Chapter 15 - Prudence

[You slay a Goblin(Colorless): +2 points]

A notification appears on his retina which makes his smile wider. It seems killing any creatures as a dungeon master will give him some points — as he expected.

'What a wonderful title, no wonder those dungeon masters are a homicidal maniac.'

The points he got after killing the goblin — a weak monster — is enough to buy two small strength runes. Imagine, how much points he'll obtain after killing stronger monsters. It probably even enough to buy big runes for each kill.

Soon, he put aside his daydream and observe the dead goblin body and find something out of place.

"What, I can still get rune after killing it?" he takes a red rune from the goblin's dead body.

"Of course, how dungeon masters even can grow their catalog if they don't get any new runes," T'lear says with a scoff after hearing Elias words.

"That's true I guess, but still," Elias nod after realizing T'lear reasonable answer. His understanding of dungeon masters advantages is increasing even more.

"Wait, do dungeon masters' monsters have the same advantage too?" Elias asks again.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, are they get both points and rune after killing other creatures?" Elias clarify.

"Nah, those monsters only get points which will be given to dungeon masters automatically. If that advantage was true, why would I go hunt you myself — it's safer commanding my monster to kill you and take the runes instead."

"That's — also true. It's a pity though," Elias sigh, he would buy many monsters if only that's true. He'll send them to many areas at once to farm new runes. With his knowledge, he knows what species of monster which has a higher chance to drop rare runes.

If only that fact's true, his store's catalog would increase exponentially over time.

However, not all wishes can come true, but at least, he still has headstart compared to other people in this world — his future knowledge.

"Why do you decide to go south again," T'lear voice pull him out from his thought.

"There is something I need to do," Elias says while consuming the rune.

"Yeah, I hear you before, but what? We are now on the same side, it's better for us if I know what you want," T'lear says with peevish tone.

Elias silent for a while, he somewhat agrees with T'lear's words — it's easier to cooperate when both parties know each other intents. He let out a sigh and then let out a short sentence from his mouth.

"A fortress."

"A what?" T'lear tilts his head.

"I want to build a dungeon in the south as the last fortress for humanity."

"Wait, seriously? You reject Hansoo before only to create another dungeon. You can build it anywhere you want, heck you can temporarily use mine."

Elias frown his eyebrows, "you never seen the death of a dungeon master, do you?"

"Um, yes. I only here like two months."

"After dungeon master dying, all their possession become dust. Their body, runes, artifacts, and even their dungeon. The only left is only their monster, which soon will die too — those monsters are different with wild monsters which can spawn at some interval," Elias explain and stop for a moment, looking at T'lear eyes, "which means your dungeon now already become ashes."

"Is that so? I never expect it," T'lear sigh after realizing now his dungeon become rubble, "wait, you still can follow that man and create your dungeon wherever he stays — that safer for your growth rather than go to the south."

"Yes, but safer isn't enough. The human race needs more than it to prevail," Elias says.

"What do you —." T'lear words cut off by Elias.

"Ssh, we have companies."

After Elias saying that words, T'lear realizes goblins are surrounding them. Three of them wearing leather clothes while bringing a wood wand, "goblin shamans?"

"It seems so."

Kiaaak!

Even though their amount is far higher than earlier, this time Elias doesn't show any sign of nervousness. With his current strength and battle experience, he can slay all of them with only one his hand. He rushes towards a goblin shaman direction — tries to incapacitate their damage dealer.

Of course, other goblins won't let Elias alone, but their swords can't even scratch him with his current agility and perception. He can sense every attack even the one from behind him and then avoid it with minimal movements. His movements are unstoppable, and each of his steps brings him closer to his target.

The goblin shaman becomes nervous with each second passes, there no attack can touch his opponent. He tries to chant his fireball spell while swinging his wands.

"Too late," Elias scoff at it futile attempts and thrust his sword towards its neck — stop its breath and chants.

*Ding*

[You slay a Goblin shaman(Colorless): +5 points]

[Goblin shaman(Colorless-Medium — 200 points) added to Catalog]

Kiaaak!

Many goblins become enraged after seeing this human kill one of their shaman. Two other shamans immediately cast their spell stealthily towards Elias, but with his high perception stats and dungeon master's mana affinity, he can still sense it like bright sun.

"Too slow," Elias scoff at them while avoiding their attacks.

He immediately rushes towards those goblins with a sword in his hand, every step he takes slay one goblin which followed by series of notification's sound in his mind. He doesn't even need to block any attack, because he can dodge it with ease while cut their heads off.

Kiaaak! Kiaaak! Kiaaak!

Goblins screams reverberate in this forest, some of them even already running — escape from this behemoth. Even so, there are still many of them still try to kill Elias, either because anger or understand they couldn't go back to their horde if they run now.

This massacre continues for a few minutes, but these few minutes is killing more than four dozen goblins. Elias still focusing on his fights but, he soon realizes these goblins stop moving because of a loud scream.

KHAAAAK!

Elias looking at the sound origin, he notices a bigger deformed green monster — a hobgoblin — appear while bringing something. The hobgoblin let out a menacing smile while putting the tip of his sword on the neck of a dirty naked woman.

This hobgoblin has some understanding some of the human psychologies after killing many few days ago — human will hesitate to move when one of them put in danger. Many of strong humans got killed by this little distraction — this human isn't the first and won't be the last.

Elias stays in his place while looking at this hobgoblin with anger in his eyes, grabbing his sword tightly which seen by the hobgoblin as a sign of hesitation. That green monster chortle after seeing Elias appearance.

KHAAAAK!

The hobgoblins command other goblins to attack Elias, its deformed face change into a smirk — waiting to see Elias certain death, but what he waits never comes. At the last second, before Elias becomes a porcupine, he moves his body — evading all goblins attack -- and slays them.

His eyes filled with anger directed towards those goblins, he wants to save that woman. However, he knows his capability and understands — she is a lost cause. If he put that woman life into this fight equation, it would reduce his focus in this battle. He won't let any hesitation to ruin his second chance.

He won't let one innocent life jeopardize human race chance.

"I'm sorry. If you die, I'll avenge you later."