Netori Women Chapter 23 - The King’s Way (14)

Chapter 23 - The King’s Way (14)

I instinctively opened my inventory and put the bomb in.

I was really lucky that one slot was empty.

"Now... what?"

"Be aware of your surroundings!"

"That cliff on the other side!"

Hearing Siwoo’s scream, we looked over the cliff on the other side and saw a goblin wearing strange glasses, holding a bomb in each hand, staring at us.

Crueluk? Cruel?

Kurororo!

The goblin was moving its head from side to side and making strange noises, as if wondering why it didn’t explode.

Hey, what goblin is wearing glasses?

No, that’s not it. Why is the goblin holding a bomb?

If it’s a goblin, shouldn’t it just hold a dagger and swing it a few tis before dying?

Crook! Crook!

As I was talking about the goblin wearing glasses, a bastard who looked like Goblin A walked out from behind holding a lit branch.

Damn it! Are you planning on lighting it again and throwing it away?

"Everyone, stand back!"

If you throw it again, it will be put in again.

To do that, you’ll need to empty your inventory.

I took a throwing stance, took the bomb out of my inventory, and threw it over the cliff.

It would have been an impossible distance, but since the ’Power of the Goddess Aria’ buff was activated, the bomb fell over the cliff without any problems.

The goblins were at a loss as they saw the bombs flying towards them, as if they had never thought that soone would throw the bombs that had disappeared.

In the end, while they were talking about this and that, the bomb was detonated.

Bang!

Kuquaang! Kwaang!

Kugugugugu country

Kwaaaaang! Kwaaaaang!

Bang! Bam!

Kwaaaaang! Kwaaang!

[Level up!]

How many fucking bombs were there?

As the ear-piercingly loud noise died down and the black dust settled, the cliff was half-collapsed.

And levels? Out of the blue?

I was dumbfounded at the words, "This is an unexpected level."

"Knock knock knock... Are you okay, hyung?"

"Brother! Are you okay?"

Siwoo took out his holy sword and looked around cautiously, while Sophia used purification to clean my face, which was dirty from the aftereffects of the bomb.

"I’m fine. I think... the bombs that guy had earlier all exploded in a chain reaction..."

"Really? So you’ve done it all?"

Oh, no, Sophia, that’s not what I ant...!

Kurururururururur! Keruk!

Keruk! Keruk!

Kukwakwa!

Damn, new goblins appeared on top of the collapsed cliff.

The guys that ca out this ti also looked different from the goblins I knew.

A goblin as big as a man glared at us, holding a greatsword as tall as himself.

Although not to that extent, three large goblins, still large for goblins, shouted while wielding green daggers.

"Damn it! Get ready for battle! Sophia, step back! Siwoo, you go forward!"

Kruuk! Kruuk!

As Siwoo ran forward with the holy sword in his hand, a large goblin rushed forward and confronted Siwoo.

And taking advantage of that gap, other goblins moved to target Sophia.

"Where! How dare you!"

I stood in front of Sophia and blew up her eyes with the skill ’Goddess Aria’s Shield’.

As the effect caused one of the rushing goblins to fall, I swung my shield at the other two.

One was swept away by the shield and fell, but another quickly dodged and stabbed Sophia with its dagger.

"This kid!"

As I quickly turned around to strike the goblin, the goblin froze in place, grabbed the dagger I was stabbing with, and stabbed in the side.

"What the hell!"

I couldn’t help but swear at the pain I was feeling for the first ti.

The searing pain made dizzy and my vision blurred.

"Brother! Co on!"

Thanks to Sophia’s heel coming in just in ti, I didn’t lose consciousness.

After grabbing the arm of the goblin who was twisting while holding the dagger in his side,

He took the knife and cut a hole in the guy’s throat.

Kreek! Kreek, kreek

The guy fell down with a short scream and then started laughing at while making a squeaking sound.

Do you smile this fuck?

As he pulled out the dagger stuck in his side, blood poured out.

As my blood flow decreased in an instant, I felt dizzy and my body began to stagger, but I couldn’t just collapse like this.

I turned around and swung my shield again, following Sophia’s shout to look behind .

bang!

One of the n must have swung a dagger, and one of the daggers hit the shield and bounced off.

While I was distracted, the guy who threw the dagger flew towards and tried to grab my leg.

I just hit him from above with my shield still on.

And then, as I tried to put up my shield to deal with the last one running towards , my body stumbled again.

For so reason, my body wouldn’t move the way I wanted it to, and the side where I had been stabbed earlier felt like it was burning from the inside out.

"No! Oppa!!"

Shit... I have no strength in my body...

The goblin that was running towards saw like that, showed his rotten teeth, split them, and then stabbed the dagger into my face.

Push push!

Blood poured out like a fountain.

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"Gyaaaaaaah!"

Sophia’s scream was heard behind .

