"Wait a minute! What??" did… Did he just ignore me?? Is it because the goblin broke the orb thing? Anyway why the heck was that about?? I have so many questions! But first I better catch up to them so they don't leave me in this room. I guess that little goblin I met from before was more interesting than he looked. I say that, but I didn't think he was this interesting.
So, first we each get an orb that allows us to have elements. I don't have an element but I can use Items that have elements enchanted in them. Like this orb they gave us once we were outside with the group. I see everyone's stats and they all don't look much lower than me. And that doesn't feel too good considering what the knights and nobles look like in comparison. THe high ground doesn't traverse outside of their reagan unless it's necessary, and by this point they might as well be lazy bums up there… except for the campbell head and heir, I guess. They're kind of up there, but like somewhere around my level I think… I don't think I actually looked… Should I? Oh! Wait!? Something weird happened to the goblin earlier before we got out here-
"Halliway!" JESUS CHRIST!! I'm sorry for being distracted!
"I don't know what to tell you!" the goblin suddenly shouts back. What'd he do this time?? All I see is him holding the orb Maul gave him… what the fuck?? That's a blank orb, Isn't it? Why is it sparking like that?
"Urgh…" Maul sighed in annoyance. "Stay here until we're done with everyone."
"Yes, sir." pfft. Sounds like he's in trouble. What did he do? Maul just made him stand by Brights until we all got done with our element selection. I wanna try that sparking the goblin did? What element is that? I can look through the orb for an element based on my blessings, and since I basically have all of them I should have been able to find it and use it… nope. It's not in the list I can choose, which means I can't use it yet. Why, I don't know, but I would like to. What do I need to get it? Right! The goblin! I need to see the goblins stats! I haven't checked them yet.
HALLIWAY: Tessa Greenwood (self-named)
Class::
Title::
Race:: DRAGONJAW(Goblin[Golem])/ feral)
EXP: 760/*
Atk 62
Def 105
MagAtk 130/*
MagDef 140/*
Agl 140/*
Chm 60/*
BLESSINGS::
Blessed by the seven:: Liluna(blue)/ Raida(red)/ Bateyalo(green)/ Julah(violet)/ Palitoh(yellow)/
Skills:: self-defence/ karate( black belt)/ howl/ street fighting(freestyle)/ resistance(*)/ charm/ imitation/ intimidation/ emerald shield(passive)/ moonstone mending(passive)/ healing/ calculation(passive)/ Seeker(passive)/ Scavenge[gather](passive)/ sun's eyes (passive)/
ELEMENT::
Friction (Black)
GIFT::
Hyulah's Voice(passive)/ Malcolm's void/ Neutelos Commandment
Uh… what??? Oh right… Palitoh said I did meet Tess already. How the hell did I forget this? She's a goblin. Fuck… but yeah… her stats make sense now. Except for the redacted parts. The hell is getting redacted? I can guess it's the white god since she has all of the blessings… wait a minute… she has all of the blessings. ALL of them. Including the two I don't have, who are supposed to be missing and/ or sleeping… Excuse me! What the fuck!? Her skills I get. Her stats are understandable. The gods don't make sense and neither does her element! And what the fuck are gifts!? Dude!!! Hold on can I…
HALLIWAY: Tessa Greenwood (self-named)
ELEMENT::
Friction (Black)-
The element of electricity(physical type). Activatable once special conditions are met with the blessings activation. [current status too low for activation.]
[element currently dormant. Element (Friction) will be activated after first awakening.]
I can see the subtext! Holy shit, that is unreal. She got way more out of this trip than I did. How?? Why??? I have even more questions now!!
"VATICUS!!"
"AH! Yes! What's up!?" shit! I got distracted again! Uh… Uh!! Earth element! Earth element!!
"... Looks like you don't have any trouble calling for an element." Maul suddenly tells me. Yeah no shit I don't have a problem with this. What I have a problem with is her stats! Have you seen this goblin's… this girl's window!!? What is up with that!? Are… are goblins actually O.P. in this world??? "... Vaticus?"
"S-sorry! Sorry."
