Gathering up her troops, the queen followed Kane's lead as he stood by the minotaur king's room. The groaning as well as the monas had died down from the inside, letting them all know that the king was either resting or engaged in some other activity.
"You're not just gonna charge in there, are you?" The goblin queen asked, concerned for the safety of her troops.
"No…" turning back to her, he held his hand extended towards the massive door. "I want you to go in and distract him so we can get a few hits in before he realizes what's happening."
"And that's your plan?" Perplexed as to how Kane was thinking something so simple would work against the king, the queen couldn't help but question his judgment.
"It's the best option we have without my team," aided usually by his party, Kane was the primary attacker as well as the coordinator for their strategies, but those strategies only worked because he knew the extent of their abilities as well as how to utilize them effectively.
Grunting at his lousy excuse, the queen walked up beside him and gave him an aggravated sideways glance. Closing her eyes shut to calm her mind, she turned around to look over towards her troops.
"Do as he says," with that said, she flipped back around and made her way in through the massive gate.
Upon getting in, the first thing the queen noticed was the slime girl sleeping on top of the minotaur king's belly. Laying on the ground, the king himself was fast asleep, making this a prime opportunity for them to plan their attack and strike.
'The only problem now would be those adventurers heading in here. Even if we manage to kill him, they might just start attacking me and my tribe.' Circling the sleeping king, her eyes kept glaring at the snoring minotaur. His very existence made her feel repulsed by him, and the fact that she had to lay by his side not long after the goblin king was killed, made her sorrow far more vehement.
Taking her knife in her hands, she was subconsciously drawn closer to his throat. With each step forward she could almost hear the cries that he would soon make.
"H-he-help me…" Breaking her murderous trance, a faint voice from her back made her jump onto her feet and tumble back onto the side of the King's face.
Falling to the ground, she caressed her hurt hips before looking in the direction of the plea. That's when she noticed the girl Kane had mentioned. It wasn't her first time seeing her shambled body with bones sticking out of her skin, but now that she knew who she was, she felt some amount of pity towards her even if she was a human.
"I told you not to disturb me," the king's voice trailing in through the back of her ears, made her body jump in astonishment.
Feeling him get up from behind her, she glanced back over her shoulder to meet his reddened eyes. Back on his feet, the blood-skin minotaur huffed out like a bull while staring down at the petrified goblin queen.
"Fuck," that's all she could muster out, and the king was visibly not pleased.
***
Having Margarette turn into Rose, as well as having the others turn into guards, Haruki was rushing in the direction of the scream in his mercenary form. Storing the queen's head inside one of his dungeon pockets, he wanted to make sure that in case it was really Kane who was causing this ruckus, then his and the real identity of his servants remain hidden from him.
"Riley stay hidden with your invisibility, and Asuka stay behind me and assist me and Margarette as necessary," giving everyone their orders Haruki noticed in the distance, a massive door flung wide open.
Not wanting to waste any more time, Haruki opened up a dungeon portal in their path to teleport them right by the gate, and as they passed through it the sight in front of them was astounding to all.
"The hell is happening here?" Swarming the minotaur king was a hoard of dainty goblins with a Gollum-like creature riding between the king's horns.
Its hand firmly grasping the horns, the earthy Gollum pulled and tugged the king in all directions, making him run into walls while the tribe of goblins assaulted him with their flimsy weapons. The once-decorated room supported with numerous stone pillars and an elevated platform serving as the king's seat and bed, was now left in shambles as the humorous scene unfolded before Haruki and the rest.
"Should we help?" Whispered Asuka, unsure whether they should interject or not.
"I'm not sure," Haruki replied as his eyes laid on the goblin queen directing all her troops.
Following her around was a sentient pod made of wood that walked with the help of its roots. The absurdity of the creature only made the situation even more confusing.
"Arnold?" Called Kane's voice from the front, at first Haruki couldn't figure out where the voice came from, however as he noticed the golem waving its hand at him, he was dumbfounded to realize that it was none other than the man they'd come to rescue.
"Oh fuck, it's him, yeah we're helping then," Even as he charged forward with his party in tow, Haruki still couldn't figure out exactly why the goblins were helping him. "What the hell is this guy really?"
Still punching away at the king's bleeding skull, Kane was tearing through his cranium while making sure to spike his hands in case the king tried to grab him.
'I can't let him be on the sidelines any longer, if he rebels against the duchy it will end in disaster.' Deciding to finally take control of Kane somehow, Haruki created numerous clones of himself to keep the minotaur's attention away from Kane.
"Volley of Arrow!" Pulling back on the flaming string of her bow, Margarette posing as Rose unleashed a swarm of fire arrows onto the king's back.
"Swiftwind viper: burn!" Coming out of invisibility, Riley climbed over the king's back before flipping over his head to ride over his giant nose. "Take this, you smelly bastard."
Drawing the flaming daggers back, she plunged them into his eyes. Instantly as the daggers dug in and burned his retinas the king began swatting his hands around as if he was trying to kill a fly, however, flinging herself away with her wind magic, Riley managed to get away in time.
'This seems too easy, how come Kane lost to this bastard before?' The moment Haruki's mind questioned that possibility, Kane jumped off the king's back and got some distance between him and the agonizing beast.
"Why did you jump off?" Haruki asked as he quickly made his way toward Kane.
But giving no reply, Kane's eyes stayed focused on the beast.
Following Kane's eyes, Haruki saw the minotaur take out the daggers from his eyes and let out a deafening howl. As the blood trailing down from all over its body burned up over his skin, the beast kept on howling until his skin itself burst into a ball of flame.
"That's why…" Kane mumbled as the king turned to them with a wide menacing grin.
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