I Became a Goblin Ancestor

It felt like I had a deep dream.

Rather than a lucid dream, it was a dream that felt heavy like water-soaked cotton, when you close your eyelids late at night.

It seemed like quite a long dream, but when my consciousness started to gradually return to reality, it felt brief due to the dream’s memories beginning to fade.

And as my mind started to wake from sleep, I felt the sensation of stiff muscles.

At that, I tried to move my arm to stretch my stiffened body, but.

Clunk—

“…Ah.”

I let out a short sound as my arm didn’t move at all, as if caught on something.

It wasn’t that I lacked strength from just waking up, but it felt like something was restraining my arm.

Realizing this, I felt rising frustration and anxiety, and I exerted strength to my still half-asleep mind and ignited fire from my entire body.

“Hup…!”

Whoosh—!!

Following my will, crimson flames rose from my entire body, dyeing the space beyond my closed eyelids red.

And as the raised flames began to melt whatever was restraining my body, I staggered and stood on the floor, and only then did I suddenly open my eyes.

“…What? Where is this?”

When I opened my tightly closed eyes, what I saw was the scenery of a room covered in a single color.

Silver-gray walls that felt desolate filled all four sides around me.

Pat, pat, pat—

“Wh-what? Suddenly light…”

And as I was looking around the awkward surroundings in a daze, suddenly something on the ceiling began to emit a soft light.

“Jewels…?”

Looking closely at the source of the light, what was emitting light was none other than deep purple jewels.

I thought it might be an attack from an assailant appearing in this unfamiliar space, but there were only purple jewels on the ceiling where the light came down, and I couldn’t feel any other presence, so I barely calmed my chest and recalled the hazy memories in my fully waking mind.

“My memory is still vague, but… I was definitely about to receive the ceremony to become the Great Chief.”

I certainly had grasped the club in my hand to receive the Great Chief ceremony prepared by the goblin club, and during the ceremony, I lost consciousness along with seeing a blue light bursting from outside the cave.

And when I woke up from sleep and came to my senses, the place I was in was this place I had never seen before in my life.

Although it was a situation that couldn’t be connected due to not knowing the circumstances, I still organized the confused thoughts in my head one by one, and soon I could completely summarize the situation I was in with one sentence.

“So, I lost consciousness due to external intervention while receiving the Great Chief ceremony, and experienced something similar to… kidnapping, and opened my eyes in this strange place.”

Although I didn’t know whether the blue light that made me lose consciousness was used by my kinsmen to kill me, or if it was the intervention of a completely different outsider, anyway, this was the current situation.

One way or another, I’ve regained my lost consciousness, my body is fine, and my strength is intact, so I guess there’s no particular problem.

And after organizing the situation that far, I suddenly raised my head as I remembered something else I had forgotten.

“The goblin club?!”

The goblin club I was holding while conducting the ceremony.

When I couldn’t see her, I quickly raised my head and looked around, but soon turned my body at the voice coming from behind.

『I’m here, Shin-yeon.』

“Club?!”

What I saw then was the remains of a huge golden yellow jewel that seemed to have melted when I ignited the flames earlier, and the goblin club still half-embedded in it.

It seems I didn’t notice her right after waking up because I was disoriented, and I had come down from that jewel.

『No matter how much you’ve just woken up, what use is a Great Chief who abandons the club that’s like their other self? I’m getting stuffy too, so won’t you hurry and take me out?』

“J-just a moment. I’ll get you out right away.”

At her voice that sounded a bit grumbling, I hurriedly grasped her stuck in the jewel and ignited flames once again.

Whoosh—!!!

Since she, being the goblin club, was not affected by the flames at all, when I surrounded the club’s surface with flames, her body easily came out of the jewel.

And although I had organized my confusion, I still had many questions about the current situation, so as soon as I pulled her out, I opened my mouth to ask for answers.

“Do you know what’s going on right now? I only remember losing consciousness after suddenly seeing a blue light during the ceremony…”

『Hmm, there’s no need to be too hasty, so calm down a bit, Shin-yeon. First of all, when we just started the ceremony, the blue light we saw suddenly shook the ceremony, so I wrapped us in an earthen veil to hide. And it seems we’ve only been able to come to our senses now, after quite some time has passed.』

“The ceremony was shaken?! Th-then, was the Great Chief ceremony I underwent properly completed?”

At her words, I couldn’t help but shout in surprise.

The Great Chief ceremony was more important to me than anything else. How could I not worry when I heard it was shaken midway?

So I shook her while holding her with surprised eyes, but she looked at me and chuckled as if amused, then spoke in a relaxed voice.

『The ceremony was, of course, successfully completed. You can tell that by looking at your own body, can’t you, Shin-yeon?』

“My body…?”

She spoke ambiguously and chuckled again.

And only after hearing her words could I detect the different state of my body compared to before losing consciousness.

“…Huh? My body has certainly changed.”

Until just now, grasping the current situation was the top priority, so I had pushed the sense of discomfort in my body to a corner, but when I became aware of my body after hearing her words, I could clearly feel how my body had changed.

“My body has gotten a bit smaller?”

Originally, my body was extremely small for a goblin, with a height of 170cm and moderate muscles, but now my height had decreased by about 10cm, and my muscles had disappeared, leaving a soft and tender body shape.

“Plus, my chest has swelled a bit, and my voice has become thinner.”

Moreover, when I looked down, my chest, which was originally protruding with muscle, had been replaced with a moderately weighted flesh, and my voice, which had gone through puberty, had become thin and light like a girl’s.

