An Unlucky DayThis day was the unluckiest day of my life. Us adventurers were on the middle of the trip home with an escort mission, travelling from the Empire to the Kingdom. We were already more than halfway through our week long trip. However, at a campsite two days away form our destination, we unluckily ended up encountering goblins.
Goblins are’t really threatening monsters. In terms of power, an ordinary farmer is a lot stronger. And don’t mention magic, they don’t even the have intelligence to use bows. They’re the lowest E Rank on the Monster Ranking System established by the Adventurer’s Guild, weak to the point that even the Training School’s brats could probably beat them if well prepared.
However, that’s only if there’s just one of them. The goblins tend to swarm together. And when they do, they just as much as a threat as any other monster. Three of them and it’s D Rank, Seven of them and it’s already acknowledged as C Rank. But right now, just roughly counting, there’s fifteen of them in front of us. It’s probably already B Rank-cla.s.s, and if we leave them be a King would probably rise up.
A goblin alone is weak. They’re dumb and powerless. But when they swarm, they get stronger and a leader rise up. The leader’s brutal, sly, and cunning. He grants the others weapons to fight, wisdom to use magic, and he tramples down upon the weak. The goblins multiply fast, and the more they increase the stronger the King gets.
There are records left of a country destroyed by King leading a swarm of more that a thousand goblins. That’s why the Adventurer’s Guild has released a permanent request to kill on sight, but their reproductive ability surpa.s.ses even that.
It’d likely that these ones were lucky enough to remain undetected, breeding until the swarm reached it’s current size. But as for me, I can only call it bad luck though.
「Gha!?」
「Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!」
From my side I can hear my friend Grey’s groan, and from behind I can hear Lysha’s shriek. Grey and I are both knights, but worn out the unexpected attack, it seems like his stomach was stabbed by the goblin’s crude sword. Lysha and Gray are pretty intimate so I thought maybe it was just an overreaction but, this is quite bad.
Most of a goblin’s weapons are crude, chipped, and rusted. They don’t do any decent maintenance on them. And because of that, if you’re wounded by their weapons, there’s a hundred percent chance for you to get infected with some disease. If it’s just the limbs, then it’s still fine. But if you end up getting stabbed in the stomach, you need to have it healed immediately or else you’ll most probably die. And in our party, there isn’t anyone capable of using Healing Magic Arts. Gray’s not going to survive. She probably realized that. Lysha’s breaking down. She won’t be any useful in this fight anymore.
「This is the worst…. Dammit… Why did this have to happen…」
Today’s the worst day of my life. That’s what I thought up until now. The feeling of losing a comrade. The feeling of being unable to finish the our job due to my own weakness. I’ve probably been a bit too careless since we’ve been a bit famous lately. And what it resulted was this. Even if I start regretting now, it’s already to late. That’s what I thought.
And at this moment, I heard a voice.
「I shall a.s.sist!!」
In the cold depths of despair, that voice seemed to have pulled us out. Find the owner of that voice, I looked around the area but there was n.o.body nearby. No, there is. An almost child-like innocent looking girl. With pink hair emphasised by the dim darkness, clothes that don’t cover much her pure white skin, and overshadowing them all, are her remarkably clear golden eyes.
「Don’t come here, run!」I was about to yell so. If a young girl like her is caught by the goblins, what would happen next is perfectly obvious. a.s.sault, rape, and then just discarded like a worn-out rag. That’s why I was about to tell her so, but the effect of the spell she chanted, shut down my thought process.
「I ask, for the power to repel the injustice before us; I beg, for the atrocity right before us to, "Freeze"!!」
The moment that Magic Art activated, the goblins stopped moving all at once. No, they were forced to stop. There’s not even a single blink, it’s as if their time was forcibly stopped. Only one cast of Magic and that young girl immobilised ten-odd goblins in just an instant.
If it was one of Twelve Sages of Aureitas then it might have been possible. And maybe the Empire’s Imperial Court Wizards could’ve pulled through. However, right in front of me is still a young girl. If she’s already this strong, what kind of beast would she be in the future.
Even my comrades have their jaws dropped open, still dumbfounded and in shock. Especially our Mage Arisa, the shock she revived must’ve been too much.
And the girl herself doesn’t seem to understand what she has done, and approaching the dumbfounded us with a light trot.
「Fuu, Thank G.o.d it went well. Are you alright」
I was so out of it, after that I couldn’t remember much. When that girl noticed Grey suffering in pain collapsed next Lysha, she immediately ran towards them. After muttering something for awhile, she held out her hands and used Healing Magic Arts. Without any Magic Power Medium nor any Magic circle too.
I don’t even understand what’s happening anymore, but only this I know. Today may have been my unluckiest day ever, but still, it’s not the worst day of my life.
Heya! Today’s chapter is, unusually, not from our little succubus. Also, there is a term that I had some difficulty in translating.
Magic Arts [Majutsu] – Different from Magic [Mahou] since, Majutsu is literally [Ma(Demon or magic related kanji)] and [Jutsu(technique, way, trick)] which means magic in mostly the Criss Angel kind of way, and Mahou is still [Ma] and [Hou(law, principle, method)] which means magic in the Harry Potter kind of way. Since it’ll probably mess with the translations sooner or later if it’s a foreshadowing or something, I differentiated it in this way. The one refered as Magic is the Harry Potter [Mahou].
I called it Magecraft in an early chapter but, it sounds too modern for this fantasy novel so… I’ll probably fix that up. Mana was also changed into Magic Power, since I remember DeathMa and other fantasy novels using regular magical energy as Magic Power and magical energy directly coming from ley lines as Mana. Just in case.
Also, about Disqus. I really want to have it but… WordPress.com is easy to manage but in order to have plug-ins like Disqus installed I need to be upgraded to the Business Plan. So sorry~.
Anyways, will our little succubus reach town safely? Will these guys be upgraded to reoccurring characters? And are there more s.e.x monsters up ahead? Stay tuned!
Thanks for reading and See ya later~!