Nazeem watched the humans and goblins fight , it seemed they were standing in the hallway , 2 of them with a shield and 1 of them with a pike from behind them stabbing the goblin’s calmly. It seemed they were easily killing them as if it was their day job. After the goblin’s were cleared up the adventures continued on their day after looting most of the items , all that was left lying around a broken spear tip , a shaft of wood roughly 50 cm long with a crude speartip made of probably bronze or copper going by the colour.
As the humans passed him, Nazeem closed his eyes to blend in with the surroundings , after waiting for a minute he opened them to look around. The coast was clear but he wouldn’t want to risk morphing yet if there were humans here he had to wait till they were done for the day. As he stood there still waiting, a few other parties passed him. All going the same way as the first party.
While waiting he was contemplating if it would be smart to follow Noctis on his word, he could probably shapeshift into a human but he noticed it while running away as a monkey , he didn’t get the full effect and the body felt foreign to him , he should've focused more at biology at school. He was going to wait till the human parties went away and imagined he probably had a few hours of hunting then. He was contemplating which form would be easy to utilize and use the bronze spear to kill some stuff.
While morphed he saw that his stats were the same so if he morphed to something with a hard exoskeleton it probably wouldn’t help him. He could try morphing as a goblin to infiltrate them. But he would have to wait if stuff respawns. Going back he probably was going to follow Noctis’s request because next to the devourer he seems to be set up to kill other chosens for his skill. And he hoped that that person had something to help further.
He imagined he had to shed his humanity a bit to survive and thrive. He didn’t know what he wanted to do in this world , he was going to explore and see what the status was. While he was waiting he slowly noticed the adventurer parties walking back , and after counting he saw that the last one had left. There were still no new goblins , but the spear was luckily still there. So he transformed into the monkey again , picked up the spear and saw there was also a crude sling laying around with some rocks , he picked up those as well. He didn’t know how to use a sling but the goblins seemed stupid enough to try and lute by throwing rocks.
The hunger had increased but he still could handle it for now , in his monkey form he tried to use his tail to try and get used to the balance a bit. and calmly get acclimated to his body. While waiting he observed that a puff of smoke appeared and a single goblin respawned.
Noticing how only one spawned he quickly threw a rock at it to make it notice him. The creature snarled and ran towards him. He quickly ran back in the corridor till he could barely see the entrance to the goblin room. The goblin was still running his way , he had 2 rocks left he threw another one trying to aim for its eyes. Sadly he missed the eyes but he hit the side of its head in its ear. The goblin stumbled a bit before continuing to run at him.
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It was wielding a dagger and made a stabbing motion at him , he sacrificed left hand to grab the dagger , while the dagger was stuck he stabbed the goblins in its nether region. The spear still impaled there he let go of it while the goblin was squealing and poked both eyes with his fingers. The goblin let go of the dagger and grabbed its eyes. He pulled the dagger out of his hand and stabbed multiple times on its throat. And it stopped squirming.
The goblin was wearing a ugly loincloth but he braced himself and took it off and wrapped the outside of it against his head to stop the bleeding. Bleeding was a strong word because there was streaming green goop out of him. After wrapping his hand he mentally prepared himself he was feeling hungry and he guessed as a mimic he had to eat flesh. His right hand closed his nose and he closed his eyes while biting into the goblin which was very stinky. The thought of what he was about to do made him almost puke but beggars can’t be choosers.
As he bit into the goblin he was relieved that he didn’t taste anything , it felt like was eating nothing , but the texture still grossed him out. He started by eating around the belly area and eating the organs first. He was so glad that he couldn’t taste anything while eating the intestines etc. with the crude dagger he tried to skin the goblin as best as possible after that to look at its muscle structure. It was luckily a bit of a mix between humans and monkeys.
After that he ate the corsple clean until only the bones were left. He was still a bit hungry but not as much. He morphed into the goblin , the cloth dropped off his left hand and he saw that it was covered but his hand still hurt , so he guessed it was only cosmetically fixed. He equipped the loin cloth and wielded the dagger in his left hand barely able to hold it. Then he put the spear into the goblin’s skull and dragget it with him leaving the sling and rocks.
He slowly went back to the goblin room draggin the corpse with him , when he was close by the entrance sat the corpse up and put the spear in its hand so you could see it shine a bit by the reflection of the light. He walked into the room with his dagger and saw that most of the goblin’s respawned but there were still some missing , he guessed they respawn on a certain time basen on when they were killed. Some were gathered in groups, some were alone. He went to a lone goblin and grunted a bit while pointing to the hallway. While pointing the spear reflected a bit and the goblin noticed it and went to the hallway.
Nazeem slowly followed it looking to see if the rest followed but it seems that wasn’t the case. After they were in the hallway he grabbed the goblin’s mouth from behind and slit its throat. Eating that corpse too , he felt that his left hand was slowly hurting less. This goblin had a crude club as a weapon and he left it there feeling more comfortable with the dagger for now. He dragged this corpse further inside so it was not visible. He repeated this action several times killing about 5 more goblins. But he noticed that after the first 3 goblins he was not gaining any levels he was now level 3. And from all those goblins he had gained 1 dexterity from devouring. But he was fully healed and it seemed as if he had a black hole in him because he could keep eating. It took him around 2 hours to do this , he was leery of when the human’s would come back. So feeling happy he survived he went to a nook in the brick wall on the ground level and transformed himself into a small sandstone coin again. He was feeling tired and went to sleep in coin form.