Classless Ascension Chapter 12
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Goblins.
Small green humanoid creatures, usually wielding short swords or even knives in some cases.
At that moment, the state of these enemies was pitiful. They were limbless, screaming in agony and wriggling on the floor. Josh had chopped all of their members quickly.
He was now in the process of trying to replicate the skill he had seen. How hard could a mana slash be? Very hard!
This could be judged by the number of corpses. All of these now lifeless goblins had been used as training dummies.
Floor 4 was one with the landscape of a plain. Vast and peaceful at first glance.
After walking for a while one would find goblin villages. Each contained 50 goblins: 1 Elite, 10 Uncommon, and Creeps. Josh had counted them diligently.
This was something most parties would have approached carefully. After all, going from 5 enemies at once to 50 was a huge hurdle.
There was one saving grace, however. It was possible to slowly bait its inhabitants away. This way one could slowly chip at their numbers. Josh obviously thought of that but did not care.
He simply walked in and started slashing. Thus he started a massacre worthy of a horror movie.
Even after killing all 50 of them, Josh's training yielded no result.
In turn, he simply went toward the next village…Then the next and the next and the next.
Every time, he would simply send limbs flying as he progressed.
He had managed to feel the energy that gave him XP. He was able to gather it. However, using mana itself proved troublesome.
The fact that he had a mana stat in the first place gave him hope. Especially that his mana was growing with every level up. Yet he couldn't seem to use it no matter what. But he nevertheless kept going even with a lack of result.
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Incidentally, he had completed the mission long ago. It was to destroy one village.
As he kept moving, Josh eventually saw a bigger village. One that had about a hundred goblins in it.
As he swaggered in, he was confronted with tons of enemies. He also saw a mini-boss for the first time, 2 of them in fact. Both had yellow names.
It was the first time Josh encountered magic.
How does one fight a fireball with a dagger? The answer is one doesn't. You just fucking dodge!
The Shaman kept throwing small fireballs, apparently infinitely.
Each caused a small crater in the ground upon impact.
Josh couldn't help but look on enviously.
He figured that there was a small homing aspect to the attack. Thus, making dodging with small motions almost impossible.
Josh quickly came up with an extremely easy counter. He simply went right into the biggest enemy group he could find. One fireball, one goblin used as a meat shield!
It turned out that friendly fire was enabled. At least judging by the cries of misery of the goblin Josh held.
What use was a great power with low accuracy? None whatsoever!
Still, Josh understood one thing. If a goblin showed such power from a skill on Floor 4… Skills would quickly become vital.
Josh then understood the stigma against classless people. Simply leveling up would not suffice. Thus he kept trying to practice mana slashing.
That is when an item finally dropped.
[- Rank: Goblin Boots.]
After equipping them, Josh barely noticed a difference. If anything it would probably give a break to his sneakers. Sneakers that he had somehow kept wearing this whole time.
In prison, no guard had dared take them away. They had also followed him to this new world.
He waited an hour wondering how the respawn would work here. Weirdly it wasn't happening. Josh decided to leave to try and find other villages.
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Just as he was leaving, he saw a red light behind him. It had coincided with the exact moment he had left the area. Maybe such a system was because of the nature of the spawn?
They would naturally appear in their houses. Perhaps it was to prevent spawn kills. It would have made it too easy.
Not that it mattered too much. Josh headed back in and had lots of fun.
On that note, he leveled up. Putting all points into Strength and Agility again he kept going. All until he finally reached level 5.
In the process, he acquired some goblin teeth, whatever that was used for, and another pair of boots.
He had spent enough time on this floor already.
Then he exited the Tower before looking to sell his loot. It was night.
The shop he went to was open 24 hours and was manned by a U-bot. Josh couldn't help but admire his gains.
Josh Malum Lv5
#STATS# (10)
HP: 500
Mana:500
Magic Ability:50
Strength:100
Agility:100
Defense:5
Magic Resist:5
#SKILLS# (10)
-F Weapon Mastery
[Credits: 56]
Just as Josh was exiting the shop, he saw something in a nearby alley. There was a man threatening a young lady with a knife. Normally Josh may have simply ignored it, but he was in a good mood.
For once he decided to do a good deed. It was totally unrelated to how pretty the girl was. Thus, he walked over to the thief and simply glared at him.
"Y-you! What are you glaring at?!" Barked the man.
Josh silently kept glaring
"Y-you! I'm feeling merciful today, so I'll leave you alone!"
Then the man retreated quickly.
"My hero!"
The young lady then threw herself into Josh's arms, thanking him profusely. She shyly looked up to him with doe eyes. All the while gently guiding his right hand toward her chest. Then she softly whispered: "How about I show you my appreciation somewhere more private?"
That is when Josh slowly raised his hand... Bringing it closer to her face and... Bitch-slapped her hard before leaving.
The bitch had tried stealing his UW while he was distracted!
He guessed it was probably extremely valuable.
Still, it seemed dumb to him. Chances were anyone possessing one would eventually enter the Tower. Making such an enemy would be unwise.
Then again, there were other cities too. Josh guessed that disappearing wouldn't be impossible. Especially with the technology available. Plastic surgery was bound to be possible.
Either way, Josh simply disregarded the incident.
Josh started browsing forums again. He saw a thread about a newcomer despairing about the mini bosses on floor 4. Most answers were to simply evade the biggest village. That it wasn't worth it.
Josh would enlighten them.
JustBuyingSoySauce: "Just use other goblins to block the projectiles. ;)"
Before long he got many answers saying that those were homing. That it was the fastest way to die. Then a message appeared again.
…
It couldn't be helped.
Josh checked the basic information for Floor 5. As Dale had said it would be a one-on-one challenge.
How exciting!
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