Monster Girl Contract Manual

Chapter 27 Slaying, Chapter Returns

Shards of the broken blade scattered in all directions, grazing House's cheek and leaving fine, bloody marks.

Even with only half a sword remaining, it still cleaved down, severing the goblin warrior's nose.

The two sides ended in a draw.

However, this does not mean that the two sides are evenly matched at present.

House had exhausted almost all his strength, while the goblin warrior had only shattered his weapon, his stamina and spirit still full.

The process had already gone astray, and the final outcome naturally took a completely different turn.

Facing the goblin warrior with a ferocious, evil grin, House stared blankly at the remaining half of the sword in his hand. The blood from the shards cutting his cheek gradually spread, and a drop of crimson blood slowly slid down his chin...

"Ugh—"

A familiar and powerful force came from his abdomen, and House suddenly opened his mouth, spitting out some saliva, and was sent flying backward again.

With improvements in strength, speed, and physique, and after a week of specialized training, his abilities are already far superior to those of ordinary people.

However, compared to the goblin warriors who had embarked on their professional paths, House, an ordinary person, still seemed so small and powerless.

The confidence that had arisen in my heart when I upgraded [Chop] to level 3 was shattered in the face of cruel reality.

"Am I going to die here?"

House lay on the ground, his limbs weak and his internal organs aching terribly. His eyes gradually lost their luster, and scenes from his first adventure involuntarily surfaced in his mind.

He offered to resign from his job to become an adventurer, but was ridiculed by the farmer, who asked what an ordinary person could possibly do to go on an adventure.

Some newcomers to the Adventurers' Guild are seen as newbies by the veterans, and no one is willing to team up with them. They are advised that ordinary people should live their lives peacefully and not dream of entering the world of adventurers.

And there was Mr. Garp's gentle and kind smile, and his hands, soft in the palms but calloused at the edges...

"Welcome to the team, adventurer House."

There will be opportunities in the future; unexpected events are part of the adventure.

Let's raise a glass to the brave House!

Hey!

I'm not going to die here!!!

With the help of [Slow Self-Healing], House, having recovered some of his injuries and strength, immediately struggled to his feet and stumbled toward Pierce.

"Sylvia!"

Leila, her face streaked with tears, looked at Sylvia, who was blocking her way, before being kicked away.

The longbow in his hand was also broken in two by the goblin warrior and casually thrown on the ground.

Leila trembled as she raised her staff and aimed it at the approaching goblin warrior, wanting to fight back desperately, but found that she was powerless to stop him.

She still possesses some magical power, but the skills she has mastered cannot be used to launch attacks; they can only be used to amplify and empower others.

The goblin warrior's mocking, hideous face was right in front of her; Leila could even smell the stench emanating from his breath.

Leila stared intently at the goblin warrior, waving her staff haphazardly in an attempt to stop him, but then she caught a glimpse of the scene behind the goblin warrior out of the corner of her eye, and she was slightly taken aback.

After a brief moment of stunned silence, she gritted her teeth and began chanting the incantation.

The goblins opposite seemed to have also noticed Leila's current situation.

When Leila brandished her staff and chanted a spell, it didn't rush to stop her. Instead, it revealed a ferocious smile and waited for Leila with great interest.

Like a cold-blooded beast, it stares mockingly at its prey struggling in vain.

It loves to watch them struggle with all their might, grit their teeth and hold on, watch the hope in their eyes gradually fade away, and finally fall into the abyss of despair.

The wolf pack was like this, and so were these human adventurers.

"...Aeris benedictum!"

A faint, emerald-green light slowly rippled from the tip of the staff, accompanied by a weak, feeble curse.

"Are you laughing at my mother?!"

After thrusting his sword out, House looked at the goblin warrior with wide eyes and a grin still on his face, and cursed.

【Wind Sweeps By】

[Skills have been boosted to three times]

【Wind Sweep: By harnessing the power of the wind, you can double your speed for a short period of time, and in certain special circumstances, triple it】

Leila's blessing of wind power to House unexpectedly fulfilled the condition for a threefold increase in [Wind Sweep].

Even before Leila finished casting her spell, the goblin warrior had already sensed the footsteps behind him and hastily raised his hand to defend himself as he turned around.

However, with the wind power boosting his speed to three times, and combined with Leila's wind power, House possessed a speed comparable to that of a professional.

The greater the speed, the greater the power.

And at this moment, what House was holding was no longer the refined iron longsword that had been broken in two.

Before the powerful steel longsword worth five gold coins and its immense strength, the goblin warrior's flesh was as fragile as freshly sliced ​​beef, easily torn apart.

Not only the skin and flesh, but also the fat, muscle texture, tendons, and bones are all like this.

With a single sword thrust through the chest, rising from the top, ribs snapped at the root. House finally replicated Garp's feat—splitting the goblin warrior in two with a single sword strike.

First, bright red blood gushed out like a spring, splashing into the air with bubbles, then falling down in a parabolic arc, staining half of House's face dark red.

Immediately afterwards, from the ripped abdominal cavity, clumps of sticky, slippery internal organs rolled limply out of the thoracic cavity and hung on the edge of the everted abdominal wall, still wriggling slightly.

Next is the still-beating heart.

House lowered his arm slightly and made a forceful cut along the cross-section. The sharp blade instantly sliced ​​through the fist-sized organ, and a stream of even brighter, thicker, and more foul-smelling blood gushed out like a burst water pipe, covering the messy ground with another layer of crimson.

"Pierce is still alive; I poured the half-bottle of healing potion into him."

After slaying the goblin warrior, House, his face covered in blood, immediately shared the good news with Leila.

The person isn't dead, so don't rush to grieve.

As he finished speaking, House staggered and raised his hand, pulling out a half-opened bottle of healing potion from his waist.

This healing potion was also taken from Pierce.

Unexpectedly, Pierce, this guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would also be secretive. At first, he lied and said that he only brought one bottle of healing potion, but secretly he also hid another bottle as a spare.

But thinking about it, it makes sense. It's normal to be wary of strangers; everyone is the same.

House was unaware that the extra bottle of healing potion on Pierce was originally meant for Leila.

As for why it's "just opened, but only half a bottle left," it's because House drank half of it to save the last bit of magic power to activate his skill.

Carrying the half-bottle of healing potion, House staggered to the side of Sylvia, who was lying unconscious in the distance. He carefully lifted her neck and, without the original owner's permission, slowly poured the half-bottle of warm potion into her mouth.

Compared to potential debts in the future, human life is the most important thing, both now and in the future.

Seeing Sylvia slowly awaken under the potion's healing, House immediately abandoned her, turned around, and went to the goblin warrior's corpse, slashing off his ear along with part of his face with his sword.

Although the goblin warrior wasn't part of the quest and the guild couldn't settle the payment, that wasn't House's original plan.

House quickly rummaged through the sticky bloodstains with both hands and found only half a wolf tooth necklace. He then carefully placed it in the pouch at his waist.

After searching through their loot, the three of them gradually recovered.

To be honest, the healing potion, which costs 1 gold coin per bottle, is really effective.

In just a short while, all of House's minor skin injuries had healed, leaving only his internal organs still aching slightly.

However, with its slow self-healing ability, it's only a matter of time before these internal injuries recover.

With their spoils in hand, House had the three of them drop some of their luggage and quickened their pace to return to town.

We can't keep moving so slowly; who knows what other monsters might appear?