chapter 53
53 – Request (7)
When Ern gave a signal, Lia cast a spell at the giant Goblin King.
Aiming for the eyes.
But she was not to be taken lightly. The monster had lowered her head.
Visibility was the same, and there was only a slight wound near the forehead.
The Goblin King’s aggro was directed at Lia.
-Keeek!
The boss monster tried to close the distance between her and attack Lia.
Naturally, Leah kept her distance by running opposite her.
Leah racked her brains in preparation for her magic with each step she took.
Sometimes small goblins tried to approach her, but she had nothing to worry about.
Before they could get into Lia’s path, Erne was sniping them down with her sniper.
Lia completed And fired it. Her fireball rushed towards the Goblin King’s face.
The monster lifted her arm and caught her magic.
The flames and heat spread, but did not cause much damage.
But her magic did not stop there.
The Follows immediately.
Although she didn’t reach the level of multi-casting, it was still a fairly quick attack.
An arrow of mana that instantly catches the boss monster off guard.
“Ah!”
Lia let out an exclamation of regret.
The magic missile was aimed right at the corner of the Goblin King’s eye.
It was an aiming failure caused by incorrect substitution of calculation values. It was purely Lia’s mistake.
-Key profit!
The monster narrowed her eyes and roared. And she cast an eerie look at Lia.
The Goblin King approaches quickly as if he is angry.
‘If it is now… !’
Lia decided that it was an opportunity when she ran in defenseless like that.
Rather than widening her distance and casting slowly, she now plans to complete her magic quickly.
-Okay!
The result was a hit.
The Goblin King stumbled for a moment, clutching her injured eye. And Lia even took advantage of that opportunity.
Now I was in a situation where I couldn’t aim for the rest of her eyes. So Leah ran to her firing line and aimed towards the goblin’s ear.
This time too, it was successful. It seemed like she had done quite a bit of damage, seeing as she was clutching her ear in pain as her fire spread.
The monster attacks again. As Lia came into her attack range, her Goblin King attempted to smack her with his arms.
‘Huh?’
As Lia dodged the attack, she thought.
‘… ‘Is it worth avoiding?’
The attack movement is large and can be seen at a glance. Plus, the way she pulls her arms back makes you guess where she’s going to aim next.
Compared to the first combat practice class… It was so easy.
This was enough for casting.
Lia began to do her calculations as instructed by Ern.
Meanwhile, Ern was watching Lia avoiding her cooking.
She was on her toes to intervene in times of emergency, but fortunately it didn’t seem necessary.
‘You’re doing as well as expected.’
The information about the boss monster she already knew, and the appearance of Lia she saw in her class, was the basis for it.
‘I guess I can leave it alone.’
Looking at her skillfully accumulating damage, it seemed like she would conquer it on her own after a while.
Now there were no miscellaneous mobs left in the cavity.
Ern swept the magic stones scattered on the floor into her inventory using Magic.
‘It reminds me of when I was playing games.’
It was a natural thought to see the image of an item being sucked up like a vacuum cleaner.
‘Anyway, you’re back.’
When I turned around and looked down the passage, I saw the four adventurers holding their breath as they watched what was unfolding in the cavity.
Then, when her eyes met Ern’s, she trembled.
Beads of sweat formed on the adventurer’s forehead. He slowly lowered his gaze to the ground.
It seemed like he couldn’t maintain the challenging look he had shown before.
A heavy silence fell upon the four adventurers.
Their faces that were once etched with arrogance now only show fear and anxiety.
‘Damn….’
‘What should we do now?’ .’
I had no thoughts until I frantically ran away. I was just running around in a trance.
But when they realized that their only path was blocked, they only realized the situation.
-The road is blocked!
-f*ck!
They were constantly on guard on the other side, fearing that goblins would rush in from the collapsed passageway.
-Shouldn’t we find another way for this?
-What about the goblins?
-I don’t know! So are you starving to death here?
-Damn it.
The sight we encountered while moving forward at such a slow pace was truly shocking.
The adventurers were silent as they watched Ern use magic.
But everyone shared the same thoughts.
‘f*cked….’
They realized that they had greatly underestimated the abilities of wizards.
