Ch. 8 - The system and the goal

Things have been rather peaceful in the clan lately. Its been a couple days since the incident with the Goblin Chief and rescuing my mother from his clutches. Rukk harshly punished me for doing such a thing when he heard, first he bonked me on the head, then made me give up all my kills during our hunt today. Which stinks as I had managed to take down a couple wolves with my new [Knight] class skills. He did atleast let me take a bit of skin from a Stoneback Boar we took down together to tie my hair back. I had got snagged up a bit during the fight so Zola kindly recommended it, plus I gotta admit, a long ponytail is a nice look, makes me more dignified, even for a Hobgoblin. Also Happy Birthday to me, though there is no celebrating, I am officially a adult now, and thanks to Big Red and managing to beat the Chief around some, which word got around fast, no male goblins dared to touch me, its heaven.

After the event with the chief and getting my mother to safety, I looked into the blue screen things that seem to appear whenever something happens, its weird, they seem to be part of a big system and I couldn't figure it out for a good while. That was until my mother interrupted my thinking process by checking up on me, asking a few questions and this, that, and another. It seems, according to her, there are those who experience the same thing, they see the very same blue screens and most believe it is a god talking to them and rewarding them, others say its a curse that burdens them. I say it is a useful tool to help me further my skills in this world, afterall its not easy being a Goblin, even my mother says we are disgusting monsters that prey on every woman in the land, not me ofcourse, but I cant change what I am, which may explain my weird thinking of breasts habit

Listening to the words my mother speaks, I began to understand more of this System of Blue Screens from just what she knows, which wasn't alot as she herself does not experience them. Perhaps im not the first to reincarnate into this world. All I did is fall down stairwell, why a goblin I may never know, but others too could have been unfortunate and came here, though I should be careful, dont want to anger people or be targeted for knowledge or be seen as crazy. Going back to figuring it out on my own, I discovered I can see information about myself through a single word when I joked around a bit. Stats. And this is what I found.

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| Name: Naoi

Title: Slayer of the River Lord

Age: 3 weeks

Species: Hobgoblin (Goblin Evolution)

Class: Knight

Job: Hunter/Fisher

Parents:

??? - Father - Goblin - ???

Vivyorea Inastriah - Mother - Dark Elf -

Adventurer/Mercenary - Pregnant

??? - Sister - Goblin |

Derk - Uncle - Goblin - Chieftain __

From this I learned some major bits of info, for one, my mother is pregnant! Two, the chief is my uncle! Three, my uncle impregnated my mother! Four, im gonna have a sister! Five, my father is apparently unknown to both me and my mother, he could be one of the goblins of the clan... I feel sick thinking that as I have seen every male goblin eye me... And lastly, this system thing runs real deep into everything in the world. There are different key words to open different info screens. Such as Skills and Map. I tried other words I thought would work but nothing to them or I get a [Error] its confusing but also pretty cool.

Taking a break from learning about the System, I happily relaxed with my mother who I bonded with, sure im a goblin who was forcefully bred into her just to expand the clan numbers, but that doesn't mean I should turn a blind eye on her. She even seems thankfully for my caring presence, seem she has not had for quite some time, I almost wonder how long she has been trapped here, but to not send her into depression, I avoided that topic. Instead I listened to her stories of the outside world which amazed me, her majestic adventures, the different races that populate the land, even the dangers that inhabit.

Honestly I want to go out to adventure, get away from the clan and the bastard chief, see the world, but if I leave, then what will happen to my mother and sister, my friends in the hunting party, I dont want to leave knowing they can suffer from my absence. That's why im gonna get even stronger, I may be a Hobgoblin and a Knight now, but that doesn't change how terrible the dangers can be, I still fear a daring goblin may come in here and rape or possibly kill my mother. Then my sister, she gonna be one of the very few female goblins like me, when she reaches adulthood, she gonna need her big sister's help fending off the vile males. Then my party, sure they are all experienced hunters, but the dangers still there, dont want them to end up like Dute...

Snapping myself out of those thoughts, I decided to do some training. While out on a previous hunt, I found a nice little clearing very close to the cave, and time to time, I go there to train. Its a good area yet I always feel something off about it, like something is always watching me. Heading there I thought to myself what I should focus on this time, stepping up onto a large boulder in the center, I decided I should focus my senses before sitting down on the massive rock, readying myself to do a form of meditation.

Closing my eyes and letting my breathing completely calm, I focus my other senses, mainly sound, however there is a sense I had discovered while out with my party, I found I can sense energy around me, and not any ordinary energy, but the magical energy that flows through all life, Mana. Switching from focusing on my listening, to focus on sensing Mana, I relaxed and attempted to let my senses dull as to broaden the range, sensing the flow of magic energy in the trees, in the grass, in the wild animals, even in the Earth. What I sensed Mana in next was a surprise, and what happens after is what I could never have expected.

[Mana Sense level increase 1>2]

[A boss has appeared]