At some point, they luckily stopped.

It was rather rough to sleep on rocks, but considering my circumstances it really was quite nice.

At least it was better than falling unconscious and hitting my head.

I still have to get used to these eyes. Everything is way too bright...

even if I close my eyes I got this feeling like I am still seeing the things happening around me.

But this really just is a vague feeling, it could just be my imagination going wild, as I still am very tense.

I'm already awake for a few minutes, but kept my eyes closed to enjoy this quiet time, while they think I'm asleep, or else they would start talking non-stop again for sure!

But I can't remain lying here the whole day. If I want to survive here, I have to level up as fast as I can. So, let's go!

"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, did all of you sleep well?"

I say while standing up and stretching my whole body, as it is sore from lying on the hard rocks for a night.

{Good morning! We did sleep well, indeed! Your mind is just really comfy I guess!}

She said cheerfully while yawning.

"Could you please not treat my mind like a hotel? The fact, you guys are stuck in my head

is already causing me a headache!"

I say slightly annoyed while scooping up some of the water with my hands to clean my face and to freshen up a little.

There still is some of the flesh from yesterday left, so I'll start this day with a nice breakfast.

[ *yawn* Good morning! I'm sorry, it took a bit to get up, but I'm all ready to go!]

I just have to ask.

"How do even "get up" if I remember correctly, you have no body?"

Now I'm curious, how this works.

["Getting up" maybe isn't the right term, it's more like... uh, how do I explain it?

We kind of have to boot up our consciousness and that takes some time.]

Really interesting.

"And what about Dorminil? Where is this guy?"

/What? I... am right here and... ready!/

He says while obviously still being half asleep.

"I can't believe it, did you really not hear us talking here?"

/Ah sorry, it was always hard to wake me up. This is a bad habit of mine. There even was a time I almost missed a whole war, because I was asleep./

It's really hard to believe. These guys are supposed to be the strongest and most evil beings out there, but they seem like normal, and even a bit retarded people! I still might be angry because of the eyes, but Dorminil seemed to be innocent, so I can't blame him. I talked with him for a long time, and he doesn't seem to be lying, Zabula approved that. But this still leaves the problem of me not being allowed to go into human cities. And one more thing just doesn't want to leave me alone since it crossed my mind this morning.

You can't blame me, as this is something I dreamed about. And it was a nightmare where I...

{Is everything alright? You suddenly became silent?}

Oh, I somehow forgot about our conversation while being in thought.

"I was thinking about something.

The moment you three entered my body, I lost all control over my body.

You said, there was this other "thing" in my mind, but you didn't say anything more about it.

This night I had a dream where I lost control again, so the idea of that really happening bothers me a lot"

{Let me try to answer the best I can.

As you already know, I was the first to enter your body a few days earlier than the others.

I also could analyze everything that happened in your mind while these two entered.

None of them did anything different to me.

They just tried to take your body but did not cast any other spell.

I think this thing got agitated by the huge amounts of mana that entered your body. It absorbed all of it like a bottomless pit.

We have no idea, where the man went, or why exactly it woke up right there. Now I can tell you at least, that it is in a very deep sleep.}

She just says it like taking over my body is the most normal thing in the world.

Hah, I'll probably never get used to the thought of them originally trying to kill me.

{As for any other reasons... I do not know anything for sure, it's just... something was weird about...

No, I was probably just imagining things.}

"Please, tell me everything there is to it, even if you're not sure about it.

I need every hint there is, as I want to know the reason, my whole hometown had to die."

I said bitterly. It's still too fresh in my memories, I can't get this disgusting feeling out of me.

I'm disgusted by myself.

{As I said, it could be my imagination.

But I think there was something weird about your emotions as of the moment I got into your body. There was this insatiable anger dwelling in you that is hard to describe.}

"But didn't you tell me to kill them at that time? That was the trigger of me getting angry!"

Is she hoping, I forgot that?

{Me? I didn't say a single word to you until these guys came along!

I was just trying to figure out something while hoping for you to not notice me!

My cover just got blown when they forced themselves into you!}

How could that be? I wasn't imagining things, I'm sure about that!

"You even talked to me two times!

First, you just said this weird word "Kill" and "Kill all" and nothing else, then you said something I couldn't understand."

I clench my fist, as Bewilderment and frustration took over me, as I remembered that time.

"I thought we are being honest with each other!"

{This is the first time I hear something like that happened!

Why didn't you bring this up earlier?

I swear by everything dear to me, that was not me.}

She doesn't sound like she's lying, but...

"But, who did I hear there instead of you?"

{Could it have been this other thing? Did this thing talk to you?}

I really want to believe in her, but it's hard to, knowing who she is.

All of this could still be fabricated lies, constructed by the well-known Queen of lies.

[I apologize for interfering, but I think it really is quite possible, this thing talked to you.]

/This still doesn't explain everything, how could it rob the 3 most powerful existences on this planet of their powers like it's nothing?

And then there was this insane strength it broke out with, just to go to sleep again./

"Thank you. I really appreciate your efforts to explain the things to me, but it's still hard to just accept there suddenly being 4 other consciousnesses in me. The most confusing thing to me is, where this thing even came from, and since when it has been in my body."

