2 days since Clementine Incident has passed.
Change of POV: Velzard
Two days since Clementine incident has passed, successfully marking 12 days since I arrived into this world.
I'm still unfamiliar with my body, my voice. I'm avoiding it mostly. Almost never showing my face, always wearing [Capitano's Armor], and barely taking it off when I try to eat something or bath.
And apparently, I don't need to use toilets, since everything I eat gets absorbed into my mind. Maybe turned into MP, who knows, it's not like System would answer that question.
And about my [Ice-Magic], I have theory that it uses different energy source than souls and MP considering that I dropped several [Ice-Magic: Giant Sword] in forest and not even one MP point has dropped.
And honestly, I'm scared.
I don't know what to do, yeah, it's all fun and interesting to be in fantasy world. But I miss my family, and before all, I miss my old body.
I'm afraid of even showing my face right now, i'm afraid I wouldn't be me anymore if I accept this body so easily.
I clenched my fists tightly.
I'm currently in SIlver-Ranked Inn, booking a room one for myself and one for Brain separately.
And right now, i'm not wearing my [Capitano's Armor], just Velgrynd Dress.
Funny thing I discovered when wearing [Capitano's Armor] is that underneath those clothes and armors are another clothes keeping my body warm.
I discovered it once I took of clawed gloves, and underneath those gloves were another black gloves but those were not clawed. And thankfully, underneath Capitano's Helmet is not another helmet, just my face.
Or rather Velzard's face.
In another words, anything I wear before equipping [Capitano's Armor] will be sent back to inventory before I un-equip [Capitano's Armor], any clothes will stay clean in another words.
It's bonus points for System I suppose.
I'm still lying on bed, thinking on how to deal with my issues.
Even, thanks to [Capitano's Armor] i'm able to deceive myself, but even so, deceiving myself will not last long. I need to accept this reality, huh?
I stood up from my bed before sitting on it.
"Would even still be me if I start to think of myself as Velzard? This all is just role-play for now.." I muttered to myself before hearing knocking from the doors.
~Knock!
~Knock!
~Knock!
In my haste I equipped [Capitano's Armor] before standing up in all my 'male' glory.
"You in here, Captain?" Called out male voice belonging to no one else but Brain Unglaus himself.
"Yes, what is it?" I asked as I walked up to door before opening it.
The moment I did so, Brain peaked inside for a moment before answering.
"We got a high level job, Captain. Coalition of Goblins and Ogres from west are starting up to some shady business to do. Apparently they already attacked one village, almost no survivors but are approaching next village by this time. Payment is 200 Gold Coins if we kill them all." He reported before glancing once more into my room.
"I could have sworn that I heard woman's voice from your room, Captain?" Then he grinned "Oh."
"It's your imagination, now how far away is this coalition ?" I replied.
"It's about 25 kilometers give or take, but considering that we were only ones available from Mithril-Class teams in E-Rantel, the Guildmaster of Magician guild lent two Magic Casters to summon floating board for us to travel there fast. It should take us 20 minutes more or less for us to arrive there."
I grunted before exiting my room and closing the door behind me.
"Then shall we not make them wait?" I said before I began marching away with Brain in tow with me. " Is there anything else I should be aware of?"
"No."
I grunted, we talked about more useless things before we exited the Inn and outside of it are two Magic Casters, both appear to be young men, barely reaching 20 at most. They are average looking with one having long blonde hair, reaching his waist with slight feminine look. Some people could have mistaken him for a girl if not for Adam's apple on his neck.
The second one seems to have shorter but black hair with sharp jawline. Both are about mine and Brain's height, 180cm more or less. Give or take.
They both are wearing usual black cloaks over them and 'witch's hat' on their heads while holding wooden staffs.
And behind them is transparent blue-ish floating board, the same one 'Momon' and 'Nabe' used with Magic Casters to come to Capital in second season.
