It was followed by a silence. The smaller goblins stared in shock and fear as a massive mountain of ice, 3 stories tall stopped the sword and engulfed their liege's arm. A cold weather spread through the entire village. Alice's body fell to its knees, not moving at all but her breathing could be visible because of the cold air. Her eyes went blank. One of the opportunistic goblins tried taking advantage of her fall and jumped towards her.
The moment he got within 2 meters of her his entire body froze instantly. Then a massive boulder smashed him to pieces. The rest of the goblins and the goblin king were shocked and scared of whats going on. Alice controlled her magic to continue getting rid of the goblins. She didnt understand how or why this was happening but she decided to take full advantage of it. The freezing cold was unbearable and made it harder for her to staying conscious. As the mysterious blizzard kept freezing goblins she kept smashing them with boulders.
The cold was spreading too fast and she could feel herself slowly dying. But she couldn't stop to warm herself because there were still too many goblins.
But she would die if she didn't use earth.
But she would die if she didn't use fire.
Torn between the decisions and with her life force disapearing she decided to just use both. She knew that she never replicated it after the first time it happend but she also knew that was her only saving grace at that moment. She focused as much as she was able to. It wasn't pretty but it had to do as the only other thing waiting for her was death. Instead of focusing on that she focused on the chance of living.
Thanks to that she felt the cold ice slowly melting off of her skin as her body was set on fire. Surprisingly she didn't feel any pain. Just a warm embrace that let her focus on the goblins. They quickly got smashed to bits as only their king was left. His arm still stuck in ice. Alice tried her best to make out a strong enough spell to kill him but she knew she didn't have enough mana for it. She created a dozen of smaller projectiles and threw them in the same spot on the king's skull over and over. Each one digging deeper until his blood started spraying everywhere. She lost consciousness after the job was finished.
She woke up inside someone's bed. It was way too fancy to be Elizabeth's. She tried getting up.
[I wouldn't do that if i was you]
Alice tried looking around but her entire body hurted too much to move.
[You look so cute. don't worry there won't be any permanent damage]
Alice blushed at the compliment. "Where am I ? And what are you ?" She treid to change the topic.
[You are in the guild hall, as for the other question you will find out soon]
As the voice disapeared one of the adventurer guild workers opens the door to see Alice awake
"Oh you are finally awake. Just like mistress said" She said shocked a bit. "That's way faster than we expected. I will call for a medic right away"
"What exactly is happening ?" Alice could hear a lot of movement and screams outside the room.
"Your actions lead to the ruckus out there" The worker said.
"How so. All we did was get rid of an E graded quest" Alice was really confused and was hoping that the woman will explain everything to her.
"We somehow missed the quest during our routine check ups and turns out that it hang in there for so long that right now it would have been graded with at least a C if not higher" She explained, then added "Ofcourse we will reward your party with an adjusted prize"
"Thats good to hear" Alice laid back as a medical team came to the room.
"The body of the goblin king was already transported to the main guild hall of our continent and is being kept there for you. On top of that our misstress invites you to her house in the capital of the human kingdom"
Alice was dumbfounded about all of this information she just got "Do i need to show up there or can i decline ?"
[I will be very sad if you don't show up]
Alice held her head again confused why she hears it again. But she quickly connected the dots.
[Yes exactly ! I am the mistress she is talking about !~☆]
"Will i have to get there myself ?" Alice asked the question in her head.
[I will arrange transport even today if you ask me nicely]
"I will get there myself then" She sighed while saying this sentence in her head.
she heard an audible pout [Hmph! It will be ready tomorrow at noon. Don't you dare miss it]
As the medics finished patching Alice up she stood up and went to meet the rest of her party. When they saw Alice safe and sound they almost cried from happines.
"Im so sorry we couldn't help you" Bella sniffed while hugging her.
Damian and Lucas stood there with their heads down. Feeling as bad because of it as Bela.
"We tried to get some information but the personel that took care of the that village said we didn't have clearence. I thought you have died !" Bella cried her eyes out. "What even happend there ?"
Alice didn't want to explain it in too much of a detail so she said "It doesn't matter anymore. I'm just happy you all are safe" she smiled.
[ekhem -!]
"Oh right. I will leave our group. So this is kind of a goodbye. We will see each other one day but i don't know when it will come. I really need to get stronger" Alice stared at her fist. It wasn't really a lie since she was going to ask the misstress to explain her what happend back at the goblin village.
"Are you joking ? We just got you back and you want to leave instantly ?" Bela said confused.
"I understand" Damian said. He blamed himself for the entire incident as his focus on flashy moves rather than effective ones lead to it.
"Let's spar next time we meet !" Lucas said. He didn't want to hold back Alice and her progress.
Bela was still sad "I will be mad at you if it takes too long" she hugged Alice as a goodbye.
As Alice went to Elizabeth's house to say her goodbyes she saw how much of a ruckus this event caused. Reporters from different villages traveled all the way to this remote village just to get a scoop about the goblin village extermination.
When she got to the house she saw Elizabeth in the kitchen
"Miss Elizabeth. I'm moving out" As she said that Elizabeth dropped the things she was cleaning.
"What why ?" She looked the saddest Alice has ever seen her.
"I got invitation to the adventure guild hall in the capital" She decided to be honest.
"Why would that be true ?" Elizabeth had no clue yet that she joined the guild.
"Im an official adventure guild member.... And i might have caused a small incident. But im gonna be okay! I will come back one day and I hope to see Jack grown up and stronger than now" Alice ran out. Tears streaming down her eyes. It was a very hard decision but she didn't want to be a parasite in Elizabeth's house any longer.
Alice spent the rest of the time she had before her transport arrived by trying to summon fire and earth at once. She was very happy to see that she is able to do it without a problem now. The next day at noon she was waiting in front of the guild hall when she saw a carriage led by 2 horses. It was decorated with beautiful red silk and gold paint. The doors opened for Alice and when she sat inside the carriage took off.