Deep forest, thick vegetation. Even the sacredness I felt the last time from the hundreds of years old trees was now getting swallowed by this dark ominous forest.
Suddenly, once again the bushes swayed unnaturally. As expected, once again goblins appeared from it. And they’re even armed. And there’s four of them……My sigh became deeper.
But one of them died suddenly by getting hit by an arrow to its head. The remaining goblins showed signs of unrest momentarily due to that and in that time, one more died from another arrow.
How many exactly have we killed till now?
While I was thinking that, the remaining two faced towards me.
“So they still aren’t running away?”
[And that’s really weird.]
Ermenhilde said that. I, and even the Elf archer are probably thinking the same.
It’s weird. Even if they’re just goblins, they should have realized the difference in strength after seeing so many of their comrades getting killed. In the first place, these wild goblins should be more sensitive in that aspect as compared to humans.
But even so, there’s no signs of them wanting to run away.
I ended up clicking my tongue. I don’t have infinite stamina here. Even if I get an infinite number of weapons, the user is only a slightly skilled human. I’m not sure how many arrows does the Elf still have either. While I was thinking that, one of the goblins coming towards me died after getting shot at the heart with an arrow.
“With this–”
I threw the rusted axe lying near my feet towards the goblin.
Both the aim and strength of that throw was half hearted and the axe was deflected by the goblin.
In that moment, the iron knife, which was the actual attack, stabbed into its face. It stood stock still for a moment then soon fell to its knees.
The annoying sound that had been resounding till now, the sound of weapons, all disappeared. It was silence that could hurt the ears.
Even after around 15 secs passed, more of them didn’t come. I finally breathed in relief.
[It’s over, eh?]
“…….Thank god.”
[Oh c’mon—you could’ve fought even more if you use me.]
“This much is my limit realy.”
I shrugged my shoulders. Ah, I’m really tired.
I looked at the goblin corpses lying around and began to count them. 12. I tilted my head due to the fact that the number didn’t match to what I had been counting while fighting.
Was I unable to completely kill some? While I was thinking that, the Elf guy came down from the sky. Well, I guess he really was sniping from some tree branch.
“Are you really a human?”(elf)
“Well, I’m not an Elf atleast.”(renji)
Replying that to the sudden words, I pulled out the iron knife sticking in the goblin’s head.
While thinking about the fact that the number of corpses didn’t match, i swung the knife once to remove the blood remaining on it.
Goblin. They were one of the major and most common of the monsters on the Imnesia continent but…..
“Wasn’t their numbers a bit too much?”
[That’s true.]
Meeting monsters when going into the grasslands for herb collecting isn’t rare. Since we went into the Forest of Magical Energy this time, the encounter rate would be even higher.
That much wasn’t really surprising but this time, their numbers were really too big.
It’d wouldn’t be unreasonable if this was a cave or a Goblin dwelling but this number wasn’t something one should face inside this kind of forest.
Even I am pretty used to travelling and journeying. I make sure not to get too close to places that might be a place where monsters would gather. I wasn’t even cautious since we were near the entrance of the forest. When the battle had begun, I was sure that it’d end pretty quickly.
Sure, Goblins tend to flock together. That habit is what makes Goblins more difficult than usual but even so!
And they seemed to be even filled with excessive bloodlust as well. Even if we had smaller numbers, it was still ridiculous to attack us directly from the front. Even the fact that they kept on coming even after seeing so many of their comrades killed was weird in my opinion. Their actions were different from what a goblin would usually take.