"It's honor to meet Brain Unglaus and Famed Frost Knight Capitano himself." Bowed the black haired Magic Caster, " I'm Jakus, an Magic Caster in service of Magician Guild, due to extreme circumstances that are enveloping nearby villages we have been called to help you travel there. And this is my colleague.." He pointed at blonde haired feminine man.
"I'm Rilus Dogrey, Pleasure to meet you, sirs." He bowed swiftly.
"I'm Brain Unglaus, nice to meet you."
"I'm Capitano, shall we speed up to Coalition at this moment? The less time we waste, the better." I asked them, they both swiftly nodded before motioning for us to stand on floating board.
Both of jumped on it, before both Jakus and Rilus walked to be in front of board, before deciding to use their staffs as brooms to fly rise from the ground. With both of them rising slowly off the ground, floating board followed up.
Every second, rise became faster and faster till we are way above the E-Rantel city, enough so we can see beauty from the sky, but enough to be near clouds.
Fascinating, because [Fly] is 3rd Tier Spell so they can't use it probably, so they are using enchanted staffs to fly. Fascinating.
And what more fascinating is that, despite us flying at high speed, we are not falling from the board, it's as if Board itself is holding our boots. Not letting them to fall, conventional. And not to forget one meter walls that formed around the board, probably to keep us in if something were to happen.
"How large is this Goblin Coalition we are talking about?" I questioned Brain, but it was Rilus who answered.
"Sir Capitano, Goblin coalition from 2 days ago reports has numbers less than thousand. 900 Goblins and the leaders are Ogres, less than 50 Ogres from latest reports."
For Adamantite-Class Team, for them Goblins are no better than weak skeletons, but Ogres might be problem.
No wonder that payment is 200 Gold if every single one of them is eliminated, it's almost equal to low-level Orichalcum Quests.
I glanced at Brain, who seems to enjoy view from above.
Such numbers of weak enemies is nothing against me, but If i eliminate all of them I might be able to level up several times over.
I could delete them from the map with [Ice-Magic], but it might be dangerous to overuse that ability since I don't know what fuels it, what if it uses my life force ?
I can use [Dominion Authority] but that seems wasteful for mere Goblins. I should save it up if I need to escape or for my children if I ever have them.
Wait, children? Where did that though came from?!
No, I need to calm down.
I breathed for a moment before steeling my will.
I will kill them all with [Ice-Sword], my [Capitano's Armor] will get drenched in blood, and it will be pain in taking the smell off from it, or maybe there is another way to avoid blood getting on first layer of clothes.
I'm so stupid sometimes, I have control of [Ice-Magic] and I'm still worried over something like blood.
With that though, I imagined Ice, a very small layer of ice o cover my [Capitano's Armor], it did. I should also mention that I returned my coat into inventory before we left Inn since I'm going into bloody battle, I don't want it to be destroyed or drenched in blood.
A small layer of Ice coated my armor, it's barely noticeable, but due to shining sun, it's a bit transparent. But nonetheless, Brain noticed it.
"You enveloped your armor in Ice? Why?"
"I don't want it to be bathed in blood."
He snorted at that before turning away his head to continue looking at ground below us.
Nonetheless, at my next order, the same ice that covered my body broke into particles before falling off on the board.
This will work fine, it's easy to break but let's be honest, those Goblins will not be able to see me move, let alone touch me.
"Goblins in view!" Spoke Rilus.
Both me and Brain looked at where he is looking at, and from our point of view, there is numerous number of dots walking on ground, scattered all around the terrain.
The terrain in question is a small Village overrun by those dots and from the north side of the village is forest.
"This is way more than thousand!" Declared Brain as he stood up to pay attention to numbers of goblins.
"There are two thousands! No three thousands Goblins!" Called out Rilus, this is beyond their expectations.
"They all are scattered around, and there are more than hundred Ogres too." I spoke out, yeah. Goblins and Ogres are scattered around the village and nearby forest. They are not following any path or order.
They are simply walking around and some of them are even fighting against themselves.
"Hey Capitano! Is that trolls there!" Pointed out Jakus as he motioned at group of trolls in middle of this monster army.
