[In the third month, to celebrate your level reaching Level 4.] [Your father personally came to the corner where you reside.] [He delivered something before you.] [You looked closely; it was actually a little human boy!] [As a Goblin, you should be happy.] [Humans, with their tender skin and succulent meat, are a ‘luxury’ that many Goblins never get to taste in their entire lives.] [But you found yourself in a difficult position.] [Because, in your past life, you were human!] [“This…
how am I supposed to bite into this?”] [You wailed inwardly.] [Seeing you hesitate to act, Grum tilted his massive head and voiced his confusion.] [“Uwa-wa?
Woo?!” (Why aren’t you eating?)] [You looked up, your face struggling to squeeze out a Goblin-style smile.] [“Father King!
Eating him in one go would be such a waste!”] [“I…
I want to keep him by my side as ’emergency food’!
Yes!
Emergency food!”] [As you spoke, you observed Grum’s reaction.] [He was confused at first, but then his simple mind seemed to understand this cruel game of ‘fattening up before eating,’ which fit perfectly with Goblin logic.] [He felt this was very ‘Goblin’!!] [“Haha!!!”] [Grum let out a deafening burst of laughter.] [He patted your shoulder heavily.] [“Keep him!
Your…
emergency food!”] [He laughed loudly and turned to leave.] [At the same time, the system notification sounded in your mind—] [Detected that the Host’s number of lies has reached the threshold.
Learned Skill: Deception (Beginner 1/100)] [Deception (Beginner): Your lies are more natural and persuasive, making it easier for low-intelligence creatures to believe you.] [“I even gained a skill?”] [“Does proficiency only increase when the lie is believed?
How interesting…”] [Filled with joy, it took a while before you remembered your newly acquired possession.] [“Woo-wa-wa (Don’t be afraid.)”] [You spoke as softly as possible, but it still sounded raspy and unpleasant.] [The languages of the green-skinned folk are not compatible.] [But he could still sense your friendliness.] [You looked at him, thought for a moment, and decided to give him a name.] [A name that seemed exceptionally out of place and ironic in this dark cave—] [“From now on, you shall be called…
‘Little Sun’.”] […] [In the fourth month, your level reached Level 5.] [You have now grown to a size where you can ‘leave the cage’.] [In a Goblin tribe, this means you must begin participating in collective hunts.] [This is an iron rule set by Grum: those who do not hunt are not worthy of sharing food.] [The good news is that your body is stronger than that of an average Goblin.] [The even better news is that you possess a brain they could never hope to match.] [Every time you go out to hunt.] [You carefully observe the environment and set traps.] [You even mix acid into the water to poison other Goblins and steal their prey.] [By these means, you never return empty-handed from a hunt; in fact, your harvests are quite good.] [But it is still far from enough.] [Because according to tribal rules, half of all hunting harvests must be handed over.] [Watching half of the prey you worked so hard for being taken away, you shouted indignantly in your heart.] [“How dark!!
Darker than an underground cave!!”] [Besides that, you have an extra burden—you need to feed your ’emergency food’, Little Sun.] [This makes your already meager food reserves even more strained.] [What?
You ask why not just kill Little Sun?] [The reason is simple: you have longer-term plans.] [You can’t stay in this cave forever.] [The human soul within you yearns for the wider world, and language is the key to that world.] [You are having Little Sun teach you the human language.] [Heaven knows how much effort it took for you to get Little Sun to barely understand your desire to learn.] [It is worth mentioning that you found Little Sun to be a pure and kind child.] [He trusts your words unconditionally.] [“Little Sun, there was no prey today.
We might have to go hungry.”] [(In reality, you had already eaten it on the way back.)] [Little Sun lowered his head: “Oh…
Ray, I’m not hungry…”] [“Deception proficiency +1…”] [“As long as Ray is by my side, I’ll be fine with anything!”] [“Mhm, I will always be by your side.”] [“Deception proficiency +1…”] [Just like that, deceiving him was even easier than deceiving those stupid Goblins.
With his’selfless help,’ your Deception proficiency skyrocketed.] “What a scumbag…
oh no, a Scumb-lin.” Ray couldn’t help but complain.
From the look of things, while he couldn’t say he had completely lost his humanity, he was certainly doing plenty of bad things.
“I’m a pure and honest youth too…
how can the me in the simulation be like this…” “Ding!
The Host’s personality will be influenced by Talents.” The system explained considerately.
“But out of humanitarianism, inheriting a Talent will not change the Host’s actual personality.” “Well, aren’t you just wonderful,” Ray said with a hint of sarcasm.
“Of course, I am the strongest—” Before the system could finish, Ray continued reading.
He didn’t want to listen to this idiot’s narcissism.