“What are those !?!” The soul asked in surprise and horror, as he looked at those small humans. They were short, barely reaching a meter. They were green. The gross vomit green, and not the grass green. And they were ugly.UGLY with emphasis. With pointing ears and yellowing teeth, they didn’t exactly look charming. Two beady eyes which were filled with wild fanaticism stared at his chamber, or to be exact him. It wasn’t the greatest way to celebrate the end of a successful experiment.

He had just finished his experiment, with some rather good results, but the storm had made a mess of his chamber. Ruined stones, broken metal, shrapnel, various gems, and crystals were littered all around as if a storm had visited. Technically, a storm did visit. So he was busy cleaning up the mess when he decided to take a look at his dungeon, in case the storm visited his dungeon also. The moment his Soul Sense left the chamber he found his monsters kneeling. BUT besides his cute spiders, kneeled at least hundred green color ugly humans, bringing him back to the question.

THEY ARE GOBLINS.

“ Goblins?” this was the first time he was hearing such a word.

NAME GOBLIN RANK E ( PEST ) AFFINITY NONE DESCRIPTION GOBLINS ARE ONE OF THE MOST COMMON LOW-GRADE MONSTERS. WITH STRENGTH BARELY REACHING THAT OF A HUMAN ADULT, THEY ARE CONSIDERED TO BE MORE OF A PEST RATHER THAN A MONSTER.

“That’s it ? “ he asked in confusion. The description hardly described anything, except they are weak. And when did Blue Box started giving free information? And what was with the well-tabled information?

SHOULD I CONNECT TO DUNGENOPEDIA?

“ Now what’s that !?!” Another new terminology, which he didn’t like the sound of.

IT'S A MONSTER CODEX CARRYING ALL THE DISCOVERED INFORMATION ABOUT EVERY MONSTER EVER FOUND.

“ Eh…well do so.”

GOBLINS PRONOUNCED AS ɡɒblɪn. HISTORY

GOBLINS ARE ONE OF THE MOST COMMON RACES OF MONSTERS ON TITANIA. BUT THEY ARE ALSO ONE OF THE MOST MYSTERIOUS RACES EVER. NOT MUCH IS KNOWN ABOUT GOBLINS OR THEIR HERITAGE, EXCEPT THEY ARE PART OF FAE FAMILY, DESPITE HAVING LITTLE OR NO MAGICAL AFFINITY AND INTELLIGENCE BARELY ABOVE AN AVERAGE WILD ANIMAL.

BUT HISTORICAL RUINS NEAR THE NORTHERN COAST SHOW THAT GOBLINS MIGHT HAVE ONCE RULED AN EMPIRE SPANNING SEVERAL THOUSAND KILOMETERS, FROM THE NORTHERN COAST TO THE FORESTS OF ELEVENHIEM. RUINS OF CITIES SHOW A HIGH LEVEL OF ADVANCEMENT IN MAGICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY. THE CITIES ARE EXTREMELY WELL PLANNED WITH PROPER DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, AQUEDUCTS, ROADS, PUBLIC BATHS, ETC.

NUMEROUS BUILDINGS HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED NEAR THOSE CITIES WHICH MAY HAVE ONCE BEEN A LARGE UNIVERSITY.

MOSAIC ARTS IN DWARVEN AND ELVEN STRUCTURES, SHOW THEM ALONG DANCING AND EATING WITH GOBLINS, COMPLETELY UNLIKE NOW, WHERE THEY ARE CONSIDERED MORTAL ENEMIES.

ALL THESE FINDS, SUGGEST THAT ONCE GOBLINS MIGHT HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE MOST ADVANCED RACES, WITH A HIGH LEVEL OF RESEARCH IN MAGIC. THIS FURTHER SHOWS THAT GOBLINS HAD EXTREMELY HIGH INTELLIGENCE, INNOVATION SKILLS, AND MAGICAL AFFINITIES.

BUT THIS BRINGS UP THE QUESTION: WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM? WHY HAVE THE GOBLINS REGRESSED TO NOTHING BUT PESTS?

FEW RESEARCHERS BELIEVE WAR BETWEEN RACES MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE CAUSE OF THIS. OTHERS SUGGEST ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES. FEW MONSTER RESEARCHERS HAVE COME UP WITH THE THEORY THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN CURSED BY FAIRY QUEEN, CAUSING THEM TO FALL. HENCE CALLED FALLEN FAES.

BIOLOGISTS BELIEVE THAT SOMEWHERE DOWN THE HISTORY LANE, THEIR GENES MIGHT HAVE REGRESSED. THEOLOGISTS BELIEVE THIS TO BE WORK OF GODS.

