Multiversal Ascension

When Mikael appeared he heard the sound of twigs breaking under his feet. He looked around a saw a beautiful green forest. It is a lively scene with the sound of the various animals in the forest and with the chirping of the birds it creates a lively ambience.

Mikael took a deep breath of the pure air of the forest. ’Ah, I really like the forest without the pollution of the city it's a nice place but I don’t have time to waste because wasting time is falling behind, and falling behind is being powerless to decide my fate.’

‘I would like to use my gun but if I use it it would be heard in the nearby kilometers and a lot of goblins could come rushing at me.’

Just after having this thought Mikael took out his military knife with his right hand before listening to the ambient sound to see if he could hear something.

Chirp Chirp

After taking a couple of seconds to listen he understood that there was nothing but bird sound and chose to move in the forest to try to find some goblin to kill.

Mikael walked for only 100 meters before he saw what looked like a small ugly man with green skin and pointy ears of course it wasn’t a man but a goblin. He had what looked like a rusted spear.

When Mikael saw him he tried to sneak attack the goblin but when he was only 3 meters from the goblin it heard him and turned around.

Immediately after the goblin discovered Mikael he spoke something in an incomprehensible language before launching itself at Mikael while thrusting his spear at him.

Mikael used his knife to divert the spear before using the unarmed martial arts he learned to launch a powerful kick at the head of the goblin which made him drop his spear.

Mikael took this chance to rush at the goblin before delivering a knife stab directly into his neck. The moment it died a notification appeared.

[You have killed a goblin 100 XP gained.]

[Class: Martial Artist has leveled up X1]

[Class: Martial Artist has reached level 2]

[Quest: Kill Goblin 1 completed.

Rewards 100 LP]

‘There a thing I need to confirm.’

“Status”

[Name: Mikael Angelini

Race: Human (Earth Origin World)

Lifespan: 21/99

Overall Power: Tier 0

Military Rank: Recruit 0/10 MP

Global LVL: 0 : 250/500 XP

Class: Martial Artist LVL: 2/25 : 30/144 XP

Stats:

Strength: 13 > 14

Agility: 15 > 16

Endurance: 14 > 15

Active Skills: None

Passive Skills: Unarmed Martial Arts Mastery Tier 0 Level 1, Footwork Mastery Tier 0 Level 1

Life Points(LP): (-50) 100]

‘Fuck, that's what I dreaded it takes 20% more xp every level. That means if I have done my math well, approximately 50k xp to reach level 25.’

‘I just hope that when a class is above level 25 the xp it takes per level doesn’t continue to take 20% more per level or I will need to look for an alternative power system because the xp cost will rapidly become totally ridiculous.’

‘To reach level 25 I will need to kill 500 goblins and that won’t be possible in this world it just isn’t worth it time-wise. My goal is to kill 100 goblins in this world.’

Just after Mikael resumed his search for goblin. After traveling for nearly 400 meters he finally hears multiple voices speaking in the indecipherable goblin language.

He looked to where he was hearing the voice and saw that there were 3 goblins this time. One of them had a sword, the other one had a spear, and the last one had a mace.

To the surprise of Mikael when he was still at a good distance from them, the goblins sensed him and started rushing at him.

Because of the imminent fight his survival instinct activated and adrenaline surged through his veins. His senses sharpened, every detail becoming painfully clear.

Mikael waited for the spear goblin to be near him before rapidly rushing into his guard and stabbing it in the neck before immediately retreating a couple of steps.

[Goblin killed 100 XP received.]

‘Two more to go.’

The death of the first goblin didn’t scare the other two but visibly enraged them. They rushed and attacked at the same time. Mikael evaded the mace blow before diverting the sword slash with his knife.

At the same time, he counterattacked the mace goblin with a powerful kick that made him fall before punching the sword goblin in the face.

Mikael took the opportunity when the sword goblin was alone to rush at him and deliver multiple stabs with his knife.

[Goblin killed 100 XP received.]

He saw that the mace goblin was getting up but he didn’t give him the chance by rushing at him and giving him another kick before finishing it with his knife.

[Goblin killed 100 XP received.]

[Global Level X1]

[Class: Martial Artist has leveled up X2]

‘Nice gain but now I need to continue hunting.’

Mikael took the next 5 hours hunting goblins. At the start, he was hunting lone goblins or those that were in groups of 2 or 3 but as time passed there were only bigger and bigger goblin groups, now it was nearly impossible to find a goblin group of less than 4.

Mikael didn’t have a choice and started hunting groups of 4 and 5 but these fights were harder and he got a couple of light injuries like some cuts on his arm and torso. Because of the cuts he received his shirt and jacket were in tatters.

‘I probably look homeless with my clothes. But it is not important for now the more concerning thing is that I have been cut, I will need to disinfect my wounds when I come back to the Records.’

The good news is that after 5 hours he gained a couple of levels and completed some quests.

[Global level X9]

[Global level reached 10]

[Class: Martial Artist has leveled up X15]

[Class: Martial Artist has reached level 17]

[Quest: Kill Goblins 2 completed.

Rewards 300 LP]

[Quest: Kill Goblins 3 completed.

