Chapter 3. Goblin Slayer

“Ken! The group here is all below 10% HP, I will move onto the next group.” My beautiful blondie called out to me.

“Thanks Emma!”

Two months have passed since I gained my first skill and the no-brainer conclusion I have come to is that I needed to kill 100k of a monster to gain an ability. While the logic behind my theory was quite simple, the task of slaying 100k of any monster, especially when all I have is high defense, is easier said than done.

Another possibility I came up with is that I might gain a new skill for every 100k slime I kill, but after 12 years of doing nothing but slaying slimes, I was too sick of looking at those bastards to kill another 100k to confirm the validity of this theory.

Hoping I don’t become the slime fucking slayer for life, I did a lot of research on the ease of access, monster density and figured out the best monster to test out my first theory is none other than those ugly green midgets with short stabby swords we call goblins that was common in many different games.

After settling on goblins as the victims of my wrath, I have spent most of my free time for the last two months going around Tokyo with Emma looking for Level E dungeons that contained goblins and thanks to the horde nature of this ugly little thing, we had made great progress on the slaying when I couldn’t do much on my own.

“I just hit level 30!” Emma said happily.

“Great job Emma. Let’s stop for today and see what skill you got. We can finish this project tomorrow and see if I just wasted 2 months and should have stuck with fucking over slimes.” I replied, envious of the girl with the best leveling exponents in the world and was able to reach level 30 from killing slimes and goblins.

“Oh! I got some nice skills to pick from!” Emma replied excitedly.

“Please pick an offensive spell if offered. You are wasting your talent from always picking support spells just so it would be easier for me.”

“Speed boost it is! With speed boost, we can kill things even faster!” And of course, the blondie didn’t take my advice and added another support skill.

“Ugh.. Speed boost is such a useful spell. I can’t even get mad at you for taking it. What’s the other two choices you got offered?” I asked. Must be nice to gain levels and get to pick skills.

“Ice spear or a passive skill that lets me regenerate 1% of my HP every 5 seconds at level 1.”

“Passive HP regeneration could be useful especially if you level it up but for once I agree with your decision that speed boost is more useful in most situations.” I commented. Not like my fucking blondie would listen to my advice anyways.

For a normal person, not only do they gain random stat boosts after leveling based on potential, luck, sometimes an event, item or even a skill. They also get to choose between one of three skills they want to learn.

Of course, this is just what Emma told me and what I have read online since I have personally never experienced either things for myself because I haven’t gained a single fucking level in my life.

Apparently, sometimes skills are tailored based on what the person uses, sometimes it’s based on the person’s stats, but more often than not, it comes down to pure luck.

When two desirable skills are offered, picking the right skill was one of the most difficult decisions for even the most experienced hero. But with the online database full of information after 500 plus years of data collecting, it’s much easier for people today to use the resources available to decide which skill would be the most useful to achieve the purpose one wanted.

Or you can be like this blondie I am with and just pick whatever skill you feel like in the moment. But none of that applies to me since I never get to level or feel the excitement of having to choose and pick between different skills.

Not only was I left out in the fun of picking a skill, my slime soul passive does not even have a leveling bar like every other skill supposedly has. According to Emma, all of the skills she got, whether it be active or passive, once enough experience is gained from either using the skill or gaining exp. The skill will also level up and get stronger and eventually caps out at level 10.

My skill just gives me a static boost with no additional anything. Just a boring fucking defense boost.

You might think I am complaining and being ungrateful to have a passive skill that adds more stat than most if not all skills even at their max level.

As a hero wannabe who dreamt of killing monsters, gaining exp and stats and getting progressively stronger and eventually beat the final big bad with my maxed out level, stats, and overpowered gear. Yes, I am fucking ungrateful that I went 12 fucking years with nothing to show for all my efforts and all of a sudden, I gained a op maxed out skill and it pisses me off that my skill can’t get any stronger like a normal person.

With my flawless research, planning and Emma’s unfair power for a level E dungeon. We have managed to slay around 1500 goblins daily with me getting almost all of the kills. Doing 90% of their health with a single spell while killing some due to critical hits. Emma would run ahead of my weakass, damaging all of the goblins while I was the clean up hitter murking all them little green bastards for that sweet sweet kill.

“I hope there are enough goblin dungeons tomorrow for us to reach 100k kills.” I commented as I kicked a little fucker in the face as it shattered into pixel dust.

“You only need 1400 more kills, we got this easy! I will come over in the morning, if we are lucky and get a nice dungeon with some big dense mob, we might even finish by noon and can finally go on a date on the weekend instead of spending all our time together killing monsters!” Emma replied happily.

“You mean, go on a date with you and Albert. Emma, do you want to just do it here? The dungeons are the only place where that butler of yours doesn’t bother us.”I asked, trying my luck to see if I could get lucky.

“Only if you are willing to see my father afterwards and get married.”

“Nevermind.” Should have known I wasn’t going to get lucky that easily.

Not that I would have minded marrying this beautiful rich girl after banging her, but facing her father, one of the 50 world elites, the founder and CEO of Lionheart corporation was not something my delicate little heart could handle right now.

After we left the dungeon, her butler was already waiting to pick her up in their fancy black limo and he was not happy when she told him to give me a ride to work. Ha! Server you right you old fart! When I eventually gather the strength and courage to face Christopher Lionheart, and take this blondie as my wife, I will make you work your ass off!

“Thanks for the ride geezer! Good night Emma. I will see you tomorrow.” I said politely after getting dropped off at the Seven Eleven.

“Good night Ken! Hope everything works out tomorrow. We will celebrate if it does!” Emma said in her normal cheery voice as the butler gave me a dirty look and drove off.

You can look at me all you want, Albert. Once Emma is mine, you will be working for me anyways so better get a good look at your future boss.

“Good evening Naoko.”

“Oh, evening Ken. You are a little early.” Naoko replied as she looked up from her screen browsing whatever she wanted. And thanks to the privacy of the implant, she could be watching porn and I won’t even know. Not like I have ever watched porn while on the job so fuck off.

“Yep. Just got done with a dungeon, haven’t eaten yet so I will be grabbing some food before my shift starts.”

“I will pick up the tab for you. Ring it up with a case of Sapporo for me to take home after my shift.” Naok offered.

“Thanks Manager!”I replied happily, grabbing my favorite frozen bento with pork cutlet and chicken curry.

While you might not be cute, you have treated me well Naoko. And honestly, with how few customers we get during my shift, I won’t be surprised that your daily beer purchase is the sole reason that I still have a job. After I take over Lionheart corp in the future, I will get you an easy front desk job, I thought to myself as I enjoyed my dinner.

After stocking some items and spending most of my shift just chit chatting with Naoko, I left the store at midnight to get some much needed rest for the big day tomorrow where hopefully, I will gain a new op skill and be on my journey to attend Tokyo Academy and eventually become a licensed hero and one day join the elite 50 and marry my blondie.