The Weakest Kobold In The Dungeon Gets A Level [Book 1 Complete] Chapter 5: Chapter 3: By Any Means

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Chapter 3 By Any Means The songs of the local wood thrushes tickled at the edge of his senses as Nik slowly roused from his slumber. Rubbing the sleep from his eyes with his knuckles and yawning, he stretched his arms and hit a tree. His mind bursting into alertness, he remembered that he was not home. No, he didn’t have one of those anymore. That didn’t mean that he couldn’t find a new one, though! He was just going to have to go out there, and make a friend. He just had to find someone that wasn’t going to try to kill or eat him, preferably. The goblins never tried to eat him, but goblin burrows were very hard to find. Humans, elves, and dwarves would kill him for XP rather than let him walk free. He might just need to survive on his own, for now at least. Gathering his possessions, Nik strapped the shield to his left arm and swung the spear holding his bedding onto his right shoulder. “Okay, today is going to be the first day of my journey to find a new home, and I won’t let these depressing and scary thoughts drag me down. I will find a place to be safe, and I will even find a friend,” he said, speaking more to himself than to the thrushes. One step led into the next, followed by another, and before he knew it he had already forgotten about his fears and worries. There was so much beauty and color, sounds and smells he had never known. Oh, oh, oh! he thought, I bet they have different mushrooms here! Thrilled by the idea of new mushrooms to try, his mind turned to his stomach again. He only had a bit of mushroom left. One meal maybe, but he decided it was best to hold onto it in case he didn’t find any good ones. At least his new system could help him identify new mushrooms. Now that he thought about it, though, he hadn’t actually tried looking yet. Saving his white-capped mushroom for later, he started looking to the shadowed places along his path. He tried, more or less, to maintain heading the one direction away from the castle, but allowed himself to go a bit off to the sides when there was a fallen tree or large branch on the forest floor. If mushrooms were the same here as they were in the granite halls of the sunken castle, then they preferred to grow dark nooks and moisture. Based on the scents of wetted soil and the decay of leaves layering the ground all around him, he wouldn’t need to search long. Most would likely find some close to the damp earth, or so he would have thought. If he hadn’t looked up to see row upon row of the thin waves of clustered fungi latched onto the side of a thick tree trunk, then he would have never believed it. Staring at the fungi, Nik willed the system to display whatever it would tell him about his new find. Fungi: Chicken of the Woods “Chicken of the woods?” he said with a slight frown tilting the corners of his mouth. “Well, first fungi found and it’s named after one of the meats the goblins ate sometimes. That could be considered good luck, I guess.” Standing up onto the balls of his feet, and dragging his claw through the spongy material near where it stuck to the tree, he cut a fanned blade of the shelf-like cap from the bark of the oak. His ears were pierced by an unexpected and nearly ultrasonic scream. Nik dropped the screaming fungi, but the head splitting intermittent whistle of a sound only grew louder. Louder and closer, he realized as the direction was becoming more clear. Nik, quiet as he could, put his next meal into his bag with his white-caps, and peaked around the tree to investigate the source of the painful noise. At first there was nothing, just the high pitch sounding off and on in the distance. Then he heard the thud as it bounced off of a low hanging branch. Its flight was erratic as it zigged and zagged through the air, smashing into branches and trunks alike. He had never even imagined something like this monster. It was small, much smaller than him, and barely bigger than the wood thrushes. It had the arms and legs of a miniaturized humanoid, but it had th