Not caring for what was in front of it, the creature took its sharp metal rod and thrust it towards them.

While Yuu and Jacky had seen the rod pierce through the ground with ease before they arrived, showing off its might, it actually stopped despite the goblin continuously putting force into its arm.

Keeping the rod on standby, a large axe was pushing against it with great force. Jane, at least that was what the other woman called her, had her left foot deep into the ground. While the dirt around her foot wasn’t hard as a brick, it would still be difficult to cause it to sink into the ground with just only pressure. The strength that the goblin wielded was not puny.

Looking at her, Yuu admired the strength and endurance that she had. Lifting an entire tree could be possible with her strength.

Though, looking back at the creature, it clearly had a functioning brain as it pulled the rod back and smashed the area in front of it with its abnormal right arm. A large amount of dirt and other minerals rose in the air, lowering the visibility.

With the less visible surroundings, Yuu was barely able to make out what the goblin was doing. Though, within a second of the air clearing, he could see its mouth starting to move before making a frightening roar. It was about to cast magic!

However, just as he was about to warn them, he heard Jane making a grunting sound as her foot dug deeper into the ground. While it was casting magic, it had actually attacked! At first, Yuu thought this was a dumb creature, but he clearly underestimated it.

Looking above it, a dense volume of water started to appear above the creature. As the cloud of dirt slowly settled, it was clear that it wouldn’t allow Jane to defend any longer. It pulled back its rod and prepared to strike once more while the volume of water started to shake ever so slightly.

Its intention was clear, it wanted to attack her with a large volume of water, potentially making her and the group unstable and slightly immobile.

Yet just as the water above its head started to move, icicles were sent flying towards it, causing it to slowly break. This, however, didn’t break it entirely. But this was not the only attack incoming. A somewhat large clump of stone flew above Jane’s head, heading towards the creature’s chest.

Blocking the clump with its arm, slamming it away, it felt something touch its back before feeling an object pierce into its back. The water fell down, breaking its formation entirely.

Looking from afar, Yuu saw Jehbon, the one wielding the spear, pulling his weapon out of the creature’s back and recklessly jumping off the back, falling onto the ground while avoiding the water.

Pissed off by the attack, the creature roared, and summoned water that took the shape of tiny needles, throwing it towards the group on the road. While it did that, it quickly turned around towards Jehbon and threw a fist towards him with its right arm.

With unfortunate events, the attack actually hit, causing him to yell in pain as the fist demolished his stomach.

“Back off of him!” Jane yelled as she ran towards it, preparing to strike it down with her axe.

Despite the hideous body that this goblin-like creature had, making it seem like a rotting corpse, it had quick reflexes, attacking with its rod immediately.

Just as the rod was about to go towards Jane, two clumps of stone were thrown towards the creature. The rod was pushed off while it stumbled slightly as it took a bit of damage.

Due to this, Jane had enough time to prepare and swing her axe against its leg, wanting to chop it completely off.

“Gawh!” it roared as it felt a part of its body leave unlike its pierced back. One of its legs was finely chopped off as the axe went through completely. Even though it did have one of its legs cut off, it quickly turned around with the intent to do harm to Jehbon.

However, just as it was about to turn around completely, a loud female voice echoed out, “Fire!” A dark cloud surrounded the creature’s eyes, and the eye on its cheek, causing it to see a new scene. There, it saw Jehbon laying on the ground, trying to get up. It summoned the needles of water once more and shot it at him while throwing its rod towards him.

No longer having a leg it couldn’t remain standing. As it couldn’t keep balance with just one leg, it was forced to throw the spear using the emptied hand to hold itself while preparing to strike with its larger right arm if needed.

Yet, the reality of the situation was, the rod pierced nothing. While it could see Jehbon’s body on the ground, it never existed in the first place. The woman who had thrown the clumps of stone, the icicles, and yelled “Fire!” had planned this from the beginning.

She ordered Yuu and Jqonle to grab his body and assist Jehbon in getting into a safe area long ago. While Jehbon didn’t break his leg, he was on the ground and vulnerable. All of the attacks, the chopping of the leg, and more, while a lot of paper, happened rather quickly.

While the two ensured that he was safe, she ordered Jacky to confuse it with an illusion of Jehbon still being there, giving them time to regroup and attack.

Even though she was not a strategist, she had a keen eye and a way of improving tactics quickly.

After the creature summoned the water needles and threw the rod, it sensed an incoming threat and blocked it with its right arm. Despite the boney appearance it had through its body, its large right arm managed to withstand the blade of an axe!

Of course, blood started to come down, but even so, it stopped it completely in its tracks. But before it could use magic or do anything else, Jane yelled with a deafening voice, “Attack!!!”

“Gawh!” the creature roared as it felt different things pierce its body. A spear entered its back, a hot flaming spear struck its other leg, and as if it were a pickaxe, a scythe entering its back, piercing through the chest.

Despite its right arm being strong beyond belief, its body was not durable to last against three different weapons.

It made pitiful noises as the body completely fell down. The body slowly sinking in the wet grass, feeling the moist dirt drag its body down. Its slightly burnt face seeing the open free sky slowly turn dim, as if darkness was well-nigh in its sight.

“I-It’s finally dead…” Jqonle fell on the floor, all the adrenaline in his body ran out, no longer having the energy to survive, instead, he feared the existence of this thing.

Sitting down to get rest, Jean sighed after confirming it was truly dead, “What the actual hell...In all my days adventuring and exploring, I've not seen something so disgusting.”

“Yuu right? Mind explaining detail to detail as to what happened?” The other female adventurer spoke up to him, wanting to know more about this situation.

“Sure! Uh… miss-”

“Just call me Lenna. The idiot with the spear is Jehbon, and she’s Jane,” she interrupted him.

He explained detail to detail, from the beginning of the quest, to what they saw with the dead goblins and silver-wolves, and everything until now.

Listening closely, the three pondered as they had never seen anything like this before.

Not getting too engrossed, Jean spoke up, “Well, either way, we should report this to the guild, guards, and some of the knights who came back. The biggest problem though, how do we actually get the body to Blarchx. It looks dumb and boney, but to carry it for a couple of hours…”

“Maybe someone could run to the town nearby and ask for a carriage?” Jehbon said, rubbing his stomach that was still in pain.

Jane snorted, “Huh!? Boy, look at the corpse again, and tell me a carriage could drag this.”

Lenna quickly interrupted, “Jane. If there is no way we can just dismember it and bring pieces to the guild. Either way, we still need to bring at least some of it back.”

Deciding that it was worth taking the risk of unveiling Leah’s secret due to the importance of this situation Yuu spoke up, “I can store the body until we get to the city, though it's a bit of a secret…”

“Gotcha,” interrupting once more, Lenna started walking towards the city. She signaled the others while speaking, “Come on you guys.”

Even though she seemed cold and kept interrupting constantly, he was glad she respected his privacy

After everyone left in the distance, away from being able to see, Yuu asked Leah if she could store the body. She compiled and it only took about half a minute before she placed the entire body and rod into her storage, or wherever it ends up.

Catching up to them, the group quickly headed towards the city, hurrying to report the scenario as fast as possible.