Goblins

Staring at the ceiling with a cold, empty shit, a rumble was heard throughout the world.

Getting out of bed, he walked urgently to the nearest window to see what was going on.

There he saw a scene that left him disgusted, not because of the dead and dismembered bodies, but because of some monsters that had a resemblance to goblins that you see in a movie.

It was the size of a 10 year old child, with a bald head, a horrible face, with drool and teeth that were one bigger than the others.

In short, they were aesthetically horrible.

Watching closely as they fought, he saw that they were not strong enough as a grown man, apart from the fact that they had no fighting style, they just punched and killed.

But people were panicking, both because of the monsters and the people who were being killed in front of them.

For a normal person, this scenario would cause fear and panic, so they would run for their life.

And this is all a game.

Thinking of something, he began to review the memories of the body he was in.

...

[The game will start shortly]

That single sentence transformed the world into a game.

Early 2020.

Like a game, dungeons began to appear and monsters began to come out of them.

People were able to experience these changes immediately with their bodies.

"What's that?

"Hey, what's that black hole over there?"

"Mmm? Is something coming out?

Dungeon doors appeared everywhere in the world, and the monsters that resided on the other side of these doors started to come out

"Mon, Monster!"

"Cc, run!"

The monsters turned the entire world into a battlefield in an instant.

Of course, the monsters that initially appeared posed no threat to the human race in general; the monsters were not powerful enough to handle the weapons developed by humankind.

At the very least, there were no problems dealing with low level monsters at first.

"We've taken care of the ogre that showed up in Tokyo."

"Another ogre has appeared again in Nagoya!"

"An ogre appeared in Osaka too!"

No one knew it was the beginning of a nightmare.

"Nagasaki, also appeared in Nagasaki."

"Are you talking about an ogre?"

"Uh, uh... apparently it's a dragon."

The real horror was that there was no end to this nightmare that had begun.

Although they avoided the complete destruction of the city by hunting down all the monsters, new monsters began to appear again and again from the gate at unpredictable intervals.

Unless the dungeon beyond the gate was destroyed, their only option was to continuously repeat this painful and disastrous war.

Fortunately, an answer to such a problem soon manifested itself.

Players showed up.

"As of this moment, this dungeon is deleted."

The players who passed through the door to destroy the dungeon brought them hope.

In the middle of the year 2020, when gamers arrived from all over the world, people hoped that living conditions would finally improve. They once dreamed that gamers would save the world.

As time went by, however, people's living conditions became even more miserable instead of improving.

Especially when monsters that could not be killed with firearms emerged in 2025. The last hope ordinary people had of protecting themselves by using powerful modern weapons was shattered.

Some people who had lost hope began to riot, and looting and arson became more frequent.

In the midst of this calamity, countries began to compete fiercely to secure stronger goods and more talented players.

Laws were meaningless in such a process.

Players could and did do almost anything inside the dungeons, where literally anything could happen.

At some point, it became common for an ally to betray them and fight over the items.

It was the beginning of an era when people were more concerned with the distribution of loot than with completing the actual hunt.

The world, which had changed to become a game, had been reorganized around players and profits.

And only in 2023, things changed and it became as it was before, a civilized world, no more riots and daily looting.

There were even new tools that could detect a door.

[Monster warning issued in district B, Kyoto province.]

[Level 1 warning!]

The people now accepted the monsters as a routine part of their lives. Once the warning was issued, they escaped without being stunned by the monsters' appearance.

People hunting monsters were deployed.

At this point, it was now rare for the military to move.

...

Seeing the memories of this new body, which looks like it also had something similar to him. Only he usurped this body, erasing the other person's soul.

Coming to his senses and seeing that the goblins were quite weak, Michael decided on his next course of action: Fight.

He ran out of the room, and went straight to the kitchen, grabbing a knife big enough not to break, he went straight to the streets where the monsters were.

In the street there were about 10 goblins, all unarmed.

Gripping the knife firmly in his hand, he went straight for the nearest goblin.

The goblin saw a human approaching with an object, looking at him with a murderous look, he let out a warning cry and started running towards the human.

* KWAAGH *

Michael, seeing the goblin approaching rather quickly, moved to the side and dodged a blow from the goblin.

Seeing that the goblin couldn't defend himself after dodging that blow, with his years of experience he elegantly handled the knife, in order to stab the goblin in the neck.

And with one swift movement, I insert the knife into the goblin's neck and stab it several times.

*KWAAHAGHKK*

The goblin let out a deafening scream, wanting to move again the goblin to kill the human who stabbed him, his body did not react and collapsed lifeless on the ground.

Michael, seeing that the goblins are that weak, embarked on a one-sided massacre against the goblins.

"Who is he?"

"Wow, so strong."

"Assholes, run, he'll surely die against all those monsters!"

Several minutes later, there was no one on the streets, only dismembered bodies and blood everywhere.

Again a translucent screen appeared before Michael.

[You will awaken as a player] [Theristis the god of darkness has taken an interest in you].

For Michael, the sound of the system and the smell of blood permeating the area was enough to let him know that he transmigrated to another world.

"So I'm in a pretty fucked up world, haha" he said in a voice that held a slight hidden emotion.