Chapter 81: A Refreshing New Sight

"Thunder Dragon, go."

Woosh! Boom!

As soon as he said that, the giant eastern dragon took a fast dive towards the goblin village, and as result, killed countless hobgoblins and goblin disasters. There were a few that managed to survive the assault but they all had grave injuries.

The Goblin King was unscathed, even though that dive was enough to take out most of the village. The Goblin King had armors on, they looked like some kind of metal. They were platinum white, and it was shining brightly under the bright sun. He also has dark skin, a long wrinkled nose, sharp green eyes that held intelligents within, and a shortsword right beside his throne. It's also quite tall, three times the size of an average human.

The Goblin King was enraged.

It jumped up from its throne and landed on the ground with its sword out before it roared loudly at Hikaru's thunder dragon with its sword pointing at it.

"Ho, a worthless goblin not afraid of my elemental dragon? Let's see, I still haven't used 1/10 of this dragon's powers. Hmm… I think I'll cancel my magic now. I just wanted to show off anyway." Hikaru said with a goofy smile.

With a snap of his fingers, the giant eastern dragon he was standing on disappeared. He was left alone in the sky, levitating using his magic. He looked down on the Goblin King and said in a demanding tone, "Goblin King, " He got its attention, "Become my servant and I'll let you live. Or else, I'll kill you."

The Goblin King stares at him for a moment before laughing hard.

"Kakakakaka! Abudakk, guhabuyo kaya kaya koko!? Bukakaka, dong dong!" The Goblin King said some gibberish words that Hikaru couldn't understand.

(Translation: Hahahahaha! Weak human, you think you can make this king submit to you!? Don't make me laugh!)

It seems like this Goblin King can understand his language, or it couldn't have managed to respond to it. Hikaru then extended his left arm towards the sky again and summoned a giant fireball the same size of a large mountain. Everything around him was burning, not even the ground was spared, even though he's a hundred feet into the sky.

"You really have the guts to laugh at me? But do you think this fireball won't kill you?" Hikaru said, quite pissed. He landed in front of the Goblin King, with the fireball still up in the sky. It was as if the giant ball of fire was staring down at the Goblin King, making it tremble in fear.

You see, the Goblin King only thought that Hikaru was a summoner. Summoners have no real physical strength and can only rely on their summons to battle for them, and seeing that Hikaru canceled his magic, it thought that Hikaru had run out of magic because of how big and strong that dragon is. What he doesn't know is that Hikaru has a bottomless amount of mana inside him. That thunder dragon earlier? It didn't even make a dent in his mana pool after he made that.

And there's one thing the Goblin King didn���t know, that dragon wasn't a summon. It was entirely made of this world's nature and Hikaru's magic.

Hikaru stood on the ground of the village he ruined. No one was by the side of the Goblin King. Only it alone dared to stand in front of Hikaru with might and determination in its eyes.

It now knows that Hikaru wasn't someone it could underestimate. That great fireball in the sky is the proof of that. The Goblin King was analyzing Hikaru, trying to see a weakness. From what it had seen, the "human" in front of it is a magician. There's only one thing it could do when fighting a magician and that is going close-combat. Magicians need time to cast their magics, so that's the only way in its situation right now.

The Goblin King then activated many buff magics that warriors like it can do.

Hikaru then saw how the Goblin King's strength rose in a short moment after activating some third-rate magics. The Goblin King is almost as strong as Hiroshi now, but Hikaru could see that its mana was almost drained after activating a lot of buff spells.

"Graaaaaahh!!"

The Goblin King then charged at Hikaru at an amazing speed, even breaking the speed of sound. As soon as the Goblin King reached him, it soon found its head rolling on the ground. For a few seconds, the Goblin King saw Hikaru's cold eyes staring directly at it before it died.

The body of the Goblin King fell on the ground with a "thump". The head rolled down somewhere before stopping, and if you looked at it closely, you can see deep fear scarred into its face.

Hikaru only snorted at the corpse of the Goblin King before his face returned to its normal expression.

"A shame, he could've been a good servant. Anyway, how's Hiroshi and the other people doing?" Hikaru then searched the entire area with his mana and found Hiroshi along with hundreds of people hiding underground, where the dungeon cells were.

Seeing that they were safe, Hikaru called them out. He canceled the giant fireball, so that it wouldn't hurt anybody. That thing is too fucking hot, after all.

The dungeon cells were all under the goblin village's chief's house, which was the Goblin King he killed earlier. Hiroshi was the first to come out while holding a bunch of children on his arms. They were all dirty and only wore ragged clothes. Some of them had pointy ears, Hikaru immediately thought that they were elves.

Then, one by one, the prisoners of the goblins slowly came out of the chief's house. There were elves, demi-humans, and humans.

Hikaru saw some men there too, it seems like his analysis earlier was wrong. They were probably used by the female goblins of this village, and that must've been horrible. All the hobgoblins he saw here were all ugly as fuck, there weren't anyone decent looking. Even the goblin king was ugly.

He then looked around for surviving goblins and saw quite a few. They were all begging him not to kill them, at least the look in their eyes did. But with one swipe of his hand, he beheaded them all. He will not spare any of these creatures, unless they were actually good creatures. He was still pissed that someone as weak as that Goblin King dared to laugh at his offer.

