I Inherited a Beautiful Wife and a Territory - Chapter 46

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Inheriting a Beautiful Wife and Estate Episode 046

46. Goblin Wave

When he was young, he wanted to become a splendid knight.

To put it more precisely, a hero.

Saving villages in danger, receiving the love of beautiful women, being praised by countless people…

‘I was really naive.’

As he grew a little older, his thoughts changed.

He realized that he was not a hero, not a protagonist.

Still, he was fortunate to have talent in swordsmanship. So he thought. He wanted to become that knight who guards the hero’s side.

The first sword who stands right beside such a lord who saves weak people, receives the love of beauties, and is praised by crowds.

Even that was a dream he had abandoned.

But now…

‘I am a blessed one.’

Teobaldt thought as he looked at the back of the man standing in front.

A man who doesn’t fear danger and willingly came for the people driven into this crisis.

He was a hero.

The protagonist Teobaldt had been thinking of.

Though he was someone who usually spoke lightly, that was still fine.

“…It’s a Hop Goblin.”

When the goblins approached close to the palisade, Adolf spoke.

A goblin that was a head taller and more agile than other goblins.

Its build was still smaller than humans. But the power it possessed was incomparable.

Kyaaaaaaak!

One Hop Goblin that appeared on the battlefield roared.

The goblins’ momentum became even more fierce.

Conversely, the people’s spirits were broken. Finally, the time had come for him to step forward.

“My lord’s command…”

“Will you be alright?”

“Of course. I’ll go at once and behead that noisy goblin.”

Teobaldt’s body heated up.

At those words, Cliff nodded.

“Go.”

“Yes, My Master.”

Teobaldt jumped straight down from the watchtower to outside the palisade.

Even going outside the palisade alone, he wasn’t afraid at all.

“Get out of the way!”

Teobaldt’s greatsword swung and struck down a goblin. In that state, Teobaldt sent aura to his feet and ran toward the Hop Goblin among the goblins.

Keruk?

The Hop Goblin also saw him charging at it.

The distance between them quickly closed. Teobaldt’s sword strike, having cut through the goblins, fell upon the Hop Goblin.

“Wow!”

“It’s a knight!”

Strictly speaking, he hadn’t received knighthood yet.

Cliff watched Teobaldt running among the goblins after his permission. Teobaldt, as if the darkness wasn’t an obstacle at all, brushed past the goblins and headed straight for the Hop Goblin.

‘Is this… Guan Yu!’

Was this what it looked like when Guan Yu beheaded Yan Liang and Wen Chou?

Though it wasn’t the Green Dragon Crescent Blade, Teobaldt’s greatsword cleanly bisected the Hop Goblin’s body left and right.

“Waaaah!”

His performance raised the allies’ morale.

Meanwhile, Teobaldt again leisurely passed through the goblins and returned to the front of the palisade.

Hop.

For Teobaldt with his superhuman body, this small palisade was no longer an obstacle.

With a thud sound, he jumped and crossed over the palisade.

Keruru!

Kyaaaak!

The confused sounds of goblins spread from outside the palisade.

“Hmm. Has he become stronger than before…?”

Adolf’s quiet muttering could be heard.

Come to think of it, the two had directly fought once in the previous war.

Adolf seemed to think Teobaldt had become even stronger than back then.

“…Leticia. It would be good to show your power once more?”

He had seen Teobaldt’s almost acrobatic sortie well.

Cliff wanted to show one more thing here. At his desire, Leticia nodded and stepped forward.

“My friend Silafe, please help. A fearsome wind against the enemies threatening your friend.”

With an incantation that wasn’t quite an incantation, wind gathered fiercely around her.

The strong wind that made even their clothes flutter soon disappeared as if it were a lie.

And soon a violent wind began to sweep through the goblins.

Kyaaaaa?

Kiaak.

Keruruk.

Literally a blade wind struck.

The cold wind didn’t simply blow the goblins’ bodies away, but also wounded their bodies.

The whirlwind that formed in the center of the goblins thus ravaged the goblins once and passed by.

“Ma, it’s a mage!”

“We have a mage!”

She’s a Spirit Mage, not a mage.

But looking at just this scene, it was difficult to distinguish between the two.

Even to himself, she seemed more like a mage than a Spirit Mage.

‘Since spirits are so transparent that they’re originally hard to see…’

The atmosphere tilted toward this side.

The goblin army seemed to feel this too.

Kyaaaaaaak!

A clearly louder ear-splitting sound than other goblins rang out.

Kyaaaak!

Kyaak!

As if responding to this, Hop Goblins that had been hiding somewhere showed themselves again.

And this time it wasn’t just one but a total of three. The goblins also became faster. Since they were discovered anyway, they rushed toward the palisade without any thought of hiding.

“Block them!”

Even with the palisade, it wasn’t particularly high.

Also, goblins climbed the palisade better than expected. Using their claws, they began climbing up the palisade like Spider-Man, clinging to it.

“Pour boiling water!”

Adolf shouted.

Originally women who were essentially non-combatants when battles occurred.

But fighting monsters was different. If it had been a fight between humans, those women wouldn’t have come to the battlefield, but since the opponents were goblins, they too diligently carried water they had been boiling in one place.

And two or three at a time poured it on the climbing goblins.

Kyaaaak!

Keruruk!

The goblins hit by boiling water fell to the ground with agonized screams.

Terrible smells and smoke vibrated everywhere.

While the women poured boiling water, the men used sharpened wooden spears.

Thud.

Thunk.

They stabbed the bodies of goblins trying to climb up.

Occasionally, some goblins would grab onto the wooden spears that stabbed at them and hang from them instead.

“Let go!”

When a goblin’s weight was added to the wooden spear, even a man would momentarily lean outside the palisade.

