Chapter 108 – Welcome to Golem Trouble (10)
Shit, I shouldn’t have come.
You never said you’d be explaining in front of so many people!
I was dragged out of the blue to give a presentation in front of people. Sweat dripped from his cheeks as he tensed up. He tried to wipe it with his hand, but gave up because he noticed it.
Fuck I don’t know Let’s just think it’s a phone pal. I powered the boat.
‘It’s not like I’ll get stabbed for making a mistake, so what are you doing because you’re nervous?’
And here, if you go around Abu Bababbae, you will not be able to face Fran.
Because I have to be a great boyfriend that Fran can proudly say anywhere.
“I skip the self-introduction. I’m sure you’re not curious about my name.”
I said boldly. Damn, but I don’t know how to put my hands on it. When it comes to presenting, you can hold something or do something.
“First of all, before I explain, I would like to ask a question on the contrary. Why did you call me? I had just returned from Haysbent a little while ago, so I haven’t heard the details.”
“I would like to ask you a question about the black magician you chased together in the Wizards Guild and Gylfi Guild.”
The person who answered was the representative of the wizard guild.
Somehow he seems like someone I’ve seen somewhere. Wait a minute. Isn’t that person him? The gray-haired wizard who helped me nearly get castrated by the guards in the Wizards Guild?
Maybe the wizard guild leader? No Even if the guards were idiots, they would have known the face of the guild leader. It won’t be the guild leader.
Still, it would have been a very high status. The fact that he attended the lord’s emblem as a representative meant that he was a high-ranking wizard trusted by the guild leader.
‘Why is my brother out there?’
Surely you won’t find out my identity? I felt the sweat flow like a waterfall.
At that time, he was wearing only a robe with a normal mask, so he might be surprised. Wasn’t Tyrsi easy to recognize?
“The same type of Power Stone was found in the hideout of the black magician we explored. Therefore, we are considering the possibility that both hideouts are owned by the same person.”
The representative of the wizard guild spoke with a clear pronunciation.
I brought my hand to my chin and stroked it. I don’t know what the fucking golem has to do with black magic, but I wanted to answer it quickly and go home when I had to ask that question.
“Well sir. However, I remember that I reported everything I could report to you… Was there anything missing in my report?”
This question was asked to the representative of the Auduumla guild. He was a young man with a bow. The glittering gold class plate seemed like a successful adventurer.
“Ha. Didn’t I tell you the location of the most important hideout?”
A mature beauty in her 40s said. He is the representative of the Gilfi Guild.
But I asked that person a question, so why are you answering? I looked at the woman who looked like a wizard adventurer, but I didn’t have the courage to argue so I answered meekly.
“I didn’t know, so I couldn’t report it. I just obtained that item from the Hobgoblin while carrying out the request with my colleagues as usual.”
Depending on your point of view, you could say it was my fault.
But he didn’t apologize. My life as an adventurer would be ruined if I casually apologized lightly at a place like this and heard bullshit like ‘then you take responsibility’.
Still, damn it, who other than me could speak the Goblin language like a native speaker and listen and talk with Hobgoblins.
Anyone in the seat here should suddenly talk to this guy while catching monsters and ask about the source of the item! I wouldn’t have thought of it.
So, to tell me this was a far-fetched quibble.
“I can’t help it. Could you at least tell me the exact process of obtaining the Power Stone?”
The guardsman asked. I explained it over and over again, putting responsibility avoidance as my top priority.
Take it! 21st century civil servant style speech!!
“Eh- that’s right. It’s just my opinion, but–“
He went on a goblin subjugation request from a nearby village.
Defeating the Hobgoblin hiding in the abandoned temple.
It was strong for a hobgoblin, so when I thought about the cause, the staff was suspicious.
It was retrieved because mana was felt from the stone of the staff.
The above explanation is brief.
I left out the fact that I had a conversation with a goblin. I’m not an idiot, so why would I say such a thing?
