Genesis made a run for it after picking up the goblin corpse on his shoulder, and remembered to pick up the stick with two dead rabbits then ran back to his hideout, he wanted to eat so bad, but after thinking about it for a bit, Gen decided to go back to the Bunker instead of staying outside while something might be watching him.
A few minutes later, he reached the Bunker. After checking the entrance and making sure no one was near, he got inside with his hunt and closed the doors.
Luckily the Bunker had all the necessities to make his food edible. First, dropped the three corpses on the table, without much thinking gen skinned the rabbits and cooked them in the oven. While preparing his food, he moved to the other table with the goblin corpse on it and began studying it.
Gen didn't know how to feel about it or react to his finding, the goblin's description was short and thin, with human-like characteristics and anatomy. It had Dark Green Skin, big pointy ears, and a long nose with filthy, yellow, crooked teeth.
It looked very fragile, like a sack of bones. So it's no wonder the knife moved through it without any problem.
Gen moved his hand on the goblin's chest and cut it open to look at what was inside this creature.
It looked disgusting but didn't care much about the blood or the foul stench. After opening the chest area, Gen checked its organs; nothing major was different at first glance until noticing it had two hearts instead of one, but what Boggled him was that they were in different colors; one was green and another very tiny one, almost unnoticeable it was in black color.
Gen didn't know why the goblin had two hearts or how it did work, so he took them out of the body and put them on the table next to the corpse; after he searched the body for more abnormality, there was nothing else worth looking at.
Gen moved back to the two hearts and took the green one in his hand; it was smaller than his palm and had three vines; it looked average compared to the other black one.
On the other hand, the black one was more interesting; it was tiny, smaller than a newborn kid's palm with one vine.
'It looks tiny, but why my feeling says it's as essential as the green one; no matter how anyone looks at it seems equally important.
'So testing it might be helpful, and I might learn something about it.
'Now how to move on with this? Maybe testing with Fire? Well, it will not hurt, so I will give it a shot.
Gen opened the oven, took out the two cooked rabbits, and put them on the table before continuing his further study.
Gen decided to eat first because hunger was clouding his mind and his stomach was growling after many days without food.
So, without further ado, Gene wolfed the two rabbits like hungry Hyenas.
After finishing his meal, Gen had a big smile on his Dumb face from ear to ear.
Gen had never felt so happy after eating and was on cloud nine.
moving back to the table, he put the two hearts on the tray then shoved it inside the oven, and watched them closely
a few minutes later, the green one started to show signs of being cooked; meanwhile, the black one didn't show any signs of being cooked or burned or anything.
10 minutes later...
The green heart looked pitch black and wholly burnt, but the black one stayed the same like the Fire never touched it in the first place. However, with time passing, the heart starts to show other phenomena; blue strings like smoke appear, and the heart began to disintegrate. Then, after a few moments, both hearts turn to coal.
Gen had a few questions: why does the black heart take way longer to burn than the green one, and what were the blue strings?
Gen could only speculate but still needed to verify his finding.
Gene decided to burn the goblin's corpse, so he throw it in the oven and closed it.
Now Gen wanted to think about a few things because it appears that getting out of this forest would be a challenging matter, He didn't know what was roaming outside his Bunker and didn't want to know all he knew. He wanted to see his family again; Gen wasn't sure if they were alive, but he remained hopeful.
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Since Gen didn't feel tired, he went for another round outside to find water,
When he got outside, the sky was still full pitch-black; even though a few hours had passed, one of the few light sources was the blood moon with faint red emitting from it. Another light source was the trees. It illuminated around with breathtaking multispectrum colors; it was an otherwordly experience. So Gen was able to see around the forest but not too much; he moved carefully after covering the entrance of the Bunker; he remembered the explosion that happened a few hours ago, so Gen decided to move to the destruction Zone to check it out by follows destroyed branches all over the forest even though in his heart knew it was a bad idea it had to be done anyway, his logic on it if this was a nuke he would dead by now so his though the explosion caused by something else as far as he could remember there was nothing near his house that might cause this kind of explosion.
In the Silent dark forest, Gen moved carefully while looking around for any threats holding a kitchen knife and following the trail of destruction, jumping from tree to tree like a monkey, the trees were so thick that they could easily carry adult humans without any problem after running in a straight line for 5 minutes Gen kept moving while looking around.
