Chapter 24
The death of the goblin king signals the end of the goblins in Greenhorde forest. Without a powerful king to lead them, the disorganized goblin started acting out of order and tries to escape from the adventurers and the army in panic. But this was a vain attempt. The furious adventurers and soldiers will never allow any goblins to escape.
The reason why they won’t allow even a single goblin to get away was not only due to the death of their fellow adventurers and soldiers. The main reason was due to hidden danger that the goblins possessed.
Goblins are known for their fertility and the fact that they could mate with females from other races. If even a single goblin escaped, another village might be created somewhere else which also means the possible appearance of another goblin king.
Having witnessed the terror of a goblin king with their own eyes, both the adventurers and the army have no intention of letting another one appear no matter how small the chance was. As such, none of them showed any mercy to the escaping goblins.
Before long, the sun finally rises from east which signals the dawn of a new day. Tired and wary, none of the people present have the urge for a celebration. The only thing on everyone’s mind right now was to go home and rest.
As for the victory celebration, that will have to wait for another day.
Knowing that everyone was tired, the adventurers and the soldiers were told to rest back in camp while non-combatants from both the army and guild will do the cleanup.
Speaking of cleanup, it only involved collecting loots like armors and weapons from the dead goblins. Although most of the equipment were of low quality they could still be broken down and sold to the blacksmiths as scraps. As for the higher quality equipment, these would be given as rewards for the adventurers and soldiers who performed exceptionally well during the campaign.
That said, most of the rewards would probably be given to a certain silver-haired girl. Considering that this person did most of the work, it’s only expected.
Speaking of which, the silver-haired girl, Rennel, was currently sleeping soundly inside a private tent. Barely able to rest the duration of the entire quest, Rennel was understandably tired. Although she had more stamina compared to ordinary people, and would be able to stay awake for days without repercussions in normal times, her fight against the irregular goblin king and her second awakening drained most of her stamina.
The tent where Rennel was sleeping was big enough to house several people but right now only Rennel was occupying said tent. The tent was also being guarded by several female adventurers from the outside.
These female adventurers were among the groups of adventurers that arrived late because they were out doing quest somewhere when the announcement to gather was made.
Since they were not as exhausted as those who fought on the frontlines, these adventurers were tasked to help the non-combatants to do the cleanup and do some odd chores in the camp – including guarding important personnel like Rennel.
Rennel’s treatment was without a doubt a type of special treatment but no one was complaining. In everyone’s eyes, the girl deserve all the special treatment she was given after the feat she had shown.
This was actually normal, people respect heroes. And after the battle with the goblin king, Rennel was considered as such. Therefore, no one would bat an eye lid even if all the special treatment in the world was given to her.
The sleeping Rennel, of course, doesn't care about any special treatment and just wanted to get some shuteyes.
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While Rennel was sleeping and everyone was doing their own things, something else was happening somewhere. Outside the planet, a bright orb of light was trying to descend into the world but could not go further because a creature was blocking its path.
The bright orb was releasing a powerful aura with a hint of divinity to intimate the creature. But no matter how much aura the bright orb releases, the creature blocking it was not affected at all.
“Intruder, you dare block my path?” The bright orb sends a telepathic wave towards the creature – the threat very obvious in its voice.
The “intruder”, Chaos gave the bright orb the side-eye and yawn as if bored to death. Chaos didn’t even bother to speak to it as it floats in space – showing contempt. Angered by the “intruder’s” disrespectful action, the bright orb harrumphed with annoyance and transformed.
The bright orb grew bigger and slowly transformed into a mascular humanoid creature with four arms and six angel-like wings. The mysterious humanoid creature has three eyes; two was on the regular position on the head and one in the forehead. It was bald, and has red skin with strange, black flame-like markings in its arms and legs. The mysterious humanoid creature was also wearing a golden armor that was filled with runes.
Appearance alone, the mysterious humanoid creature looks rather impressive. Coupled with its aura that has a trace of divinity, the mysterious humanoid creature could be mistaken as god. And in a way, it was a god.
No, to be more precise, the mysterious humanoid creature was what Chaos called an “administrator.”
