《The Forest》
The Forest
A seemingly endless forest stood with towering trees and various monsters inhabiting, living off each other through the law of the jungle. Within the forest suddenly, a massive school which could hold thousands of students and faculty appeared in a random part of the jungle.
Within the school a classroom which didn¡¯t stand out at all held about 20 students, there laid drake. He was about 5¡¯8 feet tall with brown hair and brown eyes with a neither fat not skinny constitution. Drake was on the floor with blood flowing down his face from a cut on his head where it seems he got when the school appeared in the jungle.
¡°Ah, Damn this shit hurts, Rebecca.¡± Drake called out as he touched his wound on his head trying to assess the situation of the wound and what had happened. The woman that he called Rebecca didn¡¯t seem to hear him as she looked out the window with her eyes glazed over with shock and fear.
Seeing that his previous call wasn¡¯t effective Drake decided to get up and try to help himself, Drake new that within the teacher¡¯s desk lied a medical pack which he can use to patch himself up, in fact all classrooms had one. When Drake walked past the students who are regaining consciences he glanced over to the windows where Rebecca stood looking out.
¡°What the fuck¡± Drake said softly and slowly as he came to a complete stop and looked out the window with a complicated expression. Outside the window lie a forest but that¡¯s not the whole problem, the problem is that some people who belonged to the school were outside dead with green childlike creatures bashing in their brains with poorly designed clubs and knives.
Some of the green creatures finished killing and salvaging whatever they can from their bodies, like their backpacks or some of the hungry ones couldn¡¯t wait to eat later and just started to feast on the bodies that lay there. Even more ganged up on some of the ones fighting back and ate them alive or dragged some females to do what none of us want to even imagine.
When we were busy watching the creatures, they got into the building apparently as there came blood curling screams which made all of us shiver. Snapping myself out of the fear and confusion I rushed over the students who either laid on the floor or some huddled up shaking and crying. I ran to the door, the only door which gives access to this room and we didn¡¯t have to worry about the windows as we were on the 3rd floor out of 5 floors. Those small creatures wouldn¡¯t be able to make up here and I was confused that nobody on any of the floors before us could put up a fight or delay them at all because they got here almost immediately.
Once I shut the door I locked it not knowing if they know how to work the door but not going to test my luck against it either. So, with the door locked I looked at my fellow students some I¡¯m friends with as we talked during this year in chemistry class.Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on.
¡± Ok look, there are killer green small creatures who are coming to kill us and violate you. We need to stand together and fight them, any ideas?¡± I said to everyone huddled up crying and shaking with each blood curling scream or scratching sound which reverberated through the halls whenever their knives hit a metal surface.
As I finished giving my speech a couple of the guys in my class stood up and walked to me. Ben was the biggest of them a black 6-foot 3 man with muscles all over his body as he played for the school¡¯s football team, I knew him because I played for the baseball team and I saw him at a couple of parties. His two friends where Carl a white 5-foot 10 man who also played football and Lee an Asian who stood at 6 feet 2.
Ben walked up to me and looked at me with a certain look in his eyes as he said, ¡°I think I have an idea, but it¡¯s going to be hard and I don¡¯t know who would do it¡±.
¡°What¡¯s the idea¡±? I asked with my eyes filling with questions as even though he was a jerk sometimes he usually was a good person.
¡°You see I watch anime and I know what those creatures are¡± Ben said as gasps from fellow students resounded and questions were about to fly out but before that he continued. ¡°These creatures are Goblins and they are usually the weakest creatures in any fantasy world but from what I seen from the window I pray that¡¯s wrong because just one is enough to take out an average adult¡±. Ben said this as he looked despondent at the chances of surviving this.
¡°So, I think we need to send someone, the fastest person out there to assess the situation and see what¡¯s exactly happening and if possible lead back just one of those creatures so we can ambush it and make it talk and get some information¡±. Everyone in the classroom looked at me including Rebecca who no longer looked at the window in shock.
¡°Yeah, I thought him to as he¡¯s one of the fastest guys in the school as fast as those track and field, but he¡¯s injured, and we can¡¯t send him out like that and I can¡¯t go because I¡¯m a linebacker I¡¯m big not fast¡±. He said while looking at me nodding as if saying I got you bro, don¡¯t worry.
¡°Does anybody volunteer, we really need this please and don¡¯t worry I observed them a little they are not that fast even though you can¡¯t out run them they can¡¯t get you if you run full speed and not to mention we know this school, we know the shortcuts and ways to run away.¡± Despite his comforting words nobody stood up to volunteer, so an awkward pause and silence overtook the classroom before another blood curling scream broke the silence making everyone shake. The screams are moving closer and closer to this classroom.
¡°Fine, ill go. Just stay here and have the door ready for me just in case I need help¡±. Ben said as his hulking body moved to the door but before he got there to open the door and leave I stepped in his way and patted his shoulders as I gave him a look and a smile instead. ¡°Don¡¯t steal my heroics and my image of a hero so you can steal the hearts of these girls¡±. I joked half heartily as I stopped him from taking another step and pushed him back lightly with the same I got you bro look her gave me. Before he can say anything of protest I unlocked the door a sprinted out while shutting it behind me.
