Chapter 4 – Kobold Hunt

ㅡGegGegGegGegGegGegGegGegGEL…

The kobold with his head smashed to the ground, dripping his brain.

It was truly a lightning strike. Judging from Elise’s disciplined movements of her, it wasn’t like she had done this cruel puck once or twice.

Elise was a professional butcher.

It is also a well-learned monster slaughter horse.

“This dog shit sucks!”

The other two kobolds realized the seriousness of the situation and tried to run away, but I jumped out and grabbed the toddler by the neck.

And she thrust the knife between his ribs. My knife squeezes inward, tearing through the kobold’s fragile flesh. The blade touched the heart of his.

ㅡGyu gaga gak!

He screamed and struggled with all his might, but with his heart his pierced, even a monster with survivability exceeding that of a wild animal could do nothing. The guy twisted the blade a few times, and it quickly stretched out.

“Sister! Run away!”

As soon as I pushed the dead kobold’s chest with my foot and pulled out my sword, I quickly launched a flying kick (Taekwondo 3rd Dan) toward the next target, but missed by a short distance and fell face down on the floor. Fuck.

“He comes with light!”

Then Elise memorized her prayers.

“Light Bolt!”

ㅡSungwoong!
ㅡPuff!

However, unlike my shoveling, Elise succeeded in subduing the kobolds using divine spells. Light spheres gathered at the tip of the Morning Star, and soon the spheres shot like a shot shot hit the kobold’s waist.

“Amchang, I was sick! Sister!”

Exclamation burst out at the awe-inspiring sight.

ㅡKu-guugh…!

While running happily, the kobold rolled on the floor several times due to the impact of being hit by the light bolt and tried to escape by crawling on the ground, but Elise had no mercy. The Morning Star, raised high, shattered the kobold’s neck bones in a clear trajectory.

ㅡ Gehehe!

Needless to say, the guy changed his name.

“Whoa, it’s nothing.”

After catching her breath, Elise robbed Morning Star and said. Her blood she trickled down her head on her star-candy mace, but her expression her looked blissful. Her expression her seemed to relieve her stress her by killing monsters.

“Um, but there doesn’t seem to be anything to pick up.”

I gathered the corpses of the kobolds in one place.

The dead guys who were completely chewed up had nothing in particular.

Unless it’s a goblin or plaything with a certain level of intelligence, you can’t expect a drop item in general. Because these kobold pups don’t know how to use tools. I don’t carry anything worth while.

“Eh.”

To say there was nothing to be saved after fighting so hard was literally a loss. In fact, there is nothing to touch on these monsters unless the guild is sending a subjugation request for the purpose of reducing their population. Her request her was unusual.

While thinking about where to dispose of these corpses, Elise suddenly pulled her dagger from her ankle.

“Annit, why are you cutting it up?”

After that, he cut the noses of the dead kobolds into slices like ham and stuffed them into his pockets.

Only the two he killed. As far as I know, kobolds don’t have much use other than leather. Is it a hobby? Among adventurers, there are often such guys. Psychopaths who are extremely obsessed with some sort of loot.

She wasn’t sure, but it occurred to her that she might be a similar kind of psychopath. People shouldn’t be judged only by what they spend and what they have. What though these days, this could be said to be the realm of individuality. Isn’t it the era of ubiquitous? Let’s respect individuality.

“What use is it?”
“Ah, these are things to be dedicated. I killed them with my own hands, so I’ll take care of them with my own hands. Our god will be pleased.”
“Oh my God. That’s what it meant. It sounds like something amazing.”

It seemed to be a religious ceremony.

It is common to take off useful parts while capturing the corpses of monsters, but I do not cut useless parts as a hobby. If it’s a religious ceremony, I understand.

Elise continued.

“If we kill evil monsters and offer their souls to our god, we can purify this world of filth. Then, one day, paradise will descend.”
“That’s right.”

Apparently, this is the doctrine of the Gwangmyeong Star Cross.
By the way, I wasn’t very interested in religion, so it didn’t really matter what the reason was.

“Anyway, it’s no big deal, Sister. It was very easy because they were out there.”

By the way, unlike the guys in the dungeon, these kobolds were ridiculously simple opponents. These little guys who seemed to be [Kobold Walkers] Were weaker than humans as a single individual, but in the dungeon, they were terrifying 10-year-olds flocking from all directions.

If you drop a torch when you are attacked by them in the narrow kobold den, or if the magician’s light magic breaks off, it’s as if you died that day.

They don’t really have eyesight, but their sense of smell and hearing are so developed that they can freely roam the burrows they made.

That’s why I don’t go to Kobold Dungeon. I almost lost my mind once in the past.

“Anyway, shall we go to the place where these guys were trying to escape? If we go that way, anything will come out. Originally, when these guys run away, they instinctively bounce towards their group.”
“Is that so? Sounds like a reasonable inference. Then I’ll do as Katt-sama says.”

After putting the corpses of the kobolds in a corner, we proceeded in that direction. Both of them headed in the same direction, so I’m sure there’s something going on in that direction. There is no possibility that these idiots will deliberately run away to confuse us at the moment of desperate need.

“It’s a bush.”

As I walked, I came to a place where the bushes grew up to my chest. Elise tried to walk into it at first, so he grabbed her by the shoulder and stopped her.

“Sister. Let’s take a detour. This place is dangerous.”
“All right.”

There must be something hidden in a place like that. Smaller than a bush, things that move low. There are kobolds nearby, so there won’t be any goblins or gnolls, but I still don’t like places like that.

