A Curious Case Of Mobs Extra

Breath in, hold it for nine-second, and breath out. Imagining myself as barren land. Mana gathered means a small spring emerges from a small crack of the rocky land. Each spring will revitalize the land into a green world full of mana.

That is the exercise I have been doing for the past two weeks. Gathering every speck of mana that I can because half of them will be gone absorbed by the orb of wheels. Right now, the orbs should be activated just around the corner.

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Orb of Wheels: An orb that contains a secret dimension that can recycle broken or damages cultivation resources into their perspective raw materials. Will expand if recycled with enough broken artifact.

Activation: 99%

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The meditation process runs for a quite lengthy amount of time. Then suddenly, I realized I was somewhere else. It is a circular room of ten-meter radius wide. In the middle of the room, there is a meter wide of black soil in the middle of the room and cropping of boulders standing behind the black soil area. It is quite barren, a little bit let down from what I imagine of an ancient artifact will look like. Meh, as long as the product can bring out what it promises to do, it is good enough for me.

I walk toward the black soil and called the inheritance status system. The pop up is similar to the normal system but it is mainly just for operating the inheritance.

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INHERITANCE:

NAME: Orb of Wheels

TYPE: Secret dimension

FUNCTION:

1. Recycle broken or damages cultivation resources into their perspective raw materials.

SIZE: 10-meter radius

MATERIAL PROCESS:

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Looking at the system status for the inheritance. I took out a broken copper sword belong to a goblin I found the day before yesterday and proceed to stick the sword into black soil. It was a cheap copper sword with a basic magical tool smithing technique used to create a sword with a unique effect. For this magical tool, it used a small amount of dark copper which can cause a minor bleeding effect. It causes bleeding a little bit hard to heals.

I wait for sometimes but nothing happened. No notification or anything is indicating what will happened. After waiting some more, there is still no news about the recycling process, I guess the process is not instant. I decided to came out from the orb and have lunch. I made a simple sandwich consist of sliced boiled eggs, a mayonnaise, and the horned rabbit bacon I made last week.

I have decided to hunt down where did the goblin came from this evening. A dark copper is not a rare material, it can be found everywhere on the Marra but the metal still has some value. So finding the source is a bonus for me. However, the main reason is hunting down a horned rabbit is quite boring after fifty hunts. Having found alone goblin is a blessing in disguise for me.

Since mastering the mana ball, I proceed to upgrade the spell into a mana arrow then the process of hunting horned rabbit becoming a chore fo me. A mana arrow spell to the head is enough to kill the horned rabbits on the spot. A painless process without the rabbit notice.

I have a few hours before the evening and I decided to have a swim at the pond and practice some mana arrow accuracy there. I found out last week, I can practice my accuracy if I tried to attack the fish in the pond.

The mana arrow spell structure made it not exploding after hitting the target, so it is very suitable for underwater hunting. I did just that after frustrating several hours not catching any fish using the fish rod. It mostly was an accidental outburst becoming a lucky encounter. From then on, I started to hunt the fish using the newly learn mana arrow. It helps me greatly and also made me have a delicious dinner.

The fish is similar to a trout and great to eat using all kinds of cooking methods. I have great experimentation trying to recreate all kinds of recipes from the old earth using the fish as base material for cooking. I tried cooking the fish with garlic, lemon, butter, and finely chop the parsley and Italian herb and it turns out great. During the old earth, that recipe is a go-to recipe for trout and salmon-like fishes. It turns out great with this fish too.

Wait, I should catch some of them and release them into the orb's dimensions. I need to dig a pond first and maybe create a habitat with full ecosystems suitable for them to live and breed there. I should do some observation in this pond to see what the fish eat and what they need to grow up into a delicious tasting fish.

That will be my next project right after I track down this supposed goblin settlement. I need to prepare for the unexpected first. After some thinking, I decided to take everything and load it into my orb's dimension. My bushcraft camp and all the fixed structure erected on the shelter areas, I left it just like that for some other people to use it if they found the camp in the future.

I start the trekking around four o clock. I decided to head toward a forest area located somewhere south of this island. The journey will take about three to four hour with a normal walking speed. In the spirit for training purposes, my trekking will be in a small jog. I estimated around two and a half hours until I arrived in the forested area.

The basic warrior technique to move mana along with the body help me to manage the fatigue. It works by enhancing the stamina and reducing the stamina overall consumption.

During the trekking, I saw some animals that I have seen before and some I never do. Among them is a yellow grass-eating dinosaurs with a huge head. They were short neck and furry skins. A level one creature but have a higher threat rating from horned rabbits. If they are in a herd, the threat rating will arise into a level two rating if provoked. They are called Breadasaur.

After more than two hours of trekking, I finally see a silhouette of the forest area. They looked bigger down below from what I see up in the air riding on the flying carpet. The tree canopy is bigger too. When I arrive inside the forest, it feels different. It is like the genre for the novels changed, it felt darker, more grim and ominous.

The towering tree are holding the sunlight from reaching the forest floor. Because of that, only a small shrubbery and moss littering the forest floor. The uneven and slippery surface is making sure I'm quite focused on the task of tracking the goblin's settlement. I have decided to head toward the lower area to increase the chance of finding any goblins and possibly following them into their camp settlement.

