Chapter 99 Yet Another Fire Girl I



[Your Luck has increased from <E+> rank to <S> rank for 24 hours!]

The time limit blessing had been obtained. However, I couldn't afford to bask in my victory for long.

It wouldn't be long until the goblin guards noticed their prized emissary had been slain. They just needed to turn around slightly and found out about it.

So, without wasting time, using the remaining time of my invisibility, I worked my ass off to get out of the tent.

As I approached the curtain door, I heard a loud and clear voice outside the tent.

"GERONIMO!!!"

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10 minutes ago…

"Are you sure that the creature is here?"

Walking alone through the forest was a girl with black hair cascaded down her waist.

Her walking was a bit wobbly as if she forced herself to walk. While speaking, her red ruby eyes would often look at her left top side as if she was talking to someone or something floating beside her.

But, the problem was that whoever she talked to was invisible. No one could see it except for her. 

So, if someone caught her talking alone in the forest like this, they would likely be terrified by this weird girl.

"Really?"

She spoke again in surprise.

"Ahh, but I'm tired…"

As she stopped walking, her eyes found the goblin hideout where the creatures were celebrating something.

Panting heavily, she leaned on the nearby tree.

"What? No way!"

She jolted as she spoke to whatever it was beside her.

"Umm…"

The girl pinched her nose and eventually sighed.

Her face and body were already tired, she needed some proper rest. 

She even coughed all the way on her journey and always grasped her chest whenever it happened. That girl looked like she was having a chronic disease.

Judging by her physical appearance, it looked like she had a weak constitution. 

But despite that, her charming weak smile and beautiful face couldn't be rid of just her having a disease.

"Okay… But, promise me not to overwork my body even though you didn't feel it."

Sighing, the girl closed her eyes. In an instant, the air around her changed.

When she opened her eyes again, it felt like she was a different person. Her whole demeanor of a weak girl had disappeared, now replaced by a strong and wild girl.

Her wide grin depicted another personality opposite to earlier.

"Fuu… Finally, I can move again…"

She unsheathed the sword she had around her back and started walking toward the goblin hideout.

Her movement didn't look sluggish anymore. She walked with firm and confident.

"Yes, yes. I promise not to overdo it. I still want to live too."

Approaching the goblin's hideout gate in person, without concealing herself with an invisibility potion or sneaking through, the girl took a long breath and yelled as she ran inside the hideout with her sword raised.

Noticing the intruder appeared in their camp, the goblins made a noise to alarm the others.

The goblins emitted shrill shrieks, piercing the air like daggers and reverberating off the walls of the hideout, their high-pitched cries a blend of fear and aggression.

As the goblins gathered to defend their territory, the girl jumped high into the sky.

Her sword was enveloped in raging flame. By swinging it, she unleashed the flame wave long-range attack, burning the goblins on the ground.

The fire spread to a nearby small tent and was engulfed by flame in a second. It continued to spread around the camp.

"GERONIMO!!"

The girl brought herself down with the last swing of her flame sword that burned everything it touched.

Everything was burned, engulfed by her fierce flame.

What was left from the hideout was the goblin king who sat still on his throne made of skull and bone. A wide grin was painting the goblin king's face. its yellow eyes glimmered under the cascading shadow from the flame burning its home.

A few goblin guards were flocking out from the bigger tent that the flame hadn't touched yet. They snarled at the scene of the flame burning their territory and kinds.

And, a boy who was hidden under the effect of the invisibility potion which would soon wear off.

Zio Varrez.

His eyes narrowed, scrutinizing the goblin's hideout under the terror of the raging flame. 

As he noticed the girl who stood in the center of the camp, together with the flame sword in her hand, Zio's eyes widened.

"Zia?"

As he spoke, the effect of the potion wore off, exposing him to the goblin guards in front of him and those who just came out from the big tent behind him.

"Shit…"

Kriek—!

The goblin guards behind him growled, alarming the rest of the guards in the front. Meanwhile, the goblin king slightly moved his eyes to take a peek at the situation before shifting them again toward the girl's direction.

The goblin king finally got up from its skull and bone throne as the girl with the flame sword approached, an excited grin as wide as the goblin king was also painting the girl's face.

Zio quickly assessed the situation, realizing the danger he was in.

The goblin guards were closing on him from all sides, their grotesque faces contorted with anger.

"Fuck… it's not time to worry about money!"

With a quick motion, he pulled a small bottle containing a swirling blue liquid from his storage cube.

Without hesitation, he uncorked the bottle and consumed its contents.

The potion he had ingested was a speed-enhancing potion he bought from the wizard's shop, granting him increased speed and agility for a limited time.

[Your Agility has been increased from <E> to <D-> for 10 minutes!]

A notification system was ringing and appeared in his vision, but he quickly swept it away.

"Shit, this is why I hate the notifications feature!"

As the goblin guards lunged at him with their weapons raised, Zio dodged and weaved through their attacks effortlessly. 

His heightened speed, combined with his Clairvoyance skill allowed him a spacious room for movement and better prediction to dodge and counter with lightning-fast strikes. 

With each swing of his twin daggers, he incapacitated one goblin after another.

Meanwhile, the girl was engaged in a fierce duel with the goblin king whose height was above two meters tall.

The flames from her sword clashed against the king's crude weapon, creating sparks that illuminated the chaotic scene.

"Hahaha! This girl's power is the best! I like this!" the girl exclaimed in an exhilarating tone.