Chapter 9 - Goblin Slaying 101

After leaving the village, Johnathan and Ruby walk on the road for 15 minutes, they enter into a forest, the trees aren't that tightly packed together, and you can walk without to much difficulty, as the roots are pretty easy to avoid. While walking, he asks the system about goblins in this world.

[Goblins are green humanoid creatures standing 2.5-3 feet tall. Their backs are constantly bent, and they have low intelligence. They can use tools, however they can't maintain them, so they use rusty weapons or stone tools. Some goblins are nocturnal, while other goblin are crepuscular, it would simply be whatever the goblins have adapted to. There are no female goblins, only male. So they must capture women of other species to reproduce. Most rescued females are traumatized, taking months to years to recover from the trauma.]

Johnathan is disgusted reading this, as he figured it would be like this. But he still had a sliver of hope it wouldn't that bad. After wandering aimlessly for a while, Johnathan spots a group of 5 goblins.

He then unsheathe's his sword, and changes his eyes to the eyes of a Lighting Wrym. He then quickly blasts the goblin in the back with a thunder arrow. THUNK. other goblins quickly turn and see one of their brothers headfirst in the dirt. They then go to poke him, but a slashing sound then comes from his right. His eyes widen in fright as he sees a yellow bolt appear before him. While the screams of a goblin being burnt alive can be heard, another slashing sound is made, and the final goblin falls. Johnathan then proceeds to stab every goblin to get the kills.

[The user has killed 5 goblins, 100 exp]

This time around, Johnathan feels nothing, probably because of the fact this time it's goblins. Goblins are infamous for doing many horrible things, so he could kill them all without batting an eye. As he had already killed before, and goblins were just trash. But he would never make the mistake of underestimating his enemies. As arrogance was any mans downfall.

After wandering for a few more minutes, Johnathan and Ruby come across a cave with a banner and a skull on a stick. It was a clear giveaway as to what was inside. Before entering the cave, Johnathan lights a stick on fire, and launches it as far as he can in the cave. After flying for around 20 feet, it stops in the middle of a giant cave.

Before entering in the cave, Johnathan makes 2 daggers of ice and puts his bastard sword in his pocket dimension. After handing one to Ruby, he slowly enters the cave and looks behind him and brandishes his torch towards nooks and crannies, looking for a goblin trying a sneak attack. After walking towards the big cave, Johnathan then sees about 30 goblins sleeping on the floor, and what he assumes is a hobgoblin, as it's about 5 feet, sleeping on a bigger chair. The room reeks of blood, sweat, urine, and other bodily fluids no one would care to remember.

[The user has found there first monster encampment, purge the world of these monsters, and take their right ear back to the guild. For the duration of the quest, goblin type monsters will give double exp.]

[Rewards]

[Premature Unlocking of the Title feature] [Premature Unlocking of the Skills feature] [Goblin Slayer Title] [Ocular Intimidation Skill] [Bloodthirsty Aura Skill] [Picture Perfect Memory Passive Skill] [1000 exp]

After that message, Johnathan then makes 4 ice daggers and 50 or so ice throwing knives, and puts them inside his dimensional pocket. He then throws an ice knife at a goblin. Without any magic, it hits him dead on in the head. Johnathan repeats this action 11 more times before finally the smell of blood wakes the goblins up.

After waking up, the goblins start screeching at the top of their lungs "KIIIIIEK" and running towards Johnathan with stone knives.

Johnathan then starts dashing around with two ice daggers to the closet goblins, while Ruby is firing her blue fireballs at the goblins Johnathan misses. He then sees something about to dash into him, so he rolls to the left and shoots some lighting magic at it. He then throws two more of his daggers at goblins going for Ruby, he takes out another pair of daggers and dashes towards the hobgoblin to finish him. While not on the floor, he appears extremely disoriented. Johnathan then stabs one of the daggers to his heart while uses the other to slit his throat. He then jumps up and uses the hobgoblin to push himself over to Ruby, and push the corpse on the oncoming goblins, 1 goblin is crushed. After landing 2 feet away from her, 2 goblins are left. Ruby blasts one while Johnathan throws his knives at the goblins. Killing all of them. Right after the final knives hit the goblins, the system pops up again to inform him of his kill count.

[The user has killed 21 goblins, 840 exp]

[The user has killed 1 lesser hobgoblin, 140 exp]

[You have leveled up!]

[You have slain all the goblins in this settlement, go take their right ear and bring it to the guild.]

[1000 exp] [Premature Unlocking of the Title feature] [Premature Unlocking of the Skills feature] [Goblin Slayer Title] [Ocular Intimidation Skill] [Bloodthirsty Aura Skill] [Picture Perfect Memory Passive Skill]

[You have leveled up!]

[You have reached a threshold of power required to evolve. Next time the user goes to rest, you will evolve!]

[You have 2 stat points in each attribute, and 4 free stat points]

"Wait, I can evolve?"