"You're quite easily distracted, aren't you?" He tells me in front of everybody. Great, that's embarrassing. "I know what you're looking at, master Vaticus. I hope you don't intend to make a fuss about it." What fuck! Get out of my head! No! I have no reason to give Tess any more trouble than before! That's like asking for her head on a stake as far as I've noticed! "You'll be training with us for now Master Vaticus. Everyone else is dismissed."
He takes me to Tess and Brights and Brights takes me somewhere after everyone leaves. No~! I wanna see what he's planning to do!? Wait a minute! I wanna watch!
"Alright, Sir hero." Brights says as he walks a few good feet away from me. Where the heck is he going? "I'm going to see what you are capable of with those skills. Come at me however you like."
"Huh?"
"Come on. We ain't got all day."
Wait wait wait. Hold on. His attitude just did a whole ass 180 just now. What's with that? And he looks like he would rather take a nap than stand there. Now he's taking off his armor and shirt. The fuck is this guy… are those… sp-spider legs… o-o-on his… t-t-torso… they're spreading. Oh dear god, they're spreading!! Oh dear god, they're huge! He is huge!!!
"Come on. Right here." Brights suddenly says to me as he knocks on the inner core of his belly, making the legs that spread from it jerk with the hollow sound he made. If I wasn't intimidated by this man before, I sure as hell am now. "Hit me as if you're trying to kill me in one blow. As hard as you can. No holding back."
Are you fucking shitting me right now!!? Fuck that!!
"Hey. Hey, now. Don't tell me you're bitching out on me just from looking at me, are you? I haven't even done anything. And I don't intend to do anything either. So come on. I got a show to watch."
"W-wh-what!? A show?? What show??" What, do they have TV here or something??
"Yeah! Don't tell me you're not even a little curious about how well the goblin will do against the master." and now he's giddy again. That just made him even more creepy.
"O-of course I'm curious. I wanna see what made that goblin so damn strong in the first place."
"... hoo~h. Strong huh?" Oh dear god, don't smile like that! That's horrifying!! "So have sight too, huh? Only those with a complete blessing are given permission to see. And even that's rare. What does she compare to me then."
"Why do you care??"
"Cuz I wanna know. It's not everyday where a kid like her shows up and doesn't see me as a threat, you know."
"Wouldn't that just be flat out ignorance!?"
"... maybe?" he didn't even think of that as a possibility! "Come on tell me, please~?" don't do another 180 on me looking like a freak of nature!!
"... fuck~... she's at your level with all her blessings."
"... what??"
"What?"
"So she has five of the blessings already, huh? Interesting."
"Uh. no. She has seven."
"... c'mon, boy. That ain't funny." stop chuckling then!
"I'm serious. She has every damn color of the rainbow. With a new element, though she can't use it until she's had an awakening apparently. Whatever that means."
"... Maul, I swear to the heavens, that elf is getting all the good kids. Shit. Now I'm really not in the mood for this."
"Personally, I'd rather not touch that simply because of my own creep factures."
"Too bad."
"AAH!!!" how did he get in front of me! Why is he in front of me!!
"Anyway. Give me your strongest hit. With everything you got. Got it?"
"... Okay."
… Since… Since I pick earth as a base element to barrow, I'll use it to my advantage. Bateyalo, I beg you, please, please, PLEASE, help me do something to this creepy fucker of a tank!
I feel something creeping up my back and down my arm as I hold a fist as tight as possible as it gets heavier and heavier. My first thought was to give him an uppercut so lets go straight for the jaw and knock him out. He said he won't do anything. He won't do anything.
...>>>>>....
I'm done. I threw so many hits. I thought of every possible combination of attacks that I could come up with. Including the underhanded ones no less. NOTHING! WORKS! ON HIM!!!! What the fuck is this guy!? He's obviously not human! But his stats say halfling! The fuck is a halfling!!? This is so fucking stupid!! Why!? Is so fucking strong!? There's no way the goblin matches this guy's abilities!! I don't care how strong she is! There's no way in hell anybody would be able to knock this tank on his knees!!!
"Oiii~. You alright there, kid?" go away~! "Hello~?" ugh… I'm too tired for this.
