[ Chapter VIII (8): "HOUSE KEEPING!" ]
[ "This isn't family bonding..." ]
[ "Don't look at me like that." ]
Felix shivers slightly from the weird gaze the fatso Goblin is giving him. Though he knows it isn't malicious, if it is he would have already died, but it isn't.
As he focuses his attention instead on the stairs below; weapon in hand— a small hammer he uses for nails, but now in the Apocalypse would be used for hitting.
He turns around and notices the fatso Goblin still eating while following him.
[ "Pst... Y-you go first." ]
He nudges the Goblin to move first, his hands grabbing the wooden rails beside him for support. Not seeing anything below due to the lack of light— electricity having been lost days after the Apocalypse.
He hopes that in commanding the Goblin to go in first, that it would see things better in the dark, if the slit eye is to go by. If not, then at the very least he has a Goblin shield, detector, and defender all at once.
[ CACKLE ]
Doing what it was told, the Goblin whose chewing on rat eyes continued moving forward, with leaps in its step like a penguin. Not afraid of death, not afraid of anything, but is instead excited for dinner. Grinning ever slightly, it went down...
Then pop back up in seeing nothing malicious downstairs, on the second-floor. [ CACKLE ] Smiling at its master who's having a hard time seeing in the dark.
[ CACKLE ]
But before it could fully convey its thoughts... It was grabbed by something in the leg— which then pulled it away from Felix's sight.
[ "F-fatso!" ]
[ "H-hey!!" ]
Worried about the Goblin, but also worried about his safety. Felix pulled back, wary about going down the stairs, as he hid behind the wooden rails. But his worry becomes nothing as he hears a loud shriek coming from downstairs, followed by other such similar noises before abruptly stopping...
With new lines of text appearing in front of him being the only hint to what has happened...
[ "Oh..." ]
[ DEVOUR LVL. 2 IS BEING USED BY REANIMATED GOBLIN LVL. 9 ON BLACK RAT LVL. 6 ]
[ BLACK RAT LVL. 6 KILLED BY REANIMATED GOBLIN LVL. 9! ]
[ +73 EXP! ]
[ BLACK RAT LVL. 5 KILLED BY REANIMATED GOBLIN LVL. 9! ]
[ +53 EXP! ]
[ BLACK RAT LVL. 4 KILLED BY REANIMATED GOBLIN LVL. 9! ]
[ +47 EXP! ]
[ PLAYER NO. 1 (FELIX HARP) LVL. 4 IS INCREASING IN LEVEL ]
[ "I-I didn't have to worry in the first place..." ]
[ "But... What's this...?" ]
Felix lowers his hammer that was raised high in noticing that everything is fine. In looking at the strings of text in front of him, one had caught his attention, causing him to scroll back up to read what it says fully.
And in doing so brought a smile to his face.
[ PLAYER NO. 1 LVL. 4 ---> PLAYER NO. 1 LVL. 5 ]
[ NEW SKILL UNLOCKED! ]
[ VISION SHARING LVL. 1 ]
[ — THE SKILL ALLOWS A NECROMANCER TO SHARE THE VISION OF THE SELECTED MINION FOR SOME TIME ]
[ — MANA IS CONSUMED WHEN IN USE (0.5s) ]
[ — THE LONGER THE DISTANCE, THE MORE MANA IS CONSUMED ]
[ — APPLICABLE TO MINIONS ONLY ]
[ — 1/1 ]
It is a new skill. Just like the Reanimation power that allows him to turn low-tier monsters— Goblin in the previous case, to fight for him, and be eternal serving guards that can murder abnormal monsters with ease.
But this one, he reads the text over-and-over again, and realizes that it isn't as powerful as that. But is instead a supporting skill for the previous one, this skill allowing him to share visions— on what his minions are seeing first-hand without him needing to be nearby.
[ "F-fatso, j-just stay there. A-alright?!" ]
[ CACKLE ]
[ "Good! J-just stay there." ]
In finding out that his house isn't as safe as he expected, Felix went inside his room, trying to close the broken door which opened again after a while. Doesn't matter.
He sat on the floor, farthest away from the rotting rat remains and thought to himself of using the said skill— and just like with the first skill he has, it worked like a charm.
