Chapter 3: The Goblin's hunt
Ben didn't expect the goblins to become so scared that they couldn't even move!
Realising this, he changed his ferocious expression to that of his normal one so that they won't become too afraid to even speak.
The goblins, seeing that the majestic looking beast didn't look angry anymore heaved sighs of relief.
One of them tried explaining something but Ben couldn't understand their jumbled up words and got frustrated.
Seeing the apparent frustration on his face, one of the goblins quickly ran away, the other two stayed behind using some strange movements trying to explain something, they seemed to be expressing that Ben should wait here for a while.
'Hm?...they want me to wait?'
"Fine, but do it quickly" he nodded his head and replied.
Hearing his response, the other two goblins excitedly started jumping around while making weird noises from their mouths.
It may take some time so Ben sat down while curiously staring at the two goblins.
Seeing the beast sitting so majestically before them and even staring at them made the goblins even more frantic in their actions, they started dancing in circles to entertain Ben.
"...hehehehe"
Ben unknowingly began laughing after seeing the dance they were doing.
Noticing that the majestic beast looked happy with their performance, the two goblins became even more active in their movements!
'I wonder what they want from me? Is it that they want to become my subordinates? Do they want to come under my protection?'
Ben shook his head 'What protection? I am very weak right now, how can I even protect these people? Won't I just die?'
He carefully stared at the goblins and wondered how strong they were as compared to him.
The moment he thought of that, something happened!
Two blue coloured boxes appeared above the head of both the goblins.
[Urja:10] [Urja: 10]
[Power: 20] [Power: 20]
The two goblins had the same amount of urja and power levels.
'woah, so I can actually see someone's urja and power level with the help of the system? Now this is convenient.'
Ben was now confident that he won't unnecessarily make opponents with stronger beasts in this forest, and will be able to carefully make himself stronger.
After waiting for a while, the third goblin finally returned before the group.
The other two goblins stopped dancing, and moved back to their positions after seeing their companion return back while carrying something.
The goblin had a small dead animal on his right hand, it was a brown coloured one horned rabbit.
Its size was a bit bigger and larger than an average matured white rabbit from earth.
After reaching the group, the goblin went closer to Ben before putting down the dead rabbit below his feet.
After putting it there, the goblin went back to stand with his two companions.
Ben curiously stared at the dead rabbit in front of him, and then at the goblins before asking
"You three want to become my subordinates?"
Ki ki ka ke ki!
Ki ki ka ke ki!
Ku ka ki ko!
The three goblins began making weird excited noises, before coming closer and bowing down in front of Ben.
'Sigh…I was right but.....wait!'
He saw the dead rabbit seemed to be pouring out some light blue coloured aura off its body!
Seeing the familiar aura, Ben didn't hesitate and began absorbing it.
Siiiiiiip
After completely absorbing the urja, he again checked his information from the system.
[Universal Beast system]
[Owner: Ben clarckson]
[Talent/Abilities: Nil]
[Skills: Basic physical skills]
[System ability: Absorb urja, language translator]
[Urja level: 22]
[Power level: 42]
…
…
'My urja and power levels increased a bit!' Ben looked amazed and curious.
Ben was wondering whether he would have to kill more powerful beasts to absorb urja from their bodies.
He didn't think that he could absorb urja even from dead bodies of weak animals like rabbits!
'Now that I think about it...these guys might be of some use to me after all.'
Ben began making plans for his future with these three goblins, and after thinking for a while he turned his head to look at them.
"Hm..it is okay, stand up"
Hearing his order, the three goblins immediately stood up waiting for his orders.
"Nice, you guys can be my subordinates. First of all, go kill some animals just like this rabbit here, and bring their bodies back to me. Understood?"
"Ki!!" The three made some noises before quickly running away to hunt some animals and bring them back to their powerful Boss.
Seeing their enthusiasm, Ben felt that these goblins would be quite useful to him at least for now.
'Wait...they should be injured right? I should've at least let them recover a bit before ordering them to go hunting.'
Ben felt some guilt and decided to let these goblins eat most of the animals after their hunting was over.
….
On a tree, a normal sized snake could be seen peacefully sleeping in a branch.
The snake woke up after hearing some voices coming from below. It saw two goblins trying to climb the tree and one goblin standing on the ground.
The snake felt like they were threats but didn't move because it was a bit cautious of these goblins.
After climbing for a while, the two goblins finally reached the branch on which the snake was holding on to.
After seeing the two goblins stopping at his branch, the snake became even more cautious.
It got into a staring contest with the goblins.
One of them raised his hand and moved a bit closer to the snake, the snake cautiously stared at the hand, it was ready to attack at any time!.
The snake almost attacked the hand of that goblin, when it saw the goblin hurriedly move back his hand!
It didn't know what the goblin wanted to do, suddenly! The second goblin brought out a small sized stick from his back and hit the snake.
