The Seraphic System

The Seraphic System

Chapter: 05

Alert: Sorry if this chapter isn't great. I've been having some medical problems and I haven't had much time to write this chapter, I won't bore you with it. I hope you enjoy it though. 

If anyone has any suggestions for the familiar egg lmk

Just a little warning this chapter is a little more violent. I know it's a bit edgy and cringy but it's more to make him grow, take from someone who's been hurt before sometimes you just do vicious shit when it's not needed - he will learn this.

(The Goblin Army)

Sighing in annoyance, I tilted my head to avoid the arrow that was aimed directly at me with the intent to pierce my skull.

Standing atop the towering walls of the fortress, my place of residence for around two months. I cast my gaze downward.

A giant horde of ugly, short, green-skinned creatures, marched towards the fortress walls with crude swords and spears gripped in their hands.

I noticed the lack of craftsmanship in their crude weapons. I am not some legendary blacksmith but these weapons seemed to be hammered out unevenly. Their shape is odd and the swords look like they would break upon one more swing.

Tsk, uncivilised brutes.

Honestly, why the hell do Goblins look relatively the same in all the worlds? The authors really need to get more creative. Even humans look different in different animes.

I took my sweet time assessing their threat level.

Individually, their strength was insignificant, with most being around 500-1000 in terms of power levels, but the sheer number of them raised a slight cause for concern.

Moving my head again, I dodged yet another arrow from the goblin archer stationed up in a tree. Seriously, do these dudes not realise it isn't working?

I honestly couldn't tell you how this happened, but I had a vague idea. Recently, I noticed the number of these goblins rising in my surrounding area.

They had been rising in number around my old cave, but since I had moved here, I hadn't seen a goblin for a month or so until they started to appear once more.

It had been an entire two months since my encounter with the basilisk, and it had been eventful. In that time, I had made a tremendous amount of progress on both my skills and stats.

A day after the battle with the "Serpent King", I had decided to move into the fortress. Moving in had been pretty easy since I didn't have many belongings within the cave.

Cleaning up the fortress had been slightly more difficult, but with the abuse of Mokuton and some hard work, it had taken me a few days to clear the inside of the fortress.

Facing the tiring task of fixing the massive, broken metal gate at the fortress. I figured I'd give it a shot using my light manipulation. You know, heating the parts to straighten them out. Simple, right? Well, it turned out to be way trickier than I expected.

I had to crank up the heat way beyond what I initially thought. It was like that metal was resistant to my light manipulation, resisting my efforts. A bit frustrated, I decided to use my holy power along with light manipulation.

The holy-infused light energy supercharged the heat of the light, making it even hotter and finally started to bend the gate in shape. It got me thinking that maybe this metal had some magical properties. I had decided to use appraisal on the gate.

[Demonite Gate] 

[A gate made of the rare metal found in the underworld, Demonite.

Resistant to Mana and other Energies

Resistance buffed when infused with Demonic Energy.]

That was interesting. That had been my first attempt at using appraisal on an inanimate object, and I was pleased to see that it works.

I wonder how much more resistant it would have been if it had been infused with demonic energy.

Unfortunately, I have no access to demonic energy. Meh, Light Manipulation is better anyway.

After fixing the gate, I had used Mokuton to conjure up some sturdy wooden reinforcements to further fortify the gate, making it much more durable than before.

So, I went ahead and reinforced all those high stone walls with the use of Mokuton. The fortress had started to look pretty good; I had to admit.

I was then faced with another situation. There were those annoying vines that had spread and practically taken over the walls.

I hadn't thought much about them at first, but now I realised that leaving them could allow potential enemies to climb over.

So, I decided to get rid of them.

I just created a ball of light and burned those suckers away. It took some time, but eventually, the walls were cleared of all the vines that had once covered them.

With that done, I decided to take care of the many skeletons lying around. I had briefly wondered where I could put them all when a thought occurred to me.

Instead of completely removing the bodies from their place lying around the fortress, I had an idea. Why not use my dead enemies as a deterrent? I am sure they would be happy if I put them to some use.

So, I then created some wooden spikes with the liberal use of Mokuton and impaled the skulls of the dead devils on them at the entrance of the fortress. Which gave the entrance a bit of a dark and eerie vibe.

Heh. Sorry Vlad. There's no Multiversal Copyright corps. Atleast I hope so.

I scattered the hundreds of skeletons around the pathway to the gate, making it look like the devils that had tried to invade my humble abode had met their brutal deaths upon trying to get in.

Another thing worth mentioning was the familiar egg I had gained from the quest rewards. It still hadn't hatched in the past two months, but the egg had been growing much bigger.

The familiar egg was a pitch-black egg, like seriously dark. It also had small red glowing veins pulsing throughout it along with a small red glow in the dead centre of the egg.

When I first laid eyes on the egg, it was extremely small. Small enough to fit in the palm of my hand. But as time went on, the pitch-black familiar egg began to grow bigger.

The red glow in the middle of the egg started to intensify, slowly getting brighter as time passed. Almost as if it were the heart of the egg.

I had no clue when it would hatch, but I placed it in the vault room on a soft red cushion I had purchased from the systems store.

Since it was of the legendary ranking, I could only assume it would be something good.

I had also downloaded another character. From Eijiro Kirishima, I downloaded the Hardening quirk. I had wanted a defence-type skill after that rather unpleasant encounter with the basilisk.

[Quirk – Hardening] (LVL: 4/50) {Apprentice}

[Hardening gives the user the power to harden any part of their body. The Quirk protects them from most physical threats. Once activated, the User becomes capable of enduring what would be otherwise lethal hazards.]

[Passive effect: Increases resistance to physical damage by 20%]

The quirk had been surprisingly simple to train, with its usage depending on my stamina, which had grown vast with my training.

