[Failed to Log In.]
[Server Under Maintenance.]
[Time Left: 12 hours.]
-"Why now!? And twelve hours?!"- Lucas screamed.
'Why are you shouting? What's wrong?', Rei asked.
-"You can't enter the damn game which means you will die!"-
'Wha-'
''What!?'
'Why?', Rei was at a loss for words.
"…"
'What should we do now?', Rei asked.
-"What else!? Death! Let's just wait for death."- Lucas said in a crazed manner.
With all that had happened, Lucas had every right to say this.
Rei, on the other hand, was troubled by all this and before he could process the information completely, a nerve-racking cry reached his ears.
He looked towards the direction of the sound.
What he found was something that he had expected earlier, yet it was entirely different.
Gaburu was grabbed by an Orc, its gigantic palm wrapping around his head.
"H-help…", Gaburu called for help as his eyeballs shook vigorously while staring at Rei from the tiny gap in the Orc's fingers.
"Ga-", that's all Rei could say before seeing Gaburu's head being crushed!
The blood splattered and painted the orc's hand. Following it, the orc turned its head and stared directly at Rei, who had screamed a few seconds ago.
He realized… He had made a big mistake.
At that time a goblin mumbled under his breath.
"Chief it's time."
***
"Hah hah hah!" A heavy crazed laugh echoed inside the Cave as Rout's bodyguards stared at him munching on some meat.
"Those poor things! They don't know what is going to happen to them! For a moment at that time, I thought Rei had some suspicion about us but I guess I just worried uselessly, after all he is just a goblin!" Rout said as he munched through some meat.
He then licked his lips and then continued to speak with himself.
"Those goblins. I wonder what their reaction will be when they realize that their slave crest is going to blast! Hahahaha! I want to see their face filled with despair!", He continued to laugh crazily as he imagined the scene.
At that time he got a message via telepathy.
"Chief. It's time."
"Ya! It's time… Time for me to be the ruler of the eastern and the western forest!", Rout said as he immediately stood up from his throne.
He then licked his lips once again.
Seconds later, his eyes started to glow as he mumbled a few words – "Goblins Bombs…"
***
The goblins that were soon surrounded by Orcs, started to run and scream.
"No wait…", Rei saw the chaos being created right in front of his eyes as all the goblins behind him dispersed like the wind.
But they had no place to run. The orcs had already surrounded them and if they ran, they would only get closer to the orcs.
All they could do is fear…
However, the cry of fear soon turned into the cry of pain as their hands where the slave crest was present, started to bulge and glow.
"S-save me Rei!", a goblin that stood a few metres away from Rei shouted.
"Y-"
But before Rei could do anything, the slave crest that was glowing, started to emit much more red light which soon engulfed the goblins. Moments later, the goblin exploded.
*BOOM*
Right in front of him, a goblin whom he knew quite well, exploded and died.
Only black-colored smoke was left with many dust clouds surrounding the area.
The orc that was close to the goblin was probably hurt a bit, but that didn't matter…
Just now, a goblin was used as a Goblin BOMB!
What could have been scarier than the realization of being used as bombs?
"…"
Soon the scenario started to repeat. Many other goblins too started to scream in pain and then a red light would engulf their body and seconds later they would explode.
The main purpose of this explosion was to injure the orcs and it was successfully happening.
"ARGH!"
The orcs were screaming in pain as the explosion would cause some damage and burn their skin.
Rei almost died due to one of the explosions of another goblin who stood behind him.
Regardless, Rei knew that his suspicions came true. The Orc Chief Rout wanted to use them as Goblin Bombs to inflict some damage on Baramun's troops.
Rei was scared, the images of his brothers and sisters flashed in front of him.
"I cannot die…", he murmured.
He knew what he could do – escape.
The orcs also ended up getting disoriented as the explosion of the goblins caused them to move back. He found this as a golden opportunity to escape.
Fie, soon he realized that even if he escaped he wouldn't be safe.
The crest on his hand also started to glow, faintly at first and then proceeded to be brighter.
"Login!" He screamed at the top of his voice, and in the next moment, the blue screen appeared.
"Yes!", he said the word, thinking the question of Yes or No appeared, but nothing of such sort happened.
In fact, he couldn't even log in.
[Failed to Log In.]
[Server Under Maintenance.]
[Time Left: 12 hours.]
The game was updating therefore, he couldn't teleport to the other world.
He recalled and soon realized, his life was probably in danger – he realized it too early, didn't he?
His body was engulfed in red light which only grew brighter. It was scary…
Being trapped inside a red sphere knowing that he would be dying was way too scary than imagined.
*BOOM*
The largest…
The largest and most powerful explosion out of all occurred and Rei died…
The higher the rank of a goblin slave, the stronger would be the explosion… how could Rei misinterpret this as a good thing?
From the beginning, Rout's intention was very clear, using Rei as his trump card.
As the leader of all the Goblin slaves, the explosion caused by him would probably be the strongest – enough to kill one or two orcs while injuring a whole bunch of others.
Regardless…
In the end, he too was used as a Goblin Bomb.
'I wish I could see them one last time…', Rei thought just as his body vanished to nothingness.