Adventures Of A Goblin

The Goblin kept jumping side to side, evading the monster's attack.

All the while, the known-knowledge skill was at work with creating the bow its owner had told it to.

It started with going through its owner's past life memories of bows,

In its owner's memory, it saw his owner in a one tiny room fit enough for a five point six, laying on a tattered bed and holding a rectangle shaped object.

Its owner was scrolling through the rectangle shape showing all sorts of pictures.

Amongst the pictures was one of a bow he had been looking for.

He saw another memory of its owner but this time, it's owner was very much smaller, sitting on a leather claded object and staring at a larger rectangular shaped object also showing all sorts of images.

In there, known knowledge saw another display of a bow.

It went through the memories looking for a bow shape best suited for its owner.

After it was done deciding on which design it was going to use for the bow,

It sprouted out thorn from the palm he had taken control over and started to craft the thorn into the shape he wanted.

The Goblin was feeling frustrated with no longer having control over his own hands.

It felt to him like the nerves connecting the muscles in his hands to his brain had been disconnected.

Motions were no longer possible with his hands, like he no longer had any to begin with.

As he kept on dodging and evading the monster's attack, he saw plenty of opportunities for him to counter attack.

'not like counterattacking would do it any damage',

still, he felt it better if he had his hands and could move them with his will.

He wanted to watch the crafting process of his bow but could not because he was preoccupied with evading the monster's tail and hand attacks being thrown at him.

[owner, it is done].

Known knowledge called out to its owner who was too distracted to have noticed the finishing of the bow in his hand.

'ho finally, can I have my hands back now'

[yes owner].

It reversed its control over its owner's hand.

[master, if I might ask, with what do you intend to attach the bow to].

While still dodging, the Goblin had an expression of surprise on his face at the question asked by known knowledge.

'this is surprising'

[what is owner].

'you talking to me without me initiating the first sentence, I thought you were only question and answer kind of skill and not the other way around'.

[.....].

[I am now able to ask a question due to the level up of my constitution].

'yet you haven't asked me any questions or came up with better strategies to set me free from the Goblins back when I was captured'.

[....].

'no reply uhhh?, I thought so'.

'as for your question of what I am going to fire with the bow, I intend to use the mana materialization skill'.

'you know for a skill whose name is known knowledge, you are supposed to have known this already'.

'I am starting to doubt your authenticity as knowledge based skill'.

[I only know what the owner knows. I have no interaction with the owners personal thought process unless given permission].

'is that so?, well, try to prove yourself more useful going forward if you want me to keep relying on you'.

'known knowledge will take the owner's word to mind'.

'sure you will'.

'sorry for not giving you a hundred percent of my attention monster, you have it now'.

[Ding].

[user's actions have been recorded].

[A new skill have Awakened].

[...]

[A unique Skill have been generated].

[Skill > Thorn Crafting].

[Skill type > unique].

[unique > a skill exclusive only to the user].

[Thorn Crafting > the user can change the form of the thorn sprouted to whatever shape he sees fit. The more mana supplied, the more sophisticated the shape can be].

'wow, I have a new skill, and it is a unique one, cool'

'not that I actually know what that means, but going by the natural logic anything unique is a good thing. I think....'

'perhaps, all isn't lost just yet'.

The Goblin looked at the bow in his hands and admired known-knowledge's artisary crafting on it.

Having a deep brown color as the thorn it was made from,

The bow string made from thorn that has been slimmed to its tiniest form.

'this is a masterpiece'.

'you have really outdone yourself now known knowledge, good job'.

[thank you owner].

He pulled the string, and with his mana materialization skill, he formed an arrow with it.

An arrow made from compressing mana into a shape, he released the string and fired it off at the monster.

The arrow just like all other attacks bounced off of the monster's skin.

He wasn't taken aback by the outcome as his purpose for firing it was only to test the bows aim and efficiency.

Surely, he was satisfied with what he has gotten.

'big monster, let's dance'.

'known knowledge, you wouldn't happen to be able to play a music off of my memories now would you'.

'owner...'

Known knowledge answered with a cold and disappointed voice.

'a simple no would have been sufficient enough'.

The Goblin stopped evading and prepared himself to start making his counterattack.

He pulled the strings and fired off three shots aimed at the monster's left eye.

Knowing it's face is vulnerable to the arrow, the monster swung its tail to the front and bashed the arrows with it.

Immediately the Goblin shot the arrow, he had swiftly switched his location by swinging around with the thorns connected to the ceiling.

He moved himself over to the second eye of the monster and shot another three arrow at it.

He continued with the same tactics until he noticed a crack had started to form in his arm.

'crap'.

The after effect of overtasking his body is starting to catch up to him.

He knows he has to end this fast else he might collapse.

Relying on a miracle he has no knowledge of isn't on his to do list.

Trying to end this earlier because of the side effects, he decided to give his newly acquired skill a try to see what its worth.

'skill activation, thorn crafting'.

Drawing the image of what he wants the thorn to be like in his mind, the thorn came out from the ceiling wall and started crafting itself without help from the Goblin.

The Goblin's image is all it needed to begin its construction.

"urghugh...."

Even though he wasn't doing anything but evading the monster's attack,

The mana used in constructing the image is being drawn from him,

the caliber of image he had projected in his mind needed a lot of mana to turn it physical.

expending the mana at a ridiculous rate and absorbing the surrounding mana wore his body down even faster.

The construction almost complete, with the shape now distinguishable.

What he had imagined, was a see through cage big enough to encompass the monster in front of him.

"thud".

With the construction completed, the Goblin distracted the monster so the massive cage could fall on it without being torn to shreds before getting to it.

The lower part of the cage burned off when it entered the lava while the upper part was still intact.

The Goblin not assured that the cage was going to hold it down for long, activated his thorn erection skill as fast he could.

He sprouted out the thorn from all angles of the cage.

The thorns broke upon touching the monster's body, while the thorns aimed at its eyes pierced through it.

The Goblin did not stop as it made the thorns imbedded in its eyes even longer and longer and longer.

when it felt the thorns were deep in enough, he created multiple branches on the thorns that was inside of the monster's eyes.

"if it's outer defense is too tough, then I just have to attack it from the inside".

[Ding].