As the village chief said, the goblin's lair was located on the other side of the woods, an unknown ruin——— not very old, not very mysterious, just a small fortress that had been abandoned. After years of wind and sun, it has collapsed by more than half, but at least the function is barely sound.

"Are we really going in?"

Holding the staff, Megumi looked bitter.

"Why don't I just put a burst spell here?"

"I think it's too late........."

The goddess shook her head and replied in a low voice.

"No, no, no, I think it's too late."

"You're just trying to be lazy."

"Isn't it good to be lazy? If it's too late, going in will only be more disgusting. ”

"But we are adventurers."

At this time, Ace whispered a word next to her, and when she heard Ace's answer, Megumi sighed.

"Well, you have to protect me........."

"Leave it to me."

Looking at the three people in front of them, Mai Lu and his party in the back were also puzzled.

"Hey, Mailu, what are they talking about?"

"I don't know ......... either"

As they spoke, the group came to the perimeter of the abandoned fortress, and soon they saw the goblins standing guard outside the half-collapsed gate of the fortress.

"One, two, three........."

The goddess counted, then looked at Ace.

"Ace, it's still according to the original, I'll come first."

"Okay."

Ace nodded, then clenched her sword, and then saw the goddess stand up.

"Great Mother Earth Goddess, please shelter us and cover the voice of this land——— be silent!"

With the staff of the goddess officer pointing forward, I saw a faint aura suddenly sprinkled down like powder, and the goblins standing at the door guard raised their heads in surprise, looking at the beautiful aura falling from the sky, they reached out in panic, showing a shouting appearance——— but that's all, all sounds were masked, and their movements looked more like performing pantomime.

At the same time, Ace's body flashed with a turquoise glow, and her whole body galloped forward like the wind.

The sword flashed.

The goblin who bore the brunt of the attack fell to the ground before he could see who the murderer was, and Ai, who had succeeded in the blow, stepped forward again without hesitation, and suddenly jumped to the second floor of the collapsed fortress gate. At this moment, the other two goblins who were in charge of observing from above seemed to react and began to wave their weapons and rush towards Ace, but Ace just raised her long sword, easily unswiped the goblin's weapon, and then stabbed her to death with a sword.

In just a flash of light, the goblins who were responsible for controlling the wind here were swept away, and then Ace glanced left and right, and then gestured to the back.

"Let's go."

Seeing Ace's gesture, the goddess officer pulled Megumi and hurriedly ran forward, while the others followed closely and quickly came to the entrance of the cave.

At this time, the power of the Silent Divine Technique had also disappeared, and everything seemed to be calm again.

"Can you see people up there?"

The goddess looked at Ace and asked, but Ace shook her head.

"No, it should all be down there."

As she spoke, Ace turned her gaze to a cave next to the ruins, which used to be an underground warehouse or something, but now it was clearly a cave for monsters to enter and exit.

"I can't stand it, why do goblins like rats like to drill holes."

Seeing this, Megumi was even more unhappy, if it was on the surface, she could have used the burst magic to blow it up. But now............... She had no choice but to endure.

"Ace, you go in front, Megumi and I go in the middle, Mailu you go behind, pay attention to the back and feet."

The goddess officer looked at the dark cave, took a deep breath, and then gave an order in a low voice, and then the group walked into the cave like this.

"Woo..................!"

The first thing that greeted him was a fishy smell, which made Mai Lu and other adventurers with red oaths suddenly couldn't help but show a painful look, and the red-haired magician instinctively opened his mouth and wanted to vomit, but he was quickly covered by Megumi next to him.

"Shut up, do you want to die?!"

"Uh......... Woo............! ”

"Swallow!"

Although the red-haired mage cast an angry glance at Megumi, Megumi glared back tenfold in anger, and her bright red eyes became even redder as a result. Under Megumi's astonishing momentum, the red-haired mage had to swallow what was about to come up.

"No sound, not at all!"

Hui Hui glared at Mai Lu and the others, and said in a barely audible voice, and Mai Lu and the others, who were frightened by her reaction, also nodded one after another. They are also very familiar with the great magician of the Red Devil Clan, although they can only use burst magic, but their personality is still very cheerful and easy to get along with. But now she looks restless and impatient......... Maybe it's because she can't use the burst magic because she got underground?

