The lingering smell of burnt corpses was in the air

“Where did this mountain of corpses come from?!” I ask the hobgoblin in front of me

“That’s what I’m asking you! How was an entire legion of 25 elite Hobgoblins,40 goblins,10 elite mages and 30 high elves get completely annihilated? Without a single survivor?”

[Shit! We need an excuse]

What about orthus?

[That could work]

“the mythical beast orthus came and they fought”

“No shit! That beast is the entire reason we sent them” Said the hobgoblin sounding slightly annoyed

“Then what’s the problem?”

“The problem is that the beast is dead And there’s not a single survivor”

“the beast died after the battle from its wounds?”

“there’s not a single wound on its body And since you’re the only one that’s alive and close enough to understand what happened I’m asking you, especially since you’re wearing that strange clothing”

[Maybe we should say we killed orthus, he might even commend us]

That could work,but I have a better plan

[what kind of plan?]

Just wait and see

“I’m not going to hurt you I might even help you, so just tell me what really happened,” he says while dangling the potion in front of me again

“Fine but I don’t want any of your cronies here”

“cronies?”

“your troops,” I say while pointing at the goblins, surrounding us in a semi-circle formation

“Sir! As your Second in command, I highly advise against doing what that man is suggesting” shouts a hobgoblin wearing glasses from the semi-circle formation

“calm down Rorko I’ll still be holding a dagger to his neck”

“plus do you think I could lose to a guy with a broken leg, right??” he says with a malicious smile while looking at me

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Suddenly the dagger starts to heat up to the point that it might leave a burn mark

“Gulp” I gulp

[This fucker might actually kill us!]

“if you say so sir, but I can’t just leave you alone with him”

“How about this you can stay but everyone else has to leave,” I say while pointing at Rorko

“I guess that could work” Rorko says still sounding somewhat unsatisfied

The goblins surrounding us then proceed to leave

“so what was so secret that almost everyone had to leave?” the hobgoblin says while the dagger’s temperature suddenly drops

“First off can you please give the health potion now?” I say trying to sound as pitiful as I can

“why should ~~I?”

“Because I’ll be dead before I can even start talking, because of this” I say while pointing at my neck

“Sir he does have point”

“I guess so “he gives me the health potion

[How do you even use that?]

I’m guessing we drink it

I drink it

After reaching about half the bottle

“Why are you drinking that?” Rorko asked me

Shit!

[maybe you’re suppose to pour it directly on you wounds]

I pour it on my wound

“it was for my throat it might have gotten injured due to the burn mark,” I say

After a second or two, the wound slowly closed up

“Where was I again…”

I snap my fingers

Suddenly orthus appears right behind the two hobgoblins

[What the fuck!?]

What the fuck!?

[Why do I have paws?!]

Why is it only as big as a Chihuahua!?

A face of shock was visible on my face

“What’s wrong?”

“What?, Oh nothing” I say trying to fix my expression into something more neutral

[Why the fuck am I orthus?!]

Calm down!

The plan could still work. Can you still breathe fire?

[let me try]

Orthus proceeds to breathe out a little bit of fire then a puff of smoke

God fucking dammit!, Can you at least bite the hobgoblin in front of me in the neck?

[I can try]

“Can’t think of an excuse can you?” the hobgoblin says

“it’s not that lo look behind you,” I say trying to sound scared

“Rorko check what’s behind me will you, this fucker is planning something”

I guess this could work too

Now!

Orthus bites Rorko’s neck

I imagine fire forming in my hand

It actually fucking worked!

I then try to slam the fire in my hand towards the hobgoblin’s face

And he just swats my hand as if his swatting a fly

“so is this your plan? I really was expecting more“ he says sounding disappointed

“Sir! That was way too dangerous” Rorko says while pulling Orthus off his neck as if the fangs didn’t even Peirce his skin

“Calm down I didn’t get hurt did I?, also call back the others and tell them to bring a cyclops”

“Sir I can’t leave you with a man who just tried to kill you”

“he didn’t even singe me, just go and call back the others already” he says while doing a shooing motion

“che fine, sir but don’t blame me for anything that happens”Rorko says while walking away

I snap my fingers again but this time with intention of making orthus disappear

“what’s going to happen to me now?”

“Well considering you just tried to kill two acting military officials, when we get back you’ll probably be sent to court for a ‘trial’ and after that off to the Coliseum you go. Which is gonna give me a lot of paperwork”

“Why don’t you just kill me then?”

“I can’t really do that since you’re a suspect”

“can’t you just say I got killed by a monster or something?”

“I could, but you see the civil officials will need someone to blame for this blunder” he says while pointing at the mountain of burnt corpses

[Guess were the escape goat]

Rorko comes back with the goblins from before and with them a 12ft tall cyclops on a leash

[Jesus Christ that’s big!]