The Sunsoaker team returned to the cave, Sala carried several rabbits whilst Vork and Aurk carried a large lizard between them on a stick. They stepped into the main cave and immediately, a big goblin that was wearing proper furs and a closed metal helmet, came over and took the lizard away from them, and half their rabbits.

Sala made a annoyed face giving a tsk with her tongue. The goblin in the helmet turned to stare at her, but Aurk patted Sala on her back and made her continue walking, following behind as they were ignored, though some goblins threw some rocks that did not hit anyone of them while laughing loudly. Meanwhile Frel their leader had walked in deeper to the cave presumable to talk to the boss.

Sala mumbled and grumbled all the way over to the crack in the wall, that led to their area, seeing a goblin with extremely wide mouth filled with pointy teeth, that was standing just at the entry point. Turning to look at the three of them approaching. The goblin hissed and spit at them, Sala giving it a backhand causing it to be pushed back away, then walking inside the crack in the wall following by Vork.

Taking out her frustration on this goblin having first dibs on the food they hunted. Aurk remained to stare the Wide mouthed goblin down, that snarled at him, whilst looking at the crack with a nervous look. It scampered away but kept looking back now and again. Aurk gave it a final look, and stepped inside the crack and made his way to their room.

"Lurk!" Aurk heard Sala yell ahead down the passageway, and he sped up traversing the uneven crack, stepping into the room.

"What happened?" Aurk looked at the state of the room, Sala was holding Lurk shaking him a bit, as he seemed to be out cold or maybe dead. Three goblins where dead inside the room, two of the corpses left on the ground to themselves, but Lurk was lying right next to the last one, the dead goblins head was messed up, having been slammed into the ground over and over, black blood spread out beneath it.

Aurk turned to look down the passageway that lead into the main room. "That explains that goblin at the entry..."

Vorm was checking the dead goblins. Picking up a dagger looking it over a few times.

"how did he handle all of these guys..." Sala stated looking at the carnage after checking Lurk out that seemed fine and only had a cut on his arm.

"I do not know.. this does not make sense.." Aurk was kneeling down on the ground near one of the dead goblins, taking his rags away. He put a hand at the weird wound on the goblins back and its throat.

"Oi.. Is that boss's extra dagger??" Sala was checking Lurks wound and saw it was not serious at all, barely any bleeding. She noticed Vorm holding the dagger quickly questioning Vorm about it.

Vorm turned to look at Sala, then he looked at the Dagger and as he realized it, he let go of the dagger in shock letting it fall onto the ground.

"Urgh....." everyone turned to look at Lurk that groaned out, blinking and looking around groggily.

*Bonk!*

"What happened here Lurk! Did you beat all these goblins yourself??" Sala looked more annoyed than relieved, giving him one of her bonks on his head. He barely noticed it this time.

Lurks head was pounding through, he looked at his menu and he made a guess that he must have used just to much mana in the end, causing him to going unconscious.

"Uh..yeah.. I hid when I heard them coming in... They wanted the deer you got last time.... those legs, did they not think we already ate those?.." Lurk sat up, looking at all the dead goblins. Focusing especially at the last one he spent time healing and hurting till he ran out of mana, unable to stop himself. Rather he was not thinking about stopping which was more scary.

Clearly his mind is effected by being a goblin. Once the blood lust got going it was not gonna calm down til it was sated. Just his brief thought he had, that maybe he could grind his healing on another goblin than himself. One of those stray thoughts all people get, that are terribly evil and potentially stupid. That no one really does since their logic then comes in and says "nah that's dumb and evil" before going on with your day.

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But this time that logic voice was not saying anything, he just went with it and enjoyed it too, he could remembered laughing as he blacked out. He took a look at his Menu and brought up the trait he thought would be the main culprit.

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[Slightly Evil] Gained through Birth

The darkness has a slight grip on your mind and soul.

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("... Huh... Born Evil.. This seems unfair.. Its like some religions smacking you with being born with sin despite not having done anything. Except this time it was literal. ")

Lurk was still touching the goblin he used his healing skill on, with his foot so he decided to check its trait too.

