I look back and forth across the hall before sprinting towards the bathroom pulling Grace alongside me. Reaching the bathroom I open the door and pull Grace inside, shutting and locking it behind us. "Are you ok?" I ask "I think so" she says shakily, "What were those things?" she asks me with big eyes. "Goblins" I say "Were those the first ones you've seen" I ask, she nods. "Where have you been the past hour" I ask her "well a while ago one of those things came into the room and everybody else rushed out of the botany lab screaming. I was to afraid so I hid behind a cabinet, I had thought it left so I came out from behind the cabinet and those 4 were in the doorway. And then you showed up and You know what happened from there." I nod at her in uderstanding.

"Status" I say

Name: Daemon Hawke Str.11 Race: Human Con.13 Health: 51/65 Wis.16 Mana: 35/80 Int.16 Stamina: 12/60 Dex.12 (14) Luk.20 (21) Cun.10 Skill Points: 1 Def.6.50(8.50) Status points: 10 Atk.9.50(19.50) Common Grade Skill "Harvesting" Novice level 1 +5% ease of collecting materials from corpses +1% per level Common Grade Skill "Goblin Anatomy" Novice level 1 +5% Critical chance against goblins +1% per level Common Grade Skill "Speed Reading" Adept Lv.3 +1% reading speed per level Common Grade Skill "Swords Mastery" Novice Lv.4 +5% sword damage +1% per level Common Grade Skill "Spear Mastery" Novice Lv.1 +5% spear damage +1% per level Common Grade Skill "Dagger Mastery" Novice Lv.3 +5% Dagger damage +1% per level Common Grade Skill "Ranged Mastery" Novice Lv.2 +5% ranged damage +1% per level Uncommon Grade Skill "War Cry" -5 Mp. per use 30 sec. countdown +5% chance of inflicting "confusion" on enemies within hearing range

Uncommon Grade Skill "Backstab"

+50% damage when attacking from behind +1% per level

Unique Grade Skill "Eye of the Beholder"

Steal: has a chance to take the skills of any living creature within your line of sight (if skill fails skills are still consumed)

Copy: has a chance to copy the skills of any living creature within your line of sight to a lesser degree, low chance of sucsess

Corpse Robber: has a chance to rob a corpse within your line of site for partial skill aquisition

"Hey stay still for a minute"I say to Grace. "Wh why" she says backing away slowly. "I'm not gonna do anything just use a skill" I say "O Ok" she says hesitantly.

"Eye of the Beholder: Copy"

level 1 human "Grace" skill failure Nothing gained

"Damnit" I swear." "Wh what's wrong" she says tensely, "Nothing the skill just failed" I say "let's just get some rest, you can have the sleeping bag." I say as I turn around and sit on the floor.

After nearly half an hour of laying there leaned against the wall I hear a noise and look over and Grace is sitting up. "Can't sleep?" I ask. She shakes her head, I get up and go over to her, as I sit down next to her she opens up the sleeping bag and I sit inside next to her. Turning towards her I hug her and I cradle her head on my shoulder. "Shh Shh " I say as she begins to cry again. "It's gonna be ok" I whisper into her ear as sleep overcomes her.

Looking down at her I once agan realised how beautiful she was. I realise I should keep watch but as I cradle her, I can't resist but to close my eyes and drift away to sleep.

Grace's Point of view

I feel warmth surrounding me as I wake up, I look up to see him, Daemon, cradling me in his arms as he rests. His body warming mine as I wonder who he really is, he acts normal other than the killing monsters part but I figure that will be normal as well all too soon, but he not only risked his life to save me, when I look into his eyes I see a great sadness supressed there, His piercing blue eyes "ahh" I sigh, although he isn't what most people would call handsome, he seems strangely appealing to the eyes, but maybe that's just hero worship, he did save me from those things I think as I shudder remembering our early encounter.

My shudder must have woken him because as my body calms his eyes start to open

Daemon's POV

I feel a small shudder run against my body as my eyes open, as I awake I see Grace before me her face red from the heat of the sleeping bag for a moment I thought she was blushing before I think better of it.

"Good Morning Grace" I say as I start to strech and get up. "G- Good morning Daemon" she says the red still present on her face, that's strange I think, hopefully she isn't getting sick.

"You hungry?" I ask her inquiringly."Y-Yeah she says" the red starting to fade from her face. "What do you want an apple,a granola bar, or a sandwich?" I ask her. "A granola bar's ok" she says, I nod as I pull out two granola bars, and hand her one of them.

I once again reach into my inventory but this time I pull out: my daggers, the spear, my gloves, and health potions one of which I store in my pocket. Turning towards Grace I hand her the spear and the extra health potion before showing her how to use "Inventory" and her "Status Menu", I equip the rest of the items and told her I would be gone a few hours and to lock the door behind me. "I'll knock 7 times for you to let me back in ok?" "Unh" she nods.

15 minutes later in the botany lab

Bringing out the corpse of the first two goblins I killed, I looked at them in disgust thinking about how they had gotten to be in this state

The Day Before, After killing the Frenzied Goblin Scout

Ok what should I do now, I'm Already finished resting but I don't wanna go back out there now...

"Well I guess I could, No I can't do that, but I kinda have to now don't I" I mutter arguing with myself then resigning myself to do this

"GUSH" I hear A large squirting noise as I start to cut the skin from the first goblin's body

"Huuh" I vomit on the floor at the sight of the disassembled corpse, before moving to the second corpse and repeating the process

Ding!

