The More the Healer Gets Hit the Stronger He Become

8 – Nice to Meet You, Points!

Kiki-kiki-kiki.

Guys holding crudely damaged daggers approached, poking around.

He looked like someone who had fallen victim to paralysis without a doubt.

Kangwoo held his breath, waiting for the distance to narrow.

At that moment, when the approaching goblins flashed their eyes and swung their daggers.

Booong-.

Vigorously swung, the staff struck the head of a lad nearby with a resounding impact.

Crack!

The goblin slumped, the sound of its skull breaking echoing in the air.

Kirrr?

Seizing the goblins’ momentary confusion from the unexpected ambush, Kangwoo charged forward, shield firmly secured to his upper body.

“aaargh!”

Thud!

One goblin was sent flying by the shield.

Realizing the situation, the goblins roared in frenzy and rushed towards Kangwoo.

Quickly maneuvering, Kangwoo charged at the rebounded goblin, swiftly confirming the kill.

Crack!

Now, two down.

Although three goblins were approaching from behind, the momentum had already shifted towards Kangwoo.

The goblins wielding crude daggers posed no real threat.

Swish!

Three goblins brandished their daggers from different angles.

Left and front blocked by shield and staff, but the flank was a step too late.

Squelch!

A dagger pierced his right arm.

“Argh!”

hehehe.

The sound of mocking laughter echoes in my ears.

Kang Woo, wielding his shield and staff, effortlessly pushes away the daggers of two other guys. He then kicks the guy who joyfully stabbed his dagger into his foe’s stomach, causing the weak-bodied Goblin to writhe on the ground.

As the Goblin rolls on the ground, defenselessly, due to his feeble physique, Kang Woo blocks the attacks of the two who are coming at him again. He kicks away the guy in front of him and swings his staff at the guy on the left.

Crack!

The Goblin, with a sharp ornament embedded in its neck, weakly slumps down, blood trickling out.

“Hoo.”

As the three guys swiftly move away, the gaze of the surviving Goblins changes.

Ki… Kirruk…!

The two guys who were previously rolling on the ground take steps back, clearly trying to escape.

“No way…!!”

Kang Woo throws his shield onto the ground and rushes towards the guy in front of him.

Kirruk-!

The Goblin, already giving up on fighting and attempting to flee.

Crunch!

Taking care of him was effortless.

Kang Woo wipes off the blood splattered on his face and turns his head. The sole survivor is already quite far away.

“The dagger you gave me.”

Staff members were already on the floor as Kangwoo drew the dagger embedded in his right arm.

“Let’s take this, you punk!”

Gripping the dagger, Kangwoo utilized the momentum of his rush and threw it with all his strength.

Swoosh!

A goblin, the dagger lodged in its back, stumbled and fell, tripping over its own feet.

Thud, thud.

As the distance closed, the face of the already greenish goblin became even more bluish.

Ki, kirrung! Kirr kirr!

The goblin urgently gestured with its hands, expressing something.

“What are you saying?”

Thunk!

Kangwoo, pulling a sturdy dagger from his bosom, thrust it into the goblin’s throat.

***

The first battle on the second-floor trial.

Moreover, a fight with goblins, humanoid monsters.

However, since he had already dealt with them during association training, there was not much excitement.

“A sacred touch.”

Pain that never became familiar no matter how many times he experienced it.

Kangwoo, gripping his right arm, used healing.

[Strength has increased by 0.1.]

A notification sounded, signaling a single increase in strength.

Rain, having used healing twice more, took faltering steps.

“No luck. No luck.”

Rain walked among the goblin corpses, searching the pouches hanging from their waists.

Two of them were empty-handed.

As Rain searched through the pouch of the third goblin, he hesitated.

“Is it really here?”

The theme of this trial: Find five blue stones.

It was perplexing at first, but his perspective changed after learning that the monsters on this floor were goblins.

Goblins were peculiar in collecting odd things. Rain thought they might have kept the blue stones.

