With my enhanced senses, I made a clean cut and my strike decapitated the goblin as I felt the spear pierce through its neck.
I remained waiting behind the broken door, as this was an advantageous position. No matter how many monsters were in front of me, the number that could come against me would be limited.
[You have killed a goblin (G)]
The message dissipated when I saw another goblin's head enter through the door, distinguishing the monster's chest where the message window had been.
I stabbed the goblin forcefully, so that the tip protruded from its back, and kicked its corpse away from me and my bone spear.
However, my joy at victory was temporary. Two more goblins jumped from their hiding place from behind the darkness of the room.
They showed their large fangs and closed the distance in an instant.
My expression wrinkled. I must have cut too hard from all the adrenaline, because the bone spear was embedded in the ground too deeply and stubbornly refused to come out.
It's stuck somewhere, I thought with frustration.
It was at that moment when one of the goblins aimed at my face and jumped.
I ducked as the goblin flew over my head and landed face-first on the ground after being unable to stop in time.
When its fangs dug into the stone floor, cracks instantly formed in the hard surface.
Clearly, this goblin was a bit stronger. Of course, I had no time to stand there and admire the scene. Another monster was still running towards me at that moment.
I had no choice but to give up the spear for now and threw a strong punch at the approaching goblin.
Accompanied by an eerie sound of wind cutting through, my fist flew straight forward.
A single blow was enough for the goblin's head to simply explode.
My eyes widened as I stared dumbfounded at my own fist.
What unexpected destructive power that was!
The goblin fighter is the first evolution that all goblins experience when given the chance to evolve into a higher-ranking species. They are bigger, stronger, smarter, and more threatening than goblins.
The power I possessed was similar to that of the goblin fighter that had almost killed me. If I had received a single blow from that monster, it would have been my head that ended up in that state.
I shuddered just thinking about it.
The now headless goblin's corpse crashed against the ceiling and then, helplessly, fell to the ground.
Was this the result of awakening? I wondered, analyzing the situation while keeping my guard up.
It was then that I heard the familiar mechanical beep again.
[You have killed a goblin (G)]
The Strength statistic might have multiplied by a little more than five times, but... the difference in actual physical strength was much greater.
My original strength value was 1.
There was a five-times value difference between the Strength statistic of 1 and 5, but the difference between the actual forces produced was much greater.
As if to prove my assumption, the destructive power behind that punch easily exceeded my own expectations.
Besides that, my movement speed had also increased.
If it had been in the past, there would have been no way I could slightly evade a goblin's full attack, nor could my punch move fast enough to produce the sound of air splitting.
The battle against the goblins proved it. Suddenly, I returned to reality. The sound of someone approaching made me put my thoughts aside.
The goblins probably realized something when they saw three bodies piled up in front of me.
Another one approached with a jump without thinking and made number four, and I pierced the goblin's face with the bone spear and kicked the body with my foot.
The goblins were no longer running towards my spear, but they were still willing to fight, and the number increased although they maintained a certain distance from the door and my weapon.
With my much higher perception statistic, I could feel the aura of something sinister lurking inside the door much better than before. Without doubt, something very strong was hiding somewhere in the room.
I didn't need to see it to know it.
The existence of the 'Boss'.
I had prepared as best I could but, when the time came to go down, I was sweating and nervous.
I couldn't afford to waste more time. I had to move forward or backward, and I took a step back and then another. First, I had to eliminate as many goblins as possible before entering.
I saw countless monsters from the open door and, although I had to fight against them, I had no priest or warrior. I only had one damage dealer, and that was myself.
Although this was just one of the many floors of the tower, my objective had changed from surviving to fighting.
The goblin might have read my anxiety, and one of them jumped towards me.
Damn, this was a goblin fighter.
However, I wasn't as afraid as before.
The monster's speed was faster than the others, and I knew it when I stabbed its chest.
I tried to block its quickly moving head with my hand, but the goblin moved its head faster.
The goblin avoided my hand and bit my shoulder with all its might. My legs were shaking and I couldn't pull out the spear.
The head that bit me dug into my shoulder flesh with the weight of the monster's body.
I counted to three in my mind and grabbed the monster's head with all my strength and twisted it with all my might.
I couldn't hold back a scream when its head jerked back with a piece of my flesh in its mouth. Fortunately, my body was much more resistant.
[You have killed a Goblin Fighter (F)]
I saw other monsters behind the goblin's shoulders, and if they recognized what was happening, it was all over.
If they burst out at once, I had no way to attack or resist. I counted to three in my mind and grabbed the monster's head with all my strength and pulled it from my chest. I very much doubted that the marks the goblin had left could be healed on this floor.
However, I managed to pull out my spear and aimed it at one of the monsters that was lunging at me while jumping over its companions' corpses.
I saw the sharp teeth and the goblin's head and drove the spear between its eyes when I stepped on its head while looking at it.
I startled when two of them approached me at the same time.
I had no qualms about dropping a weapon, as the situation demanded it, and abandoned the bone spear after piercing a monster with it.
It was when I was stepping to one side when the other goblin lunged at me.
I realized it was too late to dodge it, as it was too fast. The goblin tried to scratch my face with its claws and I hit its face at the same time.
While I was stunned for a second as my head took the hit, I felt my fist hitting the goblin's face as I fell backward from the body blow.
While the goblin's hand was large enough to cover my face, I could see between its long claws. I managed to reverse the situation at the last moment with the goblin underneath me. It was trying to bite me and push me back, but I used my fist to explode its head.
[You have killed a Goblin Fighter (F)]
[Soul Fragments: 6/100]
After the death message appeared, I stood up, wiped the blood from my face, and looked ahead, exhausted.
Finally, it was time to enter the Boss room.