《The uplifting of goblin kind》 Prologue: first life Earth illegal mental asylum: it did not happen in a daring escape attempt nor was I Murdered by one of the guards who constantly tormented me I simply passed away in my sleep at the ripe old age of 85. Back track 78 years: "mother why aren''t you moving mother why aren''t you moving father get up it''s time to play." I asked mother and mother were lying on the ground in this red substance called blood Id learned about it in school but they seemed to be lying when they taught me that we had it inside are bodies only as the room was covered in it. I sat down and waited. Maybe there were just tired they had just gotten home. after waiting awhile I went to bed it seemed like I wasn''t getting dinner tonight maybe I had done something wrong again. I woke to the blinding rays of the sun I found mother and father still lying down in the kitchen. I decided to make breakfast for my self perhaps they would be happy if I did so after all they always said they didn''t want me. Apparently though kids couldn''t live alone till they were all grown up. Maybe this would make grow up faster after all my parents always did it. Breakfest was good but it seems my parents still aren''t moving yet. I turn them over so there facing the window; maybe the sun would wake them up. 10 days later: Im hungry there''s no more food in the house I walk back into the kitchen. I''ve come to terms with the fact that my parents are dead it became quite obvious after the flys started showing up on the fifth day and they weren''t yelling at me. I pintched myself to cry so that I could act like other boys and girls just like my parents told me to. I''ve also started to use my parents computer as the boredom and the threat of broken fingers I was pretty sure couldn''t be done from beyond the grave. From this I''ve learned that my parents were in fact mean and bad parents. Apparently parents were supposed to look after there kids rather than forcing them to beg on the streets and burning ones kid is considered assault rather than a good punishment. I tried to dig graves for my parents but the floor was to hard and I was to weak from lack of food I didn''t know what to do until a genius thought came to mind why not bary them in flesh rath than in stone I had read online that some people spread there parents ashes over a feels so that They could be one with nature. But only 3 hours after I had begun an annoying banging could be heard at the front door while someone screamed "open up" I walked up to it and opened it and next thing I knew I tasted tarmac and was being pulled to a police car.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. 10 years later: damn these needles why can''t they just leave me alone. click great looks like it''s time to return to my cell. Damn this prison 10 years here and The only thing I knew about what had happened in the outside world was what kind of curses people used when I kneed them in the groin now I don''t even know that as the guards started where armour over they genitalia. But tomorrow would be different I had finally figured out how to escape. This is not to say I hadn''t made attempts before but in all previous I only made it a few dozen meters at most before being promptly recaptured and thrown on to a disection table and shown what each organ in my body did in order to keep me alive. The doctor who performed the vivisection would actually be the most informative person among my captors as he would constantly rant about my genetics and animals and even cheMisery honestly if it weren''t for the fact that the bits I understood made sense I would have thought him mad. This time I would count on him though for my plan. that morning I woke up and when the guard that brought me breakfast walked up to the bars and removed his black tinted visor to deliver his daily insults I throuw my tooth brush that I had sharpened into a crude spike at his eye. It hit dead center and the other guards rushed over opened the cell and through me against the back wall they patted me down for any other sharp objects and brought me to the doctor they promptly strapped me down and then left from what I had gathered from there first and last guarding of the doctor none of them had the stomach for what came next.Trufully they were not needed as under any normal circumstances I would not have been able to escape strapped down as I was but They had become sloppy over the years as I always ended up having only one makeshift weapon after my first attempt so when I spat out my small switch blade which I had stolen through pure luck years ago into my right hand while the doctors back was turned and proceeded to slowly cut my bonds as the doctor ranted about the bone structure of snakes and how he was a complete unrivaled genius. Just around the time when he had brought out his standerd chemicals none of which were pain killers as always I struck I brought out my knife and held against his throat making it bleed slitly adrenaline was pumping through my veins as I began to think about th out side world and leaving this hell hole I shook my head and focused on speaking with my raspy throat as these people believed in giving me what I needed to survive and nothing else. "Let me out and this dagger won''t find a new home in the doctors neck" silence