"Let's go." Luke sighed. "It's just a stone pillar, lying in here. If we couldn't figure out what to do with it, then we might as well move on. We're only wasting time here."

"That's right." Jane moved together with Luke while Soarsie followed behind them.

I sprawled my fingers on the stone pillar to see if I could trigger something when Luke and the others turned their backs.

. . .

. . .

Nothing.

"Cross. We'll leave you behind," Soarsie called.

"Coming." I gaze at the stone pillar one more time before catching up to the others.

Maybe the entrance was somewhere else? I thought as we made our way deeper into the forest.

Due to Luke's or mostly because of my ATP, the beasts in the forest avoided us except for those who wanted to contest with our ATP.

After roasting some beast meat and choking on its bland taste, we've recovered some of our HP and MP before we headed deeper into the forest.

Eventfully, we came to a cave at the end of all the trees and rocks where steep mountain range blocked anyone from continuing further.

Two goblins were seen guarding the entrance of the lair. In the middle of the afternoon, their ugly faces were glaring than the sun.

A green body that didn't reach our waist. Big eyes with frog-like pupils. Large pointy nose and ears and an ugly smile with rotting sharp teeth. Their weapon of choice was wooden clubs, make-shift daggers, and their sharp nails.

Somewhere in the Cave, an aging carcass was leaving a sour scent of death that lingered in the air. I shivered, not daring to think what was inside that Cave of darkness.

There was definitely a horde of Goblins there.

"Let's go." Luke tightly grabbed his sword.

However, before he could jump from the bushes and give our location away, I pulled his sleeve and interrupted him.

"Shouldn't we plan our move first?" I asked as he kneeled back onto the dirt.

Jane sneered. "What's there to plan? They're clearly outnumbered. And didn't you see those Goblins HP and MP? 70 HP and 20 MP. They're very low level."

It was just the goblins HP and MP on top of their names. But what about the rest of their stats? Who knows if those goblins have insanely high STR in the end?

Rather, why was she so antagonistic towards me? She probably still wasn't over at my blunder that almost cost her life.

Understandable.

I ignored her and explained further, "If this is a Goblins' den, then if we attack and cause a racket, there might be a chance that some of them would pour out of the cave, and it would be us that will be outnumbered next."

Jane pouted. She opened her mouth but closed it again.

She should really stop thinking that this was like a game. This was our real-world now, and every possibility to make sure that we continued to exist in the future should be taken into consideration.