BUT ALL IN ALL, NOTHING MUCH IS KNOWN ABOUT THEIR MYSTERIOUS PAST.

SOCIETY

GOBLINS LIVE IN LOOSE CLANS RULED BY A LEADER THEY REFER TO AS A TRIBE CHIEF. EACH TRIBE USUALLY HAS FEW ELDERS TO HELP IN COMMANDING THE TRIBE. ALBEIT EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, SEVERAL TRIBES MAY COME TOGETHER TO CREATE A VILLAGE.

A TYPICAL GOBLIN COMES TO AGE AT ONE YEAR AND SOON JOINS THE ADULT IN HUNTING AND RAIDING.

GOBLINS PREFER TO MATE WITH OPPOSITE SEX OF OTHER SPECIES, TO GIVE BIRTH TO STRONGER OFFSPRINGS. THIS IS WHY GOBLINS USUALLY RAID HUMAN SETTLEMENTS FOR MEN AND WOMEN. BUT SOMETIMES THEY DO MATE WITH EACH OTHER.

GOBLIN NAMES ARE NOT GIVEN AT BIRTH AS THE AVERAGE GOBLIN LIFE EXPECTANCY IS VERY SHORT AND THEY BELIEVE GIVING A NAME TO BE A WASTE. INSTEAD, THEY ASSIGN THEM NUMBERS UNTIL, IF THE GOBLIN IS LUCKY OR RESOURCEFUL ENOUGH, THEY REACH THE AGE OF MATURITY (USUALLY AFTER 1 YEARS). THESE NAMES ARE GIVEN BY THE CHIEF AND NAMED GOBLINS GAIN GREAT RESPECT AMONG THEIR COMRADES. IF A GOBLIN DOES SOMETHING INCREDIBLY DARING AND GAINS RENOWN, HE MAY ALSO BE GIVEN A TITLE DESCRIBING THE DEED.

MALE: GUNGAX, MAKDOX, GIZIL, BILNIX RUKALOG, DRAX, UNKGIL

FEMALE: TIWIN, KAWLI, WORT, IB, DROLAW, MAROWA, WALOW

“ Well,…that did tell a lot. But when they did enter ?!?” he asked in confusion. Wasn’t his dungeon supposed to be closed? He did remember leaving a thick stone wall on his entrance.

I DO HAVE NEWS RELATING TO IT FOR YOU. WELL, THE GOOD NEWS OR BAD NEWS FIRST?

When did the Blue Box become so helpful and so human? But he had more important things to worry about. Did it wake up on the wrong side of the bed…well, did Mr. Blue Box sleep? He filed this question for future use.

“Emm…the good news?”

CONGRATS! YOU ARE NOW OFFICIALLY A DUNGEON! YOU HAVE OPENED YOUR DOORS TO THE PUBLIC! YOU ARE NOW ALSO ALLOWED TO USE FEATURES SUCH AS DUNGEONPEDIA, FORUMS ETC

“Wait!!...when did I open my dungeon to the public?” The last he remembered a solid slab of rock was still dividing the dungeon from outside world. He checked the entrance with his soul sense, and to his horror, the slab was not there. The whole entrance was now wide open to the public.

“ That’s called Good News?” He hadn’t even laid down his barriers, restrictions, and traps! Even a child could come and break through it while sucking lollipops and singing nursery rhymes!

UMM….WELL HERE’S THE BAD NEWS. YOUR LITTLE MANA EXPERIMENT JUST BLEW AWAY YOUR DOOR. PLUS YOU MANAGED TO COLLECT ALL THE MANA FROM THE SURROUNDING FEW KILOMETERS. AND YOU MUST HAVE SUCCESSFULLY MANAGED TO ATTRACT MONSTERS ABOVE C-RANK AND HUMANS AROUND B-RANK OR ABOVE. THEY SHOULD BE VISITING SOON.

Learning all this, he was shocked. It would be better to say he was aghast. And the only thing he could say was, “ That really was the good news…”

But he still held a good amount of confidence in himself. He was almost an immortal, and he couldn’t deal with some puny humans and monsters? Ha…

But the B-Rank term made him feel uncomfortable. Seeing that goblins were classified as E Rank, the B rank must be stronger than a goblin. But how strong?

“ What is a B-rank human and C-Rank Monster?” he asked. The terms made him feel extreme danger. The more a cultivator cultivated, stronger his institution would be. And his institution was screaming danger, with bold capital fonts, in blood red color.

