Chapter 159 Power leveling 3 (1/2)
as soon as Mars signaled to strike Victoria melted into a shadow which glided across the clearing until she was in the blind spot in the middle of the hobgoblins where she emerged from the shadow and punched on one of the hobgoblins while she fired spells at another 4, Mars took this as his signal to act and jumped out of the brushes before he kicked off the ground and stormed the nearest hobgoblin which was caught totally unprepared as it brought up its poorly made spear to block
'heh...'
time slowed down for Mars as he drew his sword and easily slashed through the poorly made spear as well as the neck of the hobgoblin with his sword, then he activated [Instant movement] and instantly cut open another 6 hobgoblins, this thinned the group down to 3 hobgoblins which instantly turned and tried to flee however 2 of them was stuck down by shadow spears impaling them and just like planned only one managed to escape, Mars gave a nod everything went as he had planned
”why did... you let... it go?”
”because now it will run home to its village”
Victoria tilted her head to the side as her horns flashed again
”village?”
”yeah, can you do me a favor Victoria?”
”sure..?”
”okay then I need you to follow that hobgoblin back to its village then return here when you have found its home”
”okay... now I... see”
”that's because your a smart girl, now go I'll clean up this place”
Mars gave a smile and patted Victoria on the head
”ehehe... then I'll... go now”
Victoria melted into the shadows and disappeared from Mars' view
”well then 16 class 4 cores that's 800 energy units... not bad at all”
Mars went to work with harvesting the magic beast cores while pilling the corpses in a pile in the middle of the clearing, after he was finished he sat down and meditated until nightfall when Victoria returned
”so how was it, did you find the village?”
”yes... it really... big too”
”nice, good job Victoria”
The next day a portal opened op in the clearing and soon Mars and Victoria stepped out of it and looked around, the pile of hobgoblin corpses had turned into a scattered pile cleanly picked bones, Mars however ignored this and kneeled down and patted Victoria on the head
”lead the way partner”
”okay...”
Victoria lead the way though the tropical forest, other than encountering a few low class magic beasts that didn't know how to measure the strength of their opponents their journey went smoothly and just as the sun reached its zenith they reached the outskirts of a medium sized village which was made up of small mud huts and encircled by a simple fence with a few fragile looking watchtowers, it looked almost like an early stone age village Mars had seen simulations of so many times before in his past life except there was no humans only hobgoblins inhabiting this village
”good job Victoria”
Mars kneeled down and petted Victoria on the head as he praised her, while some might see an idyllic village Mars saw a goldmine that he had to 'mine' in order to get stronger
”Victoria can you do me another favor?”
Victoria tilted her head as her horns flashed
”sure..?”
”thanks... then make sure no hobgoblin gets away”
”okay....”
Victoria melted into a shadow and left Mars alone as he drew his sword but right before he stood up form behind the brushes a scene flashed in his mind, blood filled the ground like a river, the small straw huts had been set aflame and the pain he felt when he first saw that scene this made him tighten the grip on his sword as he muttered
”I am not a good person...”
Mars stood up and began slowly walking towards the village while another scene flashed tough his mind, his loved ones turned into obsidian statues like the ones in the backyard of Yimir's mansion
”I have to get stronger...”