The Strange Adventure of a Broke Mercenary Vol. 1 by Mine

Author:Mine [Mine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2021-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4:

An Exploration to an Escape

THE EXPEDITION PRESSED ON without issue. Just as Chuck said, the only monsters they encountered were goblins, which Ritz’s party immediately dispatched. They took just the ears and left the bodies behind.

Loren worried that the goblins might turn undead, but there was no place to bury the bodies in the ruins, and they had neither the fuel nor the proper ventilation to burn them.

“Even if they go undead, they’re just goblins. They won’t be too much of a hassle,” Ritz said. Though from Loren’s point of view, goblin ghosts and zombies sounded like more trouble than they were worth.

All that aside, thanks to the wave of goblins being defeated no sooner than they had appeared, Loren’s sack of severed ears swelled near to bursting. It wasn’t much of an issue at the beginning, but after a certain point, the cloth oozed with goblin blood, and its scent grew foul. While Loren very much wanted to throw it away, he couldn’t possibly discard what Ritz’s party had so generously conceded to him; what’s more, these disgusting bits could be converted into cash as soon as they got back, so he couldn’t treat them roughly.

At one point, he glanced around, wondering if the smell bothered anyone else. However, it was like the scent didn’t even register to Ritz’s party. Only Lapis—still clinging to his back—scrunched her nose, and as she did her best not to inhale through it, he heard her panting through her mouth.

“Let me make this clear,” she scowled, “I am not unduly excited by blood. In fact, my nose has pretty much given up the ghost.”

“You didn’t have to spell it out.” The thought hadn’t even crossed his mind.

Nym watched this exchange with a smile when all of a sudden, her eyes turned grim. “Hold on. The air is strange,” she called out.

The rest reacted quickly. Ritz readied his weapon and shield while Chuck scanned the area. Koltz brandished his staff, ready to use it at any moment.

“What is it, Nym?”

“The smell changed. Blood. Not goblin.”

Loren took a sniff, but all he could pick up was the stench wafting off the sack at his waist. He didn’t detect whatever Nym had. In fact, the goblin stench rendered him unable to smell anything else. Amazingly enough, Nym stood quite nearby and should have been in essentially the same state.

“In the first place, both human and goblin blood smell like rusted iron. Are they really that different?” asked Lapis, sounding rather fed up. It wasn’t as if Loren didn’t get where she was coming from.

“I won’t tell you guys to hold your tongues, but I suggest you keep an eye out. Nym’s senses are the real deal. Her nose, eyes, and ears are sharper than any of ours.”

“It’s the only part of her that’s devel—ow!”

Nym silently delivered a kick to the back of a certain thief who had said a little too much. Chuck looked like he had the physical edge on Nym, but she had put a lot of power into that kick and he was thrown to the floor.

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