episode_0299
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The three musketeers thought they would survive until the third day, but to their disappointment, they started crying as soon as the second day arrived.
“Hey, hey! There!”
“… … .”
“Help me! Damn it!”
Chang! Kagagak… !
The three musketeers shouted as they fend off the attack of the hobgoblin that climbed up the fence.
Crumbling… Kyaaaagh!!!
Hobgoblins were larger and much stronger than ordinary goblins. To compare it, there was a size difference between a child and an adolescent. The weapon he was holding also seemed to be in better condition than that of an ordinary goblin.
Perhaps because they were a little more intelligent, they watched the regular goblins being consumed from behind and only came forward after the villagers’ arrows and stamina had been consumed to some extent.
He stepped on the corpse of the same goblin, dug through the reduced resistance, and climbed onto the fence.
“Ugh… ! What kind of mutant goblin is this?! Just die… !”
“I’m going to die! Help me!”
“I’m more urgent, you bastard!”
Kyaaaagh!!!
The three of them dangerously faced each hobgoblin. Listening to him talk, it seemed like he didn’t even know that he was dealing with a hobgoblin.
I watched it with my arms crossed.
‘I didn’t know because it killed you as soon as you made eye contact on the starting floor, but it seems like a type of monster that is difficult for weak people to deal with.’
-Still, a level 2 transferencer is enough to deal with them, but I guess they’re people who don’t have any talent for combat.
Maria was right. It didn’t seem like his life was in danger, but the fuss was too much.
“You don’t have the attitude to ask for a favor.”
Kim Jae-yoon also snorted when he saw that from the side.
The guys even threw down their weapons and started wrestling with the hobgoblin. Still, Hobgoblin seemed to be losing out little by little in a simple battle of strength, perhaps because he had invested the remaining points he had gained from leveling up in his strength ability.
In the end, they succeeded in knocking the hobgoblin out of the fence again.
Although they did not die instantly like regular goblins, those that were broken in one place by the impact of falling were unable to avoid the barrage of arrows and turned into hedgehogs.
“Heo Eok… Huh… ”
The fighters who had defeated the hobgoblin were breathing heavily and approached us with angry faces.
“Why are you just watching when I ask you to help me? These bastards are not trolls!”
“If you don’t survive the monster wave, you will fail the test!”
“Yesterday and today… Isn’t it possible that they are looking for an angle to stab us in the back?!”
It was a quite bloody sight, as he even held the sword that he had thrown away during the struggle with the hobgoblin.
Maybe there will be a real stabbing this time.
At that time, before I could deal with them, Kim Jae-yoon stepped forward first.
“Why should we help you?”
“What?”
They seemed dumbfounded by Kim Jae-yoon’s unexpectedly confident attitude. Thanks to this, the fierce momentum was relieved.
“We are not of the same clan or party, and we are even meeting each other for the first time during this exam. Is there any reason to help you?”
“Of course… !”
“Don’t be mistaken. Just because the test goals are the same doesn’t mean we’re on the same side. Are you saying we should trust you because we know what kind of people you are?”
Kim Jae-yoon’s words seem cold at first glance. But there was nothing wrong with what he said.
The people you encounter during the Tower Test are basically competitors unless they are members of the same clan. Even the space where the test is taken is isolated from others, except in some unusual cases such as the first floor.
If someone within it had a vicious mind and eliminated a competitor, there was no way to catch it.
Therefore, even if the tower presented test conditions that required the transferees to cooperate, we should never let down our guard and assume that they were on the same side.
“And above all… ”
Kim Jae-yoon said that and intentionally raised one corner of his mouth. It was an obvious ridicule for anyone to see.
“We are confident that we will easily pass the test without you.”
“This bastard… !”
Finally, one of the exasperated transferees takes a step forward.
At that moment, a hobgoblin climbed up the wooden fence and swung a club.
Jeonja, who was approaching us, paid the price for losing his sight even though the battle was not completely over.
Pow!
“Kwaaaa!!”
