Chapter 7 – 2. I First Met… Undine, an Intermediate Spirit

I ran as fast as I could, and the fishy smell of blood was vibrating. There were mercenaries who were struggling with goblins, and other mercenaries who surrounded and protected the top bar and sliced ​​through the goblins.

After overhearing Undine’s story earlier, I threw my pack and immediately cut off the back of the goblin’s head as it was ready to jump in. Leaving behind the flying goblin’s head, the fucking mercenaries jumped into the struggling group of goblins and put strength into both arms to slash them horizontally. Harvested goblin heads,

– Fluffy Fluffy

Leaving behind the secondary dongoblins spewing blood fountains from their necks, they set out to find the living goblins. Near the top, they were already dead with their heads or upper bodies severed, so they didn’t even look at them. Behind me was Sein, who followed me with his sword drawn, but I cut them all down, so there was not a single goblin he touched.

I heard a rattling sound from the back of the wagon, so I ran right away and saw that the cauldron containing the soup I had eaten in the morning was overturned, and I spotted several goblins eating with their noses and some goblins rummaging through the luggage compartment.

I wasn’t the only one who got hot after hearing Undine’s story. Sein, the primary distributor of the magic stone contract story, ran toward the goblins with urgent footwork, but I ran at an ambiguous speed, and instead I’m approaching! It was like announcing that.

The soup-eating goblins perked up their ears, raised their heads, splashed soup, and swung swords with teeth missing. He immediately swung his short sword to cut off the sword, but due to the difference in length, he took the form of pressing the short sword from above.

I felt like an annoying division would happen if I watched it, so I jumped out and cut off the arm of the confronting goblin. The sword in my hand fell to the ground and I stabbed the face of the goblin who was running straight upright. The feeling pierced my skull. It climbed up from the sword body to the handle. As it was, I pushed my upper body with my feet to get it out of the sword, and cut the other one that was eating the soup diagonally.

I tapped Sain on the shoulder and silently pointed at the goblin’s corpse. Sein’s head went down and up at the word to take care of it. Leaving behind the grumpy guy and quietly approaching the back of the wagon, a fairly large goblin hurriedly ate food.

Perhaps feeling my presence in the goblin subject, I immediately turned around with a hiss, and when I saw the horn on my forehead, I realized that I was not a goblin, but a hobgoblin.

Of course, it wasn’t anything like a hobgoblin, I raised the side of the longsword swinging sideways as it was, blocked it, and kicked my heart out with a strong kick. Cut the I could only cut off about two-thirds of my neck because it caught on my neck, but I didn’t take out my sword, and I dragged it as it was to avoid splattering blood and got out of the back of the carriage.

After pulling the sword out of his neck, he stabbed it under the horn and cut out the surrounding area. Did you say it is often used as an alchemy ingredient? As I was straightening my back and correcting my posture, Sain, who had been hurriedly running to see the Hobgoblin corpse, was surprised to see the hobgoblin corpse.

“Ho… Did the Hob Goblin even come out?”

“It’s just a big goblin, a shaman would be a bitch, how many ears did you cut off?”

At my question, Sein was counting the number of ears held in his hands one by one. As I was watching that, other mercenaries came running towards me from afar. As expected, it seemed that the wealth wagon in the upper section was soon organized. Sang Sangju, who checked inside the food wagon, held out his hand to me and laughed loudly.

“I expected it, but except for a little bit of emergency food, everything is fine! You are very quick to judge the situation!”

Sang Sang-joo held his outstretched hand and shook it lightly. There was still more than a week left for the uptrend, but it was a big deal if all the food was stolen. After a short calculation, running first was the correct answer. There was trust in the eyes of the upper class. In this state, it seemed that they would listen to me even if I claimed ownership of all the magic stones of the goblins I had captured.

All the members of the corps came forward and started to dispose of the goblin corpses, while the mercenaries were collecting magic stones and by-products, calculating the damages for the mercenaries, and cleaning the surroundings. When I was told to rest, I was looking at my surroundings with my arms crossed when a silver rank mercenary standing next to me spoke to me.

“Do you remember my name? Sharock.”

“I am…”

As we exchanged short greetings and chatted, Sharrock looked around and whispered in my ear in a small voice. A man’s whispers sound like shit.

“Looking at the number of goblins, there seems to be a colony around.”

“So, let’s go to subjugation?”

“Isn’t it okay to be delayed a day anyway?”

“One hobgoblin and twenty goblins, although there are two search birds I saw earlier…”

“Then, the headquarter must have the same number of heads anyway? Let’s talk together.”

Sharrock’s words were right, the goblin colony was full of miscellaneous equipment and luggage unknowingly robbed peddlers, and goblins in this world don’t seem to have sexual desire. There were no female slaves in the goblin colony. When I first fell, I thought that goblins were taking human females as slaves, but I was misunderstood as a sexual predator for a while. As a slave, they were eaten as food at the bar.

Anyway, if there were only as many as raiding the goblin colony, it was enough. It could have been solved in a few hours just by robbing the two of them with Sharrock. It wasn’t a bad suggestion, since he would definitely like it if he split it up instead of falling into escort, but the important thing was that the location of the colony was unknown.

The two of them were talking moderately, but when I peeked behind me, I could see Se-in, who was eavesdropping on the conversation while lifting the goblin corpse. I learned how to contract with the spirits, but it was a pity that I had to yield.

