“If you want to escape safely, follow my back and follow me.”
The city was dormant in a witchcraft fog.
Visibility was so bad that I couldn’t see even 10 meters away, and there was no starlight in the sky, let alone the moon.
Caw, cack, cack… … If it weren’t for the strange, eerie barking of crows, the world would be filled with an eerie silence.
“What is this fog… … ?”
Following the Goblin Slayer, he tried to clear the fog with Bell Curious, but there was no end to burning and burning.
The perfect combination of Altigma, amplification type Delwei Shirt, and taboo type Orbios, perfect enough to even make you feel awe towards the caster… … This combination is multiplying the fog infinitely.
My general-purpose ability had changed to close to zero, and it was the worst environment for me to not even allow Bell Curious to use it at will.
‘I think I’ve seen something similar before, but when and where? The combination of these techniques, as if preparing for Belle Curious… … .’
Since it was a fog created by magic, it was impossible to even look through the fog with Bel Sidious. In short, if you use the Mystic Eye, numbers like 010100101 will block your vision and you won’t be able to see anything.
“I don’t have time to be blank.”
In that instant, the spearhead in the corner was shattered, and a giant leaped out of the dust cloud, brandishing a greatsword at the same time.
It was a surprise attack that made it impossible to live in the fog, but the goblin slayer countered the attack with absurd speed and accuracy.
He took the greatsword to the edge of the shield and rubbed it, then splattered sparks and burrowed into his bosom, driving the blade into his throat.
“Don’t look at me with those eyes. Because he’s dead anyway.”
When the goblin slayer pierced the tip of his sword into the giant’s heart, which was still wriggling vigorously even after being stabbed in the neck, a crow’s cry was heard and the giant’s movements stopped.
“These guys are crows. They are adventurers who have lost their bodies.”
That wasn’t the end of the raid, but that wasn’t all of Goblin Slayer’s skills either.
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With smooth movements like flowing water, he subdued enemies protruding from the fog using daggers, daggers, and shortbows in harmony, and it was a masterful skill in itself that evoked admiration.
As the first sniper hit by the dagger knelt down, he drew a longsword from his waist and cut off the second janghan’s thigh. The third woman opened the magic book and drove an arrow into his shoulder before activating the magic.
The terrible thing is that crows crawled out of their hearts every time… … The goblin slayer called it a corpse crow.
– Lin.
Looking at the back of the goblin slayer, for some reason, a nostalgic back figure came to mind. However, he immediately shook his head and brushed it off. He died, 300 years ago.
“behind!”
He fired a fireball at Janghan, who was approaching from the back of a goblin slayer who was finishing a wizard.
“That-ah-ah.”
The flames consumed not only his body, but also the crow inside him at once, and the goblin slayer nodded and beckoned.
“This way, hurry up!”
I ran after the guy.
Under the half-destroyed wall, cross the muddy road filled with rainwater up to your ankles, pass the warehouse full of beer barrels, and enter the inner wall of the castle.
“How the hell do you get on the road so well?”
“It’s no big deal if you’re groping around underground while catching a few thousand goblins. Rather, the goblin den is more difficult.”
As the Goblin Slayer said that, he pulled out the two daggers from his shoulders and threw them across the fog. Immediately there was the sound of someone collapsing.
Huh, that’s amazing… … .
Who are you?
Rather than reaching the extreme level of the sword, it seems that he has entered the ranks of masters by harmonizing various equipment? It seemed like a lie no matter how you look at it.
“There are four doors in ＜Landkief＞. The three gates are guarded by gatekeepers, but they are closed now, late at night.”
“The other one?”
“A dark gate to the southeast. We will go out to the Red Mountains through it.”
“The Red Mountains, that’s—”
“—Shh.”
At that moment, the goblin slayer pulled my shoulder into the shadow of the ivy-covered wall.
When I realized the reason, my lips trembled. Immediately, dozens of people rattled and ran down the alleyway in front of them.
Now I had to admit it. That the Black Church is definitely after me. He spoke with bated breath.
“Are they looking for me too? How many people are there?”
“More details later.”
No matter how far they had gone through the fog, a dark gate soon appeared, but dozens of crows were flying over it with their dark blue eyes shining.
“Wait a minute.”
The Goblin Slayer quietly approached the building that was almost clinging to the wall. It looked like a barn used by soldiers, but it had a huge lock on it.
