Burn Burn Burn

"Grooowl-" came a loud grumbling sound from Lev's stomach, with all that happened today he forgot to eat dinner, he even threw up whatever was left in his system from yesterdays meals, but when he got to the fridge, there was nothing inside,

"I clearly remember buying a weeks worth of groceries, where did it all go? Growl-"

[You are no longer in your world, you should be thankful that your items got transported with you, and as to the buildings, they were here as a part of a forgotten city, so the routs you knew of no longer work]

"So what am I supposed to do? I used all my strength fighting the Goblins, what can I use to refill my strength?"

[monster meat is edible, and while you are at it you can grab their Monster Cores, they are located next to the heart and look like small gems,] answered the System with a monotone voice, it was clearly done with Lev's shenanigans

"You are telling me to eat a humanoid creature?? are you crazy?" Lev was not fine with that, but he was still starving

[Then Die] a simple answer, yet extremely convincing.

Lev was frightened, he realized that there would be no other food, other than monsters, humanoids or not he had to eat them.

After some thought and few rumblings later, Lev went to the least mutilated body and tried to cut off a piece,

He had never butchered an animal before so the pieces he cut were almost ruined. when he went to the stove to cook them, the gas wasn't working, after a quick facepalm he cut up some magazines and broke some wooden furniture to start a quick fire to cook food.

"Burn Burn Burn..." Lev started chanting like a total caveman, yet when the wood caught on fire, it released a poisonous smoke that had to be vented quickly.

The city man needed some survival skills, in his desperation he totally forgot about his small portable gas burner.

He quickly cooked the Goblin *Meat* chunks and gobbled them up without a second thought.

This was survival, he had to eat or be eaten, there was no point in questioning the laws of nature.

As he ate he also tried out his new psychokinesis, he was barely able to move around tiny crumbs of meat, after which he used up all his strength and needed to eat more.

this went on until three Goblin bodies were gone, but the gas canister ran dry and he had to stop his eating session.

The Mighty Removal System had not said a word at all during all of this, it was clearly still angry at Lev's decision.

Lev had crudely cut out the gems from the five bodies and packed up some items he thought would be useful to survive and went to his door.

As he was passing through the door, his heart started racing, he was both afraid and excited for what was about to come.

'here we go!' was his thought as he sneakily went downstairs. He checked Uncle Zack's apartment and saw it all ruined, there was a combination of red and green blood as well as pieces of torn flesh. the scene was plenty disturbing.

Lev slowly made his way down all the way to ground floor, and what he saw when he poked his head out was astounding.

When he went out on the balcony, he was still half asleep and was wholly focused on the hunting Goblins, he couldn't spare a glance at the surroundings.

But now he was seeing the surroundings clearly. The buildings were covered with a thin layer of moss and vines, looking like no human had touched them for a few decades, there were plenty of green trees and bushes around but they didn't hide the cityscape, instead it gave of a feeling similar to an advanced metropolis based around a beautiful park made to preserve the natural landscape.

the buildings around him looked a little bit more advanced than he remembered, tall skyscrapers and residential buildings made from glass dwarfed his old apartment complex, making look extremely out of place.

Some buildings were ruined whilst others had man sized nests covering the broken portions.

[Move, quickly!]

Lev was mesmerized and almost got caught by a Goblin hunting group, like a deer in headlights.

He quickly made his way to a big bush and crouched down in a heartbeat.

There was a group of around 11 Goblins most of them carrying heavy sticks and few of them had bloody knives.

when they were passing by Lev's hiding place, some of them started sniffing and then looking at their comrades,

[You Absolute Cretin, you still have Goblin blood on your shoes and clothes]

They were checking if any of them were bleeding, but one of them soon saw an faint trail of foot prints covered with dried green blood.

They laughed, grinned and cackled, Like demons straight from hell. They were going to have a feast tonight.