The ones who screeched were not goats, and that wasn't surprising, but they were still terrified beyond prehension! The group felt fident that they could handle a single monster, but judging from the screeches, they were about to be attacked by several of them, and this was a lot trickier to handle!

  “Does anyone see anything?” Tim asked, as he nursed fireballs on his palm.

  Geie answered, except Geie couldn't speak the goblin tongue, no. He just barfed out a fireball, which flew right above everyone's heads, and beamed across the tunnel!

  The fireball hit something, they could tell, because one of those low-volume screeches, turned into an ear-pierg scream! Everyone had to cover their ears, and all of the dragons were in clear disfort too.

  “Shit… looks like he see in the dark really well.” Tim muttered, and then he ressummohe fireballs on his palms, and shot them at the same dire that Geie did.

  They heard another, loud screech afterwards! Everything about this exge was absolutely deafening, and terrifying, but that's just how it had to turn out.

  There was one good thing about it, though, and the system popped up in his head to give the good news. [gratutions, you just killed a Yellow-bellied Cave Snake, and unfortunately for you, these snakes seem to exist in more than one universe. You've won 500 system points as a reward, and you assume the snake's abilities if you choose to e its flesh. Your friends could try and do the same, though it would likely be less effective for them.]

  That was a lot of information, though, he could his head around it for once, because he t in killing for the sake of power, he wasn’t a beginner in that matter. He uood that animals stole powers from each other all the time, it was natural, but the absorption-rate varied from mage to mage, there were numerous factors to it, but the bottom-line was that some mages stole powers better than others. Arvena may have the best of lu abs the cave snake's powers, but by all odds she may choose to avoid it, in order to protect her degranus heritage which she valued dearly. She icky.

  Only Timothy absorbed anything he could get his hands on, but for now, he didn’t have time to steal. Despite the system’s lengthy annous, the battle was still ongoing!

  Everyone's ears rang badly, so they couldn’t hear the low-pitch screeches that the snakes sang, but they could still feel their horrid presehe team was alert, and tried to avoid getting pounced on by all necessary!

  The battle progressed towards the extremes moments ter, when a snake sprung out of the ground, right imothy's feet! The sried to take him down, and it might as well succeed because this was no small snake, but he spotted it at the st sed, and came up with a ter attack! He evaded it.

  Fire was a good tool, it could solve everyone's problems, so he used it here once more. He had to get out of the snake's projected dire first, as he couldn’t fight ba the spot, no, because if he tried to fight baow, then he would get pinned down immediately!

  It was best to get out of its way, so he used a little trick that he hadn't used in weeks now. He summohe Fming Fins ability, though as a goblin he didn’t have fins, so it was his feet which jolted thanks to the fiery bze that he had summoned. In other words, this ability made him move faster, but he didn’t depend on this thing alone!

  Tim also summohe Freezing Blood ability, which as a bonus helped him move even faster. However, with this power he also forced the eo slow down, because he had been close enough to freeze its blood directly!

  All of this happened within a couple of seds, and he didn't bother turning these couple of abilities off afterwards, no, he didn’t do that even though he had already beamed out of the snake's path. Instead, he used this freedom that he bought, to summon a couple of fireballs too, and theed them against the snake!

  His moves were successful! He had worked up the target so effitly and diabolically, that the target's flesh turned from a froze-steak into a well roasted lunch, all within three seds! This time he didn’t evehe snake scream, as perhaps he had frozen its vocal cords too, and this was a really good bonus, because he didn’t want his ears t all day. Then, he finally turned all of his summoned abilities off.

  [You just killed another Yellow-bellied Cave Snake, and won 500 more system points as a reward, gratutions.] The system announced.

  Afterwards, she also cautioned. [You just tri-casted some of your abilities there, though, and I advise you against it, because it's a really expensive decision. You just lost 744 mana points in uhree seds!]

  “It was worth it,” He said, and the over to tear a bit of roasted meat, right off of the snake's carcass. “I wonder how this tastes?”

  Tim took a bite, but little did he know, the battle was not over. His ears were ringing so he could barely hear anything right now, so it wasn’t a surprise how he was pletely oblivious of the dangers around him. Another snake leaped at him just then, and he couldn’t see it ing whatsoever!

  Everyone shouted at him to get out of the way, but to , he was still oblivious! All of a sudden, a blue forcefield appeared out of thin air, and it circled around Timothy, it coated him thhly, so the snake ended up just crashing against the forcefield, where it caught his attention afterwards.

  Tim turned around, and said. “You sneaky bastard, yoing to be my dier on! I'll enj you.”

  Speaking , he then summohe Electro Nerve Splitter, and fried the snake's brain whole. He fried its electrical receptors!

  [Another 500 system points, good. You've accumuted a total of 4,000 points.] The system shooint-ter in his head.

  Looking back at Ortana, he firmed that it was she who protected him with that forcefield. It was her signature ability, so he was reminded why they kept her in the group to begin with. He reciative, and her in order to thank her quietly.

  Timothy the down, and grabbed a handful of meat off of that first, fried snake, and ate it. He didn’t learn from his mistakes, as iill wasn’t looking around to see if there were any more snakes ing, but this time his negligence didn't matter, because the battle truly was over. He was okay, everyone was okay.

  After a few more bites, yet another notification popped up in his head, and it said. [gratutions, you successfully obtaihe Nerve Shaker ability. You ow emit a sonic-like humm, which will leave your oppos disorientated, depending oensity of the exge. It’s a good ability to have.]