Chapter 20: Tame(1): Final Mission

The serpent had been coiled. It was afraid. I don't know why, but simply afraid.

It tried to escape.

But yeah.

One thing...

I was determined to kill it.

I tried.

I waited for my hunger to increase, and after that, I tried.

"Stucky, add all hunger points to strength!"

『Hunger: 1/60』

Due to eating the previous serpent, my hunger had vanished.

I felt as if I had contradicted my actions.

The serpent, in self-defense, killed me with a simple tail whip.

『You Died』

It infuriated me. Oh, how easily I had died!

『You Died』

I tried again, this time stalling for time. But due to my confusion after seeing the goblin kin respawn and that faint carelessness, I died again.

『You Died』

Back into the world and ready to rock… but I died yet again.

『You Died』

『You—』

My eyes were bloodshot, my mind hurting. But I didn't care. No matter how many turns it'd take, no matter how many times I had to die, no matter, no matter, no matter—

Whatever it was, I was definitely going to kill this bastard.

My skills, my hands, my nails, my flesh, my bones, my soul— No matter what it took! Tonight, I will hunt a snake and hang it around me!

I tried to sense the invisible slithering maggot, and—! For the first time in a while, I managed to locate it perfectly.

『Firebolt』

Boom!

"Hiss!"

I looked at the retreating legless lizard, took a deep breath, puffed my chest, and screamed.

"HISS!"

"Hiss!"

"Today, I shall be the one to slay you. HISS!"

And with that, I went ahead to kill it. My hunger stat had barely increased, but I believed I could do it. 20 hunger points should be enough, right?

"Put everything into strength."

And Stucky did that, but god-fucking-dammit, I failed!

Every time… Every time I increased my strength, that annoying human would appear and kill the serpent, release another one, and go away.

This was the second serpent that got killed by the man before my attack could land.

Of course, another serpent entered. But I was not in a good condition to look at it.

『You Died』

I was back to light.

The only thing that filled me at the moment was regret, anger, and frustration.

I had ended up using all the hunger stats for nothing!

My eyes became red, and I felt my goblin kin go further away. Any more, and they would literally get imprinted on the walls of the cave and become some historic paintings…

Never mind all that, the new serpent was quite aggressive.

However, it was not so strong.

I thought this was my chance.

It approached me quite quickly.

I jumped into the midair and dodged its tiny frame. It smashed its head into the wall.

I twirled around, preparing myself to jump up or sideways to dodge another incoming attack, but the little bastard fainted!

"Hehehehe… Kekekekeke… Kukukuk… Kakakakakakakaka!" I let out a weird laugh, but that's alright.

The happiness and the joy came from deep within, so I didn't care about how I looked to others.

I simply stared at the serpent, pulled out my dear flesh-eating worms, and very gently threw them into the serpent.

And boom!

『Notice!

You have killed a serpent.』

Yup, I did, and yes, Kukukuk… I couldn't help but chuckle when the human re-entered to look at the dead serpent.

His mouth opened wide, his eyes popped out of their sockets, and saliva drooled to the side of his mouth. I could see his yellowish-polished-flat teeth. I, too, laughed inwardly, but I was so happy that I couldn't help but laugh outwardly too.

"Hahahahahaha, try better! Hahahahaha."

I ignored all the level-ups and missions that Stucky was constantly talking about and focused on the human. I wanted to see that stupid expression more. Pfft.

I even called him out: "Stooopid. Hahahahaha."

Slash—

『You Died』

It didn't matter if I died. What mattered was that I irritated that human more…

But I guess… I should not have tormented him so much because… now, when I opened my eyes…

Well…

A serpent was back.

A similar serpent…

And I couldn't help but sigh…

I wasn't strong enough to deal with the serpents yet, and I faintly knew that the humans guessed it. But I guess, to verify it, they installed this weird-looking device…

I couldn't help but stare at the box-like structure…

"Weird…"

But oh well, I didn't have enough time to think about it, as every other serpent that he released was super aggressive, provided that human bastard sprinkled some powder after releasing a serpent that made them this aggressive…

[And so, that brought us to the current moment where I'm tired of fighting these serpents.]

But after a long time, I'm seeing this weird serpent, which, despite the powder, isn't aggressive.

Interesting…

I thought that it was weird.

I could see its body shiver just faintly.

I was confused.

Very confused when Stucky said:

『Bonus Mission: Gain a Familiar Serpent』

『-> Tame the serpent』『Incomplete』

"…"

Yup.

I didn't know what to do but hiss at the serpent ahead, just like I did to the others. It would agitate them and make them do useless mistakes. I loved that part.

"Hiss!"

I looked at the new bastard, took a deep breath, puffed my chest, and screamed.

"HISS!"

"Hiss!"

"Today, I shall be the one to slay you. HISS!"

The snake reeled even further, running from me. But no matter what, today, it wasn't going to escape from me.

***

"What the Snhell?!"

"Someone, anyone, save me!"

The serpent, in his life, had never felt this hopeless.

Originally, he was fearful of the green little maniac who might start chasing after him with indecent intentions.

But he realized that the goblin was actually very killable.

Hahaha!

But serpents, they were cautious creatures. And an overthinking snake?

After scanning around… he had a totally different mindset.

"Hmm, th-the bloodlust he gives... How many serpents fell by his hands? How did he foster such resentment?"

"Why is he so angry?"

"J-just how is he standing so fearlessly?"

"Hiss! What in the name of Serpy Gods have I actually encountered?! I wanna go home!"

"Are you toying with me? Yes, you are definitely toying with me!"

"I don't wanna reproduce with y— I already have someone that I like!"

"I can introduce you to another one of my males from my species!"

"He knows serpent tongue too! Knowing more than one language is the mark of high monsters! Why am I just noticing it now?!"

"A god... He is a GOD! The Goblin God! His powers are too strong! He gazed at me, and I couldn't move! What kind of ungodly strength is this?!"

Deceiving a serpent was very difficult. They were very smart. But once the seed of doubt was planted, they'd do the job themselves.

"Sniff... I'll be a good serpent next time... I promise... Sniff sniff... Please, lord... Spare me."

"HISS!"

"No! Anything but that!" And the serpent resumed his saga of banging his head against the portal in an attempt to escape, but Gubzo could hardly understand… anything as he looked at the notification in front of him.

『Notice!

The serpent is scared of you. Use this opportunity to show off and tame him.』

『Advice: Use the skill - Monarch's Difference.』

"…"

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