Talk:Day 61-70/Day 70/Sidestory: Kobold's POV/@comment-35138951-20180329051419

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【A kobold’s perspective: Day 70】

As commanded by my liege, I hid myself with several brethren within a cavity on the side of a pitfall.

Within my hands were a short horn-spear and a dagger soaked in my liege’s poison. Our duty this time was to immediately finish off the enemies we were ambushing today, shouldst they avoid the barrage of poisoned arrows and fall into this hidden pitfall as they retreated towards the main body of the army.

Although this was a crucial mission, I could only describe this as a safe mission.

Compared to the troops on the surface, who were shooting down the enemy troops with the weapons called “repeating crossbows” that my liege invented, we did not have to worry about a counterattack from the enemy.

If no enemies fell down from the surface, we wouldn’t even receive a scratch.

So, in other words, there was a possibility that this would end without us having to work.

In light of this, I, no, we kobolds who were stationed within the pitfalls were all grinding our teeth.

We were assigned a mission in such a safe place, because our lord didn’t have enough confidence in us.

But, there was nothing that we could do about this.

We had only sworn fealty recently. Our only option was to earnestly work on our missions with all our strength and a deep loyalty, in order to strengthen our lord’s faith in us.

Strengthening my determination, I concealed my presence and waited for the enemy.

Eventually, the enemy arrived, just as planned.

My liege’s plan -- cutting off the retreat, rolling round boulders, poisonous arrows, etc. -- was to cut down the numbers of the confused enemy, and I could start hearing their shrieks.

After a while, it seemed the number of troops falling for the pitfalls increased and I could hear the excited voices of my brethren.

After eagerly waiting for the enemy to fall into the pitfall we were lurking in, the time finally came.

Surprised by the sudden drop, the enemy fell without being able to react and injured his leg. Judging from the dull sound, he must have fractured or broken a bone. The enemy was also confused by the pain and the sudden change in his field of vision.

I stabbed him from behind with my short horn-spear. However, since it was obstructed by the thick sturdy plate armor, despite my spear leaving a wound, it was not fatal. It made an unpleasant scratching sound and sparks flew.

My first strike was a failure.

But, despite the enemy trying to react quickly, his movements were slowed by the heavy full body armor, the leg injury, and his confusion, so there was no counterattack.

Taking the opportunity, I latched onto his back and somehow managed to successfully slip my dagger into the gap at the nape of his neck.

There was a sensation of cutting flesh, fresh blood spraying out, and the rich smell of blood.

The feedback from cutting away a life and the joy of absorbing such a huge amount of experience points that it could clearly be felt.

While in a state of experience point drunkenness, a rare occurrence that was said to happen when you killed something far above your level, I somehow returned to my cavity while feeling enhanced.

The reason being that this is what my liege had ordered me to do.

I quickly figured out the reason why. It was not very difficult to comprehend.

It was simply because some of them were falling. The enemies, from the surface.

Since they were wearing full body armor, I might have been crushed to death if I had lingered in the center of the pitfall. I see, as one would expect of my liege. As I thought that, I cut down three more enemy bodies.

And so this time also, the fight ended in victory and we obtained a huge number of prisoners.

As a reward from our liege, we were allowed to eat the bodies of enemies that we had killed.

Trembling in thankfulness at those rewarding words and shedding tears of joy, we stuffed our mouths with meat.