Vengeance of the Returner

As soon as the sun rose in the sky. The Quest team began their march towards Hithigasa mountain. They were using the same formation to travel just like before.

Dalia turned back and opened her mouth.

"Big Sis wait a minute."

Dalia stopped others marching and kneeled and gazed at the dry sand which had footprints.

Cinzia knitted her brows.

"What? did you find something?"

Dalia's facial expression somehow showed excitement as she called out for Cinzia.

"Look at these!"

Cinzia viewed the footprints and drifted her attention towards the members and opened her mouth.

"Everyone, we are gonna hit a jackpot."

Her lips slowly arched up and ended up into an evil smile.

Eshwar stepped towards the front and intently watched the footsteps that faded towards a distance. He turned back towards his sister with a smile. Varde did the same while Nix didn't understand why.

Nix drifted his gaze towards Varde and questioned.

"Do you mind telling me what's this about?"

Varde seemed to be a bit hesitant to explain but still, he decided to speak while receiving gazes from others and his face showed a bit of shame.

"AH, Bud, sorry for telling you this lately and I'm sorry we didn't tell you this because we didn't come up to trust you. Honestly, we still don't."

'I see'

Nix's face showed a hint of oppression upon hearing his words. But, He understood that it's not easy to trust someone who they barely know and they appeared to have some bad past that made them be wary and cautious with others.

"We are gonna plunder a goblin village and we planned this before you joined in this quest."

He stopped and pointed at the footprints and continued.

"As you can see these are leads to find the goblin village."

Nix smiled and patted Varde's shoulder and glared at Cinzia for a second and turned his attention back to Varde.

"It's okay, man. I get it."

If someone should explain these things it should be Cinzia as she was the leader but, Instead, Varde did which made Nix lose respect for her. Maybe she didn't want to because of the incident that happened before.

They deceived him into this mission without explaining accurately. Nix was at the wrong too as he didn't enquire much about the quest before joining.

Varde breathed out a sigh of relief and relaxed as Nix didn't cause a ruckus or made any argument. But, Nix lost the value he had on them. yes, The silver spear clan was like a family but, who is he? He is just a random outsider to them. They were selfish but he didn't give much thought to that since he was only there to do the job on the other hand they held some moral value too.

He understood slightly about humans now. He was a loner until he entered Empyrean and still one but when he chose to join a team. He felt bad as his expectations broke down on a whim.

He even thought of joining this sly clan but their sly scheme cleared up his mind and He fixed his mind with a different mindset. He had to join teams no matter how he felt in order to survive but, he decided to limit himself from believing people quickly. He decided to research and enquire more before doing something.

'Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me'

Thinking inwardly he smiled.

"Thanks for understanding my man."

Nix frowned at Cinzia with a mocking tone.

"Mind explaining leader? what we are gonna do from now on?"

Cinzia started speaking.

"First we will search for the goblin village in this vicinity. After that, we will be entering the village and killing everything there and plunder the treasures of the goblin. There will be forty to fifty goblins and if we are fortunate the number of hobgoblins will be below ten. Goblins are fundamentally weak creatures, so it won't be a problem to handle them."

The explanation was kind of vague but, it was okay. so, he just left it at that.

Nix nodded his head and replied.

"Alright, I understand."

They continued to march searched for the hidden goblin village while moving they stumbled upon a few goblins and killed them swiftly through their way and continued to search for it. After a few hours of roaming, they found a cave that was likely to be the entrance of Goblins village.

"We are entering. slay every goblin that falls on your sight. Other than that there is no instruction."

After announcing Cinzia walked inside and others followed. As they marched inside a group of goblins stood before their path with some kind of weapons in their hands.

One goblin in the center of the other goblins began yelling and came rushing towards Cinzia.

"You Impudent humans! you dare to trespass our territory!"

Cinzia stabbed her Halberd inside the head of the Goblin which approached her. Her blade broke through its skull and its edge went through the backside of its head.

The other Goblins were shocked and their face showed panic. But, somehow they collected their courage.

"You fucking humans!"

A goblin cried out and sped towards her.

She swung her Halberd with the goblin penetrated in it. As she swung it in full force which in turn sent the dead goblin flying from the halberd and collided with the goblin that sped towards her.

The goblins were much different from what Nix imagined; they showed intelligence and they were quite tall compared to what he imagined. He imagined them to be short, weak, and dumb.

If someone invades your home. how would you feel? You will feel annoyed, angered, irritated, and offended. And that's how the goblins felt. If some invades and kills your brothers and sister how would you feel? They were peaceful and minding their own business but now they are attacked by some random bunch of humans.

Yes, Goblins are evil creatures but, what would it make you if you kill and plunder their treasure? Fundamentally evil is evil. Everyone is a villain in some else's story in that sense. The Silver spear clan and Nix were Villians to the goblins.

"Shriik shriik"

Several arrows came piercing through the air towards Nix and others.

"Roblo Barrier!"

A black barrier appeared like a shield before them and the arrows were rendered useless as they broke down after it collided against the barrier.

Dalia alone shot down the entire Goblins in an instant as she poured down rain of arrows simultaneously on the goblins.

"Alright move! move!"

Dalia announced and led the group. Nix quietly observed and followed the crew without indulging in battle.