After killing all of them, he kept their corpses inside his storage box. Maybe he could sell them later in a village, if he could do that, he'll make a quick buck.

After a while, all the people that those goblins enslaved were all in front of Hikaru. He then counted them all and there were 245 of them all combined. Hikaru had a headache, because how could he keep all of them alive and return them safely in their homes?

He suddenly thought of something and decided to talk to Hiroshi.

"Hey, do you have an idea how to keep them all safe until we deliver them safely into a town or something?" Hikaru asked Hiroshi.

"Hmm, honestly, I don't really know. We're not omnipotent, at least I'm not." Hiroshi replied, deeply thinking about it.

"If I'm not wrong, this is a fantasy world, right? Where there's adventurers and stuff like that?" Hikaru said, he was onto something.

"Yeah, so?"

"Then, most of these people must be adventurers who've been caught by these goblins. All we have to do is ask them to protect the weaker ones, while we kill the monsters who get in our way. Although it sounds simple, it's really hard in this situation. They are already quite broken from what the goblins did to them. Hmm, maybe there's another way." Hikaru suddenly thought of a simple yet effective plan.

He'll create a mana sphere around them, large enough to fit all of them in, and just levitate them all from the ground as they slaughter monsters along the way.

It was so simple, how could he have missed that?

With a snap of his fingers, a huge mana sphere was built around them. And then, the mana sphere lifted them up while they were inside it. Some of them were quite surprised at the size of his [borg]. Some of them were magicians or archmages.

The difference with the magicians and archmages in this world is that, Magicians are those who are only devoted to increasing their strength. Archmages are some kind of researchers, and would only use strategies to fight their opponents, since they have a lower amount of magic power than Magicians.

(Time Skip)

The power level in this world is divided into Tiers. From Tier 1 to Tier 13. In this world, there were only 10 who've reached the Tier 13, The Previous Heroes. But for some reason, all of them suddenly disappeared one day. That Goblin King he fought in the forest was a Tier 8 monster.

It's been a few hours since they destroyed that goblin village, and Hikaru and Hiroshi kept destroying more monster villages. Well, mainly Hikaru. Hiroshi wanted to stop, since the survivors they've been saving have increased. From 245 to 800. The amount of people they had in Hikaru's [Borg] was 800.

Hiroshi couldn't do anything, and could watch helplessly as Hikaru destroyed another monster village to another. They did this until they got out of the forest.

The amount of monsters Hikaru had stacked inside his bottomless box is countless. He could say that there's around 10,000 in there. From Goblins to Ogre Kings to Wyverns. He'll be rich.

They were able to talk to some of the people they've rescued, since some of them were just captured and have never been touched by the monsters.

After getting out of the forest, they discussed what all of them would do now. Hiroshi and Hikaru will be fine, but what about them?

From what they've talked about while getting out of the forest is that Demi-Humans and Humans have bad blood between each other. In fact, there's been wars between the Kingdom of Humans and the Kingdom of Beastmen.

At that talk, Hikaru smiled menacingly. He's quite blood-thirsty right now from all the killings his done earlier.

After discussing for a while, they decided to go to the nearest town here. The town's name is called "Unity". It's a place where beastmen, elves, and humans live together in harmony. The Kingdom of Humans, Deagaia, had tried to close this town in the past permanently. But they didn't expect that two powerful Tier 10 powerhouses would appear there. The two powerful Tier 10s were an Archmage and a Swordsman. The two of them managed to take care of the army sent by the Deagaia.

(Note: The name of the goddess is Deagaia, the Kingdom of Humans is named after her).

The soldiers sent by the kingdom were only around Tier 2 to Tier 5, which was weak compared to those two.

Hiroshi could be around Tier 8 to Tier 9, and if Hikaru's guess is right, Hiroshi could have another technique up in his sleeves.

It took them a while to reach the town, Unity, because of the people they had. The Town of Unity is in the middle of the plains, so they were able to see it clearly from afar. The only kind of monsters around the town was Tier 1 Slimes.

Hikaru has been observing Hiroshi for a while and noticed that he was still hiding something. A secret may be, but he wouldn't like to be rude to just ask like that. A man's secret is his secret, after all.

The town of Unity was beautiful from the inside and the outside. The people inside the town were all living peacefully in harmony, and the Town was quite large, so it could probably house a few thousand more people before it rams out of space.

Fortunately, most of the people they rescued from the Forest were all born and raised in this town, so they didn't have a problem taking them in. In fact, as soon as the town guards saw the women, children, and other men with Hikaru, they immediately decided to check on their conditions.

Hikaru was surprised, since this is the first him he's ever seen something like this. Back in the Elemental Nation, villages would immediately point their Kunais at you if you weren't one of them. But in this town…

This was all too new for Hikaru. The guards even showed him kindness and humility with a smile. In the Elemental Nation, most of them would only see this as a bother. Almost all shinobi are cold and aloof, like they were all trying to act cool most of the time.

Hikaru just accepted their kindness and went inside the village with Hiroshi, They left all the survivors in the hands of the people in here.

It's just refreshing to see something like this.