The Peerless Kobold - Chapter 50
“Liz, stand back. These kobolds are quite skilled.”
Liz’s Dad (temporary) held his saber out in front of him, while the other cat kin warriors slowly took their places, weapons drawn, half-surrounding us…
“Gurua, gauoonn.” (Chief, we’re surrounded.)
“Gaoan? Kuon.” (What are we going to do, big brother?)
Nggghh… Should we do a tactical retreat before these cat kin warriors completely surround us? Looking at how the situation was turning out, we might have to consider the option of just leaving these cat people alone and going back to our settlement.
However, those G’s would continue to attack villages indiscriminately as their numbers keep increasing with each raid, and if the threat becomes too great, then the Adventurer’s Guild will host an extermination expedition consisting of numerous parties of adventurers to wipe them out in one fell swoop.
(It doesn’t mean that the pack will definitely be safe, but if we don’t do anything now…)
Seeing that we were about to leave, Liz stood between us and the cat kin warriors.
“Put down your weapon, dad. And you guys too!”
“Liz, what are you…”
Obeying Liz’s order, we stopped pointing our blades at our opponents as we lowered them to the ground and relaxed our tense postures. Seeing this, Liz’s Dad (temporary) choked on his words.
“…Everyone put down your weapons. We don’t need to fight them anymore.”
After a few moments of observation, the cat kin warriors determined that we had no intention to attack and they similarly removed the weapons pointed at us and lowered them to the ground. It seems that Liz’s Dad (temporary) was the one leading them.
“Barrack, you too.”
“… Tsk.”
The cat kin warrior who got a taste of Dagger’s right uppercut was somewhat displeased, but he obeyed the order and lowered his weapon reluctantly.
After observing that our opponents had relaxed their stance, with the exception of Lancer who had to carry her spear, we sheathed our weapons. The cat people also did the same and sheathed their weapons one-by-one.
Seeing that the standoff had ended peacefully, the numerous cat people behind them also calmed down.
And like this, we were finally in a position to talk things over.
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“Thank you for saving our daughter.”
“Thank you very much.”
Liz’s father, Wallace, and her mother, Ermina, bowed their heads. Relief was etched all across Liz’s face, as she sat next to them after she confirmed that her worried parents were safe and unharmed. Currently, the riverside had become the gathering point for all the cat people who had fled, and they sat along the river bank gathered around with their families.
The sun had already gone down, but there was no campfire to be lit, since their kind could see at night as long as there was moonlight. Besides, they may also be trying to avoid having their whereabouts revealed by the smoke.
Since they could not make a fire, cooking any prey they hunted was out of the question, so the dinner consisted of berries and other fruits foraged from Easteria Forest. Liz, who sat beside me, also held a fruit that was handed to her by Ermina.
Well, it was normal for us kobolds to eat our food without cooking it through fire, so the rest of my companions went to procure their dinner on the north side of the forest which was across the river.
I was left alone to mingle with Liz’s family. And so, using my beloved stencil, I wrote on the ground to decide our next move.
“Where is the leader of your clowder?”
“Dad, is the Village Chief around?”
“No, he probably went to Wyald village to seek help.”
