Chapter 39
The goblin knocked the dagger away without any problem.
But, the action caused him to delay his attacks.
The other goblin thrust his spear at me.
I parried the spear with my s.h.i.+eld.
The spear slid across the surface of the s.h.i.+eld.
I closed the distance on the goblin by pus.h.i.+ng through with my s.h.i.+eld.
You shouldn’t make such an honest stab.
You're lacking compared to the goblin instructor.
As I quickly approach him, the goblin strengthened his grip on his spear and attempted to push me backwards with the shaft.
That was a mistake.
You should have ditched the spear by now.
You can't use the middle of the shaft in such stance to push me off.
Even if there was a difference in strength between us.
[Battle Focus]
As I approach the goblin, I stepped on his left foot, and drove the sword into his neck.
Immediately, I turned back.
The remaining goblin spearman had given up on his spear and opted for hand-to-hand combat.
Trying to face an opponent who had mingled with your companion in a trench with a spear would be difficult.
Thanks to the accelerated senses from the Battle Focus skill, the goblin’s punch seemed to move slowly.
I calmly dodged the punch and threw a counter towards the goblin's face.
While he was dazed from the counter punch, I kicked at the goblin's chest.
The goblin fell to the ground from the strike.
I quickly took a mounting stance and used the throwing dagger nearby to end it's life.
The two incapacitated archers were dealt with swiftly afterwards.
The power of the attack from the Wings of Talaria seemed quite significant.
Usually, the strength which moved the wings came from the muscles connected from the wings to the back.
But, these wings weren’t connected to my body in the first place.
The strength and speed of these wings were probably due to the increase in its level.
The level of Wings of Talaria was maxed out.
Plus the wings were not made of feathers, but crystals that were more dense than ordinary metals.
It was likely that just flapping the wings would have stronger impact than any attack using my own strength.
All skills gifted by the G.o.ds seemed very overpowering, no matter what they were.
That's how the trench was cleared.
None of the goblins dropped a birth stone.
As I thought back to how the fight went, I was once again impressed by how OP the gifted skills were.
I got out of the trench and continued to advance through the Tutorial
***
"Good. Very good."
"What's so good, Boss Chang Suk."
"It has nothing to do with you."
With the constant replies flowing in, I closed the Community with a satisfied smile.
The Representatives were growing faster than I had expected.
Already, most of the 1st Floor Waiting Rooms had been overtaken and some of the 2nd Floor Waiting Rooms have been overtaken as well.
It was expected only 1 or 2 Waiting Rooms in Easy Difficulty Floor 1 had no relation with the Representatives.
Good. It was very good.
By the 3rd Round, most of the new comers had adapted quickly and many have shown positive responses to the Representatives.
Perhaps this was already quite common on the outside.
Hahahaha.
There were no words to describe this satisfaction.
Would there be any time like this throughout my entire life?
No.
This. Truly was the best.
I heard a scream from the corner.
It was nothing much.
My minions were showing an example to those slaves.
They can't even die that easy.
Since there was no chance they would become disabled, there was no need to show any mercy.
Ah, but that didn’t mean they couldn’t die.
Seems like it was actually possible.
Soon, the 24 hours I was allowed to spend in the Waiting Room would finish.
But it didn't matter, as I hadalready been through this 2 times.
I’ll progress until the Boss Room like before, and once the 3rd Round has finished, I’ll be back in the Waiting Room.
I would have to remain alone in the Tutorial for 29 days, but there was a sweet reward awaiting at the end.
I could wait all day.
The one consideration were the slaves.
We had already warned them what would happen if they were to progress through the Tutorial without our approval.
That example in the corner was part of it.
Of course, I'm sure they wouldn’t listen to my words so easily.
But, there were more of us in the 2nd Floor as well.
We've already told them that we would punish them dearly if we were to find any of them in the 2nd floor.
And it would happen.
Some of them might be sent to the Waiting Rooms without any of the Representatives.
But that didn’t matter either.
Those guys couldn’t come back to the 1st Floor.
Our greatest clients were the newbies just entering the Tutorial for the first time and the cowards who had no courage to progress through the Tutorial.
We had been put all our efforts into increasing the number of cowards.
We engraved fear into their bodies.
If those b.a.s.t.a.r.ds stayed in the 1st Floor by the start of the 4th Round,
The Representatives would stabilise at that point.
I could then get an infinite supply of jerkies and water from the weak newbies.
The cowards who have stayed in the Tutorial for more than a Round would also need to get the water and jerkies from us.
Strength and food.
With both weapons at hand, we showed the power of the Representatives.
It was a perfect plan, no matter how I thought about it.
With few more Rounds, there wouldn’t be any Waiting Rooms in Floor 1 that weren't a.s.sociated with the Representatives.
Then, I will expand upwards.
That was how my kingdom would be finished.
It was an unreliable kingdom, made by the loopholes in the system, but at the same time it was protected by it.
Unreliable, but it would never fall.
But I'm sure there was going to be a kink in the plan.
There's always a few arrogant b.a.s.t.a.r.ds who would rebel against the powerful.
Some would dream of getting revenge by advancing to the boss room and returning back to the Waiting Room.
But they would number at best 2.
They might not be able to post anything on the Community, but they would be able to request help for the higher floors using the 1:1 message.
That was when these messages would pay their worth.
The messages coming from the top floors or from what we called Rankers these days.
***
I wiped the blood off the knife by using a towel from the inventory.
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