Chapter 4: 4- First Hunt

At first, Oscar faced some difficulties on adjusting his body weight as he crawls upward slope, on all fours

Cautious of where he holds and stabs his spikey toes giving his utmost to avoid putting all his weight on lose surface. As he had almost died twice from falling down after losing his footing or sometimes grabbing a wrong surface, not solid enough to hold his weight. He drops down while battering and thrashing against the cavern surface constantly in a downward slope, Oscar finally felt lucky for being a goblin rather than a human as the goblins are known for their tenacity even though how skinny they look 

'Bet I would make a great punching bag huh' he marvels at being able to survive even after that ramming and pummeling against those rock hard stones that can split a humans skull in two 'But damn that hurts!' 

he was fortunate enough that the tunnel is too narrow for a free fall and it has many turns and large stones for obstructing his fall 

Rubbing his back of head he grumbles, making a tearful face 'The goblins still has to face the pain' 

'It's good that I can use my legs as much as my hands or this would be too tiring'

"Hop!"

Facing the dead end, he leaps from one side to the other securing his right hand before stabbing both his legs consecutively with the left hand fixing itself in another indentation before starts walking like on the wall like a spiderman

'Finally!' Taking a break, he settled at a solid stone, connecting the both walls

Some new instincts were added in his brain as he learned how many mistakes he had made before then his muscles starts twitching as he felt the great relaxing massage from the upgraded 'grip' skill

'sigh~ at this rate, I might become an addict to this massage' closing his eyes, he almost fell asleep but it didn't last long enough

"Ghaa!" 

'Why!

Why this passage has to be this long! 

Ahh! I'm getting bored of climbing' 

With a deep growl he grumbles, while seeing some glowing particles slowly swirling around in air before landing softly on some recesses or indentations in the surface like a snowfall, giving the cavern a magical look 

As Oscar spreads his stubby palm wide apart and saw the magically glowing snowflakes passing right through his hands, he felt amazed yet bewildered at the same time

'Woah!' His eyes sparkles with interest, swinging his arms around. Oscar saw the particles getting affected by the wind blown by his hands but he couldn't touch nor felt them

'Ah! What's these?' With one forceful pull, he breaks out a strange crystal glowing in the same indescribable colorful light swirling in the air. Though it was translucent he could still see some particles entrapped inside of it 

'Is this... mana?' He makes a guess based on his theories that seems more or less correct to him

As he glanced at his status, he sighed with a helpless shrug 'With magic power being zero, it would be strange if I could even feel it I guess'

Feeling fascinated yet frustrated, Oscar kept trying to catch some of the particles with his tiny claws 

"Urgh!" 

With a focused mind, he clenched his fist on some particles only to fail yet again

'Fuk! This... This is damn frustrating!' Stomping his legs, he grumbles before deciding to resume his climbing and get the hell outta this place but not before holding the magical stone in his mouth, taken out as a momento

'Hmm should I eat it?' He amused, thinking of getting strange powers after eating the magical stone but he quickly discarded it 'what if my stomach fails instead of this stone... That would be a... Stoney death?' With a shake, he thought 'Better to die from a monster then a stone' 

But just as he continues his travel, he was met with more and more of these crystals while less amount of magical snowfall and before he could see more of these he was met with a diversion in the passage, leading in two different direction

At leftwards, he could see the magical stones path continuing while at right, he was met with the source of the air flowing in this underpass 

'Hmm... That must be the exit and that... Must be a path to treasure?' Oscar wasn't sure of what it was but his goblin senses were ringing with some excitement churning in the guts 

He felt like following that path but first 'Let's get dressed' he was still moving butt naked! 

Oscar isn't an exhibitionist! 

He must first cover his hanging dong scraping against the cold stone surface making him feel cold all over 

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Taking a deep breath, He picks up his pace and not long before he came out of a rabbit burrow from the ground with the opening well hidden by some enormous stones and gravels 

"Hop!"

