Chapter 42
I broke the window that was blocked by the wooden plates and then entered the building. What I saw as soon as I entered the building was…
There were goblins with shocked eyes staring at me.
Making a guess based on their get-up…
Bingo…
It seemed the runt over there was the king.
The king was wearing extravagant clothes woven from red silk. It had a small crown on its head. It was an old goblin.
There were a total of four goblins in the room.
Two warriors, one shaman, and the king.
It seemed the king was at a bit of distance from combat.
The king was the goal of the boss room. Considering that, I was thinking he would be the strongest of them all. However…
Instead, the king was standing behind the other three goblins.
Appearance wise alone, the two warrior goblins looked pretty powerful.
I thought they might be even more powerful than the instructor goblins.
I wondered if these runts had skills.
If this was any other day, I would have calculated all sorts of things and tried to handle their attacks. However, right now, I just wanted to finish this boss room and go back to the waiting room.
I decided to go with a sure-kill move from the start.
I opened the Talaria’s Wings and spread them wide horizontally, and then…
[Blink]
I reached just right in front of the king using Blink.
The warriors and shaman that was in my path were hit by Talaria’s Wings and got pushed and thrown off to the back.
With cracking sounds, it sounded like they even broke the furniture around the back and rolled to the wall.
After that, none of them were able to get back up.
The sudden movement from Blink had concussive power.
Also, from a common sense stand point, considering the hardness and weight of the Wings of Talaria, those goblins couldn’t possibly get up like nothing happened.
The combination of Blink and Talaria’s Wings was my one shot kill move for a reason.
Talaria’s Wings was not directly connected to my muscles or nerves. However, it was connected indirectly at about one hand length away from my back, fixated in mid-air.
To put it simply, if the wings were pushed, my body was going to get propelled as well.
Because of this, the method was something that should not be used against an opponent with ma.s.s that was able to withstand the impact from the collision.
If the attack were to get blocked then the knockback from it was going to hit me indirectly, immediately leaving me defenseless.
However, against opponents like goblins, which had similar ma.s.s as humans, this combination attack was sufficiently effective as a sure-kill move.
With his guards thrown off to the back at an instant, the goblin king showed an unexpected behavior.
I thought it would charge at me out of desperation or run away in fear. However, instead, the king unexpectedly came to me and faced me. It started to say kaek kaek, trying to talk to me.
"Kiiiaaak. Kire Kiruk Kiruk."
‘I am sorry, but I don’t understand you.’
I quietly raised my sword as the response.
However, the goblin king’s behavior did not change.
Its eyes were calm. They did not shake. I could not find anxiety or fear in its eyes.
‘What is it thinking? What is it trying to tell me? As a reward for not making it bothersome by resisting… No. This is not it.’
To respect the king goblin for keeping its honor and not taking any shameful action, I decided to kill it in a clean, swift way.
I grabbed the king goblin’s shoulder, pressed the tip of my sword at its heart, and pushed it in.
By the sword being thrusted in with strength, the edge of the sword pierced to the heart without much resistance.
… The end.
The old goblin king slowly collapsed to the floor like a leaf falling in the air.
Right at the moment before its last breath, the goblin king’s eyes, which had been steadily staring at me straight, turned to somewhere else.
I wondered if he had a hidden triumph card up his sleeve, so I looked at the end of where its gaze was directed.
It was a highly decorated table.
A decorative table cloth was flowing below the table, and there were child goblins wearing ornate clothes.
He was hiding child goblins there.
Maybe the things that the goblin king was talking about before it died included something about those children.
Ah, my eyes met with one of them.
My eyes ended up meeting with one of the child goblins that were hiding under the table.
The child goblin was very surprised and twitched.
It seemed its body hit something on the table. There was a small noise.
Silence was flowing in the air for a moment. Of the children under the table, the one that appeared to be the biggest one walked out of the table by itself.
‘What the… It should stay in hiding. Why is it coming out? Ah, since it was found out, it must be thinking it is dead now. I don’t really have any intention of killing you too.’
The little goblin started to talk to me.
It seemed goblins had a tendency to say their last will to the opponent before dying.
However, there was a difference between this little goblin and the king goblin.
Unlike the king goblin, this little goblin was in tears with bloodshot eyes and screaming as if it was trying to make the room flood in its scream.
‘I don’t understand what you are saying, but I think I roughly get what you are saying.’
It was a foreign language I heard for the first time, but they said you could understand curses when you hear one. I realized it really was like that.
[You cleared tutorial, h.e.l.l difficulty, fourth floor]
[All of your status abnormalities and injuries will be recovered.]
[As a reward for clearing the floor, you obtained 1000 points.]
[As a reward for achieving the best clear, you obtained 1000 points.]
[There are many G.o.ds showing positive responses to you. You obtained 6300 points.]
[There are many G.o.ds showing negative responses to you. You obtained 1700 points.]
[Based on your play records, you are a.s.signed additional reward.]
[Many G.o.ds would like to give you a special skill instead of an additional reward.]
[Vote result: 12 yes, 7 no]
[Would you like to accept it?]
Instead of authority, it seemed they could gift skills as well.
‘They even took votes amongst themselves. How democratic.’
I accepted it.
[You acquired the knowledge of the time before Babel, Lv. 5]
Knowledge of the time before Babel…
I was able to tell the effect of this skill immediately.
I was starting to understand what the child goblin in front of me was screaming on top of its lung.
[The G.o.ds will definitely send punishment to you! You monster!]
To my ears, the goblin’s words still only sounded like beastly roar. However, despite that, its meaning was conveyed to me so clearly.
A portal magic circle appeared a few steps in front of me.
However, I couldn’t bring myself to walk.
The child goblin was still screaming at me. It said that I was violent and cruel, and that was the reason why I was born with hideous and pasty face.
To the little goblin, I wanted to say something back for myself. That was the reason.
I wanted to tell it that this was not my fault.
I wanted to tell it that I did not have any intention of killing them in the first place, and I was also a victim.
I wanted to tell it that I was dragged to the Tutorial, and I’m merely forcing