I’m not Goblin Slayer Chapter 051

Near the door, the originally dazed drunkard instantly sobered up. A chill swept through his brain in a very short time, accompanied by terror that seized his consciousness. His face also instantly lost its color, turning pale.

Gauss reached out and grabbed the other party’s wrist, not letting go.

He didn’t have much ill will towards this drunkard. He was so drunk he was unconscious, what could you expect from him?

The reason he didn’t let go was because the other party had completely lost strength in his legs, which were trembling like soft noodles.

As soon as Gauss let go, the other party would fall to the ground.

“Please stand still, I’m going to let go.”

Gauss said indifferently.

“Yes!”

The drunkard shivered when he was swept by his emerald-colored eyes, feeling as if an electric current was surging through his body.

Gauss released his hand and looked at the drunkard, who was trembling like a little chick in front of him. He couldn’t help but shake his head inwardly.

Was he really that scary?

He clearly thought his face was quite delicate when he washed it.

The tavern was silent.

However, the Night Owl Squad had no time to deal with the abnormality in the tavern. They were already exhausted from a day’s work and had just narrowly escaped from a ghoul. Although there was no battle, it still gave them a cold sweat.

So, at this moment, everyone just wanted to quickly report the information, then take a bath and get a good night’s sleep.

“Gentlemen, what is this?”

Harvie, the tavern owner, came out after receiving the notification. He instinctively frowned when he saw everyone’s disheveled appearance, but then quickly forced a smile.

“Boss, let’s talk inside.”

At this moment, the tavern was eerily quiet, and almost the entire hall was paying attention to the commotion here.

However, it was clearly inappropriate to talk about what had just happened in public, as it could easily cause unnecessary disturbance.

So, everyone and Harvie re-entered the private room.

As the squad left the hall, quiet whispers slowly began to rise in the tavern.

“So scary…”

“They look like murderers.”

“Shh! Be quiet, they might still hear us.”

“……”

Inside the private room.

Leven and the others had recounted the entire incident to Harvie from beginning to end.

“Hiss, you mean there’s a ghoul wandering near the village!” Harvie gasped after listening.

If it were a common monster, ordinary people could deal with it, even if they weren’t as professionally trained as adventurers, by paying a price. At most, there would be some casualties and they wouldn’t be able to completely eliminate the monster.

But a monster like a ghoul was beyond the scope of what ordinary humans could handle.

Even if there were trained militiamen in the village, they couldn’t contend with a monster whose physical quality was several times stronger than their own.

The only thing to be thankful for was that if, as these adventurers said, there was only one ghoul, then the situation might not be so critical.

After all, such solitary monsters rarely actively attack human settlements.

“Yes.”

“Then, that monster, can you gentlemen handle it?” Harvie asked tentatively.

Although the probability of a ghoul actively attacking was small, having such a fierce creature lurking around the village made it difficult to sleep peacefully at night.

“Do we look like we can kill a ghoul? It’s already a miracle we escaped alive,” Leven said with a bitter smile, stating the truth.

This was nothing to be ashamed of.

Harvie scanned the appearance of everyone in front of him.

Unlike ordinary villagers, Harvie was, after all, a manager of a large merchant guild and had seen much of the world.

He could naturally see that the “fierce-looking” people were actually in a sorry state.

If they had completed a normal mission, they would naturally have had time to slowly clean their equipment and wouldn’t have rushed back covered in blood and.

“That’s true, I was presumptuous.” Harvie sighed, finding his thoughts laughable. Even well-trained low-level adventurers couldn’t contend with a monster of a ghoul’s caliber.

“I’ll have a meeting with the other tomorrow. If the situation is true, we will most likely re-issue a commission to the Adventurer’s Guild for this ghoul.”

“And thank you for the information, gentlemen. As for the eradication mission of the merrows, I will sign a statement of explanation for you after I send someone to investigate the situation tomorrow.”

Harvie stood up.

“You gentlemen have also worked hard tonight, why not wash up and rest in our tavern for a night?”

Harvie’s face was subtly darkening. Being in the confined private room with everyone, he had unspeakable difficulties, almost losing consciousness from the stench.

At this moment, he used this as an excuse and quickly rushed towards the door.

He twisted the doorknob, and before anyone could reply.

He walked out first.

“There’s a bathroom in the back. I’ll have a waiter prepare hot water for your bath.”

Gauss and the others exchanged glances, but it was hard to refuse such hospitality, and now that they were safe, they themselves began to tolerate the sticky, fishy stench on their bodies.

After a slight hesitation, they still got up and followed Harvie.

The night passed without incident.

The next day.

The walls were built with grayish-brown flagstones. The oil lamps hanging on the walls had burned out, and the low oak beams were blackened by smoke. Sunlight cast fragmented specks of light through the wooden bars of the narrow window.

Gauss opened his eyes on the soft large bed and lay still for a while.

Only after his consciousness was completely clear did he sit up and slowly stretch.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve slept so comfortably.”

He pressed the coarse woven wool blanket beneath him. Although the worn edges had revealed the yellowish cotton inside, it was still much more comfortable than the linen mattress Gauss usually slept on.

“It’s easy to go from frugality to luxury.”

Getting up, Gauss began to dress and equip himself.

When putting on his clothes and leather armor, he again felt that his movements were significantly more agile. When tying knots behind his back, he no longer had the awkward feeling of insufficient force he used to.

At this moment, Gauss directly realized that the agility stat increase brought improvements in all aspects, not just the few minutes during combat.

Perhaps his efficiency in training weapons would also increase significantly because of this.

Walking out of the tavern.

The others also got up one after another.

They greeted each other in the hall, and the tavern waiter quickly served them breakfast.

“I wonder how much mission reward we’ll get this time?”

“Yeah, we didn’t even finish collecting the merrow spoils yesterday, only managed to take some.”

“We got robbed by a ghoul, first time in my life.”

Everyone talked about last night’s encounter while eating breakfast.

After a night’s sleep, much of that unease had been resolved.

At this moment, they even began to feel bad about the lost mission rewards.

“As long as Harvie helps us supplement a statement with the merchant guild’s seal, we should still be able to get the full mission reward,” Leven comforted.

“The only loss is those merrow materials.”

“And the extra reward they promised us, I wonder if we’ll still get it,” Daphne sighed.

She had been saving money to buy a magic stone for her staff core, and it would be quite painful if she lost a portion of her income for nothing.