As he takes a deep breath, he felt light headed from finally getting out of the closed space/tunnel after so long

The surrounding looks the same where he was spawned first, still underground while having poor lightening from the magical ceiling veins running throughout the passage but it feels almost daylight to Oscar compared to the burrow he came out from 

Hiding his shiny magical stone somewhere he thinks safe and secure, he thought 'Now where can I find some weak monsters...' Oscar was now in a dilemma, how to hunt a monster without getting killed first, 'I hope not all the monsters are as strong as that damned snake...' 

He hadn't even met any other monsters other than the nightmare who murdered his entire tribe in cold blood 

'Hmm how do goblins even fight?' Scratching his bald head, he burns some brain cells 

'That thief I mean chief looking hobgoblin tried to fight that giant snake head-on, so he died...' With a nod he concluded 'If you don't wanna die then don't fight... At least head-on like that idiot' 

With this in mind, Oscar starts scaling the curvy vertical wall to reach the ceiling 'this much would do for now, at least not everyone can easily spot me if they're coming from the other side' his stealth strategy was based on the habit most humans or non humans alike follows, rarely looking above you while walking forward

The wall was uneven with some places for him to hide his tiny body easily if he wants it, though the stalactites here were shorter but still enough for his body to keep hidden 

'Urgh! It's hard to keep seeing upside down...' He felt like throwing up but he stays still for his mind to settle and adjust before exploring the dungeon upside down 

After travelling for hours in that burrow, his proficiency in climbing and maintaining with both hands and legs has almost reached the expert level and proving this point a notification popped up 

'Looks like climbing/walking upside down is more effective for this skill' he amused while feeling his limbs becoming more glued to the surface than before while he felt less nauseous from the skills upgrades doing its wonder 

'If not for my status, still saying 'The adjark goblin' I might have mistaken myself for being a monkey' 

He didn't have to travel far, when he saw the first monster or prey... And fortunately looking weak, at least in size 

'A squirrel?' A small creature with short black furs and two tails can be seen skittering around some small mushrooms hard grown on a decayed disfigured skull looking stone as fast as wind before biting with its rodent front teeths as the black squirrel pulls out one with force greater than its size 

Oscar slowly creeped through the ceiling, trying to keep his body close to the ceiling and making sure his green body was hidden well enough as he grasp and release his grip with less sound as possible

Even though Oscar himself has never hunts an animal in his entire life, he did watched countless times on how a predator hunts on nat geo television

'Hold it... Hold it' 

keeping his mind alert, ears standing straight, muscles taunt ready for action, Oscars eyes was fixed on the squirrels movements while he breaths slowly 

The squirrel secured as many mushrooms in its mouth to carry while checking its surroundings of other monsters, the black squirrel dashed away to its safe house albeit a little slow, courtesy of being greedy to carry more mushrooms than its body weight 

'Just don't miss it...' Encouraging himself, Oscar waited for his chance 

Just when the black squirrel passed under his location, Oscar flashed a wide smile showcasing his monstrous teeths 'Now!' 

"Scriiiiiii!!!" 

The squirrel squealed in bewilderment. As a red sticky rope zapped away, likely faster than the lightning. Wrapping the black greedy squirrel in its grasp before pulling it up to the ceiling and straight inside a monstrous mouth opened wide in waiting

"Zap!" 

Oscar was stunned still in his position with the same smile as it happened before he could even think properly, all he could do was to move his head stiffly and saw the culprit who just stole his prey right from his teeths 

"Burp!" 

"Ghaaa!" Oscar shouted in frustration

A large brown lizard, almost twice his size with a frog like mouth burped while sticking upside down at the ceiling on all fours and a tail, from some distance away unmoving seemingly blending well with its surrounding before the frog lizard moves his eyes and stares back at Oscar 

'Shit*!' Cursing, Oscar dashed straight at that creature while growling in a frenzy 

"Bang!"

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