The passive effect was also a nice add‐on to the skill. I had made sure to train it up to the rank of apprentice.

It not only increased my defence but also my offence with the hardening effect caused on my skin that made my skin hard enough to be passed off as steel. It allowed me to cause even more damage to my opponents with physical attacks.

The template I was currently downloading was Borsalino, who was also known as Kizaru from One Piece. I had decided to make a list of potential downloads in my free time.

I realised that just waiting until the download to pick another skill to choose was highly inefficient when I could just make a list to choose from.

Kizaru's own Light Manipulation skill from his light fruit would go extremely well in tandem with my light manipulation.

I would definitely download other skills in the future, but I wanted my light manipulation to be in a state where I could fight higher-powered beings without being crushed instantly.

It had been a month and three weeks since I had started downloading him. I suspected it would be done soon but had no idea exactly when.

Whether it was due to the skill or the gamer system, I felt an instinctual feeling that the template would soon be done.

My current stats have gone through a major increase. With my harsh training regime, pushing me every day to my very limits.

Unfortunately, I think I had hit a limit of what I could do. As my strength rose, my training regiment did too.

The last few days I hadn't bothered with training, since now, it was getting ridiculously hard. With the past few days, taking a full day of one specific type of training to gain a single stat point per day.

I had decided to stop training for now until I could find a way to train more efficiently. Maybe with the use of magical weights or other such things. Since spending a full day training for one stat point wasn't an efficient use of my time.

My current stats looked like this…

{Name: Kai}

{Power level: 6996}

{STR: 117

{DEX: 113

{VIT: 98

{MAG: 116

{CHA: 28

Something else worth mentioning was that I had also received a system update that had removed the ranking system, which had come as a bit of a surprise.

It reasoned that the ranking system was inefficient and thus wasn't needed.

Having my thoughts cut off again as yet another crude arrow was sent flying towards my head, intending to pierce my skull. I clicked my tongue in annoyance. I caught and snapped it.

With a glare and a swift offhanded gesture, a bright light spear materialised behind me. I launched it towards a random unlucky Goblin.

Before the goblin could react, his head exploded In a spray of green gore from the force of the light spear. His body went rigid before slowly plummeting towards the ground.

100 credits Gained

At least they were a good source of credits. I was a bit unsure of what to do as I silently observed the marching army.

They were clearly used to overwhelming their enemies with sheer numbers, as they had no formation other than marching forward in one large group. Which suggested they were still pretty primitive.

I had spotted a few with different armour in the sea of the green-skinned humanoids marching towards me. I had noticed their armour had somewhat better quality and was coloured black instead of silver, like the rest of the goblins.

With the use of appraisal, I observed that their power level was higher than the other goblins and they possessed a title named Goblin Captain. Which suggested they had some sort of higher standing within the goblin's ranks.

I honestly hadn't known that goblins existed in DXD since they hadn't been shown in the main story, but filled in a world where all religions were real. I guess it wasn't that far of a stretch.

They seemed to be smarter than the goblins you would normally see in anime.

I still had no idea where I stood on the power scaling in terms of the Dxd world. For all I know, I could be on the level of a low-class being, but I was pretty certain I wasn't based on the amount of damage I could do.

If every low-class being could do the same amount of damage as me, I was pretty sure the Great War would have destroyed the entire world and the underworld easily.

The army of goblins finally reached the entrance.

I could easily spot several goblin archers perched up in the trees, with their simple wooden bows aimed at me.

If this had been a month or two ago, I would be shitting bricks. These creepy little fuckers were more or less on my level when I arrived in this world.

Well, dealing with these little shits at least gives me some good credits.

I went to jump down and start the slaughter, only to be stopped by the sound of another horn blaring out in the distance. I turned my head, trying to locate the source.

Another army of goblins charged towards the fortress. There were hundreds of goblins. There was a goblin decked out in full armour leading them. My eyes widened a little at this sight.

What the fuck?

I quickly used appraisal on the goblin suited in bright golden armour.

{Name: Zargoth}

{Title: King Of Goblins}

{Race: Goblin}

{Power level: 2785}

It was a bit more concerning now, with the additional few hundreds of goblins joining. Oddly enough, I felt excited. I had mainly been training with the exception of hunting a few creatures to eat the last two months and hadn't fought a lot. The last truly hard battle I experienced was with the basilisk.

Now looking at the goblins who for some reason decided to attack me. I felt an odd mixture of excitement and anger. Maybe it was more vicious, I had been attacked a lot but these creatures were more humanoid.

Unlike the other creatures which were simply hunting for food these little green fuckers had summoned an army. Just as I was thinking about what to do. I unexpectedly received a notification from the system.

[Quest Generated]

[Quest]

The True King

Description: An army of goblins has dared to attack you. Show them the consequences of attacking you.

Objective: Defeat the army of goblins

Reward: Stat crystal 2x, Gacha token.

[Accept/Decline]

Pressing accept I looked down to see the self-proclaimed King of the goblins looking up at me with a sneer on his ugly face as he finally joined up with the other group.

Slowly, an eager grin spread across my face as I felt my blood pump up.

Summoning a rusty sword I had found in the fortress. I decided that they didn't deserve Murasame.

The goblins started shaking in fear and even the mighty goblin king who had been sneering in hatred at me just a second ago seemed to be extremely fearful of me.

Which made me pause for a second in confusion until I realised something.

I was subconsciously releasing my mana into the air.

I was feeling excited at the prospect of a fight but also annoyed that I was being seemingly randomly attacked with the weird mix of emotions I must have accidentally started to leak my mana.

my eager grin returned full force and with that, oh well a neat trick to use in the future, since these little guys wanted a fight I would be happy to oblige.