The wound on my head stopped bleeding but the sight of the gash on my head was barely covered by my hair which flowed like water on my head. I pulled off my shirt showing an average body with some fat on me, I put the shirt on my head wrapping it around my wound looking like I have a traditional wrap on my head. I tied it tightly as I walked closer to the sounds.
Evolve
This hallway in the school held 8 classrooms and we are the 6th at the end away from the entrance. The classes before us were opened and shut with people looking through at me now as I blocked their view to the other end of the hallway. The closer I got the more my heart hurt and beat with such ferocity and fear flooded my body, but the fear did nothing but bring a weird smile to my face a jubilation and excitement fill me. The 3rd classroom door was open, and blood flowed out of the room into the hallway. The screams lessened while the sound of a club smashing flesh came from in the room. I walked step by step not knowing what I¡¯m going to see. The closer I walked the more the smell of blood hit me, the smell assaulted my senses making me queasy and a little dizzy, but my body adrenaline kept me from passing out and it kept my body full of strength and not weakening when facing this horrifying situation.
I stepped on the blood and no matter how much I tried to keep quite the sound resounded as I stepped into the liquid. Every splash sound made me tense up and shake with energy and fear as I got into fight of flight mode described in class.
The creature continued to bash the body not paying me any mind and I assumed it was tired as its bashing became weaker and weaker before it was barely able to make the squishing, crunch sound it made with every swing. I finally walked into the classroom and got full view of the class. The seats where we sat all year laid on the floor in a mess as people ran away from the monster, there was about 11 bodies in here while 2 bodies of the Goblins lied with no life as there were visible blue bruises and broken bones on them from what I assumed to be from the guys who laid dead at its feet.
The last Goblin pulled something from the last guy who he continually beat with the club. An orb the size of the grain of rice was pulled out from the dead guys head. What it was and how the goblin found that little thing from the body of the guy baffled me, but it wasn¡¯t the biggest concern right now. The goblin who looked like it was running on fumes ate the orb that had blue energy swishing around like the ocean inside. The goblin seemed to regain energy once it consumed the orb of energy as I¡¯m going to call it. Its body contorted as It grew gradually becoming my size, muscles which seemed like steal shook underneath its green skin growing and evolving with intense ferocity. The goblin screeched with pain as it all took place, I could gather that this process neither logical nor painless it seems.You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.
Overcome with a desire to kill It before it finished its ¡®evolution¡¯? I rushed over and picked up the club from the floor something too small for my hands but useful nonetheless. The Goblin looked at me with anger in its eyes, disdain even. Surprised by its sentience and intelligence I paused for a second but, only for a second. I beat the Goblin over and over, crunching sounds and squishing sounds came from its body as I beat the thick small club over its body with primal anger and ferocity.
The Goblin regained some control of its body as It slashed at me with its sharp nails giving me a deep gash on my legs. Stunned by the pain my mind gained clarity as fear overtook me but the moment its did the primal anger took over and the desire to survive, I regained my courage and continued to bash its body and head. The blood which flowed out of me made me weak, and weaker. Luckily the slash from the Teenage Looking Goblin seemed to be a final struggle from the Goblin an either you die, or I die. The Goblins eyes shut, and its body stopped thrashing around from the pain as it twitched from the excess energy in its body. I looked at the Goblin feeling proud and happy yet sad and fearful.
The complicated emotions couldn¡¯t stay for long as I dropped to my knees before falling over on top of the battered Goblin. The gash that the Goblin gave me seemed to be much deeper then I originally thought, my white bones showed through the ripped skin and muscle. How I continued to fight despite that made me wonder. It seemed the blood gushed out at a faster rate when I overexerted myself in the fight making me lose too much and now that the adrenaline wore off the pain and loss of feeling hit me making me unable to stand. With the adrenaline gone my conisounsess was clouding and fading as death overtook me. ¡°This is how it ends, huh?¡± I said weakly as my consciousness was completely shut off. Everything became deathly still as the ruckus from the fight died down with the death of the goblin and Drake.
Everything was over until a faint, but noticeable yellow energy transferred from the Goblins body to the still body of Drake.
The past
The dead Drake started to twitch as his body took the yellow energy filling him with energy and making his body more compact and strong. Previously 5 feet 8 now 6 feet. His previous average body with fat and love handles now compacted and the fat burned off as Drakes body became red hot. His constitution became increasingly stronger and his skin turned harder and harder, yet it still held its elasticity of skin. His body now held a 6 pack and clear muscles with shallow lines without even flexing. The yellow energy rushed into his back imprinting his back with a tattoo of a weird complex symbol as the remaining power spread over his body strengthening it.
