Chapter 2.1 Cavern Exploration

After a woke up to a new day/night? I had noticed my body had a slight glow to it, not sure what It may mean or how It happened but I won’t dwell on it unless it causes me some issues later on, another thing I forgot to look at was what I obtained from killing and eating the wisp from yesterday. Giving a wild guess I say [notification] and Wa bam I am now looking at what I obtained from my actions,

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Through killing cavern wisp you have gained 1 level.

From devouring a magical being’s core, you have received a permanent mana boost of: 20

After being exposed to highly dense mana and bathing in phosphonate liquids you gain the trait

[Bioluminescent veins]

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Well now we know where my glowing problem came from let’s see if there is a way to turn it off, Show [Bioluminescent veins]

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[Bioluminescent veins]

This allows oneself to gain a natural glow to assist in lighting visually difficult habitats, as it is part of your biology it cannot be turned off or removed unless through unknown means. As well turning the user’s bodily fluids into a Grade A+ poison. (Does 900 damage periodically over 30 mins)

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Well damn now I’m a walking beacon, but hey luckily anything that harms me will be poisoned with a completely broken ability but hey I ain’t going to complain. (Wahoo go natural defense)

Now after completing my morning update, first thing’s on todays to due list is find out more about my current predicament and explore further into the cavern’s to try to find a way out alive.

After climbing out of my crevice I start to stretch my limbs after being crammed up all night (idk just feels right), I prepared myself for what I may run into. Slowly looking around I notice there’s only one exit leading from my circular haven leading further into the dark. After entering the tunnel and traveling a good distance, I came upon a two way split not really sure where either leads so I randomly chose the left path that starts feeling inclined leading upwards.

As I travel further in I started to notice more and more skeletal remains scattered around the further I go in, now from what I know that can only mean one of two things first there is a strong being residing further in or that the owners of the remains had died naturally, but I’m leaning to the prior simply due to evidence of battle markings and being gnawed on by something for dinner.

Not being cowardly per say I kept on going deeper mostly out of the curiosity to know what I will be up against, as well as find out more information so I can plan ahead on how to deal with the problem. As I started to come to a rocky bend that blocked further visibility I started to hear signs of movement further inward on instinct I bolted to the closet rock formation to hide myself. Only now noticing that my feint glow is illuminating the surrounding area and realize that I am officially royally screwed. Patiently waiting while giving a Silent prayer that whatever is fast approaching doesn’t notice me from the glowing rocks and just continues on its original route thinking it’s just the glowing flora that’s abundant in here not giving it a second thought.

While being on full alert for the slightest sign of movement in my direction from whatever is approaching. I can start to make out voices and footsteps from multiple creatures, as they get closer I can now make out two separate entities’. They seem to be speaking in an unknown language that sounds more like gibberish and grunting meshed together, after a few more moments they finally appear from the bend, as if on cue I immediately activate {Observe} to figure out what the short ugly creatures are.

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Cavern goblin scout

Level: 7

Hp: 275 Mp: 40

Cavern goblin gatherer

Level: 4

Hp: 128 Mp: 72

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At first I wanted to wait tell they passed but as the information sunk in further either out of blind confidence or hunger I immediately thought of slaughtering them where they stood to test myself further. Coming to the decision of killing them I crawled into a better vantage point to get a clear line up of the goblin scout giving myself the best advantage I can achieve.

Through memory I bring my limbs to my body and compress them shaping myself into a spear head as I had done the day before, carefully propping myself into a downward angle and targeting where I calculate the goblin scout should pass in mere moments. I decide to take my compression one step further before they enter my kill zone, by applying the miniscule amount of mana residing within me into the very tip of my legs and along the creases where they meet hopefully giving me enough penetrating power to punch through the goblins body armor.

With metaphorical sweat dripping down my back I count down the moment where I enact my plan to take out the goblin scout in one go eliminating what seems to be the stronger enemy. If it works I will immediately shift my legs behind my body launching myself backwards into the unsuspecting and hopefully confused gatherer. Not only gaining valuable experience, food and a better understanding of my limitations or possibility’s but giving me a way to track others of the same race through scent giving me a much needed food supply and hunting ground.

Finally, it’s time to strike, propelling myself at an even greater velocity than before I can feel the pressure of the wind against every fiber of my being giving me an image of just how fast I am traveling, as the world seems to pass by in a blink of an eye I can sense my incoming approach directly into the goblins torso. In a matter of moments I can feel the resistance coming from the leather armor as it drastically slows my acceleration, in a panic I withdraw all the mana I have spread out and in a flash I explode it with great force from my back propelling myself even further.

Threw my drastic action I can feel the armor cave beneath the increased force as my body punctures right into the goblins torso but I get halted before I can exit through it’s back by the same fucking armor. Now panicked because I am stuck inside a goblin I start to thrash about ripping and clawing at its innards trying to find the entry wound to escape and finish off the gatherer before it either runs for help or starts smashing its brethren’s body in an attempt to kill whatever just entered it.

After an untold amount of time I can see small amount of light from the flora creeping in from my right, as soon as I start making my way towards it I can feel a sense of danger fast approaching, my mind is screaming at me to move faster and escape as an impending doom is about to befall me. As soon as I fly out of the corpse I feel immense heat and smell something burning only after gathering my bearings I turn to see what almost turned me into a well done spider steak. Woe and behold it was the fucking gather he cast a damn fireball at the goblin scout’s corpse just barely missing me as soon as I finish thinking that the fucker looks right at me.

Drained and exhausted I force myself forwards I must finish him off or I will die here I could just feel it, as I get closer and closer to the goblin it starts to scream and growl at me as if I will run. Mere feet apart from each other it decides to charge me with a club and in that moment time seemed to slow down, I could feel my muscles burning, my heart racing, and as soon as it happened it ended but what came after scared the living day lights out of me. I had opened my mouth further than I thought physically possible and projected (upchucked?) a black mass of goo right onto the charging goblin. At first nothing happened it just stopped running and tried to get the goo off of it but then everything just turned into a nightmare in a matter of moments the goo started sizzling and eroded the goblin tell nothing was left and kept on going into the ground making a seemingly endless hole.

After the whole ordeal and finally being safe I rush to see if the scout had anything useful before devouring its body and scan to see if anything remains of the gatherer, as I look over the scout nothing seems useful to me or really I just can’t equip, so I start to munch on its head working my way down tell the whole body is inside my bottomless gut, after sucking in the last of its toes I do a quick scan of the gathers resting place (gooing place J) there seems to be a small silver rock.

After gathering the rock in my mouth I book it back the way I came, back to safety and comfort far away from Boneway. As I find my safe haven I slow down and start to relax slowly trying to crawl my way back into my crevice but am unable to. It seems I grew quite a bit during this venture, before I was about the size of a cat and now I grew to being about the size of a large dog. As I ponder what to do I just decide to smash my legs into the crevice like picks slowly making it bigger.

Finally finished I crawl in a call it a night vowing only to return to Boneway after exploring the right path and getting stronger much stronger and the last thought before I enter dreamland was bacon, greasy crispy bacon and the urge to eat more endlessly was what calmed me into a deep slumber.