“We won’t be getting up at five tomorrow morning,” I told them. “Given the current situation, we’ll get up an hour later. Six o’clock!”
“Seven, goblin! Give us ‘til seven,” Yorka whined.
“Six,” I snapped.
I made a mental note that I would have to keep a close eye on where my party was at all times from now on. We would have to keep our distance from dangerous places — I didn’t want a repeat of our little trip to the Cursed Bridge.
Tomorrow — actually, it was almost today — we would have to hit the trade points again. I wanted to get another club and a few spikes for it, do some price shopping on foot protection, take a look at the energy drinks and isotonics on offer, and...
“Hey, they’re bringing out meat,” Yorka whispered. “And it looks like they’re bringing it to us! To us! Blow up and die!”
Bask said nothing, but his flaring nostrils and twitching throat spoke for themselves.
They really were bringing it to us. Three plates heaped high with solid helpings of grilled meat, medium-rare, hit the table with a clatter. The incredible smell made me drool so much that I was sure I would either drown myself or swamp the whole table.
I grabbed my fork and gave my team an order:
“Dig in! What are you waiting for?”
And then I took my first bite of meat. I ate fiercely, shaking my head, tearing off a massive piece and chewing it with fervor, feeling the thick meat juices enveloping my tongue... Yorka, eyes closed in pleasure, let out a long groan, and Bask sniffed his meat enthusiastically as he chewed. This was certainly a meal we had earned.
I looked up at the waitress, gesturing at the glasses on the table. She nodded and hurried over with a bottle and a jug. I caught the manager’s eye and mimed that I would pay later. He replied in the same fashion, seeming to reassure me — ‘Don’t worry, goblin, we respect you, and our establishment extends you our trust.’
“Who knew!” Yorka burst out, looking me up and down. “Who knew things would turn out like this! Who did I wake up that day, Elb? Who are you?”
“I’m a goblin,” I chuckled, grabbing my second cup. “Just an ordinary goblin. Let’s drink. To us!”
“To us!”
“Blow up and die! To us!”
End of Book One
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About the Author
Dem Mikhailov was born on November 23 1979 in the ex-Soviet city of Zarafshan (the Republic of Uzbekistan). His natural aptitude for science and technology decided his initial career choice, prompting him to enter the local industrial college. Upon graduation, he worked in the mining industry specializing in separation and beneficiation of metals. Still, he didn’t find much joy in the admittedly boring job. Fed up with the daily grind, Dem finally decided to radically change his lifestyle and moved to Turkey where he spent the next twelve years working in the leisure industry, rising through the ranks from a regular entertainer to an animation team manager. Although leisure-time animation is admittedly a vocation for the young, it allowed Dem to mix with all kinds of people and later use his knowledge of human types and characters in his books.
In 2012, Dem Mikhailov returned to his home town, which marked the beginning of his stellar writing career. He’s rightly considered one of the founding fathers of LitRPG, and his legendary saga The Sleepless Ones (The World of Waldyra, sometimes spelled as “Valdira”) became one of the cult LitRPG series serving as an inspiration for such bestselling LitRPG authors as Vasily Mahanenko, Dan Sugralinov and Michael Atamanov.