18. Subjugation

It took Samuel about a day till he arrived at Baron Gekka's Estate, it wasn't as grand as other noble households he has seen before, but it still held a certain amount of prestige to it which can only belong to nobles.

In the Estate's Courtyard, there were roughly around 100 people gathered waiting for the Subjugation announcement.

"Are they bounty hunter's like me ?, are they also here for the Subjugation." Many questions started revolving around Samuel's head but before he could confirm his speculations, a sudden sound came from inside the Estate.

"I guess everyone his Already here, I am Karl, butler of this Estate." Karl said with a gentle tone.

Even a slight action by him showed etiquette and elegance of a nobleman.

"Let me brief you about the Monster Subjugation, a few days ago the western part of our estate was attacked by some hoardes of goblins but the villagers somehow managed to fend them off but rather than leaving the village , they started creating a camp on the outskirts of the estate."

"hmph ! , those goblins are hateful and vengeful people " One of the hunter's gathered around growled. " I am pretty sure they are gathering there strength , waiting for an opportunity to attack the village anytime now ."

Rest of the veteran hunter's gave a nod after hearing there fellow hunter's statement.

"That's why, Lord decided to act first and wipe them out of these place, we have already sent couple of scouts and according to our estimation there numbers are roughly around 300 to 400."

"That number is pretty manageable with all of us here " One of the hunter among the group added.

"I thank you all for you help, Lord has prepared a place for all of you to rest , we will begin our Subjugation tomorrow morning, the maids will show you to your room " Karl added with a polite smile on his face.

After entering his designated room, Samuel sat on his bed and started pondering for a while 'Is it really that simple, from what I have heard about goblins from master , they are indeed vengeful creatures but they are not stupid ,on the contrary they are quite intelligent, capable of forming strategies and formations while attacking and pillaging human establishment'

'Maybe I am thinking too much. there are lot's of veteran hunter's here and I am just a rookie, there's no use in contemplating so much'

Samuel jumped right into his bed to remove all the fatigue he accumulated throughout his journey.

Next morning all the hunter's gathered on the outskirts of the village including Samuel.

A loud Voice rang throughout the forest , a Bulky man with a bushy beard and grey hair's greeted the hunter's.

"I am Steve Carell. I am a personal Knight of the Lord of this Estate and a ' Five Star Knight' , I'll be the one leading this Subjugation, If anyone has any problem with that, they can come forward and say so."

No one uttered a Single word, It seemed no one had any complaints about him, or even if they didn't no one seemed stupid enough to say it out loud.

On the Contrary, hunter's seemed to welcome any sort of help with open arms, especially an help from a powerful 'Five Star Knight'.

Samuel had a rough estimation about the group he was in. They were mostly 'one or two Star Knight's' and there were also a couple of dozens of ' three star Knight ' among them, and there might be a few handful of ' Four Star Knight ' just like Samuel and , with a 'Five Star Knight' leading them they should not encounter any problem dealing with this horde.

The subjugation team started marching towards the goblin camp, in a fierce momentum as if they would tear anything apart that would come in their way.

They met a group of goblins lurking around the outskirts. They appear to be the scouts sent by the goblins for the lookout. Before anyone could react, Knight Steve Carell dashed in front of them cleaving the goblin into two, before dealing with the rest in a matter of seconds.

He put his sword back into his sheath and roared

"What the hell are you all dazing about, we are almost near their camp get ready for battle "

His loud voice snapped a few back to reality as they were lost in their own world admiring his swordsmanship.

"Keeek..Kekkkeke" Deep inside the forest a malicious sound appeared , alerting all the hunter's as they prepared themselves for the upcoming battle.

Samuel unseated his sword and readied his battle stance as if he was ready to pounce at even a slightest of moment inside a forest."

' thump, thump, thump, thump ' Even a newbie like Samuel could tell what that sound was, it was the sound of a large hoarde of goblins marching right toward's them.

The group soon confronted a large group goblins leaded by one peculiar looking one.

"Kreweeewkkkk" the leader of the goblin screeched , ordering the rest of the goblins to attack.

the one leading the group of goblins , also appears to look a bit different from the rest of his group with strange markings on his body all over the place.

"An elite Goblin" Steve Carell murmured to himself before engaging on the duel with their leader.

After the two sides clashed l, a loud noise of goblin's screech and human's groan's can be heard through the entire Forest.

About a dozen of goblin's dashed toward's Samuel together holding a dagger and giving a smug look toward's him.

Watching these scene nearby Bounty hunter's cried out.

"Ahh!, Such a young man, what a pity. he seemed to be the same age as my son"

"Goblin's tend to attack the weakest looking one's first " the hunter sighed with a regretful look on their face.

They wanted to help this young man, but they already have there hand's full, as all they could do was make sure to give him a proper burial or so they thought.

Samuel simply dodged the barrage of attacks towards him effortlessly as he finally understood the use of his training for the last couple of year's.

'Master was right, there is a lot more about swordsmanship other than just swinging one's sword, Compared to those wooden blocks, these attacks are slow and have no technique whatsoever. '

"I see, there is nothing to learn from you guy's" Samuel murmured to himself before silently,before gripping his sword and performed a clean successions of horizontal and diagonal slashes while dashing towards the goblin's.

Each Slashes from Samuel's sword reaped a goblin's life, in a quick succession, each strike cleaved the goblin's in half or chopped their head off, it took more or less than half a minute to deal with the group which ambushed him.