Chapter 88 - The Savior And The Killer (1) (1/2)
Ten minutes later...
Right now, Jeremy stood face to face with a hobgoblin wearing leather armor and holding an iron cutlass.
Well, as one of the two last bosses of this wave, it had to wear full gears and appear when all of its underlings were dead, right?
This was precisely that as all its underlings were already dropped dead on the ground.
At this moment, it stood still composedly while looking menacingly at the black-cloaked killer, Jeremy.
Afterward...
”KRUAA!!!”
After shouting aloud with all its lungs' might, the hobgoblin dashed at its quickest speed possible towards Jeremy, who had long prepared his thrusting stance...
Its speed right now could easily beat the world records on Earth, but...
*Whoosh*
*Puchi*
The last boss of this wave was pierced instantly right in the stomach by the spear blade, as its momentum was quite significant, causing the spear blade to go past the leather armor all the way through its back.
Afterward, the hobgoblin struggled left and right in great pain from being penetrated through by the sharp blade. Still, the more it struggled, the more hurt it felt.
Meanwhile, its two shaky and frail hands also tried hard to pull the spear out from the stomach, but to no avail...
Without delay, Jeremy raised his right leg to give a straight kick towards the hobgoblin...
*Bam*
*Plush*
The bamming sound from the kick followed closely by the plushing sound from the flesh being sliced by spear blade resounded out appallingly.
Simultaneously, the half-dead hobgoblin flew three or four meters away in a straight line, leaving behind a trail of green blood along the way before finally stopping.
Stopping that figuratively meant 'stop breathing'...
*Fwuu...*
Jeremy let out a long breath from his mouth after the somewhat tough battle had finally ended. Then he thought to himself heedlessly,
'Not as tired as when I fought with the three packs of wolves at that time...'
Afterward, Jeremy turned his head to take a look around the battlefield...
Be it bone pieces, imps, goblins, wolves, or hobgoblin earlier, all of them laid on the ground everywhere with no exception, littering around the area where Jeremy stood.
There was not even a place to pitch a tent anymore if the corpses and carcasses weren't cleared before that.
It was such a huge mess of blood and gore...
Well, as he was utterly alone to fight with the entire army of outlanders, Jeremy had to depend on a kiting tactic, which was simply a 'hit and run' strategy used regularly in RPG games.
It was surprisingly helpless and effective when used against slow enemies like goblins and skeleton soldiers.
That's also why the corpses now laid nastily everywhere from the passageway's entrance until the Crystal at the tutorial chamber's center.
The sight of those corpses alone could already tell how far Jeremy had kited those outlanders away from the entrance.
Nevertheless, a win was still a win; Jeremy had to do this much to triumph the battle against almost a hundred monsters without relying on his magic and spell.
Regarding the loss of mana in this battle, it could be considered negligible to almost none at all, for Jeremy had tried his best to conserve the mana by using the stated kiting tactic.
Due to Jeremy had only been attacked once by an arrow fired by a goblin archer when he was occupied by many goblins and imps at the same time, two goblin archers used that chance to fire the arrows at him.
At that time, Jeremy had successfully dodged one arrow by jumping into the air, but another arrow somehow miraculously hit him right in the stomach.
Fortunately, the mana field projection had come to save him like always. So, our great sage won the fight unscratched once again.
'Alright... Let's go help those...'
Before Jeremy could finish his thought, a long list of notifications appeared in front of his eyes...
...
[You have received 44 SP]
[You have received 43 SP]
[You have received 45 SP]
[You have received 46 SP]
[You have received 44 SP]
[You have received 45 SP]
[You have rec...]
[You h...]
[...]
...
To be exact, a total of 94 notifications stating about his earnings from the laborious battle earlier had popped up in front of him.
That meant Jeremy had killed a total of 94 organisms within just ten minutes.
'Well, the gain is not bad at all. Around 3,000 SP, maybe?'
'Anyway... there are still more to gain...'
After finishing his thoughts, Jeremy grinned slightly while looking at the right back corner of the tutorial chamber.
Currently, the human combatants over there were battling with the outlanders fiercely. While the humans were on full defensive approach, the outlanders were also on full aggressive advance.
Nonetheless, the barricades and traps appeared to be more helpful than they looked, for they could stall the monsters' aggression until this point.