Chapter 10: Incitement

The Green Goblin, ‘Amutar Akshikil’, was terrified.

Attacking humans without any strategy or plan?

It’s impossible.

His own kind only knows one thing and not the other.

They have a magic staff that can blow a hole in a goblin’s forehead with just one snap of their index finger.

Since Amutar’s parents died like that, Amutar knew better than anyone else the fear of that scary and hard staff.

“Hey, what’s a goblin helmet?”

“Kreuk, be quiet.”

“You coward.”

“Shut up.”

Amutar pressed the orc skull to his head, regardless of what his fellow raiders said.

He didn’t think this would stop the enemy’s attacks, but Amutar didn’t think his tribe would be able to properly attack humans.

No wonder….

Tinkle tinkle tinkle!!

“Keeeeet! Gotcha!!”

One of the goblins stepped on the rope between the trees.

The metal pieces connected to the rope began to clash with each other, making noise.

“Why are you stepping on that and making a fuss!”

“Kreuk, how do you know where I am? Kreuk.”

“You have to keep your eyes wide open!”

“What do you want me to do when I can’t see you! Kreuk.”

Ding ding ding ding.

The alarm signaling an enemy attack began to ring.

The humans hurriedly started moving with torches.

“Elder!!”

“…Once we’ve been caught, we shouldn’t give them time to respond.”

The elder slowly extended his hand forward.

“I have something I saved from the human adventurers for times like this. Kheuk.”

The elder pulled out a round object.

The object, which seemed to be made of steel, gave off a foul smell, and the elder threw the black sphere, the size of his head, behind his waist.

“Kkieeeek!!”

With the elder’s scream, the black sphere flew high into the sky.

It flew straight toward the wooden fence of the human village, just like a giant boulder fired by a catapult.

A moment later.

Kwa—-ang!!

A huge explosion occurred, as if explosion magic had been used.

“Applause!!”

The elder goblin raised both his hands high and made a triumphant expression, and the goblins cheered at the fence that was destroyed in an instant.

“As expected of an elder!”

“Amazing! To destroy a fence in an instant!”

“Kuuuuu, even goblins need to think. Kuuuuu.”

“If he had just thrown it where all the humans were gathered, it would have killed them all.”

Amutar’s monologue was not conveyed to anyone.

Unfortunately for him, there was no one, not even the so-called elders of the village, who could converse with him on a similar intellectual level as ‘humans”.

“Goblin, all back———ugh!”

“Kkieeeek!!”

“Tsk…”

Without any strategy, Amutar quietly grabbed the poisoned wooden stick that was behind the goblins who were simply going to run because the fence was destroyed.

“Sorry, work hard.”

Crunch.

“I’ll eat the demons. Kreuk.”

Amutar carefully followed his companions after applying a generous amount of paralyzing poison to his thin needle.

Waaahhhhhhh!

In the midst of the battle between the humans and the goblins, Amutar hid in the darkness, waiting for an opportunity.

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“Goblin! Damn it, they broke the fence!!”

“How did the goblins manage to use the mana bombs…?”

That’s not important right now! Bring a bow! Even a crossbow! Bring a shield so we can block their shots!!”

Avi Gyu-hwan.

The villagers of the warriors gathered around the holy sword.

Among them were Lucius and me, tied up with ropes.

Why did we come here?

It’s because the village chief’s son threatened Lucius and me and brought us to the altar of the holy sword while pointing a gun at Lucius.

To negotiate.

“Goblins, calm down! This is the warriors’ village with hundreds of years of history! You know what will happen if you attack this place recklessly!!”

“Nothing will happen. Kreuk.”

The village chief grabbed his shoulder and started negotiating, and one of the elders, who seemed to be the leader of the goblins, stepped forward and sneered at the village chief.

“The reason this place has been safe so far is because there was nothing to gain by raiding here. Rather than raiding you guys, it would be better to just raid the mercenaries passing by here and make more money.”

“But why?!”

“Because I started smelling delicious prey. Kreuk.”

The goblin elder’s eyes turned to me.

The humans’ gazes were also fixed on me.

“As expected…!”

“You came after the Witch of Disaster…..!”

“I told you, she’s a magician of red lotus.”

Jijiri didn’t listen to anyone. Even though I was lying, none of them could tell the truth from lies.

“I-If I hand over this woman, will you back down?”

“Yes, Kreuk. If you hand over the woman, I’ll spare your lives.”