“Why bother descending when I’m already here?” Seeing the administrator transformed into its true form, Chaos finally decided to speak with him.
“No, there’s still a need to descend. After all the irregular that was under you was still on that planet.” The administrator disagreed.
“Oh? So you won’t let her go? Was it because she destroyed your toy?” Chaos teases.
The one that had interfered in the battle between Rennel was the same entity that was standing arrogantly in front of Chaos right now. After seeing the goblin king being disadvantaged, it sent a wisp of its power to the monster – boosting the the goblin king’s power to a new level.
Chaos of course had seen all of this happened but decided not to interfere in order to push Rennel’s second awakening. Chaos was confident that once Rennel breakthrough her current limit, the “upgraded” goblin king won’t be her match. And Chaos was right on the mark.
The three-eyed administrator’s face becomes gloomy after hearing Chaos’ sarcastic remarks.
“Shut up! An intruder like you has no right to mock a god like me!” The administrator declared angrily.
“God? You? Hahahaha! That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard after arriving in this world!”
Hearing the administrator’s declaration of godhood, Chaos couldn’t help but laugh out loud. Chaos found the declaration so laughable that it rolls around while clutching its belly.
Being laughed at and mocked in his face, the administrator almost explodes from anger. He gritted his teeth so much that it might just break.
“What’s so funny? You dare laugh at me you inferior creature?!”
After laughing for a while more, Chaos finally stops. Chaos then looks at the three-eyed administrator as if he was a buffoon.
“Inferior creature you say? I see… I see…I understand now why you wanted to use the goblins to destroy Blizzard city. Are you that bored? For a “superior” life form like yourself, your idea of entertainment sure was low class.” Chaos mercilessly mocked.
The three-eyed guardian was greatly startled after hearing Chaos reveals what he did. Although Chaos called him low class, he completely ignored that point and focuses on the other thing that Chaos said: That he was behind the goblin village that appeared not too far away from Blizzard city.
“Who are you? And how do you know about that?” The administrator asked suspiciously.
“Didn’t you know already? I’m an intruder!” Chaos mockingly answered.
The three-eyed administrator narrows its eyes dangerously. Although the administrator doesn’t care even if the creature exposed what he did, the administrator disliked anything that he could not control.
And since the mysterious creature in front of him knows too much and even dare to mock him, the administrator decided to destroy it!
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“For the sin of mocking a god, you shall die!”
The administrator gave out a righteous sounding excuse and directly attacked Chaos by grabbing it with his four arms. Seeing the administrator unceremoniously attacking it, Chaos wasn’t surprised at all.
Chaos simply stood where it is and allow the administrator to grab it. But despite not doing anything, the administrator failed to grab Chaos with its four arms. Not only did the administrator failed, it was even repelled by a mysterious force.
The administrator was shocked after failing to harm Chaos, and looked at the mysterious creature with greater vigilance.
“You devilish creature, I’ve underestimated you. For a powerful intruder like you to appear in this world, you must have nefarious thoughts on all of the living creatures on the planet!” The three-eyed administrator declared.
Chaos finds the words of the administrator interesting. Looking amuse, Chaos mocked, “What’s with the lame attempt to appear righteous? For someone claiming to be a god, you sure are pathetic.”
Hmph!
The administrator harrumphed and clasps two of its hands together. After that he slowly separated his palms. As he was doing so, a long, golden object slowly appeared. Before long, the true form of the object was finally revealed. It was a beautiful golden halberd.
“This is my divine weapon, “Golden Harbinger. Evil creature prepare for your doom!” The administrator declared at after pointing the halberd at Chaos.
“Oh~” Clap! Clap! Clap!
Chaos clapped its paws several times while looking rather amuse. Although the weapon was pointed at it, no fear could be seen in Chaos’ golden eyes.
“Fine, mock me all you want! Let’s see if you could still be confident in the face of my divine weapon!”
The administrator brandished its golden halberd and swings it down towards Chaos without getting close. The golden halberd released a wave of red energy that rushes towards Chaos. And although the halberd was gold in color, the aura that it releases was blood red similar to the aura that appeared on the goblin king’s body, just hours ago.
