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Chapter 22 : Reunion
🕑 Added 2022-04-15 08:28:16 +0000 UTCTL:SummerPeanut
TLN: Labyrinth saturation -> labyrinth overflow. Just a random thought but don’t we all just hate Mr.Cliff Hanger? And thanks for the support Gaven.
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I have been in this world for more than six years now.
It was a short life but I did my best. I don't intend to give up but I can see the situation.
I can't just run away alone. Even if the Knights came to help in this situation, it would take them an hour to get here. And against this horde…even the Knights.
Why is this happening…
I had heard that there were a lot of magic beasts recently.
That was why Count Beetle has been sending his knights all the way to this labyrinth city of Grantham. There are more than 120 Knights of Beetle so they are divided into groups of 20 people each, and they dive every day into the labyrinth in rotation.
The Knights dive into the labyrinth to thin out the magic beasts but they are not as skilled as the adventurers at attacking the labyrinth.
As for those adventurers, all D-rank and above adventurers have gone west to make a name for themselves leveraging the war against the kingdom of Barx in the west.
The labyrinth here was only built shortly before I was born, and there are only goblins inside.
This is why many E-rank adventurers flocked to this town and this town became very lively.
This labyrinth is known to be easy but just the third floor is said to be made with pure malice.
There is a spring room where goblin generals keep popping up apparently.
It seems that they are so strong that a C-rank party can barely defeat them and there was no party in this town that could conquer that spring room. Once in the past, a famous B-rank party from another city came to the Grantham Labyrinth, and it seems that this party of six C-rank adventurers was able to conquer the spring room but they did not return from the room that seemed to be the boss room.
Later, the Beetle Knights also attacked this labyrinth but they were too busy dealing with the spring room and did not make it to the boss room.
The remaining E-rank adventurers in the town also dived into the labyrinth but they only went as far as the safe zone on the second level. This is because beyond that point sometimes there are several goblin generals and their lives would be in danger.
The Knights are thinning the herd beyond that point until they reach the spring room on the third level.
Such a situation continued until last month. However, something unusual happened.
Magic beasts began to appear frequently in the vicinity of the labyrinth city of Grantham.
The magic beasts are kobolds, which are not a threat to Grantham, where there are many E-rank adventurers. However, there were many of them.
The Knights were more busy exterminating the kobolds than attacking the labyrinth. They had to defeat about 100 of them every day or they would come to invade Grantham.
It is said that the dispatch of 20 men from the Knights to Grantham every day is straining them quite a bit.
There are also other cities besides Grantham and it is not only around Grantham that the number of magic beasts is increasing.
Not to mention there is also the city’s security to consider.
Nevertheless, Count Beetle continued to send the Knights.
And about three hours ago it happened.
Labyrinth overflow (labyrinths). A large number of goblins are coming out of the labyrinth.
None of the adventurers in Grantham have ever experienced labyrinth overflow.
Of course, neither have we. So at first, we thought it was nothing serious because there were only a few goblins.
That was a mistake. If only we had prepared to run away right then…
In response to the labyrinth overflow (labyrinths), the adventurers immediately went to defeat the goblins. It was about an hour after the labyrinth overflow (labyrinths) that we finished defeating about 100 goblins that came out on the ground.
I think there were about 50 adventurers, but no one was seriously injured.
I was, let's say, supporting adventurers with heals.
Yes, I can use precious Holy magic, and I think I have quite a lot of MP.
After I had healed all the adventurers, the second wave came.
I used the heals thinking there would be only one wave but that was a mistake.
The second wave doubled in size about 200 of them came out of the labyrinth.
And now there are goblin mages and hobgoblins too.
The adventurers were on the defensive. They were using heals to cover them but it’s at the point where I could run out of MP at any moment.
Residents saw the second wave and begin to evacuate.
We thought we might be able to do something if the evacuees asked for help from the Knights who were supposed to be outside the city. Or so we believed until this moment…
The city's inhabitants fled out of the checkpoint to the west.
The goblins followed them and the western checkpoint was overflowing with goblins.
The residents who failed to flee headed in a southwest direction.
Where we were.
It seemed that this southwest point was the only place in the city where there were counterattacks.
It's only natural since most of the adventurers were here.
We had probably killed about 100 of them, and the remaining 100 were finally coming into view.
But there were a few hobgoblins and goblin mages left so we couldn’t let up just yet.
Just when I was thinking so.
The third wave came.
Counting only the hobgoblins and goblin mages, they numbered 300.
Not only the residents who had come here to take refuge but also the adventurers were in despair.
I prayed that my father and mother had escaped.
My father and mother have been kind to me since I came into this world.
My second father and mother.
And then I heard a voice I should not have heard.
“Clarice, are you safe? Your dad will definitely hold the ground here. It's going to be all right, don't worry.”
“Thank God. Clarice, you're safe. We'll take your place, don't worry.”
My father and mother were too late to escape. Or perhaps they couldn't escape without me.
My father and mother went in front of me.
The front line had been under the care of the adventurers but they were about to be breached.
Some of them had already been seriously wounded and were retreating.
As the adventurers retreated further and further, they got surrounded by goblins.
And it took less than half an hour before we were completely surrounded.
There were only about 20 adventurers left who can still fight.
We were in the southwest corner of the city, with the adventurers guarding the north side and the residents guarding the east side from our point of view.
On the front line of the residents were my father and mother. Behind me are over 100 wounded.
And on this east side, which is guarded by the residents, there is a seriously injured man. My father!
My father's right arm was broken. And his stomach was bleeding.
“Dad! Are you alright? Wait, I'll heal you now.”
“Don't. The people you need to heal now are adventurers. Heal the adventurers first.
That way, you will be saved. The residents will be saved.”
Then my mother also retreated, bleeding from her stomach.
Apparently, the goblins had already confirmed their victory and were planning to slowly torment her to death.
The evidence of this was that they were attacking while laughing ‘Gyah gyah gyah’.
I healed my father and mother without hesitation.
The wounds on my father's and mother's stomachs were healed.
My father's right arm did not but he survived so I stopped healing him after one use.
An adventurer saw this and said.
“If you can still use the heal, please use it on the adventurers.”
Then the residents.
“I am more seriously wounded than you, so heal me first!”
“Me first! No, it's me! …”
I knew this would happen.
But I couldn't abandon my father and mother.
In the meantime, the humans started a domestic dispute with each other.
Some of them, to the point of using violence, tried to have me heal them.
It was someone from the nobility. He told me that he’s a baron and he should be prioritized above all.
After confirming that the nobleman had only abrasions and that he was okay, I used what little MP I had left for the adventurer.
Then the nobleman hit me on the cheek.
“How DARE you! I sentence you to execution for impunity!”
Then the nobleman slashed at me with his sword.
I can’t believe what he had just done, and moreover, I was surprised that he even slapped me on the cheek so I could only freeze in place.
I closed my eyes and prepared myself but I didn’t receive his slash yet.
‘Huh?’ When I opened my eyes, I saw that my father had taken my place and was cut.
And my mother was right in front of me.
The two of them used their flesh as a wall.
I immediately healed my father.
It stopped the bleeding a little but not completely.
Then I cast heal again but it did not activate.
I had only 1-9 MP left.
Father who was cut down said to the nobleman.
“Please forgive my daughter. I beg your magnanimity...”
“You plan to interfere with me too huh! You and your daughter will both be executed for disrespect! Apologize with your death!”
When the sword was swung down.
The nobleman was blown away.
I was startled and looked towards the boy I didn't know…he was there before I knew it and had blown the nobleman away.
A boy about my age.
A boy taller than me.
And he was a boy who looked somewhat nostalgic.
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