I jumped down to begin the slaughter of the creatures attacking me.

[? Pov]

Staring in terror at the powerful being standing atop the fortress like an emperor, She suddenly regretted not listening to my instincts back at home when the army had gathered.

She had always been special among my kind. She was stronger and smarter than the rest of her age and had been known as a cold beauty to the point even the king had tried to claim her as a bride.

With her skills and deadly prowess, she had quickly earned herself the rank of captain, which allowed her to lead hunting parties. Two months ago, they had received reports of a lone weak angel traversing the forest from their scouts.

They had heard of the beings known as angels, but only in legends.

According to these legends, eating an angel was not only satisfying but also made the goblin who ate the angel gain power beyond belief.

Unfortunately, no one of the newer generations could test this theory, as this had been during the war between the beings known as devils and angels and when their ancestors had found the body of an angel.

At first, they had thought the scout to be mistaken. An angel hadn't been sighted for hundreds of years. Most of their race, excluding the captains and above, weren't the smartest of beings. Thus, the king had sent out numerous other scouts to confirm this statement.

Eventually, more sightings became known of the lone angel, though we had to keep sending out numerous scouts since for some reason they kept disappearing, which most likely meant death.

Now thinking about her stupid overlook of the scouts going missing, she guessed the terrifying being in front of her was the cause of it. Since the reports had stated the angel was weak, she hadn't suspected that it was the reason for all the missing scouts.

She wished she had. She had the option to stay and defend the territory, but her pride wouldn't allow her to miss out on potentially killing a legendary angel.

Gripping my mace tightly, I didn't know what to do. Looking up at the angel with an aura that had made everyone freeze in terror. She wanted to run.

Just as she took a step back, the being summoned a rusty sword that would have made me laugh at him if he hadn't been so powerful.

Her pride couldn't even be hurt, as the angel saw them as a joke, only using a rusted sword to fight their army.

In a brief second, he seemed to pause before he jumped down into a crouching position.

She couldn't even take time to admire his otherworldly appearance that drew her in.

The almost eager grin that was plastered on his face conveyed his excitement.

Then, with a flash, limbs flew, and before she could even raise her mace, she was sent flying with a thunderous force through many goblins that splattered from the force and into a tree where she felt multiple bones break.

With that, darkness began to take over her vision.

Weren't angels meant to be kind?

[Kai pov]

Jumping into the midst of horrified goblins and gripping the rusty sword firmly, I plunged into the midst of the goblin army with incredible speed, my body becoming blurry as I put my strength and dexterity to use.

My movements were fluid and precise as I sliced through their ranks with terrifying speed, my blade constantly finding its mark through their bodies.

They could only try their best to defend my onslaught against my ruthless and efficient movements.

Shrieks of horror and desperation rang out in the battleground as they started to fall, unable to react in time as I killed them one by one.

Some soldiers began to realise they had pissed off someone who was a whole lot more powerful than them and began to make attempts to flee, but their efforts were all in vain as my deadly barrage of swings sliced through them.

This was the power I had been training for. My efforts and struggles over these months felt worth it as I witnessed the fruits of my labour.

Instead of being hunted, like I had been when I arrived in this universe, I had become the hunter.

Limbs and heads were severed from torsos. The air was thick with the sound of limbs and bones crunching with sickening sounds and the scent of death was already heavy within the air.

The green blood of goblins exploded from all around me with sprays of gore that would have made the old me traumatised. I briefly grimaced at the torn limbs but continued nonetheless.

After seeing all the carnage around me, I decided to speed up this one-sided battle.

With a raise of my hand, three balls of condensed light quickly formed and hovered above my palm. With a wave, the three balls shot out in different areas and made a massive explosion that vaporised over fifty goblins each.

I had gotten much better at using mana and instead of the charge time that it used to take to even make one ball of condensed light, I could now make three with the same ease and speed.

I saw the king had finally snapped out of his stupor and looked at me with hatred. Forgetting all his instincts, he charged at me.

With a roar, he thrusted the golden spear towards me. I activated my hardening quirk instead of dodging since I knew it wasn't a real threat, immediately my body gained cracks and sharpened like it was made from rocks.

The admittedly impressive spear struck right where my heart was located. The spear colliding with my skin made a loud sound and a gust of wind blew out, making the goblins around us get blown back a few steps.

The king looked in shock and horror as his spear didn't even penetrate my skin properly. Giving him a cocky smile I couldn't help but admit I felt pretty fucking awesome right now.

Raising my hand, I gave him a bitch slap that sent him flying back and into a tree where he lay dazed.

I looked at the rest of the goblins, who looked mortified that I had just taken a direct attack from their leader, who was the strongest of them and slapped him away like a bug.

There were only around four hundred goblins left after my massive onslaught, and the battle had started only a few minutes ago.

They all began running away, so I slammed my hands down and with a large amount of chakra, suddenly the ground rumbled and large spikes of wood erupted from the ground and targeted the fleeing Goblins.

"Third Form: Raging Sun"

With a wide swing from my sword, two giant semicircles of fire exploded outwards, slicing and burning through all the goblins around me.

Unfortunately, the rusty blade couldn't handle all the pressure I had put on it and crumbled in my hand, which left me swordless.

Looking at the remaining hundred and fifty or so goblins, who looked at me with despair, I stopped. One of the goblins that had black armour and a higher power level stepped up. Out of curiosity, I used appraisal.

{Name: Grizmuk}

{Title: Goblin Captain}

{Race: Goblin}

{Power level: 1760}

I nodded in understanding. So, he was a goblin captain. I assumed that was a pretty good rank for a goblin, and thus the better armour and strength in general.

He wielded a large sword, and he looked at me with grim determination.

He knew he was going to die, but he wanted to take a limb with him before he died. Admirable, but unfortunately, honour wasn't something that could protect him.

