Chapter 105 – 7. Erilda, a Lascivious Elf Who Can’t Forget the Pleasure Engraved in Her Soul

Moving to the meeting place we had set up with the village headman, we soon ran into two strange men sitting at a table in the center of the bar and chatting.

“Nice to meet you.”

“Hey, nice to meet you!”

A middle-aged man with a serious face and a young man with a light look welcomed us with different tone of voice. I greeted the men I introduced as Dominic and Carlz, holding hands, and naturally sat down next to them. Gemini, who had been looking at me, also hesitated and passed their greetings and quietly lowered her head.

“Nice to meet you, my name is Cassano.”

“You know, you know, there’s a rumor going around town-“

“Caltz.”

Recalling the name I had heard from Dominic and the innkeeper, who stopped Caltz with a frivolous laugh, I guessed that these two were the people who spread the rumor about my tryst with Erilda.

“Sorry, this guy is pretty young.”

“No, you are right.”

“There isn’t a single girl with dark blue hair in the village, so where did you meet a girl like that?”
Carlz asked in an interesting tone if she didn’t know about Erilda’s existence, and Gemini, who was sitting next to her and looking at her, thought it was an opportunity to catch a clue of her suspicions. She raised her head and looked at me with her eyes shining. There was.

“Ah, it’s just a woman I know. It’s a witch, so I called her for a while and tasted it.”

“Hey, that’s great. A man, a man, isn’t it, brother?”

“A witch would understand. I heard that all the witches are arrogant and prickly, but that’s amazing.”

“No,”

With a smile on her lips, she secretly looked into Gemini’s eyes. It wasn’t easy to understand, but it seemed that he had some doubts. Erilda is a woman who uses spatial magic, so I wasn’t lying, so after chatting with the two of them, I got to the point and asked.

“Then are the four of us going?”

“Yes, I think it’s good enough based on the scale we found.”

“By the way, you said you found it during reconnaissance. How did you find the colony halfway up the mountain?”

Gemini says it’s a place that takes three to four hours to climb from the entrance of the village, but is it a range that the vigilantes can find while scouting? When asked about her thoughts, Caltz said with a mischievous smile.

“Actually, there are a few goblins that come down to the village, so they go scouting after a while. But what are you really looking for?”

“Haha, I’m ashamed to say it, but just like Carltz said, I found it by accident. I was wandering around, smoking, and I followed a goblin gathering plants, and it went into a cave.”

I nodded my head in agreement at the additional explanation that came out naturally like water flowing. I glanced at Gemini, who was stunned to see if it was difficult to join the conversation, and I packed up my things and told Dominic and Caltz.

“Then let’s hurry up, because it’s dangerous when the sun goes down.”

“Uh-cha, no matter what, they’re goblins.”

“You have to be careful though. What are you going to do when even a higher-ranking species comes out?”

“Am I very dangerous…?”

Gemini, slightly frightened by the warning to be careful, raised her hand and asked. With a smirk to see if she knew her, Carlz, who was draped over Gemini’s shoulder, teased her with a loud voice.

“Eh- at least you’re going to become food for the goblins, so don’t be afraid, brother.”

“Her…”

“Don’t worry too much, Gemini, a mercenary like Mr. Cassano will be enough.”

Shrugging my shoulders at the friendly conversation among the villagers, I spoke moderately cool words to reassure Gemini.

“Do not worry. Jeon Jeon-ryo’s husband, I will risk my life to protect you.”

“Oh, thank you…!”

A Gemini with a moved expression clenched her fists and looked at me. I thought I was stuck with her wife, so I just suspected it, but it must have been quite touching that she said such a thing.

“Older brother! If you’re already scared, what are you going to do with your wife when you go home?”

“Caltz…!”

Caltz, who sticks by the weak Gemini and spits low-level jokes, and Dominic, who follows me with a serious expression. Satisfied with the party, which looked more usable than I thought, I joined them and chatted with each other and headed to the back mountain.

**

– Trudge trudge

“Are you there?”

“It seems so.”

About two hours to climb the back mountain? I climbed the mountain faster, admiring Gemini’s speed, which seemed to be stronger than I thought. Thanks to that, I was able to reach my destination faster than the three or four hours I expected.

