The strange eye floating monster could see them clearly, yet it did not a single move against them make.
"It does not appear to be sentient. This is like a trained guard dog, one that only attacks those that enter its territory. I wager that the minute we cross the threshold it will attack us." Rhea Ranger said.
"Then we'll have to plan around that. Fire one off at it." Goblin Slayer said to High Elf Archer.
She complied and shot an arrow at the floating eye creature, immediately a great burst of energy came from the smaller eyes that were at the end of the big eye's eyelashes, evaporating the arrow and making the adventurers jump away from the doorframe.
"A powerful ranged attacker then. And with only one entrance, there's no chance of outflanking it. Archer, you'll fire off a shot to make it shoot it's beam, after that I'll need a Dragon Tooth warrior to rush forward to draw it's gaze, Ranger will rush in after that and throw this at the creature's main eye, after that Shaman will cast stupor and then we move in for the kill. We stab it from behind its big eye with all we got. Then we withdraw and then we use 'barrier'." Goblin Slayer said to the gathered adventurers who nodded in return.
"And I suppose the task of delivering the killing blow falls to me once more." Lizard Priest said as he held up 'Undertaker'.
"Yes. You are the only one strong enough to properly use it. Thought, I regret the fact that we have to use 'Undertaker' at all." Goblin Slayer said, with a heavy lament in his voice, he really did not want to use the 4th prototype, but they were tired, out of the other heavy weapons and running low on supplies, if what lay beyond this was the goblin's main nest, then they had to press their advantage now!
"Let's get ready." Warrior said and they all got into position.
High Elf Archer shot her arrows, making the floating Big Eye fire it's smaller beams of energy at them, after that Dog Tooth Warrior rushed forward and to the right.
The Bit Eye followed the summoned creature and turned its gaze towards it and shot its beams once more. Rhea Ranger then entered and ran in the opposite direction of where Dog Tooth Warrior ran.
Getting behind the Big Eye, she immediately threw the pouch that Goblin Slayer gave her.
It was a mixture of lime, hot pepper dust mustard seeds that blinded the Big Eye.
Now it was Dwarf Shaman's turn and he cast one of his finest 'stupors' yet on the creature.
With that the rest of the party entered the room and surrounded it from behind.
"We will strike on the right side of its back. Lizard Pries you stay on the left, sensing the location of its wound will make it turn to the right, therefore it won't see you and when it turns you'll be able to strike at its back, where we weakened it for you. Wizard will go first, then ranged, then melee, then High Elf Wizard, then the Big Eye will turn." Goblin Slayer said and once more the group nodded and they got into position.
"3….2….1… Now!" Goblin Slayer said and immediately the group attacked.
"Fireball!"Wizard said and shot it's fireball at the Big Eye, creating a wound in it's flesh and gap in its thick skin.
High Elf Archer and Goblin Slayer unloaded their arrows and bullets into that wound, after that Warrior, Fighter, Noble Fighter and Rhea Ranger all showed their weapons inside the wound.
Then it was High Elf Wizard's turn!
"LIGHTNING BOLT!" She cried and cast lightning bolt on the embedded mêlée weapons that had penetrated deep inside the creature's body.
The wound exploded on impact and the now enraged creature woke up from this barrage of attacks and turned to the right, ready to evaporate whoever attacked it.
It only saw the 'Metal Barrier' that Dwarf Shaman had cast after the attacks had been spent, so as to hide the party from it's gaze.
The creature quickly delivered several blasts at the barrier, along with Disperse from it's main eye.
But as 'Metal Barrier' was ripped to shreds, the eyebeams dispersed before hitting any adventurer.
For behind it was Priestess's 'Barrier', who was not dispersed by the main eye's ability to cancel spells, since it was not yet finished with Dwarf Shaman's 'Metal Barrier', this had saved Priestess's barrier and the party behind it.
The Big Eye immediately moved to cast a second 'Disperse' spell and another barrage of eyebeams, when it felt a great pain from the great wound in its back.
Lizard Priest had showed 'Undertaker' deep inside the Big Eye and immediately the creature started swelling up like crazy and huge lumps started to inflate and disperse themselves continuously all over its skin, like its inside was boiling alive.
"Run!" Goblin Slayer said Lizard Priest immediately leaped over the rapidly imploding Big Eye and landed on the safe side of the barrier, just as the creature exploded into a wave of blood and mangled flesh.
"I just used my barrier to prevent us from being splattered by the guts of our target. I avoided been covered in blood and guts….….I'm not covered in blood and guts…..I'M NOT COVERED IN BLOOD AND GUTS!" Priestess said in a disbelieving voice as an almost nirvana like state manifested itself within her.
It truly took guts, or in this case the lack of ones, to follow the path of a servant of the gods!
"I feel you sister." High Elf Archer said and the two hugged each other as tears streamed down their eyes.
"well, nothing to say Orcbolg?" H.E.A asked in coy manner.
"Last time I said something after a major kill you kicked me hard." Goblin Slayer said as he went and recovered 'Undertaker'
It was just a javelin head that had a thick syringe at its tip, within in had been a concoction made out of concentrated health and stamina potions.
