Seeing that they were going to attack, Elly began to freeze up. This was the first time we had to engage with this many monsters at once, not to mention that they were all ranked two.
Trisha tried to charm them but wasn't able to. The emotions of the goblins were too overwhelming for her magic to work.
"Trisha! Get Elly as far as possible!" I yelled, telling them to go away. They wouldn't be any help if they stayed.
Hearing me yell, Trisha began to drag Elly far away. Then, with the goblins charging us, we began to attack. One of them tried to follow them, but I shot a wall of fire blocking its sight.
Crystal froze the floor, making the floor slippery. Only two of them fell when they ran toward us. I saw this chance and began to fire my magic on them. With me hitting them with my magic, the two of them died.
There were eight left, and they were drawing in closer to us. I don't think Crystal was good at fighting in close range, so I tried to think of a move to push them back.
Using my magic capacity advantage, I sent a big sun towards them. When they saw my attack, they used their arms and tried to block my attack.
I grabbed Crystal and ran away from my attack, this was one of the most decisive moves I had used, and the explosion would be immense.
She was surprised when I held her, but none of them had survived with my magic exploding. A crater was in the middle, and I believe the noise would've alerted them.
We would have more enemies incoming, but I could handle them myself. It was true that we would lose money, but I would just all their mana core using them as our source of rank.
"Crystal, go check in with Trisha and Elly. I could handle the rest." Telling her she hesitated, seeing that I was serious, she went to them.
Now that I was alone, I could hear a wave of monsters coming toward me. I wasn't worried about their numbers since I could quickly destroy them.
"HAH!!!" The goblins began their battle cry seeing their dead comrades burned from the ashes of my flame.
With the charging against me, I shot many beams toward them. Their numbers started to dwindle as I kept on shooting my plasma beams. I should have done this earlier. I didn't know why I was catering to my group.
They wouldn't mind me doing this as long as they rank high in our group. About half of them had died as they were still charging at me. They were still falling one by one.
There were about seven of them left in that whole crossfire. Many of their goblin friends were unrecognizable by the burnt I gave them.
Angered, I felt they became a bit stronger, but it wouldn't have mattered if they were stronger. I was still too strong to close the gap for my group to beat me.
All of them were a few feets apart from me. I then began to cover myself in hot flames, and the goblins began to step back. The heat was too intense for them to handle. All they could do was glare at me and retreat. They didn't have a way for them to hurt me.
"There isn't any use of running. Since you came to me, you might as well stay." Sending a burning bullet to their heads, they dropped like flies. It was over a one-sided massacre. I looked at the battlefield feeling nothing.
Picking up all the mana core, I tried to find my group. It didn't take long for me to see them since they hadn't run far from the battle.
"Let's go back. We have too many corpses in our bag." Seeing that we couldn't gain anything here, we had no choice but to return.
"Did you really beat them all?" Elly quietly asked me a question. Crystal and Trisha looked at me, expecting an answer.
"Yes, I beat them. It wasn't that hard, to be honest." I told them without expressing any feelings.
Seeing that I wasn't in the mood to explain anything, they kept silent as we headed back to the town.
Two hours had passed, and we had arrived back in town. We could see many students here. Most of them were in their first or second year. The third and four were most likely in the deep zone of the forest.
Having to return, the first thing we did was go back to our school's examination site. With the four of us arriving, many students could be seen. We then went to a school staff that would check on our progress.
"Hello, how may I help you?" The staff asked.
"My group and I want to sell our earnings from the hunting monsters we hunted." Crystal and I brought out our storage bag.
"We had hunted a bit too much. I think it's better if we used a room with more space," I told the receptionist that it was inefficient to do our selling here.
Seeing that we were serious, she led us to a room. Putting out all the monster corpses we had obtained, the staff began calculating how many credits we would earn.
"Your group had earned 5625 credits." She told us as she looked at our earnings. It was a decent amount considering none of these monsters were rare.
Having to do that, we left the room and the examination site. "Let's find a place to rest," I told them, that we were not going to the forest anymore.
Finding our room, we went to check it out. I told my group that I would stay here for the rest of the night and that they could have dinner without me. Entering my room, it was a room with one bed, cozy enough for a person who wasn't going to stay long.
I had self-reflected on my actions for the past few months. When did I become so kind? I hadn't noticed it initially but realized it when I helped the group. My old self was someone who preferred benefit over friendship. I sighed, thinking about it as I began to sleep.
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