3 CHAPTER 3
Ok maybe I have miscalculated how easily things could take fire; after I was at a safe distance to not be seen but close enough to throw my creations, I loaded the sling with the first clay sphere and lit the latter's piece of cloth. I then throwed it against the nearest tent and that took fire almost istantly; it was the chaos between the goblins, while I changed position to not be spotted and throw the second oil-filled projectile against a group of goblins.
At the moment of the impact, flaming oil covered the poor bastards, who ran around the outpost screaming in pain and I continued to increase my kill rank.
In a few minutes, the entire outpost was burning and all the goblins, chief included which I personally throw two of the spared spherical containers, were crispy burned and unmoving.
The Quest's display showed me that I had cleared two requirements and that only the optional remained, meaning that there were other goblins survived probably in the cave but I didn't need to rush there, especially with the ground still burning.
The problem was that surely someone had seen all the smoke coming from the burned outpost and that group of adventurers were probably now rushing to see what's happening; I waited for other few minutes, looking for the small residual flames and the charred woods to lit off and then rushed with my magic sprint toward the cave, a torch on one hand and an hatchet on the other.
The stink of burned flesh and other uncomprensible things hit my nose so strong that almost made me puke but I endured it and headed deeper in the cave; I finally found the last two goblins who were hiding, scared and half burned in an angle where what seemed ugly wrinkled cocoons were put.
It didn't take a genius to understand that were a sort of goblin's eggs.
"Well, sorry for you Goblin Family Guy, but I need Exp and Points; may in your next live be something better" I said, giving some hit to the nearly dead goblins with the axe and then destroying the eggs.
When I hit the last one, various displays appeared in front of my eyes and I smiled upon them.
*Host killed 36 Goblin ( 35 Rank 2 Goblin , 1 Rank 3 Goblin Captain); Host gained 3100 Exp*
*Quest Completed*
*Rewards: 1600 Points, Title 'Novice Goblin Slayer', 13000 Exp*
Aahahahaha, holy fucking shits! Over 16k Exp, and so many points!
I immediately opened my Status.
*Kuro Ashikabe*
*Race: Human (System User)*
*Level 10 Exp 230/15000*
*Avaiable Point: 3750*
*Current Summons: Aki Nijou*
*Current Soul Equipment: Jet (Lvl 20/20)*
*Stats*
*Strenght: 22 (+15)*
*Speed: 26 (+20)*
*Vitality: 19 (+13)*
*Energy: 29 (+35)*
*Skills: High Speed Magic (Attack:Falcon Heavenward)*
*Host has reached level 10, now Host can exchange the avaiable Points at the Shop window*
Finally! I could finally see what's are the uses of this so hard-earned points, including even the points added for every level up, but first I decided to get out of here as fast as I could and ran from the charred place, taking the same road from which I came and I sadly noted that the convenient map was disappaeared…a bit disappointing but expected.
It didn't took me much to easily return to the village but I decided to give me a wash and get rid off the fling and the spared clay container, so I threw them inside a near river and killed two Giant Frogs, the Rank 1 dog-sized frog, and take their toungue to create an alibi for me, faking that I was trying to kill these slimy-skin creatures.
After all, who would suspect that a pre-adolescent boy alone could burn an entire goblin's nest?
I also need to leave this forgotten place and head toward a richer place, like a commercial city, and I need to make some preparations and mostly obtain some money.
I headed to my room, without being seen due the inn being empty because the villagers were waiting for the adventurer group to return with some news; Aki also was in the room, acting in her 'outside' personality and reading a book.
"I'm back, Aki; come at greet me" I said giving her a french kiss which she quickly surrounder; her mouth was sweet, warm and nice to invade with my tongue.
"Welcome back, Young Master; how the hunt did it go?" she asked
"Very well, maybe I will buy some better Soul Equipment…I wonder if I can equip more than once at time…or maybe I will buy a slut that at least know how to be usefull aside being a giant-titted sex reliefer" I told mocking her, slapping her ass
She just gave me a sincerely apologizing expression and lowering head.
"I'm sorry for my lack of combat knowledgle,Young Master; please use this lowly maid as you wish"
If only she had a real maid outfit, the skimpy type, I would probably considered but my mock aside, she now was gonna be a key point of my strategy.
"Prepare your Maken to erase some memories, we are gonna get out of here and be sure to not being seen for the next two days, fake an ill, your period or whatever; the evening of the day after tomorrow we will be out of here with money and supplies"
"As you wish, Young Master; I have to inform you that this morning while you were away, a group of knights-looking people asked about a girl which seems to be the wanted illegal daugther of a local noble" she told me, handing to me the wanted poster of said person
Hmm, a bad girl wanted by daddy-dearest? Good to know and the reward is juicy almost as Aki's huge marshmallow, three hundreds gold coins.
For the time I stayed in this village I only saw bronze and silver coins and only one gold coins that belonged to a passing merchant come to buy fish and woods.
I spent the rest of the day, 'playing' with Aki and organize the last things before our departure.
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Ruff's POV
What…the fuck…has happened?!
I was with my party, searching for the goblin's nest and when we were about to renounce, when our scout Ryan saw some smoke at east of our direction and when we arrived, I saw an entire goblin's nest completely burned with almost fourty goblins completely burned to death.
"Who the heck did it?! I thought we were the only one dispatched for this mission, so why didn't hear anything at the village?" asked confused Grisma, the lancer and main attacker of the party.
