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　After separating from Sora and the others, Thor headed alone to the southern wall, which had not yet been repaired.

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　While running along the wall to the most obvious damaged areas, Thor spots something moving among the trees and stops.　

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　He crouches down and turns to go into the forest, trying to hide his presence.

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　Nothing is already there, but he finds faint footprints on the ground.

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　They are larger than the goblins he is used to seeing - hobgoblins.

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　Thor gets up and starts to head in the direction of the footprints, keeping a wary eye on his surroundings.

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　It seems that the monsters are moving through the forest close to the wall.

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　Normally, they would have attacked the stone wall, aiming first at the inhabitants who were living right there.

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　Thor felt uncomfortable with this action of the monsters, which seemed to be accompanied by some kind of purpose.

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　Thor, who had been chasing after the monster at a slightly slower speed, being careful not to be surrounded, hears the sound of a horn blowing in the distance.

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　It seems that a battle has started, but at least it is not near here.

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　From the direction, it seems to be on the opposite side, around the northern wall.

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　Thor continued on his way and was convinced that his fears were correct.

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　Through the trees, he saw green-skinned subhumans clustered around the stone wall.

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　At a rough count, there were about twenty of them.

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　An ordinary resident with no means to fight them could have easily killed several hundred of them.

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　It seems that the place was fragile from the start, and some of the piles of stones have already been moved aside and are turning into a big hole.

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　The location is almost to the south of the city, far from the northern wall where the battle has already begun.

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　The area is well wooded due to the sunlight and it is difficult to notice the approach from the top of the wall.

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　They were probably moving through the forest near the wall, looking for a broken and easy to break through area, or checking for the presence of guards.

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　Thor, who was trying to observe from the grove of trees, his intuition, cultivated over many years of walking in the forest, tells him that this is unnatural.

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　It seems that there are more ambush soldiers lurking in the forest.

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　Five of them are close by.

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　There are probably as many on the other side.

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　If even one of them raises its voice, more than 30 of them will attack.

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　But there is no way to call for reinforcements, and it would take a long time for them to come this far.

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　But if we don't move now, the monsters will surely enter the city.

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　From the fact that the flags have not been lowered, the evacuation has not been properly completed yet.

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　The more time we waste, the more damage will be done.

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　Thor draws his sword soundlessly, just as he is about to consider what might have been possible if Sora and Mu had been there.

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　His cheeks naturally lifted in amusement at the fact that he had been so poisoned after only a few days of working together.

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　For twenty-five years, I had been fighting alone.

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　I am not so weak as to be intimidated by something as trivial as this.

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　Hiding his presence, Thor approaches the hobgoblins who are lying in the undergrowth just in time.

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　His body leaps out from behind a tree, and is instantly pulled up to top speed.

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　It is a move he has mastered after many tastes of Mu's lightning rod.

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　With a light, silent step, he first cuts off the head of the hobgoblin in front of him.

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　With a soft flick of his wrist, he strikes the second hobgoblin on the side in the temple.

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　Turning around, he slits the throat of the third hobgoblin standing behind him, then spins around and decapitates the fourth hobgoblin as it rushes to its feet.

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　Then, lowering himself, Thor thrusts his sword point toward the mouth of the fifth animal as if to reach for it.

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　The hobgoblin, about to scream, is pierced through the upper jaw and head, his limbs twitching as he gasps for breath.

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"Haaaa...... haaaa...... haaaa...... haaaa......."

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　Thor, who had rendered the five animals soundless and inactive in less than ten seconds, let out a long breath from the bottom of his lungs.

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　His body, which was so exhausted from the full force of his exertion that he could hardly stand, was brought back to normal with , and he turned around to put an end to them.

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　Thor, who had taken care of the other side in the same way, turned his attention to the wall, breathing on his shoulder.

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　It would be foolhardy to take on twenty of them at once.

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　Thor is pondering how to lure only a few of them, when he senses a new presence in the forest behind him and turns his head.

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　An even stronger enemy is approaching.

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　Thor senses this and frowns at the thought.

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　The difference between goblins and their subspecies, hobgoblins, is not only their size.

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　The hobgoblins are, annoyingly, slightly more intelligent.

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　They had the wits to use the weapons dropped by the adventurers and the cunning to gain an advantage over them.

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　In this case, too, they probably attacked the north side first to draw attention to their position, and then attacked by surprise from the opposite side.

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　However, such a large-scale operation would naturally require a leader.

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　A boss who could give them orders.

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　Probably the chief of the hobgoblins, the master of the kobolds' cave, has come out to take charge.

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　Thor is about to leave when he hears a loud noise that stops him in his tracks.

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　He looked over and saw that the stones at the top of the widened hole had just collapsed.

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　The hobgoblins let out a strange cry as they pull out some of the trapped animals.

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　Thor, who had decided that the hole in the wall had opened up into the city, immediately changed his mind.

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　It is a more dangerous situation, but also an opportunity to take advantage of it.

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　Thor caught his breath just in time, sensing the presence of several approaching behind him.

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　Just as the hobgoblins finished digging their holes and rushed inside, leaving a few guards behind, he jumped out from behind a tree and rushed toward them as fast as he could.

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　Thor's body, which had reached its maximum speed in an instant, slid past the guard hobgoblins like a whirlwind.

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　A breath later, green blood spurts out from around the necks of the two hobgoblins.

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　The heads of the two animals in front of the pit tumble to the ground.

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　Thor runs through the hole back into the city, and as he leaves, he touches the wall of the hole to return it to its original solid wall.　

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　The new hobgoblins who had arrived at the other side of the hole, which was now blocked again, let out a loud cry.

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　Thor hears a particularly vicious cry mixed in amongst them.

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　It seems that his bad premonition was not wrong after all.

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　Thor, who has narrowly escaped from danger, exhales thinly and braces himself.

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　Now that he has put back the sword that had spilled its blade, he has seven.

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　He would like to regain his strength, but there are still quite a few hobgoblins waiting for him.

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　Even now, more than a dozen hobgoblins who had entered earlier were baring their fangs in anger at the fact that the hole they had painstakingly made has vanished.

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　Thor, surrounded by a gaping mass of monsters with rusty swords lowered, lifts the corners of his lips slightly in despair.

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"Hurry, sleep..."

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　The next moment, Thor heard a familiar prayer, and he lowered himself and kicked the ground.

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"--"

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　Thor swept past the feet of the hobgoblins distracted by the voices with a forward roll, and behind him, the monsters that had been standing so vigorously stopped moving all at once.

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　One after another, they fell to their knees, closed their eyelids, and hung their heads.

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　But now, all the hobgoblins in front of him have fallen into a complete sleep.

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　There is only one person in this town that Thor knows of who can master ice magic to this degree.

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　Thor could not help but call out in confirmation to the woman who was holding a broom instead of a walking stick and smiling as usual.

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"...... landlord?"

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"Oh, Mr. Toll. Welcome home."

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