“……”
I could catch a glimpse of a female wizard fighting hard from behind.
‘Alone… ?’
Her battle was different from the stereotypes of adventurers.
No matter what, she was an extraordinary magician just like the man.
‘Why on earth is such an archmage in a dungeon like this… !’
Before she knew it, the giant goblin had lost sight of her.
Lia muffled her footsteps and fired magic from several directions to confuse the monster.
‘… The potion is great!’
Lia felt that she was squeezing out more magic than usual.
‘Thank you, Professor…’ !’
With the belief that expensive things are worth their price, Lia continued her barrage of orders.
Magic missiles pierced his skin from many directions. The boss monster couldn’t figure out what to do and was floundering in the air.
-Kieek…
Finally, the Goblin King fell to the floor, crying out in helpless despair.
The threat of monsters has disappeared and the community has become quiet.
A bright smile appeared on Lia’s face. Her eyes sparkled with accomplishment, and she looked at Erne with a bright expression.
“Did you see it?!”
“Well done.”
Ern also responded with a light smile.
‘It works if you do it, right?’
Ern adjusted her evaluation of Lia upward.
‘I guess I can roll more.’
If Leah had heard, she would have been horrified.
After watching her look happy for a moment, Ern approached the adventurers who were looking at her, looking very frightened.
One adventurer’s hands were shaking.
‘The Grand Wizard told me not to touch it…’ .’
There was a saying going around among adventurers. They said that all excellent wizards were eccentric, so don’t mess with their feelings.
However, they looked down on them and sent goblins away to create trouble, so they were breaking the unwritten rule.
Furthermore, this is an enclosed space. No matter what happened, there was no way to find out from the outside.
‘I don’t know yet….’
There was no way the wizard would have known that the cave had collapsed. But I don’t know how he would change if he found out.
‘First of all, it has to be hidden somehow… !’
“Adventurers there.”
When Ern opened the door, they swallowed their saliva.
“The only way out is blocked, right?”
“……”
“…!”
“!”
“?!”
The four adventurers were dumbfounded.
They exchanged glances with each other.
We asked each other with our eyes, ‘How did you know?’, But there was no answer.
Meanwhile, the party leader holding the shield broke into a cold sweat and soon came to his own conclusion.
‘Could it be that the author destroyed it himself?!’
I was unfamiliar with the world of magic, but it seemed like a wizard of that level would have been able to do it somehow.
The words Ern had just said played like a flash in his head.
-The only way out is blocked, right?
‘… ‘f*cked!’
He arbitrarily misinterpreted Ern’s words to mean, ‘I blocked the only way out, so now you can kill them all, right?’
“I’m sorry!!!”
‘Oh, what a surprise!’
The party leader bowed his back at a right angle and shouted. Then the rest of the party suddenly followed his actions.
“””Sorry!!”””
‘… ‘I was really curious.’
Meanwhile, the adventurers fearfully accepted Ern’s silence while he was bewildered.
“We were really wrong! We were too greedy, so stop…”
Ern listened to their excuses in silence.
‘Actually, it wasn’t that annoying….’
It didn’t matter because I had expected it from the beginning and refused.
The best I could do was to leave a few goblins here, but that wasn’t even a hindrance.
‘Well, it’s a western dungeon goblin.’
If I had to compare it, it was like swatting away flies with my hand because they were flying around.
Lia did all that, so it really wasn’t a big deal.
‘It’s not like crossing the line to cross a goblin.’
If they had tried to send a truly dangerous monster, Ern would have responded with a preemptive strike.
To him, the adventurers’ actions felt like a kind of entertainment.
But the adventurers seemed to have different thoughts.
Before they knew it, they had become guilty of high treason and were confessing each and every mistake.
“…That’s right! In fact, I was ignoring the wizard and even tried to take the protection money!”
“….”
“Oh no!! This is not the time! Isn’t it right that we should give thanks to the wizard?! Hey! What are you doing!!”
The party members suddenly came to their senses, took out a money bag and handed it over to the shield man.
“Thank you for subduing the goblin! Be sure to take it back!!”
He desperately offered the ‘price of his life’ to Ern.
“No, not to that extent…”
“Please take it away!!!!”
“……”