“… … !”
It was then that a crow spotted us. Other crows glared at him at his eerie cry, and cold sweat welled up on his back.
Is that part of witchcraft…? … .
The runes used were completely different, but the compositional system was surprisingly similar to Ludien, which gave off a chilling sense of déjà vu.
“Bell Curious.”
Perhaps because of the fog, my vision was grotesquely wriggling and I was dizzy, but I couldn’t leave them unattended now that they were captured.
They oxidized to ashes in the flames of transcendence as soon as the pure white flowers bloomed in seven leaves in the pupils observing the realm of providence.
The goblin slayer said as he grabbed his forehead in the recoil with his brain burning white and blood dripping from his eyes.
“Come in, quickly.”
In the meantime, the guy who had easily unlocked the lock by tapping the wire a few times carefully opened the door and gestured to me.
“Here?”
At the bottom of the building was a large trapdoor. The goblin slayer grabbed the handle of the trapdoor with both hands.
“sewer. It’s the only way to get out of ＜Landkief＞ safely now.”
As soon as the attic door opened, the stench of rotting feces stung my nose, and I felt an instinctive sense of rejection… … Now that you don’t know who the enemy is, you have no choice.
Due to the rainwater pouring endlessly over the past few days, the sludge flowing through the sewer floor had risen to waist level and had turned into a torrent.
A goblin slayer who made a torch out of flint took the lead, lighting up the darkness above the water. The sound of the raging waves was so loud that I couldn’t even talk properly.
“Hey, how much further do you have to go?”
“Shut up, if you don’t want to swallow sh*t.”
“Hi and… … .”
At that time when I almost fell several times, Aki woke up from a blissful slumber, wanted to talk in his sleep, and then suddenly opened his eyes.
“Huh… … ?”
Then, when he saw the waves of stale water rushing behind his back, he laughed wildly and started running wild to get away from Ceresia’s blanket.
“No, no, no! Aki Sit down, no, stay still… … !”
“Da-brush!”
“Wait, Aki, wait! wait!”
“You can, you can, you can.”
I went through so much trouble washing this guy, and I have to do it again? I’d rather die.
There was no mind at all.
The fishy smell from the sewage system and Aki’s mischief mixed with nausea filled her chin, when she saw the sparkling surface of the water in the distance.
the light will shine
The sewer pipe ended at the top of a shoal belonging to a tributary of the Darcheri River, which runs through the southwestern part of the Empire. As soon as I threw myself into it, it was so clear and refreshing… … .
Aki was also excited and laughed out loud, while Pippi pecked at my head for throwing cold water on me.
“Sorry, sorry! I was wrong, so please stop!”
The goblin slayer shook his head with a short sigh, perhaps looking pitiful for me like that, and extended his hand.
“ruler.”
Holding that hand, Pipi tilted her head as she went up to the water’s edge in the swollen shoal.
“who? who? who?”
“It’s a guide, for now… … So what? Are you going to the Red Mountains? Why is it as simple as that? Are the witches there?”
If you cross the Red Mountains, you will be able to enter the Republic without passing through the border.
“It is a passage, not a destination. As you can see, you can’t go the normal way.”
As if seeing is worth seeing, the goblin slayer pointed his thumb at the sky over ＜Landkeeper＞. As soon as I saw it, a cool feeling ran down my spine.
Crow.
Crows whose number cannot even be counted… … It was hovering in the rain curtain and howling insiniously.
That wasn’t all.
In the midst of the squadron of crows, a great winged shadow… … It was also seen emitting a terrifying glare from its three wriggling eyeballs.
“What is that… … .”
Seeing that Bel Sidious doesn’t interpret supernatural powers, it sounds like it’s not black magic, but something tangible.
I could feel tension and hostility from Aki’s body as she roared with her fangs exposed.
“You have to move out of sight of the crows. This is why the Red Mountains are the pass logo.”
“Would it be the same even if I went on a mountain road?”
“Who just went to the mountain road? It’s an oyster road.”
“What are you going to do?”
“A tunnel dug by monsters like goblins and rat spiders. I’m an expert on that. Follow me.”
As if the choice was yours, the goblin slayer moved towards the crimson rippling mountains filling the horizon.
As I alternately looked at the back of her and the flock of crows wailing in the sky above Landkeep… … .
