Seth enters the next floor with eagerness as he sees the message say.
Third floor reached! Goblin champion floor! Prepare yourself for goblin stat averages of 10-13 each.
Seth licks his lips at all the stats he can absorb here and goes, "Challenge accepted!"
And he dives right into the dungeon with his sword out and ready to cut up some monsters.
He finds the first goblin champion and they have certainly earned their title of such rank. They are 7ft tall, like orcs, and are fully armored with half plate armor, tower shields, and large clay-more blades.
Seth sweat drops at the difficulty being so high. But grins in the end. His stats were twice from before and he was ready with his mana strengthening skill to help.
With a quick application of it he charges it with his quick draw active. The first champion notices and counter charges with its shield out and ready. However the thick iron shield never got used. Seth leaps over the shield and stabs down into the skull of the unfortunate champion killing it instantly with the mana coating the blade. And Seth uses the dead corpse to leap to the next goblin impaling it right through the neck and ripping that head off.
The rest of the nearby champions are in disbelief at losing two of their comrades in the span of 10 seconds.
And soon 4 more join them before the duration of the mana coating skill wears off.
The goblins see the mana coat disappear from Seth as they all charge with their own buff skills activating.
but soon Seth has a gleaming eye promising pain as he reapplies the skill. The goblins all realize they fucked up too late. Many heads go flying throughout the third floor as now goblin is left standing after a full hour of hunting.
Seth is panting, not from the exertion, but from mana depletion. he had much more mana than before, but the skill uses a small amount each time. So he had unknowingly passed the recommended casting amount of said skill.
He sits down and rests for a quick minute using his recovery skills to help him. Panting he talks to himself and analyzes the situation, "Okay... I might have gone over board with my new skill. But it has leveled up a lot! And I now know I can use it back to back 10 times before I go slightly dizzy. Another 10 and I am fighting a headache and loss of balance. And a final 10 to make me like this. Man I feel like I am drunk with a hangover and a migraine all at the same time. I'll recover with a quick rest, but jeez. I need to keep in mind 30 is the maximum I can cast that skill for now."
He leans back and closes his eyes for 10 minutes.
And thanks to the recovery boost it felt like a full hour of recovery time.
Seth wakes up from his rest and notices his body is recovered enough to feel like he is only slightly dizzy. "Hmmm. To be safe I shouldn't use more than five of those boosts in fighting the boss... Actually who is the boss?!"
He rushes to the boss room and finds the return of an intimidating foe. It is an orc again!
However this orc is different! It has a full metal spiked paldrons with shin guards and wrist guards. However what is concerning is that each piece of equipment is actually glowing slightly, showing their magic abilities in plain sight. And his weapon is a powerful looking war axe. It has power and intimidation all rolled up into one weapon design. Soon enough the orc begins to sniff the air as it starts to sense Seth from his smell. His weapons and armor are coated in blood from the goblin massacre he just did so that checks out.
He readies his sword and prepares to fight.
With a cast of his mana skill Seth rushes in and quick draws it. Only to be stopped by the orcs large axe. Seth grunts as he has to stop his momentum from the block as the orc roars out and unleashes its own mana reinforcement over its body. The armor pieces resonate and suddenly the orc is coated with solid pieces of mana armor.
Seth leaps back as the orc swings its axe down and creates a crater where he stood a moment before. He looks at the crater and then at the orc as it grins evilly at him. Seth feels out the aura of the orc and estimates the stats to be between 15-20.
Meaning he is facing someone close to his strength.
Seth shrugs a bit helplessly and says, "Welp... time to put my stats and skills to good use!"
He leaps up and tries to land a shoulder cut to the orc but the mana armor does its job well. And despite it getting a crack on it doesn't break or allow the blade to touch skin. Seth leaps off as the axe comes swinging up where he was stopped on the orcs body. He lands low and goes for a foot stab to lower his foes mobility, but just as he makes contact, the mana coating on him fizzles out from the duration being done.
His blade tip clangs and only cracks the armor again, with a hiss of disappointment Seth barely leaps back from the axe crashing down where he was again. Seth hisses as he sees a cut on his arm the orc just barely managed to land on him.
With a huff Seth sees the cracks on the orcs mana armor aren't recovering. Meaning that he has a chance, he just has to become a can opener here. And go ham on one spot specifically and carve his own opening. Recasting his mana skill he charges in and goes right for the center of the chest. The orc counter charges and swings his axe in a flurry of swings. But Seth dodges and parries each swing to ensure he takes nothing more than a scratch or three before he reaches the chest area.
He then pulls off his full speed combo of 30 hits at once. All on the same spot. Using a few of the strikes to hit the orcs counter strikes away from him he manages 20 hits to the same spot. And the cracks give way to break into an opening in the armor.
Seth backs up as the orc uses a skill to empower his axe and brings it down on Seth. He barely leaps back but gets a deep cut to his thigh. With a yell of pain Seth uses his regen skill. Using up another dose of mana. he begins to feel the dizziness settling in, but knows he has some casts left.
he focuses on the opening in the armor that the orc is covering with one arm while the other arm brandishes its axe in a way to hold him back.
Seth knows this is a gamble move. It might work and he lives... or he just shoots himself in the foot and dies... either way it's time to see who is the better warrior here.
Seth applies the mana reinforcement skill on himself not once, but twice. His head begins to swim a bit as he becomes dizzy, but he focuses on the task at hand and charges right in. The orc counters the charge by bringing both hands to its axe and swinging with all its might and speed put into the blow.
Soon both fighters are charging towards each other as they go full speed. To any normal human they would only see a pair of blurred shapes charging at each other with glinting weapons being used to try and kill the other.
The axe comes down and buries itself into Seths back. The armor and his own endurance stat helping to keep it from cleaving right through him.
The orc grins before coughing up a small bucket of blood. Looking down it sees a bloody smile on Seths face as his katana is embedded up to the hilt through its heart in the large hole he created in the mana armor.
Seth coughs up more blood but goes, "It sucks to deal with all this pain, but now you are also suffering from the pain of having a fatal wound pal! SO have fun dying!"
The orc gurgles before it falls to its side and slumps down dead. Seth slumps down as well as the axe falls out of his back. He grunts painfully as he activates two uses of regen. His head is pounding but he is no longer bleeding while the large gash on his back has closed some.
He sighs in relief as he sees the message displayed.
Player has completed all achievements in the goblin dungeon! 4 rewards out of the following 5 can be chosen!
Seth grins tiredly as he sits down to choose carefully and consider his options in how he wants to grow. Before he goes wide eyed at the options presented.
"They hell?! I can get that now?!"