NOVEL WEB Chapter 3 - First Fight
Goblin Guard
LVL: 1
HP: 100
Strength: 10
Speed: 10
Intelligence: 5
Seeing the goblin's stats, Adam could see that it was faster and stronger than him and had higher HP than him, however, he knew he had to exploit its lack of intelligence.
As the goblin continued to walk up and down the area, Adam was observing him and found that he was guarding an area, which made Adam assume there were more of them.
After watching him for a while, Adam knew the exact moment that he would turn around would be the point that he would be least prepared.
From what he could see, the goblin's lack of intelligence had also affected its sensory ability, which would be exactly what Adam would use to his advantage.
After the goblin walked to the end of the area he was guarding and began to turn around, a skinny figure with long black hair dashed from behind a nearby tree, towards the turning goblin.
The 10 metres between them were covered in a few seconds and by the time the goblin could react, the youth had already reached him.
Channelling all the power he had into his right fist, he launched a fist into the back of the unprepared goblin guard's head.
Despite the small gap in speed and strength, Adam had sneak attacked him in a vulnerable area, so was able to overcome the gap with his intelligence.
As he struck him, within his mind, the system announced to him: {Critical Hit}.
He could also see the goblin lose all its health.
Instead of the body collapsing like what he expected, the goblin disintegrated into pixels and left behind a small pouch and a wooden club.
E- Rank Mortal Weapon: Wooden Club
Effects:
+1 in strength
-1 in speed
Pouch of 10 Gold coins.
"This really is a game" exclaimed Adam as he saw that he had gained loot and the goblin disappeared after being defeated.
He was happy about the disappearance of the goblin after being defeated, as it made him feel less guilt, even though he knew that he just killed a beast.
"This club is useless, because it reduces my speed. System what if I don't want it," he muttered looking at its stats.
{Weapons are ranked using: E, D, C, B, A. And each letter has three levels within them, -, the letter by itself, so the middle level and +}.
Adam understood everything, and it was the same ranking system as that of games.
Taking the club in his right arm he felt stronger, but also felt restrained in terms of speed and slightly sluggish.
Placing the pouch of gold into his pocket, Adam had a wide smile thinking about all the money he could earn with the gold he had just gained.
{You have now gained the inventory, selling and store function. Your inventory is a space for you to store items that are only from the dungeons and you can only sell things from the dungeons. While in the store, although you can buy anything with system points, it is focused mainly on items to increase your battle power}.
[How much can I sell the goblin club for and how do I use the inventory] he asked within his mind.
{The club is worth 10 gold coins and all you need to do is say inventory with the intention of using it and it will appear before you} informed him the system.
Adam was smarter than to stay in the open after a battle in this mystery world, so returned to the small patch of land, which was surrounded by water, that made him feel safe and felt like a safe zone.
"Inventory" he stated.
A game like tab appeared in front of him.
Counting he could see that it had 100 spaces and had a red button on the bottom right corner to sell items.
Adam lifted the club and put it directly in front of the inventory and it was instantly sucked in.
Adam knew that the weapon didn't suit him, but decided not to sell it yet as he didn't want to be unarmed.
He could see that he could change between tabs and he currently had only three tabs in his menu, Inventory, Status and Store.
He went onto status and was shocked by what he saw.
Status:
LVL: 1
EXP: 1 / 10
HP: 100
MP: 10
Strength: 10
Speed: 10
Intelligence: 15
Charisma: 5
Luck: 5
System Points: 1
Stat Points: 0
Gold: 10
He was pleasantly surprised by his Strength, Speed and HP increasing and now matching that of an average peak human, and he still kept his high intelligence.
But he didn't understand why, until he saw that he didn't gain EXP.
{Before you begin levelling you must begin as at least the average for a human, therefore the EXP was used to improve your constitution as a one off} explained to him the system, confirming what he had guessed.
With that, it cleared his questions and then decided he would go onto the Store.
The store tab was then split into 3 main categories: Skills, Equipment, Items.
On skills, there were Fighter and Magic skills, but as soon as he saw the prices he instantly went off, knowing that he wouldn't be able to buy any of them for a while as the cheapest one was 100 system points.
Equipment which had all kinds of weapons, armours and any other equipment imaginable, was also too expensive for him to think about buying for the current moment.
Once again Adam was overwhelmed by the prices on items, but not as much as the others as he felt he could use it for some things.
But Adam was very surprised by what he saw.
There was everything from a sandwich to bombs and all ranging in prices.
"There is no such thing as a free lunch" he mumbled his motto again to himself.
Seeing everything he could think of, he also saw something that moved his heart.
A Mortal Recovery Pill - can recover a normal mortal from any injury as long as they haven't died.
Seeing everything he had access to he knew how heaven-defying this system was, but he would still have to defeat beasts.
With this in mind, he retracted the club, which he felt comfortable using now with his now higher strength and speed and walked out of the safe area.
He headed directly towards where he defeated the goblin guard. in the hopes of finding more goblins to defeat.
As soon as he crossed the bridge of the small island he felt that he had become vulnerable again, unlike when he felt invincible within that space.
"I am going to save you Aunt" he vowed as he ran along the outer area of the forest.