"Uh, what are we looking for exactly?" Bell asked Goblin Slayer as they crouched behind a large rock to hide from a passing pack of wolf-like creatures. "And why did you cover us in blood....?" Bell asked nervously, staring at his blood drenched sleeves. "Goblins." Goblin Slayer answered curtly. "We needed to hide our scents. All the creatures here possess a great sense of smell." He continued. "Come." He said as the pack of wolf creatures finally passed. "Notice the smell?" Goblin Slayer asked as they neared a large ominous cave. "Yeah, we smell terrible." Bell replied. "Not that. The other smell." Goblin Slayer said. Now that Goblin Slayer mentioned it, he could smell something......it smelled like- "Goblin feces." Goblin Slayer said as he pointed at Bell's left boot. "Ughh! Gross!" Bell said as he frantically scraped his foot on the ground. "This is a Goblin Nest." Goblin Slayer said when Bell had gotten rid of the goblin shit on his boot. "Well! Let's get going!" Bell said optimistically. "Wait." Goblin Slayer as he took a flint and a weird spherical gray object from one of the many pouches on his belt. Bell watched curiously. Goblin Slayer struck the flint against a small steel square and lit the spherical object on fire. It immediately began to produce a thick smoke. "Don't breathe." Goblin Slayer ordered as he picked it up and hurled it as deep as he could into the cave. "What are we doing?" Bell asked. "We're smoking them out. It's less risky than going inside." Goblin Slayer replied. "Here they come." Bell slid into a stance with his dagger pointed forward. Goblin Slayer was poised, ready to throw a small throwing knife. The sound of thudding bare feet on stone rose in intensity. Suddenly a green creature roughly the size of a toddler with a long hooked nose and wild eyes ran out of the cave. In an instance, Goblin Slayer threw the knife into its throat, ending its life quickly. Blood gushed from the wound, and the goblin gurgled. More goblins could be seen emerging from the cave, and they all simultaneously took notice of the two humans outside their cave. They all rushed the two, flailing their weapons in the air. Goblin Slayer took the initiative and sliced the head off of the goblin that leaped at him. Blood sprayed from its open neck wound like a fountain of blood. Bell stared in shock for a moment before focusing his attention on a goblin running at him with a mace. Bell drove his knife into the side of its head, piercing the brain and killing the goblin. As Bell began pulling his knife out of the body, he saw a goblin leap at him with a hand axe. Bell tried harder to tug his knife out of the goblin corpse. When he finally did, he clumsily brought it up to block the goblin's strike. The goblin's hand axe collided with his knife, knocking it out of his hand, rendering him defenseless. The goblin snarled at him with a twisted grin on its deformed face, before being knocked over by a short sword piercing its torso, killing it. Bell rested his frantic gaze on its dead body after lowering his arms from the defense pose he had them in. He looked in the direction the sword came to see Goblin Slayer walking over to him, away from the large pile of goblin corpses at his feet. Bell gaped as he watched the Goblin Slayer tear his short sword from the goblin corpse and inspect it closely. "No use anymore. It's already covered in fat." Goblin Slayer said as he held the sword out to show Bell what he meant. Bell looked closely at the edge to see a thick coating of body fat on the edges of the blade, before Goblin Slayer simply let go of it, discarding it. He tore a wooden club from one of the dead goblins hands and inspected it before nodding in satisfaction and tucking it under his arm whilst he readied his flint and steel, before lighting the club on fire and holding it in his left hand. Goblin slayer grabbed another club from the ground and began walking towards the dark cave. He walked a few steps before looking back. "Are you coming with me or not?" He asked while tilting his head slightly. Bell quickly snapped out of his stupor and retrieved his knife from the ground and following behind Goblin Slayer. The two descended further into the cave. As they got deeper, they passed more and more bodies of goblins that had suffocated from the smoke earlier. Goblin Slayer smashed his club over all their heads to make sure they were dead. Soon, the two reached what seemed like the main den of the cave dwelling goblins. The sight that greeted the two was unlike anything Bell had ever seen. Lying on the ground, dead, were several goblin corpses, along with the bodies of several women. All the women were stripped to their bare bodies and covered in goblin semen, with knives imbedded in their bodies. Bell resisted the urge to throw up and covered his mouth with his hands and falling to his knees. "Unlike most of the other creatures that inhabit all the floors, goblins are among the few that are not native. There are no females among their race, which leads to them kidnapping and raping the female adventurers they come across, to repopulate." Goblin Slayer said as he smashed the club in his hand over the heads of the goblin corpses, continuing his previous actions from when they were coming down there. Goblin Slayer walked to the throne made out of human bones that sat in the far corner of the room, before bringing his boot down hard on it. The throne collapsed with a loud clatter, which was followed by a loud shriek, resembling a startled animal. "Remember this, Bell. Goblins are among the worst creatures to inhabit the mortal plane. Another thing. They like to hide their children behind their gold." Goblin Slayer said as he kicked down a shoddily crafted wooden door that was previously hidden by the throne. A small pile of riches stolen from now dead adventurers was revealed. And behind the riches sat several child goblins. Bell gasped at the sight.The goblin children had faces resembling a small human child with teary and fearful eyes. Goblin Slayer began to raise his club, ready to bash the baby goblins into bloody pastes. Bell quickly got up from his position on the ground and ran forward, throwing his arms around Goblin Slayer, attempting to pull him away. "Wait! Why are you going to kill them?! They're children! They haven't done anything!" Bell screamed with tears running down his face. Goblin Slayer lowered the club before shaking Bell off of him. "But they will. All goblins do. Any goblin that survives an attack on its nest will learn from it and grow. The world has no need for intelligent goblins." Goblin Slayer said as he began to raise the club again. "They're only children....they can still be good goblins..." Bell whispered as he fell to his knees again and held his head in his hands. "Is that so? I've yet to meet a good goblin. And I doubt I ever will. The only good goblins......are the ones that never come out of their stinking holes." Goblin Slayer said as he raised his club above his head and brought it down sharply on one of the goblin children. Bell began to sob behind him, his cries accompanied by the screeches of pain and fear from the goblin children as Goblin Slayer rained hell on them.
