Roaring Heroes Battle the Overlord (Ainz)

Chapter 43: Goblin Slayer

"Who's this guy now?" After knocking down the green mound of flesh, EeDeChi jumped back to her teammates, asking curiously.

The old, irritable goblin roared and cursed from a distance. Barrett patiently explained to EeDeChi, "That's a goblin shaman, quite rare. It's a type of high-level goblin with some magical abilities. If I'm not mistaken, it's the leader of this goblin settlement."

"Interesting," EeDeChi said, stroking her smooth chin as if she had a beard, nodding thoughtfully.

"Humans! Adventurers, DIE!" The goblin shaman's shriveled throat roared, its long pointed ears adorned with jingling iron rings.

It muttered indistinct incantations, slamming its staff down. A green whirlpool of light appeared at the staff's tip and quickly condensed into a glowing sphere. Red runes encircled the green sphere, which spun rapidly, growing larger and larger.

Barrett shook his head. This was one of the signs of a goblin's small brain capacity. So what if it could use magic? A human mage would have sensed the danger and fled by now instead of acting like a fool and rushing to their own death.

The glowing sphere had expanded to the size of a Griffin's head and shot from the staff with a "thud," heading straight for the four adventurers.

EeDeChi leaped forward and took the hit head-on. Green smoke billowed out, and EeDeChi brushed off her clothes, looking at the goblin shaman with an expressionless face.

"You... you... you..." The goblin shaman's eyes, once filled with fury, were now wide with terror.

"Since you're using magic, I'll use the new magic I've learned to deal with you," EeDeChi said, extending her right hand with his palm facing outward and fingers together.

Magic rings of light surrounded his palm, with intricate runes slowly rotating as magical energy flowed. Blue, green, and red hues illuminated the small stone chamber.

EeDeChi pronounced the name of the spell:

"5th Tier Magic: Landslide..."

Barrett lunged forward, grabbing EeDeChi's extended right hand and interrupting her spellcasting. Shaking her urgently, he said, "Captain, you can't! You can't! We're in a cave. If you cast a 5th Tier spell, the whole cave will collapse. None of us will escape except you!"

"Oh! That seems to be the case," EeDeChi said, retracting her hand and tilting her head as she recalled, "I think 'The Mystery of Magic' suggests casting this spell in open outdoor spaces."

With a clang, the goblin shaman's bone staff fell to the ground. It snapped back to reality, its eyes shifting from terror to dread.

Since the magic aura had appeared around EeDeChi's hand, its legs had begun to tremble. It finally understood the kind of terrifying opponent it was facing. The goblin shaman, dragging its ancient body, stumbled toward a cave entrance in the chamber.

A magically enchanted steel arrow whizzed through its neck, ending the goblin shaman's life.

Sean lowered his longbow with a sigh of relief. With the goblin shaman dead, the captain wouldn't cast any magic that could bury them alive with the dead.

Had the goblin shaman attempted to retaliate, this ordinary enchanted arrow wouldn't have been enough to kill it. But it was so frightened that it only focused on fleeing, leading to its death at the hands of platinum-level adventurer Sean.

With the goblin leader down, the battle seemed to be over.

Following the earlier sound of crying women, the Last Defender of the Way adventuring party began searching the area. Soon, they found three girls and a mangled, unrecognizable male corpse in the chamber.