Evening.
In a farmland located at the southeast corner of Mill Town.
A patch of golden rice stalks was trampled until scattered, as if several wild boars had rampaged through.
"Huff~ Huff~"
Raine was panting heavily.
Following his gaze, you can see two small green-skinned creatures lying spread-eagle in a pool of blood.
Raine looked down again at the blood-stained fork in his hand, his mind somewhat dazed. This was the first time he had killed any sentient being, whether in this life or the previous one.
This was also his third day after crossing into this world.
In his previous life, he did well academically and was smoothly admitted to college. Unfortunately, as a liberal arts graduate, graduating almost meant unemployment.
Sure enough, after graduation, after a few months of idleness, he ultimately chose to ride a small electric scooter for flexible employment.
But very unfortunately, during one delivery, he turned a corner and met his fate.
Thus, he came to this world, reborn into the body of this eighteen-year-old farmer.
A real farmer!
On Raine’s first day of crossing over, he awakened a ’Golden Finger’:
[Name: Raine]
[Classes: Farmer]
[Power: 5] (represents muscle strength and physical power)
[Agility: 5] (represents coordination, flexibility, reaction speed, and balance ability)
[Constitution: 5] (represents health status, endurance, and life force, reflected in disease resistance, fatigue resistance, and damage tolerance)
[Intelligence: 7] (represents spirit, memory, learning, reasoning, and logical thinking, etc.)
[Perception: 5] (represents willpower, intuition, insight, and common sense judgment)
[Charm: 5] (represents internal attraction, persuasive power, and leadership ability)
(Note: The attributes of an ordinary adult male are 5 points each.)
It clearly stated above, Classes—Farmer.
The only higher Intelligence attribute, Raine guessed, was due to his modern soul, having spent over ten years studying diligently.
"Sigh~"
"Monsters are popping up nearby, how exactly should I use this Golden Finger?"
Raine couldn’t help but let out a sigh.
Upon crossing over, he learned from the memories of his predecessor that this world was filled with various monsters and magical forces.
Whether it’s goblins, oozes, and kobolds that could be encountered around Mill Town, or the distant legends of giant dragons and divine beings, they seemed to be more than just tales from a minstrel’s mouth.
Because Raine personally saw a slender, well-proportioned female elf carrying a big bow at the Oak Inn of Mill Town.
Her pointed, slender furry ears were so striking.
At first, when he crossed over, Raine was quite joyful; after all, with a Golden Finger, a bright future awaited him.
But after two consecutive days, he found that apart from displaying his body’s attributes, this Golden Finger seemed to have no other function.
Right, at the bottom of the attribute panel, there was also a row of square empty slots similar to a skill bar in online games.
But strangely, all four squares were empty.
These two days, he tried concentrating while weeding, harvesting rice, or chopping wooden swords, fantasizing about generating corresponding skill icons, but unfortunately, all failed.
"Hmm?"
"Wait! Now the squares aren’t empty?"
Suddenly, Raine was stunned; he just saw something with the corner of his eye!
He immediately focused again, looking at the four square slots at the bottom of the attribute panel.
To his surprise, at this moment, in the first and second square slots, there were two identical monster icons—
The images of the two goblins he just killed with his fork.
However, the icons exuded a faint gray hue, resembling some kind of black-and-white memorial portrait.
"Is this... some sort of kill record?"
In fact, killing the goblins was an accidental incident.
Today, Raine came to heap up the straw of a portion of the harvested rice field for his family.
That’s right, heap up.
Don’t be surprised; it’s an ability inherited from his predecessor.
After crossing over, Raine inherited a series of skills that a farmer needs to know, like weeding, composting, farming, stacking, etc.
He could confidently say that if he could cross back, in terms of farming familiarity, he could outperform a majority of agricultural university graduates.
At the time, while stacking with a fork, he suddenly saw a green-skinned dwarf sneaking up to ambush him!
Raine initially didn’t intend to fight; he fled.
Because the opponent was holding a short dart, according to his military training instructor in the past life, encountering a thug with a weapon, don’t hesitate and flee immediately.
Raine obeyed.
But unfortunately, after running a few steps, he found that the other end of the path was blocked by a second green-skinned dwarf holding a wooden club.
This forced Raine to fight desperately.
During the battle, Raine realized that with a fork in his hand, he was like a war god possessed.
Neither the first goblin’s short dart nor the second goblin’s wooden club could attack him in the short term.
In the end, although a bit clumsy, after several stabs with the fork, he actually managed to kill both goblins.
"Is it because I killed them myself, and the goblin souls were absorbed by the system?" Raine speculated joyfully.
After thinking for a while, he attempted to focus his spiritual power on the icon of the first goblin.
Suddenly, the icon got pushed in like an elevator button.
In the next moment, the square slot lit up.
The original black-and-white portrait suddenly turned into a colorful one, and the goblin on the icon became lifelike.
Whether it was the sharp teeth or the saliva almost dripping with greed, they were all so vivid.
For a moment, the goblin seemed to come alive.
Before Raine thought much, he suddenly felt as if his muscles were slightly tightened, simultaneously, a warm current rose in his lower abdomen, and a peculiar urge to reproduce surged into his mind.
"This..."
When he was somewhat confused, his eyes glimpsed at the attribute bar again:
[Name: Raine]
[Classes: Farmer]
[Blessed Bloodline: Ordinary Goblin Bloodline]
[Bloodline Talent: High-speed Reproduction Lv2... Dexterity Lv1....]
[Power: 5]
[Agility: 5 (+1)]
[Constitution: 5]
[Intelligence: 7]
[Perception: 5]
[Charm: 5]
"Can I bless the goblin bloodline I just killed?" Raine was stunned upon seeing this.
Immediately, his gaze naturally focused on the bloodline talents.
"High-speed Reproduction Lv2?"
"It’s even a Level 2 skill?!"
For someone with some knowledge of games, he naturally knew that level 2 skills are more powerful than level 1 skills.
The High-speed Reproduction was followed by a small line of text, seemingly describing its effects.
High-speed Reproduction Lv2 effect: Can reproduce with most mammal species without reproductive isolation, and once seven sperms or more enter, offspring are strongly dominant and grow rapidly.
"This effect..."
Upon seeing this skill’s effect, Raine was somewhat speechless.
Nonetheless, it gave Raine some understanding as to why goblins, these green-skinned dwarves with poor combat skills, could plague this world.
With his shallow biological understanding, he interpreted the system’s statement that multi-sperm means even if a goblin’s partner has only one ovum, multiple sperms will enter it, forming semi-identical multiples.
Whereas offspring being strongly dominant means that when goblins breed with other humanoid species, most offspring remain goblin in nature.
Although they may absorb some characteristics from their mating species, most of their physical traits primarily exhibit goblin features.
It’s like double eyelids being dominant.
"Dexterity Lv1?" Shortly after, Raine noticed the second bloodline talent.
Evidently, compared to the previous ’High-speed Reproduction Lv2’, this ’Dexterity Lv1’ was more practical for him.
Dexterity Lv1 effect: Agility +1.
(Note: Under current physical condition)
The effect of the hardened muscles should originate from this.
Although the system’s description of the Dexterity Lv1 effect was only a few words.
The fewer the words, the greater the matter.
Raine had already realized that this should be the correct way to unlock his Golden Finger—by killing monsters.