Chapter 24: The Best Defence. (1/2)

For the brief , and one had leaned down to inspect the body, revealing its neck to Merlin as staring down at it fro loose both of the arrows that were nocked One arrohere he was aioblin's neck, the other arro off course, hitting the other goblin in the shoulder After letting loose the arrows, the bow Merlin was using snapped in half

Although New Genesis was a gaaaame's balance, and one of these balances was te in New Genesis, the corpse didn'tthere was a moment in time where the corpse was still present in the world as a physical object, along with all of the equipment on its body, this equipment was called temporary equipment

Temporary equipment was as the name implies, temporary They either had limited durability or a time limit, and unlike their item drop counterparts, couldn't be stored away in your inventory Another major factor of temporary items was that they had a fraction of the stats of their item drop counterparts, and typically lacked any of the special abilities that the itehlighted in sohted depended on the item in question, but the consistent part was that it stood out in the environlance

Merlin dropped the bow and unsheathed his sword, before dropping off of the branch onto one of the goblins As Merlin fell, the goblin who got shot in the shoulder looked up, only to see the glint of a sword as it pierced its eye As Merlin continued to fall, the sas pushed further into the goblin, practically cleaving it half as his entire body weight and the gravity behind his fall was put into the force of the blade

「Goblins re: 1」

Merlin pulled the sword out, but it was co it functionally useless The other goblin as holding its throat in desperation noticed Merlin It unsheathed its dagger and thrust it towards Merlin

Merlin threw his sword aside for theto twist his body away froer, in one swift motion he pulled the last arrow frooblin's throat

The wooden shaft of the arrow shattered, leaving splinters in Merlin's sword hand Unfortunately the shaft shattered before the arrow head could be wedged deep within the goblin's throat, Merlin hadn't dealt enough daoblin thrust its dagger once er into Merlin's side All Merlin could feel was a painful piercing sensation in his side, it wasn't pleasant but Merlin couldn't say it was excruciating either, although he was used to it at this point

A dae notification appeared in Merlin's vision

「7 danificant, especially at level zero It would have left a regular level zero player on three health, however Merlin had an extra ten health due to the additional point in vitality frooblin ripped the dagger out of Merlin, a rush of pain flowed up his side once ain, sending a wide swing at the goblin's head with his shi+eld, knocking the goblin back a few steps Merlin didn't have a sword on hand, and his free hand was currently full of splinters, so his only option was to beat the goblin to death with his shi+eld

Not giving the goblin a chance to recover, Merlin rushed forward at the goblin The goblin atte it would connect, but Merlin blocked the dagger with his shi+eld, slapping it out of the goblin's hands Merlin swung his ar it with the flat of his shi+eld, knocking it to the ground

shi+elds weren't weapons, so they typically only did standard bludgeoning dah iteh there were exceptions to this, and there were even e dealt by shi+elds But it was overall not worth the effort as they didn't coular weapon Merlin stood above the goblin, forcibly soblin's face, only to retract his shi+eld and repeat once : 0」

「You have coe III", talk to General Perakeles to receive your rewards」

After a couple strikes, the goblin's face had been forcibly rearranged Merlin used the rag the goblin wore as clothing to wipe the slick black blood from the rim of his shi+eld, as he stood back up, he noticed that anotherhad appeared

「You've been granted the title, "The Best Defence (Beginner)"」

Merlin laughed when he saw the popup, this was one of the arded as one of the ame Merlin checked the title's stats

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