Rain reached into the pouch and pulled out a blue stone.

Snap!

A faint light flickered menacingly on the blue stone as it vanished from his touch.

“This is it.”

Rain put the stone into his backpack, patting the still weighty pouch.

An empty bladder and four sharp stingers.

Toxin stingers used by goblins.

Despite their crudeness, Rain decided to stow the pouch in his backpack.

They might be crude, but those toxin stingers could induce paralysis. He didn’t know when or where they might come in handy.

He rummaged through the belongings of the remaining goblins, but all he found was one bladder and two toxin stingers.

After completing the looting, Kangwoo grabbed five daggers and left his spot.

***

After purchasing the items recommended by the Safe Zone.

For the remaining four hours until forced relocation, Kangwoo pondered repeatedly.

However, no matter how much he thought, a suitable solution did not come to mind.

With a presence meddling even in the system, watching him like a pervert with eyes wide open, there seemed to be no other sharp move available.

In the end, there was only one thing he could do.

To struggle desperately to survive each day.

Thunk!

A goblin, struck directly by the staff, collapsed and lost its life.

Although it might not be the intended use for the staff that was there, using it as a weapon had become more familiar than using it to heal since some point.

Kangwoo, who was sitting down, rummaged through the goblin’s pockets.

Around him, all the dead goblins numbered five.

Now, having become accustomed to it since the first battle where he was wounded, not a single hair was harmed.

Having finished looting the remaining goblins, Kangwoo stood up.

Unfortunately, this time, the blue stone did not come out from these guys.

It was already the fourth time he was forcibly relocated and fought in this place.

As if proving the battles so far, Kangwoo’s backpack had become quite heavy with the spoils.

“Two…”

As Kangwoo left his spot, he organized his achievements up until now.

The goblins I’ve defeated so far amount to a staggering 18.

Despite vanquishing 18, the blue stones I acquired were merely two.

Given the abysmal odds, Kangwoo remained unfazed.

After several battles, the objective of this trial had shifted.

“To kill as many as possible.”

Judging by the rate at which blue stones appeared, even if he swiftly conquered the second-floor trial and reached the safe zone, the front-runners would likely already be tackling the third-floor challenge.

Those who went ahead wouldn’t be alone, so their pace in overcoming the trial would undoubtedly be faster.

That meant he had to breakthrough the third-floor trial alone.

To increase the chances of survival even a little, Kangwoo needed to capture as many goblins as possible and claim ample rewards.

“Simply clearing the achievement… it should apply this time too, right?”

The short-clear achievement that had doubled his points. If it applied again after capturing as many goblins as possible, the rewards for this trial might exceed imagination.

“hehehehe.”

Had there ever been a time when he set up such crude traps that would infuriate someone over a one-on-one fistfight, and goblins hiding sinisterly behind seemed so beautifully displayed?

Walking, eyes scanning the ground to discover traps, Kangwoo spotted a crude trap ahead and chuckled.

A trap that would have been annoying in the past now seemed as cute as a prank.

Kangwoo’s eyes quickly darted around.

Since the trap was there, goblins were bound to be shyly playing hide-and-seek nearby.

As those familiar with the theme wouldn’t reveal themselves if they didn’t fall into the trap, there was no need to worry.

Thunk.

Kangwoo tossed his precious backpack to the side, then nudged the trap with his staff, activating it amidst the grass, next to the trap where a goblin had clumsily extended its head.

“Screams echoed, ‘Ah-!’

As she grabbed the cunning trap and delicately lifted it onto her leg, she screamed, completing the appearance of exerting all her strength to escape from the trap.

Despite her resounding scream, Gangwoo, who felt something was lacking, casually sprinkled goblin blood from a water bottle he had stored on his leg.

‘Ah-! Ah-!’

Rolling around.

It was just the right time to roll to the right and then to the left on the floor.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

Along with the familiar sound, four poisonous stingers pierced her back.

