Entering the Goblin's Den

So, in two days, something big is going to happen here.

The portal to another world is going to shift suddenly around 3 AM, landing smack dab in the middle of Star Medical University's sports field.

This is something John had experienced before his rebirth, a night when the students of the medical university suffered heavy losses.

He could stake out in advance this time to avoid that disaster. After the incident, he knew he needed to prepare.

After having dinner with his roommate in the cafeteria, John went back to his dorm room and lay on his bed, utterly bored.

His roommates were all on their phones, reassuring their families and also warning them to stay away from the portal to the other world.

Just then, John's phone vibrated with a new message from Sini.

[Sini]: John, the test results for Aron are out. The doctor says he has a severe case of athlete's foot on his arm.

[John]: Well... That guy really needs to work on his personal hygiene. (Disgusted emoji)

[John]: My potion has lots of active ingredients meant to speed up healing. Maybe he scratched his foot and then touched his arm without washing his hands, activating the fungus.

[Sini]: That must be it... I'll remind him.

John turned off his phone and lay back on the bed, ready to catch up on some sleep. He had sex with Coco until early morning last night and spent the afternoon soloing the Giant Jaw Spider Den, and now he was just exhausted.

...

Two days later, at 2:42 AM.

Tonight, the students near the university town slept more soundly since the occasional gunfire was absent.

It was said that the goblins coming from the portal had been cleared out by the armed police, perhaps signaling an end to the crisis.

In the male dormitory of the medical university,

John slowly sat up after making sure his roommates were asleep.

He quietly left the room and entered the communal bathroom. Passing by the surveillance camera in the corridor, he deliberately yawned, making sure his face was captured clearly.

After locking himself in the last stall of the bathroom, John opened his system backpack and took out a golf club bag.

He changed into black clothes, put on a cap, and swapped into the agility boots he had cleaned the day before.

[Agility Boots equipped — Agility +2 points]

With the boots on, John's base agility attribute had reached 9 points.

A normal person's base attribute usually hovers around 5, and John's 9 points had already hit the human limit. To break through 10 points, he needed to undergo his first class change. Awakeners can break human limits, and this so-called limit increases with each class change.

All awakeners believe that each class change brings them closer to godhood.

But in John's past life memories, the top tier of human awakeners was stuck at six class changes. No matter how they tried, the seventh class change always ended in failure.

Yet, as the monsters from the portal grew stronger, the power of awakeners began to wane, leading some to abandon hope, believing that Earth would eventually be completely overtaken by the world beyond the portal, turning into traitors to humanity.

Before his rebirth, John was already among the top of the sixth class change.

Given a second chance at life, his goal was to achieve the seventh class change!

With his memories from before his rebirth, John felt as though he was carrying a mission — to save humanity and eradicate the portal to the other world completely.

After getting ready, John climbed out of the stall and made his way to the bathroom window... Being on the third floor, he had to leave without a trace, which meant going out this way.

John easily jumped down, catching the security net on the second floor before letting go and landing softly on the grass behind the building. Clad in black, he blended into the night, moving towards the sports field while avoiding surveillance and security patrols.

A few minutes later,

John hid behind some trash cans near the sports field, lighting up a cigarette and watching the empty field, waiting for the portal to shift.

To his surprise, just after a couple of puffs, the football goalposts on the field began to distort and tear without warning.

A black energy ball quickly formed, with white energy lightning spreading and twisting, the powerful energy field causing electronic devices within a kilometer to malfunction.

In just a few seconds, the portal finished expanding.

[B-grade portal — Goblin's Den]

The information about the portal appeared before John, who then closed the system panel.

Rising from behind the trash cans, he took a deep drag from his cigarette, his right hand gripping a samurai sword, as he walked step by step towards the portal.

Instantly, a swarm of goblins poured out.

The blood-red-eyed goblins, filled with a desire for slaughter, saw John approaching with a sword and charged at him en masse.

At the back of the goblin legion, a few archer goblins were just fitting arrows to bows, and a mage goblin was preparing to chant a spell...

But the next second, they froze.

The man with the long sword had vanished from their sight in the blink of an eye!

The archer goblins, in their language, were asking each other in confusion, "What happened? Where did he go?"

"I don't know, maybe that cowardly human ran away?" Just as a mage goblin turned its head, it saw the archer goblin who had just spoken, its head flying off.

Green blood splattered all over its face, and the mage goblin's red pupils trembled uncontrollably as it saw the cold light coming straight at it.

The Mage Goblin was instantly cleaved in half with a vertical slash, from the top of its head down, its brain and organs mixing with green viscous blood, spilling all over the ground.

[Killed Goblin Archer, gained 100 experience points]

[Killed Goblin Mage, gained 250 experience points]

[Leveled up to Level 5]

[Attribute Point +1, Skill Point +1]

[Current Experience: 90/500 points]

John quickly added the attribute point to his strength. Although he was a poisoner, he still possessed the skills of an alchemist and couldn't avoid close combat for now.

Adding to strength was the most cost-effective choice, which is why physical professions level up faster in the early stages.

[Strength: 6---->7]

John added the skill points he gained at level 4, now totaling two points, all to his strength.

He continued swinging his samurai sword, cutting down the range-specialized goblins in a manner reminiscent of slicing through vegetables.

Only then did the front-running goblins notice that their comrades, who were supposed to be safely providing long-range support from the back, had all been killed.

They turned their spears and charged at John again, but they were merely delivering experience points. These level 1 ordinary goblins couldn't see John's movements clearly. By the time they reacted, their heads were already rolling on the ground.

Over twenty ordinary goblins became a pile of corpses in just a few breaths.

[Killed Goblin x24, gained 240 experience points]

[Current Experience: 330/500 points]

John flicked the blood off his samurai sword and turned to walk straight towards the portal, pulling out a potion mixed with snake venom that he had prepared in advance, and without hesitation, stepped into it.

After a brief moment of dizziness, the space around John stabilized, and he found himself in an underground den.

Goblins, being humanoid creatures, didn't have dens as messy as the Giant Jaw Spider Den, but there was still a strong smell of blood.

The walls were covered in totems drawn with fresh blood, and decorations made from a dozen human skulls hung on both sides.

Near a distant bonfire, there was a sizzling human leg roasting.

John walked straight towards the depths of the cave, and as he passed through a narrow internal cavern, he heard rhythmic sounds.

"Oh yeah—"

Glancing to the side, John saw in the cave chamber, a goblin warrior mounted on a human woman, twisting his body and constantly inserting his penis into the woman's vagina.

The woman lay on the ground, disheveled, covered in wounds, and with a vacant stare, almost completely unresponsive, like a soulless shell.

This female had probably been captured for several days, tortured beyond recognition.

Goblins have a particularly vile method of reproduction. They have no females in their species; they rely entirely on capturing females from other species for reproduction.

The goblin warrior heard the noise behind it, turned its head sharply, and the next second, its heart was pierced.

John twisted the samurai sword in his hand fiercely, then yanked it out, and the goblin warrior fell to the ground.

His lower body was pulled out from the woman's body, and his short genitals were still trembling.