Weapon-Eating Bastard [EN]: Chapter 107

Weapon-Eating Bastard – Episode 107

A telepathic message echoed in my ear.

-Hu, man… Why, why interfere…?

-Kilik! Ki, kill… Kill… them….

They were undoubtedly high-ranking monsters.

Even for someone at the lowest rung of the 4th class, dealing with them alone wouldn’t be easy.

‘If I can avoid their special abilities, I can manage. I’m well-prepared.’

I swallowed hard and enveloped my entire body in Aura.

Kiiiiing!

Heukya spat out a rough sword cry.

A brief standoff.

The two demonkin flapped their membrane-covered wings, glaring at me, and I watched for an opening, focusing my Aura.

Suddenly, a tree caught in the magical storm staggered and slowly fell to the ground.

Neither side moved first.

Then, one moved, and the other followed immediately.

Almost simultaneously, the demonkin and I clashed.

Swish!

I had already anticipated the attack aimed at my waist.

Without Eunhan, I had to be a bit more careful with defense.

I immediately distributed my Aura to block the attack aimed at my waist and swung the quickly transformed Mujin.

-Kyaaaaaak!

The other demonkin in front instantly burrowed to the rear.

Flames erupted.

Magical formulas made of mana followed behind.

The flames were a feint. The magic was the real threat.

I immediately transformed my mana.

Jjeojeojeojeong!

The harmony of Spirit Mana Wall and Effenberg’s Chill.

The chill negated the flames, and the Spirit Mana Wall blocked the incoming magic projectiles.

I immediately rotated my Aura and thrust Mujin forward.

-Kieeeeeeeek!

A hallucination flashed before my eyes.

It’s okay.

I have the Evil Eye.

For a moment, there was a discrepancy between different senses and vision, but I managed to counteract it without much difficulty.

-Ki, ek. Th, this human. Stro, strong….

-To the king, a, a sacrifice, Kuruk! Tiehk……!

The demonkin clicked their jaws, which were gaping like those of ogres, and backed away.

‘If only I had the leeway to use Subjugation.’

I was certain after directly clashing with them.

I, who could resist magic and special abilities to some extent, had a favorable matchup against the demonkin.

And if I could plunge a Subjugation imbued with all my power into the demonkin, whose defense wasn’t as high as that of the Dragonkin, my victory would be assured.

‘Here I go!’

I activated magic with Amplification and wrapped lightning and a biting wind around Mujin and Heukya, respectively.

That’s when it happened.

‘What is that?’

I sensed something other than the demonkin flying in from the distant sky.

Immediately afterward, the world was engulfed in light.

Flash-!

Feeling as if a flashbang [a disorienting explosive device] had gone off, I squeezed my eyes shut and poured all my mana into defense.

The next moment, a thunderous explosion erupted a beat later than the descending light.

Jjeoeoeoeoeong!

Real lightning.

The smell of burning protein emanated from the demonkin struck by the lightning.

“Thank you, human. Thanks to you, the children survived.”

And then, a being appeared there.

A goblin.

But it wasn’t the one who had chased me away.

“Ha, Grandma!”

The baby goblin, who had been covered in Eunhan, rushed over and hugged the goblin tightly.

The goblin smiled, embraced the three baby goblins, and grinned at me.

“You’ve worked hard. Leave it to me from now on.”

‘A woman……?’

It was a giant woman wearing roughly made leather clothes.

The inside of my eyes throbbed again, but the pain wasn’t as intense as when I had seen the mountain god or the goblin who had forged Heukya.

This goblin was wreathed in lightning.

Its essence contained lightning (雷) [the kanji for lightning], one of the most intense forces in the sixty-four hexagrams spoken of in sorcery.

“The Elder hasn’t shown their face on the mountain in a long time, so I wondered what was going on, but it seems it was because of you.”

The goblin’s gaze flicked toward Heukya in my hand.

I gripped Heukya slightly.

“Don’t be too wary. I don’t like the smell, but I don’t dislike people like you. The Elder seems to dislike all humans, though.”

-Kieeeeeeee…….

Before the goblin, called Grandma, could say anything more, the demonkin, struck by lightning, began to writhe, twisting its body.

“The Elder told me not to… but I can’t just leave those who target the little ones alone. I won’t kill them, though.”

The goblin stretched out her hand into the air.

Jijijik!

Then, intense sparks flew, and something thick was grasped.

The goblin’s club manifested.

If lightning could be grabbed by hand, would it look like that?

Or would light have that shape if it had mass?

Gripping the roughly burning club, the goblin took a step forward.

Jjeok-

And the space was engulfed in light.

One strike.

With just one strike, the demonkin’s wings burst apart, and black blood splattered onto the rocky debris of the valley.

“The feel of it in my hands is still the best.”

The goblin could have dropped intense lightning like before, but she didn’t seem to want to, as she strode forward and engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

When the light flashed.

A hole appeared in the demonkin’s body.

Puh-uh-uh-ung!

The demonkin screamed strangely and rolled across the ground from the club attacks, which were swung at tremendous speed as if wielding a baseball bat.

-Ki geg, Keureureureuk…….

The two demonkin staggered and rose to their feet.

-Kyaaaaaaaak!

The two demonkin, bleeding and screaming, desperately flapped their remaining pair of torn wings and disappeared into the darkness of the mountain.

