Obviously, Rong had no idea about those forums as he was still stuck within the Dark Days instance figuring out how to move forward. All he knew was that it was best to pick up anything that glitters on the ground.
By the time he had managed to close himself off away from the group of Goblins and fought them in a narrow space within a broken down house, the Ox Demon Cultivator was already panting and had no choice but to use his Grade 1 Enhancement Technique, Ox Stamina, to temporarily regain his strength to fight against those Goblins.
And to make things worse, he had to make sure that they were dead. There was an instance where he thought he had killed a particular Goblin and focused on fighting the rest off within the living room of the broken down house. That particular Goblin pretended to stay dead until Rong had his guard down before stabbing him from the back.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtThe stab was successful but the eventuality of that Goblin's beating heart was not. Still, the backstab worked and Rong incurred an injury which he could only use his chi to stop the pain. Despite this knowledge, all he could do was to pour chi in the area to cease the bleeding and perhaps tighten the muscles so that there was a chance for it to mend itself with his chi.
However, being at grade 1 means that the chi needed to do that was insufficient. It wasn't until Rong started picking up all the glittering items on the ground that he found a potion. For some reason which he believed it was pertaining to the game design, his sight had been blurred whenever he approached the flickering of the glitter. And when he stepped on it, he felt nothing but the floor (or the body of a dead Goblin in some instances.)
It was only when he placed his hand near the glitter, the image of the item and its form materialised in front of him. That was why he could not see whether any of those glitters was something that he needed.
Only when he found a potion, he use it as quickly as he could to not just mend the stabbed wound but also the slashes and cuts he had received from the Goblins previously. It tasted awesome but the effects were not the same. Only when he focused on the item, the potion look the same as the one being sold in Dungeons and Pandas but its effectiveness had been half because it was a 'Crude' recovery potion.
Other than that, there were miscellaneous items that he could pick up and throw in his storage ring. It was at that moment he realised that there was this particular protection charm that he picked up whose description when focused on, was a little weird.
"Protection Inscription Charm against the Unheavenly Slash: A hastily made product by the village witch in order to protect the remaining villagers from the ultimate harm. However, it was never used because the witch was killed in the process of sending it out to her fellow villagers."
Rong later found a few more of those inscription charms and felt that they might be useful for something later. For now, he inserted and infused those charms into his Grade 0 clothes as he found that there were still a few Goblins patrolling the area.
"If this was real life, those Goblins would already have come to me based on the noise and stench of battle. Jin really makes this as if it was a video game." Rong said to himself as he did the most unbelievable thing.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmHe had decided to sneak out of the broken house through its back door and move towards the clearing. However, he was never a thief nor an expert in sneaking, The moment he pushed the back door, a loud creaking noise was heard and the patrols had been alerted by it.
"Ahhh fuckkk. I did not check." Rong said to himself as he got ready for battle and prepared to smash some Goblin heads. A few Goblins came from the front while there were two which he sensed that would be going around to aim for him via the back.
Yet, the first Goblin who had contact with him died almost instantly as he took the two clubs he was wielding to ambush the Goblin from the cover of a pillar and smashed his brains out. The slight startle from the other Goblins gave Rong the most opportune chance to move out of the house and shut the door. Using one of his clubs as a stick to block the door's entrance. He used the time to face against the two goblins who came around the back.
Unfortunately, he was a little hot headed from the adrenaline that he did not see an arrow coming through from the top of the neighbouring house. The arrow no doubt gave trouble to his dominant arm but what Rong needed was striking power and not accuracy for his enemy was right in front of him. So through brute force and some chi enhancement, he slammed his club into the opposing Goblin and did not give an opening for the second Goblin to act.
The Club swung horizontally, impacting the second Goblin's face and that was not the end of it as Rong poured more of his strength into the attack and sent it flying, and smashing his face onto the house's wall.
"Damn, if I am not Grade 1, the wall would have broken with it and might have killed the other two Goblins in the house," Rong thought to himself but that concentration was once again broken due to the opposing Goblin Archer sending shots out.
"Arghh, this is so irritating! Now I understand why the Pandamonium App stated that this would be a hard dungeon." Rong thought to himself as he took a deep breath to reassess the area for a moment