"Well, what should we do first Aurora?"
While asking, I examine the environment, the appearance of my surroundings seems to be a forest, not a very dense one because the sunlight easily reaches the ground or it may also just mean that I am on the edge of a forest.
Because of the position of the sun, I would guess that it is still early in the morning, probably around 10am. For now, I'm not seeing any difference from my previous world, as there is still only one sun, the gravity seems to be equal to Earth and I'm not experiencing any discomfort from the atmosphere. My new body may also just be adapting to the environment...
[Beep]
[Mission / Principal] "Goblin subjugation"
They are creatures considered plagues in most of the worlds, exterminating those who are in your way is a custom to prevent them from increasing their numbers too much, since in considerable quantity they can decimate small towns.
Objective: Kill a goblin for the first time
Reward: 100x Crystals
1,000x Gold
System function unlocked: Map
System function unlocked: Store
Failure Condition: Death of the user, running out of time.
Time limit: 2 Hrs.]
[It seems that you already have a goal to accomplish. Although a goblin is a low level monster, in your current state it could be a challenge. It's a monster almost at your current height, and can throw stones or use rudimentary tools to attack. Individually they cannot be considered to be a threat for an adventurer with a little experience, the problem is that they act in a group and because of your appearance you would surely prefer to die rather than fall into their hands]
Listening to Aurora's explanation, I concentrated so as not to miss any detail, but when she got to the last part, my face became more and more pale after every word, I felt that the blood was going to my head and also a chill ran through my spine. I remember that certainly in the fantasy stories of my world they were little perverted monsters and bastards, who captured women to use them as a breeding instrument. Just thinking about it, I squeezed my butt cheeks together out of reflex, without a doubt death was a better choice in my opinion.
Although I felt that my legs were shaking, and not for fear of death, I decided to prepare myself as best I could. I took out the [Weapon Ticket-I] to use it. By putting it in my hand and thinking about using it, a couple of options appeared in my mind like the type of weapon that I wanted.
Thinking about which weapon to use, the options that caught my attention were the sword, spear and bow, I think these would be the most common and easy to use. The spear, although it allowed me to attack at a medium range, its length with the size of my body would be disproportionate making it lose its greatest advantage. The sword also had similar problems of being disproportionate, also adding the fact that I have zero experience in combat it would make things difficult for me. Although, the first problem could possibly be solved with a short sword to make it suitable for my size, the second problem I could do nothing about without a teacher. As for the bow, my experience with it was 0, and without arrows it becomes almost useless, and I shouldn't just expect the system to provide anything for free. But its advantage was the long range with which I could use to avoid danger to a greater extent. Plus if things got difficult I could easily escape.
Reason told me that the bow was the best option, the safest. It is not considered cowardly choosing to fight with a ranged weapon, since a certain degree of skill was required to take advantage of it. It was a respectable weapon, but the problem is that I don't possess the ability to use it, I have never taken one in my hands and with less than 2 hours I don't think I can practice enough to hit the target ... also, a part of me believed that my determination to become the strongest would be a lie if I put myself in a safe spot using a bow. Yes, I did not regret not being able to use a bow. I certainly didn't regret my thoughts about how I should have taken some archery classes in my original world. Just because it was always better to know how to shoot than to not know how to. Yes... it was certainly that, nothing else... Clenching my teeth I select the option of single edge short sword.
The scroll in my hands shone and the parchment disappeared replaced by a short sword. I quickly use evaluation to identify it.
[Black Moon-I]
[A single-edged Short Sword, very sharp. It was created from black metal bathed in moonlight for years. Its bright black shine is the creator's desire to resemble the glow of the moon.]
Skills: [Quick Cut-I] [Durandal-I]
Now let's move on to [Skill Ticket -J], it would be great if I could get the swordsman skill, but unfortunately it seems to be a development skill and this scroll doesn't seem to be able to grant it.
After looking at the list of skills for a while, two of them caught my attention, they looked simple enough and good for the situation I was about to face.
[Light Feet-J]
[Passive:
Increase agility and dexterity in feet movement to avoid attacks and put yourself in a good position to counterattack.]
