Game Of Eternals: Sinner

Chapter 9: Boots of Swiftness

This floor was a maze-like structure filled with tougher and more aggressive goblins than those found on the first floor. These goblins were armed with crude weapons, such as spears and clubs. Neo came before one of them and used his only skill.

"Inspect."

[Goblin Warrior

Level 10

Health 1250/1250

Mana Nil]

The inspection worked and he got the information on the monster, he was just testing its effect. Neo lunged forward and pierced the goblin with his sword through its chest and damage appeared over its head.

-1100

He could one-shot a goblin, that he had just learned, but then he knew that as he beheaded many before. With his 80+ points of agility, he was fast and goblins couldn't keep up with his speed and were getting butchered left and right. Time was tight, so Neo decided to not care about the spheres for now and was cutting down the goblins as he navigated through the maze. It took him over 20 minutes to come out of the other side of the maze as a colossal door appeared before him.

Neo barged into the room at full speed and jumped up and plunged the sword directly into the goblin's head, who was sitting on a throne waiting for him to come in. The sudden attack surprised the goblin, it roared and tried attacking him, but Neo was too fast for him and as a result, it only lifted its mace before the sword pierced its head and entered its brain.

-2,900.

The goblin slid down, limply. Neo sat on the throne, panting as he has been running through the maze and fighting goblins for 20 minutes now. He sat down on the throne and went through the notifications; he leveled up once more.

『 Defeated level 11 Goblin Elite +1200 experience. 』

『 Collecting the soul of the Goblin Warrior Elite. 』

『 Collecting...』

『 Collection successful.』

『 Strength +3, Stamina +1, Agility+2』

The bluish ball rose from the dead goblin boss and entered Neo's body. This time he was looking at it carefully and saw it was merging all those lines together. He was puzzled by how it was doing that but put this at the back of his mind as he needed all the help he could get and this was appreciated at the moment.

He split open the goblin boss's chest and took the sphere from his chest. It was of the same size he got from the first floor boss, but it was higher in quality, which was Neo's speculations.

He put the sphere in his pants pocket and stood up as he had wasted 2 minutes. He needed to speed up even more. From what he learned and knew, the goblin den had 10 floors, so this one would also have that many, at the very least.

Neo had to act fast and efficiently. He stepped onto the stairs as the reward calculation started, and after it was done with calculation, a pair of boots appeared before Neo.

『 Name: Boots of Swiftness

Description: Lightweight boots, made of sturdy leather that provide excellent support and comfort for the feet.

Increase the movement speed and grant a small boost to agility.』

Neo held the boots in his hand and felt the material as he read the description. The boots appeared to be made of dark leather and were lined with fur for warmth. With thick, sturdy soles and small metal studs for traction. The laces appeared to be made of a strong, durable material and were crisscrossed.

Neo wore them as they gave an agility boost, which was something that he needed at the moment. He put his old boots on the stairs and descended.

The sound of his footsteps echoed through the dimly lit stairs as he made his way towards the next challenge that awaited him. As he reached the bottom of the stairs, he saw a large chamber with a massive stone door at the far end.

He cautiously walked toward the door, scanning the area for any signs of danger. Suddenly, he heard a sound of metal scraping against stone, and a group of armored goblins emerged from the shadows, their swords drawn and ready for battle. Neo unsheathed his own weapon and prepared to face his opponents.

Upon seeing the enemies coming at him, his eyes flashed.

"They were waiting for me in ambush. What sort of dungeon is this?"

But he had no time to contemplate as the goblin swung the mace toward his face, which he swiftly dodged and slashed at the goblin, who swung it. Neo was already fast, but now with the boots, it was like giving wings to a tiger. He was moving around among the goblins and hacked them down one by one. The armor of the goblin gave him some trouble, but they weren't able to use it to its full potential and created many openings for him.

This time he was also not unscathed as wounds appeared over his body, but they weren't that deep, so he just clenched his teeth, his eyes flashed as he countered and dealt with the goblins. The messy battle continued for over 5 minutes before he dealt with the last goblin.

He sat down, gasping for breath as he had to focus because a slight misstep might have rewarded him with a deep injury. Because of his high vitality, he could regenerate ~0.2 hp every second. So he wasn't worried about light wounds, but heavy wounds were different news as he didn't bring any medical first aid with him.

Neo felt like cursing himself as he came in so under prepared but then again, he didn't know that he would be swindled like this. He checked his experience once more and found it wasn't even 1/4th yet.

Resting for one more minute, Neo looked at the corpses but saw none of them had that bluish glow and concluded that only bosses might have that. He moved toward the boss's room and somehow felt that the surprise attack might not work this time. He had already been jumped on when he descended. So, he thought that the boss of this floor would be ready for him.

Neo checked himself once more before walking into the boss' room.

[Time Remaining: 3:00:00]