Becoming Reintroduced to Goblins

The next day was the day I truly started my life as an adventurer. You would think this was some big moment, but you would be wrong. I was just one of many having their first day at the dungeon. In no way special other than my talent, but as they say talent unrealized is useless.

As I approached the looming tower, I realized that I did not really know how to fight, but something told me the best way for me to truly learn was in combat. While that sounds like a bad idea my feelings saved me a time or two in the past and have led me to this moment.

So, into the dungeon I went.

For some reason, my entire walk to Orario imagined that the dungeon would look man-made or artificial. While It was true some of the dungeon is like that, one example being the minotaur's labyrinth, the vast majority of the dungeon outside the boss rooms just look like caves.

This had its positives and negatives. The main positive was that the terrain does not favor the monsters outside of it being their native environment, which means no funnels or traps. The biggest negative was that the dungeon is infested with dead-ends and circles. A lot of adventurers become lost in the dungeon if they don't chart their course.

It also means adventurers must be mindful of how much space they have around them, so their weapon doesn't catch or strike the wall. As this can be fatal in a fight.

After a couple of minutes of walking, I finally got away from other people and found my first opponent. It was an ugly green little being that most would call a goblin.

The second it saw me it charged with its wooden club raised high. Luckily it was fairly slow and uncoordinated and thus easy to dodge. After it passed me I only needed to stab my knife into its heart through the back.

Unfortunately, I forgot shoulder blades would get in the way if I used too acute an angle. As a result, my knife just barely broke the skin before it bounced off bone.

The goblin then whipped around with its club and hit me in the thigh. Which was lucky, anywhere else would have broken bone.

After the club bounced off my thigh, the goblin was wide open to my counterattack. So, I just stuck my knife between its ribs. Luckily the goblin was so skinny that I could see them.

After the light left the goblin eyes, it just turned to dust leaving only a purple stone. Which is sad in a way born only to fight, kill, and die and afterwards leave only a stone as proof of its existence.

That's also true of adventures as well, except we don't leave stones. You see the dungeon eats our corpses to power itself.

As I pick up the stone a strange feeling that I could absorb some essential aspect of it appeared. This must have been my monster soul magic, so I absorbed the aspect. It felt like lightning running down my spine, it was a rush.

"That is either the most handsome goblin I have ever seen or someone painted their body green for some odd reason"

Mild stat increase corresponding to a goblin's stat distribution and an innate understanding of battle (Scale based on LV1)

· Strength: Medium

· Endurance: Low

· Dexterity: Medium

· Agility: High

· Magic: N/A

Afterwards there was a new part of my brain that I felt controlled my form. I decided to transform and get a feel for it.

My skin turned green.

My canines and ears sharpened.

All my stats except magic received a boost.

I grasped some innate primal understanding of combat.

"One does not teach a fish to swim"

Grants an instinctive understanding of certain topics

· Combat: Goblin

That's when I knew why my instincts were telling me not to practice before entering the dungeon. If I did my mind would not have accepted this primal understanding. My human mind would have wanted to fight like a human, not a monster. It would have rejected it as an aberration.

However, now that I knew how to fight like a monster, I could learn how to fight like a man. In doing so I would gain the power and ferocity of a monster, but also the precision and technique of a man.

This new form also drained my magic, I could only keep this form for 2-3 minutes at the moment.

After getting used to my new form, I started looking for my next opponent.