Chapter 73 – Monsters Hiding in Buildings (5)
We walked along Kabutomaru for about 10 minutes.
The goblin’s nest they arrived at was like an old abandoned temple. It is a ruin that was built to believe in the indigenous god of the region, but was forgotten and abandoned.
‘I don’t think it will turn out to be money.’
No matter how you look at it, it’s just ruins. It’s the Holy Saint’s version of a cabin in the abandoned woods.
“Garheuk. (I’m bored.)”
“Gyakyar gyarheuk. (I’m bored too.)”
At the entrance of the temple, there were two goblins who seemed to be sentries.
I was deeply impressed by the appearance of the Jammins who were chatting but not skipping.
‘The goblins are better than the thieves.’
The thieves didn’t even put up a sentry, but they all went after me in my season, Mamamoo, but the monsters were better than humans.
If you’re going to get caught anyway, wouldn’t it be better to have a sentry? Then you’ll be able to annoy raiders like us like now.
─Szeuk.
Fran and I drove in the opposite direction and retreated once. The bump here was a handshake.
Now let’s release the snake that has done its job. I held her tightly in my fist so she couldn’t run away and only made me tell her the direction.
“Goodbye, Kabutomaru. Live strong in the forest. It’s dark.”
“Shaaa…”
After parting with the snake while shedding pre-cum in my heart, I went into operation time with Fran.
“Franc. What to do? Any good ideas?”
“Since you know more about Norga monsters than I do, I want to hear about Norr first. Have you thought about the operation?”
“No, how did you know?”
“If you look at his face every day, you get a glimpse of what he’s thinking.”
Fuck. I don’t see Fran’s heart. I expressed my opinion, vowing to observe my girlfriend more diligently in the future.
“It’s dangerous to go inside. Judging from their behavioral tendencies, it seems that there is a superior species.”
“If it’s a top class… Like hobgoblins?”
“That’s right. I read in a book that it is said that robbing grain or setting up guards, not livestock, is proof that there is a higher species.”
The source is omitted below by Professor Brammaton.
The specialty is this.
—It is common even in animal societies for parts of the group to be wary of enemies around them. Some monsters may also set up sentries similarly.
─However, low-intelligence and selfish monsters like goblins prioritize personal comfort and pleasure over vigilance against enemies.
—The fact that these goblins stand guard is proof that there is a powerful higher species that goblins cannot oppose on their own.
——It’s because goblins are monsters that speak of everything with power.
Look at this. Isn’t it easy to read even for adventurers who don’t study well by using easy words?
How wonderful! After all, our instructors are different no matter what.
“There might have been some trickery inside the temple, so I’m trying to get them out.”
That’s how I explained the rough operation plan. It wasn’t a complicated operation, so the explanation was over quickly.
“Yeah, good! I can do that!”
After Fran’s reaction wasn’t too bad, we went into action. I picked up a stone nearby and went to the entrance of the temple.
‘Are you ready, right?’
I asked my right arm about his condition. His right arm showed strong muscles and appealed to him as being in perfect condition. Perfect. I raised my finger and counted to three so Fran could see it.
Slowly fold your fingers one by one.
3, 2, 1───
‘GO-SHOT!!’
– Booung!!
─Shhh!!
Throwing knives and stones flew together and hit the two goblins in the face!
─Applause!!
─Pushyuk!!
The stone I threw planted like an avocado seed in the goblin’s wake. Fran’s throwing knife was lodged in the goblin’s skull, slicing through the brain.
─Blow up.
As soon as the two sentries were dead, we went into action.
“Move move move.”
Fran and I clung to the wall at the entrance. Then, I combined the spell with both of my arms that had Beast Return enabled and activated it.
“〈 Summon Cloud〉.”
─Supaaaaa!!
This time, it is a grand operation. But not Mamamoo. These bastards are short, so I’m the only one who can’t figure out the opponent’s position one-sidedly.
So, I’m thinking of adding an additional spell here.
“〈Burning Hand〉.”
Return Beast+〈 Summon Cloud〉+〈 Blazing Touch〉.
It is a combination of 3 great magic.
This was my first attempt, so I didn’t expect it to be successful. It was good if possible, and it didn’t matter if it wasn’t possible——the magic combination was successful.
‘Well, it’s ridiculous to even call it a combination of magic with this.’
It was just warming the generated steam with the heat of his hands. It was activated at the same time, but it was not a combination at the level of magic.
Superaaaaa-!!
Still, the heated steam reached a satisfactory temperature. I controlled the steam and roughly knocked it into the temple.
‘Aka Fake Fire Case Operation!!’
The trigger that reminded me of this operation was the sound of the thieves talking during the last Mamamoo cast.
– Bastards!! What is this smoke!! Is it fire?!
The first thief I met said so when the massive fog blocked my view. Common sense tells us that the fog from the fire cannot be damp.
This was an academic proof that ignorant people cannot make normal judgments when they are embarrassed.
