not wanting to get recognized by my cloak, I hid it in an alley beside the guild, after hiding it I enter the guild and go straight to one of the desks, there I was greeted by the reception lady
"hello sir, what can I do for you?" the lady asks
shit how do I respond to this, I scratch my head, I curse my nonexistent mouth
the lady looked at my troubled body language
"you seem new, do you want to apply to be an adventurer?" the lady asks
I nodded excitedly relived to get out of the situation
"ok sir if you want to apply to be an adventurer you need to fill out a form" The lady search around the bottom of the desk and pulled out a pen and paper
after picking up the pen I looked at the paper to see a foreign language but weirdly enough I can understand it, after filling out the form I gave it back to the lady
"alright let's see here, your name is Zeke, and age 20 with your class as a fighter" the lady review my paper, and after looking at the paper, she took out a brown badge with the letter F out of the bottom of her desk
"ok sir this will be your badge, your current rank will be F and you can increase your rank after doing some quests at the quest board, if you have any further questions you can go to the desk beside the quest board, and if you want to do a quest you need to take one of the quests on the board and give it the desk beside the board, congratulation on becoming an adventurer and stay safe on your quests" with a bow she congratulates me
I nod at her expressing my gratitude and go straight to the quest board, after looking at the quests on the board I came across a quest that I can do
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rank: F
quest: investigate a cave near the north side of the town, there has been a sighting of goblins and missing cargo that pass by near the caves
reward: 20 copper coins per goblin fang and 10 silver coins for the missing cargo
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picking up the paper off the board and walking to the desk beside the board, I showed the paper and my badge to confirm that I am an adventurer, after some verification, I came out of the guild and headed north, after a bit of walking I pass the north gate of the town, following the road, I walk for 30 minutes and came across a forest, exploring the forest I saw a cave, wanting to conform that is the goblin cave I wait around the entrance and after a while I saw a goblin peeking out of the cave and back
with the conforming that the goblin gave I wait until nighttime to raid the goblin cave, leaving the vicinity of the cave I saw a small clearing of woods and took my stay there, and with my golem body I do not need to rest, eat or make a campfire to stay warm in the nighttime, with my goal set I sat on a rock and waited for nightfall
several hours later~
with the sun out of sight, there was less visibility, around the area but fortunately like where I woke up I can see more than I would if I had a human body, I don't know how my golem eyes work in the dark but it seems my body is built for day and night time duty
walking in the direction of the cave, I soon see the cave and without a second thought I entered the cave, there were signs of living creatures inside as I saw scratch marks on the wall of the cave, crouching down to make myself less visible I explored more and came across a group of sleeping goblin
walking toward the closest one I slowly inch my head to the goblin's head and almost a hair away from the goblin I quickly grabbed him by the head and twist it to an uncanny degree, a silent and quick kill, and after killing all the goblin with the same technic I scanned the room to see if there are any boxes of the missing cargo and fortunately there is in the corner, coming close to it and opening it there are foods and fabrics inside the boxes, and luckily one box is opened and eaten, with my quest complete I look around to see if there is any more loot I can pillage, scanning the room there is an opening on the opposite side of the box of goods
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coming close to it I saw flies swarming the entrance and entering it I saw piles of human bodies with their limbs twisted or detached from their body, all their faces suggest they had an agonizing death as blood and their stomach open, and organs are scattered around the pile as flies feed on their dead body, but even worse there was another room in side it any peeking inside I was chained naked women
lying on the ground covered in white goo, coming close to the woman to see if she is dead, but fortunately she I alive, though I do not know if she wants to be alive at the moment, breaking off the chain on her arms and cover her with my cloak I picked her up and took her to the entrance of the cave, after setting her aside I collect some sticks and dry leaves and made a campfire near the cave, sensing heat the woman eyes started to flicker and open slowly, her eyes scanned the area she seemed alert and distress, seeing me, she was on high alert until she saw the campfire and the cloak she was wearing she calmed down a bit
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"so you saved me" the woman asks while looking at the campfire
answer with a grunt and nodded
"why" she asks with an unsteady voice
"WHY DIDN'T YOU KILL ME" she broke down in tears and looked at me
"WHY DIDN'T YOU COME WHEN MY COMPANION WAS KILLED" she screamed
and after that, she hugged her knees and sobbed in silence, standing up I walked toward her and pulled her into a hug, with a silent hug she cry out loud
only the sound of crying and campfire crackling filled the air