In a darkened forest roamed a horrid beast, looking around with its putrid head and sunken eyes with a crimson sheen.
There was no moonlight not even the occasional fireflies were anywhere to be seen. Cho'gath finally entered the deeper part of the forest one which was even restricted by the school and only brave or foolish adventurers dare to venture there.
It seem I don't require any sleep as 3 days have passed since I left that camp after I eliminated the guard, the rest were easy prey or so I tought.
Earlier.....
When I approached the camp again the bonfire was out and a dwarf and beastkin could be seen with there eyes scanning the surroundings for any sight of danger.
They were wise to put out the fire as it made them even more visible to me or any other creature of the night but they could've used the fire to scare other animals away but they seems to realise that whatever caused the disappearance of their ally was not a normal animal.
I didn't expected them to be alert all of a sudden as I made sure they won't be able to find out the death of their companion adn would be sound asleep but it seems that wasn't the case.
I inspected their stats and it seems kinda ok and were in par with the previous guy with some ups and downs.
I could take them head on as they don't seem to have any mage with them.
The dwarf wore a chainmail with a short axe in both hands maybe a berserker and the dog like beastkin wore a leather armor with a spear in a defensive stance.
That spear will be troublesome due to its wider attack range.
I readied myself in a bush but the dwarf called out "Who goes there" in the exact same where I was preparing my ambush
Shit I forgot they taught us dwarfs and beastkin posses minor night vision with dwarfs working in there underground empires and the beastkin from there ancestral lines.
Well now is big brain time
"Brother help there's a beast I haven't seen before it took my arm I don't think I have much time left there is too much blood loss"
I cried mimicking the sound of there companion that I ate before.
"I am coming freddy stay right there" the doggy boi called out and ran towards my designated spot.
Is he blind it seems he doesn't have the ("Minor Nightvision ") that most beastkin posses as he would have noticed me waiting with my drooling maw.
" Shaggy stay where you are!"
The dwarf yelled as he saw the monstrosity that lied ahead but alas it was to late. I sprinted towards the poor shaggy and thrusted my right claw in his lower belly completely ignoring the leather armor as it offered no resistance to my claw.
He wailed like a dying dog as I traced my claw upward finally stoping at his lower neck, until then his organs and his entails flooded out in a pool of blood and gore but when his heart came into view I immediately snatched it as specific organs had different taste and the heart was one of my favourites, the liver too and the kidneys even the brain tasted superb.
I consumed the heart infront of the dwarf with a devilish grin or whatever you can call a grin on my ugly face.
"Brother why didn't you warned me sooner" I mimicked but this time in shaggy's voice.
"Yo...you monster"
He stuttered and a terrified expression as a 2.8 meter tall monster emerged before him. I didn't stoped my psychological torture there
"Why did you hate me what did I do wrong"
I spoke still mimicking and took a step further.
"Why"
"Why"
"Why"
"Why"
I was now 5 meters away from him and he looked like he'll faint anytime as his body shook uncontrollably.
4 meters
3 meters
Then a flaming arrow flew out of the tree line and struck me right in the center of my chest. For the first time after my transformation I felt pain as I roared in a beastial voice snapping the dwarf out his terrified state as he managed to get a hold of himself and lunged at me with both axes readied in each hand and struck me right in my lower stomach.
Feeling pain after a while left me disoriented so forgot to even evade or defend myself. I felt pain again but it wasn't as intense as the burning arrow in my chest, compared to that it was bearable like falling on the ground and getting a bloodied knee.
The axes also didn't get to deep barely penetrating my thick skin ( Thank you Unnatural Endurance). I leapt backwards gaining an additional 4 meters between me amd the dwarf and pulled the flaming arrow out of my chest and the pain immediately subsided with visible regeneration in place, my brunt skin was falling off and new black skin taking its place and I could feel the wound close internally. Minor regeneration is doing its thing but its still minor so I can't afford to lose ant limbs.
More arrows followed from the treeline bastard isn't even giving me a chance to recover how rude. >:[
I tried to find the source of the arrows as I scanned the treeline I saw a cat like beastkin wearing a hood light leather armor and a bow constantly aimed at me.
The dwarf let out some sort of battle cry and charged at me with surprising speed that someone of his dexterity should not posses maybe that cry was some sort of buff as his beard my slightly glowing.
