A week later, Priestess and the others returned.
But this time, everyone's expressions were gloomy and grim.
"What's wrong? Why are all of you pulling such long faces?"
Sitting behind his desk, Fang Zheng chuckled as he looked at the girls puffing out their cheeks in anger.
"Don't tell me the mission failed?"
"No, Sir Knight, um... the mission was a success, but..."
Priestess hesitated, then stopped herself, then tried to speak again. She looked toward Emilia, who had lowered her head and was silently staring at the ground. Even Puck was unusually quiet at Emilia's side.
"You report it."
Fang Zheng pointed at Priestess, and she hurriedly stood up and explained the entire situation to him.
According to Priestess, the goblin extermination mission they had accepted took place at the border between the Kingdom of Lugnica and an area inhabited by elves. Goblins had been harassing an elven tribe there, so the tribe had requested help. However, Lugnica was severely xenophobic, and it currently had no King, so they had ultimately decided to seek adventurers to resolve the situation—this was why the Elven Archer and her companions had come looking for them. Afterward, they had joined the group as well.
Things had gone smoothly at first. After witnessing the goblins' atrocities firsthand, Felt and Emilia had both gone through a progression from shock to rage. Then the group ventured deep into the ruins. Not only did they eliminate the goblins entrenched there and rescue the prisoners abused by them, they also found the goblins' ruler—a troll from the Demon King's army!
They initially fell into a hard battle against the troll, but then that idiot troll made a mistake.
It actually began chanting a Fireball spell...
Then Megumi, whose chuunibyou was off the charts and who loved magical beam