The energy also brought back the conciseness of Drake while showing him images of the life of the goblin he killed, the language he spoke and some strengthening techniques. The image on his back which covered the whole of It shined with light before becoming faint on his back.
Drake continued to lie there digesting the life of the Goblin he killed unaware of the changes which is being brought to his body nor the impossibility of what Is happening to him.
Back in the classroom Ben walked back and forth fretting about Drake and how he shouldn¡¯t have let him go with that injury on his head. Within the classroom everyone seemed to listen to Ben as they did what he said, when Drake left to assess the situation Ben asked the people in class to break the desks to get to the metal poles which hold the seats together. He also asked those good at chemistry to find put together some chemical weapon to help themselves defend against the goblins which will undoubtedly go against them soon.
Rebecca, Drakes friend who he knew from freshman year when he first came to the school was assigned to the second take of finding and making a chemical weapon. She walked around the classroom thinking about what is happening to Drake. When she first met Drake, she thought him to be a prick who had to much self confidence but the more she got to know him the more she realized that she was wrong. Drake was selfless, he put others before himself and even if he is very blunt which some can think of as rude and mean he has a good heart filled with compassion but also with a very dark side to it.
She shudders as she thinks about what happened 2 years ago in sophomore year during the break when she and him went to the movies together.
The sun had gone down, and it begun to lightly drizzle, we walked down the street laughing and smiling while making jokes. The mood was light and happy which even the rain couldn¡¯t drench but suddenly there came a scream of help from within an alley. A normal person would ignore it or go look of curiosity and run away when they saw four men with piercings and tattoos ganging up on a woman for what looks like rape. When a normal person saw the bulging muscles and fierce animalistic stares, a normal person would run as fast as they could away lest they become the target of these monstrous gang members.
Drake does not fall under the category of a normal person, nor a hero. A hero would have fought the people off and helped the girl or just sacrificed himself for the woman to get away but not him. I remember shaking when I saw those men look at me with lustful eyes as they stripped the girl. Two of the men got up and came to me while the other two continued to undress the woman and proceed to undress themselves.
Drake despite being smaller and less fit then them put me behind him and gave the men who were walking to us a glare of defiance and anger. They didn¡¯t seem to mind in fact, the stare gave them smiles of playfulness as they walked over they flexed their muscles and smiled while making vulgar comments.
Drake pushed me back and told me to run, I was stunned and didn¡¯t know what to do. The men heard Drake and one of them circled around us blocking the exit while saying we couldn¡¯t leave.Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.
¡°You and your boyfriend are out of luck it seems, we will beat him to death. Break all of his bones before fucking you in front of him¡± One of the thugs a white man about 6 feet 2 inches said while laughing with a perverted smile.
The man came closer and closer as Drake put his body between behind him trying to block them and keep them away from me. While the men at the end of the alley beat the woman and took her clothes off finally. Drake saw what was happening and decided to act first. He pushed me against the wall as he ran to the man in front of him before punching him the face. The man staggered and spit out blood as he roared and hit forward. His fist travelled through the air hitting Drake in the stomach taking the air out of him. He fell to the ground and was kicked by the man he hit. The other man came to me and licked my face while breathing his stinky smoke and alcohol smelling breath. Drake on the floor was kicked again and again and as things looked hopeless, Drake who laid on the ground grabbed the leg of the man who was kicking him and pulled making the white man fall on the floor. Drake got up with an animal like look in his eyes as he hit and hit and hit the man. He broke the mans arms before his buddies understood what was happening.
The two men who were about to rape the girl looked back and saw what was happening.
¡°Spider!¡± The men cried out as they got up and pulled their pants up as and ran over to Drake. The man who licked me and tried to touch me stopped and ran over to Drake.
¡°Fuck, how dare you mess with the bulldogs, you must have a death with bastard.¡± The lead man said as he reached Drake with an imposing air about him. Drake didn¡¯t register what he said all he did was continue to beat the man who was half dead. Seeing that he wasn¡¯t listening the leader rushed over and hit Drake in the face. Drake took a step back when he got hit in the face by the leader but then he rushed and switched his attention to the leader who hit him. He rushed like an animal but with the grace of a dear and the strength of an ape he dodged and hit the leader. Seeing that he was in trouble the other men rushed in from the back and the side to beat down Drake.
¡°LOOK OUT!!!¡± I screamed with all my might when I saw the men rushing to him with the intent to fight with more numbers. That didn¡¯t seem to do anything as their punches he turned a blind eye to almost as if they did nothing to him while he beat the leader into a half dead state before moving onto to the other men and doing the same. The only reason why he didn¡¯t kill them is because I stepped in and calmed him down.
I still remember being terrified from seeing the look in his eyes, I knew that despite his good there is evil, darkness in his heart. I feared that darkness and his ruthlessness, I was scared because I thought he would do the same thing to me that he did to them. But luckily, he calmed down from his state once he saw me, but when he did he collapsed, and I had to call the cops and explain to them what happened. We never saw that girl again but I¡¯m sure she was terrified and grateful of him as well. The cops despite the over self-defense didn¡¯t push the issue and let us go home, me to my house to talk to my parents and talk to my boyfriend who called me worried. I remember assuring them before taking a trip to the hospital to take care of Drake, he did save me after all. About a week later he was discharged and was relatively fine with all the bruises and cuts barely visible.
