It was black. Blacker than closing your eyes in a dark room. All that was in front was an empty void.

As I couldn't open my eyes.

I tried to move anything I tried to do anything, it was like I was a solid statue. It was like that for a few days like that, nothing going on just my thoughts. Had I died? The answer was probably yes.

[Successfully Born] [Opening Status]

Name: Garg

Gargoyle imp lv1

Stone: Hardened Stone

Skills: Solid Body 1, Night vision 1

Titles:

Aspects:

(Solid body: Make your body completely solid a natural trait of Gargoyles so they can lock into place and avoid detection and sleep with more defense)

(Night Vision: Allows you to see better in the dark)

A character sheet huh no stats though but there are levels. Ok what can I do? I looked over my status and saw what it might be. I'm a gargoyle and have this Solid body skill. Let's try using that.

I could suddenly feel my body as I was able to open my eyes. I was in a cave around me where some goats had weird blue markings on their fur and were slim. Goats who were all looking at me waiting for something. I hear a large thud as a massive goat walks in, his markings were brown and going up to its head which was almost hitting the roof of the two storied cave.

The goat walks up to me and a message appears in front of me

[Minion Contract]

Master: Giant Earthen Goat

Minion: Garg The Gargoyle

Details: The Minion must follow any order given by the master and can never attack them or leave them This contract cannot be revoked.

[Decline] [Accept]

I knew immediately I needed to Decline but how would I survive? I don't imagine becoming a rock is gonna stop this guy from crushing me underfoot. Although I do have wings. I try to fly but to no avail the goat starts getting inpatient for my choice. Alright so I have claws, wings, fangs, and horns. I can only see the claws and wings being useful but how. I had an idea but only one chance.

[Decline]

The goat was a few feet away from me just enough where all he had to do was step forward. I do a dash jump using my wings to boost the speed as I go under the goat using my size as an advantage and past it I leap out the Entrance. I use my wings to climb faster to the ceiling. I stab my claws into it and spread my body out a lot so I'm not a protruding rock. I tuck my head and wings in and use Solid body.

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I can't see again so I can only hope. The goat passes under me and I can feel the sheer strength of the earthen goat as it causes the entire cave to shake. I almost lose hold but I stay in.

[Learned Skill Camouflage 1]

(Camouflage: Your better at blending in with the surrounding environment)

I'll probably be using that a lot in the near future. I wait an hour and then go back to my normal form and climb down onto the wall slowly making my way around. I had looked around the cave for a few days. It looked like there were 5 kinds of goats in here. The blue markings are wind goats, the brown earthen there were also goats with grass on them and goats with red and orange being grassy goats, fire goats and lava goats.

There was only 1 earthen, fire, and lava goat. These 3 goats seemed to rule with the lava goat on top,

the fire below that, the earthen below, and the wind and grassy goats below that. every other monster was also under the goats rule as they had those contracts being passed around well all but me. It looks like these goats rule the cave and they also block off all my exits.

There were no other Gargoyles in the cave, only Goats, slimes, and earth slimes/elementals. I managed to find a spot with just the grassy goats that wasn't near the big Goats. It had an empty room next to it so I snuck in there and then hit a bunch of things. all the goats looked over and sent one over alone just as planned. The goat enters and sees nothing it's about to turn around when it feels a sharp pain in the back of its neck.

I stab the goat with my claws. I slash and pierce. I gouge its eyes out and cut its legs. this doesn't stop the goat from attacking me as I'm only a third its size. Too bad the goat hitting a rock doesn't feel too good. The goat is about to yelp but I cut its throat and the only sound to come out is a faint shriek. The goat slams me into the wall. That hurt a lot. I open my eyes as my left arm crumbles off my body. I brace myself for the goats next slam but the goat’s dead.

[Grassy Goat Slain]

[Level Up 1-2]

[Learned Skills Eat Stone 1, Terraform Body 1]

(Eat Stone: Eat stone for nutrients and usage.)

(Terraform Body: Repair your body using stored stone and also can be used to slowly condense stone down for a stronger body or use it to alter your body with new things consuming even more stone.)

Well perfect timing I think I use my right hand to dig at the stone and eat some of it. The stone is bitter. I combat this by eating some of it with goat meat. The goat meat Tastes amazing. I would have never expected it to taste like seasoned meat because the herbs on the goat combined that with how hungry I was and the goat was gone.

with my arm and wing back and my body fed I think I'm ready to fight some more goats. Luckily for me I didn't have to wait. It's a good thing I finished eating fast. Wait, that goat was 3 times my size and I ate it all. I guess repairing most costs a lot. Now there were two goats in the room with me both unsure what to do as I watched them.

I do a spin jump towards them and stab the one closer to the exit in the eyes I then jump away and target the other one I fake it out by looking like I'm going for the eyes again and stab its front legs right on the joint disabling it I then cut its throat and go to the other to do the same before its yelps get to loud then I disable that one and blind the other one.

With both The goats down I set rock closing the bleeding to preserve them for as long as possible I make sure to knock them out so as to not make them suffer. I spent my time Training I would increase my stone strength and train my skills. By the end I was able to level them up by quite a bit.

[Skills leveled up: Solid body lv1-3, Camouflage lv1-5, Terraform Body lv1-4, Night vision lv1-3, Eat stone lv1-6]

A lot of skill levels it seems that eating stone leveled the most cause I had to eat a lot of stone to condense stone into my body. I had killed one of the goats during the training as food for the other one.

[Level Up 2-3]

[Your body grows]

I grow two inches taller and when you're eight inches tall that's a lot.

[Your Wings Grow further]

My wings still aren't strong enough to fly but I can use them to launch myself to the ceiling which is very useful. They are also now big enough to surround my entire body. I test out my wings a bit Thinking of new uses before going to sleep. I'm awakened by an angry earthen goat smashing everything looking for whoever killed the three goats.

I crawl against the ceiling and go above the earthen goat and launch myself down in a skewer attack. The earthen goat didn't see and I got a perfect hit. The earthen goat looks at the tiny gargoyle that scratched his face and headbutts him into the wall. If I could I'd cough up blood. My wings break off and my back has a big crack along it. The earthen goat Charges at the wall and I quickly drop down below it and hide in a hole in the wall. I use some of my stored stone to make myself look like a rock as I fill the hole and hope for the best. The goat apparently didn't see me so It doesn't know where I was. Of course it didn't get a system notification that It had killed me so it knew I was alive.

It looks like I'm going to need to train more before trying to fight those guys.