Charlus went to the carpet store and ordered a similar looking rug that was in the kitchen. He wanted to make sure that his mother wouldn’t notice when she came back. After finding a good rug he gave them an address to deliver it to. He then went to get dinner.

He went to the nearest burger stop. It was a small joint which wasn’t famous but he had found their burgers to be exceptional.

“Irda! How do you do?”

“My man Charles! Where were you man? We was missing you.”

“It’s Charlus. Anyways, give me a loaded steak burger.”

“Togo?”

Charlus nodded. A few minutes later, he left the joint with a bag in his hands.

Charlus munched on his burger while sitting on a bench in the nearest park. He liked sitting outside than in restaurants because he felt that they were too stuffy. He was happily eating his burger when he heard a weird sound.

He looked behind him. The park was right beside an artificial forest so Charlus could only see some trees. Charlus took out his phone and switched on the flash lights. He saw the bushes ruffling a few meters out. Then he saw a small humanoid figure rushing back into the woods.

“What’s a kid doing here?!”

Charlus ran after the figure. He followed the figure until he found himself deep in the forest. He looked around but didn’t find any indication of where he came from.

“Shit! What’s wrong with this kid?”

Suddenly, a figure came from the nearby bushes.

“There you are. Why were you running?”

The figure came closer and Charlus finally got a good look on it. It had green skin and had no hair. It was dressed in a loin cloth covering it’s privates. There was nothing in it’s hands.

“What the hell is that?!”

Charlus instinctively backed away from the creature that was drawing near him. He looked above it and saw a bar.

[Goblin Lvl 1]

Lvl 1? Would he be able to defeat it? No, what if he died instead? His life was more precious.

–>Fight

–>Stall

–>Run

Before Charlus could evaluate his options the goblin jumped onto him. It was trying to scratch Charlus’ neck but he caught its hands and flung him away.

“It’s really light. I was able to fling it away easily. If I had a weapon I could fight it.”

Charlus looked around and only found a huge rock.

–>Fight

Charlus charged towards the creature, as did it towards him. Charlus locked hands with the goblin. He started spinning it around. The goblin was lifted into the air. Charlus slowly moved towards the huge rock that he had seen earlier. He got near it and finally rammed the goblin into it.

[You have defeated a Goblin]

[10 Exp Awarded]

[You have received Common Material: Goblin Tooth]

The goblin disappeared before Charlus could take a good look to see if it was alive. Charlus’ hand was still numb from the impact from the stone. He wanted to let go of the goblin but didn’t want to risk it.

Now Charlus had to think. What was a Goblin doing in this park? Why was there something like a goblin in this world itself? Why hadn’t some scientist discovered it? The goblin seemed very stupid, so it couldn’t have been hiding itself.

Was the country aware of this and simply hiding it from the common citizens. If so, was this actually real? Was this not a hallucination?

Charlus was still not convinced that he had some sort of game system but this cemented his belief. Either his life had really turned into a game or he was dreaming. He was okay with both. If it was a dream, he wanted to live to the fullest, since he had nothing better to do.

Charlus looked around and found a stick. The stick was a foot long and wide. It wasn’t sharp but Charlus could use it to push people away. Charlus picked it up and went towards his back.

Charlus didn’t know where to go, but he knew that he was in danger. If there was one goblin, there was a chance that there were more than one goblin. Charlus didn’t want to take the risk. He would get out as quickly as possible and give the police an anonymous tip that there were some tiny people in the forest that were dangerous.