goblins out of the picture, this fight seemed much easier. However, the three goblins launched an attack from three sides. Reyansh frantically dived sideways to dodge the first attack.
Before he could retaliate, another attack came from the side prompting him to avoid the strike again. Rolling to the side, Reyansh stood, facing three goblins in front.
[Ramon_Night: Stupid goblins, you guys can't even take out a single human with rusty dagger!]
A genuine smile appeared on Reyansh's face, watching the frustration of Ramon_Night bleeding through the screen.
Reyansh walked slowly towards the goblins while they surrounded him from three sides. One goblin pushed his spear forward with aim to pierce Reyansh's torso.
Using the momentum of the thrust, he deflected the spear, lodging it in the leg of another goblin with club.
While two goblin were engaged with each other, Reyansh pressed on towards the last goblin. This goblin also had a shield in his hands.
As Reyansh charged, both shield collided. The goblin aimed his punch from below towards the gut. Moving slightly sideways, Reyansh allowed the punch to graze through.
He used the opening to slash the neck of the goblin with his full strength. The last goblin fell down, without wasting any moment, Reyansh stomped on every goblin's neck, dealing fatal damage.
He only stopped when he got the kill notification, however the notification didn't stop there, as one more panel popped up.
[Due to repeated and precise act of particular form of attack…you have created your first skill]
[You have created a Common rank, 6 ☆ skill – Deep Slash]
[Conditions met…]
[Congratulations, you have gained a title – Pioneer of Skills]
[Ramon_Night: Damn it, worthless human. Don't get ahead of yourself, you will become my blood bag.]
[Storm_Knight: Quit your yapping blood sucker. Let us enjoy the fight.]
[Ramon_Night: Who do you think you are talking to?]
[Diamond_King: Why didn't your father tell you who you are? I am interested in seeing this fellow complete this challenge.]
[Daoist_kun: Yeah, I was more worried about the dagger but it seem this fellow has figured it out. I hope he's able to manage that moving forward.]
[Ramon_Night: Humph! I don't talk with food. I am also interested in watching him struggle as he falls in despair.]
[Red Falcon has donated 1 Cosmic Coin for your battle sense.]
[You have obtained 100 Cosmic Coins due to effect of the Perk 1]
While Reyansh stored the bodies of goblins in inventory, a small fight occurred and subsided in stream chat. Reyansh looked at the chat and notification while moving forward.
He wanted to view details about his newly earned title and skill but time constraints of challenge prevented him from doing so.
"I will try my best to not become your blood bag Ramon_Night. Thank you for defending me guys but please refrain from using abusive language unnecessarily."
"Thank you for your donations, I will be focusing on the challenge from now on, so I won't be able respond to your comments. But please keep supporting me." He concluded his address to the viewers.
[The Blazing Sandra: Well said, StarWalker]
Reaffirming his grip on the dagger he moved forward. After fighting against more than ten goblins, there was slight in ache in body.
He felt soreness in his muscles as he took his steps, for all the preparedness, this was his first time physically exerting himself in a short duration.
Every step felt much heavier but stopping wasn't an option now. Keeping his eye on the prize, he kept stepping forward nonetheless.
He glanced at viewers count one last time before completely focusing on fights ahead.
[Viewers:10]
Satisfied with the count, he moved with confidence amidst the aching body.
For next forty minutes, Reyansh single handedly eliminated around 30 more goblins. Though they never came in group of 6 anymore but they were continuous as Reyansh reached the inner layer.
He didn't change his fighting style rather tried to be as precise as possible. Every goblin that he confronted had his neck slashed or stomped upon after having highly bleeding thigh injury.
After passing the threshold of killing twenty goblin, his precision was like a machine and time required to kill a goblin decreased even further.
His recently created skill even had leveled up to Uncommon, 1 ☆ after 40th kill.
[Viewers: 30]
As Reyansh killed the 40th goblin, the chat which had occasional message of donation from Red Falcon, Daoist_kun and Storm_Knight, exploded as he reached near dungeon boss lair, Goblin Den.
[Storm_Knight: Hell yeah brother! Push a little more, you got this.]
[Daoist_kun: I didn't even saw him using any potion after I joined in.]
[Ellise: This newbie is smart and gritty, I hope he wins the challenge.]
[Fiery_Redina: Where did the blood sucker go?]
[Storm_Knight: Probably coughing up blood somewhere…haha]
While chat was enjoying the grit and struggle of Reyansh. He stood near a tree outside the goblin den. He was sweating profusely, now even a twitch in muscle caused him pain.
While breathing heavily under the shade of tree, he started preparing mentally to face the boss of the dungeon, probably a goblin warrior or a hobgoblin.
He noticed the timer or the challenge – 15:34
A panel lit up in front of him as he was readying himself.
[The Blazing Sandra has gifted you a Rare ranked Stamina Recovery Potion.]
[Would you like to apply Perk 1 on quality or quantity? Please choose.]
A smile appeared on labored face of Reyansh, as he responded, "Thank you for your support Blazing Sandra but I am sorry, I won't use it at the moment. I am trying to find my limit, so I hope you won't mind."
[Storm_Knight: Bro take the potion quickly, don't take unnecessary risk]
[Ellise: Do you really have the gut to face the boss in this situation?]
"You guys have trusted me till now to complete the challenge. Please trust me for 10 more minutes." He proposed.
[The Blazing Sandra: All the best]
The chat became completely silent for first time, while this may seem arrogant to others. But to Reyansh this was the perfect time to test his talent, Adaptive Apex.
Because besides all the gain of cosmic coins and skill upgrade, the most important thing he noticed was whenever he felt he was at limit, he would feel a rise in energy in his body allowing him to move for few more minutes.
So he really wanted to test the limit of his talent by fighting with boss. After taking a deep breath and exhaling, he stepped towards den with almost broken shield and dagger in another hand.
Just as he entered the den, he felt a shift in the air as it became heavier, like laced with aura of a predator. After facing around forty goblins, his perception had refined a bit, so he knew immediately, this won't be easy.
After a few step into the den, a monster with height almost similar to Reyansh came into view. The only similarity between the goblins and this monster was his green skin.
Clad with armor and gauntlets, he appeared as a proper warrior.
[Ellise: It's goblin warrior, your chances just increased.]
[Daoist_kun: Go for it, brother]
The goblin warrior first eyed the human that entered his den but seeing no movement to attack, the goblin charged towards the intruder.
Reyansh rolled to the side avoiding the warrior's punch. The goblin turned and attacked again, Reyansh moved sideways and slashed at exposed skin, resulting in shallow wound.
For the first time since he started slashing, the wound was too shallow. Unaffected by the small nicks, he swiped his hand toward the head of Reyansh.
He dodged barely this time and attacked at the exposed thigh again but the result remained same.
[Storm_Knight: Keep at it brother, we are rooting for you.]
Feeling a bit frustrated due the intruder human, the goblin warrior swiped both his hands, trying to grab Reyansh.
Expecting such response from goblin, Reyansh dodged by rolling over, facing the back side of goblin.
Sensing an opportunity, holding the dagger tight, Reyansh aimed directly at the neck of the goblin, trying to pierce it in one go.
However, the expected sound of metal piercing flesh did not occur instead, with a clunk sound, the rusted dagger broke on the exposed skin of goblin.
[Ramon_Night: Hahaha….be more cocky, blood bag. You are finished.]
[Daoist_kun: Oh Shit!]