"What the fuck is with that body. You didn't even activate your blessing at all. You just stood there and I can't do shit!"
"Pfft… well, I guess you're done for today then?"
"Fuck no! I actually leveled up smacking you for so damn long, but fuck, it's like I trying to punch an iron wall. The fuck are your muscle made of? Exoskeleton??"
"Nope. I don't have an exoskeleton like I'm supposed to. You could have used your sword too, you know."
"Do you want me to kill you?!"
"If you can, yes. That's the point."
"What?!"
"Haah… come on, rest up and try again. Imbue your sword with your power this time. You get more experience out of it."
"Uh… b-but…"
"It's fine. Trust me. Even Adler can't get me to cry in pain if he pierced another heart."
"Uh…" did he just say another heart??
"Come on, get up and try again."
Urgh… I don't want to do that! "That's just wrong. It goes against morals. I can't just take another person's life. Why do you sound like you wanna die. Blah blah blah blah blugh! Do you know how old that human code of moral conduct is?" … What?
"Well what-"
"Do I expect from a human? For you to see me for what I am. A freak of nature. I don't want your concern, I want your disgust. I don't want your moral shields, I want your immoral greed. I don't want you to pity me for being defenceless, or weak, or vulnerable, I want you to take full advantage of that small hope of killing the enemy that threatens your life, whether they be friend, foe, or pet. I want you. To kill me. Not hurt me. Not knock me out. Not make me lose my will to fight. Kill me. With every intent to drain the black blood from my body. And you need to know, is that I. Won't. Move."
… yet I don't even remember putting my sword through his stomach. My cheeks are warm from uncontrollable tears listening to his horrifying demand. I couldn't stand listening to his voice that way anymore, I just wanted him to shut up! I just wanted him to… to…
"Heheh. Well look at that. You didn't even hesitate to just push, did you?" he just pulled the blade out with his bare hand. Even more black liquid is rushing out like a waterfall. Oh gods of the heavens, I'm gonna vomit… I can't look away from his wound as his 'blood' stops flowing all of a sudden and all I see is crimson colored flesh under his tanned, cut up skin. He's not even fazed by it. "You look disturbed. Good. That's exactly what I want you to feel right now. No amount of morals or good nature will keep you alive if you run into a wild beast that wants to eat you. If there's one thing I think would be a good trait to keep for a human, I guess it would be the courtesy of showing the enemy you mean to give them what they deserve. Or at the very least the courtesy to show your honest feelings about that enemy."
"... what do you mean?" I want to apologise, but the words. I have no words other than that question. I can't think of anything about him being normal… No… NO SHIT HE AIN"T NORMAL!!! THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME!!?
"You're starting to question yourself now, aren't you?"
"You're telling me to kill my instructor!!"
"Didn't I just say something about that earlier? Were you too grossed out to not even listen to me?"
"Whether they be friend, foe, or pet. I want you. To kill me." I just need to kill him.
"And you wanted to kill me just now didn't you? You hit me in a human vital spot. Not bad."
I don't want to be praised for this! It felt so terrible!!
"Just so you know, this is what all adventurers go through on the first time, if that makes you feel any better." … oddly enough it does. "No matter what goes on in their daily life, they have to take a life on their own one way or another. And they will take it, no matter the reason. Whether it's something logical like survival, or deplorable like a sin. At least five to ten thousand lives are taken everyday on Neutelos. It's not that hard to believe and everyone here understands that."
"Still… why do I have to do this to you just because you tell me to?"
"So you can get used to it." Used to it? "There are a lot of vermin out there that deserve death. Wild creatures that get consumed by chaotic energy that beg for death to be freed from the agony. The reason for the list goes on. I tell you to kill me, because you need to get used to killing something and make you feel the weight of doing so. That guilt of pointing your sword at someone, the heavy pain of stabbing them. Get used to it. Because nothing with chaotic nature is going to stop for you if you hesitate to take it's life first."
"... I understand." so he's not really telling me to kill… "so… you're telling me to kill. To survive with the guilt that comes with it."
"... let's get started. Come at me again!"