Winter and thereafter

Mom was shocked to see my hiding place. She had brought 2 boar and a bear fur blanket with her. She told me that she had little time. So, we immediately went for the hunt to stockpile food for me. First we went to the monkeys we got 3 of them. The rest ran away. We searched the whole area for lone wolves. We found one and stored it. We found 3 mountain goats as well. Now I was pretty much ready to survive for 2 months with this. But my castle was almost filled and was left with little space but it was enough for me to sleep. It was evening when mom left. She told me she would be able to come anytime soon. It seems it's time of mating for goblins again. So she will be busy for a 3 to 4 months at least. Then she left.

I had no worries for food for next two months All I had to do was to eat and sleep. Actually since I had ki. I could easily hunt monkeys but I wanted to play it safe. So I set a target that once my height reaches 3 ft I will start hunting officially. By then I should be able to hunt even brown wolves. Days went by I kept the food reserves in check. I always kept the food constant in cave. If I ate one monkey. I replaced it with 10 rabbits. So, that when winter comes I won't have to go out of the castle except for pooping. I had already made a bucket for peeing. Days went by and winter came. Winter would be 3 months long. The middle month being the coldest and prey would not walk around making it impossible to hunt. I had 2 months worth of food. So, I could go with it for 15 more days. But what should I do for 15 more days. It is not very cold right now. So I went to the puddle. Whole day I spent fishing. It was a day worth food but fishes were finished. So I went around next day and picked up the the available fruits and plants. That were 3 days worth of food. I had expanded my cave recently so there are much more space. Next day I went out for the food again. I ate less and stock piled more. What ever edible I saw I stored it. That included snakes, foxes, squirrel, rabbits , medicinal herbs, fruits, bees hive, snails, fishes, worms and insects. Without knowing I had stockpiled more than I could eat in winter. So I went to my castle. It was cold but I had bear furs and brown wolf furs. However it was not enough so I started eating animals with warmer fur first. I went out just to poop and collect my rabbits. My rabbits grew less and less day by day. But I had enough food anyways so rabbits were like bonus. The coldest part of winter came other goblin in village must be shivering but I was chilling in warmth. It seems that being thrown of clan is not that bad at all. I thought of many things. My height was growing rapidly. I was to bored so I played around with ki with my body. I made a game for myself and tried with most difficult angle to control my ki. Well the ki was nourishing my body so it was normal that I had incredible growth rate. 4 months past in a blink of an eye. It seems I have surpassed the goblin potential because I am already 3.25 meters. From now on it seems I will grow with my human potential. It will much slower. But since my body is regularly nourished by ki I will grow much faster but not as abnormally fast as goblins speed. I had expanded my cave and all the food was gone. I made lots of throwing daggers, body armor with bone and I was ready to hunt. However mom came so suddenly I didn't have to hunt. Apparently mom is a D class hunter in the past. D class hunters can go one on one with high tier hob goblin. I can be considered E class hunter right now. Since I am already 3.25 meters I can store more ki in my body which makes me faster and stronger. Usually those who have aura are called C class or above but as a child I right now can not store too much inside my body but I am definitely in the higher spectrum of E class. We go hunting and store half a year worth of food. Mom says that there is war between goblins and humans. It's a small scale war nothing big. Mom won't be able come back for long time. Mom says that I have blue eyes. I am flabbergasted. Because goblins have blue eyes. If I go to human settlement people may recognize me. All the plans I had made instantly fall down. I had thought that since I will be extremely powerful in future I would try to live peaceful life and having my own family in human world but it seems impossible. It seems that I have to change my plans. After mom left, I started contemplating. After long thinking I had two options: one I had to become too powerful for anyone to oppress me or I had to hide all my life. My choice was clear. I chose to hide while getting stronger. No matter how strong people will stronger. After A class there is the legendary S class and even more powerful beings like SS class, heroes, great heroes and demon kings existed. So I should better hide. But even hiding forever requires power. I have to become at least B class to survive. In my last life I was really untalented. It took me 30 year to accomplish what others do in 10 to 15 years. But now is different. I already have surpassed my previous peak. If I reach 4 feet tall I will become a D class for sure. I had other better ideas for getting stronger but it required medicinal herbs. The idea was to use body enhancement technique. So that my body would be able to handle more ki. Thus propelling me to D class without need for my size growth. But this part of forest didn't have any medicinal herb that was required. May be the mountains had but I could not risk fighting mountain goats. So I cancelled my plan. I also had another plan. In my past life I had a secret hideout. I had bought potion with all my saving. I knew that I was about to break through and I would soon become a C class. So I had bought purity potion and stabilizing potion. I also had medicinal herbs that could be used for body strengthening. However the cave was east of human settlement so it was impossible for now as well. So I had no option but to slowly increase my power. I ate, slept, played with my ki for hours making the game more difficult day by day. Occasionally I would go out and search for medicinal plant. I found few of them. I found 5 out of 10 in 3 months. The rarer one were nowhere to be seen. I still didn't need to hunt. So I went out searching more often. I found three more and I found location of 2 remaining but it was in middle of mountain. So in the dead of the night when goats were sleeping I climbed up the mountain. It was difficult for my tiny body but it had a advantage that small hands could grab on to anything. It was already 6 months after mom had left. With help of ki I had grown to 3.5 feet tall already. I found those medicinal herbs one after another and went back to my cave. Next day I started building a bath tub with mud. And after that I made boar skin as a layer which would prevent mud from mixing with water. It was a days work. Next day I brought clean water making sure it was extremely clean. Next day was the day of my body strengthening. I made the medicinal bath ready I jumped into the tub. Slowly I started absorbing the medicine. I slept outside the cave tonight in the medicine bath. My body seems to have grown stronger. My body seems to have gained muscle and best of all my height grew to 3.6 feet. I had two more baths left. I started playing with my ki and the amount of ki I had increased by 10%.

I could be considered a D class as of today. D class lower tier to be precise. After another week of playing with my ki. I took another bath my height and muscle grew but the result was not not as evident. Now my height was around 3.68 feet. Another 2 weeks passed and my height had naturally grown to 3.7 feet. So I took another bath and it was the last one. so I gave my everything to absorb the medicine. Despite my all out effort I medicine did not have much effect. I grew to 3.75 feet and got little more muscle. Now with my power I could be considered a D class. I could easily win against a brown wolf. Now I didn't have to worry about being hunted and could move freely here. However I didn't want to be seen. So I decided to move to another location which was more comfortable than this. So I decided where I was going to move next. It was the mountain.