As a spear-wielding goblin and a sword-wielding goblin patrolled through a clearing in the dense forest around them together, when they suddenly heard a rustling noise from behind them. They both growled and spun around only to see a severed goblin head rolling on the ground. The goblins shrieked in alarm before raising their weapons and slowly approached the head of their dead comrade. The sword-wielding goblin poked the head with its blade, before bending down to inspect the head. But suddenly, without any warning, the goblin standing beside it crumpled to the ground with its head rolling off its neck and its weapon clattering to the floor.

"This {Enhance Sharpness} sure is useful, and it only takes two MP per minute to cast on a weapon." A voice suddenly came from behind the goblin.

The goblin quickly jumped up and spun around with its sword raised and ready to attack. The human standing before it suddenly rushed towards the goblin with his shortsword glowing a faint red. The goblin snarled and performed a horizontal slash at the human which caused him to promptly duck and punch the goblin straight in the stomach. It groaned before attempting to back away and regain an advantage, but the human rushed towards it once again. The goblin tried to hurriedly raise its sword to block, but it was too late as the human swung his blade towards the goblin's neck. With its sword slipping from its grip and dropping to the floor and its body and head separated, it crumpled to the floor.

[You have slain a Goblin. +10 Experience Points.]

Zero whistled in glee as he said to himself, "As I thought, guerilla tactics are the best. Status panel."

60/100 EXP

Name: Zero

Title:

Race: Human

Class:

Level: 3

HP: 135/150

MP: 14/24

STR: 4

END: 5

INT: 7

AGI: 4

"Forty more experience points to go until I reach level four, huh?"

That's four more regular goblins or two spear goblins and a regular goblin. It also seems like I'm getting better at killing goblins, with all the fights I'm going through. The difficulty of this Room isn't on the same level as the 5th Room at all. So this is what a Mini-Boss Room is like, huh...

WOONG!

A sudden ominous sound of a blaring horn interrupted Zero from his thoughts.

"I don't like the sound of that at all," Zero remarked as he stared in the direction where the noise came from. "Mind telling me what that was, system?"

[It seems like the goblins have caught on to your actions.]

"Is that so? I tried to hide the bodies as best as I could, but they still ended up being discovered."

What do I do now? The goblins will surely stick into bigger groups now. I can handle two, and maybe even three, with some injuries, but I doubt I can fight any more than that and win.

The system suddenly spoke up, [There are goblins with archery-based skills in this dungeon as well, host. I suggest you find one before they all band together.]

What is the system rambling on about now..? Wait.

"Shit, system! You're a genius! So you can actually be useful sometimes!"

[I'm going to ignore that comment, host.]

Zero then took off running in search of a goblin carrying any sort of bow. After five minutes of running, Zero found a spear goblin walking towards the sound of the horn with a goblin beside it. The goblin has a crudely-made shortbow in its hands, with a quiver full of arrows hanging on its shoulder.

Bingo.

Zero cast {Enhance Sharpness} on his trusty shortsword before jumping out and stabbing the spear goblin in the head.

[You have slain a Spear Goblin. +15 Experience Points.]

As the spear goblin fell to the ground, the goblin archer spun around and raised its bow in its hands in alarm. Zero then lunged towards it with his blade in his hand, with the archer goblin stumbling back and pulling an arrow out of its quiver. Then, Zero just stood still. The archer goblin's arrow glowed a faint green as the goblin placed the arrow onto the bow and released it towards Zero's body. He allowed the arrow to plunge into his body before letting out a pained grunt.

[Acquired Skill: Piercing Shot]

Zero then rushed towards the goblin and swung his blade at the goblin's neck. The goblin tried to flee but was a step too late as its head rolled off its shoulders.

[You have slain a Goblin Archer. +15 Experience Points.]

"You should have gone for the head," Zero said towards its now headless corpse.

Zero dropped his sword onto the ground and then leaned against a tree, grit his teeth, and gripped the shaft of the arrow lodged inside his body. He took a few deep breaths and then yanked the arrow out. Zero tried to be as quiet as possible as to not alert any enemies nearby, but still could not help but let out a few painful cries.

Shit, it hurts so bad, but I guess it's still better than dying. And also, I need ten more experience points to level up. I can do this. I should probably get moving now and go pick off some of the lone goblins.

Zero then picked up the shortbow from the dead goblin's hand, slung the quiver with all the arrows over his shoulder, grabbed his blade from the ground, and set off in search of more goblins.

Harry clutched his staff tighter in his hands as he walked down the eerie corridor. He came into this dungeon with five others, when they had asked him if he wanted to strike it rich when they found out he was a healer. He almost instantly agreed, without thinking about the consequences. By the time they reached the 6th Room, they were all exhausted but the leader of the party kept pushing them all to keep going. Harry chickened out and asked the leader if he could leave first. The leader put up some resistance, but eventually agreed, probably thinking that there was one less person to split the spoils with.

Now Harry was left all alone in the dungeon with no idea what happened to his teammates.

UGH! I'm so stupid! Why did I ask to leave? Now all the hard work I put into healing them all won't be rewarded. Also, what if the monsters have already respawned? What can I do? I only know how to heal, not to fight! Maybe I can go back and ask to rejoin their party..? Will they accept me back?

Harry was lost in his thoughts as he paced outside the entrance to the 4th Room; the Mini-Boss room.