{Quest complete: Eliminate the goblins and save candy!! Reward: level up x2! Access to healing magic}
'hehe, nice.'
"u-umm... excuse me."
As I heard a voice behind me, I instinctively turned around and I saw candy sitting on the ground staring at me.
"uum.. hello, can I ask what you were doing in the forest alone. First glance anyone can tell you are a nobel." I said flatly as I don't like to waste words.
"Ooh, I was coming from my grandfather's place to see the hero who was summoned by the king. I am Candy von Dianos, third daughter of the house of Dianos." She said proudly and I just sighed that this girl really didn't have any general knowledge of the world at all.
"You're in a forest filled with monsters, you're too weak to defeat a goblin but yet you proudly declare that you're a noble to me." I asked dumbfounded at her stupidity. Suddenly she gasped and a look of fear arose in her eyes and she fell on her knees as if she was about to return the breakfast she had today. "Relax, I am not going to do anything to you." I said looking away feeling a bit guilty for making her worry like that and by the look on her face, it looked as if it had happened before.
"No, it's not that my personal knight has been captured by the goblins." I immediately understood, goblins are filthy creatures they only capture women for one thing only. Reproduction and once you are in a goblin layer as a woman, the only way you get is as a corpse. I also felt a sense of disgust.
"Which way did they take her?"
"Huh?"
"Which way did they take her?"
"That way." she said as she pointed in a direction
I used my space manipulation skill to increase the area in which my mana can extend, ultimately detecting a big group of goblins in a not so far away area.
"If we hurry we can make it there in time." I said.
"We!"
And Candy who was quietly watching me all this time exclaimed. "No, I would just slow you down." She said and lowered her head. I know that feeling all too well, the feeling of being weak and helpless.
"No you won't, besides while I am busy fighting the monsters, you need to go get your personal guard out."
With this said she got up determined. And I wanted to make a cool entrance, so instead of using teleportation, I carried Candy in a princess carry and her face immediately turned red, then I spread my wing of Heimdall wide and flew to the skies.
{Wow you are into that kind of thing.}
At this moment I immediately felt like the system is going to be a bug for the rest of my life.
"U-uum.. Sir hero, I still don't know your name." Candy said and I remembered that I hadn't introduced myself.
"Ooh, my name is Danny Rones but you can call me Dan."
"Are you an adventurer from the capital?"
"You can say that."
"Then you must have heard about the hero!"
"Well the king isn't making it public if he has already summoned the hero so I am not sure."
"But you didn't seem to be suprised by the news of the hero being summoned, did you already know?"
"We're here." I said as we arrived above a big cave being guarded by two goblins. Using space manipulation, I teleported in front of one of them and kicked its head off then did the same to the other before it could retaliate.
"How are you so strong?" Candy asked as I put her down.
"Would you believe me if I said it just happened."
"That's impossible"
As we entered, I sensed that all goblins were in the center with a monster radiating the aura that is double the normal goblins, which I guessed was their leader. We walked farther in until we were at the entrance of the center.
"Your knight is in that hallway, I'll distract them and on my signal, run in as fast as you can."
"Okay."
At that I summoned light spears and threw them in the crowd of goblins and then jumped in the chaos. After throwing some lightspears around and diminishing the number, I gave Candy the signal to go and she immediately darted to the path I had shown her before.
I kept swinging and throwing lightspears and finally the goblin emperor who? has been sitting on a throne all this time decided to get some action and jumped on me with his giant mace but I dodged. Candy came back carrying a slender girl with long blonde hair and a good figure on her back. The knight was also carrying a sword. I jumped back, threw some light spears in the goblin emperor's legs and went to Candy's side.
"Use this and get her to a doctor in the capital." I said as I opened a portal to the outskirts of the forest.
"But we've already got her back so there is no need to stay here." Candy protested.
"Who knows what those monsters could do when left alone." I said as I looked at the goblin emperor still struggling to escape the lightspears as light was a natural enemy to monsters so it was burning it. Candy looked at me worried and then crossed the portal.
With Candy gone, I felt like there was no reason to hold back.
"Element of wind, heed my call, tornado." Just then a huge tornado formed and destroyed the entire cave giving us more space for battle and also freeing the goblin emperor. It grabbed its huge mace and charged at me again but this time I didn't dodge, but instead, I used my hand to parry it and countered with a punch to its stomach with a powerful blow that pushed it backwards. Before it could regain its balance, I dashed to it and bombarded it with fists until there were huge holes in its body then it dropped dead.
{Hidden tutorial quest completed:
-goblin execution: destroy a nest of goblins! Reward: level upx2
-headless nest: kill the leader of the goblin nest! Reward: level upx4}
'Status'
[Danny Rones! Title: Hero]
[lvl: 45->51]
[strength: 25->40]
[HP:200/200->210/210]
[MP:150/150->160/160]
[vigor:80->90]
[luck:20->35]
[skills: Elemental manipulation, light manipulation, space manipulation, Dancing-sword art, counter, observe]
[Unique skills: Wings of Heimdall, Breath of Heimdall]
[Available stats: 12->0]
'Nice.'
As that was taken care of, I started to venture deeper into the forest. After walking some distance, a foul scent hit me, I followed where it was coming from and saw it was being emitted by a magic circle on the ground.
'What's this?'
{Careful I sense trou-}
Before the system could finish its sentence, the magic circle grew and enveloped me.
'This has to stop happening.' I said as I got up.
{You also have to stop walking towards unknown circles}
'Where am I?'
{Since when was I a map?}
'Jeez just say you don't know.'
{Looks like some kind of dungeon.}
______??_____
"Someone has entered." In a dark room, a mysterious figure smiled mischievously.