First kill!

Inside the dungeon, I had discovered something...

If I mined tunnels that had height and width of a centimeter, I could use my cubic meter of and mine 10km in any direction, albeit I could really use the space, but I did get the 10 metre radius around the area.

The only problem was that it got more difficult to get my aura so far away from my core, so for now I was only able to expand 100 metres out in every direction. The rest of the distance I used to create branching tunnels, expanding my influence even more.

One of my upper tunnels had found what could only be a cave, which told me I couldn't be much more than 3 km below the surface.

I spread some of my aura around the cave, and what I found surprised me...

What I first thought of being a small underground cave, opened up into a massive subterranean city.

My small hole opened up just outside what looked to be a pair of rickety walls made of thin sheets of rusty, beaten up metal.

Just outside the gate, I saw the first creatures since meeting Goaty and Celes. The creatures looked like children, with green skin, pointed ears, and horrifying dental hygiene.

I told Celes about the features, and she told me to touch it with my aura, so I did...

SYSTEM NOTIFICATION:

[Name: Gobby

Race: Goblin

Class: Lvl 3 Chef Knight (affected by racial bonus)

Description: With a pot on his head, and a ladle in one hand, this versatile goblin warrior is almost unbeatable on the battlefield, at least he thinks...

Racial Bonuses:

-Poison resistance - "Must be a smoker then." Due to the Goblins' filthy nature, they have evolved to be immune to Low level poisons

-Terrain bonus - "My feet aren't weird, yours are." Due to the goblins' subterranean heritage, they are adept at moving on harsh terrains, +25% movement speed when walking on harsh terrain. -25% movement speed on flat services. Status Effects:

Positive:

...

Negative:

-Tired - "Stayed up all night reading 50 shades of green, I'm with you man..." This effect causes -20% to all attributes (except spirit).

-Malnourished - "Must have tried this new fad diet." The evolved form of the hungry debuff, doubles the effect, -40% to all physical attributes.

]

looking at the class, Chef Knight, another notification popped up.

SYSTEM NOTIFICATION:

[Class: CHEF KNIGHT LVL 3

This is the evolved rank of the lvl 2 'Food Fighter' class.

Skilled in both martial and culinary arts, the chef knight uses their delicious delicacies as a weapon, using their traditional foods to empower themselves, and their allies on the battlefield.

NOTE: This class is affected by another Goblin Racial Bonus, the Disgusting trait.

Disgusting - "You know what they say, 'You are what you eat'." Any food related abilities will gain the disgusting bonus, making the food delicious to any mobs that are known for their gross nature (i.e. goblin kin, rats kin, kobolds, etc.), giving the mobs a +10% to all physical stats. This trait will induce somewhat severe debuffs to any not disgusting races, depending on their endurance level.]

I was somewhat flabbergasted by the level of detail the system went into when giving me the status of creatures, also what were those comments that were next to some of the statuses.

But anyway, I was getting side tracked, I needed to figure out a way to kill that goblin, I'd be damned to just wait for it to die of natural causes, that'd take forever, plus, it'd probably die inside the walls, where my influence doesn't extend to.

Looking around the room, I noticed a medium sized patch of stalactites, above the city. Then, I had an idea.

I pooled my aura just outside the city walls, to the point where it had reached 5m tall. Using my influence of the walls, I tried to carve away the part of the stone holding the stalactite to the ceiling, but sadly I couldn't reach high enough, I was half a metre off, I grunted in annoyance, then had another idea.

I tried to open the floor just below his feet, but when I tried I got this message.

SYSTEM NOTIFICATION:

[Host, CARL, you cannot alter a room within the dungeon if a life form currently resides in this.

If you wish to alter the terrain within this room, you must get rid of the entity: Gobby (Goblin).]

After feeling dejected at this revelation, I decided to ask Celes for help.

I told her about my 2 failed attempts at killing the Goblin, and she laughed at me, "You don't have to be a Jerk about it", I said glaring at her.

At this, she stopped laughing and said earnestly "you're right, I know that I have been somewhat of a jerk lately, and I'd like to apologise. It's my job to help you, and I can't laugh at you for being new to all this. Carl, can you accept my apology?"

At this, I also stopped glaring, looking solemnly at Celes I said "apology accepted, now can you tell me how I can kill this freaking goblin?"

Celes smiled at me, her features turning up into a genuine smile, making her look like that of a celestial being.

"Celes..."

"Yes, Carl?"

"Thank y- AHH!"

Getting cut off by the pain I felt, looking around the room, I saw a goat, with a familiar blue glowing cube in its mouth...

FREAKING GOATS!

...

"Seriously, how'd you even get a goat down her?" I asked, still wincing at the cracks that the goat had reopened

"Well, since us guides can often serve a dungeon core for upwards of 1,000 years, we are allowed to bring a single personal item with us... and I chose to bring Goaty."

"Is that why I can still affect the physical layout of the dungeon even though you two are here? Because he is your property?" I asked in reply

"No, the reason for that is because we are technically your dungeon creatures, and we are subsisting off of your mana, and before you ask, no, you can't create multiples of us, for that to happen you'd need to absorb us." she said, answering my question before I got to even ask it.

Realising we were getting side tracked, I said "Wait, so is there a way for me to kill that Goblin?"

"Of course there is, and it just so happens to lead perfectly into what I was going to teach you next..." Celes stated.

"And what would that be?"