greeted that threat " hurray up or he d..." darkness.I do not know what knocked me out that day but I never again left that room as they decided that moving me was not worth the effort any more. I awoke to tubes being jabbed into my mouth, veins and a few unspeakable areas. these tubes as I would later learn gave me food water air and disposed of my waste. I spent the next 68 years until eventually the doctors decided that keeping me alive was not worth the expenses and they disconnected me from the machines that kept me alive. And as the blackness took me I took my first and last breath in 68 years. A breath that signified my freedom in death. The soul I immediately noticed noticed that I lacked site this wasn''t surprising as it would have been for most other people as I had often gone extended periods of time without site due to the numerous tests that were performed on me and there were tests as I had figured out over the years it seemed they were searching for something in me and it seemed failing to find it as the increasing number of wrinkles in the years that the various doctors worked on me. the first thing I needed to do was take stock of my surroundings I was pretty sure I was dead so I wasn''t hopeful I tried to see what I could hear and after a moment I did hear something but it was so faint That it could vary we''ll have been my imagination I tried to look inwards as my latest doctor told me to do I really wasn''t sure what he thought I would fied. But low and behold this time there was something a white sphere of energy that a new instinct that for moment mad me fear I had developed another mental disability but seeing as i was almost assuredly dead I didn''t see he harm it felt like whether this was in a strange sense me and slightly not all of what I considered me and what these instincts considered a extension of me. Surrounding my soul was a strange energy that seemed to be in some metaphysical way a exstension of my soul it gave off a feeling of being mine completely and utterly once I accepted that this was real and I was not senile I felt a sharp something as my spirit was part and a pillar of energy shoved aside the parts of my tentevliy named spirit out of the way and connected yes not just touched connected my soul with it some how after a little while of experimentation I realized that my spirit was quite malleable and easily changed and not just in the sense that I could do shape it but I could sorta alter its properties becoming harder in some place and softer in others I tried to figure out what the strange rod was and what it was connected to i of course assumed my body as unless things were ethen more incomprehensible then they already were my old brain still stored my memories I turned my attention to whatever the strange tube and immediately I realized that according to mine new instincts was mine and instinstantly the link started to become unstable cracking and moving wildly I used the iron will I had accewed over the years to control my self in front of my tormentors to try and make it keep its form it was hard to describe manipulating it it was like haveing a new limb made entirely of liquid that could move around freely unfortunately for me I couldn''t keep this link up whatever had been keeping this link up had also been providing it energy and once I was in full control that energy stopped being supplied there was a small amount of extra energy on top of my chest where the tube connected with my chest. I manipulated this energy which for lack of a better word decided to call mana as mana was the fuel for the incomprehensible things magic supposedly did in fantasy settings. Into my brain I then stopped for a moment to consider what to do I was pretty sure once that tube broke my soul would go somewhere where I had no idea but my instincts told me it would happen I could hardly take m6 brain with me wait according to the my initial looks into my spirit it was in a strange sense part of me could change its properties how ever I wished and I was pretty sure was coming with me i then pinched my spirit so that the majority of it was spread super thin around my soul I didn''t dare completely remove it as my new instinct screamed danger when I did this only served to make me work faster as it seemed like proof that my idea was possible I wanted to create a complete copy of my brain out of spirit as my spirit seemed to be able to exist in the same area as my body and could somehow perceive things in detail I began meticulous and rather monotonously copied my brain with spirit I ended up having to spread some of my didlwing mana throughout my pseudo brain to sure it up as I noticed that the father away my spirit was from my soul the less stable it was to the point i was pretty sure that if I had been in my prime it might have left the area I could control completely I slowly began moving the pseudo brain back to the at this point cracked and constantly Beniding tube and moved it up the tube slowly luckily it stretched a little so I was able to get it up and ou t I moved it as close to my soul as i dared and immediately struck by a spurt of paranoia began willing my spirit to condense in a attempt to create some kind of barrier I did not know what was going to happen when the link between my body and soul was gone but it seemed prudent to