Chapter 10 New Game+ and Threat 3

“ Do you think I come alone to his town? Before this, there were six of us.”

“ What happened?”

“ We are one of the most able party in the town,least that's what I would like to think. We were strong without doubt, Tina was an able scout. That beauty and scouting skill, she could make it big in the Labyrinth City, but instead she chose to be with us. Few days ago, we received a quest to patrol the highway and eliminate several small goblin nest along the way. With our skill, the quest should be an easy coins.”

“Should?”, I inquired.

“ Yeah, should. Several hour outside the wall, there is one goblin nest. I ask Tina and me boy, Kairo the archer to scout ahead. Several hour later, they returned with information so little. Fuckin wastin our time”

“ They were having that kind of relationship huh.”

“Aye, anyway, we proceed to the nest later that evening. But that place is stinking, a medium size nest and barely have any goblins guarding it. Thinking that the main force might go out for hunting, we go and hunt’em all. Heh, remembering the moment when my blade crushed the goblin skulls. But shit happened after that. Just like any other nest, once we hunted them down, we burned it to the ground. Goblins shriek echoing as the smoke rises, we found that the escape route are surrounded by goblins.”, the man sipped his ale and the he continued, “ Ragin’ flame on our back, hoard of goblins infront of us. What do you think we do? We fight!.”, anger were clearly visible on the man scarred face. “ We wade the hoard killing any that stood our way, one Marco our shield bearer bashed them and clubbed their head with mace. Goblins stinkin’ bloods covered our body. Leaving corpses of body behind us and fatigue smashing our body, we finally reach the highway. Out of frying pan, into the goddamn fire, Beel’s bandit waiting for us. We try bargained our way out but failed, Marco and Kairo then chose to fight and it cost their life. Overwhelmed by shock, Tina and Marco’s wife Silphy broke and rushed toward them. It was horrifying, the bandits overpowered them and taking turns raping them one by one. I ran. I ran as fast as I could. My spearman Louie,injured during the goblin battle were left behind. Fuck that shit, I need to survive. Haha. I did the right thing right?

“Do you know the location of their base camp?”

The man glared at me, “ I heard rumor.”

“ What kind of rumor?”

“ Beel got himself a fortress in the plain. Rumors also said that the base is heavily fortified that they can defend against wyvern attack.”

“ Why didn't the Kingdom do something about it?”

“ Well,don’t know what the nobles are thinking, they said somethin’ bout territory and war.”

I see, it seems like the Kingdom can’t deployed their soldier as it seems like a provocation towards the Empire. If they makes a wrong move, it might become a full blown war.

“ How bout their number?”

“ Don’t know. Some says hundreds, some says thousands. As a rule of thumb, we try not to cross sword with them, and my party learned it in hard way.”

After excusing myself and buying the man another mug of ale, I went to my room.

Using the variation radar. I tried to figure out the location of the goblin's nest.

“Bingo!”

A large mass of red converging in toward the city, based on the information. It seems like they will reach here in less than a week. The large mass might be the goblin horde the man encountered and trailing behind them should be Beel’s bandit. It seems like the horde are running away from them.

We need to get out from this place before it become a hellhole. Based on my radar, this town is outnumbered 3 to 1, and that number is including the non-combatant.

I need weapons and equipment and vehicles. After that, we will get out from this place. But first, I need to check out the fortress.