"Goblin Slayer? Is that sothing to be proud of? Why are you acting so smug?"
Uchiha Touma looked at Seii with a strange expression. His voice was filled with doubt.
Did this guy finally go insane? Touma couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Seeing Touma's thoughtful look, Seii, who was aware of his friend's habits, knew that the other party was mocking him. Imaginary black lines instantly covered Seii's forehead.
He retorted with a humph and then clicked his tongue. "Tsk! Tsk! You ignorant fellow, you won't understand the grandeur of the great Goblin Slayer, no matter what I say."
Of course, they wouldn't understand. Seii was talking about a certain legendary silver-ranked adventurer, covered in armor, and always ready to slay more goblins like cutting random vegetables.
It was one of his favorite ani characters and a true warrior from his past life.
That character was the great Goblin Slayer. Ard with a silver short sword and full-body armor, that great adventurer had just three goals in his life.
Slay goblins.
Slay goblins.
And slay even more goblins.
Yeah…and probably killed so ogres, trolls, giant eyes, and nacing servants of a demon king. Googlᴇ search N0veI.Fiɾe
Unfortunately, he couldn't explain all that to his teammates.
At this mont, he felt that it would have been great if he had so fellow Earthlings to share his humor in this foreign world.
Cough cough…was he feeling emo again?
Ahem…never mind. It was ti to focus on the goblins ahead.
"Whatever! Let's go down there and slay so goblins." Seii looked down the cliff, smiled, and continued. "If we delay any longer, our tooln down there…cough cough…I an, those brave warriors down there will die."
Touma and Haneda stared blankly at him.
Then, they shook their heads and focused ahead.
Haneda's eyes glowed with a faint blue light as he activated his Chakra Eyes. "I don't know about being a goblin slayer, but yeah, we should hurry up."
Touma asked, "What if those samurai and ninjas down there suddenly attack us, thinking of us as a hostile force?"
Seii sighed and replied, "That's only natural. In this world, constant vigilance is the ultimate key to survival. If I were to be in a life-or-death struggle and so kind soul suddenly appeared out of nowhere, claiming to aid , I would be wary of them, too."
"My first thought wouldn't be one of gratitude. Only doubt and suspicion."
Touma's gaze seed to turn even deeper as he seed to think about sothing deeply.
He took a deep breath, pulled out a kunai, put his index finger into the kunai's ring at the end of its handle, and began to spin it.
He said, "Trust is a rather expensive commodity in this world, huh?"
"Not that we can do anything about it. But what do we do then?"
Seii stayed silent for a mont and replied, "Don't worry. I will let my shadow clones handle it. They are strangers to us, anyway. It doesn't matter whether they are wary of us. We just need to focus on our job."
Seii let out a smirk. "Besides, they are too weak to threaten us."
Hearing this, both Haneda and Touma let out a chuckle.
That was true.
Why should they worry about the opinions of those strangers?
They weren't important. Whether they lived or died didn't matter to them.
Would they be wary of them if they appeared to confront the goblins now? Would they be suspicious and launch attacks on them instead?
There was no need to think about such things.
They would just go in, take out the goblins, capture so of these ugly critters alive, and extract information about their hideouts.
Everything else? They didn't matter.
It was fine as long as the samurai or the ninjas below didn't attack them all of a sudden.
If they did…
Well…
They would be in for a world of pain.
"Let's go down."
Touma said and imdiately sprang into action, leaving Seii and Haneda behind.
Seii and Haneda looked at Touma with amused smiles.
Seii shook his head lightly and remarked, "So impatient."
anwhile, Touma threw the kunai in his hand, which was bound to sturdy yet thin steel wires, toward a solid rock on the cliff's surface. As the steel wire entangled with the rock, Touma held the rest of the steel wire and jumped down the cliff, climbing down like a true mountain climber.
He was using the ninja steel wire like a sturdy mountain climbing rope to climb down the cliff swiftly.
He pressed his foot on the vertical surface of the cliff and kicked the cliff lightly, allowing his body to be pushed away from the cliff's vertical surface.
At the sa ti, he loosened his grip on the steel wire, causing him to climb down as his body gradually ca close to the vertical surface of the cliff.
As his body got closer to the cliff, he tightened his grip on the steel wire. Once he got close enough to the cliff again, he gently kicked the cliff's vertical surface to climb down using the sa technique he used a few monts ago.
He maintained this rhythm to climb down the cliff within seconds.
However, when he was just 10 ters above the ground, he reinforced his body with chakra, kicked the cliff's vertical surface hard enough to leave a few spider-web-like cracks, let go of the steel wire, and shot forward toward the rchant caravans and the goblins while still being in the air.
At this point, he was slightly above ten ters from the ground. He could see all the goblins and humans clearly.
A faint smile tugged at the corner of his lips as he muttered, "A perfect ti to unleash so high altitude blasts."
While he was still in the air, he quickly ford a series of hand seals.
"Get out of the way!" He shouted as he supercharged his Jutsu with more Fire Release chakra to increase its power.
Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique
Touma exhaled streams of fire from his mouth, which condensed in front of him, turning into a massive five-ter-wide fireball.
The mont the fireball appeared, it imdiately caused the surrounding air to distort with its scorching heat.
Then, the fireball charged forward like a rocket from above. Its target was the goblins that were still fighting the ninjas and samurai hired by the rchant Satoshi.
Although the samurai and the ninjas quickly retreated far away from the goblins after the sudden warning, they could still feel the heatwaves radiating from the giant fireball above their heads.
anwhile, the group of five C-rank goblins was completely dumbfounded by the sudden turn of events.
By the ti they could react, the fireball was already upon them.
The fireball hit two goblins directly while crashing on the ground with trendous force.
BOOOOOOM!!!
Within a few milliseconds, the giant fireball exploded, turning the two goblins, who were directly hit, into ashes.
The fireball exploded, spreading a terrifying shockwave and scorching flas outwards.
The other three goblins, who had just retreated a few ters, were hit by the shockwave first before being engulfed in scorching flas.
They didn't even have the ti to scream as the shockwave first shattered their bones and displaced their internal organs. Then, the scorching hot flas turned them into nothing but charred, dead bodies within seconds.
From the beginning to the end, they couldn't quite understand how the fireball suddenly appeared in the air and blasted them apart.
Their souls ascended to the Pure Land while questioning their entire lives.
As the explosion subsided, the ninjas, samurai, and the guards hired by Satoshi, the rchant, looked at the devastation left by the giant fireball in bewildernt.
At the explosion site, there was a large, blackened crater about 10 ters across. The surrounding ground was also completely destroyed, with several spider-web-like cracks. The fire was still burning in the area.
The seasoned experts only had one question on their minds.
Wasn't the Great Fireball Technique supposed to be a Jutsu with no killing power above the Genin-level?
If so, then what the hell was that?
Are you sure it was a C-rank Fire Release Jutsu that was mostly used for distraction and crowd control, and not so powerful B-rank Jutsu with superior lethality?
By this ti, Touma also landed on the ground, attracting the attention of the humans and goblins alike.
Seii and Haneda watched all this from the top of the cliff.
Haneda chuckled dryly and said, "He may be strong, but he's still a showoff."
Seii smiled and replied, "Co on. We are young. We have all the right to show just how impressive we are, as long as we don't overdo it."
"Still, let's go down and join him. Can't let Touma enjoy the party alone."
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