Waking up from normal people activities Moros felt more refreshed than ever. Seeing his childhood friend sleeping so soundly behind him he felt the sudden urge to bash some more goblin heads in.
It was the weekend and these were his most productive days. Back when the dungeon was not closed he would always earn some extra cash by allowing the local criminals to have some fun in the dungeon.
Everybody had a right to murder some creatures, so be believed.
However, murder-meekend was only every second weekend of the month. The first was reserved for school classes and toddlers that were yet to be bathed in monster guts, it was like a field trip of sorts.
The third weekend was an event for low economy families to have fun activities in the dungeon such as hide-and-seek, protect the Balla, a fun mode where the team had to explode the Balla of the other team, and many other fun ideas to spend quality family time.
And the last weekend of every month was the infamous custom night where lonely ladies and desperate dudes met up wearing a mask to chat and do other things without parental supervision.
Unsurprisingly it is mostly dudes. Unsurprisingly, it is also a part-time job for Malissa since Moros had hired her to not make it a total sausage fest.
Standing up as silent as he could to not disturb the sleeping princess with violent tendencies he made his way through the house only to be greeted by the butler.
Jeffrey gave Moros a sly grin and a thumbs up.
Moros returned a thumbs-up to indicate that the homework had been done. That was what the gesture was for right?
Walking through the door, a warm winter welcomed him. As warm as a winter and -30 degrees could be.
Should he wake the mobile campfire up and take her with him? He pondered for a bit, before ultimately deciding not to. As the manly man of Man-town, he would rather freeze his privates off than having them ripped off by a disgruntled sleepy woman.
The march to the central guild was rather short anyhow. He just thought about swimming in piles of monster cores and braved the cold as best as he could.
10 minutes filled with curses, insults and not very child-friendly terms later Moros stepped through the door of the central gate looking like he just went through 10 years of trench warfare.
Feeling the warm embrace of a heated room, he savoured the sensation of feeling his fingers and toes again.
However, it did not take long before Moros' joy was destroyed by the scream of a horde of kids running around, doing whatever they wanted.
Rich kids were a plague wherever they appeared, devouring the fun, attention and will to live of every adult nearby. Like locusts, they gobbled up everything they could get their little hands on.
Moros could only feel pity for whoever had to take care of these brats.
It would never be his problem unless people paid good money for it. Child care was important and he could not care for them otherwise…
He just wanted to go through his usual gate and murder some goblins.
Arriving in front of the clerk, he noticed that the current older woman, had earplugs in and slept like a log.
This idea, why had he not thought of that sooner? This lady truly was a veteran in the business, Moros had much to learn from her wisdom.
He gave her a careful touch on the shoulder to inform her that he wanted to take the gate to the Evergreen Forest. Thrown awake by the soft touch, she took one look at Moros and removed one of her earplugs to listen to his request.
"I am here for the mission in the Evergreen Forest," Moros declared in his usual manner. The quicker the explanation the sooner he was there fighting those lovely green dudes.
The older clerk suddenly threw him a beaming smile and quickly pressed a few keys to open the gate for him.
"You will not believe how long we have been waiting for you. As you can see it nearly killed us!"
She threw him a formula and a pen.
"The usual, just fill this out and you will be on your way in no time."
Moros looked at the form and felt an attack on his psyche again. It was a homework type of enemy that he had to deal with now. Gritting his teeth, he just randomly wrote things in.
After handing the piece of paper back to the clerk, she simply stuffed it away without looking at it one bit.
"Now, once you are ready, feel free to step through the gate and you will be transported to the Evergreen Forest in no time!"
Moros gave her a simple nod in return and moved into the gate as soon as possible.
"Have fun with them!" screamed the older lady after him just after he stepped into the portal.
"Them?" Moros asked before he was forcefully transported to the realm of his desire.
[World 234516-Avarosia, Evergreen Forest]
[Mission Type A-2 Gathering of medical herbs Subtype: Escort]
[Quantity 0/2000 Enemy Type: Goblins Estimated difficulty: 2]
[Good luck soldier, for the glory of the homeland]
"Them???" Moros screamed in struck by panic.
The them arrived behind him. Row after row, after row of loud, obnoxious screaming toddlers came to the Evergreen Forest. As kids their age do, the moment they came to a new place, they all ran in different directions.
"Yep," Moros thought to himself…"I am so getting sued and put in jail for this"
Bringing these 60-centimetre-tall war machines onto this poor planet must constitute a war crime or two.
These poor goblins could never know what kind of horrors had been unleashed on the world of Avarosia.
Now they did know since screaming and squeaking were not exactly the best strategies if one was trying to sneak in.
Not that any of the kids cared about alerting goblins, they were way too busy being a menace to care about such trivial details
An explosion occurred in the distance and Moros wished the poor goblin a speedy trip to the afterlife.
[One goblin killed 0.01xp gained due to guard activity.]
Suddenly the threat of a lawsuit seemed less of a concern and criminal energy made plans to bring these killer kiddos everywhere.
A few kids remained, staring at Moros with their big questioning eyes.
He simply gave those permission to go out there and play to their hearts' content. The more of them were out there the better the XP gain.
Moros himself removed himself from the pile of little ones to seek goblins to battle
The occasional notification informed him about the fate of the goblins who were unlucky enough to meet one of the 100 toddlers with murderous intent.
Moros went further into the depths of the Evergreen Forest to avoid getting his kills stolen.
Yet, the green lush forest seemed eerily quiet. No goblins came running at him, there was just an odd tension in the air.
A few steps ahead, he saw the reason for this oppressive sensation. Goblin corpses littered the ground, joining them were the corpses of peasants and townsfolk with their eyes shot open in terror.
Bloody, battered bodies could be seen wherever Moros' eye fell.
Their weapons lay at their side, providing Moros with all the items he needed.
20 daggers and one pitchfork just received a brand new owner.
Their old ones could not say no to the sudden transfer of ownership and the one goblin, who could have objected became XP.
Far up ahead the sounds of battle still echoed. Moros' body shot forward without a second thought.
These people…they were killing his precious goblins. Any second mattered!
Running to the battlefield he noticed the abundance of targets with their backs towards him.
Moros felt touched that this all-you-can-kill buffet started out with such a warm welcome…
Before the first goblin could turn around and ask "why is there a knife in my throat" it had already fallen to the floor and died because there was a knife in its throat.
[Goblin killed 1XP gained]
The second was highly confused as to how its ki had died at the last line, did perhaps an arrow strike him from afar?
The answer was knife in the throat a sudden life-threatening disease that it also suffered from.
Its neighbour however suffered from an even rarer condition called 'why are my insides all on the floor'...its suffering was rather short-lived.
By now more than a few goblins realised that their cause of death was more human in nature, a human that was currently cleaning up in the backline.
Clearly, they did not like the sudden, violent loss of life in the slightest as they all tried to remove the pesky human from their sight and kill him on the spot.
Moros on the other hand was just having a blast.
And the fun was just about to start!