Three other goblin captains rose behind him with one missing an entire arm. They all had different weapons but they looked determined to take me down which was pretty amusing. I had checked all their power levels and they were basically on the same level as this Grizmuk.

They all glanced at each other before roaring and charging at me with vigour. The large guy swung his large sword overhead, and I easily sidestepped the attack and turned my body to avoid the other goblin captain who used a spear to thrust at me.

Just as I was going to rip his head off, a whip wrapped around my arm. Looking behind me, I saw the other captain gritting his teeth and holding my arm back. I had to admit, their teamwork was impressive.

All of a sudden, a hail of arrows launched at me and I realised I had forgotten about the archers. Silly me. Better fix that little mistake. I caught all the arrows out of the air and titled my head to avoid a spear to the eye.

Time to go Superman mode. Gripping the whip around my fist with speed and strength, I yanked the captain towards me and grasped his neck with my hand.

Using light manipulation and holy manipulation for extra effect, I superheated my hand and watched as his skull melted. I then grabbed the large sword that was sailing towards me a second later and shattered it with a flex of my hand.

Smacking one shard of the broken sword towards his neck, it went through and put a hole in his neck. Raising my hand I summoned 8 light spears and sent them through the skulls of all the archers.

The goblin captain with the spear tried his best to hit me, but I decided to allow only his spear to stop when it hit my hardened skin.

Looking at his face of acceptance, I sent a large blast of pure light that consumed a lot of my mana and instantly vaporised him and 40 unfortunate goblins standing behind him. Leaving a large crater of molten rock in the location behind him.

The last captain who had been trying to sneak behind me since I assumed he was more of an assassin-type goblin, which was pretty funny. Tried to stick a dagger coated in a strange purple liquid with what was presumably poison in my back, only to be stopped once again by my rock-like skin.

Grabbing his arm, I summoned chains of scorching hot light that tangled around his writhing form and heated them to the extreme.

The light chains slowly began to melt through his torso as his screams sang through the forest.

I turned to the rest of the meagre number of despairing goblins. They all looked apprehensive and unsure of what to do.

They had just witnessed me killing their best soldier with ease and I had just annihilated 90% of their forces. I wasn't even winded.

Flicking my wrist, I sent multiple golden chains made of pure light shooting out from me.

I wouldn't deny that I had stolen this technique from Kushina Uzumaki, replacing chakra with light, but it was a pretty useful skill to have.

With its ability to hold and melt my enemies apart, I couldn't deny that it had quickly become one of my favourite skills to use.

The chains of light swiftly coiled around the remaining goblins of the once formidable army, their glowing presence contrasting against the dark and gloomy atmosphere of the battlefield. The goblins desperately tried to escape the chains, but it was to no avail, as the chains kept a solid grip on them.

With a smirk curling on my lips, I clenched my fingers into a tight fist. The metallic links tore through the goblins, ripping them apart without mercy. The sound of their screams filled the air as the chains tore them apart in a violent display of gore. Now being nothing more than a pile of limbs on the floor.

[Quest completed!]

[Quest]

The True King [Completed!]

Description: An army of goblins has dared to attack your home. Show them who the monster they dared to provoke.

Objective: Defeat the army of goblins [Completed!]

Reward: Stat crystal 2x, Gacha token.

Rewards:

Stat crystal x2 Gained

Gacha token Gained

I exhaled deeply, as the intense battle came to an end. I frowned a bit when I realised I had caused a bit more destruction than I had meant to. Now looking at the thoroughly destroyed surroundings.

At least I didn't accidentally blow up the fortress walls since while I doubted one of my attacks would destroy it since from my previous inspections, the stone used seemed to be extremely durable, I still didn't want to risk it.

Glancing over at the rewards, my eyes shined as if I had forgotten about my other gacha tokens. Unfortunately, I had been a bit too busy with regrowing my arm at the time to prioritise opening the gacha token.

As for the stat crystals, I had been saving them up since using them now would be a waste in my opinion. They could be used for a quick power boost if I ever found myself in deep shit.

Opening my inventory, I took out both of the gacha tokens. I had to take a moment to admire the two coins that lay in my hand. The large coins had a bright golden surface that seemed to emit a soft glow, with intricate designs and patterns adorning its entire circumference.

As I turned one of the coins in my hand, my fingers traced the complex lines that formed the intricate pattern. The system craftsmanship was something I could appreciate, even for an item such as the gacha token.

What truly caught my attention was the symbol at the centre of the coin. There, etched into the golden centre of the coin, was what seemed to be a slot machine, complete with the classic three levers. The symbol almost seemed to come to life.

[Would you like to roll the gacha token?]

[Yes/no]

I selected yes for both gacha tokens and watched as they shined before dissipating into golden particles that floated around me.

[Rolling Gacha Token…]

Mask of Magic Resistance Gained

Iron dagger Gained

[Mask of Magic Resistance] [Tensura] [Epic]

[The Mask of Magic Resistance is significant and powerful, as the name suggests, enhances the user's resistance to magical attacks and provides him with various other abilities.

With the mask equipped, the user's magical signature gets erased, making it impossible to sense you and the user gains an exceptional boost in magical resistance, allowing him to withstand and mitigate the effects of spells, curses, and enchantments.]

[Abilities: None] [Passive effects: Antidote, Breathing Support, Amplify Senses, Aura concealment, Magic Resistance]

[Iron dagger] [Common]

[Just a normal iron dagger.]

[Abilities: None] [Passive effects: None]

My eyes widened in surprise. I hadn't been expecting to gain such a powerful item on my first gacha opening. Ignoring the iron dagger, I had expected to get something decent, but to get something this overpowered already on my first gacha opening was surprising. Opening my inventory, I brought out my new mask.

