The four of us registered as a party, and went into the a nearby forest called of doom to hunt some goblins. By the way, this forest is made of 4 layers : the outer, the middle, the inner, and the heart. Where we're going is even further than the outer, we'll be subduing goblins in nearby villages that share a border with the outer of the forest. The deeper you go in the forest, the stronger the monsters will be, sorta like wave dungeon in games.
It was quite far away, and we had to ride a carriage for about 3 hours, or else it would've taken a couple days on foot. I was filled with excitement for the entire 3 hours, after all, this will be my first fight in this fantasy world….
It shouldn't have been like this, no, I never even imagined for this to even happen….
How did it become like this? Wasn't it supposed to be a fight between us and goblins? What should've been my first stepping stone as an adventurer turned into a one sided massacre, I looked down on the ground and saw a sea of blood….
As soon as we entered combat, I tried to cast [skill: basic magic – offensive; fireball], but it went haywire and I accidentally shot it up to the sky….. I then try to fix my blunder by using my [unique skill: oracle], and all of a sudden, a storm of fire came out of nowhere and burned all the goblins….. is what I thought would've happen, but instead of that, the fire took the shape of a sword and sliced all the goblins in half, and so the sea of blood slowly formed. Yeah, it was the blood of the goblins, not my party. The thing that shouldn't have happened was that I was planning to use my oracle skill to ask the gods for some guidance, I didn't expect them to just kill off all the goblins….. Besides, couldn't the fire just burn the goblins?
"I am the greater spirit of fire, Ifrit. I am here under the command of luckia to assist individual named Hoax," a horned, muscular person with brown skin followed by golden eyes said as they appear out of nowhere.
Huh? Isn't my skill supposed to make me able to talk to gods? Who's this guy? He said he was a spirit- does that mean spirits are considered gods? But no, he said he was here under the command of a god…..
"Yes. However, we came here to assist you after the god of luck, luckia received your plea for help," I heard a whisper in my ear.
"Huh?"
"Ah, pardon me, I'm shieru, the greater spirit of wisdom. I was commanded by luckia to come here as well, but unlike Ifrit, I was told to always stay with you, so I guess I'll be in your care. Ifrit'll only show up when you need him for combat by the way, although you can always summon him with your oracle skill," a girl with middle length purple hair tied into a side ponytail, as well as purple fingernails with a purple-colored dress says.
"Huh? Isn't my oracle skill a communication skill?"
"Ah, yes, but you see, us spirits are like the lackeys of the gods, so we are treated like objects by your skill (the gods by no means treat us like that though! In fact, they're usually pretty generous with us!)"
"I see."
"Uhm…. Hoax? I'm a bit confused…? Who are they? Also did they just say they're greater
spirit? There's no way, right…?" Aila mutters in a shaky voice
"Well, they seem to be here to help me so I guess you can assume they're not hostile…?" I
said while tilting my head, "Besides, what does the greater spirit thing mean? I'm new here so…. I don't really know how it works."
"Uhhhh… Hoax, a greater spirit…. is ranked as a C or C+ level threat…. And besides, there
are two there…. Even one of them is enough to cause a national emergency…. You could practically go to war with a country with only the two of them as your soldiers…"
HUH HUH HUH HUH what? Did I just misheard her?
"No, you did not," shieru says
she's reading my mind isn't she….
"No I am not, I am merely simulating what you would think, and reply accordingly."
What difference does that make?????
"Well, for example, I am unable to simulate
I felt like my soul left my body… did she just… say that out loud? In front of Izzi and Yue no less….. I slowly moved my head back to see Izzi and Yue's reaction...
"Ehehe, don't worry about it master, we didn't hear anything!" Yue said
"Agreed!" Izzi added
Thanks guys *sad whimper noises* I'll remember that…. All of you are too kind, really… wait what about Aila? Ah nevermind, her soul left her body before mine, so I guess she didn't hear it either? I hope? Yeah let's leave it to luck, since luck is on my side after it got fixed.
Well then, now that I'm already calm (I'm not), let's think about this straight (I can't). Oiiii author, what are those words in the bracket??? You like to make me suffer, don't you? Come get reincarnated into a parallel world so you know how I feel…. [Sure]
Oh? Your willing? Then why don't you stand on a train track and wait to be crashed? [That's called suicuide]
Anywayssss, back to topic, let's first get the ears of the goblins…. Wait, I don't have a knife….
"Guys? Anyone have a knife?"
"Nuh uh," Yue said while sighing
"No…. sorry…." Izzi followed
"Ok, no problem, what about you Aila?"
Aila.exe is not responding
"Aila?"
Aila.exe has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program.
"All right, I guess we're on our own…. Any suggestions, shieru? Ifrit?"
"I can help slice them off, but that'll burn them down"
"Well, it's my time to shine I guess… Master," she said while picking walking to the goblin's corpse. Wait, why is she calling me master?
"Well, you are my master after all, since I'll be in your care for probably quite some time, why not, eh?" She nonchalantly replied while cutting the goblin's ears with her fingernails. Let me repeat, with her finger nails. Let me remind you that a goblin is as strong as an ordinary adult human. So what she did was basically cut off someone's ear…. With her fingernails…. With no difficulty at that… Doesn't that mean she can slice me in half just with a swipe of her nails as well? I shudder at the thought….
"Well, let's go back and report!" Yue said
"All right! Eh wait, We need to help Aila."
"Master master, she's unconscious," Izzi said in a panicked voice
"Huh?"
"Don't worry about it, leave it to me," shieru said, as she once again swipe her hand…. And all of a sudden Aila regained consciousness. I'm starting to think shieru's a magician and not a spirit…..
"Well then, with that out of the way, let's head back!" Yue said in her usual cheerful attitude.
"Huh? Huh? Am I the only one not capable of accepting this situation? 2 greater spirits following us around? All of you have absolutely no problem with this?"
"Hmm? What's up, Aila? It's not like they did anything bad, right?" I replied
"Well… no… but still…. It's just scary…."
"Hey, if they wanted to kill us, they could do that anytime they want, ok?
"I guess so…."
"Say, Ifrit, Shieru, can the two of you hide? Eh? Where's Ifrit?"
"Ah, he's already gone, you can summon him back here if you'd like though."
"I see… Nah, it's all right. By the way, Shieru, can you hide or something? I'm afraid of causing a ruckus."
"I see…. Well, I guess I can be inside you?"
Inside me…. Begone evil thoughts! Begone dirty thoughts! Wait, I'm the male here.
"Ah, no, not that type of 'inside'," Shieru says while giggling, "I mean something like this," she said while walking towards me…. Or so I thought, but all of a sudden she disappeared.
"I'm inside you now, you see, and we can still communicate through telepathy, and I can get out anytime I want, I'm also able to control your body to an extent if you give me the green light," I heard a voice that sounded like Shieru's from all around me… I guess that's telepathy, huh?
"I see."
And so, we went back to the adventurer's guild and submitted our quest successfully.
"Well then, bye bye, see you guys tommorow…. I guess…. Although I'm not sure if you still need me…" Aila said
"Hey hey, we're a party here ok? We don't just leave each other once we don't need each other," I reply in a joking manner
"Well, I guess this marks the end of our first day of adventuring together!" Yue exclaims
"I guess so…. I had a lot of fun!" Izzi said.
What's this feeling? It hurts? Not really, it doesn't. Ah- I guess this is what they call loneliness… The more fun you have, the more lonely you'll feel once it ended…. Or so I thought…. But when I arrived back at the mansion, prepared to sleep and went to bed…. I found Izzi and Yue there….
I mean, I can just sleep at the floor, I guess.