Chapter 25: Dark Vision
On the second day, Kyle and Nine after having a good night's sleep, started hunting goblins again. But the number of monsters started to decrease the further they moved in the tunnel.
After a few more hours of walking, they finally saw some light in the distance.
"Is it the exit?"
Kyle exclaimed before increasing his speed and heading straight toward the light.
Seeing Kyle speeding up, Nine who was beside him also increased his speed until they finally reached the source of light.
Nine looked at the sight before him with narrowed eyes and Said,
"What is this place?"
In front of them was a large open area filled with stones of different sizes. On their left were four more tunnels the same as they come from. At the far end of the open space, there was a huge cave where the light was coming from.
A Goblin warrior emitting the aura of (-E)-Rank was standing guard in front of the cave. That Goblin warrior looked just like the one they saw before entering the tunnel, only smaller in stature.
Holding an axe in one hand and a big shield in the other, the Goblin was continuously moving left and right, making it impossible for anyone to enter inside without getting spotted.
After taking a good look at the Goblin warrior Nine mumbled under his breath,
"I wonder if we can kill it..."
He was only (F)-Rank. On the other hand, the Goblin was emitting an aura of (-E)-Rank. Even though the only difference between them was two sub-ranks, but the monsters were more powerful than humans. To defeat a monster of the same rank one needs to be a sub-rank higher than the monster.
As Nine was still thinking about how to kill the Goblin warrior. Kyle said seriously,
"Let's not waste time, we can defeat it if we attack together."
Nine nodded and both of them slowly started closing the distance between the Goblin warrior from opposite directions.
The First one to attack was Nine, he swung his sword at the Goblin warrior from behind trying to catch it off guard. But the goblin warrior sensed the attack and blocked it using the axe. But before the goblin warrior could deflect Nine attack, Kyle threw a huge fireball on its head making it cry in pain.
-GAAAHH!
The fireball did injure the Goblin warrior but the injuries were minor, not affecting the Goblin warrior. Taking advantage of the momentum, when the Goblin warrior was distracted due to Kyle's attack, Nine shifted his body a little and attacked the Goblin with his strongest sword attack.
["Impending Rain"]
As Nine slashed his sword vertically, a huge gash appeared on the Goblin's shoulder, and before the Goblin could cry in pain, Kyle thrust his sword at the Goblin aiming straight for the heart.
Kyle directly pierced the Goblin's heart and its huge body lifelessly collapsed on the hard stones making a loud sound.
-Thud!
Both Kyle and Nine looked at each other smiling while panting heavily.
Afterward, they checked the Goblin body in the hope of finding any skill core but they didn't even find a core. Kyle sighed and shook his head with disappointment before gesturing for Nine to enter inside.
"Let's check inside."
Both of them slowly made their way inside the huge cave.
They were hoping to find something special, but the only thing that awaited their arrival was a small Goblin. The goblin was holding a pixel while talking to himself in a strange language.
Kyle narrowed his eyes and looked at the goblin whose size was even smaller than his leg.
He moved toward the small Goblin who was busy talking to himself.
"The heck, was the Goblin warrior protecting his child?"
Nine also sighed and followed behind Kyle. The Goblin warrior was emitting the aura of (-F)-Rank, the lowest they have fought up until now.
And before the small goblin knew that some trespassers had entered his territory, his head was cleanly cut off by Kyle.
Kyle looked at the lifeless body of the Goblin and even though he expected nothing from it, he still cut the body with his sword to look for a core.
As he was looking inside the body of the goblin with disinterest, a small shining orb appeared at the place where the Goblin's heart was. And the orb didn't disappear even after coming in contact with the atmosphere.
Nine looked at the shining orb with disbelief,
"No way..."
Finding a skill core was very hard, only after killing a thousand monsters can one have a chance of finding a single skill core.
Even Kyle showed a surprised expression, he didn't expect this small goblin he killed with the flick of his finger, to have a core. And on top of that, it was a core containing a skill!
Both of them looked at the shining small core which was the size of a finger. Now the question was who would learn the skill.
Kyle looked at the core and then at the Goblin, his thoughts were,
'It's a Goblin core, what skill can a small goblin which was not even (F)-Rank have?'
He was sure that the skill would be something useless, that's why he didn't want to learn it. Kyle threw the core toward Nine.
Nine caught the core and looked at Kyle with shock, a skill core was very precious and Kyle was just giving it to him.
"Use it. I don't think it will be any special, considering it belongs to this little fella."
Nine hearing Kyle's words, didn't hesitate anymore and absorbed the core. The moment he did so a large amount of knowledge about the skill entered inside his head.
Kyle looked at Nine and Questioned,
"What skill was it?"
Nine smiled,
"Dark vision."
He changed his black eyes into green showing Kyle the skill. Dark vision wasn't a high-rank skill, but it was quite useful during night battles.
Kyle cursed and kicked the dead body of the Goblin.
"Dam it."
Who would have thought this small (-F)-Rank Goblin had dark vision? If he knew the skill would be useful he would have used it himself.
Seeing Kyle's regretful gaze, Nine averted his eyes and said,
"Let's look for more Goblins to kill because in another few hours, we are going to be teleported out from the dungeon."
Kyle sighed. Afterward, both of them started walking toward the opening they entered from, because even after looking around for a while they didn't find another path inside the huge cave.