"I don't know but look, no one took the goblin's ears, not even the ones of the Goblin Captain" said Ryan all excited.
"And what you are implying?" asked Geneva, who was covering her mouth disgusted by the sight and smell of the burned goblin corpse.
"I mean, if no one know about this, we can simply grab all the ears we can, plus the Goblin Chief head, and make the villagers believe we did it; we will complete the mission and gain easy money, right?" answered him, already with a knife on his hand, cutting a nearby goblin's ear
"Are you serious?! You know that is a crime to steal other adventurer's achivement! Are you wanna make us being expelled from the guild!" I shouted furious to the smug idiot.
"Who knows if there was an other adventurer to begin with? If it's as Grisma said, we were the only one booked for this mission, so I say screw off and thank you to who made us our work so easy and turn back to the city's guild to be paid…don't you wanna be promoted?" replied Ryan to me
"Yeah! The shortie is right, I don't wanna remain an F-rank forever and this is a golden occasion to do it, if both me, Ryan and you were promoted of a rank, even our party's Rank would rise and that mean better pays" added Grisma furiously, who also had joined Ryan in the goblin's ears collection.
Part of me was angry at how we were just leeching off the hard work of others, but I conceded with them; I was really in need for money and only when someone could reach D-rank would be considered a proper adventurer.
If you also consider that I was already twenty, I didn't have so much time to growth; I already knew I couldn't become an high-rank adventurer but if I could reach the C-rank before my late twenties I would be able to live with a decent income.
If the Gods allow me to meet the one who did all of this, I will make sure to properly apologize and thank him or her; but I'm sure that the one is responsible to kill all this goblins by burning them it must be a good magician of at least C-rank.
I pulled out some sacks from the mule and collected the Goblin Chief's head and various Goblin's ears.
End Ruff's POV
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It was night and me and Aki were making a 'visit' to the inn's owners and every room's guest who were sleeping to erase the memory of us of the last two weeks.
"Young Master, I remember you that even if I delete their memories of the last days, it's not gonna be permament" she whispered to me, after finishing to use her Maken on the sleeping couple.
"It's enough that they don't remember until we have reached our destination, now you continue to erase the memories of the other guests while I search for their safe" I said back in low voice.
Thankfully their safe was a wooden chest under the bed which I was easily able to carry thanks to all the extra strenght gained due the bonus stats and levels up.
I then headed toward the stable where two saddled horse were waiting me and Aki; they belonged to the owners but I don't think they will remember it for a while. I easily broke the small padlock with my newfound strenght and pour all the money, mostly silver and bronze coins and three gold coins, inside a satch attached to one of the horses.
An hour later, Aki reunited with me confirming that all the guests's memories about us were deleted; satisfied, I took out a cape for each of us and gave her new orders.
"Wait for me with the horses outside the city, also deleting the guard's memory, and be sure to not be seen; I will go to build 'our death' "
I then sprinted toward a small cage where I gathered lot's of horned rabbits, and then I made three travels from there to our room, killed the rabbits and scattered the blood on the bed, throwing them the rabbit's corpse inside an hole to bury them.
After returning to Aki, I made her give me something to clean my hands from the rabbit's blood and mounted on the horse, putting our hooded cave and heading away.
"Let's move until we are at least far enough and secure to be not disturbed; I think it's time to see what this Shop window of the System has to offer" I murmured while the horses started trotting.
Honestly after being used to my magic's speed, a trotting horse was slow as a slug but I couldn't bring all these luggages and Aki's big ass on my shoulders, at least I would have spared my magic for emergencies, even though I should probably have searched for a wagon because the horse's saddle was a real torment for my balls.
It was almost dawn when I decided it would be nice to make a stop, given also that we were away enough and between some woods aside the main road.
"Aki, prepare the camp, something to eat and wait here" I ordered moving few deeper in the wood
After finally stopping I opened the now avaiable Shop window and what I saw left me speechless: there were thousands and thousands of small images, some of people which were probably Summons, weapons, armors, glowing orbs of different colours that granted a different Soul Equipment and even potions that granted Exp.
It was really too much, but fortunately there seemed to be a kind of filter which I could use to search something specific; I also noticed that despite my happiness of the more than 3000 Points in my wallet, they were barely enough to buy a single 3* Stars Soul Equipment, Summon or weapon.
I searched interested for a bit around all the avaible things with a price between 1000 and 3000 points, mostly focusing on Summons or weapons; after Jet's magic despite being nothing special, was still a good movement-support magic and having a good weapon would be usefull, but I couldn't also discard the chance of having a reliable minion on real battle instead of the extremely busty long-haired sex doll that was Aki.
One choice was the Thunderer, the magic revolver of the Servant Billy the Kid and that would actually dry me of almost all the Points, but would give a more than decent firepower
*Thunderer (Replica), 3000 Points; allow the use of the C+ Noble Phanthasm counter-like triple-burst shot of the Servant Billy The Kid and allow the Host to shot magic bullets that can be remotely controlled*
The other choice was an interesting Summon that was slightly out of my reach of some meager points but seemed pretty interesting.
*Aisha Belka (3* Star Summons), 4000 Points ; level 3 amazoness Adventurer from Danmachi, capable of Concurrent Chanting,wielding magic and fighting with an impressibe blade and despite her appaerance she is endowed with great phisical strenght*
So now I was in a crossroad: gaining an immediate weapon or waiting some extra Points for a minion usefull in battle.