‘The reason why the Witch Association is looking for me must be related to the Black Church.’
You can ignore it and rush your journey, but if you do, you won’t be able to stay anywhere in the city or village. Because we will continue to be attacked like today.
‘So let’s go with it… … .’
After I hear from the witches about this phenomenon and the enemy targeting me, I might find a solution.
And didn’t the water dragon, Jeriserica, give you that kind of advice? Find the little ghost.
‘How can it be unusual from the beginning of the journey… … .’
Leaving behind the cries of the crows, I followed the goblin slayer, scratching the back of my wet hair.
I was walking like running all night.
Waist-high grasses crossed the rain-soaked meadows and densely grown cedar trees gave off a fishy scent. By the time we reached the mouth of the mountain, the rain had stopped and the moonlight was pouring in.
The goblin slayer found a cave hidden in the bushes in an instant based on the excrement of beasts and beasts, and traces of footprints.
“Judging by the traces, there must be about 30 of them inside, no problem. let’s go. If you pass through here, you will be able to go out to the southwest hillside.”
I was going to lead my tired body and follow him into the tunnel, but stopped for a moment.
A strange question arose.
If it had been the same as usual, I would have skipped it… … No, it was a question I had been feeling ever since I escaped the city earlier.
“Why is a super talented person like you using such a strange nickname?”
“A strange nickname?”
“Goblin Slayer.”
“What is it?”
“Then why are you using it?”
As I tilted my head at the genuine question, the goblin slayer stiffened. Of course, because of the helmet, I couldn’t see his expression.
“Why don’t you guess it?”
“Ah, I see. Are you writing to be funny?”
“Why did you think that?”
“Goblins are low-level monsters, and even in the Alliance, there are very few cases of damage. It’s a small thing that only fresh newcomers receive subjugation requests. But are you a slayer?”
Didn’t the nickname Slayer stick to those who hunted extremely strong beings?
The dragon slayer who killed five dragons 500 years ago and blasphemed God, Arthur Bryus, or the demon slayer who was active during the turmoil 300 years ago, Kassel Linkan… … .
I was a little saddened by the story that Friede gave Tureina the nickname ‘The Witch of the Cigarette Ash’, saying that funny nicknames remain in people’s memories.
“If the goal is to catch others off guard by being funny, wouldn’t something like Squirrel Slayer or Shrew Slayer be better? It feels like being a goblin slayer is neither one nor the other.”
I asked again out of curiosity.
I didn’t mean to laugh or think, it was a really innocent question, but I felt the goblin slayer’s voice lift a little.
“I am a goblin slayer, goblins—”
“—Rammit, Rammite, Rammite.”
“I take pride in eradicating—”
“—A shrew, a shrew, a shrew.”
“So this isn’t an extermination—”
“—Ta-Azzi, Rae-Amzzi!”
But the problem was that when Fifiga opened his mouth, he flew around his face and giggled.
To make matters worse, seeing Aki copying those words was so funny that I burst into laughter. how do you stand this
The goblin slayer’s voice was surprisingly clear as he trembled in the middle of the prank and lost his composure for a moment.
“Ooh, don’t laugh! What’s so funny?”
Then, the moment when he took off his helmet, which he had never taken off even in the midst of that foggy struggle, with all his might.
“How hard I worked for 10 days to find you guys, did you get tired of making fun of people even though you couldn’t say thank you?”
In that instant, my vast world of solitude was shaken.
In that moment, I heard the sound of the broken second hand moving, and a shudder ran through my body.
In that instant, the heart that had been coldly frozen and dying since waking up from a long slumber quietly woke up and began to leave footprints.
‘hallucination… … ?’
In the moonlight, in the humidity and temperature of a summer day, sweaty silver hair shone faintly.
Beneath that hair, golden eyes, naughty playfulness and iris that harmonize with pure warmth like the sun.
300 years ago, everyone was attracted to those sincere and kind eyes. Even Archmage Rin was fascinated by that innocent beauty that overwhelms and dyes the surroundings with happiness.
‘The boy is dead. He’s definitely dead, even Yoshhar said.’
It was a pupil in an echo without an answer. It was a face I would never forget for the rest of my life.
It was ‘you’ that I never forgot even for a moment.
Maybe that’s why, I was calling the name of ‘you’ who can’t and shouldn’t exist in this era without even realizing it.
“Lista… … ?”