Day 11-20/Day 12

Day 12
As usual, we went hunting in order to obtain food to eat. Today we hunted Night Vipers, Horn Rabbits, and some Armored Tanukis. Afterwards, since the sun had started to set, we returned to the cave the same way that we always do.
Unlike humans, goblins are born with an inherent ability called【Night Vision】, so the darkness itself isn't a threat. For that reason, I want to hunt at night if we could, since we can more or less see. However, there are many creatures that are stronger and more ferocious than goblins that are active at night, so it's pretty dangerous. Well, goblins are basically a weak species.
These include the following:
*【Red Bear】which resembles a brown bear with red fur.
*【Triple Horned Horse】which have a build similar to that of a horse. Its entire body is covered in light brown scales and it has 3 horns lined up on its forehead.
*【Demon Spider】which is a spider that's approximately 60 centimeters in length. It has characteristic yellow lines carved on its black carapace, which appears to be stronger than steel.
*【Green Slime】which is a small-fry just like goblins, but it appears to possess an ability similar to【Nullify Physical Attacks】.
And so on... I don't feel like I can kill any of them though, because from their description and the power difference between them and a goblin, normally I will get killed. With【Poison Resistance】's current level, I'd probably be incapacitated in no time if I was hit with a poison of a high toxicity. Well, that's why we return home and don't go out at night.
Having said that, we returned to the cave, which appears to be in a safe location. Because I was tired, I immediately went to my bed and slept. Later in the night, I got attacked in my sleep. However, I was able to avoid the attack at the last moment while laying in my bed, so I wasn't injured. This was due to my【Sense Presence】ability, which is always active.
The main offenders were goblins from my generation. There were 6 of them, and they had some intelligence, since they had recently copied my group and started using tree branches as weapons.
In a world of survival of the fittest, if you get attacked in your sleep, you shouldn't forgive the attackers even if they were from your own kind. While they were surprised that their surprise attack on me had failed, I didn't miss my chance to launch a counterattack. When I go to sleep, I always put my weapons - the horns - next to me, so I quickly held one in my hand and counterattacked. The outcome, naturally I turned the tables on them.
I ended up killing one of the goblins because I made a mistake in the creation and use of the venom that was dripping from the tip of my weapon when I used my【Venom】ability, but that couldn't be helped. Since they were the cause of the situation, they can't complain about it.
For the rest of the attackers, I successfully created and applied a muscle relaxant poison and used it to simply stop their movements. Then, just like that time with Gobukichi-kun, I beat them from top to bottom with a tree branch, but I didn't kill them. After I finished, they were twitching on the ground.
I'll hear the circumstances behind their attack tomorrow. Since they were injected with a non-fatal poison, they should be better by then, so I'll find out why they attacked me at that time. In addition, a goblin's self-healing abilities are high so they should be able to recover completely by tomorrow. It's already too late for one of them, though. I'll say this again, but that couldn't be helped.
Because of the commotion, the goblins who were sleeping soundly woke up. It's only natural that the entire cave started to get noisy as a result. I thought that the old goblins would say something, but the elderly goblins and Gobujii, the head of the elderly goblins didn't say anything in particular. They simply turned towards the body with a slightly pitying look in their eyes. Since I thought that I would be punished for killing a member of the same kind, I was thankful that they didn't blame me for it.
However, Gobumi-chan wasn't satisfied with the outcome and became scary. At that time, I screamed things like『No! A goblin's skeletal structure won't let their arm turn that way! It'll break!』and『Their neck won't turn around anymore! You'll tear their head off!』while restraining her from behind. It's not even funny that the thing that I had the most trouble with was saving the lives of the goblins that attacked me from Gobumi-chan.
Oh, by the way, Gobukichi was sleeping soundly the entire time. Well, it's said that sleep helps a child grow. In fact, he's physically bigger than most of the other goblins from our generation. He is around 10 centimeters taller than me.
Because I can rely on him as our vanguard, I think I'll ignore the fact that he shamelessly continued to sleep during the commotion this time. On top of that, I wouldn't welcome it if the number of rampaging goblins increased because he woke up. Anyway, in this way, I calmed down the agitated Gobumi-chan.
I created a weak sleeping poison and applied it on her by releasing it from one of my toes' sharp nails which I pricked her foot slightly with. After she lost consciousness, I carried her back to her bed. After that, I took the corpse outside since it was unpleasant to leave a corpse of the same kind as me near my bed in a pool of its own blood... and because it'll start to smell after some time.
Thanks to my normal strength being twice what it should be at my current "Level" as well as it being enhanced by the【Pump Up】ability that I obtained from the Seven Colored Bats yesterday, it was unexpectedly easy for me to finish moving a corpse that had almost the same physique that I have. Gobujii told me to place the corpse in a slightly far location so that other creatures would come and eat it, and to run away right after I did so. However, once I carried the corpse a certain distance, I hid myself and ate it. I did this because I was interested.
My thoughts? Yeah...it wasn't delicious, but it didn't taste unpleasant either. This was the first time after reincarnating that I didn't think of something as delicious. I tilted my head to the side and thought about this for a moment. Since I thought that one arm was already enough, I left the rest as planned. Well, that being said, what happened today wore me out, so I went to sleep quickly.
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