I inspected the Mask of Magic Resistance in my hand and closely examined its complex design. I couldn't help but admire its beauty and the silver sheen that seemed to glimmer in the light, with delicate patterns etched onto its surface.

As I brought the mask closer towards me, I noticed how it seamlessly moulded onto my face with ease. As if it were made specifically for me. My face fitted perfectly within the mask.

Despite its heavy and tough appearance, it felt oddly comfortable on my face and didn't seem to restrict my breathing. I looked around with the mask, noticing it didn't obstruct my eyesight either.

I had struck gold in the metaphorical sense since I had a lot of that already with this mask. It was enough to overshadow the disappointment at getting an iron dagger of all things from one of my hard-earned gacha tokens.

Brought out of my admiration for the new mask I had just received by a scuffling and groaning sound from behind me.

I glanced over to see a goblin girl, dressed in what I had indemnified as the captain's armour, slowly getting up from her place on the ground. I noticed she had green blood leaking from her forehead and a few of her bones seemed to be broken.

Oh? It seems she survived. I saw her notice me with my admittedly awesome but imposing mask staring dead into her shaking eyes. I suppose she could be useful for gathering intel.

I had planned to use the king, who was about to try and ambush me from behind, to gain information on this goblin army's home. Since it was only fair, I returned the favour of their invasion.

Staring at the cute goblin girl trembling before my form, I decided she would be easier to gain information from instead of the king.

Which I probably should have thought of before attempting to kill all the goblins, but oh well, it worked out anyway.

Just as, the goblin king behind me thrust his spear at the back of my throat, intending to catch me off guard and pierce through my throat. I turned around in a blur and swatted away the golden spear.

"I'm afraid you aren't needed anymore. Take solace in knowing I will repay this unwarranted attack tenfold. I hope you don't have any family there." I said with an annoyed frown.

I saw his eyes widen, and tears began to well up in his eyes. I took time to briefly wonder how he had understood me before a notification popped up and alerted me.

Angelic perk discovered!

Perk Gained

[All-Speak] [Passive]

[All-Speak, as the name suggests, allows the user to speak and understand any language.]

Oh, I remember that the supernatural had a skill like that, but I wonder why it didn't give it to me straight away.

Maybe I have to do certain things to unlock certain skills from my angelic race? Could there be more things to unlock? That was a thought for later.

I used all my strength to punch a hole through his torso and grab his heart. I had always wanted to try that. Letting his body drop down to the ground with a thud. I took this time to appreciate how far I had grown.

If it had been two months ago, this guy alone could have been a major threat, with his power level being much higher than mine was at the time, and that wasn't including his captains with the rest of his army.

I also took this time to take a peek at the credits I had gained from this entire battle.

34600 credits Gained

Holy shit. That was a lot of credits. I was going to have a look at the system shop later since I had a few things that interested me.

The feeling of power felt admittedly pretty good, and I let my actions sink in as silence reigned over the battlefield for a few seconds before I turned my gaze to the cute goblin captain.

She had smooth, glossy silky black hair that went down to her back, coupled with a nice pair of C-cup breasts and a bubbly ass which did wonders to accentuate her curvy figure. She was pretty beautiful compared to the other goblin females I had seen.

She was still seated on her ass, looking at her now-dead king. I appeared before her in a burst of explosive speed and picked her up by the throat.

"I assume you can understand me?" I asked calmly, with the curvy goblin trying to struggle out of my grasp before she realised it was futile. She nodded in affirmation.

"Good, I have a few questions and I do hope for your continued well-being you decide to answer them truthfully," I said nonchalantly. I wasn't too bothered, since the amount of credits had more than made up for the inconvenience.

She shivered at my threat and gave a glance at the scattered pile of limbs that were her former goblin friends. She nodded again.

"Firstly, why did you and your tribe decide to attack me?" I questioned her.

She began to shift in my grasp nervously as if she knew I wouldn't like the answer.

"Um- chief Zargoth wanted to c-capture you i-in order to uh- e-eat you." She stuttered out. I gave her a blank stare that made her squirm.

"Eat me?"

She nodded quickly with a wince.

"Why?" I questioned with a deadpan voice.

Why the fuck did they want to eat me?

"T-there's a legend in t-the tribe." She replied.

"What legend?" I said in a curious tone.

"The first c-chief of our village was the strongest of all goblins. Even n-now with our population expanding far past that of his time. There had never been any goblin to reach his level of power, but there is a myth that he used to be as weak as any goblin until he stumbled upon a dead angel. He devoured the angel's flesh and ascended to new heights of power."

"Your king wanted to ascend like his ancestor, I suppose?" I finished her sentence with a nod of understanding.

That made a lot more sense. I did think an army for what they probably thought was easy prey was overkill, but I suppose I could understand the lust for power. She nodded in confirmation.

"I guess that clears it up. Now on to my last question. Where is your tribe located?" I asked. Her eyes gained a cold glint as She pointed her finger in the direction of what I presumed to be the goblins' home.

While I was pretty sure she was being truthful, judging by the fearful look on her face. I didn't feel like taking the risk of having to catch her again if she ran away while I went and wasted my time searching in the wrong location. Releasing my hold on her neck, I swiftly lifted her.

Leaving her with no time to react. My four sets of golden wings unfurled from my back, a haunting sight against the backdrop of chaos. Bending my legs slightly, I burst forth from the ground and ascended into the sky with explosive force.

With a powerful flap of my wings, I propelled myself towards the goblin's settlement, my goblin captive held firmly in my arms. Her screams of terror filled the air as I soared through the sky at high speeds.

After a few minutes of rocketing through the sky as fast as I could. I noticed that the goblin in my arms finally fell silent. The echoes of her terrified screams were finally silent. Curious, I peeked down to see she had passed out.

