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Chapter 128 “The Tower.” Part 7
🕑 Added 2024-03-12 00:01:32 +0000 UTCKalysto blinked and reread the message that appeared before her carefully, making sure she hadn’t misread.
She hadn’t.
A slow smile drew across her face.
It’s times like these that I was glad I’d signed a contract with the fairy queen... Inventory! Map!
The fairy champion pulled out a grade III revitalizing potion that Caranthir had provided her with as part of their contract and drank it. Causing all her fatigue to reduce to zero in a matter of seconds. She then pulled out one of the delicious breads that Alynn made and began to eat it while watching the map with attention.
The golden dot that identified her glowed almost in the center of the continent, while the queen’s violet glowed in the middle of the thick forest on the far left. Kalysto had to enlarge it several times, just as she would do with an image on her cell phone screen, in order to get an idea of the space she was in. Curiously, just below her golden dot were Koden’s and Rita’s, though they looked a bit more opaque than hers. And Kalysto had to turn around to make sure they weren’t right behind.
It was strange to see how different everything looked on her map and, in reality.
So I’m still inside the tower. She thought cautiously, noting how detailed the valley around her was. If this is an illusion, it’s too realistic. She surprised herself, touching the intricate texture of the grass that bumped against her hip.
Then she turned her attention back to the window she had open and focused on the 122 red dots that were scattered all over the map of the valley quite far away from each other and picked out a lone dot that was moving away from a small group a few meters away from where she was, to check how strong the rest of them might be.
Kalysto ran to the right and climbed a thin but leafy tree with red-colored leaves from which she could observe her next prey. His grayish skin contrasted with the gold of the grass and although he didn’t look very strong with his thin body and the dark green cloak he was wearing, the huge spear he carried in his left hand suggested otherwise.
Inspect!
[Name: N/A
Race: Hobgoblin
Level: 12
HP: 1.000/1.000
MP: 50/50]
[Spear. Class: Epic. Requires 40 strength points to use.
Strength +10.
Penetration +10.]
I want that spear! She thought as soon as she saw she had a penetration stat.
“Ice stake! Duplication! Telekinesis! Perfect shot!” She whispered, sending both stakes against that monster’s head.
[You have gained 100 experience points!]
She immediately climbed down from the tree and picked up her new spear, storing it in the blue inventory. And after inspecting the hobgoblin, she found a round loaf of bread and two small raw fish inside an enchanted leather bag, which she immediately put in her blue inventory.
Too bad the enchanted bag smells like fish. She sighed. I want more of those bags... where the heck do they get them?
Fifteen minutes later, she had already eliminated fifty of them and sixty kobolds whose levels ranged from 10 to 12. Most of them turned out to be fishermen, and the others were warriors or simple apprentices, so her new collections of spears, bread and fresh fish were increasing. She was even lucky enough to get a leather pouch that was full of bread, so she decided to keep the rest of the bread she had obtained from the monsters there.
After looting the last of the monsters she had killed, Kalysto looked up and saw that Koden and Rita’s dots looked brighter than before and were advancing towards the center of the valley cautiously, not realizing that they were approaching towards the small village she had been circling to kill everyone outside first so she could attack those inside later without having to worry about a surprise attack. She didn’t want the small hobgoblin village to end up joining the kobold village a couple more yards down the valley.
I feel like I’ve run more than ten kilometers in less than twenty minutes. She complained, feeling her throat dry after so much running. And took out the bottle of water she had bought before coming to this world and had turned into holy water herself and drank half of it in three gulps. Feeling the cool liquid cool her heated body as the inclement sun seemed to increase the temperature with each passing second.
It must be close to noon.
Once she quenched her thirst, she pulled a thel from her inventory and ate it as she cautiously made her way towards the last hut in the village where she observed a group of eight hobgoblins sitting on the ground on cushioned cushions, eyes closed and a small object cradled in their hands. Meditating in absolute silence.
Is that a mana crystal?
It was more than strange to observe a group of monsters behaving as if they were ordinary people going about their daily lives. Don’t think about it! She scolded herself the moment she realized that to these creatures, she was nothing more than a vile and common murderer. Everyone survives in their own way!
And as soon as she finished eating, she pulled out the only arrow she had with penetration stats, and ducked behind the tree she was using for cover. Duplication! Duplication! Duplication! Duplication! Duplication! She put the original back in her inventory and drew her bow.
Perfect aim! Multiple targets! Ice arrows! And after shooting the three hobgoblins near her, piercing their thin necks, she immediately shot the rest of them with the arrows she had just duplicated.
[You have gained 100 experience points!] x5
[You’ve gained 250 experience points!] x3
Kalysto emerged from her hiding place and entered the hut where the bodies of the eight hobgoblins lay sprawled on the wooden floor, all dressed in violet robes. And in the hands of each of them was a crystal of skill.
Frowning at her discovery, she picked up the first of them.
Absorb!
[Does the user wish to absorb this force crystal?]
[YES/NO]
Yes!
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 2 points of MP strength!]
This is why they can use the spears. She realized it, and set out to absorb the rest.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 2 points of MP strength!] x3
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 3 MP strength points!] x2
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 6 points of MP strength!]
Walking noiselessly, Kalysto continued moving towards the next hut, where she found a group of five hobgoblins in dark gray aprons, cooking. Immediately she ducked behind a thick wall on which several loaves of bread were cooling and again drew her single arrow with penetration stats, but this time she created twenty duplicates, leaving the original in the purple inventory and the rest in the blue. But just as she was drawing her bow, a hobgoblin approached toward the wall with a tray of freshly baked loaves between its hands. The creature’s eyes widened in surprise and at the same instant he opened his mouth to scream, Kalysto jumped on him and pierced his neck with the arrow in her hand.
[You have gained 100 experience points!]
By the time the metallic sound of the tray falling to the floor caused the rest of the monsters occupying the kitchen to turn their heads and focus on her, Kalytso had already fitted an arrow to her bow and shot at the neck of the hobgoblin closest to the exit.
As his body fell to the ground, the fairy champion shot another one as one of them dropped what he had in his hands and ran for the exit, but before he reached the open door at the opposite end from where Kalysto had entered, his body fell to the ground with two arrows through his neck.
[You have gained 100 experience points!] x3
Without being aware of it, the next hobgoblin was already behind her with a huge frying pan in his hands about to throw it at her head. Immediately she took a leap to the side dodging his sudden attack, and then another one. And with her free hand, she drew a sword instead of an arrow from her still open inventory and slashed the hobgoblin’s head, whose blood bounced off the small body of a boy dressed in green with a huge loaf of bread in his hands.
[You’ve gained 100 experience points!]
Feeling sorry for the little boy and the horrible scene she had made him witness, Kalysto turned to make sure she hadn’t lost any of them, only to be alerted by the soft sound of the little boy’s footsteps getting closer and closer, and when she turned she could observe him with a slender knife in his hands, running towards her.
Kalysto showed no mercy as she sliced him in two.
[You have gained 100 experience points!]
In the next hut she found a group of ten medium-sized hobgoblins practicing with wooden sticks as if they were swords, but this time she was not fooled by their small statures and incinerated the whole place.
By the time the rest of the group reached the entrance to the village, Kalysto had already exterminated all the hobgoblins and kobolds inside the valley, except for one.
“Loot what you need and save the food you find. You’re going to need it later!” She told them and then turned around, turning her back to them.
“And what will you do?” Rita asked her.
“Kill the boss, of course.”
