Chapter 59: From the eyes of a half-gobo

Although ‘certain factors’ should’ve slowed them down; Promicarus didn’t let it.

Being left alone with the newcomer Fuka surprisingly did little to alleviate the silence between them. She could make the excuse it was because they were technically escorting the girl but this wasn’t the case. The reason was that Fuka felt cautious of the girl. This wasn’t because she was antagonist towards Elizabeth Jr. but something deeper… The fact she could match up with Eel despite that child being a monster.

How could Eel be a monster child if they could find someone as good as her by just visiting a few villages? If that was the case why even bother having a governing class since just pissing off some random village girl could wipe out your nobles. In fact a lot of things would fall apart if just anyone could become as strong as those two so quickly while so young. Maybe Promicarus was some old monster who only seemed young yet Fuka didn’t feel that was the case; nobody that old would be as obvious with hiding something or hold back to not destroying a village or two when they find someone they want to fight. 

Thankfully Promicarus didn’t leave everything to Fuka so anytime they ran into any problems the suspect made short work of it. While she had only used the one summon against Eel while they fought in the earlier village… It appeared Eel wasn’t the only one who held back during that confrontation. On that topic it also seemed that Promicarus was working through some things as she had taught an ogre a very important lesson that Fuka couldn’t help but believe was meant to be targeted towards someone else – a very familiar purple haired, hunting obsessed, nature loving someone.

“I hope thou hast made peace with thine god lowly beast of flesh muhahaha!” <Promicarus>

Regeneration can only get you so far.

Fuka guessed this ogre was probably an evolved goblin exiled from the tribe mentioned in the request their leader had taken; what she understood was that this simple situation of goblins taking residence in ruins became more troublesome. Regardless of that it was common as a noble woman being outcast for being ‘defiled’ as it was for an ogre to be kicked out their previous tribe after evolution. Difference being that at least the goblins have a some valid reasoning when kicking out an Ogre in Fuka’s opinion.

They are giant brutes packed with muscles but are dumb as bricks compared to hobgoblins. Not only that but compared to their smaller less muscular kin an ogre requires far more food – if it was just that the goblin tribes may put up with them though. They were after all war tanks who could regenerate from most wounds while being immune to common poisons due to sheer size as well as vitality of them. What made goblins kick them out was a mixture of them being dumb, hungry & horny.

To put it simply they were often cannibalistic – if they were hungry after evolution they often just grabbed the nearest goblin and took a bite out of it.

Worse than even that was they were as horny as any goblin race was. If they were just horny evolved goblins that may be fine but they were hulking giants that stood at least 10 foot tall. The muscle rod between their legs was as big and ugly as you’d expect with a set of equally devastating orbs full of virile cement mix. Forcing that into a woman or cute looking hobgoblin and you have a recipe for destruction even before they explode inside of the poor recipient!

Goblins may like breeding but they didn’t like letting their ‘toys’ be destroyed due to the brutish unregulated actions of an ogre. They could only get access to so many women to breed after all so having them become useless (even if they survived) due to a horny ogre was not worth it; plus less breedable women meant less new goblins birthed successfully. Though she had heard some stories about the {Cult of Voluptas} using desperate women to breed an army of ogres’.

Regardless of them a tribe as big as the one allowed to build up in that old church would no doubt have a few goblins that evolved down the ogre route. Fuka couldn’t help but wonder why the ogre would be this far out instead of just attacking the nearest source of fresh meat; the village. It could be said the most dangerous thing about goblin tribes weren’t the goblins or the hobgoblins but the rogue ogre’s that were kicked out. A starving ogre was easily a D+ rank threat but that was if they were without weapons. If they weren’t far from a human settlement when they were evolved – thus not starved – they would become a C- at least so that village  next to the goblin tribe in the church still remaining alive was… A mystery.

