I walked towards the forest while I keep on thinking about my magic. According to the knowledge given to me by God to use magic, I can either manipulate my surrounding or I can generate temporary elements with my mana. By using magic, I can just create a knife by manipulating rocks. I thought as I reached out to take a rock the size of my arms and started to shape it.
Just making a knife-shaped rock would be brittle so I have to somehow make it more solid. Imagining something like a diamond, I started to put a few more rocks and continue to combine them. I forcefully manipulate the rock by applying pressure. As I did that, I can feel my mana draining so fast. Just before I'm out of mana, I can feel that the knife-shaped rock is stabilizing and it becomes very hard, just like a knife made of metal it also feels a bit heavy.
A bit too heavy to be exact but well it will be a good way to train my muscle.
A few moments after I finished my knife, a rustling sound can be heard from a bush not so far to my right. When I turn my eyes to look, an arrow is already in front of my eyes. It's only a few centimeters before it pierces through.
I hastily turn my head. With the arrow's speed, of course, I can't dodge it and it goes straight between my eyebrows. After that, I fell and stopped moving.
From the bushes, three ugly faces can be seen. After making sure that the target isn't moving anymore, they walk out of the bushes. These creatures were what people who play fantasy games would usually call goblins. What makes these goblins different is the fact that they are the height of an adult male and their skin is black.
The goblins come out while laughing with a *kakaka sound as they joked around while walking to Dave. When they are close enough to him, they started to poke and turn him around with a stick. After making sure that their prey is dead, they began to tie him up and take him to their nest.
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Dave was being cut piece by piece at the nest of the goblins as his innards were cleaned with the other prey. After dividing Dave into several pieces, they started eating him raw. His head was eaten by the chief of the goblins while his other pieces are being eaten by the other goblins. The goblins were having fun while they eat the meat.
"This hairless monkey meat is pretty good. And the brain is tasty too! Gobne! You and your friend did a good job catching this hairless monkey!" says the Chief in goblin language.
"Yes, your majesty! Thank you so much for your praise! We will strive to find even more exotic catches so you can enjoy them!" said Gobne with a smile on his face.
"Good! A good meal sure makes me happy! Hahaha!" the Chief says as he laughed happily.
All the other goblins started to laugh too as they keep on eating. As the night goes on, the goblins started to party. There is music created by primitive drums and the sound of clapping can be heard. The goblins also started to dance around while laughing.
When all the goblins finished eating their meal, the chief then clapped his hand. The clap was so loud that the entire nest can hear it. Inside the nest, there are more than a thousand goblins and all of them started to gather at the clearing in the middle of their nest.
After the goblins gathered in the clearing, the Goblin chief started to walk to the middle of the clearing where there is a platform. When the Goblin Chief stands on the platform, two 3 meters tall goblins stood by his side.
"My fellow goblins. Today, we have a feast! After the one-month-long disaster, we can see that those big monsters that usually stand high and mighty are getting crushed by the earthquake as they stumble and fall." The chief then took a breath and put on a smiling face.
"As for us! Even if we are only hiding from the disaster, it's a good achievement! Thanks to that, we are all alive and well. Even our children survive that disaster. It is time for us Goblins to rise!" the Goblin Chief started to give his speech. Then he continues
"We goblins are intelligent, not like those beasts! Look at this!] says the chief as he suddenly pulled out a black sword with strange patterns on the body of the blade. [ This is what our intelligence gives us! We finished creating our first-ever magical sword with the combined power of magic and tools! With this sword in our hand, we can rule this whole land of everlasting darkness!"
"Uooooggghhhhh long live the Chief! Long life Goblins!" the goblins started to shout madly saliva flying everywhere.
"Okay, okay calm down. I know that you guys are excited about the possibility of us ruling this land. But before that, we have to be able to mass-produce this magic sword. To be able to do that, I hope that we can divide the hunting team into two. The first will keeps on hunting while the second will starts to mine this black iron." the Chief said as he settle down the crazed crowd of goblins.
The Chief then put the black sword into its scabbard before the sword is fully put back, the Chief's stomach abruptly burst open and a hand comes out from his stomach. The hand moved to the handle of the black sword. Before the two big goblins on the left and the right of the chief could react to this sudden situation, a human come out of the chief's body as the chief's body split in half.
That's right, the human that comes out of the chief's body is Dave. Dave moved as fast as he can before the two goblins on his side can react and he swing the sword in his hand. As he swings it, he started to let his mana flow into the sword. After his mana flows into it, it starts to shine with dark light, and then it cuts through the two big goblin's heads like a hot knife through butter.
It was happening so fast that no goblins managed to react at all. Before the two headless goblin bodies fall to the ground, Dave already broke into a run. As he run, he swung his sword toward a nearby goblin, and what followed after that was a massacre. He ran as he keeps on swinging his sword with all his might. He can feel that this sword is good because even as he used it roughly the edge still stays sharp.
At the corner of Dave's vision, he can see a status window just like the kind he saw when he play MMORPG all those years ago. His mouth started to turn into a smile as he saw that his status window is flooded with notifications. Then he started to swing his black sword again and kill even more goblins.