Volume 2 - CH 6

Thinking about the current plan, what should we do in the one-in-a-million chance of the poison snake not falling into the pitfall? We’d have no choice but to just fight it normally. We’d just toss away the spears and use our swords like usual. But we also had to keep our distance.

Me, Rufina, and Darkle as the faster units should attract its attention, while the rest of us capitalize on and openings it makes.

Once we finished finalizing the plan, we heard a howl from Rufina. …Guess she found one. Although she didn’t know what a poison snake looked like, I told her to bring back any snake she finds. There shouldn’t be anything else around like that other than a poison snake.

So that’s probably it. We all hid in the bushes. …We could hear the sound of running. There was also the sound of something slithering across the ground.

“It’s coming. Everyone, get ready.”

“Right…!” The poison snake was a revenge match for everyone, so they were all raring to go. Rufina appeared within the gaps of the trees before noticing the pitfall’s location and rushing straight for it.

Behind her appeared the poison snake. …It was definitely big. Since it was coiled slightly I couldn’t say for certain, but it looked to be around two metres long.

The poison snake snapped at Rufina. However Rufina performed a magnificent jump to dodge out of the way.

The poison snake attempted to catch up with Rufina by slithering forward across the ground more, however, this led to it falling in the pitfall trap.

The moment the poison snake fell I shot forward in a sprint.

From what I could see in the hole, the poison snake was trying to climb up the pit walls. I used wind magic to push it back down. “Well done Rufina! Come out everyone! Let’s do this!”

I could see its face about two metres away. My wind magic had cut its face up as it was trying desperately to climb out.

The goblins came over and started stabbing it with their spears. The poison snake tried biting back at one of them but ended up getting stabbed across its body by other spears.

Slowly the poison snake’s cries of pain began to get a bit quieter. My magic was starting to get to the level that I could actually use it in battle. I used wind magic to cover the goblins from unnecessary danger.

The fight ended quickly. After poking the poison snake’s motionless body with my spear a few times just to be safe, I used some earth magic. I picked its corpse up with the ground and brought it back up to the surface.

I dismantled it with my knife and collected its parts. As expected, I could make an antidote potion with its fangs.

Right away I used the power of doctor to make an antidote potion.

“…H, how is it?”

I smiled at Darkle as he came over. “The antidote potion the goblin queen drank before was an E rank item. However with the materials this time I was able to make it C rank. It might be able to treat her.”

“Really!? Then let’s go back right away! Hurry, I want to save her right away!”

“No problem.” After dividing the work of dismantling the poison snake among us, we ran back to the village. “You really love the goblin queen huh.”

I couldn’t help but think it was a beautiful thing. But Darkle shook his head in surprise to my words. “No way, it’s not something like love. She’s not that sort of being. Right everyone?”

“Y, yeah… it’s not something like love. She’s… yeah, just beautiful.”

“Right… it would be disrespectful to be in love with her.” I guess she’s more of a goddess like existence to the goblins. Even the girls were nodding with them.

We hurried back while talking. Some mountain kongs and giant scissors got in our way, but we returned without any issues. Right away we went to the house the goblin queen was sleeping in and had her drink the antidote potion.

Upon drinking it, her eyes snapped open, and she woke up. Her body was so thin it looked like it would snap from a touch.

“…This is, I was fighting the poison snake and then-” She looked around the room in surprise before her eyes fell upon me. “…A, a human?”

Well she was surprised. …Her surprise felt a bit weird to me since she looked so much like a human from my perspective.

Darkle stepped in with an explanation. “He is called Crest!”

“…Y, you… By that scar on your eye are you-” She looked this way in surprise.

“Yes… since I’ve received a name I’m now Darkle.”

“Y, you’ve been named? I, in any case, thank you for saving me.” The goblin queen bowed with a smile. I kind of get what the goblins meant by it being rude to fall in love with her.

She was a priceless existence.