"Any dungeon wouldn't be complete with the occurrence of... traps!" she said, a grin spreading across her delicate features.

After about 10 minutes of contemplating on what type of trap we'd like, we had finally decided on the notorious pitfall trap.

So, I got to work.

Over the next few days, we all contributed in making the trap.

using my mining ability, I started to carve out a large hole just far enough down the cave that the system no longer classified it as a room.

I carved an extremely thin piece of stone to act as a trap door, even making some tiny stone hinges, which to everyone's surprise, actually worked.

The depth of the hole was what took the longest, it had to be just enough to cause major injury upon impact, so just to make sure the goblin would die, I added lots of spikes at the bottom.

In total, the whole project took about a week, and in that time, Gobby had been replaced.

SYSTEM NOTIFICATION:

[Name: Goble

Race: Goblin

Class: Lvl 4 BOMBarder

Description: Bombs are one of the only things goblins are actually good at, somehow these stupid green assholes have the innate ability of making things go boom, and out of all goblin classes, none can blow things up quite like the BOMBarder.

Racial Bonuses:

-XtraPoison resistance - "You must be on some REAL strong happy fumes." Similar to the Poison resistant trait, but better they have evolved to be immune to all Average level poisons

-XtraTerrain bonus - "Extra speed comes with the price of EXTRA weird feet" Due to the goblins' subterranean heritage, they are adept at moving on harsh terrains, +50% movement speed when walking on harsh terrain. -30% movement speed on flat services.

Status Effects:

Positive:

Beaten - "ooph, that's rough buddy, you have daddy issues too?" Feels 50% less pain to attacks, and has a higher chance to dodge an attack. -10% Charisma.

Negative:

XtraBeaten "Yikes, not gonna comment on this one... Oh wait, I just did!" - 75% movement speed, -20% vision (swollen eyes). -50% Charisma

-Malnourished - The evolved form of the hungry debuff, doubles the effect, -40% to all physical attributes.

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NOTE: Bomb based goblin classes are likely to blow themselves up if they feel they're going to lose a fight.]

Inspecting the BOMBarder class more closely, I pulled its screen up.

SYSTEM NOTIFICATION:

[Class: BOMBARDER LVL 4

This is the evolution of the lvl 3 'Bomb thrower' class.

Description: Goblin BOMBarders live to destroy, their only goal in life is to cause as much destruction as possible, they are 'trained' to not feel pain, and 'trained' harder still, so they do not turn on their clans. They have +50% explosive Resistance, and a +25% explosion radius, damage scales with level of bomb.

NOTE: this class is affected by a Goblin Racial Bonus

-Big Bomba - "Where did Susie go during the bombings? The answer is... she went everywhere!" Due to the Goblins natural affinity towards bombs, and explosives in general, goblin mechanics may be given this bonus, explosives made by someone with this perk cause 50% explosive and environmental damage, but the explosives stability and durability are severely decreased.]

Putting the systems... comments aside, It was clear that this goblin was stronger than Gobby, but I still held hope that with the Beaten debuffs, the trap would still manage to kill him, and if the spikes didn't kill him, he would drop a few boulders on Goble.

...

Goble had just gotten out of training with the other BOMBarders, and he was assigned guard duty at the Southern gate, the gate with the least activity in the whole of the Goblin Kingdom.

Goble was rubbing the bruises he had gotten from the training when he heard a noise.

"BAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Instantly, Goble looked up, on guard, rusted iron sword in hand.

But what was in front of him was...

A goat.

Goble lowered his sword, a malicious smile forming on his revolting face, "Looks like i'll be eating well tonight", Goble said with his croaky, nasally voice. Gobble licked his lips.

Seemingly feeling his Bloodlust, the goat pranced back down the cave.

"hmm... I'm sure no one will notice if I leave my post, plus nothing happens at the South gate." Goble said to no one in particular, justifying his desertion.

Goble strode into the darkness after the goat.

"Little goat, where are you, Little goat, let's make a stew, Little goat, the main course will be you doo-doo." Goble hummed creepily as he slowly approached the end of the cave.

He saw it.

A white fluffy figure crouched behind a stone stalagmite, no doubt hiding from him.

Goble walked up to the goat still "You're going to make a fantastic meal." Gobble said saliva flowing down his chin.

Goble raised his sword high above his head. He had noticed that the floor he was standing on was unordinary flat, but in his hungered state, he couldn't think of anything other than the goat.

That was his final mistake...

"BAAAAAAAA!"

Goble's eyes cleared as he looked at the Goat.

Was it... smiling?

Can a goat even smile?

Suddenly Goble felt the floor beneath him disappear as Goaty kicked a stone rod that had been holding up the stone slab Goble was standing on.

The Goat seemed as if it was laughing as the goblin disappeared down the hole, his screams travelling with him as after a few seconds, a wet squash sound echoed throughout the small cave, Goble the goblin was dead.

3 person sized boulders then fell down the hole, pulverizing the already dead goblins body...

...

SYSTEM NOTIFICATION:

[A sentient creature has died in your dungeon {Goblin}, because of this, you have gained +500 exp, a rusty sword, Coyote hide, and 4 wooden coins.

ATTENTION: A new creature has died in your dungeon {Goblin} because of this, you can now summon Goblins as a dungeon monster.

Ask your guide for more information]

SYSTEM NOTIFICATION:

[YOU HAVE LEVELED UP, YOU ARE NOW A LEVEL 2 DUNGEON CORE]