CHAPTER 99: D-RANK DUNGEON: PART III

The goblins’ numbers dwindled, their war cries grew more chaotic, frantic even. The trio had finally united into an umbral of synchronity, moving like a single target, rather than three individual targets, who wouldn’t get anything done.

Elesch still leads the pack, slicing through more nets with her rapier. The black aura surrounding her rapier grew darker; each cut was now able to remove a goblin from existence, into the Void, where it died right away. Though by doing so, a large chunk of her mana and energy faded away. But she kept at it.

Adam tore through from the right side, his claws ripping through goblin flesh easily. He caught every rattle, every twitch of a muscle, reporting it to Elesch and Nova right away.

"Three coming from the huts!" he shouted, diving low to dodge a spear. He slashed upward, gutting one goblin and sending another sprawling back. "They are getting sloopier, since they are doing frantic, so still be careful, since their movement may become more irrational."

Nova still stayed in the center, reclaiming his body and removing the arrogance. He focused on being Elesch’s counterpart, slashing spears as they thrust towards her, unraveling flesh from bone, in just a strike.

"I got your back," he said, his voice firm, no trace of the earlier smirk, only a faint smile to reassure her that her elder brother wouldn’t let anything happen to her.

He ducked a wild, frantic swing from a goblin, countering with a dagger hurled straight for its arm, leaving it screaming as it died shortly after, sprawled on the ground, in shock.

The goblin line faltered. Ten soldiers fell, then twelve, and soon their bodies started to pile in their clearing, blood soaking the dirt. Elesch caught two more goblins trying to flank from the grass.

"Watch from the left side!" she shouted, warning Adam, as her rapier sliced through a net before it could trap Adam.

Adam nodded, as only eight remained. Just a couple more until the boss fight, which also shouldn’t take long. The trio’s teamwork was remarkable, having each other’s backs and shouting for any potential danger.

They moved seamlessly, as Elesch cleared the path, leading them through the village and cutting the goblin nets. While Adam and Nova focused on absolutely making a mockery of the goblin village, with Nova killing in cold blood.

Since the events that had happened since Gluttony had taken shape on Earth, Nova had become more direct and cold-hearted toward his opposition, no matter the person. Unlike when he brutally beat up a contestant during the guild tournament, he was now not even giving the enemies a stance of rebellion; he straight killed them without a second thought.

He nearly ended another life back on Earth after someone challenged him in a restaurant. Then, once more, when someone stole a lady’s purse and put the guy in a coma, and as always, since Nova was the Chosen One in the eyes of Marcus, he never got any blame.

Nova slashed through another goblin, tearing it limb from limb, before finishing off with a brutal body slice, cutting the spinal cord of the goblin in half.

One goblin, bolder than the rest, charged Nova with a spear, its eyes betraying its frantic nature. Nova sidestepped, his dagger slicing through the weapon’s tip, leaving it like a useless stick.

Adam pounced instantly, his claws tearing through the goblin’s back, and it collapsed with a choke in its throat, dying as blood foamed through its insides. "That’s for thinking you’re sneaky!" Adam said, kicking the body aside.

Elesch spun, her rapier voiding a net aimed at Nova’s legs. Another huge chunk of mana disappeared, her body sweating profusely, as she scolded the two. "Focus, you two! We still have some left!"

She saw a goblin hiding near a hunt, and instantly honed in on it, lunging at it, then slicing through the goblin, since she couldn’t afford to void another creature or thing. The goblin fell, limp on the ground, with white blood sprouting out.

Since they were white goblins, their blood was white, looking like semen, though more like precum. It was as if the Japanese had censored blood, and now it felt like large amounts of semen had spread across the floor, impregnating everything in its area.

The last three goblins tried to flee, darting toward the huts, but Adam was faster. He bounded after them, claws flashing, and cut them down before they reached cover, though there wasn’t any cover to begin with, since he could always tear it down.

"Where do you think you’re going, you runners!" he muttered menacingly, smirking as he littered the grass with more white blood.

Everything was quiet now, the grass stained with blood and littered with goblin corpses, which were rotting profusely, grotesque in every way imaginable. The oak trees’ whispers of sweet nothings had stopped, as if the realm knew that the dungeon had lost.

The trio stood, Elesch and Adam catching their breaths, as Nova looked cold-heartedly. Elesch sheathed her rapier, a small smile breaking through her seriousness, reverting to her ten-year-old nature.

"Well, at least you came back around. I knew my big brother wouldn’t make me babysit him again." Elesch said blissfully. Nova smirked as he realized that the fight was over and that they had cleared the dungeon.

Adam laughed, retracting his claws. "Yeah, man, you had me worried for a second. I was like, is he really just gonna go off on his own? Like, we’re a team, we should stay as a team."

Nova nodded as their eyes drifted towards the center of the village, where the goblin chief still lounged on its grotesque throne of bones and flesh. They had completely forgotten about that fatass bastard, since it was barely twitching, and when it twitched, it was twitching lazily, lethargic being written as its formal middle name.

The goblin chief chewed on a raw, bloody, thick hunk of meat. Its eyes, small, flicked toward them, irritation spreading like a wildfire across its face.