Odyssey of the Blind God

By entering the Melind dungeon, Nial planned to start from scratch once again.

This didn't mean that he would forget his past or do something extremely stupid.

Rather, it meant that he wanted to test his current capabilities with a clear mind in order to evaluate his strengths and weaknesses.

Thus did not only include his combat strength, but also his comprehension, and the depth of his knowledge.

In the end, all of his characteristics should be rather low, with the sole exception being his comprehension and everything concerning the control of mana.

By assessing himself, he should be able to find out more about his own persona, the things he was lacking the most, what was the most important to fix right away, and a plan to tend to all the issues one by one.

This was what Nial had planned initially, but after encountering two large groups of beasts that he presumed to be goblins, Nial was unable to even think about holding back, or assessing himself.

Instead, his mind was fully occupied with sensing his opponents for a short moment before he retracted the [Mana Perception(poorest)] ability.

The mana consumption was simply too high, and Nial knew that he was in dire need of mana.

Otherwise, he would have too little to circulate through his body, which was what he did right now in order to increase his strength and speed by a small margin.

Following that, he catapulted his body towards one direction, charging at one of the two groups that had approximately 30 beings each.

​ This was a huge number compared to what Nial wanted to fight right now because he first wished to adjust to the subtle increase in strength he had received by absorbing and annexing mana.

Unfortunately, this was not possible, and his first opponents after Melvin were around 30 goblins each on his right and left.

He was not sure how many of the goblins were archers, but it was just at this moment that his mana perception allowed him to sense the rapid approach of eight arrows, five from the back and three from the front.

A total of eight archers was less than what Nial had presumed, but it was already more than enough to pressurize him to the extent that he was barely able to evade and deflect them.

In fact, two arrows hit his leather armor, almost piercing into his skin which caused Nial's heart to skip a beat before he continued to advance.

Increasing the speed at which he ran, knowing that he might have to encounter another volley of arrows, Nial circulated more mana through his body.

With an attempt to lessen the unnecessary movements he did, he felt as if he could further accelerate, but that was not something he could be sure of.

As such, Nial decided that make a note of the movements he was currently doing as he began to swing the Viper spear when he was able to visualise the first Goblin from a closer distance.

This meant that his opponents were not that far, which barely gave him the necessary time to react quickly by attacking the closest Goblin that was standing in front of him, holding a manaless broadsword in its tiny hands.

Thrusting the Viper spear forward and into the Goblin's flesh, Nial's arms shot out, allowing him to reach the required distance in order to penetrate the Goblin's head.

Blood and brain mass splattered through the air the moment Nial retracted the Viper spear, leaving behind the corpse of the goblin that had been unable to notice what had happened.

Meanwhile, the other goblins stiffened, when they perceived how easily their comrade had died.

It had not even been able to stall Nial for a single second before dying of an easy thrust which took only a moment as well.

As such, not even death seemed to be able to force the young, blind man to halt in his tracks as he used both hands to hold the upper and lower ends of the Viper spear in order to utilize all kinds of unique movements.

This was only possible because Nial had penetrated their formation and entered the center of the large goblin group, preventing the three archers from attacking him without firing at his upper body, or one of their own.

Because of that, he had many more options to finish off his opponents, including more space to fight and evade other attacks.

Through this, it was possible for Nial to understand that his current strength was higher than that of the individual goblins, whose combat style was extremely simplistic.

There were no feints, hidden attacks or scheming. Instead, they were screaming out in pain, anger, and wrath while trying to kill him and rushing at him rather mindlessly.

Yet, before they were even able to reach him, a razor-sharp blade pierced through their body, cut their weapon, or slashed their entire body apart, reducing them to mere bone and limbs.

Being equipped with the Viper spear, a Myth weapon, Nial would never have to face an issue in destroying weapons that didn't possess any mana.

Even some Common ranked weapons might break if they were not forged out of highly durable ores, flawlessly crafted or purified perfectly.

As such, he had simply turned into a tornado of destruction, crudely destroying the weapons of the goblins that attacked him, killing them without any mercy.

Having mercy would only cause problems, and in the current situation, he might as well die.

Thus, moving around gracefully, Nial killed the first group of Goblins within a few minutes. The speed at which he moved was extremely fast, making his body revolt against his sudden movements, preventing him from moving however he wanted.

Sore muscles made pain shoot up from every cell of his lower body. While he was able to visualize the way he wanted to move, but at the same time, his body was not able to follow suit fast enough.

Because of that, the problems began to accumulate, clearly telling Nial that he had many things to solve.

Working on strengthening his physique was something he already knew about, but his constitution was just another important factor which he had momentarily forgotten.

