Barbarian, Back to the Dungeon (4)
“Haak...! Haak...!”
The pain was tearing at my lungs.
But more than that, Netia’s chest was hurting her a lot.
It was the physical shaking, but her heart hurt more.
‘Barca-nim...’
The savior who saved Netia.
A kind person who accepted her unreasonable request even though he could have ignored her.
Netia, who could feel his kind heart despite the barbarian label, felt very uncomfortable in this situation.
“R-right now, we have to go back immediately!”
So Netia told the party to go back immediately, but...
“W-what!? What crazy talk! The barbarian is blocking us, so we have to run away quickly!”
“Barca-nim is our savior who saved us! How can we leave him like that...!”
“What does that mean! After all, he’s a barbarian!”
“Yes, Priestess Netia! If one barbarian dies, it’s a great blessing for Aurelia!”
All of them were saying to abandon the savior.
“Originally, Netia, if you hadn’t been there, that barbarian would have done all sorts of dirty things to you!”
“That’s right, Priestess! You know barbarians are a species whose brains are filled with lust!”
“That’s right! By abandoning that guy, Netia can live!”
These were the people she wanted to save.
Netia closed her eyes tightly at their dirty inner thoughts.
Paaak—!
Netia slapped Nes’s hand that was holding hers while running.
“Netia? What are you doing right now...!”
“Nes, I’m going back to Barca-nim.”
“Going back means you’ll see something worse than death! That barbarian won’t hold on, and if we go back, only goblins will be left! Those bastards use humans as mothers!”
“Yes. That’s right, Jeti. Terrible monsters. I don’t want to go back either.”
“Then...!”
“Beasts repay kindness. Right now, you’re doing worse than beasts. I’m a young lamb who serves the Goddess of Sea and Life. I don’t want to do something that doesn’t meet the eyes of the Goddess.”
“Netia! What are you saying, that barbarian is dead! He went to meet the Goddess! But why are you going back! Netia...!!!”
No matter what Nes said, Netia turned back the way they came, regretting only why they didn’t return earlier.
Netia prayed to the Goddess for his safety and urged her steps.
***
Kaaang!
A spear pierced the shield. I blocked it and immediately turned my body.
This time, a sword.
I blocked it and tried to counterattack, but...
Chwaak—!
‘Tsk.’
The hand reaching to counterattack was cut by a sword flying from another direction and I had to crouch again.
If they just fought head-on, I would have killed them immediately.
Kerak!
But the bastards were very cunning, not thinking of facing me head-on, using their advantage of mobility to push me.
“Damn wolf riders.”
Yes, wolf riders.
One of the goblin troops, a nightmare on the 4th floor, and there were four of them.
Kaaang!
They had perfect coordination and didn’t show openings for counterattacks.
If there was even a tiny gap, swinging an axe.
Ting...!
The poison arrows flying like that restricted my actions.
“Haa...”
Damn, what was that woman saying.
It wasn’t like I was swayed by a woman’s warmth after a long time.
But it was worth it.
If those guys hadn’t run away, I could have dealt with the wolf riders.
Kaaang!
“Risky.”
I almost got my chest cut while thinking about something else.
Kerak━! Kerarak!
The appearance of desperately raising the axe to block made the wolf rider bastards laugh.
“Haa...”
Even if I dragged this out, would a gap open?
With four wolf riders and poison arrows, I couldn’t pierce through without damage yet.
Then.
I had to gamble.
I lowered my head and let my arms hang loose.
Kerakerarak!
The leader of the goblin tribe couldn’t contain his joy.
After all, a barbarian who broke into the village and stole the playthings and mothers had his arms dangling.
He must have realized it’s not possible?
But it was already too late.
That barbarian would die after immense pain.
Stealing mothers and playthings?
He deserved to die a thousand times!
So the leader ordered the wolf riders to neutralize me and bring me back.
Kerarak! Kerak!
Then the shield goblin next to the leader shouted.
Don’t ignore that barbarian.
He thought of some scheme.