prepare for the worst I made sure to take half the mana that had been used for the tube and place it in a spider like design throughout the area of the inner half of the barrier (I did not want to not have any and need it later as a old man I knew the value of time) I then took the rest of the mana and layered atop the top of the barrier.This content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. The soul stream and piggybacking With a wrenching feeling and a pop I found myself moving at an incredible speed with a great pressure on me that made me feel uneasy as it increased the farther I went I tried to sense my surroundings all I got back was the fact that there were other souls around me moving in the same direction I was the pressure was mounting and the other souls in front of me were starting to lose their spirit as the force abruptly stopped pushing against them and started pulling away there spirit some seemed to take longer to lose their spirit others lost it near instantly as I reached that mysterious boundary that denoted where the switch occurred I began to feel it as well my spirit started to slowly get tugged away the outer boundary came apart in clumps it seemed like what ever this force was though wasn''t directly trying to move the mana though so I expanded the web like structure on the inner layer and with all the mana left from the outer layer started to push the layers together it didn''t seem to help as whatever force was pulling on my spirit I realized wasn''t really pulling from the outside but from every speck of space that my spirit occupied i started to lose hope as my effort didn''t seemed to be helping but then I noticed that spirit and mana were starting to blend together in the areas where I was trying to further compress it I immediately tried to perform this every where I could it was only then that the pulling seemed to become less effective but it was still increasing as I traveled further soon eventually I would break. Speaking of those who broke seemed to be diverted in a different direction interestingly I have stopped moving it seems that I''ve been halted at the edge of the stream where the souls are travelling down. Luckily it seems the tugging on my spirit isn''t increasing I take a few moments to take stock of myself as usual it seems that keeping off the tugging is costing me mana but it seems to be such a small portion as to be inconsequential i begin experimenting it seems I am cable of moving my using parts of the barrier to tug myself closer to other souls but when ever I try to follow those that have been broken I encounter a barrier of somekind that despite many attempts I am unable to break or pass through to my new senses it seems to radiate a great magesty and power. It seems all I can do is wait for something to happen and then it happens a tube extends from the barrier and begins to move farther down the line towards what I can only assume is earth I immediately enter the tube and once again try to pass through the barrier but I''m pushed back it seems whatever this tube is reaching for its something specific a litt While later the tube begins to pull me towards the barrier where I''m again rebuffed then a few dozen souls come by there odd they seem to have a small layer of this barrier going across there front as well as some strange symbols on there souls logically speaking if this tube is indeed here to collect souls then these must be able to break through so I move behind one and follow once it''s coating of energy comes in contact with the barrier that part of the barrier disappears I press myself up against its spirit worried that the barrier would reappear to quickly as the last bit of myself passes through the barrier reappears I am continually sucked along the tube which seems to be taking us away from the standered soul stream after a while a new soulstream comes into view i say this quite a bit more confidently then when I first named it because now if I focused I could see the stream itself it seemed to be made up of all sorts of things from mana to spirit to a few things that I didn''t even have a name for any way it seems to go in a continuous loop with rivulets coming off of it in various directions on one side and thickens out on the other we start heading for the thicker part and I yank myself away from the souls I had been following I as it seemed that they were heading for there each individual vortex of energy the same energy that composed the barrier and the same one I wanted no part in so I move slightly away you see my theory was that this loop was something like the cycle of reincarnation and the rivulets were the different afterlife''s I was a bit unsure of this as this would mean this place had over a dozen afterlife''s but if my theory was correct then this side would be where all the bodies were once I got closer I noticed small vortexes of energy which would close either a little bit of time had passed or when a soul passed by I began moving towards one of the larger vortexes that I assume represented people as there were fewer of them and it would make sense that a person would require a larger soul then say a ant so I entered and poof I was gone from the soul stream.This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it. System and curses As my soul and spirit was whisked