Goblin King: My Innate Skill Is OP-Chapter 228: Genesis
Why me?
Was there something special about me that made me the perfect candidate?
Or was it all just some twisted coincidence—one random pull from an infinite lottery of souls?
The questions piled up, louder and heavier in my mind. Each one with no answer in sight.
It was maddening.
I let out a long, tired sigh and dragged both hands through my hair, gripping my scalp like I could squeeze some clarity out of my skull.
All of this, everything I’d just gone through, was absolutely mindboggling.
And the complete lack of information? The silence from whatever power had dropped me into this mess? It pissed me off more than I cared to admit.
What was I supposed to do now?
How the hell was I supposed to react to any of this?
Should I keep building my clan, keep pushing forward, rising in strength and influence, knowing full well it could all be torn down in an instant because some divine being decides it’s no longer convenient?
Knowing I might one day be ordered to throw it all away, to sacrifice everything I’ve built, for a purpose I never asked for, never agreed to?
I didn’t know.
But what other choice did I have?
If I ever wanted to uncover the truth behind why I was brought to this world—why I, of all people, ended up in a goblin’s body, caught between gods and forces I couldn’t yet comprehend—then I needed power. Real power.
And that couldn’t happen unless I kept doing the first two things I’d already set in motion.
Build the clan.
Rise through the ranks.
That was the reality of this world. Here, power wasn’t just respected—it was absolute. It was the difference between being a pawn and being a player. Between being crushed and doing the crushing.
So long as I could see a path forward—any path—that promised strength, then I had to take it. I had to climb it, conquer it, and surpass it.
Because only at the summit would I stand a chance of forcing the truth out of the shadows.
Only there could I demand answers.
That was the only path to answers I could see.
A long, winding climb up the ladder of power, where the only guarantee was uncertainty.
Resolving myself to continue walking that path, even blindfolded and alone, I drew in a long, steady breath, then turned my gaze back to the notification that had appeared the moment Lord Drugar vanished.
[Grave Consecration Successful]
[New Graveyard Has Been Established]
Your soul and that of your clan members have been bound to this location unless the Graveyard is destroyed.
If the Graveyard is destroyed and you die, your soul will forever be lost to the void.
Protect it.
Protect the Graveyard.
Of course.
That was obvious.
I had seen firsthand what happened when a graveyard fell. Jael’s clan had crumbled like wet paper the moment I took out their burial grounds. It wasn’t just symbolic—it was literal. Their connection to the world, to life itself, was severed the second that foundation was destroyed.
The same could happen to us now.
If any enemy managed to find and destroy my graveyard... and I happened to fall in battle afterward... that would be it. No afterlife, no reincarnation, no spectral second chance. Just—gone. My soul lost to the void, scattered like dust in a storm.
So yes. I would protect it.
This graveyard wasn’t just some random chunk of cursed land anymore—it was the anchor for everything I was trying to build.
And I wasn’t going to let anyone take that from me.
As soon as that thought settled in my mind, another notification flickered into view.
Ding!
[Condition to Establish a New Settlement Met]
Conditions:
– Possess a Graveyard [Met]
– Have more than 5 Goblins [Met]
– Possess two or more Huts [Met]
[You have met the requirements to establish a permanent settlement.]
[You are now the leader of a settlement.]
[Please select a name for the settlement.]
"Ehh..." I mouthed, blinking slowly.
How come I didn’t know this was a thing?
There’d been no tutorial, no warning, not even a whisper of this function in any of the previous notifications. Yet somehow, I’d stumbled into it—blindly checking every box without realizing they were even there.
Lucky for me, I’d met the conditions without trying. Just like that, it was official. We weren’t just a band of rogue goblins squatting on the edge of survival anymore.
We were a clan. A proper one.
A recognized, anchored force with territory, housing, and now... a graveyard.
And I got to name it.
A name?
I mouthed the word again, staring blankly at the notification like it had just asked me to solve a riddle with my life on the line.
I hadn’t thought about this at all—not even once. Naming the clan? That had always felt like something I’d figure out later, after we’d earned the right to call ourselves anything.
But here it was. The moment.
How was I even supposed to go about this?
Should the name reflect my ambition—something that screamed power, dominance, and the rise of something unstoppable? Or maybe something subtler, something with weight and meaning behind it?
My thoughts drifted, for a moment, to the name of Jael’s clan. Whatever it was, it didn’t matter anymore. That name was ash now, buried beneath the rubble I’d left behind.
I returned to my own dilemma.
A name... a name... I kept repeating the word like it would suddenly crack open a vault of inspiration. But every idea that came was either absurd or laughably off-brand.
The Green Demons.
Green Bastards.
Goblin Supremacy.
I winced at that one. Way too aggressive.
The Overcomers.
I cringed. Sounded like a washed-up motivational book.
Goblin Universal? That one just made me think of a bad amusement park.
The Jade Midgets?
I lost it. I actually burst out laughing, coughing mid-wheeze from how stupid it sounded.
Nope. Definitely not that.
Still, the fact that I couldn’t think of anything even remotely fitting made it painfully clear—I needed help.
And I knew exactly who to ask.