“That is all. Anyone have a question?”
I regretted talking about it. Sibal University PPT Gambit saved too much!
Please don’t ask anything… !
“Where is the location of the hobgoblin temple?”
My desperate prayers were ignored. The representative of the wizard guild talked so much and cast Hihi Mogga.
‘Fuck. I lived a good life.’
After all, the world seemed to be good only for the bad guys. I asked, feeling my sanity level diminishing.
“It is difficult to explain in words. Do you have a map here?”
“I will bring it. Hey!”
“Yep!”
It was a guard who brought something similar to a whiteboard to the guard’s words. Since there are no wheels, two guards work hard to bring it.
─Thump!
A map of Britannia was hung on the whiteboard. I found Perfort Village and marked the location with a thumbtack.
“It was an abandoned temple around here. In terms of food, it seemed to be an old Britannian folk religion, and there was a high possibility that it would be used as a goblin’s nest, so I recommended the village chief to deal with it.”
Since it happened like this, I worked hard to explain it so that no questions would come out.
“The first thing to keep in mind is that considering the goblins’ habitat and behavior, they probably wouldn’t have crossed the river.”
The goblins don’t know how to cross the river because they’re short and brainy. Like a cat, it has a physiological loathing and fear of water, so it does not cross even if it has legs.
So the ones I caught were probably not the ones who crossed the river from the back of Perfort Village and made nests.
“Since they built their nest close to the village, their attention must have been focused on the village, but it is hard to believe that the goblins following Hobgoblin’s instructions would have counted the other way in the middle.”
“What did that mean?”
The representative of the Gilfi Guild asked while twisting his hair. I answered roughly with the thought of going back quickly.
“The Hobgoblin doesn’t value his men. Goblins are also monsters that obey power, so even if they are lazy, they obey orders. There’s no way the Hobgoblins acted diligently when there were subordinates, and there was no case that the goblins escaped in the middle——”
─Exactly!
I took a tack in the forest connecting Sargadis and Perfort village. I’m busy talking, so I can’t find the name of the forest. Aagh! Accumulating another world map is fucking shit!
“──The Hobgoblin most likely got the Power Stone from this forest. It’s just a personal opinion, but the dark mage’s hideout might be over here.”
“… Possibly from the other direction?”
Auduumra’s Golden Archer, who was playing admiringly, asked. Don’t ask me that shit. That’s right, it’s just a sound.
I responded with the elite Daegaltong at full capacity.
“Audumla guild seniors will remember it. About a week ago, the forest was flooded with goblins. The ruins we found in our guild were also over there.”
“It did.”
“As is well known, a goblin nest is a structure in which a group of subordinates gather under one boss. Think of the number of goblins at the time. If they were all overflowing from the same lair, the boss was quite powerful—— Ah. It must have been a powerful entity ‘by goblin standards’.”
“The Goblin King.”
Nefertiti, who hadn’t said anything until then, spoke. I don’t know where to look. It was like a cat staring blankly into the air.
“Our guild’s bronze class. I caught the king and died. All the remaining goblins fled… So I took care of it.”
“Okay. Was King a hop?”
“Hop?”
Nefertiti tilts her head at me. When a member of the Sekhmet Guild whispered something behind him, he nodded.
“Yes. Hop.”
“Then the credibility of this hypothesis is a little higher.”
– Tuk-tuk. I hit my heart with my hand.
“Anyone who escaped Mithril Class Boon’s pursuit would have killed me a hundred times more. So, the hobgoblins I caught can be regarded as being pushed out of the territorial battle with the Goblin King.”
Ah, saying that I will die a hundred times here is an exaggeration.
Even if it was stronger than the Goblin King, it would have been possible to run away with Frank. If I said that and got unnecessarily high evaluation, I thought it would only make things harder, so I just gave up.