I took this lapse of silence to admire the scenery below us, zooming past as I split through the sky with practised ease. My flying skills had gotten a lot of usage and had levelled up tremendously. I took a peek at my winged flight skill to check its progress.

[Winged flight] (LVL: 7/100) {Adept}

[Winged flight is the ability to use your wings to fly. Those who learn how to use their wings during flight can block and avoid attacks with the more mastery, the deadlier you become during flight.]

[Passive effect: flying speed increased by 30%]

Unfortunately, it had recently started to become a lot harder to level up and the total requirement to rank it up had doubled. I was glad it passively levelled up while I was flying since I enjoyed being free in the sky. For a former human, it was an amazing experience.

After twenty more minutes of relentlessly flying through the air with my highest speeds. I finally spotted something on the horizon. I let out a sigh of relief since my wings started to feel strained after using my top speeds for so long.

The goblin girl in my arms had woken up from her unconscious state a few minutes ago. I was thankful she hadn't begun screaming again since she was starting to hurt my eardrums.

Squinting my eyes, I noticed lights beginning to appear in the distance as I grew closer. I started to ease up on my high speed and slowed down as the village under me became closer. I started inspecting the village before me with a hint of surprise.

The village before me was unexpectedly larger than I had anticipated, thousands of crude structures, which, I assumed, were houses, lined the edges of this massive town or due to its size, more like a city. The further it went in, I noticed the houses were a bit better with multiple structures and streets going throughout the goblin city.

Something caught my attention as I was inspecting the village with interest. A particular building stood out from the rest as it was much better designed and instead of the crude structures all the other houses had, this structure had brick walls and almost looked like a small palace. With a gate made of iron with golden tips, I saw two goblin guardsmen at the entrance.

Done with my inspection of the place, I briefly wondered how to go about this. My first thought was to create a large powerful ball of light to vaporise the place, but I discarded the idea as that would drain the rest of my mana and leave me with just chakra.

I had started to learn how to infuse chakra with my attacks to make them more potent and cost less mana, but it had been an arduous process so that wasn't viable. Then I got an idea.

Recalling the words of the goblin girl currently in my arms. If they were to be believed, then this tribe had been around for a few centuries, so surely they must have a rather big treasury, right? I grinned deviously.

"Hey, little goblin," I called out to the goblin, admiring the view of her home from above.

"Y-yes?"

"I don't suppose you know of any goblin treasury?" I asked while glancing down at the palace.

"I'm guessing it's located in the palace," I asked. She nodded without any reluctance.

Where else would an arrogant goblin king put his treasure?

I went to invade the palace before I paused and looked at the goblin girl.

"Are you attached to this place?" I asked but I already knew the answer.

She looked thoughtful, but eventually shook her head. Just like I guessed.

I originally planned to let her loose since she had been useful, but now thinking about it, having someone to clean and cook for me would be useful. Plus, I couldn't deny she was pretty easy on the eyes.

Her glossy black hair going down to her back and her with shining emerald eyes, she will make a perfect maid.

"Good, go get any belongings and meet me here in ten minutes. Any later, and you will be joining your fellow goblins in death." I ordered her as she nodded.

As I released her, she immediately ran over towards the goblin city, presumably to gather her belongings. They shouldn't be much.

Looking towards the palace once more, I propelled myself off the ground with a surge of strength, flying towards and past many goblin civilians who fell over from the force of my flight towards the iron gates at an unstoppable speed.

With a clenched fist raised, I unleashed a forceful strike upon the gate, using a large amount of my strength.

The gate bent under the sheer force of the blow, its hinges practically crumbling as the metal buckled instantly under my assault.

A loud resounding crash was heard as the gate was violently ripped from its sturdy frame, hurtling towards the palace walls, and it smashed into the palace.

A torrent of dust billowed from the impact as the ground was cracked from the force. Leaving my body obscured from the bewildered guards.

That might have been a bit of an overkill. The aftermath was chaos as all the goblin civilians scattered away as a group of what I assumed to be guards came.

The once imposing iron gate lay in ruins, sprawled against the palace walls. Dust began to settle as I was glad I had my new mask on, or I was sure I wouldn't have looked like a badass with me coughing like an 68-year-old chain smoker.

Ten guards were surrounding me, shouting in tandem with them all, demanding me to surrender myself, which almost made me laugh outright.

Their attempts to intimidate me only served to make me shake my head in amusement.

Summoning a construct made of pure light into my hand, I carefully moulded it into a basic but deadly sword.

The guard began to close in on me with their spears, but without a moment's hesitation, I dashed at them in a burst of undeniable speed.

With my movements precise and quick. With swift strikes, I carved through their attempts at defence with ease and bisected them, each with a clean strike of my light sword.

I hadn't gotten a swordsmanship skill, but I had gotten much better at handling a sword due to experience.

I still had no doubt anyone with swordsmanship skills would outshine me, but it was good enough until I obtained a true sword style other than sun breathing, which only gave me a few forms to work with.

In just under a dozen seconds, I cut through all the guards. Another guard came around the corner and I threw my sword, which grazed his green cheek and it embedded itself into the wall behind him with a crack. He stood there frozen as I walked towards the palace doors.

I was going to be completely honest.

I meant to impale his head with that throw, but I missed, which was too embarrassing to admit, so instead I just played it off as me threatening him.

With a power kick, the towering wooden doors that guarded the entrance to the palace creaked as they were forcefully swung open. I was honestly pretty surprised goblins managed to create a building like this based on all their other buildings.

It was like, they were both smart and dumb at the same time.

I suppose it was to be expected for a palace like this to exist since they had centuries to expand and build their little city.