‘Oh.’

Four stingers. Quite a number, isn’t it?

But he couldn’t let his guard down yet. Gangwoo entered the second stage.

‘No, this can’t be…!’

Gangwoo’s face went pale as he confirmed the stingers embedded in his back.

His exaggeratedly trembling body gradually paralyzed and stiffened, a spectacle of awe.

hehehehe.

Goblins, sensing the success of the hunt, revealed themselves.

As with the others, there was no doubt in the happy faces as they gleefully tore into their prey.

‘Oh, seven gains.’

It was a bit tough, but there was no need to worry.

Having been stabbed a few times by the goblins’ crude daggers, Gangwoo concluded that it was okay as long as he avoided vital areas.”

Hee-hee-hee.

The goblins approached with a sly grin, as always.

As the distance closed in with three strides!

“Sacred touch!”

Kangwoo, who had lifted the staff from the ground after dispelling paralysis, cast a sweeping strike.

Swish-!

One goblin’s neck split, blood pouring out, and the staff struck the other one’s temple nearby.

Tinkle?

Seizing the moment of the startled goblin, Kangwoo, holding a shield, charged forward.

“Nice to meet you, little points!”

Poo-oo-ooom-!

Two goblins standing on both sides were unexpectedly bounced away by the sudden attack.

Thud!

Kangwoo, who skillfully deflected the shield, swung to block a dagger from the left while simultaneously giving a sweet blow to the goblin rushing diagonally.

Thunk!

Oh, of course, with the staff.

Whirr-!

The goblin, having lost almost half of its comrades, roared in anger.

Whoosh!

The destination of the rage was Kangwoo’s back.

“Krehp!”

It feels like I should be getting used to this by now, but the pain feels new with every moment.

“The brat…”

I tried to be cute, and they dare hit me from behind?

Kangwoo, swinging his shield broadly, pushed aside the guy on the left and dashed forward.

The guys who were knocked down by the shield a moment ago were trying to get up.

“Who said you could get up.”

Pweok!

He gave the guy in front a good night kiss, then immediately swung the staff at the guy behind.

Bwoong-!

I thought he would definitely hit, but the guy, realizing something as he desperately rolled on the ground, avoided the horizontal swing.

Kir, Leur-!

Pwook-!

Due to the guy dodging, the timing was off, and the dagger stabbed into his back again.

The one he stabbed earlier is hanging on his back, so it must be the guy on the left?

It seemed to be stuck pretty deep, making the leg wobble for a moment.

Kangwoo, trying not to collapse, quickly turned the staff head to the ground to support his falling body.

Pwook!

“Oops, my bad.”

Of course, it had to be the goblin’s body under the staff that I accidentally hit.

Ah, this one’s sharp at the end. Can it even stab?

“Suck!”

As the dagger that was stuck in there was pulled out, it found its way into the sore spot.

Thud!

“Kraaa-!”

To stab the already stabbed spot again!

Enraged Kangwoo swung his shield and turned his body.

Swish-!

The sharp edge of the swung shield happened to strike the guy’s face.

The distorted face was vividly visible, and without realizing, Kangwoo, who missed the shield because his back hurt so much, ran towards the remaining one…

He threw a staff, as his back hurt too much.

Whoosh-!

Thunk?

Goblin narrowly dodged in an instant.

Kangwoo threw the crude dagger he had prepared in advance in his arms.

Whoosh-!

Thud!

Nice shot! The crude dagger hit the goblin’s thigh.

Kangwoo, who had seized the opportunity, approached the goblin, skillfully drew out a dagger, and threw it.

Thud! Thud!

Two more daggers stuck into the goblin’s body.

The eyes of Gangwoo flickered toward the goblin screaming in agony.

“How dare you… hit me from behind?”

The dagger that scoundrel thrust into his back still dangled there.

Gangwoo picked up the fallen staff and roared in fury.

Honeyed night. He had to give that unruly punk a honeyed night.