6 The Village tormented by Goblins
It became night when Neria and I reached the outer part of the village which for some reason was surrounded by countless tents
„What´s going on here… Hey boy come here for a moment"
I said to myself before calling out for a boy who played a little bit outside in the bushes. As he looked at us he hesitated for a moment but then came to me
„What is it?"
the boy asked and Neria began talking like a big sister
„Hey, we have just left our village to become adventurers and wanted to take a rest here. We are just surprised by the many people here."
She said and I added than my conjecture
„It´s about the goblins, right? They are too many for you to handle so you sought protection in the crowd right?"
As I said that the boy looked up to me and only nodded
„I see can you bring us to the villages head?"
As he leads us the way Neria approached me
„Hey Val what did you just meant by, I see, the boy didn´t say anything so you can´t know for sure"
She said she had the right thought about the meaning of what I said the boy saw what goblins did to the races
„His reaction when I asked if the goblins were the reason. I think he saw their terror with his own eyes"
I answered and then ignored her as the people started to look at us. After 5 minutes we reached our destination a big wooden house at the center of the village we entered and a lot of suspicious glares pierced us
„Who are you? Adventurers from the city? Which class are you? You don´t look strong at all Nah maybe that dhampir-demon there could handle them."
An old man hold a dialog with us and then with himself and vanished as fast as he came and then another man came to us
„I apologize for Gregoris behavior he is ... well, Gregoris. By the way, my name is Isaac so could you tell us who you are and what you want?"
The man naming himself Isaac asked in a extremely polite tone and so I introduced ourself
„My name is Valkorion and this is my companion Neria we were heading for Mirialak as we encountered some goblins on the way and then found your village. So could you please explain what happened?"
I asked back and Isaac went silent for a moment as did the entire house even the grumpy Gregoris stopped talking and Isaac looked up
„Well you see 2 weeks ago the first villages were attacked by goblins but this is what we consider normal in this region. But soon they became better organized and stronger they killed our men stole our livestock and raped our daughters and took them with them. Our local adventurers tried to hunt them down but from 25 adventurers only 12 returned heavily wounded. So all village heads decided to move the entire region to one village in order to guarantee our safety till adventurers from Mirialak would come to help us. This was 10 days from now on."
He made a break and before he could continue I interrupted him
„So apparently a King has been born and the goblins encircled you preventing reinforcements or other forms of support. How many people are gathered here at the moment?"I asked him
„Around 450 to 550 if I am not completely wrong"
As no one corrected him I went with this number
„So how are the adventurers that made it back?"
I interrogated him about the current situation and a glimpse of hope could be seen in his eyes
„Are you saying you will go to Mirialak and ask for support?"
But I crushed this hope of him and ignited a new
„No, we are not going to Mirialak now. We are killing a king of monsters"
I said with a smile and Neria stepped in as she saw the doubt in their eyes
„It won´t be a problem for us. I can easily take on Rank 6 monsters and Val here could fight a Rank 8 if absolutely necessary"
The people inside the house went silent and the boy who lead us here for some reason looked at me as if a new hero stood before him, Quite the fast trusting kind huh´
„Hey Neria don´t overestimate me I may have killed that dragon and went into a fight with my mother but remember I used my little tricks as you like to call them so please don´t through these statements into the room"
I told her but she only smiled at me and Isaac grabbed my hand
„Is this an omen of Alda no impossible is Vida looking at us ahh please Mr.Valkorion I assume your mother must be a noble-born vampire and to went toe-on-toe with such an enemy would be considered heroic even if one used small tricks to gain advantages"
He said with admiration in his eyes and this time it looked so pure that I couldn´t bring myself to destroy it and stayed quiet. Afterwards we visited the adventurers and got informations about the goblins.
Apparently, they hold themselves back for an unknown reason as their number exceeds 400 already at least and high ranking ones (for goblins) are also mixed into their group since their strength is far beyond anything a normal goblin could have. We assumed that a goblin king with the [Strenthen Followers] skill has been born and now leads the pack and uses the captured women to breed and satisfy his men and let their greed for the women of the races grow.
Their hideout is a cave near the villages but it shouldn´t be big enough for at least 400 goblins to live in so we needed to assume that there are more hideouts at the moment.
The next morning 2 scout adventurers which went to locate such hideouts should return so we will have that information soon. Considering their equipment as for what the attack group saw only a couple of goblins had actual weapons like spears or knives but they couldn´t say so for the whole group.
As this were the only pieces of information we as of now could get Neria and I decided to call it a day and prepare for our attack on the goblin nest as we would fight in a cave with limited movement space we would put more focus on magic than on actual weapon fighting but that didn´t mean we were unprepared for this.
„I think we have now counted in all eventualities. We should rest for today and head out in the early morning"
I said and Neria agreed so we went to our separate rooms. I had my sword with me the entire time for the case the goblins would attack us but nothing happened. So Neria and I readied our stuff we prepared and were ready to leave the village as
„Stop there you two"
A voice shouted at us and a man in his mid 20ties ran towards us
„What do you think you´re doing huh?"
He said full of pride and I answered dead serious
„Killing a Goblin King and his followers"
To which the man flinched
„And who do you think you are that you can pull up such a stunt alone?"
He shouted even louder and Isaac could be seen running towards us but it was already too late
„So I assume you´re the strongest adventurer around so if I kick your ass you will let us go?"
I glared at him to threat him but this prideful idiot went on
"Haha try it little demon Alda himself will soo..."
I punched him before he could finish talking and he flew through the air and crashed into the hard earth
„Ah I came too late"
Isaac said after witnessing the scene before his eyes
„I´m terribly sorry for his behavior. Gaston is truly a prideful man who couldn´t believe some goblins could actually beat him so he wished to end them himself but well I personally think he wouldn´t be able to do so"
Isaac apologized and explained why the scene that happened here came to this Neria stepped in
„I must also apologize for Val's short temper with arrogant persons"
She said bowing as I knew she was right I kept quiet and waited for Neria to finish before we finally ventured towards the goblin kings nest
