Chapter 3 (2/2)

[Goblin Hunt 1/20]

[You gained 10 experience]

[You got 1 bronze.]

“Pant… pant…”

I shook my breath and put the stone down. I monitored the sound I made while fighting and monitored for other monsters.

The dungeon was quiet. There were no other monsters. It was a massive dungeon, so he got away with the battle without attracting more monsters.

“Okay then…”

I had to drag the goblin and move it, but presently it’s in the middle of an open passage. It is a space where you can guard your surroundings.

I looked down at the goblin’s body. I didn’t feel nauseated like the first time. Instead, it seemed to be a nutrient that would heal me.

“I will enjoy this food.”

In this way, I started a new life as a goblin.

How long has it been since I opened my eyes with a goblin’s body? I don’t know. After receiving the quest, I killed and ate 16 goblins.

I leveled up to 5.

[Gang Si-ha (Fate)]

[Goblin Lv 5]

[Strength – 11 Stamina – 14 Magic – 5 Luck-???]

[Skill-Ebon Heart, Predation Lv1, Escape Lv1]

Whenever I leveled up, my strength and stamina increased by 1. When I ate ten goblins, I gained one stamina.

I did not sleep. I wondered why I wasn’t sleepy. I couldn’t find the next target even though it was quite a while since I ate a goblin, I felt tired from then on and realized it.

So far, I recovered my health by predating and leveling up. Fatigue disappeared by restoring physical strength.

Sleep is fatal. No matter how vast the dungeon is, if you are unlucky, you will face an enemy. It wasn’t once or twice that I felt frustrated and fled. Predation has become an essential skill in order not to sleep.

‘I want you to come out with one.’

It was a little easier to deal with goblins from the moment l reached level 4. It hurt less when I was hit, and I did more damage when I hit.

I was becoming more deadly.

But it made me more nervous at the same time. Some goblins had a higher level, and I might encounter a goblin stronger than me.

I had to hunt all goblins carefully unless I knew the level of the goblins in advance.

As I quietly stepped into the new aisle, I found prey. I picked up a stone with a very familiar form and approached it carefully.

Goblins are dull. Their hearing is excellent, but the other senses were lacking. They lack the so-called sixth sense.

But before I could approach him, he looked back at me.

My heart seemed to stop. A knife was in his hand. It was coarse and rusted, but it was a knife anyway.

“Kyap.”

He laughed. I come to see now that his upper body was slightly more developed, unlike other goblins. I could tell that he was stronger than me. Much stronger.

Immediately after realizing it, I threw the stone I was holding on to him and started running.

“Kyap, Kirp!”

He was chasing behind me with an eerie sound. I ran desperately, and I escaped. Deep inside my body, I was feeling something that was fluttering like a tiny fountain, maybe my mana was being consumed little by little.

My magic was garbage and escape skills do not last long.

That’s what I thought at first, but I wasn’t worried. After I ran out, this time, I began to lose my health. There were quite a few times that I recovered my health from predation so that I could have the feeling of stamina.

It’s good to be able to keep running. But what if that runs out? At that time, I could only wait for death. It’s horrifying.

I couldn’t help worrying, and I suddenly looked back. Fortunately, the distance between the goblin with a knife and me was gradually getting farther.

So that’s how it works, even if I have the escape skill, I can only use it when I escape a battle.

If I keep going this far, wouldn’t it be possible to get out of the way if I find another passage twice in this complicated dungeon? Then I can live! A little hope began to appear.

But he had one more method that I never thought of.

“Kiyak!”

It’s very annoying. Then at that moment, he nodded as if he was determined.

Then he threw the knife at me. It was clumsy, but the blade was aiming at me accurately.

“Okay!”

It could not be avoided. It was a miracle if I, who was only desperate to run away, avoided the knife thrown by an enemy with higher physical abilities than me.

A knife stuck in my thigh. It wasn’t deep, but I couldn’t afford to stop and pull out the knife now, and it was so painful to run.

It seemed like a flame was coming out of my thigh. I sensed that I was going to fall.

But what happens next if I fall? I’d die. That guy will kill me without irresolution, like how I killed all the other goblins. It was a goblin’s nature.

If I fall, I will die. Have I survived hell, only to die again in a more pathetic way than when I was a human?

I hate this. I cannot die. I must survive. I want to live. I want to live!

At that time, the Ebon Heart jumped vigorously.