episode_0493

The idiot who tried to run away first, leaving me and Mirif behind, was trampled by the Goblin King and died, leaving only two people behind.

… No, in this situation, the lower priest would be powerless, so is it effectively just one person?

‘Are you really an idiot? Even if you were given a chance to live, would you really have to act like that?’

His trick might have worked against a Goblin Lord or Goblin General, who are usually more interested in capturing females than killing males.

However, the Goblin King does not distinguish between male and female humans. In the first place, the purpose of securing females is to reproduce the species, but reproduction is impossible between the Goblin King and humans due to the size difference.

… It’s not something that most people would know about. In the first place, low-level adventurers would mistake a Goblin Lord for a Goblin King just by looking at them.

“Tongue, brother… ?”

“… … .”

He was a cripple who regained his honorifics after losing, but his ears that could hear were probably already crushed and turned to mush under those feet.

The Goblin King, who had lost his men, approached me and Mirif, and I felt her standing behind me grab the hem of my clothes.

-Thump, thump, thump!

‘Geee!!’

“Oh, Goddess, may Sister Lee and Lily have eternal happiness and peace… .”

“… I’m not dead yet. Don’t pray.”

Miriff, who seemed to have already decided that there was no chance of winning, quietly prayed behind me as if wishing for the next life.

As I said before, she wasn’t available at full power right now, so I had to figure something out.

“Mirif, when I signal, run in the opposite direction from me.”

“… Yes?”

“… If we split up, one person can escape.”

“Ha, but abandoning your comrades is… .”

“It’s not like you’re throwing it away. The one being chased should go inside the cave and buy time, and the one not being chased should go down to the guild and ask for support. The inside of the cave is narrow, so it’s not easy for the Goblin King to enter with his body size.”

“… … .”

“I won’t ask for your consent. Just run in the opposite direction as soon as I push you.”

“… … Yes.”

Miriff nodded as if she had made up her mind after hearing what I said.

Mirif and I, who had devised an impromptu strategy in a hurry, flew in opposite directions at the moment when the Goblin King came closest.

-Pfft!

-Tadadak!

‘Geee!!’

One thing that bothers me is that Mirif’s running speed is noticeably slower than my jumping speed.

That’s why the Goblin King would have rushed towards Mirif, targeting easy prey, if things were as they were… but now the situation is a little different.

‘Geee!!’

“Sister Lily!!”

“Get out quickly! Get out!!”

There’s no way a guy who lost one eye would ignore someone he holds a grudge against and go after Mirif.

I was worried that the guy would suddenly go crazy and go after Miriff instead of me, but thankfully he doesn’t seem to have any such thoughts.

I quickly walked inside the goblin nest, watching as Mirif, who had managed to escape in the opposite direction, ran out of the cave.

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“Haa, haa, haa… .”

‘Geee…!!’

“… Phew, shit.”

He grabbed his snout, which was about to swear, and walked further and further in.

It was a cave that was getting narrower and narrower, so I had a slight expectation that I would be able to delay the Goblin King’s movements.

In fact, I already knew that it wouldn’t be strange for a monster as big as the Goblin King to chase me while destroying the cave.

Even though he lost one eye, it was a fact that was somewhat guessed that it wouldn’t be too difficult for him to chase down a human woman.

If by some stroke of luck a stalactite from above the cave crashes into his head, or he falls down on his own and struggles, finding a chance to escape.

Or maybe there was a secret passage inside the cave that I hadn’t discovered before, and I could escape through another hole… Unless I was lucky enough to that extent, I wouldn’t be able to shake it off.

‘Fuck, this life is fucking shit…’

It hasn’t even been a month since I left Blackwood Manor, and what kind of hardships have I been through?

I thought it would be good to take the E-class promotion test, so I took it without much thought, but some bastard stuck with me and ruined my mood the whole time I was there.

During the promotion test, I had the misfortune of meeting the Goblin King and having a ridiculous fight. Then, Seido, the wind spirit who had been by my side for years, suddenly disappeared.

In the meantime, I was somehow seeing a chance of victory, but the idiot who should have bought me some time committed suicide, and now I’m being chased by the Goblin King.

