Western caves weren't that far from the mountain , it took Gorden less than half an hour to get there. When he arrived, he searched all the area but the person he wished to find wasn't there, he was going to go back and mobilize all the tribe to locate the target when a loud roar resounded not far from him, a sign that a battle was ongoing. Gorden rushed toward the battle ground, praying that his target was there .
A lifeless tiger was lying on the ground, his whole body was covered by cuts everywhere, and a lot of blood flowed down the wounds, it was expected its opponent was stronger than it.
The skeleton swordsman stood before the tiger corpse, trying to whip off the blood on his swords, the rest of the group were at the side, they decided to switch turns in their hunt, that way everyone could level up, both the swordsman and the archer got up by one level reaching level 22 and 21 respectively, Bob also leveled up to level 25.
While the group was chatting , in fact , in the others eye only the robed skeletons was talking , Gorden was quietly observing them from afar , he was angered and stunned at the same , a bunch of undead from the outer lands were able to kill his brothers , that was the first time that something like this happened, even though undead have the ability to regenerate any injury or even regrow a limb , they are still considered weak their physics are frail compared to those of the beast , thus usually they don't dare enter the forest , but from what he saw now, things changed .
Gorden wasn't able to hold his raging anger anymore, he decided to take action, however, he only took two steps forward , when the undead with the bumpkin head turned to look in his direction , Gorden was discovered ! He wasn't afraid or anything, he was just taken aback, he may not be better than Dred in hidden and stealthily observing the pay, he still must not be underestimated, some beast would never be able to sense his presence but that undead immediately spotted him . 'Is that a special ability? Or did he just saw me by chance ?' That what he thought , but the truth is that one could eventually cover their presence but the soul could never be hidden, with Soul detection no one could hide.
There were no need to stay in the shadow anymore, Gorden approached them. When they saw him the group of skeletons immediately put their guard up, and prepared themselves for the upcoming battle.
"I'm Gorden , the chief of the red horned monkeys tribe" the big monkey stood five meters away from the group , he directly shifted his attention to the robed skeleton who seemed to be the leader "Which one of you had killed my brothers?" A simple question, but when he uttered those words, a pressure encompassed their bodies and the surrounding atmosphere became slightly suffocating ,a sign that Gorden was of a higher level than anyone in the group . The robed skeleton was the less affected, he stealthily whispered something to the bumpkin head beside him.
"What should we do now?"
Some seconds later, the robed skeleton seemed choked "What? Are you crazy? ..... But.... Don't you see that he is much stronger than all of us reunited? ….." 'What is he plotting?' Gorden was confused, the skeleton seemed in deep conversation with the bumpkin head, but he was the only one talking " Okay, I understand"
The robed skeleton sighed haplessly then he raised his thin finger bone to point at bumpkin head "She killed your friends".
Rage was apparent on Gorden's face "Are you looking down on my tribe? How can a skinny bumpkin head kill twenty of my brothers alone? I think it's your doing, you have the higher consciousness after all, you can't be that weak, can you? You are just using this brainless empty head as a scapegoat" Gorden was furious, how dare he trick him? At first, he just wanted to give them some face , but now he has the urge to wipe out the entire group.
Skinny bumpkin head? Brainless empty head? Scapegoat? Bob instinctively took a step away from Melanie.
"I'm telling the truth, you can't judge a book by its cover"
"Then I just have to slaughter all of you, I will start with your skinny puppet and your two skeleton friends, then I will enjoy myself while shattering each one of your bones"
And another step back, Bob ignored Gorden's threat, he urgently gestured for the other two skeletons to take a step back . If someone should describe this situation, it was like if a big violent tornado was coming your way, and not far from you a sensitive bomb that could explode at any moment, in this circumstance who would care about the tornado? The threat beside you is enough to scare the hell out of you.
Seeing that the skeletons all retreated at the back , Gorden chuckled " It's useless , you won't be able to escape from me" He was about to leap and launch an attack on the skeleton swordsman , when at the same moment the ground under him trembled slightly and an earth spike formed at his feet . Gorden swiftly jumped to avoid it ,however , the ground shook once again and another spike appeared where he was going to land , he destroyed it with a punch , but it didn't end there ,spike after spike , they formed on the ground, and he destroyed them one after the one , while attentively observing the group ,the earth mage is definitely among them , at first , he thought it was the robed skeleton , but the second attack proved him wrong. The bumpkin head lifted his arm, following this gesture, an outward big tree root, rose high above Gorden attending to crash him while he was focusing on destroying the endless earth spike, However, who is Gorden? The chief of the second strongest tribe in the forest and a direct underling of one of the powerful four kings in the Lost Land.
