The Third Return of the Necrotic Magic Swordsman

[14th Everdusk 2103], CGA branch, Dyna Crest country.

After I prepared for the impending, I was ready when my opponents revealed themselves by pushing aside the bushes with some gibberish voices and small wooden clubs.

The number of goblins was low at the moment, but other searching parties were near, trying to find me as they were just a small part of the larger group, possibly consisting of 20-30 goblins.

And they were merely goblins scouting ahead, indicating how many might be in the village or tribe over there.

”Okay, let me finish you all before others come in,” I said while looking at the four goblins staring at me and swinging their clubs as looking at some prey.

They attacked me simultaneously, trying to surround me in a circle to attack from all four sides, but I, who was, my skill to summon my allies.

A skeleton appeared with half of my stats, which may not be sufficient to finish them but can still assist me.

I swung my blade towards a goblin who attempted to block, but my enchanted and semi-evolved blade was formidable, through his weapon like butter and continuing to his body, killing him in the process.

My hand did not stop as I targeted another goblin who lunged at me to halt my movement. My blade was swift, piercing his chest, and after a struggle, his HP diminished, and he hung onto my sword. I swung it towards a third goblin, throwing the second goblin at him to stop him, and then moved towards a fourth goblin. With some dodging and evasion from his club, I ended his life as well.

I looked at the third goblin, who was terrified after witnessing his comrades’ deaths by my hand. He started running away, screaming for other goblins to call.

My face grew worried, knowing that if they all appeared now, I might not be able to escape. My fear came true as many goblins began approaching my area. I wanted to flee, but time was not on my side, and I was spotted and surrounded by a horde of goblins, all assembling for me.

I checked my mana bar to see how much help I could summon, and it was quite substantial if you ask me. [235/360 MP]

”Okay, if you called out your friends, let me do the same. While you summon twenty, I will call seven more allies. Then we will see who the is,” I said in a dashing villainous voice as I used my skill.

As seven summoning circles appeared in front of me, skeletons were summoned from them and stood before me, prepared for battle.

”Okay, now let’s see whose party strength overpowers the others,” I said as I commanded them to stay close to each other and attack in a manner that wouldn’t get them destroyed early.

The goblins, irritated by my nonsense, attacked me and my summons from all sides. Each summon had to handle two goblins, while I had more than five to deal with.

The battle, which I didn’t want to happen unless it was critical, began. I feared that I wouldn’t be able to handle all of them if they gathered here to hunt me. The sound of battle might attract more goblins from the small village where the boss resided, and in the worst case, the boss himself might appear without any condition to fulfill for his appearance this time.

I fought against four sword-wielding goblins and one club holder with ripped muscles, on the verge of reaching a higher level.

”Maybe my luck is totally bad today,” I said, thinking about the previous encounters with the two leads, the poison, the mutant boss, and now the goblin raid.

I slashed my blade toward a goblin holding a sword. Though it didn’t hit his body, it destroyed his sword. The goblin was dazed, and I took the opportunity to thrust my blade into his chest. Just as I was about to throw him down, I felt pain in my lower back. When I looked back, I saw a sword trying to pierce my armor. It couldn’t go further, but it was enough for blood to ooze out.

I looked at the goblin holding the sword with anger, threw the goblin onto the ground, revolved toward him, clutched his head like a ball, and smashed it into the ground, causing blood to come out of his back brain from the impact.

My brain was filled with rage as I hesitated and lunged towards another goblin to kill. The club-wielding goblin tried to hit me, but his fate was sealed as my sword split his body and club into two pieces simultaneously.

I tightened my grip on the sword handle and moved towards the other two goblins, who were now scared as I had killed three goblins in front of them in less than fifteen seconds, sustaining only a small cut on my back. I was growing impatient to get away from here.

My mind was fearful that these goblins would call for reinforcements from the village.

To silence them the best way was to kill them, of course. With swift movements, I struck one of them as it defended my attack, and the other launched an attack towards me. I was under less pressure than before, but my summons were still struggling as they found it hard to hold their ground.

I decided to help them by putting more force into my strike, breaking the goblin’s sword on the seventh strike and killing him on the eighth, and then killing the second on the twelfth.

I then moved toward the others, who were quite easy to defeat compared to the previous goblins, with the help of my skeletons.

Before the skeletons were unsummoned, the battle was over. I was starting to get the hang of the fight, but there was still some fear of death that would only fade after many battles.

I looked at the bloodied area where the fight had ended and ordered the skeletons to gather the corpses as I needed to hurry and gain some stats before...

I was thinking when I noticed someone spying on me from behind a tree in the distance. My eyes instantly fell on him, and I saw it was a scout goblin looking at me with a scared expression. Before I could use a skill or something to kill him, he was gone. Finding those small green creatures would be a challenge.

”Damn, now that one will alert the village goblins and hobgoblins to be cautious, and even more will come to hunt me down, or perhaps the boss himself will come since I have killed more than twenty of his men,” I said, realizing that nothing could be done about what had happened. However, I could try to gain power from talent and level up, which I would now get from the slain goblins. Just as I was about to use my talent on the gathered corpses, some notification appeared.

{You’ve killed 15~Lv.9, 4~Lv.10 Goblins, you’ve gained 930 EXP points.} [1260/450 EXP]

{You’ve leveled up from Lv.8 --> 10} [310/600 EXP]

{You’ve gained 20 Unassigned stat points}

[You’ve gained 176 Points. T.P: 541]

As I was about to use my talent on the bodies, something happened that changed my way of life afterwards.

{System has detected that the host has reached the minimum threshold to unlock the first seal on m######s o#b. Integration process is being started; the host has been notified to hide until the process is complete.}

As the notification appeared, my body felt strange, becoming light, and my eyes filled with darkness as I fell to the ground, starting to lose consciousness. But before that, I gave the final order to my summons to guard me. They took my body away from the blood by my command and hid me in the bushes for safety, guarding me until their time ran out.

While I, who gave the commands, fell into darkness, my eyes opened in a place filled only with darkness. What came before my eyes shocked me.

I said, ”What... but how?”

-- To be continued --

Hello, everyone! I hope you like the novel. Be prepared for much more fun and exciting adventures.

And one more thing: what happened with him, and what met the minimum threshold to get unlocked at this time at Lv.10?