C20

"I won't be coming with you."

Seori told me as we were at our meeting place, this time there was a key difference.

"You must be Alfred, I've heard stories about you."

She was with her older brother I presume, though he was tall he looked feminine.

"Yes, pleased to meet your acquittance Enori"

 "I already know your background after one of my men patrolled this area, I presume you will bring the letter to your Emperor?"

"I will."

"Thank you."

He said as he gave me a letter, currently there were a ton of people in this area, The Elven guard and my men, they were on high alert since this was considered an 'Official Meeting'.

"Seori, do you have anything to say before we prepare you?"

"Nothing, I already said my goodbyes last night."

Right, she told me last week to wait, other than training idly this is what had happened.

"I do have a request."

I told them before they left.

"What is it? If its something we can do we won't refuse it, consider it as thanks on my part for playing with Seori all these weeks, thanks to that I had one less headache to deal with."

"My request is simple, you allow the people of this settlement to have a comfortable life."

"That can be done, I will call on a High Elf to bless this land so it may be fertile, but warn them to never hunt inside our forest, anywhere is fine not just ours."

"Alright, you heard that Sir Nicholas?"

He just nodded as he wielded his sword just in case, after a few more pleasantries with the two, they finally left. 

As we were watching them disappear, Sir Tristan, Nicholas and Aaron came behind me.

"Who knew you were in contact with the Elves."

"Noel and Arthur, I mean its not impossible for Sir Nicholas as well."

I answered Sir Tristan who was looking to ask more questions about Elves, after all contact with them were deemed near to be impossible unless you saw mercenary Elves.

"I did but as soon as I saw you chatting up that little lass I didn't bother, after all, a man has their own tastes and I respect you for not differentiating between races."

Noel chuckled a bit but I didn't mind it.

"I see."

I responded casually, my men were all smitten by the beauty of the Elves I just shook my head and told them to disperse and get ready to depart.

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"We rest here for the night"

Gale told everyone as he was the one in charge of leading today, everyone sat down and rested, they all began preparing for the night.

"I can feel some presence."

Alfred told Gale and the rest, they all nodded, including the knights, shortly there was a low growl sound and some yelling, it was a goblin.

"Gobl-"

Right before anyone could say anything, the Goblin's head went flying, everyone went to follow Alfred's lead but.

"I suggest you all continue making camp."

Noel stopped them, for a brief moment they were confused, but the next second they looked at where Alfred was goblin heads and body parts were flying.

"Sir Noel, shouldn't we help the Young Master?"

Gale asked, Noel who just chuckled again, Arthur who was ready to fight also came forward and wanted to hear it as he was ready to go.

"I see, you may not know of this but well, the Young Master has a hatred of the color green, not the color itself but the race."

"Oh."

Everyone just nodded in confusion at their Young Masters hatred.

"As you know when the Young Master was a child his mother told him bedtime stories and you know how those bedtime stories go, usually the Goblins are depicted evil doers and kidnappers of Princesses."

They all nodded wanting to know what Noel would say next.

"So that's where the Young Master's hatred of them comes from, not limited to Goblins but Orcs as well."

Shortly after they heard their Young Master yell, this time even Noel was startled, they all followed after Alfred.

What they saw as they went to where the source of the scream was countless bodies of goblins and slashes on the surroundings.

"Help-"

They saw a goblin whose upper torso was walking towards them, Noel kicked it out of the way and they all went further.

When they finally saw their Young Master, they didn't know whether they should be relieved or not, rather they were worried about his well being.

"You damned creature!"

They all saw their Young Master grab the head of a limbless Goblin Leader of the camp, to them, the Goblin Leader who was unusually taller than regular goblins looked pretty sad to see.

"This time I will loot all of your loot! Haha how do you like that!"

They all had chills especially Arthur as he had first hand experience of Alfred's power.

"Hey you!"

Alfred called out to Gale, who was momentarily stunned and confused of how Alfred was, he saw him as a respectful Noble but this time he was truly different.

"Yes Young Master?"

"Loot this place clean and burn it down! Make sure this vermin see's everything before I put him on a stake"