Sighting down her target, she let off her first shot. The energy rifle bullet, a large spike of blueish light, sped through the air silently towards the kobold. It lodged itself right in the neck, staggering the creature. [i]Nice, nice. You can do it, Sasha Nakamura.[/i]

Holding her breath steady, she fired a second shot before it had time to recover. This time it blew a hole clean through its forehead. 

"Holy... sweet! Look at the number of bonuses I gained from it! Lucky! "

A few more levels into energy rifle and she would focus on practising close quarter combat again.