As they entered several goblins entered their view. They appeared to be still in their regular routine as they were screaming and playing while causing a ruckus between themselves. As soon these humans entered they turned their attention to them.

Almost forty goblins encircled them and they emitted high killing and hostility.

"Nix just like before. Protect Varde, we will take care of these shit heads."

Cinzia remarked.

She ran straight towards the goblins with her spear pointed towards the crowd. Her halberd emanated blue light.

"Frizkkk"

As she swung her halberd the blue mana extorted from her halberd and forced itself on the goblins and in an instant, many goblins turned into an icy statue.

Nix's job dropped from that magnificent move. It was so beautiful that he was mesmerized and stood there in a daze at the same moment he was frightened by that power.

'Can I exert that amount of power?'

Suddenly five hobgoblins stepped inside the battleground. The hobgoblins rushed in for the rescue. They seemed stronger than other goblins and they rushed towards Cinzia and a few towards others.

Cinzia and the others were having trouble fighting back as the hobgoblins entered. Suddenly four more hobgoblins entered in.

"Healo!"

Varde chanted and dark energy burst out and healed all three people except Nix.

Nix was in a daze as all the others were fully healed and pumped up. They began to attack more swiftly. Nix didn't give much thought to it since he was the one who said he didn't want to get healed by power earned by some random thing that he wasn't able to comprehend.

The four hobgoblins turned their attention towards Varde and Nix as Varde boosted others.

"Fuck me!"

Varde grunted. As a few goblins and Hobgoblins sped towards them. Nix unsheathed his sword, inserted his mana into it, and took a stance.

[Doom prediction vision activated.]

"agrhhh Yov fackinggg Humannn!"

A hobgoblin growled and swung its heavy weapon. He found it easy to attack them as he dodged moves as he was able to see through the moves of the goblins.

"Ahh!"

He screamed in pain as a goblin stabbed his arm.

He swung the chain while using the sword on the other hand. He tried to use the fire attribute which was rather futile since he wasn't able to grab the essence of using it for now.

As much as his moves were reckless. He killed all the goblins and two hobgoblins as he continuously swung his chain and brandished his sword.

He turned his attention towards Varde and said.

"Hah hah damn! That was hard!"

"Buddy, I think you need training in swordsmanship, Mana usage, and how to use that chain of yours. It's like you need to train almost every basic thing."

"Yeah, I suck at fighting."

"An honest one. aren't you? Look there."

Varde pointed towards the others. The others were fighting them as though it wasn't a big deal.

He drifted his eyes back to Nix.

"You see that's how you would have battled if you train hard."

"I will remember it."

"Wanna get Healed? your wound is too deep."

"Nah I will pass. I have been getting wounded since I entered so, It's not a big deal."

"Alright, But I will save a heal for you. If you change your mind, ask me."

"Okay"

The whole cave turned into a huge mess as the case was filled with corpses of goblins. Cinzia and others walked towards Nix and Varde while soaked in greenish blood.

"Alright let's check out other parts of the cave."

There were only two partings inside the cave. She stared at them for a second and said.

"I will check the right side with Dalia. You three check out the other side."

As soon as they entered the other side of the cave. They were overwhelmed by the sight of six beautiful women bound with slave chains. They were all stark naked.

Two of them appeared to be elves as their ears were sharp and The four others seemed to be humans but, they weren't able to point out if they are regulars or perhaps residents as they didn't find the skull tattoo on their back. They were likely to be captured for breeding by goblins.

Suddenly a blonde-haired woman grabbed Nix's ankle.

"Please! Don't do anything to us! Please! Please let me go out!"

The woman begged Nix with teary eyes. It showed how much trauma she suffered and went through. The other women were silent though. Somewhere in the corner of his heart, he felt sorry for her but, at the same, he didn't feel that bad at all.

He clicked his tongue and said.

"Tch, I am not the bad guy here. you all will be rescued."

Eshwar frowned as he was startled by Nix's words.

"What? Who permitted you to spout something like that? Big sis will decide for them. We don't know if these ladies are regulars, so we gotta wait."

' Are they planning to kill em?'

"Alright, I understand."

They walked to the other side only to be surprised. There were four treasure chests, few weapons in the corner.

Two men were leaning on the wall. They were tattered as their body was full of injuries and they were visibly bleeding. It showed that they were beaten and captured recently.

Dalia grinned and said with folded hands.

"Welcome everybody!"

"Yo cool! What do we have here?"

Eshwar walked towards something that sparkled behind a chest and picked it up. It was a rusty unmaintained long dagger with a horn symbol in the center of the handle. It had a dual blade and the handle was in the center. The one side of the blade was curvy. While the other blade was too curved. It emitted some kind of ominous energy.

But, Eshwar's facial expression turned grim. Suddenly he threw the dagger in a startle and scowled.

"Ouch! Ouch! Fucking piece of trash!"

Cinzia and Dalia tried to take the dagger and failed. Slowly Varde walked towards it and picked it up and in a mere second, he dropped it.

"Damn man! it's gotta have an ego for sure. Maybe it will choose its own owner."

He turned towards Nix and said.

"Buddy, why don't you try it?"

Nix didn't say much, he nodded and walked towards the dagger.