I don’t think it’s pathetic. I’m also lying on the bed in the inn with Frank, and if the smoke suddenly rushes in, I’m afraid I’ll panic and go out.
Anyway, this time, he even went through an additional operation to warm up the steam with the high-powered 〈 Burning Touch 〉. So, to the ignorant, the goblins who would be a good match with the thieves–
“Kkeuk!! (Dangerous!!)”
“Kkeuk!! (Dangerous!!)”
──It came out like this.
‘Thank you, Kyosulin Slayer.’
I would like to thank Kyosulin Slayer for providing the basis for this idea.
Here, Kyosulin is a compound word of Professor + Goblin.
Therefore, Kyosulin Slayer is an SSR season-limited character that appears only in goblin extermination quests!!
“Let us test our new strength!!!”
I ran at the pouring goblins.
Without pulling out the sword, I raised the claws of beast return. You won’t get hurt even if you get hit, so this time let’s test the power of our new technology to our heart’s content!!
After the 2nd job change, my throbbing biceps danced poppin’ with a sense of exhilaration as if I was using a new skill!!
“Sanhon ironwork!!!”
Swing the claws of your right hand!!
The goblin’s head hit by my fingernails became honeycomb pork belly and scattered like a melon hit hard with a butcher’s knife!! I was delighted with the performance of the new technology!!
“Honey!! Performance sure!!”
“Yap!!”
Fran also used the new weapon to her heart’s content. I smashed the head of a nearby guy with the hammer in my right hand and threw the throwing knife I drew with my left hand. Both attacks hit, and the number of goblins dwindled in the blink of an eye.
About 7 or 8 in the future!!
“〈 Freezing Hand〉!!”
─Bad!!
Temporary liberation from cold hands and feet!! 〈 Freezing Touch 〉, activated by combining spells, shattered the goblins’ heads with a chill that was colder than the autumn weather!!
“Gyaaaaah!!”
─Break!!
When he smashed his head, the blood that spilled out was cooled by the cold air. Wouldn’t it freeze right away? Still, it’s powerful enough.
“Kyaaaaa!! (It’s dangerous!)”
“Keuk-kuk–!! (It’s dangerous——!!)”
The remaining Jammins noticed that they were ambushed, but it was too late. This is because winning or losing has already been tilted.
“I’m sorry. The levels are so different.”
─Tudub!!
A hand with sub-zero cold gripped the goblin’s head.
The remaining two were struck by my iron claws—no, ice claws, and their eyes and mouth were blocked. He couldn’t even scream and had suffocated as the ice covered his entire face.
“Cry quietly.”
─Fluff!
The number of goblins that exceeded 10 was annihilated by our all-out attack, which made use of the trick of a surprise attack. I unlocked 〈 Freezing Touch 〉.
“It was such an instant!”
Fran, who jumped up and jumped, said with a smile.
It was a smile that made me happy just by looking at it, but I shook my head after checking the corpses.
“The higher class didn’t come out.”
“Am I waiting inside? Did only your subordinates send out reconnaissance?”
“I guess so. What he does is a professor who is always cheating on graduate students—”
As I said, I was startled. It was because the 〈 Cloud Summoning Magic 〉 I sent inside the temple was forcibly dispelled.
‘Did they nullify my magic?’
I frowned and turned my head to the temple in plain view.
“… Franc. The guy inside must be a shaman.”
──The goblin shaman.
No, it’s the hobgoblin shaman to be exact.
“But my skills aren’t that great.”
I don’t know how I did it, but it took me a long time to cancel the low level magic 〈 Cloud Summon 〉. It would have been 100% weaker than Tyrsi.
After hearing my words, Fran said seriously.
“Still, Nor. It is forbidden to be careless.”
“Yes. Thank you for your concern. I’ll be careful.”
So Fran and I calmed down and entered the temple.
If you can’t catch that bastard, the request won’t be resolved. I was confident enough to win, so I wasn’t afraid. How could a goblin be a 5-star veteran wizard?
Little profit-.
I opened the rusty hinge and entered the largest room in the temple.
Maybe this wasn’t a space made to pray to God. However, that sacred space was turned into a savage and horrific ritual ground by a cruel monster.
Pictures of animal blood were painted on the floor, and a skinny hobgoblin stabbed something with a knife in the center.
─Pu-wook!!
“Wqaaz UThu Aight!! (Insolent human bastards!!)”
Said the Hobgoblin, shoving the meat she had been prodding into her mouth.
The cub got up on her cane. What I ate deliciously was the snake meat. At a cursory glance, there were more than 10 heads piled up in the corners of the magic circle.
“AAs IThu ZepoR Daags? (How dare you defile my house?)”
The hobgoblin who glared at us while chattering like that had the same skin color as a human’s.
Since flesh color seems to have racist elements, it was a light color of ivory to be precise.
“Stop talking bullshit. If you didn’t want to be invaded, you shouldn’t have stolen.
