Inside my room, the crate has already been delivered. But how was it delivered if only I can open the mana lock to my room?
Why do I even have a door with a mana lock if people can get in this easily? Nevermind, I'll just check out my gear.
Got it, smear blood on equipment to make sure I don't lose it. I open the crate and reach inside. This feels a little bit like Christmas. You reach into a present with great expectation and wonder what exactly is inside despite roughly knowing the answer.
The first thing I pull out was a set of leather armor. It looks like I can use it but will it fit my goblin body?
That does sound like a problem. Anyway, what's next. I reach into the crate again and pull out a belt with two daggers attached to it. They look nice so I reach in again. The dismantling knife is a little rough but seems very durable.
All these seem to be of good quality. I drip my blood on all of them and feel a connection snap in place between me and the items. Now if I die in a dungeon they should come along with me.
Next up, the disposable weapons and traps. There are a bunch of half a meter long wooden spikes in the crate. They look like shortened javelins and are probably for throwing.
I completely ignore the bear trap I can see at the bottom of the crate. It's too heavy and has a very low chance to work on humans. I find a bag filled with caltrops which I immediately add to my equipment. The only other things left are some rope, a shovel, and a book on how to set up various traps. I thought I'd been in a smithy, not a general store.
Sure, whatever you say. What now?
Early lunch? It's not even ten o'clock yet!
By long what do you mean?
I gotta call melody and tell her that I might not come home.
I get going and arrive at the employee dining hall. Pata seems to be in a stellar mood as he kneads dough and checks a whole wall of ovens that wasn't there last time.
"Big mission day is pizza day! What toppings do you want? I can whip up whatever you like... Except pineapples! If you say pineapples I'll make you the toppings!"
Is he always like this?
Don't engage in controversial food discussions with him, got it. Now, what will I choose?
"I think I'll just go with a simple Margherita."
"Going with the plain but never boring, huh. But are you sure you want just one pizza? It's a big mission! You gotta eat if you want to get strong, my Guy!"
"One will do."
"Imma make you eat your words along with a second pizza, you hear me!"
I patiently wait and try to steel my mind for the coming challenge. The second the pizza is placed before me I immediately lose all thought of restraint and dig in. The pizza's deliciousness is out of this world. I can see why they serve this on mission day!
I want to walk away now but end up ordering another pizza. After that, I order another one and another one and...
By the time I stumble out of the employee dining hall, I have eaten too many pizzas to keep count. I think I'm about to enter a food coma but what about the mission?
So you'll handle it?
I do as Navi told me with the little willpower I have left and flop down on my bed before passing out.
I wake up inside another cave-like dungeon cavern feeling great. The food coma I was suffering from has completely disappeared. I stand up and check my equipment and find that everything except for the bear trap I shunned was brought along.
"Ssssssssso, you are the other newbie. A goblin, how cliche. And you look sssso weak on top of that. I'm Jade kingssss, pleassssure meeting you!"
Somehow my gut is telling me that I'll regret turning around to meet the owner of that voice.