Episode 1.1: Dragon Warrior vs Goblins (Nel)

"Leave them, Goblins belong to the earth and will just turn to soil after its death." Lena says.

You saw what she meant, except for Alf's blood, goblins blood dries faster and becomes soil while parts of their bodies are also slowly turning into soil.

"I didn't catch your name earlier. Anyway, my name is Lena and the man..." Lena paused as she wipes her tears.

"...with me is Alf. We're adventurers on a mission to exterminate the goblin threat." She says.

The sword's around 62 inches and weighs around 6~7 lbs. It is sharp but you know it isn't new. Whether Lena is ok or not with you taking Alf's sword, Lena just gave you a nod.

"While there are goblins that are welcome in society, blue goblins are a menace. They're children of chaos that only seek to destroy forests and others lives. They reproduce and grow rapidly so we have to stop them before they can become a disaster." Lena answers Nel's question.

"Mica should be with Maki, did they get separated?" Lena asks.

Guess this sword's mine. Would be nice if I had a sheath too though.

Nel approaches a nearby tree and rests his back on it. Breaks are important. He worked hard but got fired from his work a day ago and now he's in another world killing goblins.

Gimme a break but hey I never I thought I could fight so well.

Nel looks at Lena.

"I only met Mica. I guess your friend Maki's the captive I saw in the goblin camp while I was flying." Nel answers Mica's query.

"What do you know about the goblin captain?" Nel asks as he look around checking the plants in the vicinity. Maybe he can find something useful he thought.

You saw an herb with a flower that looked like a rose with clear petals. You're not sure what it is for but in your head something tells you that it is useful for something.

"We should find the others quick then, we don't know how long they'd keep Maki alive." Lena says before standing up and dusting off her robe.

"I don't know much about the goblin captain but this is supposed to be an E rank mission for us adventurers but then.." Tears formed on the side of her eyes. She stopped herself from sobbing and wiped away her tears.

"We must go." She says.

I wonder what that flower is...

Nel approaches the flower and inspects it.

He looks at Lena and says "I can fly us there if you want.", before looking back at the strange rose.

"What's this flower called?" Nel asks as he point on the clear rose.

"I... I'd rather we run to our destination if its ok." She says. She looks up at where you hid Alf's body and then down the ground.

Lena then approaches to inspect the flower Nel pointed. Her face shows surprise.

"A memory plant. This is a flower that stores someone's memory. You can eat its petal to retrieve someone's memory." Lena says. She plucks a petal and keeps it.

"An adventurer must've planted this here." She says.

Nel chews on and swallows the petal. It tasted sweet. Nothing seems to happen until he starts hearing someone in his mind. The voice was of a man.

"I'm Basil Frey, an adventurer. By the time you found my memory plant I'm probably dead. I was with a party to guide novices in their first quest. We were only supposed to find medicinal herbs for Newtown apothecary, but then we encountered the blue goblins. We were confident that we could take on the blue goblin extermination but these goblins proved to be stronger than us. We fought and by the time we thought we've won, that goblin appeared. The goblin captain!" The voice was that of a man fearing for his life, running. You can hear him panting, trying to catch his breath.

"If you are here to exterminate that menace beware. He can turn into a ..." You hear him scream in agony for a few seconds before the sound ended.

"What did it say?" Lena asks.

"Be careful." Lena says with a nod.

Nel flies towards the goblin camp and Lena made her way towards the camp's southern gate.