Chapter 3- It appeared! The template monster

Chapter 3

It appeared! The template monster

Time seems to be around 10 in the morning. Hopefully I can find some shelter, water and food by night.

I have been walking for an hour while hiding in bushes and trees . I am also trying to use various skills if possible.

Suddenly, I came to a place where the foliage decreased a little.

There are a lot of bones lying around on the ground here.

The skulls lying, doesn't seems to belong to a human at least.

But still, I think this area is dangerous, so l decided to go around it.

While walking around the area, I maintained a distance of about 50 meters.

I saw that there was some sort of settlement there, with around 20 crude conical huts made of branches, leaves and grass.

The entrance was decorated with bones and there were small green goblins roaming in that area.

Yup there they are, the must have monsters in a fantasy world.

Right now I only have a branch of tree with a sharp stone tied to it with vines as self-defense weapon.

This is also a DIY I learnt from that TV show.

I had also collected and put some sharp stones in my item box for throwing.

Other than that I only have some random berries and mushrooms I found.

Also I have already tried every skill name that I could think of, but nothing else seems to work.

I tried 'fireball' 'flame arrow' and other such magic skills too but nothing happened.

I also tried swinging the tree branch while thinking 'rush' or 'slash', but the swing that came out was ordinary.

Though since this body is physically better than my previous body, it was still quite a good swing with similar power to that of an adult, even though my current age seems to be only around 16 or 17.

Thanks to conceal (I think) I, am not detected yet. Still I hid in a bush and crouched as low as I could.

Now lets scan these goblins.

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Name................... N/A

Species................ Goblin

Age .......................1 year

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Unexpectedly there was another column of age added in scan in my mind. Lets try scan on me again.

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Name ..................Ray

Race ...................Ancient Human

Age......................16 years

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Yeah it is there. So maybe if I scan many things or variety of things, my scan skill will level up and more information will come out.

But if there is a concept of MP usage on scan, I donot want to exhaust it and then maybe pass out (if that what happens on exhausting MP). So lets use it with care.

I want to level up skill, but my first priority is survival.

I have two choices with me now. Ignore the goblins or see if I can take them on and maybe they have something to eat or drink.

Also there is a chance that if I can kill them, maybe I can level up and become strong.

That would probably improve my survival chance.

Also on another note, I am not feeling any aversion to thinking about killing them, atleast for now.

I am somewhat of an emotionless person, in a sense that I once even tried to choke my own elder brother to death.

Of course I am no psychopath (maybe I am now) and I did it because he was a shit person (I reaffirmed to myself).

If not for the last minute hesitation and my brother's non-resisting attitude, I may have killed him in my anger.

I never got involved with him again and only maintained a nominal relationship of Hi and Hello.

He is living his life very happily now unlike me. That person is epitome of selfishness.

Thinking about the things he did to me in the past makes me sad now. I used to get angry but eventually I became too tired of being angry and just let go off my hatred.

But I do have empathy and goodwill in general (I think).

But I never felt any fear or any other strong emotion towards anything in my previous life.

To the point that I can literally watch any life tragedy without panicking and calmly start taking steps to help the ones in need. But my heart does not feel sad for others anymore.

The only strong emotion that I felt was lust. Sadness and loneliness too when I used to be alone, which was almost always the case.

My mother used to say that she gave birth to a huge rock and how she made a mistake by not aborting me.

She used to say that the pain of operation for my birth was not worth it.

When those things were said regularly to me during my teenage (which is I think the most mentally vulnerable age of child), I was shaken internally but I used to forcefully keep my expression as stoic as always and never cried.

Maybe experiences like those have made me emotionally strong or weak, I don't know.

But they did put a stop on my emotions, that was for sure.

Anyways, the thing is that I can kill these goblins if need be and won't feel anything probably.

Events of my past life took something from me. I just don't know what. But it is helpful here in this rough world.

But maybe this is not like the template.

I may be wrong and maybe these goblins donot attack humans and are like beast folks in those isekai novels. But how would I confirm it.

There was no need to find the answer to that since the goblins gave me the answer immediately.

I could not see clearly due to distance but right now, a group of five goblins were carrying a human child tied with vines and entering their settlement.

The child seems to be alive as it is wailing and crying.

And here I thought I was an emotionless person.

Right now I am feeling so much anger and rage that my body is shaking and my eyes have probably become bloodshot.

I want to save that kid so bad and fast. But still I have the composure and know that I cannot take on multiple goblins.

This will only lead to my death as well as that child's.

This is truly frustrating. I will try guerilla tactics and try dealing with the alone goblins first.

Now that I have seen that child, I cannot just ignore these goblins and not save the child.

Time is of essence here. lets move.

I took out a few thin sharp stones from my item box which I previously collected. And also the tree branch makeshift axe.

I move near the settlement of goblins from opposite side of its entrance.

They carried the child in one of the huts. I have to save her before she is eaten.

I moved near the settlement cautiously and hid behind one of the huts.

Since the trees are little less here, I have fewer hiding spots.

There doesn't seem to be any goblin archer on tree since the trees are not climbable.

There are about 10-15 goblins in open area in the settlement.

They seem to be carrying rusted knives and some are carrying wooden bows on back.

But I don't know how many of them are in huts.

Also there may be many on patrol and food collection duty also.

But my aim is simply saving the kid and if possible secure food and water and put it in my item box. I commenced my operation.

There was a goblin in the bushes near the hut facing the settlement. I slowly walked towards him.

I think my conceal is working, since even though the tall grass is being stepped on by me it is not making any noise.

I moved to the back of the goblin with a sharp stone in my hand.

The goblin is armed with a knife. He is not wearing anything and smells very bad.

Right now no one is looking in this way.

This goblin is about one head smaller, muddy green colored bald creature with sharp fangs and no clothes.

Since I am 16, I am not that small but the goblin is one head smaller than me.

Making up my mind I grab its neck and simultaneously with full force, thrust the sharp stone from its front, just below its chin upwards, so that it cannot speak.

The stone easily penetrated but there was a sharp squeak that leaked out of the goblins mouth.

The goblin fell with blood spattering on my hand but I immediately looked around and ducked

I then dragged the body of goblin in thicker bushed outside of the settlement.

Thankfully the goblins did not pay much attention to the squeak earlier.

I breathed a sigh. I have killed anyone and as expected I do not feel any remorse from taking a life.

I must hurry.

Now that this patrol has been dealt with, a way has been opened up to a hut in the settlement.

But the entrance to the hut is in other direction.

Lets take out the single patrol goblins first. I continued my attack in such manner.

Sometimes distracting the goblin by throw a stone to make the goblin go near bushes, where I can kill him and other time just silently killing them from back.

So far 3 goblins have been dealt with.

From what I can see is that, once I touch a thing while conceal skill is on, that thing also gets concealed, not only in terms of sight, but also sound and smell too.

Maybe my conceal skill is overpowered.