Let's see what kind of trouble I found this time. I need to inspect your appearance first.

The Hobbling has a length of around one meter and seventy-five centimeters, which wasn't that surprising after seeing the giant wolf.

He wears a worn tunic which suits his torn pants. Green skin, no hair, long ears, and nose with these, he looks more like a mutated human than a goblin. It looks skinny, but I don't want to judge any monster from their look.

Hobgoblin started to scream with his mouth full open. He has teeth two times bigger than an ordinary human. I need to be careful about his bites.

I didn't respond or do a mimic. Hobgoblin stopped screaming, started to laugh, and made a throat slit gesture with his finger.

I picked the last berry from my pouch and threw it in my mouth. "Be ready to get crushed by me, pathetic creature." Little cockiness doesn't kill anyone. Expect this asshole.

We slowly walked towards each other. Hobgoblin cracked his knuckles and showed me his tongue to taunt me. It plans something, but I don't know what.

I swing my pole hammers crushing side, which Hobgoblin dodged with a jump to back. I am surprised how far he can jump.

Hobgoblin then made a counterattack by trying to slash his claw-like nails towards my face. I blocked his arm using the handle of my pole hammer.

I also tried to make a counterattack, but the creature was way faster than I thought and made a slash attack which I barely dodged by throwing myself into the ground.

Hobgoblin, who see the disadvantage I have that moment, tried to jump on me, but I kicked him from the face while he's still in mid-air. Hobgoblin rolled on the ground after getting hit by my kick, which gives me enough time to get up.

I barely managed to get up and take a stance, but will it affect anything. If I could use this weapon fast enough, I may have a chance to kill it. In the current situation, Hobgoblin keeps battering me and escapes from my attacks.

I dropped my weapon and cracked my knuckles. If Hobgoblin wants to fight fast, I will fight in the way he wants.

I don't know if I ever talked about my physical appearance, but you need to know somethings.

I am almost twenty centimeters longer than the Hobgoblin, and while it has a skinny build, my whole life passed on military academies, which trained my body to its best.

Your height, gender, or anything doesn't matter in my country long as you are a child of a military officer, you need to know how to throw punches. It is a tradition in my country.

Thanks to tradition, I got beaten a lot in my life, which allowed me to learn how to throw punches myself.

"Now, show me how strong you are on a more fair fight." I taunted him with my hand after saying that.

Hobgoblin laughed and charged towards me. When it got closer, he threw a punch to my face.

I caught his fist with my hand. The monster tried to cut my throat with his other hand, which I also grabbed it.

Now looking at it from the above, I hold the crushing upper hand. It tries to break from my hands, but I won't let it go.

"Be careful!" Voice said.

Something strange is happening. Lenght of the Hobgoblins red bar increased, and runic words changed their color from white to blue.

Nothing changed in size, but now it has a strength almost equal to mine. I can barely hold Hobgoblins right now.

Hobgoblin started to laugh and showed me his teeth. I may know what is going to happen.

I released the Hobgoblin's arms and threw a hook towards his face. At the same time, Hobgoblin jumped towards my neck to bite it.

My hook landed on his face before it managed to bit my neck. With this advantage, I throw another punch but time towards his stomach.

Hobgoblin is damaged, but it isn't enough to keep him on the ground. Even after I landed a punch to his abdominal cavity, it managed to jump away from me to create a distance between us.

I shouldn't allow it to rest. I charged towards Hobgoblin and threw a punch towards his face, but it managed to dodge it by ducking under it, but it's not the only thing it will get.

I am throwing more punches towards Hobgoblin, but he's either slipping or ducking to dodge every one of them.

If it keeps going like that, it will turn into a boxing match. I need to end it now. Using my upper hand on strength to tackle down the Hobgoblin could be my chance.

I still carry the dagger I got from the goblins five days ago. Using the knife against Hobgoblin could be dangerous considering his upper hand in agility, but if I use my dagger when Hobgoblin couldn't move. It will be an end to his life.

Now, the hard part comes. How can I tackle the Hobgoblin down? This mother fucker dodges everything. It feels more like boxing against Mohamed Ali than fighting with a monster.

I could bait him. A hit shouldn't cause infection, but give me the chance to tackle it down. It's a coin flip right now.

I stopped punching and take a defensive position. Hobgoblin looks surprised because of my sudden change of style.

Hobgoblin opened his mouth showed his teeth which look more like a fang than a teeth. He also changed his style and started to walk towards me on for legs.

Now, it targets my legs while attacking, I try to dodge his attacks by jumping in the opposite direction of his attacks, but I could tremble into something any time.

Our little game lasted five minutes until he decided to change his style with a surprise attack towards my neck.

Hobgoblin jumped while his mouth ready to bite my throat. I saw wolves doing that against Draugrs, which means this Hobgoblin could copy other monsters fighting styles.

It is too dangerous to keep him alive. I need to kill it this day.

Thankfully his copying ability will also cause his death because it gave me the opening I need.

I grabbed his throat and jumped to the ground. It caused both of us to fall. Hobgoblin hissed and tried to bit my arm, but I headbutted him.

My headbutt stunned the Hobgoblin for a brief time, which I used to draw my dagger.

I tried to stab his chest using my dagger, but he stopped at the last second. My weapon is stuck on his hand, and I can't remove it because he keeps screaming and moving his hand around.

I can't use my other hand because it also tries to scratch my face using his other hand. I will use a dishonorable technic called kicking the nuts.

I released the Hobgoblin, and it immediately jumped back and started to remove the dagger from his hand.

"Sorry for what I am going to do right now."

I charged towards the Hobgoblin while screaming and showing my fist to bait him.

I think Hobgoblin took the bait because it's protecting his face with his arms right now.

After I reach the distance I needed, I kicked the defenseless Hobgoblin from the nuts, which caused the poor monster to make a desperate sound and fall to the ground.

I removed my dagger from his hand, but it didn't even scream. I wonder how much pain now he's trying to endure.

"Don't worry. your pain will end right now."
I cut Hobgoblins throat with one swift move.

"Hey, Voice. It's time for you to say the battle is over."

"Correction: Enemy is defeated." It needs to say that isn't it.

"Enemy, frenemy, a battle I don't care, give my reward. It didn't need to kill the mood.

"One, please choose your reward."

A screen with six different lines written in runic words appeared in front of me.

"Voice, I want you to know. I don't know how to read this alphabet."

Unsurprisingly it kept his silence when I needed an answer. I think I'll choose randomly.

I closed my eyes. Now, my finger is hovering over the lines. Sometime later, I opened my eyes and pressed the line under my finger. My body started to glow blue, but it stopped after a short time.

"Now, what changed?"