Hehe…”

Calz had been carrying the load for a long time, and Gemini’s back was drenched in sweat and gave off a musty smell. I thought it was a good thing to bring Gemini when I saw Carlz who helped Gemini, who was like Jim Deng, and Dominic who was worried.

“Let’s be quiet now.”

“Yes.”

I lowered my posture while stroking the tree Dominic had marked, and slowly climbed the mountain. It was said that the road was connected in the shape of an X on the way to the cave, so if you followed the signs from now on, it was clear that you would come to the cave where the goblins live.

“Kikki…”

I heard a low cry as I climbed up the tree where there was a sparse X mark. Taking the lead, I raised my hand at the goblin’s cries, gave a signal to open and close my fist, and then lowered my hand to give the order to lower it further.

-Jerbuck Jerbuck

I looked behind me and confirmed that everyone was crouching, and I followed the goblin as it slowly walked away crying. It walked on short legs, took a sniff and looked around, but didn’t seem to spot us yet.

He walked along the rough road, dragging a crude wooden club on the floor, leading us to our destination with a low cry halfway up the hill.

“There it is.”

“Looks like he’s a scout.”

-Jerbuck Jerbuck

The guy who looked around didn’t notice us and went quietly into the den with his throat scratching. The goblin, which was as tall as my waist, made an estimate while looking at the entrance without any problems, and we discussed what to do in the future.

“I just go right in.”

After confirming the level of the scouts, I immediately insisted on subjugating them. It was very rare for a small entrance cave with a crude weapon like a club to be wide inside. Calz nodded while sweating profusely, probably agreeing with me.

“But wouldn’t it be better to wait and see?”

Dominic, who looked serious, carefully objected to my suggestion to go right in. His argument was that scouts alone could not measure the strength of the colony. Frightened by the ferocious look of the goblin, Gemini stood behind Dominic and nodded to his side.

After suggesting to think about it for a while, I thought while stroking my chin. Based on countless experiences while living in a mercenary company, the odds of having a strong goblin were very rare. However, the three of them except me didn’t even know about it, and it was the first time they were in a subjugation situation, so forcibly dragging them was a bad move.

“Let’s wait for now.”

I added one more thing after suggesting that Gemini and Dominic with hard faces wait. I told him to watch for two hours and go straight into the den if there are no other scouts or goblins passing by.

“I will.”

Gemini’s face brightened even more, as if he liked the situation he was approaching cautiously. The frivolous-looking Kaltz was relaxed with his arms folded as if nothing mattered, and only Gemini was still staring at us in a rigid state.

-Dump

I sat down in the shade of a tree and gestured to the hesitant Gemini. After confirming that I was sitting, Dominic and Caltz immediately sat down on the floor and let out a pained sound. In the end, Gemini, who was paying attention, sat down on the floor, and we were able to refresh the atmosphere with small chats.

– Sarak Sarak

“It’s not coming out.”

“So it is. I will prepare.”

– Clap

Dominic grabs the sword at his waist, and Caltz pats Gemini on the shoulder. We rose from our seats and moved as breathlessly as we could to the goblin’s burrow.

-Jerbuck Jerbuck

Apart from the height of the cave, which you could barely enter by bending down, the passage was wide. Decided to take the lead first, I gestured to the three of them to spread their distance, then slowly advanced with my sword in hand.

I could feel the smell of dirt and oil passing through my nostrils. I was convinced that this place was the smell of a goblin colony even if I smelled the shit, so I clenched my grip on the bouncing handle and walked away, keeping my footsteps as quiet as possible.

“Creep!”

“Keeek!”

As I walked through the cave with my back bent, I felt the ceiling rise higher and higher, straightening my back and slowly pulling out my sword at the faint sound of crying.

Looking behind me, I saw Dominic and Kaltz drawing their swords to assist with Gemini, who shrank at my act of drawing out the sword. If this is the case, I might be able to break through. Relieved, as the end of the oyster approached, I only poked my head out to examine the cavity.

“Kiruk, kirureek!”

“Keeek!”

Two angry goblins, wielding crude wooden clubs, were crying as they faced each other. Taking a closer look at the two of similar size, I saw that one was the goblin we had been chasing.

-Zureuk

Scratching the ground with my feet, I clenched my fists with my empty hands, gave a signal, and immediately ran out together. The goblin’s eyes widened and his neck twitched at the sound of the soil splashing and my new model suddenly protruding, but I didn’t miss the gap and drew my sword horizontally.