Rewards 700 LP]

‘There are only 3 quests to do before leaving, but the quest of becoming the leader of a tribe will be complicated because I can’t speak the goblin language so I can’t have them easily recognize me as the leader and hunting goblin is dangerous at my power level I need to use guerilla warfare to win. Yeah, I think I won’t do this quest I will only do the quest that needs me to kill the chief of a tribe and destroy a tribe.’

Mikael chose to rest a little because the last 5 hours of hunting tired him. He wanted to drink some water but he took only his knife with him in this world. ’I don’t have water and food, for now, it isn’t a real problem but in a couple of hours it will be, so I need to leave this world before it becomes a problem.’

Mikael gets up after only 15 minutes of rest to go in the direction of a goblin tribe that he discovered when he was hunting goblin.

After walking for approximately a kilometer he finally saw a small tribe with 10 wooden huts and 1 big wooden huts. The tribe was looking a little deserted probably because of the hunting he had done during the last hours.

He saw that there were only a couple of goblins outside the huts and no special one so he took a position 50 meters from the tribe before he took a small stone off the ground and launched it with all his strength on the big wooden hut.

A dull Thud sound was produced from the impact.

The sound attracted the goblin to come and see what has done this sound. From the big hut, a muscular nearly 2-meter-tall goblin with a large hammer went out.

When Mikael saw him he quickly drew his gun before aiming at the torso of the presumed goblin chief and firing multiple bullets.

Bang Bang Bang

The goblin chief stayed up on his feet for a couple of seconds before falling to the ground and dying.

[Goblin Chief killed 5K XP received.]

[Global level X1]

[Class: Martial Artist has leveled up X3]

[Quest: No leader completed.

Rewards 400 LP]

‘That was easy as it should be because I have a gun and am using it, but if I was a shonen protagonist I would have rushed the tribe without using my gun, and after a life-and-death fight could have won with grievous injuries. Fortunately, I aren’t brain dead and won’t do this I prefer being efficient’ thought an amused Mikael.

The other globins that were present saw their chief die and were shocked but one of the goblins saw Mikael. He made a strange scream before rushing towards him the other goblins were following him.

Mikael saw the 15 goblins rushing toward him but he calmly aimed and fired 8 more times before the goblins were on him. Of the 8 shots, there were 6 dead, and 2 missed.

‘I am outnumbered I need to take the initiative’ he thought. Before rushing into the group of goblins with his gun in his left hand and his knife in his right hand.

He stabbed a goblin in the neck before it could even react and the next instant he was already with his knife in the heart of another goblin.

It only took him a couple of seconds to kill all of them.

[Goblin killed X15 1,5K XP received]

[Global level X1]

[Quest: Bye Bye Tribe completed.

Rewards 500 LP]

‘That was a lot easier than I thought it would be it must be the numerous level-ups that I have gained that made me a superhuman compared to some random goblin.’

‘But I mustn't become arrogant because, with a bullet in the head or knife stab in the head, I will still fall dead, my endurance stats will protect me but I don’t think that I am at the level of tanking a bullet or a weapon with just my body for now.’

Mikael looked at the multiple bodies around him and the thick stench of blood in the air.’I need to get out of here whether it is the firing sound or the stench of blood it will attract goblins and I don’t wanna start another fight.’

The next instant Mikael started running at nearly 40 km/h and that was in a forest. With this speed in only a minute, he was already hundreds of meters from the locations of the now-destroyed tribe.

He climbed into a tree so that he could be safe during the ejection process.

“Records I want to leave this world”

[Ejection of the world will initiate in 5 minutes]

‘Now, that I have 5 minutes to waste I can take the time to think. If I remember well the goblin chief gave me 5K XP it’s an extremely high xp quantity compared to a normal goblin that only gives 100 XP.’

‘If the xp that a being gives increases that much for a relatively small boost in strength it won’t be that hard to gain level when I reach a higher level.

The goblin chief was I don’t know approximately 3 times stronger than a goblin but he gives 50 times more xp.’

‘Let’s look at my status with all the xp I gained in this world.’

“Status”

[Name: Mikael Angelini

Race: Human (Earth Origin World)

Lifespan: 21/99

Overall Power: Tier 0

Military Rank: Recruit 0/10 MP

Global LVL: 12 : 981/3713 XP

Class: Martial Artist LVL: 20/25 : 1586/3194 XP

Stats:

Strength: 14 > 44

Agility: 16 > 46

Endurance: 15 > 45

Active Skills: None

Passive Skills: Unarmed Martial Arts Mastery Tier 0 Level 1, Footwork Mastery Tier 0 Level 1

Life Points(LP): (+1900) 2000]

2 minutes later Mikael disappeared from the goblin world and appeared in the now-familiar Hub.

‘Ok, I need to plan well how I will use my LP because I need it for multiple things.’

‘It reminds me of the time when I had to carefully plan how to use my money to have enough to eat. I was starting to have a lot of money with the Crow that were working for me and all that. We can say back to square one but this time the ‘money’ that I gain is used to help me become stronger.’

‘So, for what I need my LP? I need it for the System Upgrades, for the training with Kiara, I also need it to rent a place to sleep, and last but not least I need to buy some items in the System Stores.’