'My training and working out days are finally paying off Hehehe, Never imagined in my life jumping from tree to tree like this, It feels refreshing. It's odd, though, I was knocking on death doors a few hours ago, so how on earth I'm feeling better all of sudden, my body shape still tragic thought "wary smile" it's better to keep going and stop messing around.
It didn't take long before Genesis found the impacted zone, His eyes were about to fall from their sockets because he could witness an entire tribe of goblins dancing around a big blue lake like they were celebrating or doing a ritual. observing them quietly and wondering what they were doing; under his eyes, Gen could see elder Golbin talking gibberish Gen didn't understand what they were saying. Still, he could guess from their body language what the elder meant while pointing his finger to the lake, and without further ado, all the youth goblins cheered and jumped into it.
Elder pov
'Today we celebrate our new home in this sacred forest that's blessed us with Mana Lake. It's time for us to rise and bring glory to our ancestors, and we have the means to achieve that with this lake; we will protect it with our lives, and with the ritual, we will get stronger.
All the Goblins cheered loudly, but their happiness didn't last long.
BAAM!
Huge chaos began when a pack of 25 wolfs leapt on the tribe led by White's Alpha wolf.
It had crystal-clear Blue eyes with a scar mark on his left eye.
The Alpha appeared observant and intelligent, commanding his pack members to go for the weak goblins tribe members first that were scattered around the lake; they were like sitting ducks surrounded by wolfs from one side and the lake from the other.
The wolfs were trying to whittle down the tribe members, and while the goblins saw what they were trying to accomplish, it took them a second to recover after their initial shock.
The elder commanded the tribe to move back and get together, and the unthinkable happened.
Gen was watching from the top of the tree and still couldn't figure out what his brain was feeding him, first The tribe was dancing and cheering, and then out of nowhere, they got jumped by a pack of wolfs. Not only that, but the wolf's movements were clear based on orders from the Alpha; after the chaos receded for a bit, it became a full-out war? for the very first time, Gen could see with his own eyes how dire his situation was he was not safe by any means but processed with observing because it was essential to his survival.
Meanwhile, the Golbin Elder ordered the youth from his tribe to get ready to Defend the sacred lake and protect it with their lives. They had an advantage in numbers. The tribe was not small by any means, with over 100 members; they were not agile or strong as the wolves; however, they had the numbers to make up for it. They got into the formation of five and jumped on the wolves.
While the pack and tribe were going in all-out fighting
The elder moved in the Alpha's direction, and the Alpha did the same they stood facing each other with 100 meters between them without any warning
Fire! swoosh...
the elder used his staff to throw a fireball at the Alpha, but it evaporated by crystal ice from the Alpha's mouth. They cancelled each other.
The elder and the Alpha wolf get into a whole magic fight showdown
, with the elder using Fire and the wolf using ice, none of them had the upper hand. Only the alpha wolf was more Agile, but they were near each other in the magic fight. Both kept their distance; the Alpha didn't approach because he knew how weak his body was to fire even though he was agile. Still, he couldn't utilize it to his advantage in this fight, so both sides ended up even.
Meanwhile:
Genesis watched this scene with a Dumbfounded expression and a blank mind after his brain short-circuited a few times; he couldn't wrap his head around what was happening.
'Huh?..what a funny dream; it's time to wake up now, "Slap" 'AWWW', well that hurt.
'My cheek is burning guess I'm still awake. So what kind of sick joke is this? Not just goblins invaded earth; now everyone is using magic, hahaha, what a funny joke...but what if it's true and everyone can use magic? The question is how.
Gen is still in the middle of his thoughts.
Meanwhile, the all-out war was still going on in front of him near the lake; the goblin tribe lost almost half of their forces and took down 8 wolves with them; this indicates that the tribe would be wiped out at this rate by the end of this fight. Still, even if the wolves managed to wipe out the tribe, their losses would be disastrous.
After a long fight between the elder and Alpha, they looked drained with various flesh wounds.
On the Alpha side, parts of white snow fur around his legs were scorched black by the fire, with blood drawn from them.
But the elder wasn't spared either; green blood was drawn from his shoulders, legs, and thighs by the ice crystals.
Both knew it was a lost battle, but they were determined to see it through to the end, with one side losing and the other winning. The lake was this precious, and they couldn't coexist around it because there was only one law in this jungle the strong will rule and keep everything, and the weak he could only blame themselves for being one.