“You goblins….”

“What? On that topic? Hey, you want a taste of the black bomb?!”

“Oh, no…”

Whether human or goblin, they would bow their heads in front of a power that could harm them.

The humans had no choice but to face the enemy while tensely waiting in front of the goblins who used mana bombs to destroy the fence.

In case there was another one.

“You can live if you just hand over the woman, right? What are you doing…?”

“Red Witch! Offer the Red Witch’s blood!!”

The village chief’s wife screamed.

“In order to avoid the death that is coming, you must offer the Red Witch’s blood! Squeeze!!”

The village chief’s wife, who was a human but made strange noises even more strange than the goblins, was crazy.

She was probably a woman who was quite sensitive to the demonic energy flowing out of me, and at the same time, she must have felt my energy and become exhausted because she was in a mentally difficult situation in many ways.

“Let’s cut off the Red Witch’s head!”

“No, let’s hand her over to the goblins!”

The problem is that the situation is going as if the witch in her words is pointing at me.

And the real problem is….

“Oh, no! Everyone, Master isn’t just a witch! She’s a hero who defeated the Demon King and sealed herself away!!”

Lucius was screaming with a face that looked like he was about to cry and blood was dripping from his shoulder.

“Handing Master over to them now is the same as offering up a hero to the Demon King’s army! Please calm down!!”

“How can a woman who isn’t even real be called a hero.”

“I’ve never heard of the Red Lotus Magician in my life!!”

“What do you know! That girl called the name of the Demon King that shouldn’t be called! Then tell her to go and die!!”

Those humans who lived with all kinds of demons in the Middle-earth would panic in a situation like this. I could guess how the residents of this village lived without a sense of crisis.

“In my time, the humans would form a raiding party and attack before the demons even approached.”

It was a new experience.

Five hundred years ago, when I attacked a human village, the humans waited in the forest first to avoid a battle in the village and then attacked the Demon King’s army.

What are humans doing now, not even elves!

I learned from the elves, you bastards!

I vividly remember the records of fighting the guerrillas in the forest before going to the village.

In particular, the Ranger unit that was camped in the castle once almost annihilated one of my legions.

That was it.

Why should a hundred humans be so scared against a small to medium-sized tribe of less than a hundred goblins?

I don’t know how he’s gotten so weak in five hundred years.

‘I need to take better care of Lucius’ Maybe the entire continent is like this, and Lucius is a very special being among them.

Maybe Lucius is the most outstanding fool of all the humans I’ll ever meet.

So I can’t kill him here.

I can’t die here either.

“Master is definitely not that kind of witch! Everyone, please…!”

“Stop. Blood is pouring out of my shoulder, Lucius.”

I stopped Lucius, who was trying to convince the villagers.

“If words don’t work out, I have no choice but to prove it with my actions.”

“Shut up! According to the legends handed down in our village, you are a disaster that will destroy not only our village, but humanity!”

Logic is needed to turn the situation around.

I quietly opened my mouth, recalling my memories from five hundred years ago, recalling one of the things I had experienced.

“Ah, I see. That was the curse left by the Demon King.”

“What…?”

“When I awoke from the seal and came to get the Holy Sword, it was a trap by the Demon King to kill me.”

He counters instigation with instigation.

“A long-standing tradition? Legend? Hmm, it must have been a trick passed down for hundreds of years to prevent the Demon King’s subordinates from breaking the seal on the Holy Sword. You foolish human. You’ve kept it a secret for generations, not knowing that you’ve been tricked.”

“Ah, no! That can’t bel! Your ancestors clearly said so!!”

“Offer the blood of the Red-Eyed Witch!! Kkieeeek!!”

“…?”

Is that true?

It was just a line he threw out to buy time, but I thought the village chief was trying to trick Lucius by saying something about me, but it seems that the legend that says ‘The Red-Eyed Witch will end this village’ is true.

‘She’s not wrong.’

Because the village of heroes will end today.

“Then I’ll prove it. The reason I came here. And… the birth of a new hero, for humanity.”

Sarak.

I naturally untied the rope.

I used my remaining magic to lightly bum one end of the rope, and the rope naturally untied.

“Rise, Lucius. My chosen hero.”

“Me, me…?”

“Yes”

I extended my hand towards Lucius.

“The master of the holy sword is you.”

“That magician is trying to awaken the hero now! Kill him!”

Along with the goblin elder’s fierce roar, the goblins all rushed towards us.