I took off my bag and gently set it on the ground before opening it.

I saw the demon beast egg shaking uncontrollably. But suddenly, it stopped.

My excitement died out as it stopped moving. I was hoping for it to hatch because I was extremely curious as to what it is.

I observed the egg for a while longer before I closed the bag and swung it over my back.

I decided that I worked hard enough today and went back to town. It was a long walk and my legs were pretty exhausted by the time I got back to the guild.

“Welcome back Rane.” I heard the sweet voice of Lucy echo throughout the room as she called out to me and I walked toward her.

“How were your spoils? Did you come back empty handed?” she asked.

“Nope.” I replied as I took out the small bag filled with goblin ears.

She looked at me in surprise. “You actually managed to kill goblins! Ten! I underestimated you Rane! But still, you have to be careful, you’re dirty all over. Hold on, I’ll get you the reward.”

Aileen came back with a small purse of silver coins. She took it out and counted the amount I earned and handed it to me. I earned five silvers today. It’s not much but it’ll do.

I had a meal with Lucy that night and later on found an inn to stay in. The usual place that I stayed in was full so I had to find another inn. The outrageous innkeeper ripped me off and made me pay five silvers for a single night! I’m never going back there again and I’m going to tell everyone else not to go there ever.

That night the egg shook twice for short intervals. I knew that this meant that the demon beast was going to hatch soon and the only thing I needed was patience. You can’t rush these sort of things.

The next morning, I went back to the Adventurers Guild to look for another job. But this time I didn’t want to go kill goblins. I wanted to do something different. When I went to the job board I saw a large number of men standing around one short dude with blonde hair.

He looked to be around my age. He had a somewhat good-looking face (no homo) but he looked incredibly arrogant. He chose a mission from the board and he and his lackeys went down to Lucy to accept the quest.

I decided to pick a two-star mission where I had to go find a rare herb in the forest. I was to report where I found it, if I find it.

When I went down to accept the request I saw the young noble lad flirting with Lucy and she was flirting right back at him playfully. But when I went up to her, she focused her attention on me.

“You choose a mission Rane? Ooh, this is a hard one. Those purple railies are very rare. I suggest you go look for them on the eastern parts of the forest.”

“Thanks Lucy, I’ll see you later.”

I young noble had a jealous expression on his face while looking at me.

‘What the hell did I do to offend him? Take Lucy’s time away from him? That’s her fucking job!’

I decided to ignore him and went on my way to the forest.

“Should I do something about him m’lord?” asked soldier that was next to the young noble.

“Hmm.. yes. I didn’t like the look he gave me. Follow that brat and go teach him a lesson. He deserves punishment for what he did to me.”

“Hehe, of course m’lord. He’ll never look at you with those eyes again.”

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I traveled over five hours, searching for the plant but to no avail. I was very discouraged and was planning on quitting but I heard noises coming from behind me.

It was goblins. Or more accurately a single hobgoblin. I learned a lot from my three months of training in the Rogue Guild and I particularly learned a bit about monsters from Aileen.

Hobgoblins were evolved forms of goblins when they reach their level cap of 100.

The hobgoblin was alone. I heard that they normally travel in groups with regular goblins and they command them as their leader within their territory.

This lone hobgoblin must have been chased out of his tribe when he was just a goblin and must have recently evolved.

The hobgoblin was brandishing a poorly crafted spear in front of me and snarling at me with a threatening voice.

I of course wasn’t fazed at all. I had enough experience and was hoping that he would give me more gold than goblins.

The hobgoblin charged at me with his spear. He was faster than I expected but he had no finesse in his attack and just tried to blindly stab at me.

All my training paid off because although the hobgoblin and I were around the same height and strength, it didn’t have the amount of training I did. Aileen, who I sparred with was much faster and so I could respond better in this situation.

I knocked aside the spear with my arm and rushed in close to the hobgoblin with my dagger.

Spears are not meant for close combat so once I got in range with my dagger, I stabbed it straight into the heart and it fell to the ground dead.

I didn’t forget to cut off his ear, in hopes of earning some money.

Suddenly I heard someone clap behind me.

“You got some nice skills little boy. But you offended someone you shouldn’t have.” A voice rang out from behind the trees.

“Who are you? Come out so I can see you.”

There were three men that came out into my field of vision. I recognized that these were the men that were with the young lord back in the guild. I think there is at least one more hiding just in case so I’ll have to be careful.

“Who told you to come after me? Was that prick lord? What the fuck did I do to him? Is he always a little cunt like this, telling his bitches to come after people just because I took the attention from a pretty girl from him?”

“That’s Lord Tyral to you brat! You shall not stain the honor of the Tyral House!” A man shouted and they all unsheathed their swords.

They all rushed at me and when one of they got close enough I [Blinked] behind them.

The soldiers were obviously confused about where I went. They never expected me to have this heaven-defying skill and thought

I was easy prey.

I was behind the one on the right and stabbed him in the spine with my dagger and threw my knife straight into the neck of the one in the middle.

“EEeh!” the last one remaining screamed out and tried to run away, but I [Blinked] close to him and cut his throat with my dagger.

A notification came up saying that I leveled up twice.

I check their belongings and took their purses and found 74 silver and 16 coppers in all. This made me incredibly happy I wonder how much the little lord has?

My heart was filled with vengeance towards the little prick that wanted me murdered. I’ll get my revenge sooner or later. But I

can’t let the cunt find out that I’m the one who killed them.

I decided to go back to town and wait for him to leave before I had my revenge. And so I took a long three hour walk back home.