[ VISION SHARING LVL. 1 IS BEING USED BY PLAYER NO. 1 (FELIX HARP) ON REANIMATED GOBLIN LVL. 9 ]
[ REANIMATED GOBLIN LVL. 9 VISION ]
And like magic, the strings of text in front of Felix changed to instead show him what seems like live footage of someone's camera. But in this case red, and the holder is eccentric; jumping from one place to another in a matter of seconds.
[ CACKLE ]
[ — chichichiiii! ]
With the footage showing towering tall Black Rats trying to fight back the assailant, the single Goblin, who in this case is massacring whoever gets in its way. No matter how tall.
[ — chichiii! ]
Felix watches with wide eyes how through the eyes of the Goblin which is slightly different from his— a human eye, can he see through the dark, clearly like there isn't any darkness at all.
He watches in curiosity how through the screen, the Goblin who's supposed to be fat, jumping left and right without any problems. ultimately longing forward towards the smallest Black Rat it sets its eyes on to, before then;
[ CRUNCH ]
Biting on the monster's thick leg, separating it from the body.
Which caused a loud shriek to occur, alerting the other Black Rats to the dismay of their kin. Which did more damage than support.
[ THE BLACK RATS ARE AFRAID ]
[ CACKLE ]
In tasting another being's flesh, the fat Goblin grew more eccentric, not caring about the fact it is being bitten in the head by the now one-less limb Black Rat; it then after finishing the leg grabbed onto another part, feasting on it even though still attached to the hapless Black Rat.
[ — chiiiichiiii!! ]
[ DEVOUR LVL. 2 IS BEING USED BY REANIMATED GOBLIN LVL. 9 ]
Ignoring the damage being done to it, Felix who's watching the scene couldn't help but be proud. Guess those fats really work in this guy's favor. More fats didn't equal less speed at all, in reality more fats equals more shields, with no downsides.
In seeing the Goblin focus on eating, Felix who's watching couldn't help but rub his head in frustration.
Can't you do that later?!
Kill them first!
He wanted to yell that through the screen, if not, then at the very least to the Goblin a floor below him who's causing so much ruckus that Felix could hear it who's a floor above.
But to his surprise, before he could yell that out, bark orders. The Goblin listened, swiftly finishing the Black Rat's suffering with a sharp bite to the nape.
[ BLACK RAT LVL. 6 IS KILLED BY REANIMATED GOBLIN LVL. 9 ]
[ +74 EXP! ]
[ REANIMATED GOBLIN LVL. 9 IS INCREASING IN LEVEL ]
[ REANIMATED GOBLIN LVL. 9 ---> REANIMATED GOBLIN LVL. 10 ]
Ohhh...
That fat thing is increasing in level, again.
He did notice it and the others gain experience through eating, but that isn't as effective compared to the alternative; which is through killing.
But that wasn't what caught his eye. Instead, what caught his eye is the text that followed by.
Which made him do a spit take and carefully glance at the text beside the screen.
[ "W-what the..." ]
[ NEW VARIANT UNLOCKED! ]
[ REANIMATED FAT GOBLIN ]
[ — THE MORE THEY EAT THE STRONGER THEY GETS ]
[ — THE SKILL TAUNT LVL. 1 CAN BE USED BY THESE VARIANTS ]
He watches the Goblin who's looking on the floor in the screen, then at the text on his right, then at the Goblin's point of view again. Then at the text again.
Then noticed something that made his eyes slightly go wide.
[ "Holy..." ]
[ CACKLE! ]
Having felt change surge through its body, the Goblin not knowing what happened looks at its hands. Then it realized something...
Something did change.
Its body did change.
Looking around, the Goblin realized something. The height of it has improved. And the hunger that was once prevalent to it before, now becomes even more prevalent— as it could only think of eating at the moment.
Which made it set its eye on the cowering Black Rats on the side, shivering in what seems to be fear.
Extending its claws, the Goblin salivated as it reaches out to them. The saliva drips to the floor as the Goblin inhales the scent of the Black Rats; a scent it likes.
As the newly evolved Goblin wants to do one thing, and that is to eat something— may it be alive or not, doesn't matter.
[ CACKLE ]
[ THE BLACK RATS VERY AFRAID ]
[ "G-go f-fat man!" ]
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