The Tales of Draconic Warlock

Chapter 13: My Adventure in the Wild (2)

The battle was over before it even started.

I only used a Shadow Bolt once, and it was done. It died after it got hit once.

I used the Shadow Bolt skill because that was what was important for me as a spellcaster. I needed to adjust my mind and be able to cast spells when there was an enemy and no support to save me. I have used the skill when I am in the training grounds, against a dummy, which has no offense.

It was easy to use it against, but in a real battle, many would freeze up and wouldn't be able to cast the skill. I did, but that doesn't mean I am not afraid.

First, there was only one goblin and also it didn't see me. I attacked it from a safe and secret position. It would only be exposed once I used a skill, which gave me an advantage over it as I could attack it first.

[Shadow Bolt]

After I did, the goblin screamed for a second, before going silent forever. Its death was validated by the two status notifications that I got.

[You have killed Tier-0 Level 1 Goblin.]

[You have gained +10 EXP.]

I need 100 EXP to reach level 1. The goblin that I just killed yielded only 10 EXP which is only 1/10th of the required EXP. This means that I have to kill ten level 1 goblins to reach level 1.

This is not the most important thing that was discovered from this short and one-sided battle.

The damage caused by a Magical Attack always depends on the INT. Unless there are some buffs applied, the normal calculation is like this.

M.A (max) = 1 * INT

There are some special skills that come with preloaded buffs, for which there would be something extra but for most skills, this was the formula.

If this was a game, I would have seen an attack value on the top and would have easily calculated my INT but it was not. The typical HP of a level 1 goblin would be from 20 to 35, which was much lower than my initial HP value when I awakened, long before my values skyrocketed due to my physique.

A monster doesn't always mean that their attributes are better than that of humans. Moreover, this monster may belong to the goblin race but it is certainly from the weaker sections of the race.

There are goblins that have higher HP than a human but they would have a prefix in their names. Those are the ones that I should be careful against. They would have not only high HP but also higher attack or defense abilities.

Now, I don't need to worry about them, until I see them. Coming back to my INT, since it died with just one strike, I can now say that my INT is definitely not less than 20. The highest though has to wait until later.

It certainly seems disappointing if I compare them to other attributes but it was a given. It was not easy to improve INT as it is improving other attributes, but I know once I open up my Sea of Consciousness, I will be able to rapidly improve INT.

It was for the future. For now, I have to take the magic core from the goblin and also have to find a shelter to stay at night. Shelter is very important when you stay out in the forests at night. It is quite dangerous at night as they say in the novels. This was not because of some mysterious power that empowers the monsters at night but because of their habits.

They usually tend to avoid humans, and so many appear at night to hunt for food. The reason was many of these predators have Night Vision, which is very helpful at night or when traversing through dark areas.

I should get that skill for myself. It would be very useful. I should also absorb the cores and get those other skills that they have.

First, though, I should get the core and find the shelter. The goblin corpse is useless. The monsters would eat it or it would decompose.

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A day later...

I returned back to the cave that I found on my first day. It proved to be a safe place for my stay and would be my house for the next few days. I can't stay here because the monsters around here are not of high levels. This is in the outermost section of the forest.

It means that there won't be much to hunt.

There are a lot of slimes and weaker goblins to hunt but it is so tiresome, especially with those goblins. Most of my time here is wasted on them.

Goblins appear in groups and rarely stray away from such a way. So even when I spot a goblin, I have to make sure that there are no other goblins in the vicinity first. Only then I can kill the lone one.

It was not always how things went. I wasted two days on this. To kill one of the goblins, I have to wait and wait, patiently so that one of the goblins would stray from the group.

I could easily eliminate the group of three or five easily. Heck, I can easily decimate the entire goblin village using the items that my parents stuffed inside my Magic Bracelet but those are for emergencies.

If I use those this early, it would defeat the purpose of this training. This training was not just to level up faster, but also to build character. Many things can be learned from this exercise.

Even then, I have my own limits. A few more days, and I will leave this place. I would proceed further into the forest, only then can I be able to level up easily. The character maybe important but so is strength.

Only the words and character of someone alive matter. Without sufficient strength, living long would only be a dream.