The hunt was going well, I had 70 fangs now, and my combat skills have all leveled up some except for -Knife Mastery-. The sun was setting now, the goblin parties were becoming sparse and I still remember the warnings about hunting at night. Dealing with stronger mobs at night would be an issue, I'd probably have to keep -Analyze- on so I would be able to see. I didn't feel like worrying about mana consumption just yet when I relied too heavily on it. I had been avoiding groups of goblins larger than 3 as I already had a hard time battling the group of 3 earlier today. Now though, I was desperate to hunt down the last fangs. I saw 6 mana signatures moving far to my right, and moved amongst the tree tops, using -Physical Enchant- of course, to get a closer look. I was still pretty far off when the sight stopped me in my tracks. I saw a goblin at level 10 riding a level 8 boar. I was so shocked that I forgot to hide and was spotted. I had to quickly get away, luckily my -After Image- was leaving behind some targets from time to time as I jumped from tree to tree. I quickly lost them doing this.
At the end as I was resting turning off -Analyze-, I quickly found that I had jumped right above a party of 5 goblins without even realizing it. The first clue was an arrow that almost hit me in the face, luckily it missed by a few inches and hit the tree trunk instead. I guess it was time to test the limits of the hit and run tactics I had been using with the groups of 3 I found. I start jumping around the tree tops, so as to give the 2 bow users a moving target. I then change -Physical Enchant- to start drawing from my internal mana source and use -External Mana Control- to regenerate my mana. I did this as I found it easier to push out the mana from -Physical Enchant- this way and manually activate -After Image- using internal mana. Of course this uses 33 mana in total, more than what I regenerate per minute. But, I spam 10 of these in a minute and use the next minute not using -After Image- I regenerate all of my mana back, assuming of course as I move around the passive doesn't activate. Still it was a perfect tactic for a drawn out battle, which was all I can do at the moment when out numbered and with low damage output.
As I was moving the branch behind me was blasted away by wind. I goblin mage! This is definitely a first, and I don't want to know what its capable of. I start getting closer and closer to the ground as I moved about the trees, arrows always just barely missing me. I was so glad for my high [SPD] at that moment. I'm close enough now that I am sure that I can hit a goblin if I jumped off, so I activate -After Image- and aimed for the mage. I hit him and get a punch in as ran away manually activating another -After Image-. This gave me a precious 3 seconds to run back up a tree and start jumping around again. I did the same tactic over and over again slowly whittling down their HP and killing off the mage and archers. I was left with two goblins with a shield and a club each. This time I was on the ground circling them while running. I would activate an -After Image- jump in hit a goblin once with a superman punch or a flying kick, then sometimes hitting them one more time before activating -After Image-. I kept doing so, playing conservative, but it was getting dark. I had to hurry or else I'd be caught out here in the dark with unknown mobs. So I decide to put on -Fist Enhancement- -Fire Enhancement- and another -Fist Enhancement-.
I rushed in as soon as I got my triple layered buffs on and went for the first goblin. By now I'm used to attacking a goblin with a shield equipped, the trick was to use a lot of faints with jabs. It was a boxing tactic against an out boxer, but I sure as hell wasn't going to play with boxing rules. Fake a few jabs to the head to make the goblin raise its shield up, do a low kick to get it off balance, and go in for a punch putting my hips into it. This tactic seems to work best against these low [INT] creatures. I can't loose myself in fighting one though, as the other would be sure to move in. So knocked one down and got a hit, then turned my attention to the other just in time to parry a strike from the club. This gave me an opening to punch the goblin a few times, and sweep its legs down. I turn my attention back to the other goblin who had left himself wide open as it went for an over head strike. I catch the inside of his wrist as he brings down the club, burning his wrist in the process. I quickly get in position to do a quick judo throw over my hip and follow the goblin down and pin it with my knee. I do a quick strike to the throat from that position and was rewarded with its body disappearing. This let me concentrate on the last goblin which I quickly disposed of once I got a chance to strike its body blowing the rest of my mana with a -Multi Blast-. The sun was almost quickly down at this point, and I could hear noises in the forest of unknown beasts coming alive. I quickly used -External Mana Control- and buffed up my legs as with -Body Part Enhancement- as much as I could with what mana I could draw and ran back to town.
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