The smell in the tunnel was unusually bad, and to be honest, in the eyes of Mai Lu and the others, they couldn't wait to pass through the tunnel immediately. But Ace and the goddess officer in front were very cautious, the goddess officer held the scepter in his hand, and a magic lamp hung on the top of the scepter, and the soft light illuminated the darkness in front of him. And so they walked forward step by step. During this period, they did not forget to remind Mai Lu and others behind them.

"Don't lean against the wall."

"Don't tread puddles."

"Watch out for the darkness."

In this way, the group came to the fork at the end of the road.

"Go to the left first?"

"Right."

In the face of Megumi's inquiry, the goddess officer thought for a moment and then gave an answer, which made Megumi show a desperate expression again. But she didn't say anything more, just silently followed.

The stench on the right was several times stronger than on the left, so much so that Mai Lu couldn't help it a little, and the others around her looked unbearable. But the expressions of the goddess and Ace were unusually serious, and they walked to the door of the passage at the end of the right side, and the two looked at each other, and then Ace slammed the door open, then drew her sword and jumped back.

There was nothing in it.

“……………”

Ay?

At this time, Mai Lu was suddenly stunned.

"What's wrong? Mailu? ”

The smell of the place made people feel like they were going to vomit just by talking, but the other companion beside her asked in a low voice.

"I think I heard something........."

In fact, no need to listen anymore.

When they walked into the room, they saw everything in front of them.

It looks like a toilet, full of goblin excrement and food scraps, but there's more to it than that. In the corner of the room, a young girl was lying there, and in the light of magic, it was clear that she was naked, and her whole body looked as if she had been burned by fire. The skin has been turned over and is dripping with a rancid thick liquid.

"It's ............!"

"Hurry up and save people!"

Before they could speak, they saw the blonde female knight in Mai Lu's group immediately striding towards the girl. She took a few steps to the girl's side, then crouched down and held out her hand to the girl.

"Are you okay? We're here to save you........."

"Huh!"

The female knight didn't know what was going on.

Because just when she stretched out her hand, Ace suddenly appeared beside her, and the long sword in her hand stabbed down on the girl in front of her, and before the female knight could scream, she saw the long sword in Ace's hand stabbed heavily into the garbage heap next to the girl. At this moment, a goblin with a short sword suddenly jumped out of the garbage heap and pounced on the female knight——— and the next moment, it was pierced through the head by Ace's long sword, and before it could even let out a scream, it fell to the ground and turned into a corpse.

"Be careful."

Ace put away her long sword, glanced at the stunned blonde female knight, and spoke. At this time, the blonde female knight seemed to have realized what had happened, and couldn't help but sit on the ground.

"These goblins are cunning, and when you let your guard down, it's time to die."

After Ace said this, she walked up to the girl and looked at it carefully.

"This must be the village chief's daughter."

"It's so serious........."

In fact, there is no need for the goddess to say it, but other people can see this to some extent. The girl's body was covered with scars, and she was burned all over her body, and at this moment her whole body was rotting and blue, and she only had her last breath left.

"Do you have a solution?"

"I......... You can try. ”

As she spoke, another girl from Mailu's team stepped up and held out her hand.

"Extraordinarily large reply!"

With the flash of magic brilliance, the scars on the girl's body gradually healed, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw this.

"Well, then, please send her back."

The goddess looked at the female knight and spoke.

"But ........."

"This is the goal of the commission, so far the mission has been completed, but it is not over yet, we have to continue to explore forward, so please leave it to you, okay?"

“……… I understand. ”

The blonde knight hesitated, nodded, and then she picked up the unconscious girl on her back and turned and ran out of the dungeon.

Seeing this, Mai Lu and her companion glanced at each other uneasily.

What's going on?

They weren't fools, and of course they saw the scars on the girl's body, and they could think of what happened to her......... But who did this?

Goblins?

So weak monsters?

Would they do such a thing?

"Let's move on."

The goddess sighed and walked to the other side. And after glancing at their backs, Mai Lu and the others hurriedly followed.

But unlike before, the uneasiness in the hearts of the group at this moment has become more and more intense.