After finishing the clean-up to some extent, Sang Sangju came over here from afar. Sang Sangju laughed and said, as we had expected, that we would have to stay here for a day. The longer the day, the bigger the damage, and even though it could be angry, the relaxed attitude of the upper house was amazing.

Seeing this as an opportunity, Sharrock opened her mouth.

“There is something I would like to suggest.”
“A suggestion?”

Sharrock said confidently to the round-eyed top pillar.

“With a group of goblins like this, there must be a colony nearby. Why don’t you make up for the damage by subjugating it while staying for a day anyway?”

Sang Sang-ju, who swiped his chin, answered.

“If it were a colony, wouldn’t it be quite large? If it is reversed, you will not lose money and your peddling will be dangerous.”

“Goblins have a habit of sending out about half of the colony when they send raiding parties. With one hobgoblin and twenty goblins, even me and this friend can subdue them.”

As I stroked his chin and swallowed my saliva with my pierced forehead, I sighed and spoke to Sharlock.

“If that happens, it’s a really good story, but it’s hard to expect a big benefit from subjugating the colony when you’ve already suffered losses, and if something happens while the two silver ranks went to subjugate, with the remaining number of people…”

He was a member of the upper ranks who couldn’t openly say bitter words because they were selected by himself, but what he was trying to say was conveyed accurately. It was said that if someone invaded while the two of you were subjugating, they would become those fucking mercenaries. It was quite persuasive, so he nodded and passed it over, but Sharrock persistently persuaded the upper state.

“They were all naked, but there were a few good quality weapons, there might be dozens of weapons like that in the Hive. If you only find colonies…”

“Isn’t it about finding it? I have no intention of sending a couple of silver ranks, and I don’t want to waste my men looking for hives. This talk…”

“My! I know the colony location!!!”

Sang Sangju draws a line in the persuasion, which gradually gets longer, but the words are cut off in the middle, because Sein, the youngest of the mercenaries, raises his hand and draws everyone’s attention. The fucking mercenaries covered their eyes and turned their heads, saying, “This bastard was in trouble.” Sain was trembling but did not lower his arm, perhaps because Solly was nervous at his attention.

San Sangju sighed audibly and asked Sein again.

“So… You know the colony’s location?”

“Yes!!! When I went to wash the dishes earlier, I saw the cave where the goblins came out!!!”

Cave? I couldn’t find it when I sliced ​​the two of them up and looked around, but I couldn’t find it, but when I looked at Sein with a questioning gaze, Undine covered Sein’s ear with a hand and whispered to him with an excited face.

“There are not many reconnaissance teams around, and I can fight, so I will go with the mercenary as a guide!”

Sein, who had been shouting out loud, pointed at me and ended the story. It was Sharrock who brought up the topic of subjugation, but it was I who wanted to accompany him. There was.

Sang Sangju’s face didn’t show a lot of interest either. If he went on like this, going up would definitely be a messy atmosphere. Eventually, he decided to take a step forward. I was curious about Sein’s plan, so it was rather a good thing.

“First of all, if the lord of the upper ranks permits the subjugation, I will take this friend and a mercenary of the same rank and subdue the three of them. And since the one who brought up the story first is that friend of Sharrock, I think it would be better to give part of the share to Sharrock after the subjugation. “

“You’re pretty positive about subjugation…”

Tiredness was in the eyes of the head of the upper ranks. There was already a loss, but it was obvious that the manpower was going to drop more, so it was obvious that the head hurt.

He lightly grabbed Sein’s shoulder and said

“I will go to the colony this friend said and contact me if it is actually there, then proceed with the subjugation, and if not, I will just return as it is.”

Hmmm, Sang Sang-joo let out a quiet voice, looking troubled. I decided to strike the final blow.

“And even if you don’t do what Sharrock said, you don’t know how many dozens of weapons there are, and if you’re good at it, how many items from the caravan that were looted before.”

At the end of my persuasion, the top lord gently closed his eyes, let out a sigh, and slowly nodded his head.

I glanced at Sharrock and slightly bowed my head to him. Sharrock’s blushing face sank a little, and at my words to share his share, it seemed that his anger had eased a little.

Looking to the side, Sae-in, anxious to see if she knew that she had made a mistake, and Undine, who acted as an extreme mother, saying that she had done nothing wrong to Sae-in, caught her eyes.

“So when are you going? It’s not far from where the dishes were washed earlier…”

“I’m going to go right now since we talked about it, is it possible, Sein?”

At my call, Sein nodded and answered.

“Yes! I’m sure! I saw it properly, no I saw it!”

“Okay, then choose the other one and come back. Use this as a strategy.”

The guild master took out a small blue marble from his chest and handed it to me. The mana crystal was a crystal that made the marble glow when a small amount of mana was blown into it. I used the correction in such a way.

“Then I will go.”

After a simple maintenance, Sein and the eldest of the mercenaries went out to the river where they had gone before. It was still broad daylight, but it was difficult when the sun went down, so they pushed the two from behind and ran as fast as possible. .

Seeing the Undine floating around with a smile next to Sein, I realized that it was Undine’s ruse. He must have subjugated Mana and collected Mana Stones with balls to fill the Mana Stones for the contract.

Observing Sein, the relationship between the two caught my eye to some extent. It was good to see Undine looking at Sein with affectionate eyes and wiggling around to see if he had a heart even though he was shy at Undine’s active attitude.

I did feel a bit of remorse. If I didn’t know how to sign a contract, I would have cheered him on to do well, but I already had some magic stones in my hands and figured out how to sign a contract.

With different thoughts, we hurriedly moved to the goblin colony.