It was a really shitty day in so many ways. It seems like there are only a few minutes left in that day.

-Boom! Boom! Kwung!!

‘Geee!! Geee!!’

“Fuck… .”

Yeah. This shitty life ends here.

If I had known it would end up like this, I would have just stayed with Ethan for another year. If I was going to die anyway, I think I would have lived longer than I did now even if I had killed myself after seeing Ethan with another woman.

After writing a letter to escape the Blackwood family, I ended up in a lonely place with no ties to the world. It was a beggarly ending, comparable to the beggarly spirit I felt on my first day in this world.

“Magic power… . My everything… .”

‘Geeep! Geeep, Geeep!!’

-Bang, bang, bang!

The Goblin King howls as he smashes through the cave walls to create a gap the size of his head.

I don’t know if I’ll have enough time, but I have nowhere else to run from here anyway. From now on, I just have to rely on luck.

Will it come first that the Goblin King breaks through that cave wall and enters this last room I’m in, or will my Mana Blast spell finish casting before that?

With the thought that he would at least take Donggwijin to the other side, he gathered all his remaining magical power and created a large magical vortex.

“O sphere of mana that explodes everything, I offer all my magic power… .”

-Whew! Wheee!!

A giant sphere of magical power created within the palm of one’s hand.

Because I used Arcane Tornado earlier, it’s only about half the size of the sphere I usually make, but this should be enough to blow off the head of a Goblin King.

So, when there were only a few sentences left until the completion of Mana Blast… .

-Kwaaang!!

‘Geee!!’

The Goblin King, who had been blocked by his size, roared as he broke down the cave wall that had been in his way.

‘… Yeah, it’s not so bad to have a monster of this level as your last companion.’

If you can just report that you’ve single-handedly dealt with the Goblin King, you might be able to get promoted to D-rank in one go. … And if you do well with the death promotion, you might even be able to aim for C-rank.

What good would that be after everyone’s dead, but at least being a C-class adventurer is considered a success for an adventurer.

As I briefly contemplate such useless thoughts, I fire the completed Mana Blast and am about to fight with the Goblin King in the cave.

“… Swirl! Magical cannonball!!”

‘Geee!!’

‘……uh?’

Just before he was about to rush at me, the Goblin King suddenly turned around and started running in the opposite direction of the room I was in.

-Pfft!!

“AAAHHH!!”

… Immediately after, the sound of something kicking something that looked like a person was heard, along with an ominous voice.

‘Wait, no!’

My back felt cold as I thought, “No way,” but the Mana Blast had already left my hands.

The mana blast flew straight for the head of the Goblin King, who was turning his back to me, and the explosion swallowed up half of his upper body… .

-Wow, wow, wow!!

‘Geee!!’

A single explosion occurred, collapsing part of the cave with a scream.

“Ugh, ugh!!”

At the same time, a huge vortex of magical power erupted and a fierce storm swept into the cave. The wind, which was a mixture of dust, stone fragments, and what appeared to be the flesh of the Goblin King, was so strong that it was difficult to even open one’s eyes.

After waiting for the storm to pass, I immediately got up and walked towards where the Goblin King was.

…hoping that the voice I just heard wasn’t the voice of the person I thought it was.

“Mirif! Are you there?! Mirif!!”

The fact that the Goblin King changed direction just before entering means that there was something there that might have caught his interest.

And if the woman’s scream I just heard wasn’t an illusion… it was definitely Mirif’s voice.

From the start, given the circumstances, she was the only one who could enter this cave.

“Mirif! Are you okay?! Mirif!!”

If I had been caught in the Mana Blast explosion, I might have ended up in the same state as the Goblin King’s corpse, with only the lower half of my body left.

Hoping that this would not be the case, I approached the Goblin King’s corpse, repeatedly calling out Mireef’s name, and what I found at the explosion site before the dust fog had settled was… .

“Kahhhh… . Gulp… . Keuhk, kek… .”

It was Mirif, buried in the rubble of a collapsed cave wall, coughing painfully all the time.