But the leader ignored his subordinate’s words.
Barbarians are just strong and stupid species. Sometimes they kidnap female goblins, but those guys weren’t very smart either.
So the leader ignored the shield goblin shouting beside him and continued the order.
Kerak!
The wolf rider rushed at me again.
The target was the shield. The blunt blade, combined with the wolf’s charge, was an unstoppable force.
So the wolf riders, the leader, and all the goblins here.
When they were most confident of victory.
Huu...
Smiling.
Kooheung!
The wolf rider, feeling ill at ease at my smile, quickly bent the wolf and swung the sword.
Kagagak!
The stripped shield. The wolf rider finished his role and desperately turned back, kicking the wolf repeatedly, but...
Kerak!?
I didn’t move at all while holding the wolf’s tail.
The wolf rider, getting goosebumps at the sight, tried to abandon his partner.
Woawoawo━━━!!!!
I roared and simultaneously lifted the wolf and brought it down.
Kwang——!!!
The wolf pinned to the ground convulsed, and the wolf rider was crushed under the wolf he was raising, a shocking sight.
Kerraaak...!?
The leader, startled, urgently ordered.
All three wolf riders charge at the same time!
Then the wolf riders split into three directions and rushed at me.
Kerraaak!
If three wolf riders charging with vigorous cheers, I could finish it. I was confident I could handle a barbarian without a shield.
What was this unease?
The leader, with an unyielding unease, had prepared other goblins.
Woawoawo———!!!!
His unease became reality.
I rushed at the charging wolf instead and brought it down.
With a big sound like a magic explosion, the wolf buried in the ground. When the wolf rider jumped from the recoil, I didn’t miss and grabbed him.
Then I lifted his face and threw him from the sky!
Kwaaang!
Power night.
In the Middle Ages, the appearance of the best entertainer technique never seen before made everyone tremble.
Kerraaak!
The remaining wolf rider rushed at me who had just landed.
The two rushed from front and back, thrusting spear and sword.
Puuuk—!!
The spear pierced the side, and the sword dug halfway into my arm.
Moreover, the two wolves they rode had one leg each bitten!
Kerak!
Good, I could win.
It wasn’t invincible. So I got injured like that!
The leader, boasting about the wolf riders’ performance, ordered them to finish it.
But they didn’t move.
The first one, the wolf rider who thrust the sword, had his head smashed.
At the same time, I pulled out the sword stuck in my arm and stabbed the wolf’s head into the ground.
I didn’t stop there and immediately turned my body, clenched both hands, and raised them high into the sky.
And then swung them.
Kwadeuk!
The wolf’s head disappeared. Only the wolf’s teeth remaining on my legs told that the guy existed in the past.
Kerak!?
The last remaining wolf rider panicked and tried to pull out his spear, but I, having trained my side too, had immense strength and couldn’t pull it out.
No, rather, moving with the spear stuck in, I stabbed deeper... and grabbed the wolf rider’s hand.
Kerraaak...!!!
The wolf rider screamed in fear in a situation where he couldn’t move.
Huu...
I didn’t care. I used the other hand to grab the goblin’s head and pushed it into the spear handle.
Kwaduk...!
The wolf rider offered his life on the spear.
...Kerraaak!
At that sight, the leader felt fear.
The barbarian running without caring for his body, or rather.
To the goblin leader who had lived in the dungeon for a long time, it was alien.
More alien than monsters, an eerie existence.
A being that runs ignoring pain.
It was impossible.
That was a being that shouldn’t exist.
Kerraaaak———!!!!
The leader, drenched in fear, ordered.
Kill it.
Kill this monster——!!!
On the leader’s fearful command, the goblins screamed and rushed at me.
Woawoawo———!!!!
Then I also rushed with a war cry!
The goblin looking at the approaching barbarian with a terrified face closed his eyes and swung his sword.
Chok—, with a sound, blood spurted.
This gave the goblin confidence that he could do it to the barbarian.
Kwaang—!
I grabbed the goblin’s head and slammed it to the ground.