I didn’t feel the need to listen to him. Studies of Hobgoblin culture have long since been relegated to the level of antiquity.
Goblin shaman hatchlings wield their own magic that manipulates altered runes. There’s nothing fancy about it, and there’s no meaning to the paintings on the floor or the decorations made of animal bones. It’s all just superstition.
─Sereung.
Since the wizard was my opponent, I drew my sword. Professor Slayer roared in my mind at the familiar feeling of the sword.
That bastard didn’t know how to use magic, drove his men to death, and was a piece of shit eating alone. Besides, where did those snakes hunt themselves? He must have ordered his subordinates to eat everything.
Perhaps among them were Kabutomaru’s friends and family.
A pyramid of exploitation formed by exploiting goblins that exploit others!! That hobgoblin shaman bastard was the reigning professor there!!!
“Chew squeak squeak squeak. (Nin searched.)”
Angry squirrels leaked out. The intense anger became a white flame and burned the hatred in my heart!!
“——You are a ‘professor’ type.”
Tatatat-!!
I kicked off the floor of the temple and ran!!
I will dedicate your baby’s head to Kabutomaru!!! Hobgoblin raised his staff and shouted at my speedy dash.
“ᚺ(Hagalaz)!!!”
Pierce-.
When he screamed, I felt the back of my neck go numb.
Is it chills? No. This was my inspiration sensing the flow of mana.
‘──Ceiling!!’
Feeling the mana gathering on the ceiling of the temple, I jumped to the side. Then, a bolt of lightning struck the spot where I was standing.
─Kwagang!
Chiyiyi…
It was a more powerful magic than I thought. Looking at the soot left on the floor, it would have hurt quite a bit even if I was hit in beast return mode.
‘The rune of ᚼ(Hagall)?’
I looked up at the ceiling, recalling the spell he had uttered.
It was one of the runes I knew, and it was a variation of a rune meaning ‘an unpredictable ordeal’. That bastard’s mana was felt from the picture of lightning and clouds on the ceiling.
‘The prayer room of this temple has been renovated.’
Graffiti like a magic circle on the floor was meaningless, but the painting on the ceiling was a means of assisting rune magic.
“Huh.”
I laughed when I saw that.
‘It’s not particularly threatening.’
That was the reason.
This is the reason why wizard guilds develop magic based on runes, but do not use pure rune magic.
Pure runic magic is difficult to deal with because of its comprehensive meaning and wide range of uses. Most of the magic that remained after the destruction of the ancient civilization was for support purposes.
It seems that he was able to act like a god with that kind of thing against Jammin from another world, but to me it just looks like child’s play.
It was surprising that the power of magic was slightly higher than that of an idiot like that.
Noticing the identity of the powerful magic, I asked the Hobgoblin.
“Uqi. Tol Staff CosaKu? (You. Where did you get that staff?)”
“──Xua? (What?)”
The Hobgoblin was greatly surprised by my question. He seemed so flustered that he forgot to even point his wand at him.
“Anyway, I’m surprised even if the fuckers ask me in their own words!!!”
As soon as I found a gap, I dashed!
“If you’re going to be surprised if I tell you, why would you bet your words!!”
“──ᚺ(Hagalaz)!!!”
─Boom!! Kwaa Kwang!!
The panicked guy smashed his magic, but all he could do was hit it in a straight line from the ceiling to the floor. Avoiding it was no joke.
Same game pattern. Feel the mana of the ceiling and stay under it!!
“Hey, if you’ve failed this much, it’s time to succeed! Shoot more!!”
“Haga── GyaaaaacccCC!!”
─Pu-wook!!
A throwing knife flew into the eye of the Hobgoblin who was swinging his staff in a fit of temper. It was the knife Fran had thrown.
“Ha-no, why can’t this happen!! Uh?! This is the baby! “
“ᚺ(Hagalaz)──!!!”
“If you shoot with your eyes open, it misses, but is it right to shoot with your eyes closed?”
─Shusyuk!
─Kwagang!
The stray lightning only scorched the innocent floor. Meanwhile, Fran was throwing throwing knives outside the prayer room.
─Puffpuffpuff!
“Franc!! Don’t kill me!!”
“Yes!!”
“Gyaaaaaccc!!!!!!!”
A throwing knife that flies into your arm.
The hobgoblin shaman gave the fuck away, but didn’t fire a bolt of lightning at Fran. I couldn’t shoot lightning only in this idiot cub and ceiling!
─Awesome!!
I rushed in and kicked the skinny shaman in the stomach. The Hobgoblin lost control of his staff and crashed into the wall.
─Boom!!
“D’oh!!”
The shaman hit him hard in the head and fell backwards.
I stepped on the bastard’s stomach, subdued him, and thrust the knife into his neck. As the sharp blade flashed, the Hobgoblin gulped.
It was just as sick as I thought. I asked, pushing the blade and slightly slicing the leather on my neck.
“Tell me, bitch. Where did you get that wand?”
