Chapter 358 – 358. Newbie Education (4)
“Town… Uweac!”
In the end, one prosecutor newbie couldn’t stand it and vomited up the gastric juice that went up his throat.
The man’s corpse, illuminated by torchlight, was just as horrific.
The scene of maggots boiling from a hole in the abdomen is too grotesque for newbies.
Archer newbies and other prosecutor newbies also frowned and turned their heads, while only Erin and wizard newbies continued to look at the situation of the corpse.
“…”
It was quite a grotesque sight even for Erin, who was still only in her first year, but rather because of the panicked newbies, Erin was able to regain her cool.
Moving her steps, she approached the deceased male newby, and the wizard newby followed behind Erin.
He took a torch and observed the state of the dead male newbie by shining it on him, then glanced at the wizard newbie who was observing the body as well.
“What do you think?”
“… I do not know.”
Erin shook her head at the mage newbie’s reply, which made her look insecure with her complex expression.
“It’s okay to be wrong. Say it.”
“It was three days ago that this man’s party accepted the request to subdue the goblin hideout. But the decay of this corpse…”
Too fast too fast
The extent to which maggots and insects were entwined made me think, ‘Maybe it was left unattended for more than a week.’
“Because this place is underground.”
“Is it underground?”
“It’s a humid, hot, poorly ventilated place.”
Decaying of corpses is much faster than average.
“Do you see this wound on your stomach?”
Erin pointed her finger at the side of her corpse, which had a large indentation inside her.
A scar dug deep inward, drawing a circle from her silence followed to the lower part of her chest.
“I was beaten with a big blunt instrument. Even if it’s just one room, it’s so big that it dents.”
“…”
“Can a normal goblin, with its small size and weakness, leave such a huge scar?”
“Impossible.”
Wizard Newbie shook his head in denial.
It would be impossible for a normal goblin to wield such a large, hard blunt weapon as large as 20cm in diameter with such tremendous power that it sliced through people’s flesh and broke their ribs.
“After all, it means that it wasn’t a normal goblin subjugation. You guessed right.”
As the wizard newbie feared, there was an unusual reason for the annihilation of the 3-member newbie party who first accepted this request.
“Are you thinking about the possibility of a superior entity appearing among the goblins?”
“Huh.”
Erin nodded her head heavily.
With a height of less than 1.5m and a meager and diminutive body, a goblin that is much smaller than a human can easily subdue at least one normal woman.
That’s why, based on their fertility, they build endless nests, and goblins whose seeds don’t dry are often entrusted to newbies or fellow adventurers.
However, they cannot be caught off guard because they are weak, because unless they lose their nest or are driven out and act independently, groups of 10 or more will attack in unison.
Dealing with goblins in packs is easier said than done if you’re not properly trained in combat or if you’re caught off guard.
The fact that goblins are evaluated as relatively weak compared to other monsters, and the fact that they become careless is also a major cause.
No matter how small a 9-year-old child is, if two or more people use poisoned knives and run to death, even a grown adult cannot ignore it.
Due to their high fertility characteristics, goblins are specialized in thoroughly using quantity warfare or surprise attacks.
“Maybe not just goblins… There may be higher entities such as Hobgoblins or Goblin Champions.”
Individuals larger in size and stronger in body than normal goblins.
If those objects were mixed, it might have been difficult with just a newbie party consisting of 3 people.
“No matter how weak the fighting power of goblins is, you guys are newbies. You must be especially vigilant, keep your formation well, and do not show any gaps.”
“… Yes.”
“All right…”
Beginning with the wizard newbie’s reply, the other newbies nodded as well.
The newbies seemed to have regained their senses from the slightly disgusting smell of the corpse and the shock of the grotesque sight.
But even so, the frown on his face did not go away.
Due to the situation, I was able to regain my senses from panic, but I couldn’t get used to this smell and sight.
‘… He’s an unusual kid.’
Erin glanced at the wizard newbie and admired her inside.
While frowning, he did not stop collecting information and thinking while examining the corpse and grasping the surrounding situation.
It was hard to believe that this was her first request, as she was a newbie mage who kept thinking about what she should do in this situation and her future course of action.
It’s funny that she, who is only a year old, evaluates and looks out for others.
Erin thought that a person like this would survive to the end, gain experience, and grow into a veteran adventurer.
“Assuming that a battle took place, let’s modify the basic formation a little bit.”
The basic formations, such as the front and back rows, did not change.
The only fix is that if a higher entity such as a Hob Goblin or Goblin Champion appears, that entity will be taken over by Erin.
“And of the two requests, I will prioritize rescuing the survivors.”
The survival of the two female newbies, colleagues of the male newbie found dead, has not been confirmed.
There was a good chance that they would survive because of the nature of the goblin race, which killed men without mercy and took women alive to use as toys for themselves.
However, there is no guarantee that they will survive intact, Erin said in advance as a warning to the newbie party members to make up their minds.
‘I’m not particularly worried about them or want to save them…’
However, given the current position of educating newbies, it is impossible to leave it alone.
Erin removed the sword from the corpse’s hand and handed it to the newbies.
He took a keepsake to report the death of a male newbie to the adventurer’s guild.
It wasn’t that the prosecutor newbie had no resistance to wearing the sword her corpse was holding around her waist.
Since this was part of her request, she had no choice but to accept it.
“Good. Let’s move now.”
“Yes.”
Erin and the newbie party moved deeper into the ruins to find the two missing female newbies.
The deeper they went into the ruins’ subterranean interior, the thicker the stench of blood and rotting intestines.
“Woo-wook…”
A foul smell that is so strong that it is disgusting to seep into the nose through the air.
The prosecutor’s newbie frowned and forced her gagging to stop, covering her own nose.
