Chapter 15: Ireguler Monster (2)
I started to realize that I was different from other kids at the age of 15.
The day I found out that Vise Blouse was a woman who was just using me.
On the day of the academy tournament, I, who had lost my entire world, was selected as a candidate for the tournament.
Come to think of it, me being chosen by the academy was another form of bullying. And my first opponent was Vise Blouse's lover and the son of the Wolfled family's enemy.
That day I just fought without caring about anything else, just me and the person in front of me.
Even if I die, I don't mind just that I have to at least beat up the person in front of me.
With such childish thoughts, I fought.
And when I came to my senses, I was already surrounded by dozens of masters and extraordinary people and I was thrown to the ground.
What I saw in my sight was a pool of blood from a man who looked similar to Vise Blouse's boyfriend.
I was confused as to why a person who should have been fine before was suddenly covered in blood full of wounds. The sound of the teachers' anger was not heard, the sound of fear and confusion on the stage was also not heard, only a sound of laughter was heard.
"Hehehehehehehehe!!"
Where did that voice come from?
As I was confused by the horrifying laughter, I looked at the pool of blood below me.
"That's me ....?"
I could see my face from the pool of blood with a smiling expression.
...
Seeing the terrified expressions of the squad and Signe, I realized what I had just done.
"Let go..."
I looked at Signe coldly, seeing the look in my eyes that went from very chaotic to cold must have confused Signe.
"Ah, m-sorry..."
Signe released her hand while apologizing in a slightly scared voice.
(...I haven't seen that look for a long time...)
Seeing their gazes reminded me of the boring past.
I stood up and kicked the corpse of the goblin with a crushed head.
"Handkerchief..."
"???"
"Didn't you hear? Quickly give me a handkerchief or something clean..."
"Get ready!"
They immediately searched through their bags, and Erlan brought me a clean cloth.
I immediately took the cloth to clean my face of the goblin's disgusting blood.
While cleaning the blood, I looked around. All the goblins were dead, it seemed like they had killed all the goblins while I was having fun earlier.
"Why are you guys doing nothing? Hurry up and do your job."
"Eh?"
"Huh?"
Hearing their confused voices, I was confused too.
(Wait, don't tell me they don't know what to do after this? How incompetent are they...)
"Tsk... Bring all the corpses of the goblins you killed here and pile them onto the corpses of the goblins I killed earlier."
"K-why?"
"Shut up and do as I say..."
Very coldly, I scolded one of the people who asked why I told them to.
(They really didn't understand the reason? No, it seemed like Signe at least understood.)
I looked at Signe who immediately carried out my order as if she understood the reason. It's natural for bar-bar people to know this because this method actually originated from bar-bar people.
After all the corpses were gathered and piled together.
"Ignite!"
I used basic fire elementals magic to burn all the corpses of the goblins.
"T-young master? Why burn the gobl corpses? Isn't it dangerous to attract the attention of other monsters plus we're in the forest right now."
"Tsk!"
As I tried to explain, Signe took over the conversation and said what I wanted to say to these incompetent people.
"Mr. Thom, the reason the young master burned the goblin corpses was because the goblin corpses if left unattended would have a bad impact on the environment like poison."
Rather than being called poison, the corpses of monsters can be said to be like harmful radiation that will continue to increase if left unchecked and can even have an impact like the effects of a nuclear reaction explosion.
"I understand, but wouldn't it be better to do it outside. It will attract the attention of monsters."
(Huft, calm down Zend.)
"It is precisely by burning the corpses of monsters that the monsters will stay away from this place. Most monsters hate the smell of other monsters' corpses especially those that are burned."
"If your little brains have understood, immediately get ready to move."
"Move? Are we not waiting for all the corpses to be burned?"
"No need, Ignite is a magic that burns what it wants only. This fire will be extinguished immediately after burning all the goblin corpses. So get moving..."
(Somehow it's getting tiring. How could they become a Wolfled squad with such knowledge? They don't even know Ignite magic. Are they ancient people?)
We then moved once again, and this time we encountered kobolds.
They had a form like a standing wolf. E+ rank monsters with physically stronger but dumber than goblins. It seemed like the kobold group I was facing was newly formed judging from them not wearing any equipment.
We once again started fighting again with the same formation but this time I joined the fight. The enemy this time might be physically stronger but it was easier to handle than the goblins.
After a few minutes, we managed to slaughter the kobolds and once again burned their corpses.
Then we continued on our way once more and encountered swarms of goblins and kobolds on the way.
(There were really only remnant monsters left)
So far our squad didn't encounter any monsters above rank E, which meant that all the monsters I faced were really leftover monsters from Alpha's monster army.
Plus all the monsters so far look like they're moving away from somewhere.
"How strange..."
One of the guys said while looking confused.
I looked at the person, the person gasped in fear but told him to continue what he was saying.
"Y-well, it's just that it's strangely quiet and we didn't encounter a few more monsters."
"Ah!"
Signe then immediately startled realizing the danger of the current situation, so did I.
(How could I not notice this obvious irregularity!)
If we look at the route so far, we are getting closer towards the center where all the E rank monsters are running which means we are getting closer to the Irregular monsters.
Why am I moving towards the irregular monsters without realizing it, I haven't even prepared the weapons I need to fight... that... monster... wait....
(Irregular monster? Wait, why can't I remember its shape?)