“I caught the Hobgoblin about seven days after the first incident. If you start moving before discovering the Goblin Lair dungeon in the Sekhmet Guild, the goblin’s stride is a good time to find a shelter in the middle and settle down in Perfort Village. So that.”
– Whiririk.
I drew a line with my finger on the forest markings connecting Sargadis and Perfort. The green line engraved with the trick of rune magic marked the expected movement path in an easy-to-understand manner.
“It can be said that there is a high probability that the hobgoblins who were defeated in the territorial battle took their goblins with them. There is no convincing evidence at all, but it is more reasonable than the hypothesis that the goblins crossed the river behind the town of Perfort or detoured a long distance.”
I finished my reasoning by forcibly squeezing out the tightness in my chest that I felt even when I was giving a PPT presentation.
“And if there is a second hideout of a warlock in this forest, you might be thinking that it might not be too far from the hideout found in the Guild Guild.”
The last one is finished by adding the civil servant style Amolang method.
The fuck is over can you go home now?
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… But what about the atmosphere?
I was thinking that I should go back and rest and catch golems tomorrow~, but I became very uneasy at the overcrowded atmosphere of the conference hall.
Merge? Did I touch any taboo wrong?
Even I, who had lived for nearly four years, could not claim to know the culture of this world completely. Could it be that I just made a weird mistake in explaining it so damn hard?
Is there an unspoken rule that says you shouldn’t draw lines on a map with rune magic? Like the private who spat out the letter Yo during the transfer report, I had a pupil earthquake.
─Clap clap clap.
It was then. Why did Neferti suddenly start clapping?
No, can I call that applause? The applause was like hitting a mosquito that had entered between them with both hands raised.
─Clap clap clap.
─Clap clap clap.
However, the unique applause was well-received.
As the chief of the guards began to clap happily, Audumla’s Golden Archer and the representative of the wizard’s guild also clapped. With a bug-bitten expression, the auntie from the Gilfi Guild also hung out with her.
“Excellent. That was a very good reasoning!”
The captain of the guard patted me on the back and said. Only then did I realize why they turned on the congratulations mode.
‘Fuck!! I was too mean!!’
It would have been enough if I answered in moderation and stood out, but I ended up in announcing mode due to the gazes flocking to me!!
‘Gyaah! I chose the wrong option!!!!!’
I never thought the aftermath of my college days when I worked hard to get a scholarship would come out in a place like this!
Kang Buk-ho, you bastard! Are you Sherlock Holmes fucking!!!
It was cooked Everyone is convinced of my bullshit. And there were even people who saw me as if I was a smart staff member for talking about that bullshit. Mr. Tyrsi. Those eyes are fucking burdensome, fuck.
“I’d like to hear Mr. Nord’s opinion, but is there anyone who has any complaints?”
There was no objection to the words of the guard captain. Why is there no plague? Fight against it.
It’s a world without detective novels, but you guys are sometimes much smarter than me. Stay… The humans who ate a lot of spare time, in the opinion of the adventurer Jjamjji… Please don’t be fooled…
“We’re considering whether the person who caused the golem commotion this time wasn’t a courtesy warlock.”
The representative of the mage guild, who has now completely demanded my opinion, said so.
“Those golems are naturally occurring golems, but it’s not difficult to ‘promote’ their natural occurrence, just like nourishing a field to spur growth.”
─Shuhua ah. Clouds appeared and disappeared above his hands.
Even though I was delirious at those words, I was able to recall the magic Hotulusil used.
So, whoever induced those golems to spawn?
Is it also a greaty chewy that can’t be chased even if you chase your home?
‘Yeah, but we… Tell me…’
Up until now, you were in the mood to ask only questions and kick them out. Why are you looking at me with those eyes all of a sudden? He’s just a stupid Kitai nomad. I don’t know how to hit a horse bread stick…
The representative of the wizard guild asked me with a smile.
“What do you think?”
I replied after seriously thinking about it.
“I don’t know Lehu.”