Facing the energy wave rushing towards it, Chaos still showed a nonchalant expression. And instead of dodging the halberd’s light, Chaos just stood there as if rooted in place.
Seeing Chaos not even trying to evade, the administrator sneered. In terms of sheer power, the three-eyed administrator ranked above all other administrator. He could already foresee the damnable creature that had been mocking him be swallowed by the wave of red energy, and ripped into pieces!
The wave of red energy arrived in front of Chaos which quickly swallowed it like a person being swallowed by a tsunami. The administrator who was confidently watching Chaos being swallowed by the red energy let out a huge grin. Just a little more and Chaos would pay for its arrogance against a god!
The destructive force of the red energy grew stronger as it tries to rip apart the creature it swallowed. It twirls and whirls, and grinded the creature trapped within. When it looks like that it was over for Chaos, a voice filled with boredom was directly sent into the administrator's mind.
“Is this all you've got? Why is it so weak? Are you lacking energy? Did you not eat?” Chaos asked, sounding really bored.
The administrator’s heart skipped a beat after hearing Chaos’ bored sounding voice. How could it be? Why is the annoying creature still alive despite being swallowed by the destructive red energy of his divine weapon?
“It seemed that I couldn’t really expect much from someone of your caliber. Since you’re an administrator, I thought that you could at least relieved my boredom.”
After saying so, the red energy that was trying to destroy Chaos was suddenly ripped apart and scattered, before dissipating completely.
*Shock!*
The administrator could not believe the scene it just witnessed, the wave of red energy he had sent towards the creature, energy that even his fellow administrator feared was ripped apart just like that.
“How?!”
The three-eyed administrator could not understand how it happened. There should be no power in this world powerful enough to destroy red energy of his divine weapon!
“What’s with the confuse look? The answer should be obvious to you right?” Chaos teases, “You’ve said it yourself, that there should not be a power in this world that could destroy the red energy.”
Having been teased by Chaos, the administrator finally realized his mistake. No power in the world should be able to destroy the red energy due to its mysterious properties but the creature in front of him was not of this world!
“Wait… how did you know what I was thinking?” Having realized the source of his failure, the administrator was a little relieved until it realized that Chaos seemed to have read his mind!
“You, you could read a mind of a god!” He blurted out.
“Did you realize it just now? For a “god” you sure are slow!” Chaos replied mockingly. “Enough, time to end this!”
Chaos points its right forearm towards the three-eyed administrator which alarmed the self-proclaimed. Feeling an intense sense of crisis, the administrator quickly turned around in an attempt to flee. But before It could even go far, it was trapped inside a crystal!
“What do you think you’re doing? Let go of me!” The administrator screamed in fear.
Ignoring the administrator’s scream, Chaos continued, and before long, a huge crack appeared above the administrator!
“A spatial tear! But how? You… just who are you?!” Seeing this scene, the administrator screamed in terror.
The administrator struggled and tries to free himself from the mysterious crystal that was trapping him. He released all of the energy he possessed including the mysterious red energy of his divine weapon but to no avail.
Not long after, he felt himself being dragged towards the huge spatial tear. The administrator screamed and begs Chaos to release him but was completely ignored. Soon the three-eyed administrator was completely swallowed and ripped into pieces by the spatial tear!
And just like that, an administrator of a world died.
Just like how the administrator tried to rip Chaos apart using the mysterious red energy of its divine weapon, Chaos returned the favor by having him ripped apart by the spatial tear it created.
The spatial slowly healed after a while but before it totally closes, it “spit out” three objects.
Chaos took the object and smiled. The objects in question were the administrator’s golden armor, the divine weapon ‘Golden Harbinger’, and a plane looking silver bracelet. These are Chaos’ loots.
Looking at the loots, Chaos showed disdain. “Low quality stuff.”
Chaos kept the loots and turned around. Since he was done here, he should return to the girl’s side. If she wakes up without Chaos around, she might just panic.
“Now that I killed the three-eyed administrator, I wonder how the remaining administrator would react.” Chaos thought to himself. It then looked at a certain direction.
“I don't care what you guys do, just make sure to entertain me…”
Leaving those words, Chaos flies towards the planet.
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End of Arc 1
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