But I have to say, sometimes they really are good companions. Each of them does their best to help, they really seem to be good guys, so why did they even attack our planet? Sometimes I'll have to find that out.

"Let's stop this here and let us slay some monsters. I still need to get a lot stronger, if I want to survive here!"

I really got a fair bit better at fighting.

Although I just fought against three of these rabbits at the same time, I did not receive a scratch.

The biggest help is a feeling like everything is moving a bit slower, so I have more time to react.

I think this could be an effect of these eyes, this could be what Dorminil meant by "speeding up" my perception.

I take the corpses of the bunnies and try to hide them in some crack in the walls, in the hopes of them still being there when I get here again on my way back home.

I probably could keep killing these rabbits to level up, but that would be way too slow.

On top of that, I want to confirm a thought of mine for which I need to kill something that is not a rabbit.

I'll set a group of goblins as my target if I manage to find one.

But this time I will fight them head-on, as I got a fair bit more skilled and now also have the assist of the three most powerful magic casters that can use my body to cast some spells.

Although they currently aren't that powerful, since I have almost no mana in my body.

I'm a lot more confident than a few days ago and I want to taste real success for the first time.

rumble rumble

Well, I'm stronger but definitely not strong enough to fight whatever is heading my way, so I quickly run away as this thing would be my certain death!

Whew, It just passes by the crack I currently am hiding in. That one was close. I should limit my thinking time to when I'm in my safe cave.

/You fool, you almost killed us there! Could you please focus while trying to survive? You'd do all of us a favour./

"I know, I know. It won't happen again, I promise!" I whisper to not pull any attention to me.

/If you say so!/

After this short interception, I continue sneaking through these caves while being careful to not run into anything dangerous.

After some time get lucky enough to find what I searched for.

A group of goblins!

They have a similar composition as the last group.

There is only one more of them than last time but in return, they seem to be equipped a lot worse.

They are just covered in a loincloth and three of them do not even have a weapon! But there still is a hobgoblin with which I have to be really careful when fighting.

These hobgoblins are a lot stronger and even cleverer than normal goblins.

So I still won't rush in carelessly or without a plan.

Although my plan is a lot simpler this time.

I first will try to ambush one of the goblins with a weapon, as they seem to be more suitable for being killed fast than the hobgoblin, but are still a threat. At least they are more threatening than the ones without weapons.

And like this, I approach them quietly until I can almost reach one of them.

Then I reach back to build up force, before kicking off the ground while swinging down my blade.

After cleanly decapitating one of them I try to keep up my momentum and try to swing once more as fast as I can while the other goblins are still stunned by the sudden attack.

All this is only possible because Gabriel is currently directing mana into my muscles. Without his help, I never would have managed to decapitate one of them this clean.

And I indeed manage to kill one more of the weapon-wielding ones.

But my blade gets stuck in its skull, because I didn't manage to hit the neck again, so my momentum is gone.

I still manage to pull out my blade and dodge behind, before a huge club crashes in front of me into the floor. The hobgoblin reacted faster than the others and immediately prepared a counterattack when I attacked.

And it is strong! the floor cracked and started shaking when it got hit by the club.

A good thing it's not too intelligent, since it definitely could have hit me if it swung horizontally to cut off my escape route.

Close again, but that's enough. I just have to survive,

It does not matter if I survive by a hair's breadth.

Being alive is all that matters to me.

The hobgoblin glares at me while taking a defensive stance.

Meanwhile, the other goblins start rushing at me. I start backing away because I don't want to be surrounded by them.

I am successful with luring them after me.

One of the unarmed ones seemingly has too much energy as it rushes forward a lot faster than the others.

But that is its doom as I quickly let my blade slash down at its shoulder with which it doesn't die, but it won't be able to fight anymore.

Just as I recover my balance from this strike, the last armed goblin swings its club at me.

Damn, they might not be the brightest in terms of intelligence, but they know how to fight.

This club looks quite heavy and directly aims for my head, so I'd rather not get hit it.

I try to duck under the attack as blocking it with my sword isn't a possibility, because don't have enough time to raise it that far up.

And even then my Strength could be too low for that.

Instead, I hold its hilt at my chest and point its blade at the goblin, and all that while ducking under the attack.

Just when the attack misses me, I use my crouched position to kick of from the floor to build up enough force to push the previously aligned sword right through its chest.

And like this, the last armed goblin died.

But I forgot the other ones that are currently reaching out to throw punches at me.

I quickly throw the body of the goblin I just killed at them, while pulling my blade out of it.

While doing that, I still took two hits from them, but they are unarmed so I can still take it.

They both fall down because of the sudden impact and I seize this chance to slit both of their throats.

I'm already reaching my limit because my stamina is low. My mana is also near exhaustion.

But there is only one enemy left, the hobgoblin that is standing right.. there... or not.

Fuck where did it go? Right as I turn around I see its giant club falling down on me.

Damn this guy sneaked up on me!

I raise my sword with both of my hands supporting it, to defend, but the strength gap is just too big and the sword gets bashed out of my hands, which feel very numb now.

