Adventures Of A Goblin

He takes a deep breathe and focuses more on his thorn erection skill activation.

The thorn erection skill can only be activated on an inanimate object.

It will not just appear from thin air, it has to have something to act as its third person communicating network.

That is why, what he plans on doing is use the detection skill to connect himself to the nearby volcanic mountains that are sideways and sprout out the thorns from each mountain, he will then trace the thorns down to where he is thereby connecting them.

Although his thorns has shown to be weak to fire, but that isn't completely the case.

His palm and feet are made of Thorn, yet they did not burn away when he was riding on the bird's back.

He contemplated on what the reasons could be, and came to a conclusion that it is the difference in mana.

When he produces out a Thorn from his body, he uses mana and once the Thorn comes out, it is no longer exposed to mana.

His body however is always flowing with mana especially during the skill usage.

Said mana must have been what is keeping his thorned palms and feets from burning off.

What he needs to do, is continue supplying mana to the produced Thorn to keep it from burning away.

Aa for the insufficient mana, he plans on using his mana gathering skill to absorb the surrounding mana and use it to empower himself.

He takes one more deep breathe with his thorned hands still stretched sideways and activates his mana gathering skill.

He inhales and exhales, inhale and exhale, inhale and exhale.

He continued said actions for a few more times before drawing his attention to the effect of the mana gathering skill.

It started with a circle slowly forming itself at the center of his chest,

The circle keeps coiling around his chest and kept on expanding.

The mana was now gathering within him and he could feel himself becoming more mana full.

While he was gathering the mana, he shared his other focus to finding a volcanic mountain on both sides and activating his thorn erection skill on it.

"!!!".

something went wrong he thought as his detection skill could no longer go further.

It was as if there was an Invincible wall the detection could not breach through.

He knew what the reason for this was, the detection skill had reached its limited range of effect.

He had leveled it up quite a bit and had its maximum range between eighty seven kilometer to ninety kilometer.

Even with said distance covered, he has yet to come across a volcanic mountain.

Should he give up now?..,

No, that is no longer an option for him.

All skills are run by mana, and their efficiency depends largely on how much mana one has.

The detection skill is no different.

The limitations of its range is largely due to the low supply of mana it has, if so, all he has to do is supply more mana than needed.

He reinforces the detection skill with more mana and focused on breaking through its limitation.

He was too immersed in it to the point that he did not notice that his nose was starting to bleed out.

He pushed in with even more mana, and the limitations of the detection started to crack.

He continued and pushed himself even more and eventually, he succeeded.

[Ding].

[user's actions have been recorded].

[you have managed to successfully break through the shells of the skill detection].

[Skill detection has evolved into Skill Perception].

[Perception Lv1 > a skill that works with all sensory organs of the body, giving you a mental image of your surrounding terrain].

[Range > depends largely on the amount of mana supplied].

[Lv Advantage > the higher the skill, the more details can be covered in the depicted mental image].

He ignored the massages popping up and focused more on finding the volcanic mountain.

"cough, cough".

He coughed out blood from his mouth, and felt his head going dizzy.

[Ding].

[Pain Tolerance Lv5 has leveled up to Pain Tolerance Lv6].

[Pain Tolerance Lv6 has leveled up to Pain Tolerance Lv7].

[Pain Tolerance Lv7 has leveled up to Pain Tolerance Pv8].

He had to stop and check what was wrong with his body.

He noticed that his body was already reaching its limit.

A crack was forming up in his hand and blood was dripping out from said crack.

His chest were the mana was being gathered into was becoming hotter with every passing moment.

He held unto his chest that was now starting to become heavier.

He could not keep the mana gathering skill in motion and it halted.

His eyes starting to cry out blood instead of water.

He no longer had any sort of control over his body as his arms fell down of their own will and his eyes closing of their own will.

The cracks that had formed in his hand, extended to other parts of his body with blood flowing out of it all.

Even with his pain tolerance skill leveling up several times, the effect it had on him was not enough to tell that it was working.

He wondered what it would have felt like if he did not have the pain tolerance skill?.

"This time, it truly is the end for me".

He thought as he felt even his consciousness fading away.

"at least this time, I can say for sure that I gave it my all".

"....."

No, not yet.

As long as he still retains even a pinch of consciousness, he has to continue fighting.

That is the only path he can and will take.

There is no time for making pointless complaints.

The lava is still a bit off from him, what he needs to do now is to at least grab hold of his consciousness.

No way in hell can he lose his life at this crucial moment.

He breathes in heavily and reactivated the skills he was working with before.

With his vision gone, he relied on his perception skill the upgraded version of his detection.

When the skill was activated, it gave him something akin to virtual display in his thoughts.

His eyes was sealed shut and couldn't see with them, but it felt like he really could see with the perception.

There was no time to bask in the joy of acquiring an upgraded skill because he is still falling and his body still getting even more worn out.

With the perception skill, he tries to locate the mountains and this time, he picked up the pace even more because he was soon to fall into the lava.

He knew already that it was an hopeless fight.

If by chance he finds the two mountains,

The time needed to connect the mountains together with his thorn is one thing,

Not knowing if the thorn will hold against the fire even after reinforcing it with more mana is another thing.

He knew all this, but still decided to fight on because he never wants to be labeled a Loser.

Doing nothing and relying only on luck is the traits of a loser.

He was once a loser in his past life, but this life is different.

In this life, he fought to his last breathe,

He fought till his body could no longer keep up with his determination.

He gave it his all and that alone made him proud.

With confidence and vigority, he stares at the lava face on.

"come have at me".

[Ding].