But feeling that it was somewhat lacking, the goblin suddenly looked at me.

“Can you throw a ball?”

“Excuse me?”

“Throw a suitable rock in front of me.”

I nodded involuntarily and threw a fist-sized stone at the goblin.

“Oh, good! Nice ball!”

With a casual exclamation, the goblin swung the club.

Puh-uh-ung!

It must have been the sound of hitting the stone, but a sound like a bomb exploding echoed.

Even so, the unbroken stone cut through the air like a streak of light.

-Kieeeek!

From somewhere far away in the darkness of the mountain, so far away that it couldn’t even be seen, the demonkin’s scream was heard.

The goblin grinned and tossed the club into the air.

Instantly, the club, which had been crackling and sparking, scattered into the air.

“Waaaaah! Grandma!”

And the three baby goblins who had been in her arms burst into tears.

“Hey! You little brats! Didn’t this grandma tell you not to go out!”

The goblin put on a stern face and flicked each of the baby goblins on the forehead.

“Hic! H, he took me with him without permission!”

“What!? Hey, Yoong! You were the one who followed!”

“Hic…….”

After calming the noisy trio of baby goblins for a long time, the goblin finally approached me.

In her hand was Eunhan.

There must still be mana I had planted in it, but she held it out to me as if nothing was wrong.

“It’s been a while since I’ve seen the Milky Way Clothes.”

I accepted the clothes.

“Do you know this garment?”

“Of course. It’s been a while, but I know it. I made it, after all.”

My eyes widened at the goblin’s words.

Valerie had coveted this garment as soon as she saw it, calling it a celestial-grade item, but this goblin had made it.

“Ah, of course, I didn’t make the garment completely. I only spun the thread. It took almost… 500 years?”

“……I see.”

Even the highest-ranking warrior would have difficulty living for 200 years, but the goblin was talking about 500 years.

I felt anew that the being in front of me was a different species from me.

“Actually, I knew you had entered the mountain. This is the Elder’s territory, but I’m managing it.”

“The Elder you’re referring to is……”

“Isn’t it the one you met?”

That goblin.

The one wreathed in fire, earth, and mist.

“That one doesn’t like all humans, but I’m different. I’m grateful that you saved the children, and I’d like to treat you to something.”

The goblin grinned and said.

In a daze, I nodded involuntarily.

* * *

I followed the goblin into the forest, where I couldn’t see an inch ahead.

“Hey, hey. How did you do that?”

And the three goblins flew around me, chattering.

“What are you talking about?”

“That club. It became a club, then a sword, then a spear……”

Are they talking about Mujin?

I created a sword with Mujin.

I dulled the blade and made it light, fearing that these young goblins might get cut.

“Wow! Do humans have such amazing things?”

“No, only I have it.”

If Mujin were the possession of all humans, there would be nothing more terrible than that.

“Then, could you tell me why it’s so difficult to make fire?”

The goblin with a calm demeanor coughed softly and asked me.

“Fire? Why?”

“Fire just appears when you go ‘poof.’”

The goblin stretched out her hand into the air, and a small blue flame floated up.

I chuckled.

As expected of a mystical species born from nature, she was creating fire without using any mana or power.

“Humans can’t wield magic like you goblins. Some people do it with mana, but I’m not that kind of person.”

“B, but you made ice earlier!”

The girl goblin, who wanted to join the conversation, spoke timidly.

“That’s because……”

I calmly dealt with the children and continued the conversation.

The Grandma goblin, who was walking straight ahead, seemed pleased with the sight, wearing a warm smile on her face.

“Alright, kids. Stop bothering the guest and come here. I’m going to open the door.”

Door.

The goblin said that.

And the goblin once again stretched out her hand into the air and took out the club again.

Uwoong!

It wasn’t a club that spewed lightning like before.

Like the mountain god’s club I had seen in Cheonwisan, it was a shimmering club that hadn’t yet fully unleashed all its power.

But that alone seemed to be enough, as the goblin drew the club straight through the air, and suddenly the flow of magic, like a mist that had been spreading before my eyes, split vertically.

‘It really looks like a door.’

“Come on in. This is our village from here on out.”

The Grandma goblin strode in again.

Uwoong!

I felt a familiar sensation enveloping my body.

The goblin’s magic.

The feeling I get when space changes.

And after a while, the surrounding space changed as if paint was spreading, and before I knew it, I was standing in a wide space.

“This is……”

And I exclaimed at the sight before my eyes.

Beautiful.

Those were the first thoughts that came to mind.

In a world still covered in faint darkness because the sun hadn’t yet risen, mysterious clusters of light floated in the air.

The ground was filled with glass-like transparent flowers, rainbow-colored grasses, and trees that had grown so tall that their ends couldn’t be seen.

I touched the clusters of blue light floating in the air like dandelion seeds with my hand.

The clusters of light quickly scattered and disappeared as if I had touched snowflakes.

“This is our village. It’s been… several hundred years since a human has entered.”

Many races lived there.

‘They weren’t all goblins?’

I had thought that this place was only a goblin village, but what I saw was the appearance of a race completely different from goblins.

A tall woman stood on one side of the village, resting her hand on a tree with her eyes closed.

Greenish-gold hair.

White skin and exotic features.

Even the way she was wearing thick grasses like a dress instead of clothes.

‘An elf?’

A mystical species, the elven race.