Chapter 93 - Beginning Battle (2/2)

“Is this where the chief is at?”

Loren grimaced at the stench that filled the place as he looked around.

He thought he would find out what the stench was from since he was nearing the origin, but although they should be very close, he couldn’t figure out what it was.

Before, he and his fellow mercenaries had been ordered to go on consecutive battles and hadn’t been able to wash themselves for a while, and what he smelled now was like what he smelled from everyone then.

“The smell of sweat and dirt and…rotting food is all mixed together.”

Lapis identified the smell while covering her mouth and nose with her hand, but it didn’t seem like they would find out if Lapis was right or if it was something else completely unless they investigated.

But they didn’t have the time to do so.

It was Lapis who first noticed it, as expected.

It was in the deepest part of the open area they entered, right by the back wall.

At first Lapis couldn’t understand what it was.

But after a while, she realized it might be something that someone had become, she pulled on Loren’s sleeve as he had a disgusted look on his face.

“Loren, that…is that what I think it is?”

When Loren looked towards where Lapis was pointing, he was at a loss for words at what he saw.

There was a skin colored mountain.

They were in a spacious area with a ceiling that was quite high, but what in the world was the giant thing that almost reached it.

“Umm? This isn’t…No way…”

A skin colored blob that was wet with something that was most likely sweat.

The blob seemed to be separated into parts by something like wrinkles but seeing that the largest out of them was expanding and withering, they could see that it was a living thing.

But to the question of what kind of living thing it was, Loren didn’t have an answer.

The thing that looked so abnormal was taking root alongside the wall.

“It seems like that’s the source of the smell.”

Loren didn’t feel like touching the thing that glistened in a slimy fashion and looked like someone had poured oil in it, so he walked near it with a disgusted face and poked it with his foot.

Lapis panicked and tried to stop him, but it was already too late, and the giant thing’s attention turned to Loren.

“Who…are you…?”

“It spoke!?”

Although he wasn’t sure where it was speaking from, he heard it speak, and it spoke responding to Loren’s action.

Loren slowly back off from the giant blob that talked, even though it was talking in broken phrases, and asked Lapis, who was backing off as well.

“Lapis, what the hell is that…”

“We came here to find the fairy chief, so you have an idea of what we just encountered, right?”

It wasn’t like he didn’t have a vague idea of what it was.

But checking what he’d been told against the blob in front of him that started to move, he didn’t want to believe it.

“You’re kidding me…This thing is the chief?”

It was in fact natural to think that it was the chief, since they had encountered it at the place where they were told the chief was residing in.

But the fairies that they had met until then were palm sized boys and girls like Corne and was nothing like the chunk of meat in front of them.

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“What the hell!? Why is this the chief!?”

“Don’t ask me.”

There was only about one thing Loren could think of.

“He ate too much and got fat…”

Loren and Lapis had no idea how large the chief originally was, but since he was a fairy, it was hard to think that he was tall enough for the two of them to look up at him.

So, Loren concluded that he became the gigantic thing in front of him due to eating all the food he stole from the elves.

“But this is a bit too much, don’t you think?”

“He’s so big he can’t even move in his own.”

“Maybe it won’t be too hard to kill him, I guess.”

Loren had thought the task would be quite difficult since he had heard that the chief was more powerful than all the fairies in the village combined, so he was relieved that it wouldn’t be so hard since their opponent couldn’t move, but he then immediately jumped away from where he was standing.

Almost at the same time, a few bolts of fire landed where he had just been standing, scattering flames in the around the spot.

“It doesn’t seem like he’ll give us an easy time just because he can’t move.”

The chief indeed couldn’t move on his own.

But not being able to move and not being able to fight were two different things, and especially if you could use magic, you could fight if you had consciousness.

“Looks like if we don’t start trying, we’ll be the ones who get killed.”

As Loren muttered and gripped his great sword more tightly, the giant chunk of meat shuddered, whether it was from being nervous of fighting, or from joy that new prey was in its sight, as it started scattering its stench around again.