The guy who suddenly got hit on the forearm with a stick screamed and dropped the knife from his hand. At the very least, it must have been quite painful since it sounded like a bone cracked.
The hobgoblin didn’t stop there and raised his club high as if he was going to completely suffocate the guy.
And the moment I was about to hit it, our eyes met.
“!”
The hobgoblin’s reaction afterwards was something I didn’t expect at all. The guy stiffened his body in the same position as he raised his club and took a step back without realizing it.
Then, his back got caught in the wooden fence and he fell backwards. The scream of the hobgoblin falling outside the fence rang faintly.
Me, me, meee!!!!
Pow!
The sound of a watermelon breaking is heard soon after. Even without checking, it was the sound of a hobgoblin falling headfirst and dying.
“… … .”
The people on the fence were frozen, unable to understand what had just happened.
The hobgoblin, who was about to swing his weapon, suddenly saw us, took a step back, and fell to the ground. At first glance, it looked like he was surprised or scared by something…
The guy who got mixed up in the monster wave and kept charging until the end even when other monsters were dying got scared? It was difficult to understand.
I, too, felt bewildered.
‘Why is it like that all of a sudden?’
The first person to think of the answer to that question was Kim Jae-yoon, who was next to him.
“Ah, the title Goblin Slayer… !”
‘style? ah!’
I called out the title written on the tower’s status window.
「Title: Goblin Slayer
A title given to those who kill the boss monster, Hobgoblin, on the starting floor.
Effect – Small monsters feel slightly intimidated by the owner of the title. Double effect applies to goblins.”
‘It’s because of this!’
A title obtained as a reward for accomplishing a feat together with Kim Jae-yoon.
After reading the explanation, I understood why the hobgoblin was startled and took a step back. Because of this title, he suddenly felt intimidated when he looked in the direction where Kim Jae-yoon and I were.
‘Hobgoblins are also goblins.’
Since the double effect is even applied to goblins, it could explain Kim Jae-yoon’s surprise when he saw me standing next to him.
Still, since the hobgoblin is stronger than ordinary goblins, he would have come to his senses again if he had had time, but before he had time, he fell from the wooden fence and broke his head.
Kim Jae-yoon muttered quietly.
“Now that I think about it, the goblins did not particularly approach us as we quietly looked around… ”
It was likely that it was also an effect of the title.
Anyway, we didn’t really intend to save them, but our presence alone ended up helping them.
The three transferees also had a rough guess that we were the reason the hobgoblin died. I don’t think I heard Kim Jae-yoon lower his voice and mumble, but I couldn’t have noticed that the hobgoblin died while clearly trying to avoid us.
I said with a chuckle.
“You were lucky. If that hobgoblin had been holding a blade instead of a club, he would have definitely died.”
“… … .”
“So? This bastard… I think you said that? Are you dissatisfied with something?”
As I said that, I glanced at the guy standing in front, and he was startled and put the sword into his inventory.
“Oh, no, that’s… uh… Let’s go first!”
Without even saying thank you, they quietly walked away from us, who had done something they couldn’t understand.
Kim Jae-yoon said after seeing them hurriedly descending the wooden fence with an expression as if they were possessed by a ghost.
“I’m glad things worked out easily. Since I’m so scared, I guess I can adjust the order in which I pass the test without unnecessary conflicts.”
“Well, will that really happen?”
“… Brother, do you think differently?”
“Those guys don’t even know about the title we have, and they tried to attack us in the first place even though they knew we had achieved a great feat. Right now, something is difficult for them to understand, so they backed off, but maybe they didn’t really understand it?”
And that became even clearer when I saw them glancing in this direction from under the wooden fence and whispering.
‘If I don’t do something first, I don’t have any intention of doing anything… ‘
It’s the same with the extra rewards from the exam, and that strangely annoying attitude from the beginning… The chances of it passing quietly are probably small.
I thought maybe I could really give Kim Jae-yoon some hands-on experience.
And that idea was confirmed the next morning when they came upon us armed.
“One of you needs to pass the test today.”
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