Following the animal trails that I found, I'm met with a clearing consist of a small pond that feeds by several springs from the other sides of the pond. On the other side, a small brook can be seen flowing out the overflow of the small pond. I look around for a suitable tree to make camp around the small pond and found one that has a good acceptable vantage point to all side of the pond.

I climb the tree and start the waiting game to see if the goblin will come by to hunt their prey here. By the look of it, several prey animals already came by hydrating themselves at the pond. I don't know much about the goblin behavior, their hunting method, preference, or what time they prefer to hunt but the one I killed before, was killed during late morning. So, I think they do the hunting in the morning.

The dusk approaching, there is no sign of any goblins this evening. There are several plains cats though. An apex predator of this island, a monster that capable to hunt in total silent and a sprinting champion. They are smaller than lions, roughly the size of a cheetah. The main difference between those two is the plains cat don't have a spot, but it has a stripe similar to a tiger.

The night in this world is beautiful and never boring. I never notice this before, but when you look at the night sky, you can see a ring system like a Saturn ring decorating the outer space of this world. It not that obvious like how the Saturn rings look like, but it is there if you observe long enough. The constellations are different too. I tried to search it on the intranet but nobody thinks it is important enough to spend times to study it like the old earth.

I agree with that mentality though, there is a far important matter that needs to be done and research. Magic, enchantments, dungeons, and many other phenomena related to this world still unexplained. It took all the time of the humans in this world. It is a little sad that nobody here ever has time to enjoy something like stargazing in this world. Looking at the night skies, I determined to revived the practices and the studies sometime in the future. I close my eyes sleeping in a hammock under the beautiful starry night which I erected between the tree branch.

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I woke up just before dawn, the sound of the wild rooster crowing woke me up like any other day on this island. I tried to hunt them once, but even with a full day spending time searching for them, I can't even see the silhouette of the chicks. So, I just accepted that there is something magical about those chicken on this island.

After some light breakfast, the waiting continued. I do the mana control exercise like I did yesterday while waiting. I already mastered the most basic mana control asked by Teacher Shizuka. I completed the exercise to float nine mana ball and move it around each other several days ago.

My current training method according to the books given by Yukino is to try to float up to ten pebbles. Right now, I'm trying to floats my second pebbles. It not that hard but it took its toll on your concentration. Doing it while trying to watch your surrounding are several times more demanding from the original exercise. Although, I still try to do it because it will become a mind-numbing process if I need to wait for something without doing anything else.

Good things come for those who wait. When the sun nearly noon, I finally see a party of four goblins skulking around the pond trying to hunts a lone breadasaur rehydrating itself in one of the drinking spot scattered around the small pond.

I tidy up my encampment and continue to watch how the goblins do the hunting. Right now, I don't have a lot of information about them. How they strategize, how they communicate, how they coordinate and how they attack their preys. Watching them in action like this will clears a lot of those questions and I will not let this opportunity come to waste.

At first, I honestly thought that the goblins are quite idiotic and unimaginative in their hunt but what I next shock me to the core. Initially, one of the goblin act quite rash by attacking the breadasaur on his own without waiting for his teammates. Angered by a lone goblin action, the breadasaur enrage and charge blindly toward the goblin. It never knows that charge was it last. The other three goblins have been waiting, when the breadasaur charge came close, they attack it with the spear. Three spears, coated with dark copper piercing the thick hide of the breadasaur and killing it instantly.

All three of the goblins instantly jump around with the joy of successful hunting. The other goblin who became the bait is petrified behind them when facing the brunt of killing the intent of the breadasaur. Even among the level one creature, life is brutal for them. The survival of the fittest. And the strongest does not mean the fittest.

Even though their hunt is a success. It is still mostly relying on luck. There are too many aspects unaccounted by the goblins. What if the breadasaur charge changes its course. What if the spears can kill it instantly. What if...what if. There still too many factors need to take into account before doing the hunt like that.

I can't underestimate them though. They do use some basic strategy indicating there is some intelligent in their decision-making process. Throw some experience and mana mastery, they will be a formidable enemy on this island. Regarding the hunt before, I probably avoid it altogether. Hunting something out of my league weight class probably will kill me, unless I'm the main character.

On the bright side, I can steal some of their plot armor and made it my own. A silver lining amid a dark humor of my transmigration I guess. Right now, I already got two of them. The orbs and the skill I copied from Hikiguya.

He have a lot of skills, 108 to be exact, but the one that made an expression is still the stealth skill. The one that avoids my perks detection. I only can copy the skill at 50% strength but even then it still overpowered in my opinion. The skill is only effective in the dark area for me though. However, it is enough for me right now. I have already been using it to track the goblins into their settlement.

The goblin party, drunk with excitement and glory failed to take the necessary measure to avoid detection. Usually, they were trained to make it a habit to do the countermeasure from tracking. With the biggest hunt they have seen for a while, all four of the goblins will be celebrated for a whole month.

They will get to choose their mate and they will get to choose a weapon of a higher qualities. What shocked me though, there are more goblins from what I initially expected. Their camp was located inside a cave system with an inconspicuous entrance.

There is no doubt there is more than one entrance for the cave system. I'm seriously complementing whether to explore the cave system or not, but my boring office worker's soul already boiling with the excitement of the adventure. Well, since I already in front this cave, why not. Let's the adventure begin.