However, the female archer newbie, who was on alert in all directions in the middle of the heat, couldn’t stand the smell.
“Eww… Ooh, uhweak!”
In the end, seeing her archer newbie throwing up on her knees because she couldn’t stand it, Erin, who was walking in front of her, stopped her steps and looked back to see her archer newbie’s condition.
“Sorry, sorry…”
It is said that she formed a party with a veteran adventurer of the gold ranks, but she was aware of the reality of adventurer work and fell to her knees at the difference.
She vomited and looked pathetic, and Archer Newbie, who realized that she was interfering with her party, put on her hurriedly embarrassed face and she apologized to Erin.
“No it’s okay. Because it is the first time.”
It is not so easy for a newbie to realize her reality through her first request and adapt to the gap.
In her own case, her Eun-hyeon went all out and took care of her and paid a lot of attention, but these newbies are different.
You will have to work a lot on your own to adapt to this gap.
‘I wonder if Hyun-i felt this way too?’
When she laid the foundation for her adventurer while investigating dungeons or ruins with Eun-hyeon.
Her grotesque corpses and unbearable stench reminded her of her own black history, in which she eventually couldn’t stand it and vomited on her floor.
“Eww…”
Her own dark history of showing her ugly side naked in front of the person she liked came into her mind, and naturally, her impression of Erin frowned.
“Eh, is Erin-sama in a bad mood too?”
“Uh? Uh. Huh. Well, not good.”
The newbies mistakenly mistakenly thought that the cause of Erinn’s not-so-good impression was the male newbie’s corpse or this stench.
“Can you move?”
“… Yes.”
In response to Erin’s question, Archer Newbie immediately stood up from her seat and adjusted her posture.
“Sorry.”
“Are you okay. Still…”
Erin gave advice briefly.
“If you want to continue working as an adventurer in the future, you have to get used to it.”
“… Yes.”
The newbies immediately understood and nodded their heads to Erin’s advice, which she said while looking at all of her newbies, including female newbies.
Among the quests requested by the Adventurer’s Guild, it is said to be the lowest level of goblin subjugation, but through this first request, the newbies realized how difficult it is to be an adventurer.
Perhaps their future also has the potential to become like the male newbies they just saw.
As she continued her search deeper into the ruins, Erin used a torch to illuminate her vision and scan the floor of her cave.
Three days ago, during a newbie party that came here to subdue goblins, a man was found dead, but two female newbies who were members of the party were not found.
Footprints and bloodstains that have dried up over time.
And traces of dragging something.
Erin guessed that a group of goblins had dragged the two female newbies deep inside.
Then came the sound of pounding footsteps from a dark place where even the light of a torch couldn’t reach.
Only Erin, who had a better sense than the others, heard the sound, and she instinctively spread her senses in front of her.
“… Come.”
It must have found the light of the torch and approached.
“Wow!”
At Erin’s short muttering warning, the newbies immediately became nervous and grabbed their weapons and took a vigilant posture.
“Everyone, a strategy that was planned in advance. Do you understand everything?”
“Yes.”
Erin nodded at the response of the newbies who nodded in unison and affirmed.
“Let’s go.”
Following Erin, who preceded her and started running in front of her, the four newbies started running forward in unison.
Wrong?
Along with the footsteps heard in unison, the gazes of the questioning goblins focused on one spot.
The place where Erin and her party of adventurers entered is a corridor paved with stone walls on all sides.
Grrrr!
Eventually, a group of goblins also discovered the adventurer party, raised their weapons, and charged towards the adventurer party.
As the magician newbie advised in advance by Erin, she entered the brothel immediately.
-… Is that enough? Isn’t that an offensive spell?
-That’s fine. You don’t have to wipe out all the goblins in these ruins by yourself. Do you really not have the capacity or conditions to do so?
The amount of her magical powers and the level of magic she uses are not that great, so the newbie mage, who knows her subject well, obediently followed Erinn’s instructions.
[Single digit magic]
[Light]
Two newbies, including Erin, kicked off the ground and ran forward.
The magician newbie stuck out the tip of his staff into the darkness ahead, where his vision was not properly illuminated with a torch.
‘The brightness is as bright as possible, enough to fill this space.’
A way to reduce the gap between goblins who can see relatively well in the dark and newbies who are disadvantaged in the dark, and reverse that gap at once.
– Ms. Erin. I don’t know if my advice will be helpful, but when a situation is unfavorable to one’s side in a fight, the standard method is to devise means to at least equalize the unfavorable situation or turn it into an advantageous situation.
Recalling Gerard’s advice, Erin hurriedly prepared a means using the wizard newbie’s magic.
A glow appeared at the tip of the staff, and the light shone as brilliantly as the sun.
Erin, warrior newbies, and archer newbies turned their backs on the light from the front and middle ranks and boldly jumped forward.
Choose!?
The interior of the corridor was brightly lit, revealing the goblins nesting there.
The total number is 22.
There are 3 hobgoblins among them.
The hobgoblins, whose powers were too much for newbies to deal with, had been talked about beforehand by Erin.
Suddenly exposed to the clear, clear light, the goblins were dazzled and closed their eyes tight and screamed.
Erin, who started her charge and didn’t stop her gallop, pushed aside her wandering goblins and accelerated toward one of the large hobgoblins in front of her.
Lowering her stance, she drew one of her two rapiers from her waist.
[Galahad Raise Sword]
[Gale Knight]
Concentrating her body’s mana on her legs, releasing her at once, Erin jumped into the air at an amazingly high height.
Erin’s blade, filled with powerful magic like a storm, pierced the hobgoblin’s head.
Perong!
Hobgoblin’s head exploded with a direct hit that was powerful enough to crush her flesh, bones, and even her skull.
The battle of the newbies has also begun.
