Cover Art by the talented SocS (https://www.royalroad.com/profile/84137)

Even if I grow in strength and somehow avoid dying during a hunt or some moronic tribal war, how long can I really expect to live? Twenty years? Ten? Is this my fate? To struggle to survive every day, only to die after a dozen odd years?

Rhys awakes to find himself trapped in the body of a young goblin. In his previous life he was a successful artist, but now he faces a strange new world reduced to the most pitiful of dungeon dwelling monsters and with no survival skills to aid him.

His only hope comes from a single sentence he hears during the advancement ceremony: "Some attributes exceed the limits of the current race."

Now his goal isn't just to survive. He will push through the boundaries of his species to evolve further.

The path ahead is long and arduous. Especially for a young goblin trapped in a small dungeon of a dying town.

In order to succeed, he will have to forge bonds with those around him and rise to the challenges waiting for him. But will stepping further into the path of a monster really bring him closer to regaining his lost humanity?