I remember everyone making fun of him for months because the girl he liked moved on to the star basketball player. I tried to tell them the reason he wasn¡¯t there and couldn¡¯t stop it was because he got hurt saving me and another girl, but nobody believed me.
Drake shrugged it off whenever I mentioned it and told him to prove it to them. So, the enigma that is known as Drake is something that even to this day I¡¯m still learning new and surprising things about him.
I¡¯m worried about him and I don¡¯t know what I¡¯m going to do if something happens to him out there while trying to help us.
I drag myself out of my thoughts as I continue my search for materials and chemicals to make some weapons against the monsters. Ben who was pacing around worried about Drake heard fighting from the end of the hall. ¡°Dammit, I said not to fight.¡± Ben assumed the fighter was Drake, he assumed right because Drake right now is locked in a death fight with the evolving goblin. ¡°I¡¯m going, watch the door.¡± Ben said when his hulking black body picked up a metal rod from the floor and walked out the door.
Strength
Ben walked down the hallway slowly when the sounds of fighting had reached a climax and gradually became silent. Worried he picked up pace and arrived to see the dead like Drake.
¡°Fuck, I should have been here.¡± Tears threatened to fall from his eyes as he filled with self-blame. He walked over ignoring the mangled students and the two dead goblins and saw Drake lying over the body of the teenage Goblin. Ben crouched down and touched the ¡®body¡¯ of Drake with a trembling hand. For whatever reason the other students didn¡¯t register in his eyes nor feelings, maybe it was some twisted sense of responsibility for sending out someone to die, someone that he knew. Or maybe it was that they were closer than Drake thought. Either way Ben was filled with pain as he touched his friends head.
Suddenly, a sharp inhale from the ¡®dead¡¯ body startled ben bringing him out of his pain and self-blame. ¡°Your alive, I knew you couldn¡¯t die that easily¡±. Ben said as he sent his huge palm down and slapped the bare back of Drake.
¡°Damn, what the hell is wrong with you. That hurts, want me to do it to you¡±. Ben didn¡¯t care Drakes outburst while he laughed heartily despite the hopeless and cruel situation they are in his laughter seemed to infect Drake as he started to laugh to.
I woke up with a slap on my back, it didn¡¯t hurt as much as I thought it would, but it did startle me. My skin was tender after the evolution it went through.
This world is something that even the Goblins didn¡¯t know what it was exactly just an endless forest, but I did find from the memories from the Goblin that the monsters which are attacking us are the bottom of the food chain. These monsters come from a medium size village of about 300 Goblins. The goblin rankings were from new born, adult, elder, and chief. The Goblin I ¡®devoured¡¯ was an adult ranked below an elder and a chief but despite that the goblin showed great promise, so it was taught various things even given basic education.The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.
If the goblin went back to the village and wasn¡¯t killed by me it would have at been given the rank of elder at the very least if not chief. The basic education it was given involved some basic geography about the monsters close to the village and resources. It was also taught a technique to harness the energy from those it killed allowing it to evolve and step on the path of evolution. The path of evolution is basically using energy to change and evolve the body and mind through the energy you take. The evolution you take involves genes and the energy of the thing you kill. But you usually follow a set path unless you become a variant. The information involving variants is severely limited as the goblins didn¡¯t know much about them because variants are heaven defying, extremely rare.
Despite living through the whole life of the goblin I wasn¡¯t disorientated nor in much pain. That could be attributed to my brains evolution which wasn¡¯t much as the goblins weren¡¯t an intelligent species yet despite that I still have major improved brain functions.
Armed with basic knowledge I feel semi comfortable in surviving and keeping those I care for safe and let them become stronger with me.
¡°Ben, we need to go back to the class get everyone and find other people because just us we won¡¯t be able to survive against the monsters that are coming¡±. I said with seriousness in my voice as I pulled my body up and got a feel for the strength in my body. Luckily the memories of the goblin had some combat and strength adjustment training.
The society
¡°Did you get taller¡±? Ben asked with confusion in his eyes. ¡°Ill tell you later, but right now we need to get back and figure everything out¡±. I said as I walked over the bodies of my fellow students with some pity in my eyes.
The remaining classes which held living students came out the class room cautiously when they heard Ben and I talking about what to do to survive. Head after head popped out of the two class rooms that were left.¡± Drake? Ben? What¡¯s going on, do you know anything about what¡¯s happening or what those green monsters are?
A short man came out of the last classroom and hesitantly called out to us as if he was unsure if we are an illusion or not. ¡°Yes, I know. Bring everyone in your class and come to mine we need to have a talk with everyone¡±. I stressed the word everyone and gave him a look that he understood as he went back and told everyone in his class to come and follow him to get answers.
