The Demon Lords Adviser - Chapter 4 Hunting

Our expedition to hunt monsters is about to commence and everyone is either nervous, excited or both, personally I fall into the excited category because my plan can finally commence and I can finally play how I want.

“Is everyone here, if there is anyone not in a group. please speak up” (Hawn)

For our first expedition our class was to split into groups of 3-4 people, for safety reasons each group has one experienced knight guarding them.

Even though I usually never talk to anyone in class I still ended up in a group because my physical stats are among the top 3 in the class due to my sword training which while only a hobby to me is still a good workout.I’m only beaten out Physically by a football player and a delinquent of the class but my magic stat is better than theirs so I’d say I’m a bit better off than them stats wise.

This lead to me being in a group of 3 with a member of the drama club named Dom and his girlfriend Mei who is not in any club as far as I know.

“Is everyone in a group then? Alright let’s go” (Hawn)

We walked through the city down the main road, the city looked like a typical medieval city with whitewashed houses that looked well taken care of and plenty of people wearing shabby clothing, speaking of the entire class is wearing leather armor supplied by the king and a weapon of choice I have a long sword even though I know logically a pole-arm is more practical.

Eventually we leave the city and traveled for what felt like forever even though it was actually only 2 hours until we eventually reached a clearing in the middle of a forest.

“Everyone get into your groups and head in any direction, if you get lost or are about to go anywhere too dangerous the knight accompanying you will stop you” (Hawn)

I got into my group and we started walking deeper into the forest, after about 5 minutes we encounter 3 goblins who are wearing nothing but rags and hold rusted daggers and short swords.

We immediately get into formation with Dom who uses a arming sword and kite shield in the front, I stand a step behind Dom with my long sword and Mei who specializes in fire magic is at the back with her staff.

My plan is to let Dom test the waters to see how strong and fast the goblins are then steal all the kills, because apparently even though we are in a party EXP sharing isn’t a thing.

1 of the goblins rush at Dom while the other 2 rush at me they are quite slow about the running speed of a 4th grader, when the first goblin reaches Dom it jumps onto his shield and Dom starts panicking but I don’t have time to care as the other two goblins are within two meters of me.

I get into a high guard and swing down on the closer goblin cutting nearly all the way through the torso of the goblin which is unexpectedly soft, now my sword is stuck and I have no time to free it as the other goblin is nearly close enough to hit me.

I swing my sword with the fatally wounded goblin still on it into the approaching goblin knocking it back, I was only able to do this because the goblin was unexpectedly light I only figured out later the goblin was only light due to me leveling up.

My sword was knocked free by the impact of the swing so I get into the longpoint guard hoping to stab the goblin’s heart which I was taught was it the same place as a humans, my reason for doing this is to hopefully avoid getting my blade stuck again.

The goblin charges at me and I stab into it’s chest slightly missing it’s heart, I pull out my sword and step back but the goblin is quite close and is already swinging.

Luckily the goblin is inept at using a sword and is way over-swinging allowing me time to react, I perform a krumphau and cut the goblins head clean off.

I look over and find Dom has dropped his sword and is punching the goblin like an idiot, mei is also panicking and is not even preparing a spell.

I run over towards Dom and cut the goblin in half with ease even causing Dom to retreat a step or two when the remainder of the swing hits his shield.

Mei rushes over and hugs Dom meanwhile he thanks me for saving him when he was panicking, I just brushed it off and ruminated how my last swing was noticeably more powerful than the rest, in the end I concluded that it was due to me leveling up that I got much more powerful at least twice as strong as before.

Things continue on with us encountering weak enemies and me single handedly the group for more than an hour and by this time the abilities I collected unbeknownst to anyone else were as follows

Iron Stomach – which came from the goblin and let’s me eat anything with no consequences even things like metal or poison (incidentally this is the goblins only skill so killing more nets me nothing)

Underwater breathing – came from a spiky fish we found stranded next to a pond

Night vision – came from a venomous bat that nearly it me

Pain nullification – came from a ferret like creature that kept attacking Dom even after I cut it in half

I don’t know what my level is because I forgot my status plate, that is actually a lie I told my party so they don’t know all of the skills I’m getting in fact the only reason I know what skills I have is because a dull voice in my head tells me when and what skill’s I acquire.

We are supposed to hunt for about 5 hours or until we are unable to continue for whatever reason so I am now considering how to off my party and escape to elsewhere while tricking the knight with us to thinking that we are dead.

Using my Night vision skill I finally found my opening, my chance to escape!