After trying my voice a few more times, I grabbed and pulled something hanging down around my waist, and white silk-like hair came into view.

“……”

After confirming that much, I immediately stretched out my hand forward to materialize an ice sheet to reflect my appearance, without needing to say anything more.

“Come forth.”

Crackle—

As I softly uttered a word, a large ice sheet rose from the floor and stood upright.

And as the ice sheet rose, I hurriedly took off the mask covering my eyes, and the moment I raised my head, I let out a small exclamation seeing my reflection there.

“Whoa…”

『Hoho, have you lost your words because your appearance is too beautiful?』

Although her words seemed to tease me, I couldn’t help but dramatically agree with them.

Because the me reflected in the ice sheet was truly beautiful beyond words.

The white hair that came down to my waist swayed, emphasizing the red bridge of my bangs, and below that, golden eyes that looked as if they were molded from pure gold were set in a face of unparalleled beauty.

And how beautiful was the slender body that continued below.

When an ideally beautiful body followed under a heavenly appearance, I could assert that I had never seen such a beauty in my life.

『How is it, Shin-yeon? Are you satisfied?』

“…Yes, if it’s to this extent, even the previous Great Chiefs who became girls would be satisfied.”

『That’s fortunate indeed.』

Although I had already prepared for the gender reversal as the Great Chief, changing into this appearance gave me even more satisfaction than I had prepared for.

“And even though I’ve changed into a girl, it seems like the overall physical strength is even stronger than my previous body.”

『That’s because it’s a body befitting a Great Chief. It’s probably several times superior in every aspect compared to your past body.』

“That’s quite a pleasant thing to hear.”

Compared to my previous body, there’s much less muscle, almost to the point of none, yet it’s overflowing with more strength.

It was truly incomprehensible, but it was at a level that could be understood with the words ‘Great Chief’, so I just smiled with satisfaction.

And after admiring my body for a few more minutes, I put on the mask I had taken off and asked her, whom I was holding in my hand.

“Then now I’ll ask again about the current situation. You said earlier that I woke up after quite some time had passed, right? What does that mean?”

Perhaps it was because I had seen my overwhelmingly beautiful self, but a calmer question was thrown from my mouth, more composed than before, with a forcibly calmed mind.

Thanks to that, in a much more settled atmosphere, she let out a small sigh at my question and then slowly opened her mouth.

『It seems we were inside the earthen veil for quite a long time because the ceremony was shaken. I was also in a state of light sleep inside the protective barrier, so I can’t say for certain, but it feels like about 60 years… or maybe 70 years have passed.』

“…Wait, what did you say?”

As soon as her words ended, I unconsciously asked back.

There was certainly nothing I couldn’t understand in her words, but my head refused to understand.

I reflexively doubted words that were hard to believe as the truth.

However, I soon forcibly stuffed her unbelievable words into my head, and only then could I slowly ask again.

“Did you say… 70 years have passed? From when I received the Great Chief ceremony?”

『As I just said, I can’t say for certain, but roughly that much time has definitely passed.』

“That’s… quite hard to believe.”

『But it’s undoubtedly the truth.』

“Alright, if you say so, then it must be true even if it’s hard to believe.”

There was no reason for her to lie to me now that I had become the Great Chief after surely receiving the Great Chief ceremony.

It was still hard to believe as all I could see around me were monotonous silver-gray walls, but what could I do?

I took a deep breath, emptying my lungs along with the confusion in my head, and after glancing once at the remains of the earthen veil that had confined me and the club, I made a brief resolution.

“Okay, then first we should get out of here. If 70 years have passed, we need to find out about the outside, and I need to know who trapped me here. Also, I should look for my kinsmen.”

『I see, now that you’ve become the Great Chief, you’re thinking of going to find your kinsmen?』

“Yes.”

The first thing I needed to do right away was to get out of this space that confined me.

And because I was going to look for my kinsmen who should be in Mount Seorak to fulfill my long-cherished wish, I nodded at her words.

Now that I’ve gone through the ceremony and become the Great Chief, what criticism or reproach would I fear?

‘I’ll kill them all with my own hands.’

If I find my kinsmen, I will kill all those who pushed me into hell and release the emotions I’ve accumulated on top of their corpses.

I will wash away my past, which was full of only pain and malice, with their blood.

However, if that happens, I didn’t know what I would hear from her, the goblin club I was holding, but I thought she might understand if I explained the circumstances after killing them all and exterminating the race.

Of course, even if she didn’t understand, I had no intention of stopping.

The extermination of my kinsmen, except for myself, was the only driving force that allowed me to survive tenaciously in hell.

No one who hadn’t experienced my life should have stopped me, and even if they had experienced it, they couldn’t stop me.

If there was someone who would try to stop my revenge even after experiencing my life, that person would undoubtedly be a sage with admirable thoughts.

Perhaps they could even unify the world without using violence, a unique being in the world.

However, I was not someone with such great thoughts, and although the end of revenge might be futile, I was a goblin who had to do it to be satisfied, so I wouldn’t stop.

I mean, I will definitely kill them all with my own hands.

Therefore, I looked around to grasp my surroundings, intending to leave this place now.

And my head had to stop abruptly at the next moment when I heard the words of the goblin club.

『I’m sorry, Shin-yeon, but there’s no need to look for your kinsmen.』

“Huh? Why?”

『As for why that is…』

They have already all been exterminated.

“…What did you say?”

Her words, which I desperately wished were false.

Clearly echoed in my ears.