[Charge-J]
[Active:
Actives when you charge in a straight line with great speed and force.]
This time I will choose something that will give me an easier way to survive in a fight, avoiding being hurt. It is useless to have powerful skills if I collapse with a single attack. Therefore, light feet should help me avoid some future problems.
Having made preparations with everything I had available, I began to walk in the forest in search of my first enemy in this world. With the sword [black moon] tied on my waist and the [knife] positoned on my chest using the straps that were included with it, I continued walking forward.
There were 1 hour and 40 minutes left to complete the mission and I was a little nervous, I don't want to start off on the wrong foot and fail to even get started with my adventure in this world. I'm also worried since I have no fighting experience and have never killed anything bigger than a bug back on Earth. But I was motivated because completing this mission could unlock system functions that would be of great use, giving me another reason not to fail. Since the only fail conditions are dying or running out of time; the first of which I definitely don't plan to do, I just have to find a goblin in time to complete the mission.
The most important thing is that if I try to do only things that are in my comfort zone the level of my soul would almost never grow. Aurora did not mention it, but I have the feeling that the more difficult the challenge and the more pressure I put myself under the faster my soul development would be. Therefore, in moments of life and death the attached development would be exponential.
...Seriously, it's just a damn goblin, why am I so afraid? As long as I'm cautious everything should go well. It can't be that hard right? I just have to find one, cut it and I'll be done. I'll be able to boast about it later ... well, maybe boasting would be too much, but at least I can feel proud of it ... no, in no way should I celebrate something as little as a single goblin, that should be done when I meet bigger goals. Let's just say that at least it is for a good cause exterminating a plague of this world.
I had spent about 30 minutes wandering inside the forest looking for a goblin while encouraging myself to avoid restlessness. Suddenly I heard a shriek, I quickly hid behind a tree looking for the origin of the sound, but I could not see anything that produced the sound. Trying to control my breathing and hiding among the trees I advanced forward.
After about 100 meters, I found the origin of the sound and from what I saw, I found my goal too. There were 3 little green men, growling at a wild boar as they surrounded it and threw stones at it as they tried to approach it to hit it with a thick branch or to use their nails and teeth to tear his skin away. It did not look like their attacks were causing great damage to the wild boar, they probably wanted to tired it out and then finish it off easily.
And here I was, starting to worry about not finding a goblin, but some God must have listened to my wishes and sent me three as if saying "Why just settle for one, really that's too easy, I'll send you another 2 so have fun" while smiling and raising his thumb ... damn, one was enough. Whatever, I should be grateful that it is not a dozen.
Leaving the jokes aside, I should have guess to find more than one, if I remember correctly Aurora mentioned that they move in groups, thinking that things would work in my favor is not correct. But on the other hand it could also be said that my luck was not so bad because they seemed too focused on the wild boar to have notice me.
I approached them and when about 10 meters from the one that was closest to me, I drew Black Moon slowly to avoid causing noise due to friction. With the sword in my hand I took a deep breath and exhaled slowly several times to calm myself since my breathing had accelerated due to my nerves without me realizing.
At the moment when the goblin I was aiming at was completely focused on the wild boar, I ran at the maximum speed that my feet allowed, focusing my vision on his back. As the distance was not far, I reached him in a couple of steps. I swung the sword horizontally across his neck, looking for a weak point, it was fatal. Cutting off a hand or a foot does not kill quickly, his squeals and grunts from blood loss would have also confused me and with the other 2 enemies here I could not let myself be distracted. The torso and the head were not good choices either, I didn't want my weapon to get stuck and lose my greatest advantage, now that I think about it I should have tested its edge with something to see how sharp it was, another proof that I didn't think things through clearly. Maybe it was better to take a risk and aim at the chest because there is a chance that I may fail to hit the smaller target...
"Aaaaaaaah "
All kinds of thoughts passed through my mind during the few seconds it took to bring my sword to the goblin's neck. I screamed to give myself courage and clear my insecurities, I saw the edge of the sword reach the neck of the monster, and due to the sound of my scream it turned its head back in the direction of the blade as if it wanted to give me a better angle to cut it.
