Push Up

"Fire Breath, Scale Heat Manipulation, Fire Lizard Scale Generation, Overheat...Amazing!" I was deep inside the cave while looking at the new skills I obtained from eating the fire lizard. The one that immediately was [Fire Lizard Scale Generation].

"Let's see what this does..." I said the name of the skill, which activated it and suddenly a layer of fire-lizard scales appeared on my entire body. I was shocked and touched my entire body, they even felt like real scales.

I touched the scales but didn't feel any heat like when I was fighting the fire lizard.

'Wow...I felt them appear on my body and it looked as if they were growing from my skin...I also felt a little tickle on my cheeks, I wonder if some scales are on my face.'

As I touched my face, I instantly felt a small cluster of fire lizard scales on my cheeks. Other than that, there were no more scales on my face.

I was amazed and looked at my body that now resembled the fire lizard's because of the scales.

"I don't feel any heat, is the Scale Heat Manipulation skill the cause of the fire lizard's scales being so hot then?" I activated that skill as well and in my mind, it felt like instructions on controlling my scales' temperature appeared.

Though, it only told me how to control how hot my scales were. I decided to turn the heat of my scales up and then touched them again. The moment I touched them I felt a slight warmth on my fingers despite my entire hand being enveloped in scales.

'Amazing! It's gonna be way easier to hunt monsters now! I also need to do something about the rest of the goblins. I can't let them live like this anymore.'

I got up, stretched my body, and then headed to the main part of the cave, which led to the outside.

When I arrived at the main part of the cave, all of the goblins turned to look at me with anticipation. It was obvious that they were waiting for me to say something.

Marina was also in the crowd of about 50 goblins. These 50 goblins were the only ones who weren't ill or unable to move. The rest of the goblins, which was about 35 more, were deeper into the cave and were sick.

Or they were unable to move because of how malnourished they were. This was also why I needed to get food quickly.

"We need food for the ill and extremely malnourished, but you all don't know how to fight. Because of this, you all have to go through some form of training to build muscle and learn to fight.

I'll try my best to teach you all and turn you into hunters.

Not only this but from now on the hunters will share all the food they get equally so that this situation never occurs again!

They will also teach the next people how to fight so that we never have to worry about all the hunters dying and the absence of a tribe chief!"

Though I only knew a little bit about exercise and fighting, it would be enough for these goblins considering how they are now.

I'm sure that in the future some of them will create their own fighting styles.

Hearing my speech, the goblins all roared in anticipation and excitement. Though some of them didn't like the fact that the hunters will have to share all the food, it was for the betterment of the entire tribe.

"I will choose 15 goblins at first, and from then on, you all will teach the next goblins!" I pointed towards 15 different goblins who didn't look too malnourished.

There were a few goblins that I specifically chose. One of them was named Haru and he had black hair that reached a little past his shoulders.

The other one's name was Otani and she had long brown hair as well.

Lastly, I picked Marina. Even though she claimed she starved for three days, she still looked quite healthy which is why I picked her. She might end up having above-average vitality.

The other 12 goblins were just random ones who looked rather healthy.

After choosing the goblins they followed me into the forest where I fought the fire lizard. I didn't even have to ask them anything to know they were excited. Just by looking at their face which was as bright as the sun, I could tell.

"All 15 of you will do as I say and follow my actions, alright?"

"Yes, tribe chief!" All of the goblins replied with a single sentence while looking at me intently.

'It seems their ready. I just don't know how they'll handle the exercises of Earth. Maybe it'll be too easy or hard for them.'

I didn't waste any time and immediately got in a push-up position. The goblins immediately copied my position and got into it but then realized that it wasn't as easy as it looked, not to mention that I was holding it.

Even I was struggling a bit to hold it. Though it's probably because of this child-like goblin body.

"U-Ugh! M-My arms are burning and I didn't eat anything to fill my stomach so this is like torture!" A goblin by the name of Yagami with short pitch-black hair said.

As I observed all the goblins, I noticed that they all had either black or brown hair besides some exceptions. Like one goblin I saw that had unusual red hair.

'Okay, let's try motivation. This should work perfectly.' A small grin appeared on my face before I spoke.

"If you can hold this position for 2 minutes then you all get to eat fire lizard meat." As if someone had doused them all with cold water, their eyes contracted as they immediately got into the push-up position.

They smelt the fire lizard meat yesterday but they refrained from asking for some, so now that such a generous opportunity was presented to them with no cost, how would they pass it up?

'W-What the? They all got into the position at lightning speed... Who knew motivation tactics worked so well...'