While fighting in a crude manner, Nial also noticed that he was relying too much on the Viper spear which would be a huge disadvantage if beasts were able to evade his straightforward thrust.

This was not an unlikely scenario, and something perfectly normal because too many powerful beasts with strong defenses existed.

Hence, he had be more analytical when encountering beasts he knew little to nothing about.

But being analytical was not possible for him right now.

Which is why he was focusing on using the best time-efficient way to defeat all opponents. His trick seemed to work as the first goblin group now lay on the ground, with their blood seeping into the now wet soil.

Given the current situation, Nial wanted to take a deep breath but even that was not possible as he heard the unmistakable sound of several arrows that shot through the air.

By circulating mana through his entire body, his senses had also been enhanced, which allowed Nial to hear the arrows, in the first place.

Evading the arrows was much easier because Nial had chosen to take the easiest possible defensive measure; using a meat shield!

Picking up the biggest goblin, he lifted the corpse easily.

Adjusting the angle in accordance to the trajectory in which the arrow flew, Nial was able to block three arrows from hitting him, which was a great achievement, in comparison to the effort he made.

Because evading the attack didn't force him to twist his body in an uncomfortable angle, or do something else, which would have forced him to halt in his tracks, Nial was able to push his feet off the ground.

This gave him a great boost in speed, allowing him to reach his speed limit within a fraction of the time he normally required.

Thus, he arrived in front of the closest goblin, which was wielding a spear just as he did.

Thrusting the spear out, the goblin almost pierced Nial, who was taken aback by the fast reaction speed of his opponent.

Nevertheless, such a speed was not enough to kill Nial as his reflexes were great enough to lift the Viper spear.

A clang echoed through the surroundings when the two spears collided with each other, his higher strength, both quality and grade of the Viper spear were clearly shown as he pushed back the goblin's spear.

Flinging it out of the goblin's hand, Nial moved swiftly before he thrust the spear in his opponent's chest, piercing through it.

With the use of every muscle in his arms, shoulders, and back, the strength he was able to exert was almost strong enough to pierce through the body of the goblin behind the one he just killed.

The goblin behind was staring at the Viper spear's blade that was only a few centimeters away from its face, and Nial could only grimace before he tore the spear out of the chest of the goblin he had just killed.

Afterward, he quickly moved towards the side, evading two slashes of longswords, and before anything could happen, he counterattacked, thrusting at the swords that shattered into countless fragments.

Nial couldn't help but feel that the Viper spear was just too strong, but there was no way that he would complain about this.

Rather, he was overjoyed to own such a powerful weapon, even if it might alter his perception of his opponent's strength.

However, he had only survived inside the two-element dungeon because he owned a weapon that was as strong as the Viper spear.

Despite that, the Viper spear was still much better than the Fang spear because Nial felt as if the weapon had been custom-built for him, and not for Shana's sister.

It fit perfectly in his hand, and there was close to no delay between the moment in which he inserted mana in the Viper spear, and could utilize the Viper spear in order to make use of the mana.

After the first goblin of the second large group had been killed, and two weapons destroyed, Nial felt that his breathing was becoming irregular.

The moves he had used had been too strenuous for his body that had been forced to rest for over a week according to the words of the Tyr family's butler.

As such, after fighting with Melvin, Nial spent four days doing other things than working out and preparing his physique to practice martial art techniques.

He didn't even take a single look at the [Control of the Ancient Monarch] technique since he had left the two-element dungeon.

Even now, Nial felt that there were more important things he had to complete before paying attention to a technique that allowed him to increase his control over mana.

In the end, increasing one's control over mana, and improving the ways to utilize it was said to be the most difficult, but for Nial, this was one of the smallest issues right now.

The biggest was his disability and the disadvantages his blindness brought forth, followed by his physical weakness.

His lack of strong physique was connected to his other concerns which were the number of techniques he had, and that he had no way to procure more of them.

At the same time his knowledge, or rather the lack of knowledge was also an equally big concern, and last but not least the fact that he had nobody to look up to as a mentor.

It was not necessary to have a mentor, but after he had witnessed how Master Junades had moved, almost soundlessly, and without any flaws, or wasted moves, Nial was sure that it would save him ag great deal of time and efforts if he were to have someone to teach the proper movements.

With that in mind, Nial was slowly finding a path to move ahead, to figure out what he had to know, improve, and pay attention to.

All of this could be considered his starting line, and the journey to figure out more about himself.

However, before he was able to start a chapter in his life, and journey, Nial had to defeat those that obstructed him in this process.

Thus, he caused carnage as he finished off the remaining goblins that died miserably while a devious smile was plastered on Nial's face.

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