The sight that greeted me inside the palace was one of chaotic panic as the goblins scattered in every direction at my rather loud entrance. It was obvious that all of their best fighters had been in that army, excluding some guards here and there.

I shook my head at their foolishness, but I suppose I shouldn't expect much from goblins of all races. I paid no heed to the various goblins jumping out of windows and scattering away to escape me as I strode forward.

Walking through the dimly lit corridors, I observed a goblin cautiously emerging from one of the rooms that was coincidentally right next to me. Upon looking up to meet my visage, he immediately tried to scamper away and make his escape, only to be caught by the neck.

"Where is the vault?" I asked.

"I-it's downstairs, go down the hall and take the states downwards." The goblin gasped out the reply while gripping my hand to pry it off.

"Much appreciated"

Snapping his neck with a resounding crack in the desolate hallway, I tossed his body aside like a rag doll. I then proceeded to make my way down the narrow hallways and I found the staircase.

I felt no mercy to spare towards them, my angelic instincts didn't help since they technically counted as demonic creatures.

Hmm, I hope I never face any stronger demonic creature or else these instincts wouldn't let me just run away. That's if I haven't just mastered the instincts.

As I kept walking, I was met with twenty armoured goblins, seemingly ready for my arrival. I sighed in exasperation. I was starting to get exhausted.

The amount of mana I had used today was starting to become noticeable since I had used insane amounts today.

My magic reserves had gone up more as my stats grew bigger. I had a suspicion that the higher my stats, the more value they gained since I had used up at least 5x the total amount of mana I had two months ago.

My Radiant Charm ring, which was currently resting on my middle finger, also was extremely helpful with my light manipulation skills.

Since I didn't have to use as much mana to power up my light-based attacks with the 10% boost the ring gave to all light magic, it also meant I could spend 10% less mana on attacks.

No longer in the mood for games, I confronted the line of twenty heavily armoured goblins standing before me.

Their weapons trampled before me, and before they could under a word, I swiped my hand through the air, summoning a thin blade of light that shot forward towards the first guard.

With ruthless and spot-on precision, the blade of light easily sliced through the goblin's armour and body, cleanly bisecting him in an instant with a spray of green blood.

The searing light continued its merciless trajectory, piercing through the guard behind him, the guard behind him looking at the stump of his arm with trepidation.

Rather than retreating or succumbing to fear, they roared in rage. They charged towards me with reckless abandon, driven by a desperate determination to avenge their fallen brethren. Annoyance welled within me as I rolled my eyes at their predictable response. Idiots, How utterly tiresome.

Summoning a compacted ball of light easily within my hand, the eighteen remaining goblins were closing in on me.

With a lazy throw of the hand. The ball of light flew towards the remaining goblins and in a dazzling explosion of light erased all but two of the goblins, who were further back.

The other two goblins were blown back from the force of the attack and suffered major burns. Their screams of agony pierced the air. I inspected the vault behind them and noticed it looked to be well fortified, with a vault door of some kind.

Offhandedly summoning two weak light spears to form and end the two annoyances. I walked up to the vault and took a better look at it. The vault door was studded with many mechanical locks that looked to be fortified with large iron bolts.

I was honestly surprised that goblins could manage to create something like this, but I suspected it was the first goblin king, who seemed to be much more powerful and smarter than the rest, who arranged most of this since the goblin king I had just battled was an idiot.

Raising my fist, I punched the vault door with the expectation that it would destroy the vault door, only for a searing jolt of pain to reverberate through the offending arm, causing me to gasp in pain as the vault door didn't budge an inch under much to my disbelief, the vault door remained steadfast, unaffected by my assault. The impact echoed through the chamber.

I drew back my fist once more, gathering every ounce of strength within me, I unleashed a ferocious strike upon the seemingly impenetrable surface of the iron vault door.

As my fist connected with the giant vault, a loud boom reverberated through the air. The impact echoed through the chamber, making the large chamber shake from the impact.

Hissing at the pain, I scowled in annoyance. I had to wonder just what the hell was this made of. I decided to use appraisal. Thinking about it now, I really should have used it earlier, but I admit I had underestimated what the goblin could create.

[Mithril Vault]

[A vault made from the extremely rare ore Mithril. Mithril stands out not only for being tough, flexible, light, and with a high resistance to physical force but also for its magical conductivity properties for weapons. Making it the perfect material for artefacts, weapons, and armour.]

A wave of understanding washed over me as I read the description of the prompt. Oh, that would explain why I couldn't breach it with my strength alone. Feeling a bit stupid for not using appraisal, I sighed deeply as I pondered on how I would break open the vault door.

I didn't think using mana would work since described the mithril as a material good at conducting mana, it probably would do much better and on top of that, I needed to save enough mana to decimate the rest of the goblin city.

Then I slapped myself on the head for being so idiotic, seriously I needed to look into getting an intelligence-type skill or perk at some point. Simple, I'll just take the whole vault. This Mythril ore sounds expensive, having some can only benefit me.

Hmm, now how should I go about stuffing this in my inventory. Chakra sounds like the best option.

My chakra manipulation had gotten extremely good as I had prioritised levelling it up, along with mana manipulation and light manipulation.

Since it was a backup energy source if I ever ran out of mana, and using mokuton required chaka. It was essential that I get a good mastery of it and also try not to use as much excess chakra in my skills.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get my hands on any jutsu for now since they cost a lot of credits in the system shop.

Right now it was mainly used for mokuton and infusing my body to gain more strength and speed, but that also came with the side effect of putting strain on my body and made it ineffective to use in battle since it only served to wear me out at a faster rate.

Luckily, with my chakra manipulation levelling up, I couldn't help but notice a discernible decrease in the strain it exerted on my body when channelling chakra in my body.

I assume that with full mastery I'll barely feel strain, which is good. I took a quick look at my Chakra Manipulation's progress.