If they quickly released the spear they would survive, but one man who failed at this screamed “Aaaaah!” as he fell to the ground.

It was cruel, but they couldn’t spare attention for him.

And around the man who had already fallen to the ground, goblins were swarming.

“Keep pouring!”

Women throughout the palisade carried and poured boiling water.

Still, there were far more goblins than people. And the problem was the Hop Goblins.

The strength of Hop Goblins was enough to destroy the palisade in one blow.

“This time Adolf should go too. Can you handle it?”

“Whew. I’ll go.”

This time, unlike before, two knights riding black wolves went outside.

The Shadow Wolves leaped over the palisade in one bound, and the knights riding them stylishly cut down the Hop Goblins.

The two knights who also took down other nearby goblins returned.

“Waaaah!”

Cheers erupted whenever the knights showed their prowess.

“Undain!”

Leticia summoned another spirit she had been saving.

The Undain made the hot water that had been boiling around the palisade shoot upward. That water automatically rose and gathered, then quickly circled around the palisade.

Kyaaaak!

Keruk!

With that one circuit by the Undain, the goblins around the palisade rolled on the ground with burns.

Other goblins stepped on their fallen comrades’ bodies and clung to the palisade again.

‘We might win more easily than I thought…’

Cliff had that thought.

The four Beast Warriors went to the east, west, south, and north respectively, transforming into their beast forms and knocking down goblins trying to climb up.

They were fighting well.

At this rate, it seemed there would be no problems.

“Women, don’t come up on the palisade anymore!”

Still, the goblins’ offensive remained fierce.

In the midst of this, a new order came from Adolf.

Cliff tilted his head at that command from the one directing the defense forces.

“…Soon there will be goblins that succeed in climbing up onto the palisade. If women are nearby then, it will only create confusion and make the battle disadvantageous.”

Leticia explained the reason behind Adolf’s command.

Conrad, who had been watching nervously from nearby, also grabbed his hand axe.

“Then my lord, I’ll also head to the palisade.”

Even the women withdrew.

Then goblins really began climbing up onto the palisade one by one. Once they started climbing up, there was no end.

Leticia summoned the Undain again to stop the goblins trying to climb up, but there wasn’t much effect.

There were simply too many goblins.

“Hah. Hah. Hah.”

And Leticia beside him began panting at some point.

Adolf and Teobaldt’s movements also became busier.

The two had been hunting only the occasional Hop Goblins that appeared, but now the enemies seemed to have caught on and were actually luring the two knights.

And the Hop Goblins hid among the regular goblins, draining the two knights’ stamina.

‘This is dangerous.’

The number of goblins killed so far must be in the hundreds.

Cliff newly realized the terror of a goblin wave. Setting other things aside, there were simply too many goblins.

The fact that the cowardly goblins had decided on battle meant there was good reason for it.

“Hah. My lord… you need to make a decision now.”

Leticia looked at him and spoke.

It was her most vulnerable appearance in a different sense from when she had trembled from the Serpents’ Fear at first.

If they continued trying to defend this village, even escape might become difficult.

“Let me try one last thing.”

Cliff answered her.

If even this method didn’t work, then they would really have to escape the village without looking back.

Still, he was confident. It had never disappointed him so far.

“Domain Declaration.”

He rotated the three circles and expanded the domain’s range.

And Intimidation.

He emanated intimidation toward the goblins, not the people.

Keruk?

Keeeek!

The effect was definitely significant.

Originally, goblins were very cowardly.

Panic swept over them. Because the goblins at the front were in such chaos, the goblins’ advance ran into difficulties.

The goblin army momentarily hesitated.

Kyaaaak!

One Hop Goblin split the head of a panicked comrade.

However, the goblins at the front still began to flee. The phenomenon of those in back advancing forward while those in front turned and fled.

“Whew.”

Cliff took a deep breath.

The effect was even better because the goblins were naturally cowards. But if the village had been even slightly larger, this effect would have been very weak.

No, even though he had expanded the village size sufficiently, the effect wasn’t great.

‘What kind of mana consumption…’

Cliff’s meager mana was noticeably depleted.

He withdrew the Intimidation skill.

He had maintained it for barely about 10 seconds. During that time, he had disrupted the goblins in the front ranks.

But as the price, Cliff’s heart was also pounding.

“…I can’t do it twice.”

He felt Leticia’s surprised gaze looking at him.

The collective panic of the goblins happening now.

She knew well that it was caused by Cliff.

But she didn’t know how Cliff had caused it.

‘There seemed to be something there…’

It was different from magic.

Still, this effect was definitely significant. Though briefly, it bought time for the village to reorganize.

The problem was that the injured had already increased.

And the stamina and mana consumption was too great. Now if the goblins began attacking again, it would be hard to last even an hour.

“My lord.”

Teobaldt and Adolf came with grim faces.

“We really must escape now. After this, there’s no guarantee we can safely escape from here.”

They had used all their last resorts.

‘In the end… it won’t work?’

At times like this, he shouldn’t hesitate.

The moment he hesitated, he could lose everything. Even feeling that fact, Cliff couldn’t readily open his mouth.

Until now, Quest had never given him an impossible task.

‘That’s why I came in here…’

Cliff looked outside.

The goblins also seemed to be gradually calming down.

He prepared to attack again.

Awoooooo.

Hades’ howling sound spread.

Cliff tilted his head.

“…Huh?”

The goblin horde that seemed to be calming down was stirred up again.

A variable had occurred.

“Dare to cause chaos on Platys’ land – exterminate all these runts! Don’t leave a single one alive! Don’t forget how they harmed your neighbors, your mothers, your wives and daughters!”

The Platys soldiers.

They were anti-goblin war specialists.

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