Pak!
The snake fell down before it could react. While falling, the snake planned that it would escape right after reaching the ground but it's plan couldn't be accomplished because the third goblin quickly went up, and brought out a cloth sack before capturing the snake within it.
How they got a cloth sack is a mystery.
Ki ki ka ku!
Ki ko ku ka!
Ku ku ku!
The goblins celebrated for a while before quickly running away because they were cautious of their surroundings.
In this way, they kept hunting small animals as a group, what they didn't know was that a shady pair of eyes were seeing their actions for quite a while before they vanished.
….
Beside the roots of a tree, A majestic looking lion was sitting like a king with a plain expression. It was Ben.
He was waiting for those three goblins to come back while also checking the system functions.
[Universal beast system]
[Owner: Ben clarckson]
[Talent/Ability: Nil]
[Skills: Basic physical abilities]
[System ability: Absorb urja, language translator]
[Urja level: 22]
[Power level: 42]
[Other functions]
…
...
Ben tapped on the other functions option and saw more things appear on the screen.
[Other functions]
[Create: skills, Abilities/Skills (urja will be needed for creating and using the created talents/Abilities and skills)]
[The effective force or limit of the attack or skill will be equal to your urja and power level.]
[Subordination]: [system acknowledged subordinates could be given some unique powers randomly assigned by the system.]
[In return, their sense of inferiority against you will always be there, and you would have some control over them. the owner would also be able to take away their lives at any time with the help of the system.
Subordinates would share the absorb ability of the system, and would be able to absorb urja.
Some urja would be transferred to the owner and the remaining urja would be converted to increase the subordinate's physical capabilities.]
[(Only willing ones will be eligible to become subordinates.)]
[Subordinates limit : 1 (Current limit)]
"Damn! This creation function is a cheat!..."
Seeing all these options, Ben felt excited, especially after seeing that he could create his own skills and abilities!
If he could create any energy based ability or skills then wouldn't that mean that he would be able to create any types of them? Even dimensional, time, mental, elemental, cultivation attacks!.
Wait...time would not work as it is not some energy but a concept or maybe law.
Ben felt that there might be an actual limit to the types of abilities or skill that this system could create.
It should not be too limiting though as the system itself is basically called the Universal beast system.
What is a universal beast?
It means a Fu*king strong beast!
Ben imagined himself becoming the size of a planet and going around terrorizing different planets in the universe, just thinking about all this made him shiver with excitement!
"I will become the true terror of the universe! Hahaha!...ahem..ahem..well just kidding, I don't have such big plans."
He just wanted to find some secrets related to his transmigration, and to see whether he could travel back to Earth.
He can't live without knowing the endings of many anime, manga, Manwha, Manhua, comics, Novels etc etc of his previous world, he wanted to go back and finish watching them.
He didn't have any loved one back on earth so he wasn't that sad, he just felt pity that he was missing out on those many entertainment shows back on earth.
After waiting for a while, the goblins finally returned with many small dead animals on their hands.
Some brown coloured one horned rabbits, snakes, roddents, cat sized rats etc.
Ben felt like puking right after seeing so many bodies, although he was a wildlife tourist worker in the past, it was not as if he had experienced living in much wildlife environment.
He had just graduated and was starting to work so he was still a bit disgusted at seeing so many dead animals.
'I have to calm down...I am a lion living in a forest right now so it is better if I get used to it early on .'
The goblins piled the dead animals in front of Ben before moving away from him. Previously they saw Ben do something with the dead bodies of these animals, they speculated that he must be doing some mysterious things with these bodies so they decided to not disturb their boss.
Seeing the many urja pouring out from these dead bodies, Ben excitedly absorbed all their urja. With time the urja outside kept thinning, and his body's urja quantity kept increasing steadily.
Finally after absorbing all the urja, Ben opened his eyes and checked his urja quantity.
[Universal beast system]
[Owner: Ben clarckson]
[Talent/Ability: Nil]
[Skills: Basic physical skills]
[System ability: Absorb Urja, Language translator]
[Urja level: 85]
[Power level: 170]
[Other options]...
'Oh! Shit!'
His Urja and power levels increased so much!
'Wait wait...maybe my quantity levels are increasing so quickly because of them being too low...the more it increases the more difficult it will become to increase the quantity, unless I start killing even stronger beasts. It should be like this!' thought Ben.
Thinking of this, Ben became curious about this urja energy that he could absorb from the dead.
'Hey, system...what is the time limit of urja? I mean will the urja pouring out from the dead disappear after a while? Or would it stay for a long time?'
Hearing his question, the system sent some text messages on the interface.
Ding!
[It depends...urja would disappear quickly for weak beings while it would persist for a longer time period if they were very powerful and had more denser energy inside of them. System can't determine the exact time it takes for urja to disappear.]
'So it is like that huh….guess I can't absorb from age old corpses then.'
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