In an instant the sword pass through from the top of it shoulder to its other shoulder causing my face to lose its color because I didn't even feel the cutting of its flesh. Did I fail? Am I going to die now? While that question formed in my mind my hands moved for another attack, but then I saw a red line form in the goblin's flesh and in the next second the head fell from its shoulders.
My hands that moved to attack again instinctively covered my face to prevent the blood gushing from his body getting into my eyes.
[Beep]
[ Mission completed]
After having been bathed in blood I moved to see the other two goblins, which apparently thanks to the fact that they were also surprised, were still standing in the same place watching what happened. They were like trees standing without moving, taking advantage of the moment I threw myself towards the second one, after noticing me charge towards him, he let out a loud screech causing the other one to also begin to run against me. But since the wild boar was between us it should take them time to arrive.
I can get the second goblin before the third reaches me. The little green man seeing me approaching closer threw the stone he held in his hand in the direction where I was. I must say that he has good aim since if it continued in the same trajectory he would have hit me in my head, but unfortunately for him I was focused on what he was doing, I could deduce the path of the stone and I move my head to avoid it, although I avoided the direct hit it still slightly cut my temple because of the short distance between us.
This was not enough to knock me down of course and coming close to him I made a slash this time diagonally from his right shoulder below his left armpit, I was no longer worried the blade will get stuck since I confirmed its sharpness with the first goblin a few seconds ago.
In truth, the blade passed through the body of the goblin like a hot knife cutting butter, only a little resistance was transmitted in my hands, almost imperceptible.
Well one remains, it seems that-
[Watch out Alexander !!!]
Almost at the time as Aurora's warning was heard in my head, I felt a pain in my right calf. It's strange, the third goblin shouldn't be so fast to cover the distance in such a short time with its speed.
Clenching my teeth, I turned my head toward the leg that hurts to see the cause of my pain.
" Hahaha ... I really wasn't expecting this, damn pig you should have run when you had the chance"
I wanted to curse the boar more, but with the last goblin running to where we were, I didn't have time for that, so I kept my mouth closed.
I held the black moon with my left hand and drew the knife with my right. I lifted it over his head high and dropped it with all the force and fury I could gather on the wild boar's skull until I felt the knife lodge inside it.
The wild boar had to open its mouth to let out a whimper, which I took advantage of to remove my leg from between its teeth, retreating and letting go of the knife which looked like a beautiful ornament in the pig's head.
"Reeeeeee "
While the wild boar was squealing and I was complaining from the pain, the goblin was ready to attack, moving his club in my direction. I quickly interposed the sword from my right hand and take a few steps back trying to avoid it, but the action was stopping because of the pain in my calf. I could only squeeze Black moon and receive the approaching blow.
Unbalanced and receiving a blow with enough force, he managed to deflect my sword and his weapon reached my left shoulder transmitting its impact. As a result, I had to mitigate the damage by rolling my body to the side with the impact. I don't think that my shoulder would fracture, but it still caused numbness in the whole area, I should be grateful that it was not the arm which held my sword or else I would probably drop it.
Now I couldn't move my left arm from the numbness and my right foot hurt from the bite of the wild boar, speaking of this, it seems that the wild boar had finally stopped moving ... hahaha, you deserve it damn it.
It was in this situation I had to face the goblin, the only thing I could do to comfort myself was make fun of the wild boar. There is no doubt that I am in a bad situation, I raised my head to see my enemies next movement but I was surprised by what I saw.
Instead of continuing to attack he was looking at me and panting, with the tent that was rising on the cloth that covered his waist I knew in an instant what this guy was thinking.
I was filled with rage and suddenly got the strength from somewhere to stand up, and without caring about the pain I took a few steps toward the excited goblin that seemed to be lost in his own thoughts. By the time he noticed the sword in my right hand, the blade had already been embedded through his chin to the crown of his head with the tip protruding out like a horn.
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Written by:
Jwunder99
Ideas by:
Drack21