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[Beyond Evil] Gained through Birth

The darkness resides in your soul - following its beck and call.

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So something is effecting all goblins through this trait. Lurk extended his hand up to Sala, that grabbed it and helped him up. Lurk checked her Menu now that he was awake to do so.

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[Progenitor Menu Access!]

Race : Goblin (65%, 25% Human, 10%Ogre)

Class : Pugilist Level 2

Name : Sala

Sex : Female

Age : 3 Months

Status : Second Cousin - Twice removed

Father : Blud - Skullcrusher (Goblin 75%, Ogre 25%)

Mother : Lisa Sofenweim (100% Human)

Stats :

[STR] : 14 (7+7)

[AGI] : 10

[STA] : 12

[WIS] : 6

[INT] : 5

[LUK] : 20

Health : 34/34

Mana : 12 / 12

Abilities :

[Speech : Goblin]

[Brawling]

[Mace]

[Stealth]

[Dodge]

Traits :

[Goblin Soul]

[Slightly Evil]

[Night Vision]

[STR Boost Medium]

Titles : Head bonker

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"..I guess I got lucky.." Lurk rubbed the back of his head not able to really come up with a good excuses for how he managed to take these guys out, without revealing he was able to use magic."

"...Did you not go all out against Sala earlier?!" Sala got angry and stepped up close and stared into Lurks eyes.

"Uh..uh. Oh that training ?? no no! I went all out.. Though I expected you to go a little easy on me..." Lurk backed away up against a wall, Sala followed staring at him angrily still, why is she so angry he thought.

*Bonk!*

"Sala did go easy on you! It is not like Sala wanted to kill you!!" Sala fumed and turned around huffing annoyed, seemingly not caring about the goblins that came in to steal from them.

"..Uhm.. what about the corpses here?... wont they get angry and come kill me the ones outside?" Lurk asked Aurk as Sala had stomped away over to her corner, ripping the skin of a rabbit whilst staring at Lurk.

("...please do not stare at me while you are ripping a rabbit apart Sala.....also have i not heard that said before somewhere..?..")

"Hm.. No?. Hm. Maybe but they will not do it head on.. These goblins are all very young. There was one outside that was standing guard, but it was pausing since it must have taken to long, and it was afraid to go in and check.." Aurk grabbed one of the goblins and started to drag it out after taking all its rags off. Throwing all the rags he collected over to Lurks corner along with the rusty dagger and club.

"Grab one and help.. You too Vorm" Aurk said as he began dragging the corpses out into the main room, Lurk and Vorm helped out, as they entered the main room, most goblins noticed and were quiet staring at them. Lurk stepped out with the corpse, followed by Vorm that quickly went into the crack again.

Aurk stood still looking out over the room, Lurk remained by his side. More goblins began noticing the pair standing with the dead goblins. Becoming silent.

A goblin Lurk had not seen before wearing furs and a Full Metal helmet, came over. Staring at Aurk and Lurk. He pulled out a Axe from his belt, Lurk readied himself slightly while Aurk stood still. The Helmet Goblin hacked the axe down onto the first dead goblins neck - then the other ones.

"Grab these worthless gobs!" The helmeted goblin said to some nearby goblins that grabbed the headless corpses and dragged them away following the Goblin with the helmet, Leaving behind the heads.

"He left the heads for you, the rest of the meat is for the nest." Aurk Stated calmly as he turned around and stepped back into the crack in the wall.

Lurk looked at the skulls, the goblins in the room staring at him, clearly some thought mistakenly, that Aurk had killed the three goblins, since Lurk looks a lot less impressive. Lurk thought about this and looked to the heads, picking up them up he placed one at each side of the crack, taking the last one using the neck wound, he marked a crude drawing of a sun on either side of the entryway, before putting the head next to the crack along with the others.

He turned to look at the goblins, they were transfixed by the symbols and then staring at Lurk, he turned around and stepped into the darkness back into the room.

[Drawing] Learned! Raised to 0

[Intimidation] Learned! Raised to 0.4

Title Gained : Sun Soaker