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Chapter 1:Goblins!!!

Chapter 1: Goblins!!!

Shiva was a bright and cheerful boy living with his small family in Nepal. But his life changed forever when goblins which he had only seen or heard about in movies or novels appeared out of nowhere and started attacking his hometown. The gruesome scene of goblins slaughtering the people he used to know scared the heck out of him.

He was going out for an evening walk with his sister when he saw this scene. He used to read all types of fantasy novels and stuffs. So, it didn't take him any longer to figure out what was happening. But he couldn't imagine that this would one day happen to him out of nowhere. It was wrong to think like that but he was getting excited as he had lived a dull life until now.

He was an engineering student who was fed up completely with his boring life. He was already 20 and he still had no girlfriend. Heck, he still hadn't even talked to a girl before. He was a complete otaku who spent his time reading manga, novels or such things imagining himself as the protagonist. He was excited very much now that he found himself in the situation, he always imagined him to be in.

So, he didn't lose his cool at all. He hugged his sister and calmed her down while himself looking at the goblins chasing people. His eyes didn't show any fear or excitement anymore as he started to feel the rage. There were 5 small sized ugly faced brown goblins chasing people. After killing all the people nearby, one of the goblins saw Shiva and ran towards him with its thin body. It had a small sword on its hands.

Shiva was startled when he saw a goblin running towards him. He became fearful as he knew what the goblin wanted. Knowing what was happening and accepting the situations were two different things. Though he took everything that happened easily as these scenes were common in nowadays stories, accepting them and fighting the monsters were completely different things. His mind went blank even though the goblin was smaller in size compared to him.

Despite himself being 1.8m tall, he couldn't prepare himself to fight the 1.4m tall goblin. Him being a non-violent boy all his life, he wasn't ready to fight nonetheless a monster. He thought back to what the protagonists would do in this time, if they were here instead of him. He then thought about his sister. He had to save her. So, he prepared himself for a fight as he knew that he couldn't avoid it. He looked around for anything he could use to fight the goblin.

"Relax, It's just a chibi. I can defeat it pretty easily if I put myself to it." He started to encourage himself.

(Chibi means shorty in Japanese.)

When the goblin neared him, Shiva picked a pointed stone near him. He put his sister behind him and urged her to move backward and be careful. He concentrated his all on the goblin. It swung its sword horizontally as if it wanted to cut him into two pieces. Shiva quickly dodged the blow by squatting. The strike cut some of his hair which sent chill down his spine. This attack just made him believe that what he was seeing was more than real. It was really happening. He lunged forward at the goblin and he attacked it with the stone without thinking anything.

Chop

Chop

Chop

He chopped and chopped with his eyes closed. He calmed down after some time. The goblin was already dead and its body was starting to disappear.

"Ha-ha I did it. I killed it. Ha-ha". Shiva was exhilarated.

He looked towards the dead goblin and its disappearing body. It dropped the sword it was carrying and a small circular-brown crystal.

Beat

Beat

Beat

His heart was beating very fast probably because of the fight or because he was scared.