"...let me look forward to it, and you don't have this, do you?

　muttered Vichela, who had killed him by waving his fist at the presence that had sprang out of the bushes and smashing one of his heads.
　Because it was the goblins that now smeared the fresh snow with blood, brains, bones, flesh and fluids.
　Vihela, who had expected to be a powerful monster as it sprang out of the bush in the winter forest, would not be willing to fight if it were not worth fighting in a mere goblin.
　Leaving the bushes together... the goblins, who were not attacked by Vihela by chance, are already running away, surrounding the Reys.
　Originally, goblins have the courage to attack Seto without running away... no, they have the courage.
　At the same time, however, he was cowardly enough to run away as soon as he knew his opponent was strong.
　The reason these goblins haven't escaped is probably because they think that the murder of Vihela was a first blow... a coincidence.
　If you look at it, ... no, if you're more than a certain amount of ability, you'll soon find out that you've beaten it with your ability, but you're a goblin who doesn't have you're a goblin.
　For that reason, he is still holding back Vihela with a club made of broken branches, yukgyo, yukgyo, yukgyo, yukgyo, yukgyo, yukgyo, yukgyo, yukgyo, yukgyo, yukgyo, yukgyo, yukgyo, yukgyo.

(Isn't it possible that if you turn the broken side of the tree to the other side, you will still be able to use it as a weapon for its sharpness?)

　Thinking about it, Ray changes his twilight spear to his left hand and puts his right hand into the Dragon Robe.
　Then, touching Nebra's eyes on his waist, he casts his magical powers and produces arrowheads with magical powers.
　I checked the feel of arrowheads in my hand...

"Huh!"

　Shoot arrowheads quickly with hands pulled out of the dragon lobe.
　The arrowhead, cutting through the air, headed straight for the goblin and hit him in the face.
　His face was cut apart by arrowheads, his eyes were crushed, and he stuck in his throat...

"Gaguaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
"Yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum!

　With such screams, I flutter around the ground.
　The goblins wouldn't have even known what kind of attack they were subjected to.
　Originally not physically competent, Goblin could not even follow Ray's arrowhead with his eyes.
　And it goes without saying that they were attacked by... and that they die.

`It was a little ridiculous considering he came out of it,'

　muttered Vihela, dumbfounded as she watched the goblin fall on the ground.
　Vihela prefers to fight, but obviously not to fight against a weak opponent.
　For Vihela, the near-bottom goblin of monsters was clearly disqualified for a fight.

"Well, you may say so," Goblin is one of the most numerous monsters in the world, so there will be a lot to fight against."
"...I know that, but it's true that it's not interesting."

　Vihela muttering disobediently to Ray's words.
　Marina opens her mouth with a calming smile on her face.

"But, as a guild, you'd be better off killing a lot of goblins, if you could, and you see that this fertility is a threat, and you'd find 30... no, there are 50 of them."

　a sighing marina
　Soon the guildmaster position will be handed over to the workers, but he is still a guildmaster.
　And as a guildmaster, Goblin was a very difficult opponent.
　As you can see in this battle, goblins are very weak on their own. ...this time against strong men like the Reys, but it is not difficult to defeat one or two goblins, even if they are not adventurers, if they are proud of their skills.
　It is fertile enough to compensate for its weakness, which makes the goblin even more troublesome.
　It would be a little easier if I were to look at the strength of my opponent and pretend not to attack him, but... as if I had actually attacked the laymen where Sett was, I would attack him first.
　Since guilds bought magical stones and testimonies for subjugation at a low price, the goblin had become an awkward opponent for guilds.
　In the case of Gilm in particular, there are many skilled adventurers on the frontier, but many say that they won't deal with goblins because of this.
　What's more, if there are any number of other monsters that can make money... it's only natural that not many people want to deal with Goblin.
　There are always requests to subdue the goblins, but most of the time, after receiving other requests, they defeat the goblins they encountered...
　If this was the extermination of higher or rare species of goblin, some might get a little more commission.
　Most of them, like Ray, who has just come to Gilm, think that adventurers are going to kill the goblins, or they are going to be just adventurers in Gilm.

"Wouldn't it be better to pay a little more for the proof of subjugation, not to mention the magic stone?"

　It was Ray's idea, but what came back was Marina's slightly dumbfounded gaze.

"Do you think there's a guild that didn't think about it?"
"...that is, it didn't work out?"
"Yes, that's three copper coins to pay for the proof of subjugation. But there's little point in four or five copper coins. If that's the case, it's just a piece of silver, you know what happens?"
"Only goblins will be hunted,"
"Yes. Even if you hunt stronger monsters, you get less money than the goblin, so it's only natural to aim at the goblin, and of course you have to raise the amount of money you pay for other monsters' proof of extermination, and then you leave the goblin alone again..."
"Ah... I see,"

　Ray nods in agreement, but Marina opens her mouth.

"And the guild doesn't have an inexhaustible budget,"
"...yes, sorry for asking too much."