Fuka didn’t get to think upon this though as 4 rifts appeared around Promicarus – summoning four cloaked human shaped puppets. From their gear they held in their hand she had fully summoned a party of tank (shield + sword + heavy metal armour), attacker (two handed battle axe + light metal armour), rouge (bow + daggers + cloth armour) and mage (staff + leather armour). To say the paladin was shocked was an understatement but watching the black figures in action she couldn’t help but frown behind her helm. It should be unsurprising since they were all controlled by one individual but they moved perfectly when challenged by the un-jolly green giant.

“Thou hast a death wish? Very well~!” <Promicarus>

As soon as the giant’s fist collided with the tank’s shield the attacker had already begun swinging their axe to chop it off at the wrist. The attacker stepped away as the ogre tried to grab it with it’s remaining hand only to receive an arrow in the eye. Howling in pain over the sudden turn of events it covered it’s injured eye with it’s remaining hand a fireball shot out from the mage to hit straight into the monster’s mouth to end it’s howl. Though it was replaced with a far more chilling noise… Could Elizabeth Jr defeat an ogre?

No doubt she could.

But could she do it so efficiently with others? No, Elizabeth Jr would’ve likely just cut it’s head off or punctured through its heart which admittedly may be faster than what the four puppets in front of her could do. It also could be argued that if Elizabeth Jr. were to fight against such a well oiled team she may struggle at first. She also wasn’t sure how strong the puppets in front of her were but, if they possessed a fraction of the strength of the giant puppet she’d heard Promicarus used before, could Eel win?

The ogre fell back while gripping it’s neck – it’s eerily silent screams only caused the fire within its mouth to become worse. This was because the flames ate up any oxygen the beast had which made it try to breathe in more – that just brought the fire deeper inside the beast. Maybe the worst thing was that it wouldn’t be able to kill the giant due to its strong vitality nonetheless it soon fell backwards and landed with a giant thud before the rogue brought out it’s knives. On command it slowly ‘dismantled’ the ogre alive who was unable to do much else as when it did try to attack with any limbs that limb was removed from the joint with the axe before cauterised with fire from the mage.

“I may hast vowed to give thee death natheless I spoke nothing of the speed upon which it would be bequeathed. Thou should take this time to contemplate thine stupid actions of stepping to challenge this one. Only that one has the right to fight myself!” <Promicarus>

From that point on the ogre was slowly cut up piece by piece. Carved up while alive but in constant suffering as it’s vitality was literally chipped away at by the three puppets. The tank had meanwhile moved to stand in front of Promicarus to remove any hopes the evolved goblin had of the puppets suddenly stopping this torture; sharing blood with the ogre Fuka couldn’t help but shiver at the sight while hugging her torso due to her discomfort.

Promicarus wasn’t a member of the party but closer to an employer so as a professional Fuka didn’t say anything. She was sure that the ogre must have just recently evolved. so since it evolved it likely didn’t need any more than a single punch to take out any problems that came up to itself resulting in great confidence. Yet here it was coming from the peak of its life to the horrifying end of it.

Even if it wanted to stop it’s suffering it was too tough to do it.

The paladin just had to close her eyes to it though, if the ogre didn’t die the village behind them would likely have all the prosperity they’ve experienced destroyed. The village did have a D-Rank party but the damages from the ogre would be major – it was questionable whether that party was equipped to deal with a monster like an ogre. Because of that, she just waited for Promicarus to finish before walking once again while hoping that silly leader of hers came sooner rather than later.

With Eel being who she was, it didn’t take her long to actually catch up to the pair as they finally arrived at the village during the evening.

“It seems like we’ll be going to see my extended family tomorrow…” <Fuka>

“Mhm~ hopefully something exciting will happen tomorrow fufufu~!” <Eel>

“It does seem like it won’t be as simple as an extermination…” <Emily>

“Never is when church involved.” <Lyada>

“I am still a paladin ya know?” <Fuka>

“One that isn’t sexist though~!” <Eel>

So they decided to visit the village chief for now.