"Under the cold, slender moon of a winter's night, goblins assault a village, and from a dead woman a child is born, and from a child the prophecy will be fulfilled."
Karin, waking up on a road next to a good old tavern, maybe he overdid it this time, too much mead can make anyone pain, reaching into her pocket, realizes she doesn't have even one gold coin , only garbage.
Karin
- "Damn, I need to make a contract, otherwise I won't have anything to eat tonight and... what the hell is this? a frog bone?."
When he had already recovered, he returned to the old tavern, looking at a chart of contracts, between helping a lord chop wood, and hunting a thief dwarf, there was one that caught his attention, shooting an arrow in the eye of a giant goblin for a good reward? well, that might even be easy, if it weren't for the simple fact that Karin doesn't have any skill with bow and arrows.
Karin
- "Well, I can't be good at everything, right? Looks like I'm going to need help this time..."
Looking at a glance, he noticed two elves, one of them was wearing a hood, strangely made with tree leaves and they had a bow and arrows on their backs, some spell books, bags, you know... things from elves, Karin decides to approach and, holding the shoulders of one of them, smiling, made him an offer.
Karin
- "Hello gentlemen, I see you are archers, I have a proposal that may be advantageous to you."
The Elves, not understanding the situation, got scared, when noticing the presence of a human so... big?
Calen
- "B-But what is this? Take your hands off me, human."
Sindri
- "Ah! hello sir, sorry my brother Calen, after the Great War he didn't like very much, well, you know... humans."
Calen
- "It's true, and about this "advantageous proposal", we have no interest at the moment."
Karin
- "Well, so, I'll go after some other archer who wants to earn a lot of gold for completing a easy contract."
Sindri and Calen
- "...M-MUCH GOLD!?"
Minutes later, Karin and the elf brothers head towards the place of the contract, leaving the village, walking along a road surrounded by trees and bushes, outside the village walls, no environment is safe, the threat of goblins terrifies any race. , the group, accompanied by an old and... short man, being the contractor, because in the contract it said that he should accompany the contractor to confirm the fact of hitting an arrow in the eye of a giant goblin, which on the contrary, could easily be deceived by some evildoer.
Calen
- "Is it serious that in this contract we would have to bring this dead weight with us?"
Sindri
- "Calm down brother, I know you don't like humans, but there's no need to exaggerate."
With a doubtful face, Sindri asks you about the contract, as it is something very specific, maybe even a little... strange.
Sindri
- "By the way sir, what is the purpose of this contract? let's say it's a little... well... different"
Old man
- "Well, w-well, that's not the case now... let's go ahead, Ha-ha"
After leaving a considerable distance from the village, and heading towards a forest surrounded by torches, rusty weapons, skulls and bones, whose origin would be several battles fought between goblins and all other races, and after a few hours walking, Karin observe in distance , after entering the forest for a few minutes, a giant goblin sits at the foot of a bonfire, immediately asks the old man, if that would be the giant, ready to easily complete the contract, geting as close as possible , with a good view for the archer, everything was right, until then.
Karin
- "Look! then old, would this be the benefactor to receive an arrow in the eye?."
Old man
- "Yes, he is!.."
Calen
- "I already have a good vision from here, easy gold! Very well... I'll do the honors!"
Calen, despite his problems with humans, due to his parents dying at the hands of humans in the Great War, was a great archer, practically never missed a target, when shooting the arrow, what seemed to be an easy contract and practically already concluded , ended taking an unexpected turn, the giant goblin, unexpectedly to the surprise of the group, turned his face towards the arrow seconds before it hit him, fast and frightenin grabbed and stopped the arrow with his hands, within 2 centimeters of hitting him in your eye, the group seeing this, is without reaction, and everything ends up evolving in seconds.
Sindri, Calen and Karin
- "What the f..."
old man
- "Ha-ha?"
After a few seconds without understanding what had happened, Karin decides to take charge of the situation, so he calmly take your great sword, the goblin who was sitting at the bonfire, gets up angry, enraged, with a thunderous scream to everyone's ears, Karin had not seen any other way, when the goblin started the slow and growing steps towards the group, Karin, with a strong lunge towards the goblin manages to break all the ground where he was, and with a face serious, when approaching the goblin , before it thinks of any attacking move, Karin cut it in half with just one powerful blow, bathing in the blood of the giant goblin.
_Swooish!_
Everyone from afar looking at what happened, were amazed at Karin's strength, realizing that it had already finished, before even starting, they left the place where they were crouching and approached Karin, who was ahead with the dead goblin , split in half, fallen at his feet.
Sindri
- "You're strong, I've never seen anyone kill a goblin of that size with just one sword blow."
Calen
- "So, I thought we should have shot an arrow in his eye, not split it in half."
old man
- "Well, you killed him, not the way it was described but you killed him, so I consider the contract concluded."
Karin
- "Well, Ha-ha-ha! I think I got a little carried away, sorry!"
Sindri
- "By the way sir, you really don't want to tell us the reason for such a contract?"
old man
- "W-well, this goblin killed my companion, Amellia, so I wanted him to die a slow and painful death."
Karin
- "I understand, we're sorry, really the eyes are the most sensitive points of a goblin, but anyway, it must have been a great loss for you and your family."
old man
- "Yes, Améllia was a good Goat _Snif_ "
Karin and Sindri
- "G-goat...?"
Calen
- "Humans..."
After the conversation, the old man delivers a bag of gold into Calen's hands, says goodbye, and leaves for the village, heading in the opposite direction of the group, Sindri seeing such power of Karin, sees a possibility of a partnership between them, make contracts, earn rewards, after all someone as powerful as Karin should make any contract easier.
Sindri
- "By the way big guy, my name is Sindri, and this is my brother Calen."
Calen
- "Gold! That's it, old man, thanks for the preference, ha-ha!"
Karin
- "Ah yes! my name is Karin, nice to meet you, Calen...? what kind of name is that? ha-ha-ha"
Calen
- "What's wrong with my name? Karin? Is that a goat's name too?"
Sindri and Karin
- "ha-ha-ha-ha"
Sindri
- "I see we can work together more often, you and Calen can be great friends! ha-ha!"
Calen
- "SINDRI!"
After the contract is concluded, Karin and her newest group walk back to the village, dividing the reward equally between them, as everything seemed to have gone well, not far from there, watching and listening to all the action and the conversations, lurking. between the cracks of a bush, there was a small goblin, where, facing all the enormous and surreal strength that Karin had, he ran to tell his King, that the boy of the prophecy had been found.
little goblin
- "Sir, I found him, and he, well... from what I hear, his name is Karin."
goblin king
- "Well, Karin?... interesting, prepare the soldiers, you piece of shit, we'll attack soon."
To be continued...