Defiled Hero c26

Defiled Hero

The Goblin Horde

「Well then, once we finish off Lilia, the

goblins are next.」 (Izayoi)

「Stop joking around. I’m going to live,

right?」 (Lilia)

I put on my equipment and left

well-prepared.

「Wait a moment, are you ignoring me?

You’re going to act as if I'm dead?」 (Lilia)

「We’ll fight in place of Lilia, who was

killed.」 (Izayoi)

「You set me as being killed didn’t you?

You say things like that pretty often you know.」 (Lilia)

The sunlight faded, and it had become

night. Why is it that all the troublesome things happen at night?

I haven’t even eaten yet. I want to hurry

up and finish this, then eat.

「Rigolo, can you fly with four people on

your back? If it’s impossible, then I’ll go on foot.」 (Izayoi)

「*Kuke, Kukeke!*」 (Rigolo)

「Maybe, riding possible.」 (Tear)

「Yaay! We’re flying on the fluffball!」 (Uri)

Although it was a bit tight, we all rode

on Rigolo’s back.

「......We might fall, so hold onto my

chest tightly.」 (Reri)

「If that’s all I need to do then I

wouldn’t worry even if I were to hold onto Uri. I wouldn't be injured even if I

fell from a high altitude. There’s no problem.」 (Izayoi)

「......Master’s physique must be that of a

superhuman. I want to investigate your body for the sake of research.」 (Reri)

「I refuse.」 (Izayoi)

「Let’s hurry up and go! Fly!」 (Uri)

「......Ichayoi.」 (Tear)

It’s getting really noisy. I’ll have to

deal with this for about 10 more days?

「Well then, let’s go.」 (Izayoi)

「*Kuke!*」 (Rigolo)

「As I thought, it’s as if I were dead.

Will I disappear tomorrow?」 (Lilia)

Relying on the illumination from the sky,

we soared through the skies. We should be around 70 kilometers away from Geruna

Valley.

Although we don’t know where the goblins

are coming or where they're going, we’ll find them if we look around. There's a

swarm of them after all.

Listening to Uri who was in high spirits,

we passed through the woodlands. Crossing the Prairie Forest, we could hear a

rumbling noise coming from the craggy wastelands.

(Astrea, can you tell me the situation?)

(Izayoi)

『I’ll give it a try............There’s a

swarm of them two hills over!』 (Astrea)

Considering our location, we’re heading

that way I see. If it were to be left as is, I’ll have to fight them at some

point. It’ll be better if I can deal with this quickly.

I faced the direction of the goblin

horde. I should be able to see them on the other side of the hill. I started to

feel the squirming magic coming from the monsters.

This is pretty big I guess. Crossing over

the hill, I finally saw their figures.

「There’s a huge amount of them! I’m

getting a bad feeling!」 (Uri)

The ground was covered with their red

colored eyes. The area was completely occupied by the squirming horde. There

were hundreds of thousands. Getting rid of this is going to be real difficult.

I can easily cut small fry in two with a

light swing of my sword, but how will I deal with this many enemies? In my

case, I don’t have many different abilities to fight with.

If there was a high ranking magician that

hit them with a few large scale spells, I might be able to destroy them in one

go, but with a magic-imbued sword the best I could do would be to take out a

few of them at a time.

「Hey, can you two use large scale magic?」 (Izayoi)

「We can’t! Uri and Reri can’t use anything

but concealment magic!」 (Uri)

This is troublesome. Do I have any other

choice aside from a ridiculous amount of fighting?

Even though I had no magic to use, I

began to locate someone within the horde.

There, that one is leading them.

There stood a goblin three times the size

of a normal one. A Goblin King. If I take that guy down, I’ll be happy if it

intimidates the other goblins into retreating. For the time being, let’s give

it a go.

「I’ll be going down there to take out the

Goblin King. The rest of you be on standby in the sky.」

「......Ichayoi, be alright?」 (Tear)

「Ah, it’ll be fine. If defeating the

Goblin King doesn’t stop the rest of them, then we’ll have no choice but for

all of us to fight them off. Until that time comes, wait here.」 (Izayoi)

「Understood! We’ll be good children and

stay here!」 (Uri)

「......Take care.」 (Reri)

I hung off of Rigolo’s back and felt the

wind envelop my body. As I was calculating the time to jump, Astrea suddenly

called out to me.

『Izayoi! I can feel a bit of Fiere-chan’s

magic! It’s near this area!』 (Astrea)

(The Wind Fairy? In a place like this?)

(Izayoi)

『I’m sure she’s here, but it’s really

faint. If you don’t hurry, it’ll be bad!』 (Astrea)

(Alright, got it. Search for her location.)

(Izayoi)

If the Wind Fairy is here, then she’ll

take priority. I continued for a short while through the wasteland. There's still

time before the goblins descend on human territory.

『She’s probably that way!』 (Astrea)

「Our objective has changed. Rigolo, go the

other way.」 (Izayoi)

We headed towards the indicator Astrea

placed.

「This is bad! There’s a girl over there!

She seems to be under attack!」 (Uri)

In front of the goblin horde was a little

girl trying to run away. Even now the goblins were about attack her with their

cudgels.

「*Hawawa!* I’m cornered! I’m in a pinch, a

pinch!」 (Wind Fairy)

(TN: Hawawa... Go look

it up.)

Her outwards appearance was that of an

ordinary little girl. She didn’t have wings sprouting from her like the other

fairies.

「*Hawawa, hawawawaa!* Save me! Save meeee!」 (Wind Fairy)

Fiere was running away from the goblin

horde.

Although she was frantically trying to

escape, she was probably at her limit, and collapsed onto the ground.

「*Hawawa, hawawaaaa......*」 (Wind Fairy → Fiere)

As she was on the verge of being

swallowed up by the horde, I jumped off of Rigolo’s back and hit the ground

running, and took Fiere into my arms.

Without stopping their feet, the goblins

continued advancing in the same direction as before.

In regards to the speed of the goblins,

there was no way for them to catch up. We were able to rescue Fiere.

「*Hawawa......* Eh? How?」 (Fiere)

「You’re fine now. Don’t worry Fiere.」 (Izayoi)

「W-who are you? ......This feeling,

c-could it be? Oniichan!?」 (Fiere)

(TN: ...Goddamnit Izayoi.)

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