Seeing everyone gathering at classroom the 6th classroom the survivors left their classrooms and came as well. People from the 4th classroom to the 8th gathered at the 6th classroom. The students gathered at the classroom reached close to 90 people unable to fit everyone inside and to stop fights from breaking out as the tight spots and high tensions may start something I decided to bring everyone to the hallway to talk.
¡°Hello, everyone, my name is Drake, some of you may know me and some may not. We are here to discuss what to do against the monsters, you want answers as well and I have some. All I ask is that you let me finish speaking and do not interrupt me before I am finished then I shall answer any questions you man have¡± I paused as the people started to discuss softly while glancing at me. They quickly concluded as it seemed the leader of the various classes nodded their heads at me signaling agreement.
¡°Ok thank you, I see a lot of you are scared and nervous, but I¡¯m here to tell you what I know and hopefully that will ease your mind some. I don¡¯t know how to sugar coat this so I¡¯m just going to say it bluntly. We are in an otherwise endless forest that houses countless monsters like the green monster. Normally we wouldn¡¯t even survive in this place for a day but thankfully we can cultivate or rather evolve just like the monsters, whether you yourself turn into a monster or not I don¡¯t know but I¡¯m sure once you start you no longer a pure human¡±. I paused for a second to catch my breath, the faces of the students in front of me had panic and fear etched into their face. Some even had excitement at the fact of becoming stronger past human capability here.Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author.
I should pay attention to them, I noted in my mind as I memorized their faces within the crowd of students filled with fear. ¡°In order to survive we must stick together and evolve so I propose we band together and help each other survive. Form a society so to speak, a society with the sole purpose to survive and prosper then find a way home. To do that we need to block off all the exists to here except one then some of us should go down and try to clear the floors of the monsters and find some survivors.
Does anyone volunteer to go down and fight the monsters with me, to fight for yourself and your friends, to become stronger to survive¡±. The people who gathered and stood listening to me looked stunned at what I said. Just when the silence after my cringy heroic declaration of war became unbearable, Ben raised his hand and said, ¡°Hell yeah¡±. That woke the rest of the crowd and others started to join.
30 minuets later the entrances to this floor were blocked and guarded by 4 people standing guard with metal poles or pieces of wood. The remaining door which led to this floor that was opened was guarded by 10 people all armed with metal poled. Standing at the deemed checkpoint was me and 6 other people.
Ben, his friend¡¯s lee and Carl. The others were a woman named Rhea and Rebecca, the last was a slim white man who stood at 6 feet. He introduced himself as Adam and he was a quiet person who didn¡¯t make an impact on anyone prior to this. The woman named Rhea had red hair and blue eyed with a huge ass and small boobs. I knew her because I used to crush on her, but we never talked because we never crossed paths. Rebecca was a woman with black hair and black eyes with a decent ass and huge boobs which spilled out of her clothes, but I never had thoughts towards her because one she¡¯s my best friend and two she had a boyfriend the whole time I knew her. They only broke up recently though she wouldn¡¯t tell me the reason why despite us three hanging and being friends for years.
All of us were strapped with to metal rods and some light bandages and other medical supplies inside backpacks along with some food found inside the lunch boxes of the dead. We stared at the door as we all mentally prepared for what was going to happen next, we looked at the stairs in front of us and walked toward with a goal in mind and resolution in our eyes.
New Team
We set out for the kill and rescue mission. ¡°Go up or down¡±? Adam asked looking at the stairs. ¡°Down¡±? Rhea suggested looking unsure at her decision. ¡°We will go up first we can¡¯t leave enemies above us if there are any¡±. I said to the group as I signaled let¡¯s go and walked up the stairs to liberate the students and kill the monsters.
On the 4th floor, right above the floor the society was formed on there were about 30 people who fought against 20 Goblins at the end of the hallway. The 30 people were a mix of men and women but consisting of mostly men who fought hard against the child like goblins. A goblin wouldn¡¯t have a hard time killing a normal human one on one due to the brutal nature in which they were raised and their weapons though crappy still provides an advantage over the normal sheltered humans.
The tiny goblins swung their weapons bashing and cutting the people which stood opposed from them, occasionally someone on either side would drop dead, the humans lost considerably more people at a faster rate but those that are surviving longer are being reborn amid blood and chaos. The students are becoming more vicious and less sloppy in batter, they are becoming stronger as the energy of the goblins they are killing are filling their bodies. Making them stronger in body and their wounds healing little by little. But vice versa the goblins are taking the energy from the humans they are killing and becoming stronger and stronger as the battle reaches a climax at a startling speed.
