Chapter 283: Minotaurs

We're flying (running) in the sky toward the village of our destination. That's the village where a Minotaur should be. I don't know how many of them are there, and it seems like Minotaurs are strong monsters. Even though they're cows?

At least we have one expert level mage with us. In case they are too powerful for me, Veronica can kill them easily. I hope.

Other than me, everyone is flying with the help of Veronica's wind magic. I'm just running on air. I have become even more proficient in Aura that I no longer use air magic as much as before.

What about running on air without Aura and just with air magic? By only changing the density of air so you can step on it? I have been practicing but that seems difficult. Maybe once I reached advanced level, I can do it. Once I can do it, I will teach the air element students about this. Unless by that time I already no longer teaching. Which I hope that will be the case.

I can finally see clearly with my Divine Vision. I thought there are some people doing some farming before. But who would have thought that they are on their four, eating the vegetables! Turns out, they have a cow head. I guess that's how a minotaur looks like.

There seem to be dozens of them. As for the villagers, they are hiding inside their house. Unable to come out, and can only eat what they already have in their house. No wonder this is an urgent mission. If they waited for some more time, they would have died from starvation. Or worse, once the vegetables have been eaten by the minotaurs, they might end up entering the houses.

Seems like the minotaurs doesn't care much about the people. They are here just for food. But if it stays this way, the villagers will die.

Should we kill the minotaurs or evacuate the villagers? I need to know how powerful they are first.

Oh, there's one minotaur far from the others. That one is outside of the village. I think that one is a good target practice. Let's fight that one first.

"Veronica, have you fight a minotaur before?" I asked Veronica first if she has an experience fighting one.

"No.  This is the first time I see them." Veronica said.

"Then we need to confirm how strong they are first before we faced all of them. We also need to make sure that no one in the village will be at risk while we fought them. I'll go face that one outside the village first."

I descended and start my advance toward the lone minotaur. The others also descend to see my battle.

The minotaur has body of a human, but its legs and head are that of a cow. And this one is a female! Being naked, and with the upper body of a human, this minotaur is showing its boobs! And they are bigger than Celestine's!

"Damn! Her boobs are even bigger than Celestine's!" Veronica exclaimed.

"It wasn't me who said that! It wasn't me!" I shook my head and pointed at Veronica who said it.

"I know. Just go and fight that minotaur!" Victoria shouted.

Sigh... how can she said it so easily? I'm just thinking about it but she's saying it.

Well, it doesn't matter. I'm going to kill this minotaur first. I don't care about non-human's boobs! But if they are look more human-like like Shelia, I might care.

Now, how will I kill it? Should I attack it from distance, or assassinate it without it noticing? Or just a head-on fight?

Shelia said that their meat taste good. That mean the Werewolves can defeat them. I think I can easily win in a one on one fight, but let's just keep our distance from it and shoot it.

I prepared Blobbygun and about to shoot it. But I tried to see how close I can get to it first.

Thirty meters, and it still eat the vegetables.

Twenty-five meters and it still enjoying the feast.

Twenty meters and it finally noticed me! It looked at me! Should I shoot now?

Huh? It ignores me and continue eating? Don't tell me that minotaur is a friendly monster that won't attack unless their life is in danger?

"Victoria, Shelia, come here!"

I choose to not attack the minotaur and called Victoria and Shelia. I should have done this from the start.

"What is it?" Shelia asked.

"I want to ask you two what you know about minotaur. Why is that monster didn't attack me when it noticed me?"

"They never attack first. They would only fight back and never be the one to initiate attack. That's what I heard from Javier. Though that was about minotaur in Monsters World and not this world." Victoria said.

"Huh? No. They would always attack us when they noticed us getting closer. Are we talking about the same monster?" Shelia said.

Two different answers, huh? What's their biggest difference? One is a slime and one is a Werewolf. One is known to be the weakest monster, and another is a predator. That's obvious then. The minotaur doesn't sense danger from me. And Shelia hasn't entered the twenty meters range from it.

"Shelia, try to get closer to that minotaur."

"Can I kill it?" Shelia asked.

"Not yet. Just get closer first."

Shelia takes three steps forward and she enters the minotaur's range. The minotaur noticed, looked at Shelia, and it started to have a ferocious look. I guess I'm right that they only initiated the attack when a predator gets closer. If they are not considered a predator, the minotaur won't bother fighting.

But why do they not think of human as predators? Are we too weak? I'm stronger than Shelia, you know?

Whatever. The minotaur is charging toward Shelia and about to attack her. Since it's my turn, I'll be the one killing it.

I shot the monster at its knee, with enough strength in my shot to pierce through a General Orc. The bullet didn't pierce its knee, but the impact is strong enough to make the minotaur stumble. I guess it means minotaur is stronger than General Orc. Maybe about the same as Emperor Orc. But I have grown much stronger than when I fought the Emperor Orc. I could even defeat this orc with just using Blobbygun.

Though the biggest difference is that Emperor Orc can use magic. So, this one is much easier since it can't use magic.

I keep shooting Blobbygun, with even stronger power. And it died in the third shot to the head.

Hmm… that was easy. But for Jewel, it might be a challenge. And Hannah is also here as well. Well, it's no problem for us still.

"Shelia, you stay outside the village. Just kill any minotaur that you see, but don't get into the village until I summoned you. As for everyone else, we're entering the village. There's nothing to be afraid of since they won't attack first."

We entered the village calmly while ignoring the minotaur. Some even walked close to us, but ignore us when they thought that we are not considered as enemies.

I have several theories about this, but I think the most plausible one is because they entered this village. The villagers are still hiding inside the houses, but their smell should still be here. That's why because I am a human as well, they don't think that we can do anything to them since they think that we are the same as the villagers.

Though they noticed Victoria, they don't care about her since she's just a slime.

I approached one of the houses which has some people inside and knocked on the door.

"Excuse me! We're hunters taking on your request!"

"Don't shout! We don't want to arouse these monsters' anger!"

But the one replying is also shouting? He's an elderly. I think he might be the village chief and that's why I choose to come here.

"Don't worry, they don't think that we are strong enough to be cause them problem. But if we want, we could defeat them right away. We're just here to confirm your request. You want us to defeat these minotaurs, right?"

"Yes! Kill all of them!"

"Understood. Please stay inside your house and wait. We'll take care of them all soon."

We regrouped and discuss a plan for defeating the minotaurs.

"Veronica, you will watch from the sky and defeat the minotaurs from there. Just defeat those who are about to escape. Jewel and Shelia will fight them directly. We'll start as soon as I summoned Shelia here. As for me, I'll be somewhere with Hannah and Sunny. We will shoot them from distance for support. Hannah, this is what you have decided. This is not a sparring that you always watch us doing. This is a real fight. Experience it for yourself." I said as I patted Hannah's head.

"Yes!" Hannah replied.

I carried Hannah on my back, and summoned Shelia right away.

"Shelia, hunt these minotaurs!" I gave an order.

"Okay!"

Now, the hunt has started. I jumped to the rooftop of the previous house, and prepared to snipe everything from here. Sunny also here preparing to shoot her seeds toward the minotaurs. Hannah will help Sunny find the targets.

As long as the minotaurs are defeated, the request is completed. With Veronica here, this should be a breeze.