Chapter 72 - Sweet Dream (1/2)
After ending the kobold's short life, the notifications suddenly popped up in front of Jeremy...
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[You have received 1,147 SP]
[You have received 5x★ for successfully killing the close aide of the great Ladias tribe's leader]
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*Fwuuu...*
Jeremy let out a long and tired breath after seeing the hidden boss finally stopped moving and also a transparent window of notifications projected in front of him.
When the notifications about his rewards disappeared, other notifications asking him to exchange one ★ for a ticket to leave the first stage of the tutorial popped up instead.
Obviously, Jeremy chose 'No' as his answer.
'So tired...' Jeremy thought heedlessly to himself.
The bloody fight earlier had been ongoing for more than 30 minutes with back and forth counterattacks, resulting in Jeremy's mana field projection being activated more than eight times, reducing his 'purest' mana by more than 4% as a result.
Consequently, his remaining mana now was approximately 80%.
'Still good so far... If I had used 0th and 1st tier spells, I would have lost even more mana to take it down.'
In fact, if it were not for the mana field projection protecting him time and time again from the physically stronger kobold's deadly attacks, Jeremy's conditions would not be any different from the now-dead kobold by any means.
Heck, one horizontal slash from the kobold even managed to hit Jeremy's stomach area earlier, but luckily, he survived that unscratched.
To be honest, one's mana field projection wasn't omnipotent. If the power put behind an attack somehow surpassed a 'certain threshold', the said mana field would be broken into pieces, leading to... well, 'some' damages to the owner.
In this case, Jeremy was pretty fortunate to face the same low-ranked organism as his opponent. Furthermore, it also had a common bloodline, which had no active abilities within its arsenal yet.
When Jeremy finished his thoughts, he walked towards the kobold's corpse, aiming to loot something of value from it.
'Let's see...'
At that time, when Jeremy defeated those four hobgoblin warriors and one dark dokkaebi, he received a skill parchment called Mana Affinity from the treasure box.
As of now, after Jeremy finally finished searching the entire body of the kobold, he found...
Nothing...
Indeed, Jeremy found absolutely nothing at all from the hidden boss' corpse.
As a result, he could only stand up from the crouching position with a twitching face.
*Sigh*
'Really? Isn't this too unfair? I've fought the hardest fight ever since I came into this fucking tutorial, yet I received noth... wait... I've received five black stars earlier...'
Upon thinking up till here, Jeremy, who had almost cursed the damned cupid again, suddenly bogged down a bit.
Because Jeremy knew all too well about the true value of those stars...
'It's worth it then; no complaint.'
So, now Jeremy had a total of nine black stars, four from earlier and five just now.
Regarding the usage of those stars...
Well, it could be used to exchange 'precious' things with the 'System', which were not just mere common rank items as in the Crystal, that's for sure.
Even though they could only be used to exchange for things after he arrived at Ortus, Jeremy still couldn't deny those stars' value, for they were truly priceless...
The things, in this case, didn't only mean items, though. They could be many other things, but that was a topic for later.
That's also the reason why Jeremy felt that the life-and-death battle earlier was very worth it, as he had received more than five black stars from killing the die-hard kobold.
So, after storing the dead kobold's steel sword inside his glove, Jeremy walked away slowly from where the battle took place, leaving behind only the kobold's lonely corpse and the once-again desolate, darkening winter forest...