The monkey jumped and throw a rain of punches at the heavy root which got easily repulsed, with each hit a hole would form on it, the root that once stopped the python sturdy tail without getting a crack got completely disintegrated under Gorden 's powerful punches .
"I was wrong; you're not as weak as I thought" Without letting the enemy any chance to react, Gorden crossed the distances between them in no time , arriving in the next second , in front of bumpkin head , his arm was lifted preparing to deal a big blow to his opponent . To defend the latter took the scythe with both hands and used its handle to block the attack. Gorden smirked, how could a thin metallic handle block his punch? It's true that he had never thought that bumpkin head who seems so weak and fragile could have hidden his true potential in magic , he would have liked to fight longer with him , but unfortunately the fight ends here.
The punch landed heavily on the scythe handle, and when Gorden thought that it would instantly break, a translucent shield blocked his hand but in the following second it broke into pieces, and the impact forcefully pushed back bumpkin head a few meters leaving two long trays on the ground. Gorden was overjoyed, his opponent had more tricks under his sleeves, and he would be able to play with him much longer.
'It has been a long time since I enjoyed myself in a fight'
Being a chief, Gorden wasn't allowed to leave the forest to look for more prays, in the tribe everyone was weaker than him, he would crash them in just some moves, and if he fights the leader it would be him who is crashed like an ant, there is the other two chief, but they are almost at the same level, resulting to a drew each time.
Gorden was curious, he wanted to see which kind of surprise bumpkin head will bring out, thus, he let him made the next move, he stood there, without even putting a defensive stance, he clearly looked down on his opponent. On the other end, Bumpkin head didn't think too much about it, and just took this chance, if he let her attack first, why would she refuse ? He just has to regret it later.
His opponent lifted his scythe and at his fullest speed , he closed the distance between them , he aimed the attack at Gorden 's left shoulder , however , the latter evaded the scythe , but suddenly the ground trembled once more under his feet , Gorden knew that a spike will form near him , thus , he leaped in the air , but to his surprise, roots appeared from underground and caught him midair ,followed by four earth walls that suddenly formed around him entrapping him in a small square area. Gorden used his hands to tear the roots into pieces , unlike the big tree root , those were much easier to destroy , then he punched the earth wall in front of him , but before even his attack land on it , it was destroyed by an outside force , sending dust and rocks everywhere , and a sudden blast of wind hit him in the stomach , it made him crash on the other earth wall behind him which got shattered instantly , the attack wasn't strong enough to injure him , however , Gorden felt killing intents coming from his left , the scythe blade was just centimeters away from his arm ,if his opponent didn't leak his killing intent at the last second, the monkey wouldn't have able to detect the upcoming attack , thanks to the skill stealth . There were no time to dodge he just used his other arm to lessen the impact, but that didn't stop the powerful Deathly slash from sending him crash on the ground a few meters away, creating a cloud of dust . Bumpkin head didn't stop there, spikes formed where the monkey landed, to make sure Gorden won't be able to escape alive.
However, as everyone present was waiting for the pained roars to arise, a mischievous loud laughter echoed all over the area , there were a swish sound like if something sharp cut through the air followed by various sound of falling rocks .
"How could have predicted that a newcomer from the outer land would be able to injure me?" A suffocated aura suddenly arouse ,the mist of dust slowly dispersed , and Gorden's figure became clearer , he was standing up right , his left arm was bleeding , but seeing the big smile on his face he didn't seem to feel any pain , in both his hands two long shiny swords . Gorden finally took out the swords from his back . The dust was blown off , the two fighters were facing each other, Gorden lifted his head then looked at his opponent with a sharpened glare .
"Now, let's get serious"
(-Gorden -
Race: Red Horned Monkey
Profession: Savage Swordsman
LV: 26
Mp: 420/420
Hp: 430/500
Stats;
Agi :38 Sen : 45
Str : 63 Def : 53
Vit : 43 int : 25
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