　Ray bowed his head honestly, sensing that it was going to be a raw story.
　The guild has a large income.
　There are many other sources of income besides the sale of materials and magical stones purchased from adventurers, donations from major merchants and aristocrats, and sales from bars attached to guilds.
　Raising the purchase price of the testimonial site meant that we had to raise the price from somewhere... not very much, but we could not afford to pay silver for the testimonial site of Goblin.
　I can't pretend that I'm going to raise the price of the Goblin's proof of subjugation...
　With that in mind, Ray understood that as a guildmaster he had to make various difficult decisions.
　Unless this is a story of a herd of goblins appearing and rampaging like it was in the past Ambris.

"Yes, let's move on faster than that." There may be monsters unique to winter."

　Remembranceing why they were here, Ray reaches out to the body of the goblin to retrieve it to Mistilling.

"Ray, are you going to collect that, too?"

　Vihela looks at Ray, who has recovered a nearly useless body of goblin.
　Ray nods without hesitation at Viehra's appearance.

"Oh, if you leave the body as it is, it could be undead... and you'd better have some goblin meat."
"Now that you mention it, are you looking for a way to enjoy goblin meat?"

　Ray nods again to Vihela, who asks him, recalling what he had heard from him before.

"Yes. If things go well, the food situation should improve considerably. ... Well, if you're just an adventurer, or if you live in a slum, you'll benefit the most."
"I think it would be great if I could do that... but are you doing well, is that so?"

　It's probably impossible.
　When Vihela asks, smelling in such an atmosphere, Ray lets out a small sigh and then shakes his head.

"Not yet," In the first place, it seems that the person who is mainly continuing this research is too busy to do so now. For some reason, the study is not progressing."
"Well, if you could eat goblin meat so easily, that would be a great invention. ... well, that's all right. Let's go."

　After nodding to the words, Ray and the others start walking again through the woods.
　Walk on in the snow for about ten minutes, but despite encountering monsters in succession with snowsalamander and goblin, no other monsters are encountered this time.
　The reason why the tension is not so strong is probably because many of the Lays are highly capable of searching for enemies.
　Seth, who has sharp senses, Rey, who is lower than Seth, but still has high senses, Beune, a thief, Viehra, who has a developed sense of battle because of his love of battle, and Marina, who has a high sense of spiritual magic.
　...everyone at the party has a certain level of insight. For a regular party, many people must be too envious to be jealous.Not as many, if not as many, robbers as wizards have the ability to detect enemies.
　What's more, there are many who have more powers to sense than the thief.
　It's true, however, that ambush, like the goblin, is a little harder to find.

"Well... I'd like to fight a little stronger enemies." Cyclops, I'm glad."

　Recalling the previous battle, Vihela licks her lips with her red tongue, moistening her eyes with lust.
　The scene was terribly inflammatory to the man, but fortunately or unfortunately Ray had not seen it.
　The sight of snow accumulating on the surrounding trees is not interesting to Ray, if not interesting.
　But if you think there might be other monsters, you can't ignore them at all...

"Oh, Ray. Hey, look."

　Vihela, who has completely wiped out the obscene atmosphere of a few seconds ago, calls out to Ray while looking at a tree a little further away.
　Ray wondered for a moment if he was a monster, but his voice calling his name was not as tense as it was.
　Vichela, however, has a propensity to enjoy battle, so if there is an opponent to fight against, it may well be a mixture of feelings of joy.
　I was quite satisfied.
　With that in mind, Ray pursues Vihela's gaze and finds a visibly self-assertive squirrel with green and red markings on the snow.

"...an animal? No, a monster?"
"Joo!"

　Perhaps he sensed danger in Ray's muttering, and when he snapped the bark of his tree, the squirrel leaps over the branches and disappears.

"That's an animal," It might have looked like a monster."
"What a flashy squirrel,"

　Marina, who was listening to Ray's speech in the background, gave a small laugh.

"Yes,"

　The leading Bune spoke briefly to warn of such interactions.
　For Bune, who is now making the most of his ability as a thief, it may not be very interesting to have a fuss behind him.
　Realizing this, Vihela hides her voice and Ray quits as well.
　We walk forward, looking straight at the spectacular squirrel that we had just seen.

(It was a pretty flashy squirrel, wasn't it? ...and I didn't think it was monstrous. Well, there was no animosity on my part, and I don't think there was any problematic.)

　Perhaps because it was such a flashy squirrel, the figure struck Ray's mind.
　So that Beune will lead them through the woods.
　There are occasional noises, but most of them appear in animals.
　And time goes by...

"Ray, it's about time," You'd better go back."

　At Marina's words, Ray looks up.
　That's where the sun is setting.
　Since it's only winter, the sun goes down early this season.
　As Marina said, it was certain that if we tried harder, the sun would set before the monsters were killed.
　Ray, Vichela and Beune could still camp out using Ray's magic tent, but with the guildmaster's marina there's no way to go that far.
　The reason I'm with Ray and others now is because I've worked so hard to manage my schedule.

"... All right, are you going home?"

　That's the end of Ray's search for today.