Oooh, nice! Now that I think about it, I haven`t checked my stats in a while&

　　Human Level 11

　　Strength: 19

　　Agility: 25

　　Stamina: 29

　　Magic Power: 20>

　　There it is. Not too shabby, if I have to say so myself. I still hate my username, but I think I`m starting to get used to it. If I just delude myself into thinking everything`s okay, then there are no worries! Hakuna Matata and all that. I mean, isn`t there a saying about how, uhhh, there`s no use over worrying about what you can`t change, and if you can change it, then there`s also no use in worrying about it? Yeah. I`m pretty sure that`s a thing somewhere in the world.

　　No worries allowed!

　　Hmm.

　　I look down at the level twelve`s body. He really is just my size. I have an idea, but it`s& I mean, can I? Sure, I can, but it`s a bit& Then again, they are just enemy mobs& Yeah. That`s right. Goblin hide is just like cheetah hide or panther hide, so there`s no reason not to wear it in a bit of a, you know, creative manner.

　　Squatting down, I give the body a long, hard look. I sharpen my focus into a razor`s edge. Goblin body skinning speedrun any% begins& now!

　　Butcher Lv.6>

　　Claw Lv.10>

　　Sharp Claw Lv.1>

　　Butcher Lv.7>

　　&Aaaaaaand& time!

　　<03:30:30

　　Day 71>

　　19:20:30:30>

　　Fourteen minutes and twenty-two seconds, a new world record! The first and only world champion of goblin skinning has been crowned: Lee Ho-Jae!

　　Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehhehe.

　　Basking in my invisible glory, I overlook my work. Yup, it`s good. Somehow, I got really good at this way quicker than you should be able to. And with nothing but my fingers, too? I am absolutely dominating the no-tool category. That said, now that I have a full and complete goblin-hide, and I can move on to phase 2: skinwalker strategy.

　　I remove my panther hide and put it back into my inventory. Then, in the same way you`d put on a onesie jammy, I thread the goblin hide over my nude body. Man, I should really invest in a pair of boxers. Anyway, using a few goblin teeth, I`m able to secure the hide in such a way that from a distance, I might, at least for a moment, be confused for a real goblin. On closer inspection, any such thoughts would vanish, though. I mean, fact number one, this skin is way too big for my slim body, so it`s totally sagging, and the face is doing some weird kind of stiff thing where it just doesn`t move at all. But, as I said, from a distance? Goblin time.

　　And once I`m up close, this will spook their socks off so bad they won`t even be able to think a moment about fighting back as I eviscerate him. This is such a wonderful plan! Why didn`t I think of this earlier?

　　Alright. My body and mind are ready.

　　Sniff sniff sniff. Yup, everyone is still here.

　　Time to pull some Scooby-Doo shenanigans!

　　And pull some Scooby-Doo shenanigans I do. Except in this situation I just literally kill all the goblins I come across. It isn`t actually that hard to make a group split up, I really do just need to take out one member and wait for the dynamic to completely collapse on itself, and then I pick them off one by one. I have to say, waving to a goblin only for it to dumbly stumble right over to you and then scream as it notices that you aren`t actually a goblin has to be one of the funniest things I`ve ever done. Shouting Boo! just makes them completely lose it every time! This is the most fun I`ve had all tutorial, which isn`t that hard of an achievement. Not much competition. This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.

　　I`m not counting my time with Lady 444, for the record.

　　And like that, I picked them off one by one, and by the time the sun rose, I had completely cleared out the goblin invasion on the forest. Great success!

　　<[Level Up]>

　　Strength has increased by 2.

　　Stamina has increased by 3.

　　Magic Power has increased by 1.

　　Butcher has increased by 1.

　　Enhanced Vision has increased by 1.

　　Eviscerate has increased by 1.

　　Stealth has increased by 2.

　　Claw has increased by 1.

　　Stalk has increased by 2.>

　　Disguise Lv.1>

　　Love hearin` it. Ahhh, I love the smell of goblin epidermis in the morning&

　　That said, this skin is starting to get really stuffy, so I`m going to take it off now. It was fun while it lasted, but running around in it for all of the obligatory Scooby-Doo chases did a number on it, so it`s gotten torn in a bunch of places. Shame. Still, throwing it away feels like a bit much, so I`ll just put it back in my inventory.

　　Ah, leopard skin, my old flame& Back on you go.

