Chapter 1 Don't want to be ordinary
The red moon shines on the earth. When the red moon rises to its highest point, the magic circle is drawn in the room to place sacrifices—a rat, a frog, a scorpion, a sparrow, a cockroach, and a goblin’s head. This goblin is a prey that Link cut off when he was catching firewood. The relationship between monsters and humans is probably something that can be eaten by pulling out his head—for both sides, it is mutual.
Link prayed silently in the magic circle: "No matter what kind of existence it is, please respond to my dream. I, Link, don't want to be ordinary."
The magic circle was filled with glory, and six sacrifices disappeared from the magic circle, and then Link unknowingly fell asleep. On the palm of Link's left hand, there was also a black cover book with tattoo-like patterns.
Link, thirteen years old this year, was born in a small village that was not peaceful and was the second son of a farmer. According to the local elder son inheritance law, when Link grew up (adulted at the age of 14), he was not qualified to inherit the family business. He could only work, wander, join the army or become an adventurer. Some people also worked as son-in-law for others, but such good things depended on their faces.
Adventurers sound like a good profession, but most adventurers use their bodies to feed goblins, goblins, trolls, ogres, orcs and even dragons.
Adventurers often pass by in the tavern in the village where Link is located, and they also stay here. Like Link, most of these adventurers are guys without inheritance. After learning a few skills, they come out to have an adventure career. Most of the adventurers who can brag in such a small village have the ability to fight goblins and goblins alone. When they encounter groups of goblins or goblins, they will be devastated.
After the rooster called Link to get up in the morning, he checked his body and found that he didn't have any extra abilities. The enlightenment ritual failed. The abilities obtained by this enlightenment ritual vary from person to person, and it is not uncommon to fail.
Until Link saw the book tattoo on the palm of his hand, what the hell.
But now there is no time left. Link got up, ate black bread, drank goblin soup, and picked up the hatchet at home to go out to collect wood. This is also Link's job at home.
Link needs to burn dozens of kilograms of firewood a day when cooking and water. If it is winter to keep warm, it needs to burn more. If there is excess firewood, it can be sold to the village tavern, and the price is 100 kilograms of copper.
Yesterday, when I was chopping wood, Link wanted to carry back the goblin weighing sixty or seventy pounds because he killed a wandering goblin. Link didn't carry back one hundred pounds of firewood. If nothing unexpected happened, the thirteen-year-old Link would carry two hundred pounds of firewood home every day.
Link, who started to harvest firewood at the age of five, started carrying thirty kilograms of firewood every day. He was chased by goblins or goblins and returned empty-handed. Until he was eleven, Link killed his first monster in the forest - Goblins. From that day on, there would be more broth and large pieces of monster meat on the dinner table of Link's parents and siblings.
If you want to hunt in the woods, there are still many preys.
At noon, Link tied up about 200 kilograms of firewood. At this time, a voice suddenly appeared in Link's heart: "Whether to sacrifice this bundle of firewood, you can get five bronzes after offering sacrifices."
This makes money, Link thought that he would sell the firewood that he could not burn to a hotel, and such a bundle of only two copper coins was only offered. Link was sure of the sacrifice in his heart.
The firewood in front of him disappeared, and there were five more copper coins in his hand, which was also Link's only property to this day.
Most of the food grown in the fields of the family had to be handed over to the lord for land rent. Before Link could hunt the goblins and goblins, the family lived a half-hungry and half-full life all year round.
When he got wealth for the first time, Link carefully found a Shuye and wrapped five copper coins into his pocket.
Although he didn't fully understand what was going on, Link knew that his enlightenment ceremony had not failed. He probably got the ability to sacrifice.
Originally, with the low consumption capacity in the village, there was no way to make a living by just harvesting firewood. However, now, if firewood can be sold at one and a half times before, it is not impossible to make a living by harvesting firewood.
Because today's firewood was cut at 100 kilograms yesterday, it was still early, so Link went to the jungle to continue to harvest firewood - they all cut down some shrubs and low branches.
After cutting a few slashes of tree branches, Link moved his ears and stopped in his hand. Not far away, he heard a slight sound of stepping on leaves. Link felt that this was either a goblin or a goblin, and that he was here to attack him. If it was a beast, a monster, escaped, his footsteps would not be so slow and regular.
Link turned around, and a goblin holding a wooden stick behind had already walked five meters away. Goblins and goblins were said to be in a group creature. Link often could hunt goblin gnomes because Goblin gnomes saw that Link was just a lonely half-grown child and lost his vigilance. If Link was a tall and big man or a large crowd, Goblin gnomes' scouts had already gone back to call for reinforcements.
The green-skinned Goblin saw Link turn around and simply screamed and rushed up directly, swinging the baton to hit Link's head. Link turned sideways and cut off half of Goblin's neck. Link is already very experienced in killing Goblin's goblin gnomes, and at least more than three goblins can join forces to hurt Link. In this case, Link naturally has oiled the soles of his feet.
The Goblin who fell to the ground twitched a few times. Link kicked the stick in the Goblin's hand and pressed the dead Goblin with his left hand. Sure enough, he got a prompt for sacrifice: "Whether to sacrifice this goblin, you can get five silver dollars after sacrifice, or add 2 to the upper limit of the Dou Qi value, or add 2 to the upper limit of the magic value, or use one piece of equipment without attributes."
A goblin is sold to a tavern in the village, and it is better to eat it yourself. A goblin weighing 70 kilograms can be used to dismantle thirty or forty kilograms of meat, as well as more than ten kilograms of bones and more than ten kilograms of internal organs used to feed dogs.
I thought about it and there was still a chance to continue selling it in the future. Magic is good, but it is useless to have magic value alone. Even the son of the lord doesn’t have that much money to learn magic. If you have equipment, it’s enough to have a hatchet now. It’s a bit of fighting spirit, and you can use it with a little bit. Although you still have to learn skills and professions, the most useful thing to me now is fighting spirit.
Dou Qi is widely circulated in the mainland. Army and adventurers, except for some magicians, have to practice Dou Qi. Link began to learn Dou Qi at the age of ten. In actual combat, Dou Qi can instantly increase a person's explosive power. Otherwise, eleven-year-old Link is not a goblin, a goblin's opponent. It seems very decisive to kill a goblin with one knife just now, but in fact, whether it is dodging or swinging, they use Dou Qi to accelerate.
Chapter completed!