As I could not block all of its speed even with that it still hits me on the shoulder with high speed and deals quite a lot of damage. My shoulder is probably dislocated.

# Alert! -20 HP #

Damn, this one hit almost halved my life!

And now I'm without a weapon as the sword flew away, so I have to fall back to plan B.

"Guys! DO something!"

I shout hysterically. But I guess they were already prepared, as Gabriel took over my right arm, as soon as I started yelling, and already started casting.

[By the holy power of us Angels, I command thou mana, to punish this impure monster and to free it from its miserable and stained life! Smite tier 1!]

And like this a golden sword forms on the tip of my index finger, that is pointed at the goblin and shoots right into its head.

# You killed a group of goblins.#

# 1 x Hobgoblin #

# 6 x Lesser goblin #

# You gained 355 EXP #

# Level UP! #

"Thank you Gabriel for helping me out. That spell was really impressive, you have to teach this to me,

if there's time"

[No problem, I told you I could take care if you get overwhelmed. And of course, I'd like to teach it to you. I always loved teaching the new recruit of our holy army.]

"Nice I look forward to it!"

/But you have to learn my magic as well because it is even stronger than his! Now I know why he wanted to be the one helping today! He wanted to be the first one to impress you, this damn chicken!/

[How did you fat lizard just call me?]

"Guys, calm down! I will learn magic from all of you gladly!"

{Even mine, although it's not really combat based?}

"What do you mean by 'It's not combat based'?"

{My specialities are Illusion and mind magic, and it's hard to fight a battle with just that.

You have to reach a really high level before it gets useful for fights.}

Wait, did she just say illusions? Maybe this could work...

"Could your illusions be used to let my eyes look like they are normal?"

{Sure! With illusions that would be possible, and it wouldn't even be that hard to learn for you!}

"Then I will learn your magic first! I decided on this!"

[That's not fair you just took our student away!]

/He's right! You have to wait in line for that!/

"Calm down you two! I will learn magic from every one of you, but you have to understand me as well! I want to be able to live normally with other people! And this is the only possibility to do so!

So I will definitely learn her magic first a bit until I can hide my eyes, and then will follow your guide!"

[Okay, but you really have to keep your promise!]

"Right, but let's first head home. I still have to carry a hobgoblin and a normal goblin back, which won't be easy to do with this shoulder! By the way, why do I feel so miserable?"

I have to lean on the sword, I picked up by now to not fall over. I am insanely dizzy and close to throwing up.

/That probably are the side effects of being low on mana. I mean, he just used all of your mana for that one spell./

"That much? Good to know. Then I'll just ignore it and head back home."

That was pure torture. Dragging two goblin corpses, while being that exhausted.

After some while, I had reached the secret cave with the corpses of one hobgoblin, one lesser goblin and one rabbit, which was luckily still there when I came back.

I just went out to collect some firewood to roast the meat again. but this time it's almost triple the amount of wood, as I want to have a larger fire, that burns longer.

"I currently have 2 MP, will that suffice to ignite a fire Dorminil?"

/Of course. For something like that I just need one MP from you./

"Then I'd like you to ignite it, please"

Just like last time, he raises my hand and ignites the wood.

/All done boss/

"Thank you."

I already gutted all the corpses, which I did quite a bit better than yesterday.

But in return, it was far more disgusting to take apart a goblin of which blood just smells horrible. The fact the two creatures were humanoid did not help with my trauma, but I have to do this! For science! The others do not understand why I do this, because they all know how horribly disgusting goblin meat is, but it's hard to explain my theory, so I just told them to trust me.

Dorminil even said something to make me not do it.

He told me that, even if I got his devouring ability it would not work on something this weak.

I already figured that out myself, but I still have another theory!

I Just made a small steak out of both goblins.

I just hope this works, else I would have suffered for nothing!

.....

Some while later

....,

The meat is all cooked now and the disgusting smell got even worse.

Nevertheless, I will force myself to take a bite, but first, I take a bite out of the tasty rabbit to

confirm something. And it went as I expected.

Then I collect all my willpower, as I will need it.

I take the piece of the hobgoblin first as it smells a little less, and take it to my mouth, which just won't open.

But it has to!

I open it up with all my might and take a bite...

It tastes even worse than it smells.

I fight with my gag reflex while trying to swallow it.

While all of this happens, the others cheer me on with things like 'fight for your goals!',

'You can do it!' or such stuff.

And after a while, that seemed like hours passed I finally managed to bring it down...

And it wasn't for nothing!

Everything went just like I hoped for!

# New energy source #

# Progress: (2/150) #

So that really was it...

I have to eat unique monsters!

I knew it!

After that, I also took a bite out of the lesser goblin and got one more point from it as well.

I explained my discoveries to the others who were completely confused, why I did something like that, as they could not see those notifications.

After that, they congratulated me on my discovery.

With this discovery, my first real fight and some traces of friendship showing between these guys and me, I think this was a really productive day, as I go to sleep while being completely tired from this short, but seemingly very long day.

Every day there's something new.

It's just great to be alive, I guess.

And with that thought, I fall asleep.