141 Contrived!
The scenery scared the non-living shit out of Skullius as to Red Rage, it only served to bring him joy.
What the flesh was there to be happy about when they were facing a horde of more than fifty monsters?!
Behind the two, an illusory slit could be seen as while on the outside, a crack in space could be seen, what the creatures within this mini space saw was merely this. A sign that their time for escaping from this place was nearing.
Skullius couldn’t even take in the scenery that was all around. A certain irritation that almost suffocated him was abounding along with a collection of energies that he wasn’t privy to, except mana!
It irritated his core, the feeling being extremely uncomfortable.
On top of this, his eyes couldn’t tear away from the growling beasts that advanced slowly.
They were…
“Goblins? No… it can’t be…” Skullius guessed and then rejected his own inference.
Short creatures with long ears, round faces and wide mouths that held tens of sharp teeth all exuded an unreal hostility at these invaders.
They had pitch-black skin and torch-like blue, beady eyes that illuminated the view of their enemy along with freakishly long arms that almost dragged along the ground as they moved forward.
In stark contrast, their legs were much shorter, bearing long nails that didn’t at all look sanitary.
The most distinctive feature about these creatures was the pulsing thing on their chests that was heart-shaped, half exposed from the skin with the same blue colour as their eyes.
In all fairness, the hearts were only half, making the image of one of these quite bizarre.
The surroundings looked like a not so wide cave with red and blue soils as well as thick vines that stemmed from weirdly shaped trees that coiled around themselves eerily, having not the healthy spark of life but something else entirely.
A thick interweaving of energies.
Special gems that gleamed to illuminate the darkness that would be present otherwise, holding an otherworldly beauty decorated the cave-like walls.
Such a scene could not be found in Aigas.
Only in a Cluster, where different creations would be born and precious resources accumulated over time.
“Bro, why are you happy?!” Skullius asked Red Rage, receiving an immediate reply as he stood up to take up a stance.
“These guys are weak and perfect for me to kill for experience? I guess they can help me level up if there are any Tier 2s among them but are you sure they are weak?”
The Discount Human used his guidance field to check the stats of these beasts as he spoke.
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[ Name : None ]
[ Tier : 2 ]
[ Level : 11 ]
[ Race : Lucky Strike Gremlin ]
[ Inv. Status : Starving ]
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[ Stats ]
[ Strength : 100 ]
[Agility : 40 ]
[ Intelligence : 5 ]
[ Endurance : 67 ]
[ Luck : 90 ]
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[ Health : 336/336 ]
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[ Mana : 90/90 ]
….
“Ummm… those stats make me nervous,” Skullius remarked as he pulled out the Baleful Gale Reaper.
The first red flag that he saw was the name of this creature, which was further solidified when he saw its luck stat.
“Ridiculous! Blessings like these exist?!”
The Discount Human felt the unfairness of the world.
“EAEAEAEAEAEAEAEAAAAAAAA!”
The gremlins screeched as they rushed to Skullius and Red Rage with their naked bodies that didn’t have any goods to hide!
Their speed was relatively slower as by now, Skullius was used to fighting strong powerhouses but that detail alone didn’t allow him to let his guard down.
These creatures had more than two stats after all and though they weirdly had a shockingly low intelligence stat, they had a freakish level of strength for their Tier!
Red Rage boldly stepped up to meet the slow charge.
“Don’t kill them! Leave those you can for me!” Skullius said, Red Rage transmitting to him that he didn’t want to the gremlins either.
For Skullius, after studying the thing with his Task for levelling up, he had discovered something that he intended to test out after killing a gremlin and for Red Rage, he wasn’t into murder anymore at least unless it serves a greater purpose.
As the leading gremlin arrived while screeching and waddling like a penguin, the unexpected happened.
A large chunk of the cave suddenly dropped from the ceiling and crashed on top of Red Rage before the Pelvis Boar-Man could act!
BOOM!
The chunk was so large that Red Rage’s body couldn’t even be seen underneath where dust was settling after a loud reverberating impact!
“Bro…WHAT?!” Skullius exclaimed as he readied himself for the charge while backtracking a bit.
Unfortunately for him, a tangled vine was behind him and he tripped, falling backwards while he showed an expression of shock!
The first gremlin didn’t miss this chance, dashing up to Skullius as it then hammered down with its freakishly long arm that had its hand balled into a fist!
“Crap!” Skullius hurriedly held the Baleful Gale Reaper as he blocked the attack, bits of soil from the ceiling impeding his vision out of nowhere!
The fist of the gremlin that attacked him knocked against the sword, Skullius feeling the midget’s strength bear him deep into the ground!
“It’s strong!”
More of the gremlins waddled to Skullius’ position as he was pinned, the Discount Human pushing with his strength that was above the gremlin’s own and driving it a few steps back!
He immediately stood straight and slashed with all just might while inserting a bit of mana into the sword which produced hissing winds that threatened to rip the gremlin before him apart!
However…
SWISH! SWISH! SWISH!
Skullius missed thrice even as he struck precisely at the gremlin which greatly shocked him.
“The hell?!”
CRACK!
The large chunk of the cave that had fallen over Red Rage cracked as intense golden energy pounded on it from underneath!
The Pelvis Boar-Man was rising!
‘Great! With Red bro back, I can-“
BOOOOOOM!
A much larger chunk of the cave stomped over the one that was currently above Red Rage, burying the Pelvis Boar-Man deeper into the ground!
“….”
Skullius was beyond dumbfounded.
As he was staring at this contrived convenience, one of the gremlins threw its fist into his belly, the Discount Human flying and crashing on the ground!
He quickly rolled while vomiting fizzy ‘blood’ when another piece of unhappy news was dropped onto his head!
[You have been struck by the skill ‘Critical Lucky Strike’. You have sustained heavy damage]
“GAAAAH!” Skullius roared in rage at this ridiculousness.