A flower of blood blooming on the ground. Other goblins, hesitating but rushing, but I didn’t hesitate.
I threw the abandoned sword at the goblin’s head. The goblin couldn’t avoid it and died instantly.
I didn’t stop there and rushed, grabbing the goblins on both sides, and performed a head durability test.
Kwang—! When two heads collided, what remained was my blood-soaked hand.
Kerraaak...!!
Losing ground.
Kwaang—!!
One barbarian.
Kwang! Kwaang——!!!
Even without proper weapons, bare-handed and barefoot, my body was like an extremely honed weapon.
Kwaaang——!!
Whenever I moved, the leader lowered his hand to the subordinates dying one after another.
Kerak!!
Pew pew pew!
Kerak!?
Kerak!!!!
Unconditional shooting without caring about his own kind. The goblins hit by it screamed and gradually fell.
And this was the same for me. I couldn’t block the pouring poison arrow barrage, and poison arrows were stuck all over my body.
Kerak! Kerarak!
At that sight, the leader was satisfied. Now that barbarian was finished too. I was confident I could catch that monster like a nightmare.
But I was confident.
“Huu...”
Kerak!?
I ignored being stabbed by poison arrows and kept running.
Woawoawo———!!!!
When the remaining goblins shot poison arrows vigorously, I lifted something...!
“Friend Shield, you bastards!”
In my hand, two goblins were held, receiving all the poison arrows being shot at me.
The barbarian who approached in an instant.
While the poison goblin bastards were panicking and reloading, I pierced through them.
Uwaaaak————!!!!
Running, and running again.
The barbarian who charged using two goblins as weapons and shields finally pierced all goblins and stood in front of the leader.
“Huu. Are you the leader here?”
Kerraaak...!
Shoot the barbarian quickly!
The leader shouted like that, but there were no moving goblins.
Kerraaak...
Many goblins had already died, and even the wolf riders, who could be called the leader’s elite, were dead.
Now he was just an old, sickly goblin.
The leader gave his eyes to the shield goblin, the last bastion.
Kerak.
The shield goblin, having already experienced the barbarian’s terror, didn’t hesitate and immediately left the spot.
Now only the real barbarian and the leader remained.
“Huhuh.”
I moved with a blood-soaked body.
Gradually, slowly.
The leader, suppressed by the spirit of that barbarian, couldn’t go anywhere and just watched.
The leader saw me lifting the body of the goblin subordinate following him.
The leader thought it was his end and closed his eyes tightly, but...
...Kerraak?
Nothing happened. The leader secretly opened his eyes, and I was still holding the goblin.
Ke, Kerararak!
Finally, the poison took effect! The leader, who no longer moved, sang a victory song.
Threatening me?
The leader who governed the goblin tribe and would one day become a great hobgoblin?
The leader vowed to give me the greatest pain he knew.
And the barbarian looking at such a leader, I sighed.
“Damn it.”
It was just a little bit more, really just a little.
If I killed the leader, the goblins would scatter on their own, and with the antidote Luna gave, I would return to Aurelia.
The most excellent choice disappeared, and what remained was just an old goblin happily looking for a sword in front of me.
“Haa...”
To die so emptily, also on the 4th floor.
Since I had recovered my health, I wanted to see the end of the dungeon I couldn’t in my previous life.
The end of it was the old goblin’s last stand.
It was so shitty, and so regrettable.
Kerararak——!
The gods had already abandoned me.
I had to hope he wouldn’t hurt as much as possible.
“Hai...! Haa...!”
At that moment, a panting voice came from among the clattering goblins.
It was the voice I heard.
“Qure———!!!!”
The voice I wanted to hear most!
The paralytic poison that had invaded my body was washed away by the holy power, and I lowered my head.
Ke, Kerak?
“It’s good when you’re dancing the sword dance and going crazy, right?”
A gift, you bastard.
The goblin with swollen limbs. That was the last memory of the old goblin who was the leader.
Kwaaang———!!!!