7 In Trouble (1/2)

-In Front of the Cave-

While waiting for them to come, I checked again if my Masteries increased.

Masteries

Battle Mastery 15

Light Armor Mastery 10

Light Weapon Mastery 10

Fire Mastery 5

Stealth Mastery 5

Bare Hands Mastery 5

Almost all the Masteries are still low level and I wasn't able to use my Shield so I didn't have the chance to learn it. Maybe there's a point where I can increase it.

Bare Hands Mastery increases my unarmed combat abilities also greatly improves my movements because of weight reduction from not using weapons. It increases my agility. Basically, my last resort when I am disarmed or my weapon's broken.

I heard my belly growling really loud. I can feel that I'm already hungry from all the hunting. I still have some bread here. It's not really satisfying and filling but I don't have a choice. I have wolf meat but never had the chance to cook once. Rested for a bit, I hunted non-stop earlier which made my body heavier.

-After a While-

I saw three people wondering around the wolves' area. I think it's them.

They are using torches to see through the darkness of the night. The sky is filled with thick clouds which hid the moonlight. I concentrated my mana through my hand and created a fireball, the light spread wider which made them see me.

Elou's walking towards me, ”There you are Scy! Is that the cave you are talking about?”.

”That's right! It doesn't seem to be your normal cave. It's as if it was made like a base of some sort,” I replied while trying to clean up my mess from idling earlier.

”Yeah, you're right. We should enter inside with caution guys. We don't want to end up dying in such place,” Yeah, and basically I don't want to die twice in a row.

-Cave-

Entering the cave was easy. The Entrance isn't that big but when you're inside it's really spacious as if the place is a hideout of some monsters.

*FLAP FLAP FLAP!* We heard loud flaps of wings nearby and there are bats flying towards us!

”Kyaaaahh!” A loud scream from the startled girls echoed throughout the cave. It scared us. The girls are trembling with fear. Though the bats just exited the cave and didn't harm us.

”That's a good way to welcome their guests,” Elou joked trying to calm the girls.

We heard light footsteps coming from inside of the cave. We hid behind big rocks lying around while preparing for an ambush.

”Kaa Kaacha Kaacha,” Two Goblins! This time they have long spear and shield made of wood. They copied the defender's equipment from the previous raid. They're not that dumb after all.

After they walked passed us leaving their backs exposed and unguarded, I took advantage of the situation stabbing a goblin with brute force killing it in an instant without making a sound. The other one got killed by Elou with a precise shot of his arrow through the goblin's head. We're good when it comes to ambushes. Saving Akko and Lili's mana is our plan in case we need their support later.

We advanced inside silently killing every single goblin around.

We found the end of the cave. There are chests lying around a there's a Goblin guarding them. It wasn't a normal Goblin, though. It's larger than normal ones and a giant wolf is lying beside it.

”Isn't this a Boss type goblin?” I whispered. Even a slight sound would wake the wolf up.