Chapter 4 – First Fight

Now that I think about it, this village is quite peaceful even though it has a forest next to it. Usually, wouldn't this village be attacked by monsters frequently. I asked around and found that they are usually attacked by monsters around harvest season, which was just a few weeks away. Every 6 months a batch of adventurers would come from the Sura town to repel the monsters and escort the harvest to the market. The Sura town had an adventurer's guild sub-branch from where the adventurers would be dispatched. The rest of the year, a few stray goblins or wolves would be handled by Willham and Chas.

The next day I could see the villagers getting ready to harvest the crops. I decided to help out. I mean its only natural I help them since they took care of me. I used a little bit magic here and there to speed up the process thinking I won't be found out. But the priest saw through me. He came to talk me later that day.

"Ray, you can use magic? Did you regain your memories?"

"I didn't regain any memories. I remember seeing you use some magic when I first arrived, so I got curious and went to the forest every day to check whether I could also use magic or not."

"That's amazing news. Since you can use magic, it must mean you were a magician before you lost your memories. I suggest that you go to Sura town. The adventurer's guild there might have some information about you."

I expect the priest to be very suspicious of me and try to question me. But he seemed to be happier that I could use magic. Maybe its because he is a priest? We talked a little more. I only told him that I could use fire magic and hid the fact of me being able to use any magic I could think of. I decided to go to Sura town. I also asked the village priest to not say anything to others about me being able to use magic, but he wasn't so good at keeping secrets.

I got a lot of questions, mostly from excited children wanting to learn how to use magic from me. Even if every living organism possess mana and mana circuits, not everyone can utilize it.

A few days later the harvesting was complete. But instead of being happy, everyone seemed a little worried. I asked around the village to try and know the situation.

"Hey, why does everyone seem so gloomy? Did something happen?", I asked from a random villager.

"Usually, the adventurers would arrive at the village a few days before the harvesting was complete, but we have still not heard of them. I am worried that they might have been attacked."

"Are the adventurers that come here not strong?"

"They are strong enough to easily fight goblins and wolves, but if a stronger monster came out of the forest, they could be in trouble."

"Don't worry, they are strong enough to protect themselves. You should get the horses tied up to the cart.", the village chief came and with just one sentence, made everyone feel much calmer. Anyone could tell that the chief was loved by the entire village.

On third night after harvest, I was sleeping in the cozy bed at the church when I heard a loud ringing of a bell. I was woken up by the bell in an instant and rushed out to see what had happened.

"Goblins and wolves have attacked the village, all men, grab whatever you can and come to the entrance of the village. We must protect our village." Chas shouted as he went around every corner of the village to wake everyone up. A lot of villagers came out with sickles and pitchforks to fight the monsters. I also joined the group and rushed to the entrance. At first the villagers were kind of scared and in panic, but when we arrived at the entrance and saw Willham fighting a bunch of monsters alone, everyone got fired up and joined the fight.

There were around 30 goblins, while there were only 12 villagers including me, Willham and Chas.

I can't believe it!! An actual monster raid. It was my first-time fighting monsters using magic. I also had a sickle with me just in case I had to use my martial arts. At first, we were being overwhelmed by the goblins. It took 2-3 villagers to kill of just one goblin, Willham and Chas were able to take on a goblin in a 1v1 fight.

Since it was my first fight, I didn't know how strong my magic was against monsters. So, I stayed in the backlines and assisted the villagers using fireball. Even with my magic, the numbers of the goblins was to great for the villagers to handle. My fire magic did help in weakening the goblins, but it wasn't strong enough to kill them.

As the fight went on, the villagers started to get injured very badly, and I could tell that Willham and Chas were nearing their limits. Though I didn't want to completely expose myself, I couldn't just watch the villagers die. I focused my magic to form a veil of [Dark magic] to enhance my perception and increase my magic output of other elements. I charged in the frontlines and using my basic martial arts, started to fight the goblins.

[Fireball]

I used fire to immobilize the enemy and attacked with the sickle, aiming at their necks. I had a few close calls when I was ganged up on, but Willham and Chas covered me up. I kept on using fire magic to immobilize and then attack with my sickle.

It took us some time, but we managed to drive of the goblins. We had a lot of injured people but their wounds weren't so serious. The injured people were taken to the church, while others went back to their houses. Willham and Chas went on a patrol to make sure everything was fine. I also went back to the church and slept like no one's business. With some time and the priests magic, everyone was able to recover. Since it was late night and everyone was in tension because of the attack, no one saw that I used dark magic.

The next day, I was thanked by everyone in the village, including the village chief. Since we repelled the attack with no casualties, the chief held a feast to celebrate. 2 days after the attack, the adventurers showed up. They were glad to see that the village was fine. The chief asked them why they were late, and they told us that they were attacked by a pack of goblins and wolves when they were on their way to the village. They apologized in front of the entire village. Since no one was badly hurt, they were forgiven. The chief also told the adventurers how I saved the entire village, he exaggerated a bit though.

One of the adventurers approached me and said, "You must be Ray. I am Regilus, the leader of the Goblin Hunters party. As our name tells, we mostly hunt goblins. The chief told me how you are able to use magic and martial arts. You must be very strong. He also told me that you would like to be an adventurer."

"I would like to be an adventurer and explore the world and defeat strong monsters."

"Good. We will leave tomorrow just after sunrise for Sura town. Be ready and come to the entrance."

"I will be there."

The adventurer went back to his party to make preparations for our departure. I also went to the church to prepare myself. The priest gave me some stuff that might come handy in the trip.

The next day, I left the village with the adventurers and one of the adults who was going to sell the harvest. Finally, the tutorial is over. My dream life, here I come.