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and
Fen at the rear. Although the Prince only looked out for Verde, abandoning
me to a few onslaughts in the heat of battle. I feel a little ripped off that I
only get five projectiles per encounter as I don’t have to luxury to be able to
retrieve them during the fights.
    The air started to warm up
as we got deeper into the dungeon, it also began to get a little stale from the
lack of circulation. We had terrible directions inside the dungeon, running
into countless dead ends, sometimes more than once.
    We were lucky that there
were only goblins in this dungeon, it allowed us to get used to the goblins way
of fighting and minimize the damage we took after each encounter. Sometimes I
managed to deal with three or four goblins without getting a single scratch on
my.
    An hour in and we
encounter a set of crude ramp down, cut into the walls of what appears to
be a bottomless hole. I pick up a decent sized rock off the ground and drop it
down, about twenty seconds passes until the sound of it hitting the bottom
resounds back up. Definite death only awaits those who fall in.
    During the first floor I
had levelled all the way up to 30 thanks to being a main damage dealer. Fen
stealing one hundred percent of the experience from her kills had levelled up
to 41, and the other two players had gained a level or two each.
    I regained one of the
points in agility I lost from my previous death but I gained a total of four
points in dexterity! All thanks to fighting a usual group of three to five
goblins by my own. Seriously that Prince Charming could have lent me a hand at
least. He was a complete meat shield for Verde.
    We follow the spiral ramp
down to the second floor, the silence of the tunnel giving me goosebumps all
over my body. There are also less pole torches sticking out of the ground down
here, making the area darker than the first floor.
    We come across a fork in
the path. Verde, winning the rock, paper, scissors, decides to take the route
on the right. Out of the shadows down the path a large group of about ten
goblins comes at us.
    “What are they?” Verde
asks about the two goblins in the group that don’t seem to fit in, slightly
worried.
    There was definitely something
a little off about them. They were much bulkier than the others, and that had
nothing to do with the fact that they were wearing rusty iron armour.
    “What is it with goblins
and rusty iron??” I ask rhetorically.
    I could not sell rusty
iron weapons for more than a few coppers and no doubt armour was the same.
Using analyse on one of them, I was fortunate I had levelled up the ‘Creature
Analysis’ skill enough to barely be able to reveal their information.
    Name:
Goblin Warrior
    Level:
50
    Health:
715
    Magic:
0
    Stamina:
110
     
    ??
     
    “Not good,” I warn the
others, “Be wary of those with armour, they’re call goblin warriors. They are
much stronger and have stamina points so they may be able to use some sacred
arts. I won’t get any more information on them till I start defeating them.”
    Prince Charming for once
didn’t charge forward for once, fully aware of how dangerous the current
situation is he stuck to Verde like glue. I felt a little vomit rising in my
throat at how clear his intentions were.
    ‘Protect the lady, impress the lady, and
get the lady.’  It was a scenario straight
out of a fantasy tale, so cliché that I wonder if it may actually work. I have
gather from our time partied together that Verde has no interest in Sir
Laurence in that way but he is relentless in his pursuit.
     
    Fen and I
sprint forward to take the initiative against the incoming goblins, ice bolts
fly past me, never missing a target. I launch a mix of throwing
knives amongst the deadly ice attacks that appear to have gotten stronger with
Fen’s level increasing.
     
    We take down one of the
minor goblins but the two goblin warriors don’t take much damage at all. One of
Fen’s ice bolts removed about twenty percent health but my throwing