3 - Goblins
Taking a step into the muddy swamp soil, I start searching for the small green creatures known as goblins.
And before long, I found them! Small, around 1 meter high (AN: no, I ain't using the imperial metric system even if I die! To hell with it!), small and sharp teeth, bodies shaped like a human child. Brilliant, small, beady eyes, yellow colored. Wearing but a small ragged piece of cloth to hide their genitals, without much distinction between males and females, other than their reprodutive organs. Each holding a poorly made pointed wooden stick, that worked like some kind of primitive lance.
They also had name tags above their heads.
Luckly they were only level 3, otherwise things could get ugly. And so, without wasting any more time, afraid of losing the surprise element, I lunged at the goblin duo.
Grabbing a handful of mud using my left hand, and tossing it at the goblin that was the farthest from me, hitting him straight in the head, making him scream, as some mud entered his wide open eyes.
"GRAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
At the same time, I extended the sword I held in my right hand and slammed into the other surprised goblin, impaling him by the neck, killing him instantly.
Now it was a 1v1 against the blinded goblin. I stepped towards him and swept my goblin stained sword at his neck, making his head fly, as green blood gushed out from the opened neck. As both bodies slowly dissipated like dust.
<+36 XP>
<+36 XP>
This wasn't as hard as I expected it to be. Still, I think I should take a look at my status screen.
"Status!"
Age: 21
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Level: 1 (72/10.000)
Class: (none)
Titles: (none)
AGI: 10 (Agility)
STG: 10 (Strength)
CON: 10 (Constitution)
MAG: 10 (Magic)
MAN: 10 (Mana)
HP: 100%
Mana: 100/100
Status: Healthy
Skills:
- Inventory (1/50)
Atribute Points: 0
Items:
- Practice Sword
- #@♡◇&$#
"Huh? Is there a bug? What does this mean?"
I was confused by the glitch on the item list, so I opened my inventory to take a look. 10 Columns and 5 Rows of inventory space then appeared in front of me, totaling 50 slots total, of witch only the very first was occupied.
"Nothing? How strange... well, gotta kill some more goblins, no time to waste."
I picked up 2 small crystals from the ground, that appeared after the corpses were completely gone, and so I went on my way searching for more goblins. And goblins I did find.
After killing a couple more scouts, I found more goblins. Many of them, a freacking ton. I found a goblin village.
By it's size alone, there should be at least 20.000 goblins, I dare say at least 500 shamans, and even quite a few goblin champions. At worst I could find a goblin lord. A single goblin champion can be exchanged for 1.000 CP. That shows just how strong one of them were. Honestly? I don't really like my chances of killing one. Now, a goblin lord? Dream on! I maybe could stand a chance against a single champion after leveling up, but against several of them? I better run fast.
Either way, this is a great thing, but I had to be careful least I am surrounded by hundreds of ugly green brats. And so I cover myself with some stinky mud and start crawling towards the village where I would farm some XP.
Yay! Let's commit some war crimes!
Their village, that is if one can even call it like that, was made out of animal skin tents, a little bit taller than me, which is quite tall considering their stature, they even had some special buildings to house goblins with special status like shamans, or even some goblin craftsmen, responsible for creating those deplorable weapons of theirs. Surprisingly, they even had a wall around their camp, made out of dried wood, leaves and mud.
I cover myself in mud and start crawling my way towards the mud wall, there, I start clawing and digging the earth beneath, and after an hour of grinding, I managed to create a small hole, just wide enough for me to squeeze through. I soon aproached some unsuspecting goblins, who were idling on the other side, seemingly talking about some goblin stuff.
There were four of them this time, neither of them armed, not expecting an attack at all. Can you really blame them? They were inside a walled village with thousands of peers, who would be stupid enough to attack them?
But I must say, goblins are really stupid creatures, despite this being a real world, beings like goblins are considered monsters, and can be generated automatically in certain places with a determined amount of mana. There seem to be a couple other factors, but overall it's that simple. After a set amount of time, some of them would be generated.
If no one cleans their spawns for too long of a time, they start to gather together, and create gatherings such as this one. If not for this? I have ZERO doubts they would have long since gone extinct. As to why I am so certain?
Well... there are four somehow living proofs right in front of me, as they somehow don't give a single flying fuck about a strange pile of mud that is slowly aproaching them.
Great for me, I guess... And so I started massacring all normal goblins in sight, avoiding special goblins, that were smarter than their normal counterpart, and naturally collecting all their crystals as proof of my little muddy ride. The crystals could be grouped into stacks of 100, so I was not at all worried about it. But I'm not gonna lie, it was a little sad seeing the XP drops become smaller as I leveled up, one can receive the enemy monster's level times 10 as XP after killing it, with a bonus 10% for every level he has above you, up to a limit of 100%, and a decrease of 10% if the opposite is true, so when I was at level 1, I always got 36 XP from level 3 goblins, but if became only 33 after reaching level 2, and just the base 30 after reaching level 3.
But still, I got some really great XP for day one. Every time you level up, you receive 1 point in every attribute, plus 2 free points for you to distribute. And so, this is how my status looks like after killing 1011 goblins.
Age: 21
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Level: 3 (3.816/30.000)
Class: (none)
Titles: (none)
AGI: 15 (Agility)
STG: 15 (Strength)
CON: 13 (Constitution)
MAG: 13 (Magic)
MAN: 13 (Mana)
HP: 100%
Mana: 100/100
Status: Healthy
Skills:
- Inventory (12/50)
Atribute Points: 0
Items:
- #@♡◇&$#
Looks good right? To be honest, the only reason I am even returning is because my sword broke off. In all fairness, the fact it even managed to last this long is an achievement all on it's own. But while there is still some time before I have to sleep, I am hella hungry.
So after returning to the city, I logged off and decided to pick something to eat.