When the sides looked evenly matched in terms of power 6 people came from the back of the goblins. The 6 people with a 6-foot-tall man with brown hair and brown eyed man leading they rushed into the battle to help the humans. The leader rushed to a goblin covered in blood with a knife dancing around cutting its opponent in front of it, he ran toward like a bulldozer and sent his silver rod hurtling towards the head of the inspecting goblin. The air tumbled and whooshed when the rod rode through the air with a sheen, the powerful rod impacted the goblins head bursting it like a watermelon. Blood and brains flew everywhere as the rod cut through the head like a hot knife through butter. The leader then moved onto other goblins with heavy steps, but this time the goblins knew of the enemies and wouldn¡¯t let them get such easy kills again.
The other men and woman behind the leader split into groups of two as if they discussed what would happen when they encountered a goblin they got into formation fluidly before picking their respective enemies and receiving their own baptism of blood.
With the balance tipped in the favor of the humans the goblins defense collapsed and their struggle started to wear out as the humans reached an agreement and banded together to fight the monsters. Within a few short minuets the goblins were wiped out and the once 30 fighters now only to half. With all injured and a couple critically, unknown whether they will make it or not.
Once the battle was over most fell down to their knees and broke down crying while looking at their dead friends, boyfriends or girlfriends. The appointed leader walked to the group of 6 to talk to them with some caution present in his steps and hand tensed. ¡°Hi, I am Marcus, do you know what is happening here? Who are you? What are those creatures?¡± The man who introduced himself as Marcus fired question after question and its evident that he is a talkative person, he briefly stopped and then looked at me. ¡°How are you so strong, I¡¯ve seen you before in the baseball games. You were never that strong.¡± Marcus asked with an inquisitive eye. ¡°I¡¯m Drake and I¡¯ll explain everything I know which much isn¡¯t but it¡¯s something. But, first we need to get everyone to come down to our floor where we have some basic defense but before that lets grab what¡¯s useful.¡± Drake said as he looked around assessing the situation. ¡°Ben go to the classrooms and get food and supplies; Rebecca and Rhea go around and patch up the wounded. Here, this is my medical supplies, give them yours as well.¡± Drake said directed at his group.You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.
¡°Yes¡± The group swiftly replied and set off to do what Drake assigned them to do with haste. ¡°What about me boss?¡± Adam feeling left out called out to drake. ¡°Boss? Ha, ok. You and I will go around and check the bodies of the goblins to see if they have an energy orb however unlikely. Then we will grab the corpses of everyone and set them off to the side while marking their name down to tell others the ones who didn¡¯t survive¡±.
¡°Ok boss¡± Adam replied with vigor and picked up a fallen crude knife by a body of a goblin and started to dissect them. It¡¯s a wonder that everyone seemed to adapt very quickly to the cruelness of the forest. Like when we came here something changed in us, like our inner beast was released. But it doesn¡¯t matter because it didn¡¯t seem to change us for the worst nor any detrimental way it just seemed to allow us to adapt and survive in this new environment.
The remaining survivors were gathered and brought to the lower level while the bodies were searched for the orbs, none of the goblins had any meaning none of them were close to the 2nd faze of their evolution, that being a hobgoblin from the memories of the dead goblin Drake first killed. A hobgoblin had about 5 times the battle potential of a normal goblin, a hobgoblin grew to be about an average adults¡¯ size with cut muscles and explosive strength. A hobgoblin would receive higher strength, higher intelligence, speed, and instinct. This put them a few cuts above a normal goblin who seemed like children to them. But an evolution of a hobgoblin is rare as they had to kill tons of beasts before the evolution, normally it would spawn one every few months but now it seems humans are the perfect source of energy for the evolutions of the monsters here or at least the goblins. It allowed goblins with no talent to be able to evolve into something higher, A new race.
When drake killed a goblin, the energy would strengthen his body but most it would reside in the tattoo on his back, still unaware of the symbol on his back he didn¡¯t pay mind to the missing energy as someone with lower or higher talents absorbed lower or higher amounts of energy. He assumed he just had poor or mediocre talent but that didn¡¯t stop him from killing to become stronger and protect his people like Rebecca.
I gathered everyone at the 3rd floor and explained to the new people everything I went over with the first group. There was some resistance because some people didn¡¯t want to be under the other but that was quickly quelled with the majority in agreement in joining the society. The new survivors were split up into groups to either guard or be on standby. Our main fighting force was joined by 2 more people who wished to get stronger and fight the enemies. A woman named Alicia and a man named Charles. One British exchange student and the other an African exchange student. Charles was a 5¡¯10 man with blonde hair and blue eyes, he held feminine features making him very popular with the women. Alicia had black hair blue eyes and dark fair skin, she had wide hips and a big butt, her clothes accentuated her curves making her seem like a seductive beauty while her eyes showed a wild side to her making her a beautiful foreign amazon type woman.
Ability awakening
The group of 8 went down to the lower levels to kill the remaining goblins, the battles were uneventful as the goblins were either resting from their battles or eating or ¡®eating¡¯ their spoils. The mutilated corpses raised steamy anger from everyone in the group and the ¡®eaten victims¡¯ were killed by us, despite the rapid adaption we had to this world, killing a fellow human no matter the reason still made all of sick to the stomach. The woman especially became angry seeing their fellow ¡®sisters¡¯ looking broken and emotionally a doll. On the last floor the battle with the goblins became intense and there were a few close calls but in the end the group of 8 won. During the battle the shirt of Ben was ripped off when he was ganged up on by 3 goblins. Sunlight fell upon the strong dark skin of Ben highlighting his body like he was some god like warrior. His back had a symbol imprinted on his back very lightly flashing as the energy from his kills was absorbed.
