I Parry Everything: Volume 1 [Complete] by Nabeshiki

Author:Nabeshiki
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 17: The Goblin Emperor

As I stared up at the monstrous creature before me, my shock caused me to choke on my words.

“Th-That’s...a Goblin—!”

A Goblin Emperor. It was a subspecies of the most fearsome example of goblinkind: the Goblin King, a Catastrophe-class threat. They were differentiated as such because while Goblin Kings were naturally occurring phenomena that appeared once every few hundred years, Goblin Emperors were not—they were artificially created monsters.

It was known that goblins could be mutated through human manipulation. However, the practice had long since faded into the past, and these days it was considered taboo knowledge that had been the fruit of now-forbidden research. It was done by embedding manastones into the goblins’ skin, then pouring in a massive quantity of mana.

Generally, monster bodies could only handle a certain amount of mana; exceeding that limit would cause them to rupture and die. However, in extremely rare cases, certain goblins adapted to that surplus density. Apparently, if mana continued to be poured into these unique specimens, their bodies would expand like balloons—and if they managed to endure even that, they would eventually assimilate the mana and make it their own.

The end result would be a goblin strong enough to rival a Goblin King—an A-rank, Catastrophe-class threat. This reasoning was why Goblin Emperors were classified as being equally as dangerous as Goblin Kings.

But the goblin before me was so huge that I could scarcely believe it. It was at least twice as large as any Goblin King I’d learned about, if not larger. I suddenly recalled a theory that experimentation results were also dependent on the quality of manastone embedded within the goblin’s body, not just the amount of mana one poured into it.

I looked at the manastone shining in the forehead of the goblin in front of me, and immediately I could tell it was abnormal. Its unbelievable size and purity completely set it apart from a regular manastone. Once, when studying abroad in the Holy Theocracy of Mithra, I’d gotten a chance to see a Demon’s Heart, said to be the highest grade of manastone in existence. However, this one was its equal in every way—no, its purity might even have been superior.

And yet, it had been embedded into this goblin? No wonder the creature had grown to such an abnormal size.

I had no way of confirming any of my suspicions. However, I did know one thing for certain: not even a Goblin King would be a match for this monster.

Goblin Kings were an A-rank threat—monsters that could just barely be handled by a full party of Gold-rank adventurers. Yet they paled in comparison to the size of the Goblin Emperor before me.

Not only that, it was a kin-eater, a monster that ate those of its own kind and grew stronger off of the mana it absorbed from them. I no longer had any idea just how much of a threat this Goblin Emperor posed. Why was it in a place like this?

I couldn’t beat it. I was sure I couldn’t.

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