Common Grade Skill Gained "Goblin Anatomy" Novice Level 1

This skill, gained from disassembling a goblins corpse, gives you a better understanding of a goblin's body

+5% Critical Chance against goblins +1% per level

Common Grade Skill Gained "Harvesting" Novice Level 1

This skill allows you to better disassemble and harvest materials from the corpses of the fallen

+5% Ease of harvesting corpses +1% per level

"Huuh" I vomit again as I finish storing the now disassembled corpses back into my inventory.

Present Time

I prepare to repeat myself once again except this time I hopefully won't puke.

Ding

Common Grade Skill "Goblin Anatomy" level up x2 Common Grade Skill "Harvesting" level up x1

"awso- huuh" I start to say before I puke again , "uh I'm so glad all I ate for breakfast was granola bar" I say looking at the mess on the floor

"Ok" I say storing all of the goblin parts except for the leather back in my inventory. Pulling out my "Shadow Iron Dagger" I start to scrape the remaining bits of flesh from the hide. Having cleaned the remaining flesh from the hide I start cutting 3 of the goblin hides into strips. I take out my thread and sewing needles and start to sew the strips into a frame that'll fit my body. Having sewed the strips into two frames I took the black leather from the Shadow Goblin and used a piece of it to cover the frames that go over the chest and sewed them down securely, cutting off two wide and long strips of red Frenzied Goblin Leather I sew them over the back of the frame to cover the spine. Cutting four pads and two short wide strips out of the last of the Shadow Goblin leather I use them To cover the shoulders and back of the neck part of the frame. Cutting the remaining Frenzied Goblin leather into strips I use them to wrap around the bottom of the armpits of the armor, before filling in the remaining spots in the frame with ordinary goblin leather. I lean back to survey he product of my work a screen pops up in front of me.

Rare Grade"Frenzied Shadow Goblin Soft Armor" x2 has been sucsessfuly created

This armor although not made b an expert was made using the materials of various goblins and their subspecies and turned out to be a good product

+2 Str. +2 Dex. +7 Def. +20Sta. Once a day "Shadow of the Goblin Tribe" can make it's user invisible for 15 sec.

you have created 2 rare rank weapons

+50Exp.

Common Grade Skill "Sewing" Novice Level 1 has been learned

This skill shows your proficiency of working with leather, cloth, and needles

+5% skill with sewing needles +1% per level

"snap" Goes my jaw as I close it from reading the description of the armor I created."Holy Shit" I say as my eyes widen in disbelief "I made ths?! Really?" I say. "Ok Daemon pull it together keep working" I say to myself as i reenter my inventory to pullout some Frenzied Goblin bones and Shadow Goblin sinews as well as some ordinary goblin leather and bone.

Using my "rusty iron dagger" I cut off the sides of the knobs on one end of each of the bones before using the file on the side of my Multi-Tool saw to file the end of each bone into a point and then using the screwdriver to drill four holes into the opposite end of each bone I use the sinews to tie them together and then drill holes near the top of each pointed end and string a rope made of sinew between the two holes and tie them off,

Uncommon Grade "Frenzied Goblin Bone Bow"

This bow was made using the bones of an uncommon grade Frenzied Goblin subspecies and the sinew of a rare Shadow Goblin subspecies

+1Str. +1Dex. +6Atk. +5Sta.

you have created an uncommon ranked weapon

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Uncommon Grade Skill "Bowlyer" learned

This skill though rarely larned shows ones proficiency at crafting bows and crossbows

+5% Quality increase when making bows +1% per level

Common Grade Skill "BoneSmith" Learned

This sill is given to the few smiths who craft with bone not metal

+5% quality to crafted bone weapons +1% per level

Common Grade Skill "BoneSmith" level up x1

"Ok 2 down 1 to go." Taking 2 Shadow Goblin bones I trim ayay the excess of the bone nobs and file them down till their smooth. Taking a piece of thicker Frenzied Goblin bone I cut it down to a rough pointed cone and then file it smooth before cutting barbs into the bottom edges, and cutting 2 notches into the bottom of the spear head drilling holes into the notches until they connect before drilling a hole into the top of the 2 connected bones and tying them together with sinew. Then I take 4 long strips of bone and putting them on opposite sides I duct tape them down and add leather grips.

Uncommon Grade "Frenzied Shadow Goblin Bone Spear"

This spear has a barbed head made from Frenzied Goblin bone and a shaft made of Shadow Goblin bone reinforced with ordinary Goblin bone

+6Atk. +15Sta. +1Dex. +1Str.

you have created an uncommon grade weapon

+20 Exp.

"Ok that's everything for now, I guess." I don my new soft armor and Unbarracade the door glancing black and forth across the hall and so running to the door I knocked 7 times. The door opened and there stood Grace with a worried look on her face scanning me, seeing I had no injuries her expression turned from one of worry to one of relief as she jumped into my arms, I barely catch myself from falling, but manage to grip the wall. The only problem is now grace is pinned to the wall under me, as I look at her rapidly reddening face my breathing grows rougher and louder, I start to lean my face towards hers before I remember where we are and what I saved her from yesterday, pulling myself back I set her down and look away.

"H- Here" I say as I take out her new armor and spear and hand it to her without looking at her face. "Th- Thank you"she says quietly. "Just let me rest a little then we can go searching for more of those things" I say. "Wh- wait look for them?!"she asks "Yes" I say "Why would we do that?" she asks her lips quivering and her eyes watery. Forgetting already what had just happen, I step forward and hug her "it's gonna be ok" I say as I hug her, "From what I've seen so far of our new world we're gonna need strength and this is how we have to get it" I say. At first she tenses up but then she hugs me back. Feeling her calm down I say come on lets go once you put your armor on.

"Umm" she says "yes" I say "hmhmhmhm" she mumbles "what, speak up" I say. "I I said I don't know how to put it on m- myself." she says her cheeks flushing rapidly