Human, rank 1, body (arms), rare
Once the blinking subsided Ben let out a mighty roar and then started taking deep breaths, whatever was happening to him started to subside and he seemed happy and exhausted at the same time. The last remaining goblin that he didn¡¯t kill was blasted away from his roar and fell unconscious when it hit the floor. Ben¡¯s disturbance in battle agitate both sides but ending in the death of the goblins.
I walked over to the tired Ben after killing the last of the goblins, When I came closer I saw the symbol on his back and my brain felt a sharp pain and the symbol on his back started to seem more and more familiar. Second after second past and the meaning of the symbol became clearer and clearer in my mind.
It said the species he came from, his rank, and his power type and rank. He was a human who just became a rank one evolver, his power involved his arms and its rank being rare, what exact position that was I¡¯m not sure but if I went by traditional thinking its semi good not bad nor exceptional. The symbol on his back wiggled on his skin and moved from his back to his arms looking like henna tattoo. It covered his whole arm like a sleeve, when I was inspecting it lit up with a bright blue color as Ben lifted his arms and hulked smashed. Breaking the tile floor and making about a meter wide and deep hole where his arms impacted. ¡°Fuck yeah, I¡¯m black hulk, HAHAHAH¡±. Ben laughed up roaringly before collapsing on the ground out of breath and sweating bullets. ¡°Are you ok? What¡¯s wrong?¡± The group asked anxiously as they saw one of their own fall on the ground sweating and out of breath trembling. ¡°It¡¯s alright, he¡¯s fine. He just over exerted himself, on his back well now arms lies a symbol. This symbol tells your rank, power and species and it seems that is power deals with his arms and its rare. All I know is that every rank up you get a chance to unlock a power, this goes for monsters as well. I¡¯m assuming that goblins are rank 0 therefor really weak with no chance at a power while its next evolution would be a hobgoblin which would be a rank one and so on so forth¡±. I explained to the best of my knowledge making them understand yet still confused.
¡°Let¡¯s check everyone¡¯s back just in case, maybe we awakened one you just didn¡¯t know¡±. I said as everyone pulled up their shirts to check their backs, the women did theirs together and the men as did theirs together.
¡°I have one¡± Rheas voice called out before others followed as well. It seems of the 8 everyone has one, but they seemed faded. I inspected each of theirs starting with Rebecca.
Human, rank 1, intelligence(charm), super rare. Rebecca¡¯s stated intelligence and charm, whatever that meant. Once I read the symbol is rapidly flashed and started to wriggle and move from her back to her head where the tattoo formed the shape of a pink water droplet between her eyebrows and the stars in her eyes. The whole process took about 30 seconds, Rebecca lied on the ground rapidly beating her eyes getting familiar to her new powers. ¡°My eyes can charm anything with weaker mental defenses than me to make them obedient to me, my power also enhances my brain functions and mental capacity a lot more than any other attribute¡±. Rebecca said with gasps between each word as she tried to gather her energy from the upgrade.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source.
After she was done I walked over to Rhea as she was closest to me and inspected her back which also had a complex symbol. Repeating the procedure, I looked at her symbol and tried to deduce what it meant. Seconds or minuets later she also burst forward with energy and collapsed on the ground while taking heavy breaths. Her tattoo wriggled and traveled down her body to her legs and huge ass, the intricate swishes and swirls on her long legs and big butt would make make any man wild with desire as the symbol added a heavy charm to her already beautiful legs and ass.
Before I could tell her what her powers are my mind collapsed on itself and everything went blank as I fell heavily on the ground as something invaded my mind in body knocking me out.
¡°What happened¡± Everyone freaked out when their leader fell to the ground suddenly like he was dead, ¡°maybe the boss is going through his on evolution¡±. Adam suggested as they rushed to pick him up and see whets wrong, they pulled up his shirt and looked at his exposed muscular back and saw a tattoo except the symbol wasn¡¯t wriggling and blinking rapidly it just sat faintly visible. The idea of Adam was therefore wrong, and the unknown made them even more terrified. They picked up Drake and moved him to the nearest classroom and cleared the surrounding bodies and put on the clear teacher¡¯s desk. They sat around him pacing anxiously not knowing that Drake was experiencing a life and death trial a massive reward or death scenario.