through the vortex I sensed strands of my soul attempting to anchor yes anchor is the only word i could use to describe it. It started with my head and then attempted to spread throughout the rest of the body before I stopped it and used these straying strands to reinforce my connection to the head and sent my mana down to where my soul strands were going and pushed it in. I did this for a few reasons one I had a feeling that if I could effect my soul with mana then others could as well and make no mistake mana was everywhere in this world drifting mostly ameless except for a huge concentration high above me and if humans or anything like humans existed in this world they would undoubtedly have discovered this energy even if they had only existed for a few hundred years this being the case I thought that if I had to have a passage to my soul anywhere might as well leave it in my head where at least in my opinion most of the important stuff was anyway. As the connection strengthened I began to feel my new body it started with my hearing allowing me to hear the whistling wind next came the ability to see as my eyes opened and I became able to see a rocky seeling making me think I was in a cave I started to get feeling in my legs and arms soon after and immediately had my first run in with what I would later come to know as the system. [you have been born] [assesing subject] [access to system menus granted] [access to system notifications granted] [status page unlocked] well that''s quite the surprise either I''ve gone insane (a real possibility given my previous actions and life) or this world has some form of computer like being around that seems to be similar to the litRPGs of my world well let''s stake a look at that status it could give me insights into this world and whatever the heck I am as it appears I''m pale green. And if the size of the water droplets coming from my mouth are any clue slightly smaller then a normal at least normal human baby should be. [status race: goblin? (prematurely born) (abnormality) level: 1/20 Age: 1 day general health: living dead (weak body do to premature birth) traits: abnormal soul gate, secondary spiritual pseudo brain, psychopathic, old soulThis content has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. Mana: 125/125 body (expandable): 0.9 soul: 12.5 skills: mana sense, mana manipulation, spirit manipulation, spirit awareness, soul sense] [notice: sufficient intelligence recognized system skill status-analyze status acquired] [notice: the curse of the god of war has been placed on you] [notice: the goblins ancestral curse has been awakened] [notice: the curse of the god of reincarnation has been placed upon you] hmmm there are a few worrying things in my status for staters is that I''ve somehow managed to piss of the god of war second is the fact that I''m a goblin and if the tread in games hold true then I''m a naturally weak dumb stinky monster that''s generally disliked by everyone and seeing as I''ve inherited a curse this is likely the case any way when I got the system skill status-analyze I also got a small packet of information basically telling me it elaborates on what everything on my status means so excluding the things I already know about (my skills) let''s see if I can''t learn anything about my race [goblins are a universally hated race generally viewed as a pest there rather weak and slightly more agile they average height wise at 1 meter and only survive do to there quick breeding and more powerful evolutions there stats average at body 1.5 and soul 0.7 they can live up to 20 naturally] ok so I''m even weaker then my race generally is do to being born premature on the other hand soul wise I''m much more superior hopefully there''s a good way to fight with the mana like the mages in video games. On to my curses hopefully there not to bad. [curse of the god of war: a curse given by the god of war generally to cowards and tricksters who are not under the protection of another god it reduces all the body''s natural or empowered do to classes stats by 50% during combat unless doing so will leave the person unable to stand move or generally or zany other simple tasks that usually require little effort] [the goblins ancestral curse is a curse that said to be by created the gods to punish all members of this race do to being impure abominations it causes goblins to be born with poor logic and assures that goblins lack a bit of the common sense of the chosen races (eg. humans, dwarfs, elves) as well as cause a decrease in the number of magic users born amongst them the full effects only occur if goblin is has low intelligence] [curse of the god of reincarnation: you will age at 100 times the normal rate] so I have 71 days to live unless I can evolve actually it ses in my status I''m living dead does that mean I''ll rot faster or something I mean if I''m dead does a goblins usual life span even apply to me either way I don''t really want to bet on it. so I should try to evolve into something which doesn''t age or find away to switch bodies cause I would rather no bet on going through that process again. next it seems I should probably take a look at my trait adnormal soul gate trait as the rest seems kinda self explanatory [adnormal soul gate: your soul gate is adnormal it is larger then the rest of your species