58 The Goblin Meter Pt. 2 (1/2)
”Ha…” I breathe out as I push a blood-soaked hand through my hair. The blood mats down strands of my hair that had come loose during the fight. They press down along my forehead and on the back of my neck.
A few lines of sweat ran down my face, carving vicious lines through the thick blood coating my face.
I was completely covered in blood.
All around my body laid the battered bodies of the goblins that I'd massacred. My scissors were dripping in sticky blood, they'd returned to their sparkling inky black color. But all throughout the slaughtered, they'd been glowing red.
It'd taken far longer than I thought it would to kill them all. Some had even tried to run away, but I'd dragged them back and killed them all. I'd slaughter and slaughtered until there was none left alive.
It wasn't a hard-fought battled, these were weak goblins that didn't have much coordination at all. It was as easy as fighting children.
Although, I'd managed to upgrade my lethal strike, sprint, and critical hit as well. That in itself had made this a worthwhile battle.
Letting my scissor go they sink easily into the ground. Rolling my neck out, I stretch my arms a bit that had been a nice little warmup.
Soon all the blood that was covering my body began to roll off my body and form a ball of blood in front of me. After about twenty seconds all the blood on my body was hovering in front of my hand in a ball of blood about the size of a platter.
「Blood Controller」
It was a skill that I had it was useful; most vampires are able to use this skill. Reaching out, I grab my scissor and drop the ball of blood onto them. They greedily devour the blood.
Appraising my sword, I'm surprised to see that some new information had been added but not much.
「Fate Cutters.??? Soul Count: 33」
Soul Count? Had it consumed the souls of all the goblins that I'd killed? I wonder if I could feed these souls to my beast egg then?
If that was the case then, I'd found the solution to feeding the beast egg. I'd been struggling to figure out how to feed it the spirits of the dead, but that would make it easier if I had a vessel that would hold onto the soul for me.
Smiling, I look around at the massive bloodied mess of bodies that I'd created. Bending down, I reach out and poke one of the intact heads of the goblins in front of me.
The temple was far different than what I was expecting. I didn't think that it would be so real in here, but maybe that was to be expected if I was also able to die within here.
Nonetheless, it was all just so…real!
All the way down to the smell, taste, and feeling of everything. Moving my finger, I sink it into the squishy and fatty flesh of the goblin. Moving forward I drag it towards the eyeball of the goblin and poke the squishy eyeball.
”Ew,” I mutter.
Standing, I kick the head of the goblin and send it flying. ”That disgusting. Did they have to make it this real?” I grumble as I flick the gooey jelly of the eye off my finger.
Shaking my head in disgust, I notice in the far left-hand corner of my vision a sort of counter, or meter had appeared.
[Goblin: 33/10,000]
I felt my stomach turn.
”Ten thousand?”
”Did it really say ten thousand, are you kidding me?”
Did that mean that I had to kill ten thousand goblins… to clear the stage? That wasn't right! Right?
Glowering at the number, I could only wonder how long I'd be stuck in this damn area.
Sighing, I run a hand down my face and look towards the sky. The moon was still hanging in a crescent in the sky, it was still nighttime, I suppose that I should get to hunting more goblins.
They'd be bound to be more active at night, right?
”First thing first though,” I mutter as I bend down and grab one of the severed arms of the goblin.
Shaking my head, I wrinkle my nose and began to munch on one of the goblin's arm. Eating the gamy flesh of the monster, I wanted to gag.
「Devour Activated」
「Eat More and Gain More」
Encouraging notifications pop up as my skill begins to activate. Stripping the flesh and meat completely off of the arm. I grab the other and repeat the process.
Not thinking about it, I continue to eat and eat.
I don't know how much I ate but by the time the notification began to ding. I had a small pile of bones in front of me.
Burp!
「Obtained Goblin Language」
「Obtained Forager 」
「Obtained Goblin Wisdom」
Frowning, I look at the three skills that I'd gotten. It seems that none of them pertained to combat at all.
The Goblin Language skill was pretty straight forward, I could understand what those grunting and gruff sounding clicks that they made to each other meant. That might come in handy, due to the fact that I had to exterminate ten thousand of these perverted bastards.