The Witcher: Darkness Falls

Riding a horse was much faster than leading a caravan. In more than half an hour, Lyon and his party returned to the abandoned castle.

"Did you really kill these?" Madison Fenrir widened his eyes as he looked at the goblin corpses scattered all over the ground.

As one of the commanders of the Grampian City Guard, he had been ordered to lead his soldiers to hunt down these damn beasts for nearly two months.

But they didn't kill a single goblin. The beasts had disappeared into the forest swamps before they arrived and could not be found at all.

But now, he actually saw so many corpses!

There were six soldiers who followed him, and they were also shocked by the scene before them.

"It's indeed different from a dwarf. A dwarf wouldn't care so much about his or her image and expose his or her ugly body." Madison said in a heavy tone.

At the same time, he used his sword to turn over a random corpse on the ground, and could even see ticks in the hair behind the ears of these goblins.

"Did you kill all these?" Madison turned to look at the witcher.

Leon nodded and said, "Yes, last night, we used this abandoned garden. Ganmier, the half-elf knight holding a shield, blocked the entrance. I cooperated with him, and the others guarded the low wall where it was easy to climb over.

The place is not big, and the goblins are small, have no weapons, only sharp teeth and claws, and we have a knocking monster, so it is easy to kill them. "

Madison took a deep look at him and praised, "Well done, Demon Hunter! Well done!"

He stretched out his leg and kicked a headless corpse in front of him and cursed, "Bastard!"

Then he immediately ordered his men to pick out a few intact goblin corpses, tie them to horses and take them back.

There are more than forty corpses here. Just with the few of them, they would need at least two carts to take them all back.

But where did the cart come from?

“Monster Hunter, if the Count knew that you killed all the monsters, he would be very happy!

And you guys saved all the dwarfs in the city!" Madison said with a sigh of relief.

Leon frowned and shook his head, “We didn’t kill them all, there must have been hundreds of them, and they retreated after we took out their leaders.

Just like a wolf pack, if you get rid of the leader, the other wolves will run away out of fear."

"Didn't kill them all?" Madison's tone was heavy, with thick clouds gathering between his brows, just like the weather now.

"Yes, no." Leon turned and walked out.

Madison followed him to the edge of the landscape stones outside the garden.

"This is their leader, the goblin chief. The goblins retreated only after he died." Leon kicked the body of the goblin chief in front of Madison.

Madison's expression became more and more serious: "Why are there so many bastards?!"

He said something incomprehensible, leaving Leon confused.

But after hearing what he said next, Leon finally understood what he meant.

"There were only a few dozen of them a month ago!"

"A month ago?" Zival spoke up, sneering, "Sir, you've discovered this monster for more than a month, right? I'd guess it's been at least three months, right?"

Madison suddenly turned around, stared at the dwarf and asked, "Dwarf, what do you know? Tell me everything you know!"

The dwarf spread his hands and said sarcastically, "I don't know anything. I just came here a few days ago and was attacked by a group of monsters!"

Madison took a deep breath and bowed his head. He apologized to the dwarf, “I’m sorry, I was wrong. Please forgive me.

I feel annoyed when I see these monsters now. When I think about how their numbers have doubled in just one month, I feel like... you should be able to understand how I feel now!"

Leon asked: "What happened?"

To make the other party lose their composure like this, these goblins must have done something very bad.

Madison explained: “Four months ago, we received a report that someone had died in Ike Village, and when our people went to investigate, they only found some broken limbs. The scene was horrific.

However, we have seen some perverted killers before, so we just regarded this case as an ordinary homicide.

Later, reports of the case continued to come in. The crime scene was in a mess, with numerous bite marks on the remaining limbs.

It was only then that we realized something was wrong, but we only suspected that it was an attack by wild beasts. After all, these villages were close to the forest, and it was normal for wild beasts to occasionally come out and eat people when they couldn't find food.

However, there were too many cases like this all of a sudden, as if they were premeditated. The Earl ordered me to lead troops to investigate the truth.

I spent a month on the case and there was no progress. The count put more and more pressure on me, so I had to take the soldiers to patrol the villages where these monsters often appeared at night.

Finally, two months ago, I encountered it. What attacked the villagers were not monsters, but a group of naked dwarfs!

When we first encountered them, there were only a dozen of these guys!

They ran away very quickly, running around the village, and finally they escaped.

I reported the matter, and the Count was furious, but at this time his anger was only directed at the dwarf who committed the crime.

Until a month and a half ago, all the 500 people in Monkro Village were killed. At this time, the count finally transferred his anger to all the dwarfs.

If you saw the scene, you would lose your patience when seeing these monsters just like me.

There were body parts and internal organs everywhere, the whole village was like a slaughterhouse!"

At this point, Madison took a deep breath, his face gloomy, and gritted his teeth and said: "The day before yesterday, Kalman Village was also massacred."

After listening, Lyon and Zivar were silent.

Massacring an entire village is an extremely cruel act at any time.

But if it was just bandits who massacred the village, the empire could just issue a reward to catch the murderer.

Most of the bandits who robbed and burned the village of Lyon have been hanged.

But if the monster eats people, it will inevitably cause panic, which is more terrifying than robbery.

It is no wonder that the Earl ordered all dwarfs in Grampian to be captured, as Madison hated goblins.

These monsters want to eat people!

After hearing this, Zival said, "Actually, I don't know much. I just heard it from my elders."

He looked up at Madison and said, "You'd better be mentally prepared for what I'm going to say next."

Madison sighed and said, "You tell me, I'm prepared."

Zivar said with a serious expression: "The goblins were wiped out by us dwarves and elves long before humans appeared on this continent.

They are brutal and bloodthirsty by nature, have no bottom line, and only eat meat, even their own kind are on their menu.

According to Mahakam's legend, because goblins look like dwarfs, they have disguised themselves as dwarfs many times to attack our town, trying to sow discord between us and the dwarfs, and at the same time spread the plague everywhere.

But these filthy, lowly bastards can't fool us at all. We are fed up with them, and the elves are also fed up with them.

Eventually the dwarves and elves joined forces and spent hundreds of years to eliminate these filthy bastards from the world.

That's why you humans don't know much about goblins, or if you know anything about them, it's only in legend.

When their traces are discovered, we should mobilize the army to wipe them out completely."

Madison frowned and asked, "Why? Their fighting power is not that strong. We just can't track it. If..."

Zivar interrupted Madison rudely and said, "Listen, human commander, I can strangle a single goblin to death with one hand.

But they live in groups!

Do you know why it took hundreds of years to completely eliminate the goblins when the dwarves and gnomes who were familiar with the mountains joined forces with the elves and dryads who were familiar with the forests and swamps?

It wasn’t because of how powerful their combat capabilities were. In front of the coalition forces at that time, even the dragons would tremble!

That's because these damn bastards reproduce very quickly. They can give birth to a litter in two months, or even less than two months. A month later, these bastards can stab your butt with a dagger!

Do you understand? If you have found their traces, then their true number must be multiplied by at least ten!"