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Chapter 2 - A Goblin?

In a dim lighted cave, a naked man can be seen laying down unconscious. The man had well-built muscles and a long blond hair. He overall looked like a 10/10.

The man's eyes opened slowly as he tried to adjust his vision to the darkness that was surrounding him.

After scanning the surrounding with his eyes for a bit, he got up.

The handsome man looked around the cave and he spotted a small lake.

On top of the lake's surface, some light was bouncing off from the crystals that were emitting some faint light.

He slowly started walking towards the lake. After arriving at the lake, he sat down and took some water with his hands.

He splashed the water on his face, making him shiver a bit.

"I see, i'm not dreaming."

The mans name was Arthur. He was 19 years old and a martial artist.

"This means that I am most likely dead."

Arthur got up and walked towards the shining crystals. Strangely, the crystals emanated not only light but heat, too.

"What a strange crystal."

Arthur muttered to himself as he touched the crystal. It was warm at touch.

The heating crystal was great news for Arthur, as he was freezing a moment ago. Of course, the crystal couldn't emit enough heat to keep him totally warm, but it was good enough for the moment.

After some time, Arthur could hear some weird noises coming from another part of the cave. Of course, Arthur wasn't stupid enough to go and investigated with no light, no clothes, and no weapon.

Because of wanting to leave the cave as soon as possible, Arthur took a rock he found around him and tried to break a bit of the crystal to see if he could use it as a lantern.

Strangely enough, he successfully broke a bit of the crystal.

The broken piece of crystal emanated even more light and heat than the big one. Arthur was a bit surprised by this, but he shook the feeling of surprise away.

Soon after, he took the newly handmade lantern and he went to explore the cave.

After leaving the lake and the shiny crystal, Arthur found a tunnel. If he didn't have the handmade lantern with him, he wouldn't be able to see nothing in that darkness.

As Arthur moved forward, the more he heard the sounds from earlier. After 3 minutes of walking, he finally found the source of the sound.

Arthur didn't know what to say, as the 'thing' in front of him wasn't anything he has seen in his life. The thing looked like a goblin, but at the same time it didn't look like a goblin. It had black skin and a round, deformed face that looked slimy.

Of course, Arthur got more close to the being in front of him as he wanted to take a better look at it. As soon as Arthur was close enough, the thing made a sound and run towards him.

But the problem was that it was slow, very slow at that. Seeing the little monster come at him, Arthur used his leg and kicked it into the wall.

The thing didn't get up anymore and some purple liquid came out of his head.

"Did I kill it?"

Arthur asked himself, a bit surprised. He didn't feel bad or anything. In fact, he didn't know how to even feel about the thing that just happened.

[Congratulations on achieving your first kill. The requirements for the system to begin its functions have been met.]

"What?"

Arthur looked puzzled but he couldn't worry anymore as a blue interfaced appeared on his left side.

Name: Arthur

Race: None

Level: 1(1%)

(A/N:The 1% is the bar exp and when the bar will reach 100% he will level up.)

Bloodline: None

Title/s: Martial Artist(+2STR)

(A/N: Titles will give additional stats or skills and STR means strength.)

Stats:

Strength: 20

Defense: 10

Speed: 17

Mana: 100 (10/Min)

(A/N: the 10/Min means that every minute, 10 mana will recover.)

Skills: None

Arthur looked at the blue interfaced and thought for a moment.

"Close status."

As Arthur said that the blue interface closed and dissapeared.

'"Open Status."

The blue interface appeared as Arthur commanded.

"Sure enough it is like a game."

Arthur muttered as he looked at floating white ball in front of him.

"But what is that?"