HUMANS ARE CLASSIFIED UNDER RANKINGS, ACCORDING TO THEIR STRENGTH. THE RANKINGS GO FROM E RANK TO S RANK, AND THEN FINALLY GOD RANK.

AN E-RANK HUMAN IS YOUR AVERAGE HUMAN WHO IS ABLE TO FIGHT.

D-RANKS ARE WELL TRAINED HUMAN, WITH HIGH PROFICIENCY IN WEAPONS. USUALLY MILITARY, APPRENTICE MAGES, LOW-LEVEL ADVENTURERS, HUNTERS AND MERCENARY MAKE A PART OF THIS.

FROM C-RANK ONWARDS HUMAN STRENGTH INCREASES EXPONENTIALLY. C-RANKERS ARE GENERALLY HUMAN WITH INCREDIBLE STRENGTH. THEY START USING MANA TO REFINE THEIR BODY, AND ARE USUALLY PROFICIENT IN NUMEROUS SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES.

B-RANKERS START CONDENSING A MANA SEA IN THEIR BODY. THIS GIVES THEM EXTRAORDINARY STRENGTH. AN ALMOST ENDLESS SUPPLY OF MANA ALLOWS THEM TO USE TECHNIQUES AND SKILLS WITH GREATER STRENGTH. THEY BREAK THROUGH THE SHACKLES OF HUMAN BODY.

A-RANKERS CONDENSE THEIR MANA SEA INTO A CORE. THIS INCREASES THE AMOUNT OF MANA THEY CAN USE, ALLOWING THEM ACCESS TO MORE POWERFUL SKILLS.

S-RANKERS JOIN THEIR SOUL WITH THE MANA CORE. THIS MAKES THEM MORE ATTUNED TO MANA AND FREELY ALLOWS THEM TO USE MANA PRESENT IN NATURE.

MONSTERS ARE RANKED ACCORDING TO THE AVERAGE HUMAN TEAM RANK REQUIRED TO DEFEAT THEM.

And Shit!!

So basically he was going to have a party with this world’s equivalent of Foundation Cultivator…no make it cultivator’s’, with the ‘s.’

“ How strong is a so-called B-Rank?” If they were anything like Foundation Cultivator’s he was in deep trouble. He could personally defeat anyone of them. A soul blast to crush their souls, and done. But his new incarnation came with several hateful limits. Specifically, he couldn’t attack intelligent creatures. They were safe from his attacks. So he could only use this maze of the tunnel to stop them. And this was looking more and more impossible as time went by.

… THEY ARE STRONG.

“ How strong?”

VERY STRONG.

“ …”

THEY CAN EASILY RAZE YOUR PATHETIC ATTEMPT AT A DUNGEON TO RUINS. HELPFUL?

He would be ignoring the first few words. So he was dead?

But, “ Why is my dungeon pathetic?”

Except for traps, it was great. It had tunnels. It had monsters. It even had a story to tell…which was still under construction.

LET’S SEE.

TRASH MONSTERS

NO BOSS MONSTER

NO TRAPS

NO PROPER ECO-SYSTEM

OVERLY DECORATIVE CHAMBERS

AND AN UNFOCUSED OVERSEER.

“…”

“……”

That was brutal.

Who said he was being helpful…he was the same large mouthed blue box!

So blue box was clearly being. Well a bit more helpful than usual, but it didnt answer his problem. His death was on countdown, and he could do nothing but talk to a Blue Box whose sex was suspicious...

Maybe...Blue Box might help...He was trying to be helpful today.

" So any advice, Mr. Genius."

... THAT'S 'MISS' NOT 'MR.' TECHNICALLY I SHOULDN’T BE HELPING YOU.

"..."

BUT I CANT SEE MY ONLY SOURCE OF POSSIBLE ENTERTAINMENT DEAD.

THAT WOULD RUIN THE ONLY FUN I AM HAVING IN CENTURIES...

SO YOU CAN START WITH PUTTING FEW TRAPS.

ADDING FEW MORE MONSTERS. PLEASE MAKE THEM STRONGER. SPIDERS ARE PATHETIC.

CREATING A BOSS MONSTER.

ADDING NEW FLOORS.

APART FROM THAT, THEIRS NOT MUCH YOU CAN DO BUT PRAY THAT THEY ARE THE HELPFUL TYPE…

Did he ever mention, that he was starting to hate color blue?

I DO COME IN 'CLEARLY WHITE', 'JUST BLACK', 'ROSE GOLD', 'SPACE GREY', AND 'GOLD… ALTHOUGH I DO LIKE 'KINDA BLUE.'

“…”

He hated blue.