Earth Dungeon 20

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Chapter 20. Goblin King

The Goblin King was retreating through the ruins in a torrential downpour. The water bounced off them, fangs bared in frustration.

It had expected it to eat plenty of humans this time, but its army was unexpectedly easy to disintegrate. That was due to the presence of an unfamiliar magician among the enemies. I didn't feel any strong magic power. No, it felt like weak magic power, and the goblin easily defeated the humans. It doesn't even know what kind of magic they used. It had never seen anything like this before.

If the magic was strong, they would run away and hide until things cooled down. If the magic was weak, they wouldn't harm its army in the first place. However, with magic that would have caused only a scratch, its men were blinded in both eyes and deprived of the ability to fight.

There is no returning to the dungeon. The freed goblin king intends to live freely. It was thinking of hiding out in the forest to buy some time in hiding.

Pow!

The head of the goblin shaman running behind him falls, splattering fresh blood and pieces of flesh.

"Guga! It's a musketeer! Move to the shadows! [Strengthen Guard]"

Realizing that shooters were hiding and ambushing, it shouts in panic and uses its unique skills. Goblin knight and goblin shaman's bodies glowed red, even their eyes turned red, and they quickly jumped into the abandoned building with their troops.

"Acting according to the theory. Good work."

Shizuku looked ruthlessly at the Goblin King's troop hiding in the rain, caught by surprise. While sprinting through the corridors inside the abandoned building. She can share the vision of the shadowy eyes of Sakimori-san. My mana is getting depleted, so I can only check for a moment, but it doesn't matter. I could already grasp the enemy's position.

"Goblin king. It always moves according to theory and prefers solid combat. [Strengthen Guard], it multiplies the status of up to 30 vassals by 1.5. It can link his wills and move like one swarm."

She runs through the building and turns a sharp corner to finish her move to the next sniping point.

"It's great for solid combat, but lacks application, and the advantage of maneuvering your troops with one will is a disadvantage."

With a shakiri and hunting rifle ready, she confirmed the appearance of the enemy walking cautiously and smiling lightly.

"If the enemy hasn't been detected, I need to search vigilantly, but they form an even circle with itself at the center, 15 meters apart. So if I can locate 2 enemies, I can find out where the other enemies are."

She finds the knight and points her gun in the wrong direction. It's a corner of a building corridor, and nothing was there.

"So here's what happens."

She pulls the trigger, and a bullet shoots out of the muzzle of her hunting rifle. Just as the deadly mass of iron passes the corner of the passageway, the shaman comes face to face and blows its head off, as if it had come to hit it.

Impatiently, as the enemy stops, Shizuku runs out again, moves to the next sniping point, and pulls the trigger again. No longer aiming, she shoots casually, but the bullet blows the shaman's head off as she walks away. Precisely, as if she could predict the future.

"While the shaman is present, the goblin king doesn't change formation to take advantage of the rear guard. And its stride and movement are constant because they're moving with one person's will, and with a little prediction, I can easily make a predictive shot."

She says calmly and matter-of-factly, and as she runs again, she discards the empty casings from his hunting rifle and quickly replaces them. The clang-clang sound of empty mags echoes through the hallway.

[I can do the predictive shooting, I don't think. Only MShizuku-san can do that, okay? Shizuku-san, your movements are getting snappy again.] 

Sakimori is beyond impressed, and tsk tsk tsk in dismay. What is this girl? Does she have the ability to predict the future or high-speed computing?

"I can handle combat-related skills beyond the limits of my level. So, this kind of thing is a  trivial matter."

She climbs the stairs and slides, then stands on her knees and points her hunting rifle again toward the building where the enemy is hiding.

"Kukuku. You'll die without ever showing the performance you have."

With a muffled laugh, Shizuku pulls the trigger again, her semi-long, lustrous black hair fluttering in the air. Likewise, another shaman died as if she was coming to hit it.

"I'll keep sniping until the rear guard gets destroyed. If I get bonus time, I'll take out the knight too."

[Bonus time?"]

"It means only newcomers can use bits in a multifaceted attack."

Grinning mischievously, Shizuku takes down more and more shamans with the same action. And so it was that she had just defeated 5 of them.

The goblin king must have been frustrated by its inability to catch the constantly moving Shizuku. She made the shaman stop and raised its twisted staff in its hand to start chanting.

Shizuku waited for that moment. She stood defenselessly, abandoned her prudence, and pulled a bullet from her gun belt.

"I have been waiting for this. Range magic to the entire perimeter. The chanting is long. It will make the enemy defenseless."

With a twinkle in her eyes, she estimates all the enemies' locations. It intends to burn the surrounding area with powerful ranged magic. Meanwhile, king can't move to concentrate.

"It's the same with the goblin knight. I'll let them shoot fishing jars until the chanting is finished."

[Hyper Reloader]

The bullets in her hand begin to glow. It's a support martial art. It's a technique that transcends the laws of the earth in which bullets are caged into a gun and reloaded for a certain period. That's a technique she can use at skill level 3.

[Rabbit Shot]

Shizuku pulls the trigger in rapid succession, and even though it is a two-shot hunting rifle, the bullets are caged in the gun like a fully-automatic machine gun, and they never run out.

A goblin shaman tries to create a fireball the size of a man. A goblin knight standing still, motionless in a passageway or its corner.

The bullet flies to its head and dings it precisely. For enemies standing where the projectile cannot pass through, it hits the wall and ricochets, striking them without dampening its power.

Tararararara, the sound ends up echoing like a machine gun. When the effect of the martial arts wore off, and the bullets in their hands ran out, the goblin knights and goblin shamans were pierced through their heads, and all of them fell with a spray of fresh blood.