The moment he was about to struck me I ducked as I was still faster and plunged both of my claws in his lower legs lifting him upside down. He screamed in agony and desperately attacked me with whatever he could throw at me but I knew with my endurance and his stats there is nothing he could do that can be fatal to me. So I swung him in a semicircular motion which smashed his head into splinters upon coming in contact with a tree's trunk.
Praise my strength for this feat.
Now the cat boi lost all hope of defeating me as that flaming arrow was definitely something he couldn't pull off again as all the other arrows were normal.
Maybe its was magically enhanced who knows as those fukin teachers told me that I was too dumb to take magic classes so I don't know shizz about it.
The cat boi saw me running towards the tree he was occupying and didn't wasted anytime to see if I could climb trees.
He started jumping from tree to tree using branches and vines, it seemd like tarzan fucked a cat to give birth to him.
I also used my sprint to catch up to him but I didn't leapt from tree to tree instead I ran directly underneath him and the moment he was about to make another jump I leapt higher then I ever has amd caught him off guard in middle of a jump.
His eyes widened in horror as he knew he was a goner. I plunged both of my claws into his stomach and tore him apart into two halves in air and landed like a badass a very ugly and monstrous badass.
Now I dragged his both halves to the campsite where I smashed the dwarf not smash-smash as I don't have anything to use that can smash....
;C I still miss you fren
I meant in a head smashing sort of sense not the other way around.
I was still Curious as why where they already alert and even had a sentry on the trees, that's when I noticed a trinket
[Adventurer emblem: its an emblem that's enchanted with ability to detect life signatures of a peron and when a person dies or the emblem is removed it gives a signal to the rest of the party under a certain radius]
Well that explains it.
[97 creatures are required to be consumed for the evolution to commence]
After I finished devouring the corpses I noticed the tents still standing. One of them held sleeping mats and other junk but the other one contained a medium sized cell one to keep pets or small monsters in.
Ugh...Sour grapes
Another not so naked goblin as this one has a loincloth covering its privates and it immediately cowered before mee in its tiny prison terrified by witnessing the horror standing before him. It wa a him right???
Cuz I still don't know what a female goblin looks like.
The lil one meter tall critter managed to speak some gibberish that apparently I understood.
"O mighty one please spare this little one I don't even taste good"
I knew goblins had their own language maybe after eating that goblin from before allowed me to learn its language.
"What is thes little one called?"
I commanded in deep guttural gibberish
It spoke "This one has no name great one"
"What is the little one doing here?" I asked
"This was wandered far seeking a saviour, got caught by nasty adventurers"
Hmm goblins are mostly used as meat dummies for apprentice adventurers and this one would be definitely sold or auctioned to some guild who'll use him as live target practice for their recruits.
"What does this one needs a saviour for also is the little one is a he or she?"
Ye I needed to ask that
"I is a he mighty one and my tribe is being harrassed by those filthy Orks who demand tribute and if we fail to provide it they just eat one of us alive infront of everyone to make an example"
Hmm orks=big=more meat :P
I have learned about those bipedal piggy bois and I think I can probably take them on as they aren't very fast or bright the problem is how many of them are there?
"How many orks harasse the little one tribe?" I asked the goblin also he's average size for a goblin but he doesn't have a name like most goblins so i'm calling him little one for now.
"Me not good with number about half of my tribe"
"And how many are in your tribe?"
"Three and round thingy"
30 goblins and about 15 orks I can take them if I play smart and hold my cards right.
I ripped open the goblin's cell and the metal bar gave into my strength after like 3 seconds.
"I'll help your tribe but what does your tribe offer to me?"
"We serve the mighty and whatever tribe has master has" he replied
My own little squad maybe I can us them to secure me prey also I can use them to aquire or do stuff that is too risky that's to risky for me but i'm not in for a chieftain position so i'll use them untill I evolve after that i'll think later for now lets pretend to be the saviour.
"I'll help the little one's tribe"
The goblin cheered and jumped around the tent with joy.
"This one thanks the master for freeing him and vows to serve the master faithfully until the last breath"
Master I could get used to this
"Lead me to your village" I commanded
"As master wishes" he then started leading me deeper into the woods also I think I should give him a name soon because calling him little one is annoying .
(Note: What should I name the goblin any ideas because he'll be an important character)