　　It seems the goblin-related events have kind of calmed down now, so I think I`m going to do the only sensible thing possible and hunt every animal in the forest to extinction.

　　frowns at your disregard

　　for the art of hunting.>

　　You know, mister sourpuss, I`m only using the word hunt because it fits the whole track-and-kill operation I`ve got going on here, but in reality, this is more of an extinction type of thing. Really, if I had the choice to, I would have loved to set fire to the entire forest to make sure it was totally cleared, but I don`t think I`d survive that sort of situation, so I won`t. So, no, I am not committing myself to the art of hunting, I am simply hunting.

　　frowns at your disregard

　　for the grandeur of nature.>

　　You too, huh? How many more of youse can we get in here? Actually, on a different note, how many of you are currently watching me doing this?

　　Really, if you hate me so much, mr god of shoots-thing-with-bow, why are you still here? Shouldn`t you have left the moment you saw me doing such things that your itty-bitty teenie-tiny coping ability couldn`t take it anymore?

　　&Oh, and now I get the radio silence again, of course. Always with these things& They want to tell you you`re doing wrong, but the second you bite back, they run behind the couch with their tails tucked between their legs.

　　peeks out from behind a couch.>

　　&

　　&

　　&Not you. I suppose.

　　sighs in relief.>

　　Yeah, yeah, I get it, so scram already! Man, I really can`t handle these beings.

　　Hopefully, if I`m lucky, there`s a system in place to keep them from interacting with me too much. If one of these glorified deities decides to zap my behind to the nearest moon, unless the tutorial itself protects me, I don`t think I have much of a chance to survive at all. Then again, there was that time when the Coward poked me, and Want did stretch the system just to sugarmommy me, so&

　　Yeah. Okay, I think, right now, my best bet is to just not think about it. From what I`ve seen, there`s a god for pretty much everything, so no matter what I do, I`ll always displease at least one. If they could just kill people they disliked willy-nilly, there`d be a lot more divine casualties by now. Assuming that said casualties didn`t get erased from reality or something.

　　Damn it, I wish I had answers. But I don`t think there`s anyone I can ask. I mean, if Moleman knew about this stuff, he would already have posted a stupidly detailed guide about How to get noticed by the Gods.

　　Euck.

　　&I wonder what those guys are up to?

　　N-, not that it matters. I`m busy huntin` and killin`! Something that I should absolutely get to.

　　I take a deep sniff. There are a lot of smells, many of them very different from the others, but all of them are both nostalgic and enough to make my mouth water. There are a ton of different critters in this forest. It might take some time to get all of them, but as long as I just sprint from one to the next, it should be fine. I`ll need to pause to butcher everything, but that shouldn`t take too much time either.

　　Sni—ff. Wolves, deer, squirrels, rabbits, boar, elks, and what I think might be two bears. All and all, they easily number over a hundred, but that`s fine. I`ve got time.

　　Sprint.

　　Zipping through the woods at the fastest speeds I can muster, I stop only to sneakily dispatch an animal or two. Most range in levels between 1 to 5. After killing them, should be too big to stick in the inventory whole, I butcher them into as many parts as possible before stashing them. After doing this for a couple of hours, my Butcher skill evolved.

　　Butcher Lv.10>

　　Disassemble Lv.1>

　　It made the whole butchering process a fair bit faster, to the point where I became very confident in being able to break my former goblin skinning any% world record. It almost makes me watch to find another goblin, but, sadly, I can`t smell any. All day, I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill and I kill, a~ll day long. It`s great fun!

　　The only break I take is at three in the afternoon to eat a few pieces of goblin meat. As I`ve now discovered, gobling meat is more tender and juicy than regular goblin meat. I`ll need to keep my eye out in the future.

　　Even when day turns to night, I keep going. Even when night turns to day, I keep going. Even when the days pass like minutes, I keep going.

　　I kill all the deer until I can`t smell them anymore.

　　I kill all the boars until I can`t smell them anymore.

　　I kill all the squirrels until I can`t smell them anymore.

　　I kill all the wolves until I can`t smell them anymore.

　　I kill all the bears until I can`t smell them anymore.

　　It`s kind of funny. I fought wolves, and it wasn`t that hard anymore. Sure, one of them disembowelled me, but I got better. I just need to rip and tear at them and bite right back and I win. They have so many soft parts. Neck and bowels and eyes and mouth. Anything that can bleed or spill organs is a weak point. It might as well be flashing in red.

　　I even fought the two bears. They were in the same cave, both sleeping. I almost died, but I lived. That`s all that really matters, because in the end, after healing up and re-challenging the bears around four times, I finally won.

　　I have so many lovely pelts now.

　　Bear pelt, deer pelt, boar pelt, cobbled-together patchwork of squirrel pelt, wolf pelt& Everything.

　　And when the dawn of the fifth rose, the forest was empty, and only I remained.

　　But it wasn`t empty for long.