Empty shell casings pile up at Shizuku's feet, and the girl smiles as she slings her hunting rifle over her shoulder.

"Goblin shaman's greatest magic, [Great Fireball], has a chanting time of 8 seconds. During that time, it leaves the other subordinates defenseless, which is goblin king's greatest weakness. To use magic, it doesn't have the resources to wield its consciousness for anything else."

[Ho~]

"With 8 seconds, attacking with a gun using martial arts is a chance to take down other enemies like a duck shot. Now all that's left is goblin king."

Shizuku accurately sees through all of her enemies. That's one of those frames that shows that her actions are not only based on her combat sense but also a huge amount of information.

[Goblin king is enraged, though.]

Just as Shizuku says calmly,

"Guoh-oh! I won't allow it, you!"

Goblin king, who was at the center and controlling its men, roars out in a rage and leaps out, clad in lead-colored metal armor and holding a slippery, purple-wet greatsword in his hand. It rushed toward the unprotected Shizuku, like a dump truck full on the gas pedal.

It was seething with rage, and a red aura covered s body.

"[Rage] increases his attack power, greatly reduces his dexterity, and its unique skill [Goblin King Armor] makes the great sword in its hand sharper and more durable, and its armor increases his defense and greatly reduces its weight. It's important to note that the clothes worn under the armor also have the same hardness as the armor in the area of effect, and a 9mm bullet will only give a dent. If it's only a graze, it has [Regeneration] that heals instantly. The only way to defeat it is with high firepower that can take it down instantly. It takes a storm of armor-piercing bullets to take it down."

She explains as she leisurely watches goblin king, who is approaching staggeringly, stepping like a pile-driver and making holes in the concrete.

That's a whole new knowledge for Sakimori, who have never had the option of fighting it before. Even the people in the inner city probably don't have that much detailed information.

She pointed her hunting rifle and pulled the trigger. Goblin king's head tilts slightly, but it doesn't lose its head. She aims at the slit in the full helmet that covers its face, but her aim is off, and she hits the helmet, only to make a dent.

"Did you see that? Due to the metal armor that completely covers the body and the lower clothes that covers the gap, any half-hearted attack can't get through."

[I don't know how the national army is defeating them, but from what I see now, it looks tough.]

Sakimori guessed that they probably beat them with heavy machine guns or bazookas.

[So. How do you take that guy down?]

"The explanation now also explains goblin king's weakness. Watch. I'll defeat it in an instant."

Without running away, Shizuku waits for it with a gun in hand. Goblin king ran through the passageway, leaped up the stairs in a single bound, and came right in front of her.

Carrying a large sword on its shoulder, it closed in on Shizuku, stepping hard, denting the concrete floor, scattering its debris, and closing the gap in front of him.

[Downflash]

A metallic click sounded, and the great sword swung down with the wind. Shizuku swayed and tried to evade, but the Goblin King's sword was as fast as a gale and as sharp as a guillotine.

Goblin king's sword was as sharp as a guillotine, it sliced off one of Shizuku's arms with a sharpness unbecoming of a great sword. The shock and the unexpected speed of the enemy caused Shizuku to fall blindingly. Goblin king looks down at the bleeding and mortally wounded girl with a sly grin.

"You seem to have underestimated me, human. What a pity!"

Laughing loudly at the fallen drop, the Goblin King shouts in triumph. Raising his great sword, he stomps his feet, lifts his chin, and looks up to the sky.

"Woaaaah, oh?"

It shouts like a gorilla's victory cry but is confused when it receives a thump and a jolt to the jaw, and its eyes widen as it tries to lower its head to see what happened.

There she is, the girl it thought it had beaten. She was holding a hunting rifle in one of her remaining hands and holding it to goblin king's jaw.

"You're not covered in metal. Your clothes are not in the way, and the part of you that could take you down with a single blow. You can make your armor hard enough to defend against even bullets, but your body remains in status. Even ordinary bullets can hurt you. When you get hit by a bullet that's further enhanced by my martial arts in the gap between your jaws, you're finished."

Goblin king was terrified and tried to move quickly, but it was too late, as the girl spoke calmly and nonchalantly, with no expression of pain on her beautiful face, even though it cut one of her arms.

[Hyperblitz]

As dark particles gather in the muzzle of the gun, a dark bullet is slammed into her jaw as she tries to avoid it. The bullets of the magical martial arts exceed the hardness of iron, and their destructive power has an energy that is not commensurate with a small lump of iron. The mass of energy ran through its brain instantly, crumpling and destroying it. And so goblin king bled from its jaws, lost its strength, dropped its great sword, and collapsed with a thud.

"Your weakness is that you will always scream in triumph. In your next life, I suggest you be reborn as a gorilla."

Shizuku knew that if she pretended to be knocked down, she would always raise her chin to scream triumphantly. She was aiming for that moment of defenselessness.

With a wry smile, Shizuku clamped her slashed arms together and collapsed with a thud.

[Change]

She switched places with the old man.

"You're being too physical!"

As expected of Shizuku, who sacrificed one arm to seek victory, Sakimori pulls back. But.

[If I fight the Goblin King normally, it will be a tough fight. If Sakimori-san had full mana, you would have chosen another option. If you attach your arm, it will recover in a day, and there is no problem].

Shizuku becomes a ghost and comes out. But I was useless this time. But, Shizuku, you said it was a piece of cake, right? No, it was a piece of cake, as I see it.

[Now you got the rare D-core. You got the bonus for leveling up. Let's also collect the armaments].

"Well, I'd like to think the drops were worth the physical effort."

I breathe a sigh of relief that the stampede is now over.

The sun was peeking through the clouds from the sky, and the rain had stopped before I knew it.