Goblin Slayer Side Story: Year One, Vol. 3 by Kumo Kagyu and Shingo Adachi

Author:Kumo Kagyu and Shingo Adachi [Kagyu, Kumo and Adachi, Shingo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2024-04-16T00:00:00+00:00

The adventurers worked their way down the cliffside, holding hands, then started toward the city. Strangely—or perhaps, on some level, not strangely at all—their progress was very easy. The flagstones of the highway were smooth and even; none were missing, and everything was well maintained. There were wheel ruts in the stones, showing that many carts and carriages had once traveled this route. Although where they had come from or where they had been going was now lost to time.

“It’s been at least a century, maybe two,” the dwarf girl said casually. “Can’t be more precise than that.”

“This doesn’t appear to be dwarven architecture, but neither does it look like the doing of the dark elves,” the canid wizard—their teacher—muttered in fascination. “Although I must admit, I’m outside my specialty.”

Nobody else said anything. There wasn’t much they could say. The elves did not build cities of stone, and apparently, this was neither dwarven nor dark elvish. So who had made this road? They preferred not to contemplate it.

Anyway, what better way to find out than to go and see with their own eyes? Once again, it proved remarkably easy to do. They advanced down the roadway without difficulty, and the city gates stood open to receive visitors. From this distance, they saw that the purple aura seemed to settle slowly over everything like falling snow.

Without that light, this might simply have been an ordinary, if exciting, discovery of some ancient ruins. For a moment, the adventurers could only gaze up at the imposing place in silence. There was no sign of any guards.

“…Let’s go,” Young Warrior said softly but not because of any bravery. Simply because he began to feel that if someone didn’t say something, they might stand here for all eternity. Already, thoughts of the earthquakes and even of finding a way out of here remained in only the most remote corner of his mind.

Slowly, cautiously, they went forward. They wanted to find out what this city—these ruins, this abandoned place—really was.

Adventurers are those who take risks.

Confronted with an unknown place like this, anyone who turned tail and ran home in fear could not call themselves an adventurer. Then again, maybe it was that very caution turning them back that allowed adventurers to live to fight another day.

“I don’t think anyone’s here. Do you…?” asked the silver-haired martial artist, her voice quivering as she went forward one sliding step at a time. She clenched and unclenched her fists restlessly, her hair swinging left and right like a small animal’s tail.

This place, surrounded by walls as tall as a giant, was a true metropolis. Neatly laid flagstone streets spread out in every direction, and the houses likewise were of superb stone construction. There was a street full of businesses including a tavern, an inn, an armorer, a tailor, and a flower shop.

Some of the roofs were covered in tiles, and some buildings had sculptures of fantastical creatures that served as gutters, their mouths open, waiting for rain.

Farther overhead, several massive guard towers stood against the canopy of darkness.

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