37 The Date (1/2)
[Evolving goblin:Nemesis]
[Goblin is evolving into Hobgoblin!]
As the system spelled out the magic words, the small goblin who sat next to Michael began to flash with a beautiful green glow.
The radiance slowly covered the entire room, not leaving any space unoccupied. Even the inside of Jingwei's incubator was not spared by the powerful growing rays.
As the light burnt strongly for a couple more seconds, it slowly began to weaken. Leaving the expanded center more and more visible for each second. Until.....
...
”What the hell Jenkins!? You said it was a boy!”
”ALL THE OTHER ONES I KILLED WERE BOYS!”
In front of the hulking mass of muscle and unclean elf, sat a young woman who was currently wrapped in some bed sheets. However, unlike many other normal women, she had some rather green skin and small sharp ears. Accompanied by this was also her longer canines, sharper claws and dark green eyes.
Her features were also rather lackluster, resembling any other person in the town nearby.
This was the goblin Michael had evolved, she had surprisingly been a girl this entire time.
While the two were intently arguing with each other, a weak voice came from their side. Interrupting the vocal death battle
”U..Uhm”
They both stopped what they were doing and looked towards her with complicated gazes. Somewhat confused, yet a little expecting.
”Sir Michael, do you hate me now?”
Her face gave off a stiff energy, but deep inside her eyes you would clearly see a powerful sorrow.
He only looked at her somewhat sadned, not wanting to answer, but clearly needing to.
”It's not like I hate you, but...”
The first word they spoke to each other were then thrown in the bin by a mad elf who was only wearing a dirt tuxido and underwear.
”Che! If you don't like this thing, then we can just get a new one! 'Dark Magic: Death beam of the underw....”
”NO WAIT, WE CAN KEEP HER! W..We can keep her! Stop chanting.”
”Tsk! You will one day be played by a damnable woman with such thinking!”
Jenkins put his hand down, looking back at the Goblin.
”So, brat. You are still too weak, so just stay here until this fat demon evolves you into something strong. As for you Michael, there is a little request I wish for you to do for me, before we rob this place.”
Some surprise brewed up in his heart. What kind of request?
”Just tell me then.”
Jenkins tightened his eyes around Michaels large body, not holding any of his usual behavior in them.
”I want you to go out with that Firnell girl! And I want you to visit her clan!”
Michael's pupils widened instantly. The red and gold iris shone a little as he registered what was said.
”What?”
”Shut up Michael! You are going to her home. Don't disappoint me now.... Also..”
Jenkins placed his finger on Michael's forehead, sending some sort of light into his brain.
”That was two novice gold spells I cooked up and also one for blood. You'll figure out the rest. Spells you have high understanding in are easier to cast.”
A little touched by what he was given, he decided to forget their previous dispute.
”T..Thanks! Where did you get them?”
However, this guy did not calm down in the least. Waving the golden hair back and forth as he angrily spoke.
”Oh lord...MICHAEL! Eat these pills and go knock on that Firnell girl's door! We don't have all day!”
He summoned a bunch of pills out of nowhere, most likely from the dungeon.
The green woman seemed rather reluctant to part with Michael, and tenderly ask Jenkins if she coukd join
”Can I go too?”
He spun around towards her, with a mighty disgust seeping out of the wrinkles forming on his face.
”No! I have to max your damn level again because you are such a waste. After that, I am planning on opening the dungeon. We are going to run this museum to the ground with a bunch of undead bears.”
”In the meantime... Goblin woman, you just don't move from that spot, got it?”
She looked a little down by his answer, but still nodded at him.
Michael, who saw this, was more interested by how he refered to their robbery as 'running this place down'.
”Didn't you say we were only robbing it? That sounds more like a raid..”
Jenkins finally began to have enough, and pulled his own hair while screaming at him.
”ARGH! SHUT UP MICHAEL! I CHANGED MY MIND!”
Jenkins started shove the jellybeans he summined into his large hands, continuing to scream whilst doing so.
”Here. I don't want to spend more time with that hideous green woman. Bring me back when you hatch Jingwei.”
He turned around and brushed his hair with the dirty hands. Letting it glide away as he left. Not carring about anything else.
Once he was gone, Nemesis turned towards Michael.
”Sir Michael?
”Michael will do, thank you.”
She understood that he had things to do, and only got straight to the point.
”Very well, Michael. Shall I watch the egg while you continue your task?”
”Yes, please do!”
He swallowed down all the pills Jenkins gave him and placed the slowly shrinking hand onto the iron door knob. His black clothes also got smaller alongside his brutishly massive body. Lastly, to top it all of, he withdrew some black shoes from his ring.
Michael gave a last look to the hobgoblin behind him and nodded, telling her to stay put until he came back.
After locking the door, he began to walk through the castle shaped academy.
The more he explored, the more astonished he was at how aged, yet clean the surrounding brick walls were. Almost as if they wash themselves. There was also some rather fancy paintings decorating the empty halls.
As he traversed the stone corridors, he kept thinking about where to turn next.
'Wonder where I can find Firnell..'
Not stopping his journey, Michael eventually stumbled upon two familiar faces.
It was the two siblings he had met on the day of the entrance exam. The day he had gotten their older brother kicked out. Gwen and the little brother.
Once they saw him, both knitted their eyebrows, very dissatisfied with him.
However, he did not bother about this, and questioned them in hope of finding where Firnell's room was.
”Hey, uuh.. Gwen? Do you know where I can find Firnell from the 'earth boar' clan?”
When the white haired noble woman heard him, she frowned even more. Answering him in an arrogant, yet composed tone. Her voice was rather pleasent, but the anger ruined it.
”I have no obligation to answer any of your questions, Sir Marss.”
Michael frowned back at her, just wanting to finish this before he had to consume the rest of the shapeshifting pills in his ring.
”Do you not belive I can get you kicked out?”
Her eyebrows twisted even more, but this was not a joke she dared ignore.
'A threat? But it is not groundless..'
She closed her eyes while answering him, walking away with her brother after finishing.
”Just turn left down the hall. Farwell.”
He did not thank her, only continuing to walk towards the way description Gwen gave him.
As he followed the instructions, Michael finally found Firnell. She was currently talking with some other girls from their class, which he hadn't been to in a couple of days now. All of them were dressed in a similar kind of turquoise robe.
His footstep quickened a little when he saw her, and the two friends she spoke with look in his direction. She, of course, also noticed him approaching them after following their eyes. A soft blush formed around her cheeks, and she humbly began to talk to him after coming near enough.
”H..Hello Marss! What brings you here?”