For the brief mont both goblins had stopped moving, and one had leaned down to inspect the body, revealing its neck to rlin who was staring down at it from above. rlin corrected his aim before letting loose both of the arrows that were nocked. One arrow flew where he was aiming, embedding itself in the goblin’s neck, the other arrow flew off course, hitting the other goblin in the shoulder. After letting loose the arrows, the bow rlin was using snapped in half.
Although New Genesis was a ga that constantly spouted about freedoms, it was still a ga. So aspects of the world had to be gamified to fit within the ga’s balance, and one of these balances was temporary equipnt.
When you killed sothing in New Genesis, the corpse didn’t magically disappear imdiately like other gas. aning there was a mont in ti where the corpse was still present in the world as a physical object, along with all of the equipnt on its body, this equipnt was called temporary equipnt.
Temporary equipnt was as the na implies, temporary. They either had limited durability or a ti limit, and unlike their item drop counterparts, couldn’t be stored away in your inventory. Another major factor of temporary items was that they had a fraction of the stats of their item drop counterparts, and typically lacked any of the special abilities that the item would have had.
When an item dropped, it was highlighted in so way by the system. How a drop was highlighted depended on the item in question, but the consistent part was that it stood out in the environnt and inford players that it was an item at first glance.
rlin dropped the bow and unsheathed his sword, before dropping off of the branch onto one of the goblins. As rlin fell, the goblin who got shot in the shoulder looked up, only to see the glint of a sword as it pierced its eye. As rlin continued to fall, the sword was pushed further into the goblin, practically cleaving it half as his entire body weight and the gravity behind his fall was put into the force of the blade.
「Goblins remaining: 1」
rlin pulled the sword out, but it was completely slick with goblin blood, making it functionally useless. The other goblin who was holding its throat in desperation noticed rlin. It unsheathed its dagger and thrust it towards rlin.
rlin threw his sword aside for the mont as it would slow him down. Barely managing to twist his body away from the dagger, in one swift motion he pulled the last arrow from his quiver and stabbed it into the goblin’s throat.
The wooden shaft of the arrow shattered, leaving splinters in rlin’s sword hand. Unfortunately the shaft shattered before the arrow head could be wedged deep within the goblin’s throat, rlin hadn’t dealt enough damage to kill it with that one strike.
The goblin thrust its dagger once more, successfully wedging the dagger into rlin’s side. All rlin could feel was a painful piercing sensation in his side, it wasn’t pleasant but rlin couldn’t say it was excruciating either, although he was used to it at this point.
A damage notification appeared in rlin’s vision.
「7 damage received.」
Seven damage was significant, especially at level zero. It would have left a regular level zero player on three health, however rlin had an extra ten health due to the additional point in vitality from his title, "The Tutorial’s Champion".
The goblin ripped the dagger out of rlin, a rush of pain flowed up his side once more. rlin didn’t give it the chance to stab him again, sending a wide swing at the goblin’s head with his shield, knocking the goblin back a few steps. rlin didn’t have a sword on hand, and his free hand was currently full of splinters, so his only option was to beat the goblin to death with his shield.
Not giving the goblin a chance to recover, rlin rushed forward at the goblin. The goblin attempted to swing its dagger at rlin, hoping it would connect, but rlin blocked the dagger with his shield, slapping it out of the goblin’s hands. rlin swung his arm towards the goblin once more, effectively slapping it with the flat of his shield, knocking it to the ground.
Shields weren’t weapons, so they typically only did standard bludgeoning damage, rather than have additional damage given to it through item stats like actual weapons did. Although there were exceptions to this, and there were even thods of raising the damage dealt by shields. But it was overall not worth the effort as they didn’t co anywhere close to the damage of a regular weapon. rlin stood above the goblin, forcibly smashing his shield against the goblin’s face, only to retract his shield and repeat once more.
「Goblins remaining: 0」
「You have completed the quest, "Training Montage III", talk to General Perakeles to receive your rewards.」
After a couple strikes, the goblin’s face had been forcibly rearranged. rlin used the rag the goblin wore as clothing to wipe the slick black blood from the rim of his shield, as he stood back up, he noticed that another window had appeared.
「You’ve been granted the title, "The Best Defence. (Beginner)"」
rlin laughed when he saw the popup, this was one of the most common titles, often regarded as one of the most useless titles in the ga. rlin checked the title’s stats.
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[The Best Defence. (Beginner)]
It takes hits, but sotis it hits back.
• Shield Damage: 3%
Upgrade Requirents: Shield Kills (0/20)
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rlin waved the window away and walked back to his sword, it was laying on the ground, dirt and loose foliage was now stuck to the goblin blood. rlin tried wiping the blood off, but he knew there wasn’t any hope in that happening, so he threw it in his inventory to deal with later.
Now paying attention to his surroundings, rlin noticed that a couple glimring items were scattered around the forest floor. rlin walked over and collected up the items, there were two copper pieces and a dagger.
rlin pocketed the currency before checking the stats of the dagger.
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[Gnarled Goblin Dagger. (Common)]
• Damage: 5
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It was pretty decent for an early ga drop, it would serve well as a back up weapon for now. Unfortunately daggers were considered finesse weapons, so their damage was amplified by the dexterity stat, rather than the strength stat used for most weapons, such as rlin’s gladius sword.
rlin sheathed his dagger, as it was the only functional weapon he currently had, before walking back towards the campsite while picking splinters out of his hand. Upon reaching the edge of the clearing, he saw the player still laying there on the ground, and the other player who abandoned him earlier was slowly approaching. It seed he had more courage than what rlin gave him credit for.
rlin walked through the treeline into the clearing, making his way over to the two players. By the ti rlin reached the pair, the wounded player had been assisted off the ground and was now standing with support from the coward. Both of the players locked their sights in rlin as he approached.
"Nasty little creatures, aren’t they?" rlin spoke up, picking out the last splinter from his hand. rlin wasn’t sure whether he wanted to taunt them or destroy them yet. He didn’t take kindly to being followed or hunted, they brought back bad mories from the previous tiline. "I saw a couple more goblins a little bit up the river if you’re here for the goblin extermination quest, good luck!"
rlin walked past, he didn’t want to start drama this early on in the ga as it could create too many variables, but if they forced his hand, he wouldn’t hesitate to destroy them without rcy. The two watched as rlin walked past the treeline, disappearing within the forest.
A little while later rlin had escaped the forest and made it back to the clearing full of wild hares. As he observed his surroundings, he noticed that there were more individuals hunting hares now compared to when he first entered the forest.
rlin sat himself down on the grass and pulled his sword out of his inventory. He spent the next couple minutes scraping the hardened muck from his gladius with his new dagger, bringing his sword into working condition once more.
rlin walked through the field, killing every wild hare he ca across. The hares didn’t drop their at or pelts every ti however, so he had to spend a little over half an hour killing hares to get enough for the quests. If he had so kind of animal harvesting skill it would be a lot easier to get what he needed, but for now he just had to grind it out.
As rlin was getting ready to walk back to the village, he heard an excited squeal coming from one of the people who had been farming hares before rlin started. As rlin looked towards where the squeal originated from, he noticed a girl jumping up and down with excitent, two large fluffy rabbit ears were sitting on her head, flopping around as she jumped. She received the first race soul in the ga, a wild hare soul.
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