Chapter 3: 3- Oscar The Cave Explorer

"Hmmm..."

Waking up, Oscar got startled of his dark cave like surroundings, confused for a moment before realising what happened before he went to sleep

'My first sleep as a goblin huh'

As he stretches his limbs, he almost died of heart attack. When he saw a ghastly severed hand, dripping with blood and gore was grasping at his left leg stiffly like a ghost

"Ghaaa!" Horrified, Oscar frantically kicks his legs around, smashing the ghost hand against the stone wall, right behind him. As he skittered away from it instanty. Stopping just before the large crack in the floor, preventing himself from falling straight down below

'The hells was that?!' Focusing his beady yellow eyes in the dark cave illuminated by some dim glowing particles floating around it. He saw the hand was green, mangled beyond belief and more importantly dead without moving

'Green... Goblin, that must be from that idiot' he thought with a relief, retracting his [ Sharp Nails ] back, which he activated without a thought

Earlier, He didn't noticed a foreign hand was still attached to his leg. Since he his mind was all focused on the potential danger at that moment

"Growwwl!"

'Ah gotta do something for this hunger first' with a frown, Oscar takes a peek down below from the crack 

Although goblins eyes can see in any low or dim light and sometimes have a near night vision, They aren't known for their long distance eyes. Even a goblin archer was just above average in comparison to a human archer let alone an elf archer 

Oscar failed to see anything more clearly beyond making out some silhouettes of some uselessy large still rocks, he wasn't able to confirm if the Rocky snake has left or a new monster has appeared. Making it hard to decide if he should climb down or not 

Placing his sensitive ears, based on the vibrations. He heard some howling and growling of some distant monsters but they seems too far away from him to pose a danger while most of the noise is muffled by the downstream air current from above the narrow cracks, making it hard to discern the sound from noises

'Hmm... Aside from having that snake down below or not, climbing down from here will be difficult if not impossible. I'm not a professional rock climber nor I have spiders eight legs to hold myself properly

One slip of my hand was all it needs to end my short life and honestly it would be more pathetic death than dying from fighting a giant snake... At least my future kids would be proud of me, if I was able to have any 

Ahem, leaving the plan of falling from here or dying from the giant snake. I got this unknown narrow passage in front... I mean above me. That seems more climb-able even with my short hands and stubby legs, no it seems it's more suitable for a being of my size

But where does it leads to? Above, but what's above? More monsters like that Rocky snake?' 

Oscar shuddered just by that thought and before he could decide on which course of action he should follow, his stomach contracted as some sense of weakness covered his mind

'Surely, I first need a full stomach... But' 

His nose picks the nearby appetizing scent in the air before he scrunched his nose in disgust, seeing that same ghastly severed hand laying limp

"Growwwl!"

His mind was repulsing from eating that hand, while his stomach was craving for it... Quite the inner conflict 

'Urgh! Why the hell am I hesitating for, It's not a humans hand right and goblins are known for being cannibals right, uh... so I'm just following their customs. Oscar, just be goblin! Be a cannibal!' With his self encouragement, he takes a deep breath 

Closing his eyes, Oscar takes his first bite

"Chew!"

'Yuck! This shit tastes like shit!' He didn't like the taste in the least. Though He just wanted to fill his stomach as much as possible. So he just swallows it all trying to ignore the blood dripping from his shark like teeths and jaws crunching the bones as he devouring it completely, though there wasn't much of a meat on that skinny hand

'So I'm indeed in a dungeon and a great one at that? Great' he thought with a little bit of sarcasm 

'Not that I know how the world looks like outside this dungeon though' 

As he licks clean the finger bones, another notification popped up

"Burp!"

 

'Huh... These skills and title sounds... Horrible, but hey at least I got some skills right. Better for having something than nothing'

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'So I can get the favourability of some dumb goblins more easily... It didn't says It will work on another being other than my kins, the goblins

All in all, a useless one, but still. No one knows when a trash turns gold

Now what's with this Gene aliment?' He thought, shaving his front teeths with the sharp pinky finger bone. While lazing around after a having his meal 

'The what?' Surprised, His eyes open wide 'Never heard of mutating my own body but, I suppose this was to be expected as a monster even though how weak a goblin is. A monster is still a monster and from one of the "great" Dungeon at that

'Although my eyes can't see much in long distance, it wasn't much of a hindrance for me at the moment

While ears... Hell no! It's already this big, if it gets any bigger. I might become a second jumbo baby elephant/goblin 

Hence, It's a big no

Same with the nose, it's already hindering my view, what if it became too big and covers my eyes and more importantly this makes me more damn ugly!

Leaving the teeths aside for a moment, Claws seems more plausible for strengthening, as the saying goes, better to sharpens your knife while you can 

So it's decided, which part should I mutate first... Wait I think I forgot something' 

He missed the 'SP' in the skill list way earlier earlier 'damn...almost forgot about you little one'

'I really wanted both. The sneak and the dash, as nothing's better than sneaking past your opponent and defeating them without having to fight it head-on and dying a glorified death like that idiot hobgoblin before and obviously what's better than to be able to run away if the sneak attack fails 

Really, both 

Both are good but... Urgh! 

Fuk this selection! 

Let's just choose...'

'Absolutely' as he confirmed, he felt a tingling sensation in his limbs. Like someone massaging his muscles, it was a great experience

'Sigh, as much as sneak and dash are good and all. They won't be of much help in this situation, sitting on a hanging garden with nowhere to turn. Better to climb down properly and safely without free falling before even thinking of hunting for prey' he nods with a satisfied smile

'Oh!' He amused as he saw another mutation appearing in the list, making him decide right away on which modification he should choose from

'why there isn't any 'don't ask again' option' he confirmed while complaining internally

While sitting, He felt a complete numbness on his both legs making him think that he had became disabled all of a sudden before feeling his legs again whilst feeling a sudden sense of strangeness like his foot becames a little bit heavy to lift with his toes becoming more sharper looking like spikes with protruding bones before retracting back as he will it

"Khe khe khe" 'Now let's escape from this damned place'

Feeling refreshed, he lifted his one foot before stabbing straight inside the rough surface of the wall before grabbing ahead with his claws like hands and lifting his light weight body, easily climbing up ahead 

'Let's see, what's up there' with a smile he quickly climbed above the curvy narrow tunnel, following the air flow with his senses

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