Drake found himself in a hallway with endless number of doors, everything was grey and ominous, between dark and light. Drake stood up from the ground and put his hand on the hallway, it felt rough to the touch, like sandpaper. The ceiling was pure black, and the floor was pure white everything else was bathed in grey. Drake called out ¡°Hello, guys, where are you?¡± He called out multiple times with no response he started to look around the hallway inspecting it, the more he looked the more he noticed there was. A vase, a chandelier and painting which he previously didn¡¯t see now occupied his surroundings. He walked to the closest door to him and put his hand forward to open it but suddenly, his heart crashed, and his hand stopped just inches away from the brass doorknob from the old looking doors. Looking at the door intently before walking away slowly, when he turned around he felt something calling him from the other side of the hallway. He felt something beckoning him, calling to him like it wants to complete him, make him whole. The power that called to him was neither evil nor good, yet it was both. The power was animalistic in nature and very protective of those close to it and ruthless to its enemies. Door after door passed, each different from the last, never the same except one door. This door was twice the size of all the other doors, reaching the ceiling. At the door stood two lions guarding the door, one had its mouth wide open and the other lying on the ground with its paw pushing forward touching the air. The door was intricately carved, depicting a massive battle that involved the entire universe, all the monsters you can thing of plus more all attacked one monster who stood lazily in the center with its power grabbing in front of it and its mouth open, revealing a bottomless pit as monster after monster was devoured.
Drake was in a shock from what he saw designed on the door that he walked forward and touched the lion creature in the middle, the pervious life like lion jumped and looked at drake before sucking in with its mouth and swallowing him whole.
The missions
The school at the time when Drake was overcoming the trial of choice, another life and death battle was going on in the sophomore building.
The school had 8 massive buildings, one for each grade and a faculty building, a cafeteria and a gym and a library. The cafeteria had become the base of the goblins, housing more than half of them while the rest spread out to kill the humans around the campus. The only place with no monsters besides the senior building where Drake and his society to survive was formed the library. The library had about 60 people who barricaded the entrances to the library and everyone was huddled in the middle where there was a massive clear space for everyone to sit and listen to the leader and be away from the entrances just in case the monsters broke through.
Students sat around in a circle and the man who stood in the middle was a brown hair black eyed man who was about 35 years of age, his body neither fat nor skinny seemed to exude confidence and safety as he calmed down the students and some teachers who were here when the school suddenly appeared in the forest. The casualties weren¡¯t very high when the goblins first invaded the library as the leader acted and killed the goblins and swiftly ordered the reaming people to block the entrances and prepare. Mr. Peters was his name, the librarian at the school for 10 years.
Within the other buildings similar situations played out at varying lengths, the survivors either cleared off their floor and barricade the clean floor or they moved through the building killing the goblins and saving as many people as they can. The only building that didn¡¯t house any ¡®alive¡¯ humans is the cafeteria where the goblins have decided to take camp.
Unknown to all the groups, where there was once a parking where the students and faculty parked in the middle of the whole school with small roads going in between the buildings. The whole school was a huge square with the buildings positioned at the outskirts of the school encircling the parking lot and the park or rest area many called it. The rest area that once held beautiful trees, sculptures and fountains that spat cool blue water that sparkled with purity, calming the soul as one gazed upon its purity. That beautiful spectacle was no more, what stands now has no semblance to the beautiful park and parking lot. What stands now was a towering tower, it was blood red with blue energy encircling the tower playfully. The tower had one entrance, a huge door with a 3 headed cerbures guarding the door. The statue of the hell hound sat menacingly, even though it¡¯s a statue made of unknown material it seemed to breathe with life and its eyes seemed alive, watching anything that comes close. This statue kept the goblins at bay not getting within 50 meters of the place only going to the buildings surrounding the tower to kill the remaining humans.Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings.
Back in the senior building, Drake who has been knocked out for hours finally started to come to. Blinking his eyes and reaching his hand randomly to grasp something, he tried to make sense of where and what is happening. Drakes innocent random grabbing landed on Rebecca¡¯s massive breasts causing a scream and a moan from her. The rest of the group walked around the floor to make sure every goblin dead and collect the orbs of energy that Drake keeps mentioning. When they heard Rebecca¡¯s scream they all rushed back worried from Drakes and Rebecca¡¯s safety but, when they got there all they saw was Rebecca and Drake in a compromising situation.
Drake had one hand grouping her boobs and the other encircled her waist holding her tight to him while Rebecca, she sat straddled on Drakes body with her hand grabbing at Drakes Mini Drake.
Before anybody could process what is happening a blinding light was released from the ominous tower which stood tall and proud within the middle. The light released was a purple color which engulfed every living thing in its surroundings.
The initiation has ended. The first mission of surviving until half remained or the invading enemies have all been killed has been completed. Bonus mission has been failed, extra reward not given.
The forest is an endless fighting firld where every creature is summoned, your human race has been selected for this round of battling. If you all die then the human race on earth is going to be eaten up by the vivtors. If you manage to win which means someone has reached the 100th stage then you all shall be released back to your home if you so choose.
Rating, first mission: Below average
Evolvers, 250/750
Second mission has been given to those based on contribution, higher risk mission can be taken though not advised but do remember the greater the risk the greater the reward.