Aarav's voice was starting to break. He sat there silently for some time. But then he heard something – a rustling.
He looked around alertly. His ears clearly sensed that someone was standing behind him.
Aarav slowly looked back, and was finding it difficult to believe what he saw.
"These... It's a goblin!" he stammered.
A small, ugly but dangerous figure was standing in front. Her skin was green in color, and her big eyes were staring at Aarav.
Aarav's breathing became faster. His head started feeling light.
"No...that can't be true," he murmured. And then, suddenly, his body faltered and he fell to the ground, unconscious.
a few hours later
Aarav slowly opened his eyes. Was feeling a slight headache. As soon as he remembered, he quickly got up and said, "Goblin!"
His voice echoed in the room. He gasped and started looking around, but there was no one there. There was peace all around.
Aarav murmured, consoling himself, "Maybe I am going crazy from exhaustion and shock. There must have been some misunderstanding."
He covered himself with the quilt to lie down again, but then he realized something strange. He slowly raised his head and looked around carefully.
"This… what is this place?"
The room was a complete stranger. Walls, ceiling, floor—everything was made of wood. A slight wooden smell was floating in the air. A small table and chair were kept nearby. The entire interior of the room looked as if it was built inside a big tree.
"I should have been in the cave, then how did I come here?" He asked himself.
His memory started getting stressed. The cave, the demon, the fight, then the goblin... and now this strange house.
"Whatever is happening in this world is beyond my understanding." He said holding his forehead.
He could feel his helplessness. Both fear and curiosity were rising inside him.
"I need to find someone who can tell me everything about this world. But... someone who won't be a threat to me."
There was firmness in his words. He didn't want to look weak anymore. But questions were still rising in the mind – what is this place? Who brought him here? And the biggest question – will he be able to save himself in this new world?
Aarav looked around the room with light steps and said to himself, "Maybe this is the place where I will find the answers to my questions. Whoever brought me here did not harm me. It means that he There will be no danger."
Then he heard someone's footsteps from outside. Aarav's heart started beating fast. He immediately moved away from the bed and took position behind the door.
The door opened slowly. Aarav held his breath.
A small man entered the room. His stature was strange, but his face looked no less than innocent. He went straight to the table and placed the chickpea hanging on his shoulder on the table.
He smiled and said, "So you finally woke up. But looking at the look on your face, it seems that you are very afraid of goblins."
Aarav looked at her carefully. Then he remembered – this was the same goblin he had seen outside the cave.
There was a slight glimpse of fear in Aarav's eyes, but there was no threat in the Goblin's smile.
The goblin raised his hand and said in a calm voice, "Don't be afraid. I'm not a bad goblin."
Aarav felt a little embarrassed after listening to the Goblin, but there was a different commotion in his mind. "What is all this happening, This goblin looks exactly like the one I have seen in the games. And the demon who gave me my powers... all this also looks like games.
He suddenly remembered his old days. "I played a game on my friend's laptop in the hostel. There was an old goblin in it who said exactly this - 'I'm not a bad goblin.' I used to call him 'Goblin Chacha', and my friend named him 'Bhala Manus'."
Aarav nodded, as if trying to convince himself that all this was true.
Then the Goblin asked to get him out of his thoughts. "Hey, what are you thinking while standing there? Come here, sit in front. I know, you have a lot of questions in your mind. And yes, I also have some questions for you so why don't we talk over tea?"
Aarav reluctantly stepped forward and went and sat in front of her.
The goblin handed him a cup of tea. The cup was also made entirely of wood. Aarav looked at the cup again and again. Then he looked at the green color of the tea.
"Green tea?" There were lines of doubt on Aarav's face. He smelled the tea first.
"This smells really nice. Thank you," Aarav said smiling.
The Goblin looked at him and nodded with a small laugh. "I am happy to see that you liked my tea. Otherwise, all the 'Homo Sapiens' I have served this tea to have said it was bad and went away. But as I thought, you are different from all of them. yes."
Aarav put down the cup of tea and thought in his mind, "'Homo Sapiens'? That is what humans are called in this world? But on Earth, the scientific name of humans is 'Homo Sapiens'. Is this world different from Earth? Is?"
Coming out of his thoughts he said, "I am different? What do you mean by this?"
The Goblin looked at him carefully with his small eyes and took a deep breath and said, "When I met you, you were born only a few hours ago. But your aura told a different story."
Aarav's face was filled with confusion. "A few hours? Aura? What does that mean?"
The Goblin continued, "When I first saw you, you were covered in blood. I thought your life was in danger and came to help. But there was not a single wound on your body. That blood It was not yours... it was someone else's blood. And it was 'Homo Sapiens' blood.
Aarav listened carefully to the Goblin's words, but his mind was filled with questions. "Whose blood? And why am I here? What the hell is going on?"
Goblin's words created a storm in Aarav's mind. Everything she said was creating a new question in Aarav's mind.
Looking at Aarav with deep eyes, the Goblin said, "Looking at your aura and the blood spread there, I thought that you were some demon who might have shed the blood of 'Homo Sapiens'. But then you suddenly became unconscious. Any demon. , whose aura is so powerful, how can one faint so easily this thing upset me, so I went to you."
The Goblin took a sip of his tea and continued, "Then I saw that you buried someone there. And it was definitely a 'Homo Sapiens'. No demon has the compassion to kill a Homo Sapien. Bury. It was all very strange."
Aarav saw sincerity and deep curiosity in her eyes.
"But," the Goblin said after a pause, "if you are really a Homo Sapien, and you were only born three days old, then how can you have so many powers? Your powers are as much as 'A Rank'. And Your aura..He shows signs of becoming even more powerful. But he looks strangely subdued and somehow controlled.
The Goblin said, waving his small hands in the air, "No Homo Sapien, no matter how hard he tries, can go above 'D' or 'C rank'. But how do you have so much power? And you what did you do there? Tell me the truth.
Aarav started staring at his cup of tea, trying to avoid the goblin's sharp gaze. His breathing had become heavy. It was all too much for him.
"So many questions... so many things... will I really fit into this world?" He thought to himself.
But one thing was clear to Aarav – if he wants to survive in this world, he will have to become strong. Also, to hide the secret of your reality and your powers from everyone.
Aarav felt a bit uneasy after listening to the Goblin. He immediately replied, "I'm three days old? What are you saying? I'm 23 years old! You're misunderstanding something."
But he had forgotten that now he was in a different world, where every rule, every truth was beyond his understanding.
The Goblin bent a little and looked at him with deep eyes and said, "23 years? If that's so, then why does your body look like that of a 'Homo Sapien' of only 3 days And by the way, when I found you there, you were lying naked."
Aarav was shocked to hear this. He looked nervously at his body and realized that the Goblin was telling the truth. His body shape was like that of a 15-16 year old boy, and his voice also seemed thinner than before.
He suddenly remembered the moment when he was fighting Damon—at that time he was actually not wearing anything
Aarav calmed himself down and said, "No, no, leave it alone. It seems something has gone wrong. Whatever may have happened, there is no need to dwell on it."
The Goblin raised an eyebrow and noticed Aarav's nervousness, but said nothing.
Aarav controlled his words and said, "You just want to know what happened there, right? That's what you wanted to ask, right?"
The Goblin nodded, "Yes, of course."
Aarav took a deep breath and said, "Okay, I will tell you everything. But there is one condition. In return, you also have to tell me something. And that too the truth..Even if you want to hide that thing from anyone."
Aarav looked into her eyes. He knew that this was not as easy as it seemed. But if he had to survive in this world, it was also necessary to extract the truth from the Goblin.
Thank You.
Chapter 04 Ends.....