“Talent…!”

The necks of the two goblins, who were gnashing their yellow teeth at the horizontal slash with all their might, were blown away. The small head spins through the air like a fruit falling from a tree, then falls to the ground and rolls with a cracking sound.

Avoiding the blood flowing on the floor, I dragged the corpse away and looked at the cavities and the connected roads. A wide aisle with enough space for four people to lie down. Looking at the joint with no torches and no decorations, it was clear that there were no highly intelligent goblins.

“Hey, hyung, you’re really fast, aren’t you?”

“Caltz, what kind of habit is that?”

“Ah, we want to be friends.”

Caltz approached with a smirk, Dominic cautioned him, and Gemini, who was far away, looked at the goblin corpse and me alternately as she rolled her eyes as if the situation was bewildering.

“First of all, it moves forward, and seeing that it gradually tilts downward, it seems that it is also underground.”

“All right. By the way, Mr. Cassano, how many goblins can you catch?”

Dominic, who answered by shaking her head, asked me a question with a serious face. He remembered how he fought before and after meeting Undine, and I told him the approximate number of people I predicted.

“If there is no interference, I can do 20 more by myself. Probably nothing more than this.”

“Ah, I think the two of us, Calz, can handle about five of them.”

Between three and twenty-five, I thought it would be enough for a den of this size to have about thirty goblins, so I nodded and pointed at Gemini.

“For now, let’s keep myself in the lead, and let’s go with Mr. Caltz protecting Mr. Gemini once the goblins come out in earnest.”

“Ah, yes I understand.”

Dominic strangely brightens up at the mention of Gemini. Did he think I wouldn’t care about him? It was important for Gemini to stay alive until the subjugation was over in order to bring Erilda back.

“Then we will move again.”

– Jeop-bu, Je-beok, Je-beok

After examining the aisle that two adults could pass through, I took the lead by widening the distance with the three. It was a dark passageway with no lights, but I was able to move forward without any obstruction as I put mana in my eyes and pressed against the wall.

“Kreak…”

After passing through a fairly long aisle, we stopped for a moment and had a conversation in the fluorescent light illuminating the cavity across the aisle.

“It’s the first time I’ve seen a light like that, does anyone know?”

I wondered if anyone knew, so I looked at Dominic and Caltz and asked, but the two shook their heads and replied that they didn’t know. The light was too strong to look out and could have been discovered. I didn’t want to engage in an unnecessary battle until I figured out the scale properly, so I was worried about what to do, but soon I moved forward again with a smile on the information that Gemini gave me by tapping on my shoulder.

“You mean it’s just a glowing mushroom?”

“Yes yes. A mushroom that is sometimes seen in caves. There is nothing dangerous, just shining bright is the end.”

“All right. Thank you. Gemini.”

“No, I’m glad I’ve seen mushrooms before.”

I left the shy Gemini behind as I scratched her head, and after catching my breath, I jointly ran out. Tadat- With the sound of footsteps, I met eyes with a goblin standing in the center of the joint. The guy who was walking around and watching me jumped out of the aisle, howled loudly and immediately rushed at me.

– Bahah!

“Kikki!!!”

Without thinking about the weight class, I slammed the goblin’s head down with the handle. Feeling the heavy hand along with the dented bone, I slammed the goblin’s bone as it wriggled like a bug.

– Fu-wook!

A goblin that spurted blood and stopped moving. Pulling my sword straight out of the corpse, I raised my sword and stood guard, thinking that other goblins might come at the sound he had just made.

Looking around the space that is twice as large as the one I passed through earlier, I looked around as I saw glowing mushrooms blooming here and there emitting soft light. Just like before, a wide aisle leading to somewhere and glowing mushrooms growing everywhere. It’s a wider hole than I thought, but I was suspicious of the small number of goblins. I said to Dominic, who was looking around from behind.

“The size of the den is large, but there are absurdly few goblins. I’m thinking of moving forward as far as I can, is that okay?”

“Yes, we didn’t do anything, so it’s okay. What’s hard for Cassano-san…?”

“I am still fine.”

“Caltz?”

“We have two rooms now, so let’s just keep going. I’ll protect you, so you two should clear up the front!”