Goblin Slayer, like many times before, had heard how if healing potions needed to be diluted before drunk, cause if they were to concentrated they became poisons themselves.
That was what gave him the inspiration for 'Undertaker'.
A 'concentrated potion poison' was not something new; there had been record of it being used before, since it was at its basic level a healing item, the poison immunity traits did not apply to it.
The reason why it was not used, was that adventuring was a game of economics, it took them almost 100 stamina potions and 100 health potions to make this one vial of poison and despite it being unaffected by anti poison debufs, there were much cheaper option out there.
They did not have the ability to bypass all immunity traits, but they cost at least ten times less than the 'concentrated potion poison'.
And adventurers did like their coin.
But 'Undertaker' had proven it's worth and had managed to kill the 'Big Floating' eye easily, in fact it had worked so well that it appeared that they did not need to wound it before hand, in order for Undertaker to kill the Big Eye!
And that was why Goblin Slayer was regretting using it.
Once more a weapon he had designed, or helped design, that was supposed to be used on goblins was used on something else.
First the ogre overlord, then the ghost possessing the warboss, then Candlestickmaker on the previous ogre and now Undertaker on the Big Eye.
It was becoming rather difficult for him to be calling himself 'Goblin Slayer', when it seemed like he was currently slaying everything and anything but goblins!
But he kept quiet about that.
He did not want another kick in the arse.
Broken bones he could handle, but like all men, a pain in his posterior was something he was not willing so suffer!
"What is this?" Rhea Ranger said as she went passed the mush of dead 'Big Eye' and inspected the altar it was protecting, on it there was a big mirror, on top of a pile of goblin sized weapons.
"Is this some object of worship?" Lizard Priest asked as Priestess touched the mirror.
Immediately the surface became water like and the mirror started glowing brightly, activating the magic within it.
Almost immediately Goblin Slayer, Lizard Priest, Warrior, Noble Fighter and Fighter all rushed forward and prepared a melee line.
But nothing came from the mirror, instead the image changed to show a barren desert like wasteland, where a strange structure stood and on its base there was a wheel like contraption that was being turned by many beings.
"Goblins, lots of them. Yuck!" High Elf Archer said in disgust as Lizard Priest said and touched the mirror surface once more and the image changed again.
"That's where we killed that Overlord that came back as a ghost!" Fighter said after the new image appeared on the mirror.
"This belonged to that bastard!?" Dwarf Shaman asked, it looked like a posthumous grudge would be added in the book, under that overlord's name!
"No. This lair is smaller than the one we found after we butchered him, no way would a goblin choose a smaller lair as its main one, and also if this was his, he'd keep it in the main lair. No, this belongs to someone else, someone who helped arm that overlord, someone who brought the goblins here with this mirror." Goblin Slayer added as Wizard and High Elf Wizard approached the magical object.
"There is writing on the sides. It is in the ancient language of the birds and another one I can't decipher. The one with the language of the birds says 'touch to change destination' and the portal will remain open letting anything that fits pass trough." Wizard said.
"I see some rune in the second language that resemble old elvish runes. They appear to be similar to the ones for: 'resistant to fire'." High Elf Wizard added.
"So that is its properties then." Goblin Slayer said and started to think.
His master 'Burglar' had always drilled inside him the importance of 'never stop' thinking.
In a world where Priestess was the only survivor of her original party, where Noble Fighter's group was slaughtered. Where Slayer Keep was not even a passing thought, this mirror would have been encased in cement and thrown into the sea.
Then Goblin Slayer had a thought and reached inside his pants.
Now, what was in his pocked?
Water Town main square.
Goblin Slayer's group were making their way back from the island they had just visited.
They had performed another sweep of the area surrounding the Big Eye to make sure all the goblins had been killed, before they removed the big mirror from the altar and took it where they knew it would never hurt this land ever again.
"It's bigger then yesterday!" a voice from the crowd that was gathered in the square said as they gazed at the green moon in the sky.
A red dot had appeared on it days ago and whenever the moon rose up in the night's sky, the dot became bigger and bigger.
The adventurers from Slayer Keep looked up at the sky. Three days ago they had throw calibrated the mirror for the land where they say the goblins and then they lowered it into an active volcano with red hot magma inside it ready to erupt.
It appeared that the trick worked, since huge amounts of magma seemed to be streaming from the mirror and into the goblins homeland, which seemed to be the moon and since the group could hear people saying that it got bigger and bigger every night, it was safe to say that the more the mirror sung, the greater the tide of fire an death unleashed on the goblins was.
"Looks like my sister was right…..She rarely was wrong." Was the only words that came from Goblin Slayers mind as he turned his gaze from the green moon's continuously growing red dot, which signified the mass extermination of goblins in their very own homeland!
For there were still goblins in this world to be killed, just because they managed to destroy another world, that did not mean they could slack off work!
The group made their way back to the temple, to spend the night there, before leaving in the morning, all the while they started to speculate about how their recent actions could affect the country and their world.
But not Goblin Slayer, he only cared about killing goblins and for that he made his way into Sword Maiden's bedroom and approached the surprised Archbishop, who was in bed and in her nightclothes.
"I believe I have something you desire. And I also desire something from you."