The Peerless Kobold - Chapter 169
A few moments before the Kobold Alliance approached the village and the Goblin Warriors dashed out to engage them with angry battle cries, the elite kobold unit observed the settlement from the bushes just outside the village…
(Hmm, I wonder how many guards they have left in the village…)
While waiting for Oswald and his group to come back from checking the blindspots around the village, I was running several scenarios about our current situation in my head when I picked up the faint sounds of rustling grass.
Everyone reacted to the minute sound and shifted their gaze to the bushes, including the mages who, perhaps nervous about infiltrating the enemy territory with a small number of people, turned around in a panic.
(Whew, I knew that smelled like Oswald and the others!)
While silently reassuring myself, I sent a hand signal to Oswald who had just come back from scouting the area. Just like the phrase, “when in a foreign land, do what the natives do,” I used the variation of hand signals that Silva’s pack used to communicate when hunting.
How was it?
Can’t see from here, but there are five of them.
So there are five guards on the northeastern side of the village… The northwestern side also has five guards, so there are ten of them all in all. Of course, we still can’t afford to be too careless at this point, but there was still something else worrying me.
Were they there?
No, neither the Greatsword one, the Twin Sword one, nor the one with a missing part of his ear was around.
(Tsk, so this is a miss.)
I thought that if the largely-built goblin and the tall and lean goblin we encountered in Easteria and the large, Cavalry Goblin Leader with a missing part of his ear were around, we could take them out one-by-one, but…
If they came along with the group that went out to fight with the main force, then we had to hurry.
While curbing my impatience, I proceeded to assess our situation with the information we had. The reconnaissance team found a total of 10 goblins who were put in charge of defense, including 1 High Goblin Warrior, 2 large Goblin Fighters, and 7 normal goblins that included archers.
After some more new bits of intel were added and preparations were made, everyone’s ears perked up as we heard the sounds of battle that were carried by the wind from the nearby battlefield which was on the southern part of the forest.
(So they’ve already started. We have to finish this quickly!)
After nodding grimly at each other, the mages, including myself, separated from the archers and secretly infiltrated the goblins’ village and stopped in front of the main building that was made of wood.
“Wao, garuoh!!” (Alright, burn it!!)
“Garuu, woruo.” (Yes, oh wise one.)
The fire mage Kusell had a twisted smile on his face as he placed his hands in front of his chest and focused his magic.
“Garufauh, kuruo voarufuh!!” (O ancient flames, return everything to ashes!!)
A high-temperature, high-density magic flame shot out from between his palms and into the building where monsters are bred as mounts for the Cavalry Goblins. The flames immediately clung onto the walls upon impact, turning from high-concentration fire magic to regular flames as it gradually spread out.
“Gaouaonn!!” (Make it bigger!)
“Guruaaaann!!” (Leave it to us!!)
“Wofuh, kuruaaann!” (O wind, go wild!)
It seems there was still a boar-type monster inside, so its cries rang out as the flames burned stronger while being controlled by the two wind users!
“Giuuh, giuruah!!” (O flames, consume the enemy!!)
“Vorufu, garufa!” (Tear them to pieces, Wind Blade!)
I immediately fired a Wind Blade at the goblin who came to check out the situation after being attracted by the flames.
“U-ua…a, giah…”
The blade of wind crushed the unfortunate goblin’s face and killed him, but the warning earlier invited the attention of the other goblins defending the village, and the large Goblin Warrior saw us as he came rushing into the village square.
“Gii, guagalgia giirukuh!!” (Tsk, shoot those dog bastards down!!)
As he yelled his orders while looking in the direction where the archer goblins had disappeared to, the large goblin drew his sword.
