43 Hobgoblin (1/2)
After Gellis and his group finished their preparation, they didn't linger to the store any longer. As they advanced their way to the eastern gate of the town.
However, before they pass the crossing point. A voice of a man could be heard at the corner of the passageway.
”Gellis, It's been a while.” The man said, staring at the startled Gellis about hearing his voice.
”Ooh! It's been a while, Instructor Ralph! How have you been?” Upon seeing a familiar figure, Gellis pleasantly greeted his acquaintance.
”Mm, I'm fine. Well, forget about me. I heard that you took the Goblin Subjugation request?” Ralph didn't play with his words as he directly asked what he wanted to know.
”Yup! Hahaha, who could've thought that after coming back to the town there would be another Goblin Subjugation request?” Staring at Ralph, Gilles said as he added. ”Of course we accepted it. We are now on our way to go to the plainlan forest.”
”Is that so? Mm, I'm glad to hear that.” When he finished his word Ralph abruptly bowed his head at the shoulder level. ”The truth is; I came here this morning waiting for you guys to arrive.”
Seeing Instructor Ralph bowing his head in the public place, Gellis swiftly grabbed both of his shoulders attempting him to stand up. ”What is wrong, Instructor Ralph? Please raise your head.” With the curious glance around them, Gellis couldn't bear to see the Instructor he admired when he was still a trainee Adventurer to be humiliated like this. But to his surprise, Ralph kept bowing his head.
”Please let me finish first.” Seeing that Gellis would bend his body if he didn't raise his head. Ralph stands up straight. ”The truth is, I want to ask you guys a request.” Saying that, Ralph glanced at the group of six people with his eyes flashed with hope.
”The thing is, two of my trainees are inside the plainlan forest. Their state is unknown.” After he said that, Ralph summoned a medium size brown satchel from his spatial ring. ”Please take this with you, it may help guys on your journey inside the forest.”
Seeing the expensive brown satchel in front of him, Gellis didn't immediately refuse his request as he said. ”So, what does Instructor Ralph wanted me to do?”
”I wanted for you guys to search for those two, even if you found them...” Instructor Ralph's voice became croaked as he tried to continue his sentences. ”Even if you—found them dead, as long as their body is intact that would do.”
After Gellis heard his request. He couldn't help to wrinkle his eyebrows in trouble. ”Instructor Ralph, you should know how dangerous our current request would be, right?” Gellis paused for a bit before adding. ”If they're still alive, that would be the best. However, if they're dead, I highly doubt there would be any corpse for them to be buried.”
Gellis said with a troubled expression; with his rich experience handling a Goblin, he knew that they wouldn't leave the corpse intact once they killed the person unless it was a woman to be handled for nurturing their number. The rest became their rations.
Listening to his explanation, Ralph furrowed his nose in discomfort. ”I know it is a ridiculous request; however, as their trainer, this is all I can do. So please.” After saying that, Instructor Ralph was about to bow his head once more, but this time a woman's voice interjected.
”You don't have to worry, Instructor. We'll handle it. Who knows your precious trainee is still there alive and kicking.” The one who spoke just now is Theeste.
”Right leader?” Theeste wink at him, beaconing Gellis to agree to her suggestion.
But before he could speak another voice said resounded to Gellis back. ”Just accept the Instructor's offer; leader, we can handle it.” The one who voiced out his thoughts was Toa, the thief from their party.
Hearing his party member voicing out their agreement to left and right. Gellis could only give a slight sigh in resignation. ”Alright you guys, are you sure about this?” Saying that he stared at his group members one by one with his piercing gaze that if they flinched for a bit he would reject the offer. Nevertheless, each and every of his party members matched his gaze firmly.
Seeing the resolve to their eyes, Gellis could only nod in approval. ”Okay Instructor, we will accept your request.” Saying that Gellis seized the highly made brown satchel as he put it into his spatial tool.
”Okay, with this another commission is added to our journey,” Gellis said. ”Don't worry Instructor, your trainees may alive inside the forest somewhere just like Theeste stated.”
Once they're done with their procedures, the group of six went toward the plainlan forest.
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When they reached the plainlan forest, the sun was already pointing at the west side of the sky.