[Chakra Manipulation] (LVL: 3/100) {Adept}

I began to infuse chakra into my left arm, the buzzing sensation of chakra that I had become familiar with flowing through my arm. A blue glow engulfed my arm in waves, as the blue energy was swirling around my arm in a chaotic order.

The muscles in my arms began to swell and tighten. I felt a surge of power entering throughout my left limb, with the influx of energy making my fist buzz with raw power.

With a grin on my face, I gripped the vault, and instead of my efforts yielding no progress, a deafening sound thundered throughout the entirety of the palace.

The goblins all around the palace paused for a second as they were running away and felt the palace shake, which made them resume at an even quicker pace than before.

My chakra-enhanced fist tore the vault and separated it from the palace entirely.

I stored the vault away in my inventory before my attention was taken by something else.

I heard some loud clangs of metal boots. It looks like someone wants to die.

From there on out, I cleared a bloody trail on my way out of the palace, slaughtering any goblins I came across with no discrimination. They were just free credits anyway.

Exiting the hall, I made my way back to the location. Upon arriving, I saw the goblin girl with her small amount of belongings.

I realised I hadn't used appraisal on the goblin girl, so I decided to now.

{Name: Grizella}

{Title: Goblin Captain}

{Race: Goblin}

{Power level: 1990}

Huh, she's more powerful than the other goblin captains by a little bit. Interesting. I walked up to her, while she looked at my approaching form.

"I hope you're ready to go," I said calmly from behind my mask.

"Ah- yes. I'm ready."

Nodding in approval, I picked her up once more and flew up into the sky. This time luckily she didn't scream, instead looking around in awe.

Hovering up in the sky, I peered down from my spot in the air, down upon the sprawling goblin city. Which seemed to be on high alert after my assault.

Flaming balls of fire sent from artillery were sent at me and even the seemingly civilian goblins picked up arms and started shooting arrows.

They all bounced off the light bubble I conjured. I had been planning to leave them but for some reason, I felt myself grow angry.

All these goblins looked at me with ugly sneers on their faces and I had to ask myself.

Why should these creatures be allowed to live?

I recall how my Grandpa used to preach about how kindness is always returned. I had been kind to my family, and I was still betrayed.

This doesn't mean that Grandpa was wrong. I had seen how kind people indeed lived more happily.

The one in the wrong were those people. They called themselves my 'family'. Do they deserve to live? No. But they probably helped others too.

So do their good actions negate their bad actions? If that's so then no one would be truly guilty of their crimes, if they just 'redeemed' themselves.

No, all of these questions are wrong to begin with. Someone is able to decide what someone else goes through through power. Power is something that justifies your actions. Power lets you decide what justice is.

Even in my previous life, people who committed mass genocides lived happily. Simply because they possessed power.

I was once powerless and was crushed along with my dreams and ambitions.

I have power now. Real power at that. I can just destroy this city and massacre the inhabitants. What's stopping me? Nothing.

Does this mean I should do it? No. I don't think senseless murder is the answer to everything.

But I also know that this race had, and would continue to, try to harm me, solely because they coveted my flesh.

Maybe some of them didn't want to participate in that 'war'. But they still tried to attack me. This has gone far beyond the point of just a casual battle for survival. It was personal.

Oh well, I guess they do deserve what's coming. Let's reenact a famous scene from Tensura, I already have everything prepared. Hell, the Gacha even gave me Rimuru's mask. The world wants this to happen.

My holy power briefly spiked and swirled around me. I felt almost relaxed and weightless. My emotions were now calm too. I felt serene as I looked at the goblins below and I noticed something that amused me.

The greed that shone in their eyes. They wanted to eat me. All of them wanted that power. I guess delusions are a thing common for all races.

I began to harness an immense amount of mana, more than I had ever before. Concentrating, I funnelled the mana into my next attack.

In a dazzling and awe-inspiring moment of power, a colossal light spear began to materialise above me.

Drawing and outshining all the light spears I had ever made before in comparison. It was like comparing a flame to a bonfire.

I infused the spear with all the holy energy I could muster. Its radiance shined throughout the entire sky like a miniature sun.

Hearing the gasps, my eyes flickered towards the goblins. Their eyes were alight with awe and complete terror, as their instinct presumably screamed at them to run away.

The giant spear, the size of a small building, began to rotate rapidly and cause blasts of winds to fan out from its rotational speeds like a fan of doom. The goblins looked up at the attack with horror and trepidation.

And then it happened.

Summoning all the strength within me, and unleashed the colossal attacks in the direction of the city below. I quickly propelled myself away after that, while fatigue washed over me as all my remaining mana was spent in that attack.

With my exhaustion, I failed to notice the two crystal blue eyes looking at me with desire. I soared through the air at tremendous speeds as the world went quiet. With a flash of light akin to someone taking a picture, only many times brighter.

Next, a massive shockwave happened, which obliterated all the trees around the goblin city.

The sheer force tore apart the surrounding forest. Three were uprooted and thrown around, while unfortunate animals got sent flying from the shockwave.

In the wake of the shockwave, a massive explosion of blinding holy light followed. Completely erasing the very land the goblin city once stood. Miles around the explosion the air heated up from the intense heat of the explosion.

A deafening bang reverberated through the air, causing my ears to ring and the goblins' ears below me to bleed and her face to gain a dazed expression.

All this happened while I stopped flying and looked in awe at my attack. I had just destroyed an entire city, even if it was on the smaller side.

I forced myself to grin even as I didn't feel very accomplished at the large-scale attack I had just performed for the first time.

I began to fly back home after a few minutes of looking at the mushroom cloud my large light spear attack had made from its explosion.

To think that this was only the start of what I would be able to do…

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