Watching Titosso maneuver through the soul canvas with a 120-color crayon set, the mob, Rosgini, and Hestia felt a genuine pang of envy.
“Can we have crayons too?”
“There aren’t any special crayons like this! It’s surprising that one even got made since no one was looking for them in the first place!”
“Yeah… I might think about making a magic sword to sell, but I’d never make a crayon magic tool. It’s even consumable!”
Rosgini’s evaluation as a magician boosted the value assessment of the crayons further.
“This one’s a fire gob, and this one’s a water gob!”
“Why are you burning the house down?”
“Something has to burn for it to look like fire element!”
“This one is stuck under the water pipes.”
“So it looks like water element!”
I wonder what forms the goblins in Goblin World are transforming into by now.
Even I, who handed over the crayons, am a little scared.
As the goblins transform into creations that Titosso makes which are incomprehensible, I even thought that I might wipe out an entire comrade dimension.
“Wait a second! Let’s set a safety measure here.”
“How do we do that?”
“Let’s engrave weaknesses of the goblins on each corner of the drawings. Then, we can easily subjugate any goblin using our weaknesses!”
Actually, this is the original way to use the soul canvas.
Otherworldly soul artists would instill fear into goblins’ souls to raise tasty souls to feast upon.
It’s a horrifying place where if one wanders too freely or stays too long, they end up fighting the fallen Asins, beings that are quasi-deities but not quite gods.
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Asin: A being that has suffered a significant loss of stature, falling from godhood to Asin’s rank. They cannot regain their divine status until the damage is repaired or a new rank is built.
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In short, if one careens through this drawing realm recklessly or lingers too long, it becomes a terrifying place where they might end up battling those who have lost their rank.
But, honestly, I have too many points to be scared of that.
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Held points: 10.2 billion points
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Points are currency that can be exchanged for anything.
Although it’s a currency created by the principal, which is used inside the Gift Academy, it initially was something handled by other beings.
The essence of that something is
Just like one can build merits in the knight order to upgrade supplies, one can build merits in the church to receive various church powers or evidence of faith in exchange for primitive points.
Each god has their own separate faith points.
These were combined into what we now call points by the demi-god and sage Omoshiroi Principal, who exists on the ground.
Points are the universal faith points recognized by any god.
It’s like the base currency, like dollars.
“Let’s spread the good culture of the academy to the goblins.”
“How?”
“By telling them the fear of points!”
With points, you can overwhelm the goblins.
Regular citizens use lower-tier currency and don’t often possess points, but any skill used tenfold gives a small amount of points through acquired training merits.
The points are distributed by gods related to each skill to show off their influence.
However, unlike academy students using the [Magic Watch] for convenient use of points, outsiders don’t possess devices that accumulate points.
So they earnestly pray and inadvertently use points.
It’s only natural since points stem from faith.
Using points with strong belief and prayer isn’t odd.
But seeing points wasted on meaningless reasons seems a bit regrettable.
– Please let the spade ace come out and wreck my friends in this poker game!
– I don’t want to get up; I just want to sleep for one more hour…
– I wish I’d look handsome after washing up, even if only in the mirror… Please!
A fool praying at a gambling table.
A fool rolling around in bed and oversleeping.
A fool turning their face into a gacha while scratching a lottery ticket behind a foggy mirror.
Seeing all these fools pouring points into absurdities is heartbreaking.
That’s why those who live a modest, rule-abiding life without greed often find the heavens assisting them when it counts; the saying “luck is on their side” holds true.
Unused points can be strategically applied when crises suddenly occur in daily life.
But what about those lazy, irregularly living ordinary folks?
They end up with no points to speak of in crucial moments, expressing they’ve been forsaken by the heavens, and they get walloped by the storms of life.
‘The fact that Avalon is continuously using points to maintain its form and is thereby suffering in life’s unfairness is a secret to keep!’
Isn’t it worth it if you’re taking a hit for becoming a cute magical girl? Or maybe not!
“Look at this! It’s a goblin scared of points!”
“It’s cute.”
“How is this a goblin?”
“Aw… I worked really hard on it…”
“Whoa, it’s super goblin-like! Totally goblin!”
As Titosso’s engine revved up, the tower of random thoughts I had built quickly came crashing down, and as I dashed over to lift Titosso high for some fun, the cries subsided to a chorus of kya kya screams.
As Titosso looked up at the sky, I quickly shot a glance reminding the friends not to upset Titosso, and they all nodded.
Thank goodness they’re my elite friends who kept their loyalties until the end; communication is easy!
“But goblins are basically pathetic, right? No matter how hard you try to change their core, if they get stomped to death, that’s that?”
Right now, Hestia was concentrated on restructuring her body while caring about appearance, but as a mercenary who once revered strength, her critique was pretty sharp.
“That’s true?”
“Then how about we make a particularly strong specimen?”
By experiencing various adventures in the paper dungeon exploration squad every week, one lesson becomes inescapably clear.
The strong ones make chaos wherever they go!
If you have strength, it seems you can do anything, no matter how dumb!
“How strong do you want to make it?”
“If the strongest goblin is a good goblin, then wouldn’t the entire goblin society become friendly and non-threatening to humans?”
“That could be the case!”
I gathered the surrounding canvases to have the space to draw a gigantic picture.
“Hmm, muscles need to look like this.”
I prevented Hestia from just drawing something hulking that didn’t resemble her appearance.
“If we master the Mana Flow Technique, a small goblin could be even stronger!”
“True. I guess I’ve been feeling stressed about my diet and wanted to draw something big first.”
“That’s understandable!”
In the meantime, I adjusted the digestive efficiency, adding all sorts of enhancements that felt good to the goblin I was drawing.
“Can I depict magical talent?”
“Go for it!”
Rosgini actively showcased her creative spirit in the style of the Red Flame School, demonstrating the skill of the overall administrator managing the fantastic fire show performance and the national fire show planning in full.
Things started coming out that made you think, “This is real magic,” compared to the shabby little mages dirtied by Titosso.
“Consistent training and infinite growth should be the most beautiful values felt by living beings. Otherwise, my life would be too unfortunate.”
“Yeah! Let’s add mob’s self-realization!”
Thanks to that, a goblin was born who was not only extremely strong and good at magic but also didn’t waste efforts and wasn’t hulking.
“Can we even call this a goblin?”
“Strong, big goblins are called hobgoblins after all. It’s not like there aren’t variations. There are officially 12 types confirmed at the Magic Tower.”
“What type is hobgoblin?”
“Standard type.”
“Then what we created is also a variation?”
“According to the Magic Tower’s standards, yes. Though, it seems… the race values have ridiculously skyrocketed.”
Rosgini scribbled on the ground.
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[Rosgini’s Predicted Race Values]
Goblin Race Value: 1~10
Human Race Value: 30~300
Exceptional Child Race Value: Over 1000
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Here, the race value refers to the total functional score possessed at the moment of birth.
Naturally, the higher the number, the stronger it is.
This is what’s called ‘talent.’
Because it’s something they do well, they do it with joy, and because they use it often and enjoyably, a virtuous cycle of growth follows.
Moreover, thanks to the mob, the tendency to enjoy training is added, so imagining how strong they can become when this kid grows up is beyond comprehension.
“Ah, that’s so nice. If you’re packing into one function, you start out with a whole act from the beginning!”
“Titosso was loaded with mana right from birth too!”
“Ehe, that’s true.”
Suddenly, the expressions of my friends became collectively uneasy.
“So, we might be making not just the exceptional child of goblins but the Titosso of the goblin realm?”
You never know until you pull the gacha.
I don’t even know!