and you only have one] okay i was kinda putting it off because knowing my luck my situation is probably even worse then this so I guess it''s time to look around. Current circumstances Ok like it seems I was wrong when I said this was a cave the walls are ruff but it seems that this is a man made structure and I''m surrounded by goblin babies all of them placed in the center of the room. there seems to be a staircase on the wall to my left the light seems to be coming from its end. might as well see where it goes. As I reach the top of the staircase I stop for a moment to let my eyes adjust lining the walls are various cages most filled with bunnies all with sharp horns and all twice as big as a normal rabbit I walked to the end of the room and follow a passage way to what appears to be a mak shift sleeping area the floor has patches of hay across the floor and a few goblins sleeping and one particular lively pailr are creating new life. I go to the far end of the room where a particularly old goblin (old being relative to the fact that most goblins here look like teens and this one looks like a adult though he''s just as short as the rest I open my mouth and before I can say a word he puts his finger to his lips and gives a quick run down of the rules and a little bit of information about the situation he seemed to have had this exact conversation before as he spoke in a dull monotonous tone the beginning was quite informative the end make me re think just how much common sense the goblins curse gets rid of he basically gave a dozen examples of things not to do like don''t try to punch one of the horned elemental rabbits when they charge at you or don''t deficate in front of the master. Any way during the beginning he explained that are goblin tribe was captive of a old hermit magus he explained that this magus kept multiple weak creatures to sell for money to buy the few things he needed and I do me few as he basically had are tribe farm a small feild outside he had us make his current house and he had us look after the various creatures that he kept. This included 50 elemental horned bunnies 30 dire wolves and 15 demonic hogs the part that astonished me was when he warned me about not sticking my limbs in the cages to give the monsters food apparently some goblins did it and depending on to what they did it to they would ever get burned cut stabbed or frozen and that was the bunnies the dire wolves would rip the arm off luckily for these goblins the demonic boors were to slow to hit the goblins up stairs was the library and above that was the masters chamber where the magus lived he was human and a magic user he was at the level where the he would once be in danger if all 30 of the dire wolves attacked together at night. And just for the record according to this goblin the reason he trusted us to work was because even if we didn''t and attacked him he could kill all of us easily without any damage the thing I consider most interesting was when he talked about the elemental rabbits horns apparently they allow the rabbits to use basic magic and I do me basic they could create a fireball create gusts of wind freeze water and create rock spikes non of these abilities could be used though because we were to cut them off every two months so that the master could sell them I was already trying to think of a way to kill him there were about 60 adult goblins and another 40 babies which would grow to adults in two days I was betting through magic speaking of which in his words "your first job is to make sure that none of the new borns killed themselves when they woke up tomorrow I was actually quite happy for this job as it meant I could study the strange magic that would allow them to grow at such a rabid growth as for my own growth I was halfway to being a adult already and I unfortunately could unfortunately not gain much from studying my curse as it seemed to use that strange energy that formed the tube in the soul realm I have decided to just call it divine energy and after finding out it was surrounding my body and that no matter how much mana I threw at it I couldn''t even effect it unlike the tube and the barrier this time the barrier seemed to be intangible though I soon thought of a rather simple idea to test the effect of mana on the body in games mana would often somehow reinforce the body or strengthen it when ever it saturated it I''m pretty sure just dumping mana into my body without a care in the world would not be to bad any way I think it''s worth a shot I''ll try to do this as efficiently as possible though as if this does work I would like it to be something I can do at a moment''s notice so I start with my heart cause if my heart naturally pumps nutrients though out my body by using my blood as a medium there''s no reason I can''t try to do so with mana I begin to push mana into my heart and then into my blood that part worked partially as my mana imbued blood did move through out my body and did slowly imbue my cells it didn''t have the desired effect not really surprising but I was hoping that the goblin body had some kind of natural use for mana but oh well I guess I''ll have to go back down stairs and start analyzing the babies after all.If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. 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