After bursting into laughter at the lighthearted joke, we agreed to go further. Gemini at the rear, Kaltz at her side, me advancing from the front and Dominic preparing to respond right behind. The only thing left for us, who had perfectly divided the positions, was to move forward.

**

– Jjaeok!

I turned away from the pink lump that appeared when I cut through the bone pain, and looked around while catching my breath. Among the strewn goblet corpses, I could see Dominic leaning against the wall to catch his breath, and Caltz guarding the frightened Gemini.

“You’re not hurt anywhere?”

Unlike the cavities where there were one or two goblits so far, we attacked the cavities where there were more than 10 of them. Unlike the goblins who rushed with ignorance, the resistance of those wielding weapons was strong, but they were goblins anyway.

“Yes, it is fine.”

“I protected my older brother, and I was not hurt either.”

“Whoa… First of all, shall we take a break here?”

The splattered bloodstains and goblet corpses caught my eye, but since it was a large joint, I could rest if I set up a tent in the corner. I couldn’t feel the time because I was inside the cave, but I was sure that quite a bit of time had passed, seeing the heavy eyelids and hunger.

“I do. Caltz and I will clean up, so you should rest.”

“Ah, then I will be setting up a tent…!”

Gemini, overhearing our conversation, stepped forward and took her tent out of her backpack. I smiled happily at his quick-witted behavior and rested for a while, patting Gemini on the shoulder and leaning against the wall.

“Whoa…!”

After kicking away the goblins that got in the way under my feet, I approached Gemini, who was out of breath with two tents open, and told me that she had a hard time.

“Haha, no. I have to do something like this.”

“Take a break. I will prepare the meals and prepare for the camp.”

“Ayu, I worked hard all day… I will do it.”

“Hey, sit down.”

I sat Gemini on the blanket spread on the floor, and I took out some firewood and the lunch box Arylda had prepared for me from his bag. I laid out a blanket in a circle and put firewood in the center, I took a straw and a rolling stone and started a spark to light the firewood.

– Hwareuk

“Wow…”

“Whoa…”

In the midst of lighting a bonfire, I heard Dominic and Caltz slump on the floor behind me, sighing. This is moderately close and okay- Satisfied, I handed the lunch box to the three of them and said.

“First, let’s have a meal and discuss what to do for the night shift.”

“Mr. Cassano worked hard today, so let’s rest. The three of us will stand apart.”

“Okay, brother, you worked hard to catch goblins, so take a break.”

“You’re right. Rest well.”

Seeing Gemini nodding her head and arguing, I smiled bitterly and refused. With that being the only thing to decide, we started eating right after discussing the night watch.

Satisfied, the two eat their lunch like crazy, and Gemini watches with proud faces. The first day in the goblin colony ended quietly.

-Sreuk

Dominic decided to stand for the first night shift, so Calz and Gemini looked at Dominic with a regretful face, perhaps because they wanted to stand first. Dominic and Caltz, me and Gemini. We split into pairs and entered the tent, leaving behind Dominic, who smiled and watched the campfire.

“Whoa…”

After checking the coordinates of the cave with the bracelet on her wrist, I approached Gemini as she unfolded her sleeping bag while hiding her bracelet with her sleeve.

“Are you tired?”

“Ah, that’s true, but how tired I must be if I were tired. Haha…”

“Don’t talk like that. How comfortable I am thanks to Gemini.”

“Thank god.”

While soothing the tense Gemini, I entered her sleeping bag and talked to the Gemini who was also burrowing into her sleeping bag. Apart from Gemini, whose voice became brighter as if the tension was relieved the more they talked, his answers gradually increased and then suddenly cut off.

– Career

I must have been tired from being nervous and sweating all day, so I got out of the sleeping bag to check Gemini’s sleeping state while snoring. I looked down at him and waved my hands over his eyes to make sure he was asleep.

“Crown… Kuck…”

Gemini, who has been asleep for less than five minutes, is snoring loud enough to ring in her cavity. If you fell asleep this deeply, you wouldn’t notice. Confident, I checked the coordinates on the bracelet once more and took out a copy of the teleportation scroll that Erilda had handed me to me.

-Boo-wook, woo-woong…

A shimmering space and a shaky view. Closing my eyes at the familiar sensation, I left the sleeping Gemini behind and disappeared. A smile leaked out of me at the sight of Gemini sleeping soundly while not knowing anything while meeting Erilda.