Hearing that sound, I regained my fading consciousness.

I can’t die like this.

If I die... I won’t be able to see Sophia again.

Sophia is crying.

I did sothing terrible.

"I’m going to write a lot of love letters..."

It’s because of you guys.

shit.

I lifted the knife with trembling hands.

The panicked goblin tried to run away, but did not let go of the dagger he was holding.

You just need to put down the dagger and run away, you idiot...

The wound around my mouth got worse as the guy twisted the dagger here and there to escape.

I couldn’t feel any pain anymore.

He just stuck the knife into the guy’s stomach.

As the knife went deeper, the bastard’s face beca filled with the fear of death.

Finally, as I pushed the handle in, the staggering thing stopped moving.

"Tch"

As he spat out the dagger he was holding, the blood that had been pooling in his mouth and the pieces of his severed tongue poured out together.

I grabbed my unsteady legs and got up, then approached the goblin that was being hit with a shield.

When I stabbed the back of the bastard’s head with the knife, he flinched and let out a croaking sound, but soon beca quiet.

dump

Only then was I able to collapse in peace.

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When I ca to, I was in Sophia’s arms.

Sophia was hugging and crying loudly.

"Sophie..."

"Oppa... sob sob... I’m sorry, oppaaaaa! I’m sorry! Sob sob..."

Sophia kept apologizing to and crying nonstop.

Funny enough, I thought even a crying Sophia was pretty.

Krororororo! Krook!

"Hot! Haat!"

Now that I think about it, it wasn’t the end.

In the distance, Siwoo and the big goblin were still fighting.

The two of them were so absorbed in their own fight that they didn’t even notice us.

"Sophie... ugh, I’m okay now."

"No! I’m still receiving treatnt... Heh... You can’t move!"

"But still Siwoo."

"Siwoo cares too... so it’s okay!"

Co to think of it, whenever Siwoo was wounded by the goblin’s greatsword, Sophia would heal him.

He looked wronged, but Siwoo didn’t give him a chance to target Sophia.

But you shouldn’t feel wronged.

That goblin monster, like a troll, healed itself whenever it got wounded.

"I’m sorry, oppa... I didn’t know you were poisoned... sob sob..."

As expected... it wasn’t an ordinary dagger.

I thought it was strange when I saw the guy who laughed at even as he died, but it wasn’t just any dagger, it was a poisoned sword.

Did you think we’d be comrades on our way to the afterlife? Sorry, but there’s a saint in our party.

"It’s okay, Sophie, it’s really okay. This is how we lived, right? Okay?"

I forced a smile, and the wounds on both sides of my mouth stung.

This is why... he’s such a joker, isn’t he?

Why so Sirius, I barely managed to hold back from saying a word.

It was definitely not the right atmosphere to joke around.

"Still... Heuk... If I had known in advance, my brother wouldn’t have gotten hurt like this... Euaaaang!"

Sophia, who had been sobbing, eventually burst into tears again and ran into my arms.

I patted Sophia’s back and looked at Siwoo, who was still fighting.

But is it okay to treat them like this while they’re fighting like that?

...Siwoo will understand since I almost died, right?

Yeah, if Siwoo had a conscience, he would do that too.

The two were at a hundred-year-old battle, and although it seed like Siwoo was being pushed back by the goblin’s greatsword-wielding offensive, Siwoo did not back down and took the blow.

The more this happened, the more the goblin scread in anger, but Siwoo remained calm until the end.

But then suddenly things changed.

Siwoo took a big step back and changed his holy sword into the size of a greatsword.

Then he started swinging his greatsword like crazy.

Huh? What is this...?

The goblins counterattacked in response to Siwoo’s sudden attack.

But the two of them looked exactly the sa.

Shiu swung his holy sword in the direction the goblin was swinging his greatsword.

As the goblin struck down with his greatsword, Siwoo struck down with his holy sword as well.

The two were fighting with the sa swordsmanship as if they were one.

No, it wasn’t the sa swordsmanship.

As the fight continued, SiWoo’s swordsmanship improved further.

A little sharper, a little faster, a little more powerful...

In the end, it was Siwoo who gained the upper hand.

Siwoo deflected the greatsword and swung his holy sword to cut down the goblin.

But it was shallow.

Suddenly, Siwoo’s strength was drained by the poison the goblin spewed out.

"Damn it! Sophie!"

I ran to Siwoo, ignoring his aching body.

Sophia also ran and cast a purification spell on Siwoo.

But the goblin had already blown away Siwoo’s holy sword.

"No way!"

Then a blue flash passed through the goblin’s neck.

At the sa ti, the goblin’s neck fell off in vain.

"...what?"

thud!

Push!

The headless goblin fell to his knees with a thud, blood gushing out like a fountain from his severed neck.

"Interesting."

Behind the kneeling goblin, a blue-haired knight was making an amused expression.

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