That’s how I go round and round the forest area. It takes a long time to move here and there looking for things like footprints. The trees are thick, so you might not know, but it seemed that the middle of the day would have passed by now.

It’s a bit late.

—Gyusat. Gusat.

Then I saw a kobold walking by.
At the same time, Elise’s eyes lit up.

“I will kill you first.”
“Yes. Sister.”

We followed the kobold as if possessed and ended up killing it.

When I say this, I feel like a serial killer who can’t stand the urge to kill, but with good reason.

“Sister? What is this?”
“A very ominous mark.”

A kobold with a broken head was wearing something like a strange hood, but it was unheard of for kobolds to wear anything. They don’t know the concept of clothing. It is a low-intelligence monster that lives on only skin and fur.

The hood had a crude but bizarre pattern painted with red paint, presumably blood. It was kind of fucking ominous.

“I’ll take care of it for now.”
“Yes… Sister, take it. I’m scared.”

At first glance, it was an ominous item, so I just handed it over to Elise. I’m not going to blow my nose with that, so how can I use it?

When I went back to the direction the kobold was going, the surroundings suddenly became dark. Looking up at the sky, the trees grew so densely that they completely blocked the sunlight.

“Kat-nim. It’s a big deal.”

Elise, who was looking at her map Her, looked at me with a serious face.

“Yes? Big deal?”
“To be honest, I’m not sure where this is.”
“Amchang is fucked. But I thought that too. Haha.”

In fact, I had been feeling it for a while. I’m not quite sure where this is. We came too soon. Still, I remember the way back, so it shouldn’t matter.

Well, not once or twice. I’m in deep, but I’m not fucking far, so I can somehow go back. Think positively.

The priest who gave the bread once said that fate is something that is predetermined from the time a person is born, so you just have to follow the flow.

Nothing is solved, but my heart is at ease.

“You mean fuck? Katt-sama.

Sweetheart prostitute.

“It’s an adventurer’s slang. Oh, it’s a slang word that means awesome.”
“I see. But, more than that, I’m not lost…”

You’re lost, dude.

Elise looked a little uneasy. In fact, even though this friend looks better than me, in fact, I would be a lot older than him. Could it be that this is the first time she has lost her way her? It would be nice for her to get lost once in a while, saying that hardships are bought at that age.

“First of all, let’s finish what we’re doing and think about it, that’s it. Look over there instead.”

It seems that we have arrived at our destination slowly. A strange noise had been heard from before.

“Smoke? Is it fire?”
“Looks like a campfire. Let’s go.”

Smoke was rising in the distance. The smoke wasn’t too big, but it was clear that something was starting a campfire.

Approaching there, indeed.

“Shh.”

I covered Elise’s mouth with my finger and whispered.

“Sister. Is that it?”

Elise weakly nodded her head.

It was literally a pagan idol. Dozens of kobolds scooped, moved and shaped the mud with their teeth and claws, and piled up stones and sticks. Seeing the severed head of a kobold on top of it, it looked like a star was decorated on a Christmas tree, so it was quite nice.

Are blind people preparing for Christmas?

The blind guys did a good job.

And there was something like a flag, and the flag was made of leather, and something fresh looked like the skin of a kobold that had just been slaughtered. Are you the owner of that decorated hair? These bastards are using live sacrifices now?

I got goosebumps at the thought of hearing Cortés’ roar. It’s not even the Aztec babies, what kind of bastard’s sacrifice?

“It seems right.”

The leather had a pattern that looked identical to the one on the hood earlier, painted in red blood. It is certainly.

“You can destroy that and bring the flag, right?”
“It seems so.”

I guess it’s kind of fucked up.

It was more pagan than I thought. It was more unusual than I thought, and there were too many kobolds than I thought.

“Can’t we just steal the flag?”
“No.”

I proposed while staring at Elise’s face her. Elise turned her eyes away from me. Nevertheless, since this was a dog, I grabbed Elise’s shoulders and spoke again.

“Sister, think carefully. Even if we destroy it, it’s impossible for us to destroy all the kobolds by ourselves. If a few of them survive, won’t we rebuild them after we go back?”
“Still…”
“If we build it again, it will be the same regardless of whether we break it or not. And it seems that it is meaningful that we have captured the symbol. That’s what I think.”

With a determined face, I conveyed my intentions to Elise. Elise hesitated, then she let out a deep sigh and said,

“Kat-nim. You can’t put me to the test.”

After all, it’s not possible… Even if you look at the kobolds, you can see more than 20, but it’s impossible to kill them all together.

“Still, there’s a point. Let’s just go and steal the flag.”
“No, Sister knows something. From my point of view, Sister is the next generation of talent.”
“Are you talking about talent?”

Elise grinned. She also has to hit judo even if she hits the ball. This is the wisdom of living in the world. Since the church is a place similar to the military, it seems that there is a part that connects to some extent.

“Then, let’s light some fire, knock down a few of them, and then grab a flag and bounce.”

A great plan in my opinion.

“Leave the fire to me.”

I checked the escape route once before executing the plan. I looked down on the kobolds a little, but in fact there was no problem. Aren’t they all walkers? Thinking about it calmly, I thought I could deal with up to five of them by myself, so this is the plan I proposed.

Kobolds do not have any weapons other than their own nails and teeth, but I can block all of those attacks with my quilted armor, and I can easily kill them because they are only up to my waist.

“Okay, Sister. I’m going to go ahead and make a fuss, so I think you can set the idol on fire when you have enough time.”