I walked over to one of the bodies and gagged but rested my hand on it's face.

  "Hell's fe!" I spoke the intation and blue and bck fmes came to life from my hand c the goblins body.

  I focused only on the part that normally dropped however and used the teique to refihe teeth ever so slightly before cutting off the energy as I was getting low. Steeling myself I raised my on before bringing it dht on the goblins chest with the axe side. the ribs split open to reveal the magic stohat was intad trying not to throw up again I reached into the cavity and tore it out causing the body to burst into smoke and embers that got sucked into my tattoos.-

  "Well at least I know that wasn't just a freak i now." I muttered as I tried to sense if there was anything different about my tattoos or body but there was nothing at all.

  The magic stone in my hand was bloody and about the size of my thumb but perfectly intact with a shifting smoky looking energy within its bck crystalline form. On the ground though I saw something that improved my mood immediately, a full set of teeth that were white. Before jumping to any clusions though I went through the gruesome and uling process of extrag the stones of the other three goblins and didn't get any drops at all from them whie that I was right. If I refihe drop before harvesting the stone from an intact body I could get that drop guaranteed.-

  The step however was cheg if the teeth I got this way were the same as a normal drop which meant I unfortunately o go hunting for moblins. I didn't o worry about blood though as with a quick flex of my cursed teique it all burnt away. Once I mentally prepared myself I walked further into the duo searoblins. The monster spawn rate in the dungeon was based on the power ah the monster was on. As a result the dungeon ed out a new goblin once every twenty minutes or so which was why adventurers weren't stantly fighting over the things if they were even hunting them.-

  After reag level two which oint most people easily achieved in time with effort most adventurers ighe goblins because they weren't worth fighting. Then of course you had the sed sort of advehat killed everything that moved and ighe dropped stones despite the fact that doing so could result in a variant popping up simply because it was unprofitable. I unfortunately came across one such variant this dive though it was thankfully a new one and not out of my strike ra definitely close. See I rowling the stoh of the dungeon when just up ahead I saw the damn thing.

  At first I thought it erson because it was about as tall as the average human and had pale grey skin so I thought it was just some shirtless dude down here, I was wrong. The variant seemed to sense me and turned before I could call out iing and my voice died in my throat when I saw the face of the variant. Long es and bloody red eyes that made me think of a predator staring at prey.

  "Oh shit!" i shouted as I quickly reached into my poud took out a mana potion that I popped the top off of and down the moment I realized what I was not more than fifteeers away from.

  There was no saving the vial though as the variant charged rapidly with a rusty sword in hand which forced me to toss it and focus ohreat.

  "GRRAAAAAH!" the thing screamed viciously as it swung the bde so fast that I barely dodged it by leaping to the side.

  'I o grab it.' I thought immediately reizing that I was outmatched in physical stats.

  Magic though? Oh I had some real nasty ideas about how I could use my cursed teique in battle. Admittedly one of them was tht up rip off Mahito and transfigure my oppo in a way that rehem harmless or at least less likely to harm me. In this case I was going to seal the goblins mouth and nose before letting it suffocate to death. I know really fucked up but you couldn't vince me that the alternative of this thing probably bringio the point of near death from a direct csh would be a better option.-

  I figured out how I was going to grab the variant in no time at all and I was frankly not that thrilled at the idea but it was admittedly the best I could e up with. When the variant charged at me again I steeled myself and moved towards it instead of away. I didn't get stabbed or sshed thankfully as I ed my arms around the thing like a very aggressive hug before activating my teique. I definitely got sshed across the back after that however as the cursed fmes ed the goblin variant and its lips and nostrils fused shut and it tried it's hardest to get me off.-

  Once my work was done I puhe variant in the nose as hard as I could before distang myself. I could feel the y back but it didn't hurt too much thanks to the adrenaline and while the variant cwed at it's face after dropping it's sword I snatched said on. I couldn't help but grin when I held it as my teique told me it ted as from a living thing. Reag into my pouch I grabbed the health and mana potion before downing them both and putting the empty vials back.-

  I felt an itch from my bad my energy reservoir threateo over fill sihe effects of the previous potion I took were still in effect. This time it was iionally done as I activated my teique and began to refihe sword so that it became a guaranteed drop. Once I felt I had done enough I crossed my fingers prayed to Hestia and used my cursed teique on myself to try ahe y back. The pain vanished as surprisingly the teique didn't hurt me at all when I used it on myself. -

  Even more surprising was that the energy burnt by the teique was the lowest it's ever been and I suddenly realized I had been putting the carriage before the horse. My teique was meant to be used o using it on things outside myself was the extension of the teique and thus a massive energy sink. Looking at the variant that had colpsed at this point with a blue fad was in it's final throws as the life fled it's body I sighed and walked over to it and sank it's owhrough it's chest to retrieve the magic stone.