17 A Suspicious Ryan (1/2)

Shesmu walked slowly towards the dead goblin and pulled out his sword. Omega9 really have the worst of tastes. Making these monsters so realistic and have survival instinct…

Although his heart was still heavy, Shesmu kept his head high. From the corner of his eyes, he glanced at Leo.

The man was fighting with all of his might, he kept blocking with his sword most of the goblins' hits and whenever he saw an opportunity, he hit them with his sword.

However, even though he was putting a good fight, his HP was always on the decline due to the goblin from above throwing sharpened rocks at him. Shesmu was thinking about the goblins on top of the trees when he remembered the task given to DepressedRyan. He turned to look at the target that Ryan assigned to himself, only to see that it's still merrily throwing rocks at Leo. However, from beneath the branches of the tree, Shesmu could see a shadowy figure.

Oh, that's interesting…

Climbing a tree was already a hard task for a level 1 player. Doing so while not attracting any attention from the goblin on top was an unimaginable feat for a new player. Shesmu kept looking like the shadow slowly crept towards the goblin who was still unaware. The cold glint of the sword flashed for a second and DepressedRyan pounced on his target. Before it could even scream, he muffled its mouth and slashed its throat. He then activated empowered thrust and plunged it deep in the goblin's heart.

When Shesmu saw this scene unfold, he was at loss for words. He is definitely a pro. Is he someone from the future like me?!, Shesmu couldn't help but question.

Anyway, I'll talk to him later about this. For now, helping Leo takes the utmost priority.

Shesmu looked at Leo once again. Using inspect, he found that Leo only had 40 Hp left. However, before Shesmu could even Dash in to help him, Leo used Empowering Slash and took down one of the goblins. Surprised by this turn of event, Shesmu stopped for a second before thinking, Well, he is Leo after all.

”Leo, I'll leave the ones in the ground to you. I'll take care with Ryan of the ones on top, just don't die,” barked Shesmu. He then immediately ran towards one the surviving goblins on top of the tree before jumping. The branch on which the goblin stood was four meters above ground. No matter how one thought about it, they could never see a way where Shesmu could jump that distance. However, the moment Shesmu jumped was the moment he vanished. He appeared like a ghost in front of the poor goblin and performed Empowered Slash Cancel.

Shesmu then took hold of the branch with one hand and watched as the goblin fell down. The damage it took from falling down on its head was enough to kill it.

Shesmu turned to look for his next target only to see the last two goblins running away. He couldn't use Dash for another 8 seconds, and by that time they would have already run away due to their superior agility. Tch, guess I can't do anything about that.

Now that his primary targets were gone, Shesmu decided to help out Leo with the goblin he was fighting against. However, before he could even jump out of the branch, DepressedRyan appeared behind the goblin.

”Empowered Thrust!”

Plunging his sword deep into the goblin's heart, DepressedRyan took out its remaining Hp. Blood gushed out from the goblin's wound painting Ryan's face red before it fell down.

”Huff, thanks, Ryan. You are a lifesaver,” Leo was not in his best shape. He had to tank both the attacks of the goblins he was fighting against and the rocks that were thrown at him. At this point, he barely had 15 HP left.

”Don't worry about it. More importantly, how much exp did you get? They didn't say on the website how exp is shared so we might have to do some maths.”

Shesmu jumped off the branch he was holding on and walked towards the duo. ”Yeah, I'm interested too,” Shesmu said.

Leo checked his exp bar before replying, ”I got 70 exp overall.”

”Oh, so that means you got 30 exp from the kill I took. Interesting, I got the full 40. We can use this to our advantage to level up quickly. We should test how this whole system works as fast as possible, so we need more testing,” DepressedRyan replied, his voice implying his excitement and joy.

”Yeah, I think that's a good idea. I'm pumped up!” Leo exclaimed. The passion of Ryan rubbed onto him and he became excited too.

However, Shesmu decided to calm the duo down a little bit.