There are several dozens of trolls, and in middle of them is War Troll, an advanced variant of Trolls, it's the same variant as the Giant from the East in the Great forest of Tob. I forgot his name, it was unimportant, he died in 3 minutes after being introduced after all.
"That's War Troll." I said, causing a gasp of surprise from Jakus and Rilus.
Jakus looked at army of monster for a second before glancing at Capitano.
"Sirs, with all due respect. This is something that only Adamantite-Class team can handle.." Replied Jakus, trying to persuade us to retreat probably.
I shock my head, if his eyes could have, they would have pooped out from his sockets .
"You are forgetting something here. I'm Adamantite-Class Warrior who albeit is still ranked as Platinum-Class yet I'm someone on par with Gazef. "Spoke Brain before motioning at Capitano. "And he is much stronger than me, if there is a time who could solve this, it would be us." He proclaimed.
At that, both Rilus and Jakus though for a moment, in their fear, they forgot that both warriors behind them were rumored to be on par with Adamantite-Class, one is rumored but other has been proven to be one ages ago.
"If we don't take any actions, there would be catastrophic consequences. This army of goblins wouldn't be able to take on a city like E-Rantel but smaller cities would bear consequences and nearby villages would be destroyed." I spoke, catching their attention. "And this huge army needs food source, and what better food for them than Human flesh nearby?"
Silence enveloped them, as both Magic Casters moved floating board slowly around the monsters army, but far above from Monsters vision.
"Goblins are not a threat, they are no better than lowly skeletons, the real threat would be Ogres and Trolls. " Spoke Brain " But their leader is probably War Troll if his position is anything to go by. Not everyone can just acquire this army of monsters. But if Troll tribe did so, it would have made sense." He scratched his chin in consideration.
"We will need to decrease their numbers quite a bit first. Brain you will take on that War Troll yourself while I will deal with others."
Brain chuckled at that before opening his mouth.
"I thought you said I was meant to take care of small fries?"
I groaned at that one. "You can't improve your strength while fighting against weaker opponents non stop. Trolls are stupid, true but War Troll is equal to Adamantite-Class Warrior, he should be enough for you to fight."
But Rilus interjected at that.
"But Sirs, even if you do manage to defeat significant number of right now. Some of them would still manage to run away and might still attack nearby villager." Inquired Jakus, this also new concern.
Hm?
"Yes, but in this exchange our top priority should be killing all trolls and Ogres. Remaining Goblins themselves wouldn't be much of a threat honestly. Annoying yes, but even if they attack nearby cities with their numbers alone, it wouldn't help them much. " Pointed out Brain, as expected from him. He is experienced.
"Yeah, I agree with Sir Brain's statement." Commented Rilus but he got interrupted by Brain.
"Call me just Brain, i'm not for Sir. "
Rilus smiled for a second before replying, " Then just Rilus would be also fine for me."
"Formalities aside. I and Brain would land in the center of their formation." I pointed at Trolls and their leader. " Eliminate their leadership than you two will quickly pick us up. Then we'll see on how to proceed our next actions from."
I turned my head at Brain to see him nodding at me. I motioned for Magic Casters to move us above Trolls.
"Trolls have regeneration, they would be able to heal blows directed even at vital points of their body. But fastest way to kill them would be piercing their heads for brain, cut their head or pierce their heart." I said before going for it, I won't have many chances like this. "Brain goes for brain." Ha!
I snorted to myself while two Magic Casters even in this grimly situated smiled.
But Brain.
"Very funny!" He huffed before unsheathing his Katana.
I turned to look at him, his hands are tight and firm. They are not trembling, I expected him to have fear for his alive right now, after all we are jumping straight into hear of enemy's territory.
"Are you not afraid?"
He glanced at me. "With you on my team, I don't have to be afraid of anything, especially these three thousands goblins. I actually pity them, they are not leaving alive."
Hmm good.
He trusts me enough to entrusts his life into my hands.
Don't worry, I will not let you die here.
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