A Monster Who Levels Up

Chapter 5

The rain started to fall. At first, the drops were light and fleeting, but soon intensified and flooded the small streams flowing down the mountains, as well as rapidly filling up all the basins here.

‘Looks like it’ll last a while.’

Sae-Jin finally let out a sigh after gazing at the rain for a long time. He was worried. What could he say to the resting woman behind him? What excuses sound plausible enough to prevent her from murdering him? For a highly ranked Knight like her who was aiming to become a person of the Highest Tier, it’d only take a single punch to erase any and all hints of the existence of a single Low Tier ranked Goblin.

"…* moan* …"

But he couldn’t continue worrying and agonising for any longer. Even though it hadn’t been an hour since the treatment, Kim Yu-Rin let out soft moans as if she’d regain her consciousness any time now.

The pitiful Goblin nearly jumped out of his skin from the sudden moaning and hurriedly ran towards the side of the woman.

"Are you al…."

A sudden thought popping out in his head stopped his words from coming out.

‘A Goblin isn’t supposed to talk in a human tongue.’

Having thought about it for a bit, he knew it just couldn’t be helped. Really, a "regular Goblin" wasn’t supposed to save a human. The usually-starving Goblins wouldn’t be picky when it came to the matters of filling up their bellies, after all.

"…..Hmm…?"

Tossing this way and that, fighting the various pains and aches, Kim Yu-Rin finally opened her eyes. She could see a stone ceiling through the heavy, sleepy eyelids. Silently observing the unfamiliar ceiling for a short moment, she then suddenly sat up like a lightning bolt.

"…Euk!!"

Unfortunately for her, her action caused the still-healing body to scream out in pain. Her face crumpled in agony, she caressed the abdomen that was torn to bits just over 30 minutes ago.

But it was rather odd.

It was definitely true that the claws of a Sabretooth Tiger gouged a chunk out of her tummy. The horrible residual pain felt very real too. Yet, her abdomen felt just fine to her touch as if nothing was wrong.

"How are you feeling?"

Out of nowhere, she heard a voice of a man.

Yu-Rin let out a breath of relief and turned towards the source of the voice.

In the critical moment, she used the extra teleport scroll which she packed just in case, seeing that the others weren’t working for some reason, but even that ended up sending her to a wrong place, so she thought she was going to die. But fortunately, a passerby happened to….

"Ah, I’m…."

A Goblin stood there.

Not only that, it spoke a human language. In Korean, no less.

She was going to get up and offer a bow of gratitude to her benefactor but right now, it felt like her head was flickering into a total blankness. The Goblin in front of her continued to yap on about something, but she couldn’t hear any of it. No, her brain actively denied it.

"….What… what the hell?"

Thinking that she must be still suffering from the aftereffects of trauma, she deeply closed her eyes and reopened them. But it was the same as before. She rubbed her eyes and stared again.

"Uh….."

No matter what, the situation remained the same.

"What the hell? Am I going crazy?"

Unable to hol

d it in, she dazedly spat out the words.