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Goblin Slayer! Volume 1 is the first light novel volume in the Goblin Slayer! series, released on February 15, 2016.
In a fantasy world where goblins are considered the weakest of prey, it revolves around one man known as "Goblin Slayer" determined to exterminate Goblins. What is his story? Why is he so obsessed with destroying goblins? One young Priestess of the Earth Mother is about to find out, when she gets taken under his wing.
Official Synopsis[]
- A young priestess has formed her first adventuring party, but almost immediately they find themselves in distress. It's the Goblin Slayer who comes to their rescue—a man who's dedicated his life to the extermination of all goblins, by any means necessary. And when rumors of his feats begin to circulate, there's no telling who might come calling next...
- - Yen Press
Chapters[]
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: The Fate of some Adventurers
- Interlude: The Gods
- Chapter 2: Cow Girl's Day
- Chapter 3: Guild Girl's Reflection
- Chapter 4: The Mountain Fortress Burns
- Interlude: Guild Girl
- Chapter 5: Unexpected Visitors
- Interlude: The Heavy Warrior
- Chapter 6: Traveling Companions
- Chapter 7: Goblin Slayer
- Chapter 8: Goblin Slaying
- Chapter 9: The Strong Ones
- Interlude: The Hero
- Chapter 10: Dozing
- Chapter 11: A party of Adventurers
- Chapter 12: Over the Goblins' Hill
- Chapter 13: The Fate of an Adventurer
Summary[]
Prologue[]
Once upon a time, in the days when the stars shone far fewer in the sky than they do now...
The gods of light and order and destiny vied with the gods of darkness and chaos and chance to see who would control the world. This struggle took place, not in battle, but with a roll of the dice.
Or rather, many, many rolls. Again and again and again they rolled the dice.
And there were victories, and there were defeats, but there was no resolution.
At long last, the gods tired of dice. Thereupon they created many creatures to be their playing pieces and a world in which to play. Humans and elves and dwarves and lizardmen, goblins and ogres and trolls and demons.
At times they adventure, sometimes gaining victory, other times suffering defeat. They find treasure, become happy, and in the end, they die.
Into this world, there appeared one particular adventurer.
He will not save the world.
He will not even change anything.
After all, he is just another pawn, such as you might find anywhere...
Chapter 1[]
The party sets on it's first adventure!
A battle had just concluded with goblins, the victor being a grimy adventurer with a steel helmet. He had just saved an injured priestess, who asked for his name. The adventurer replied with the name "Goblin Slayer". The events leading up to this meeting began with the young priestess entering the Adventurer's Guild after a life in the Temple, ready to begin her career as an adventurer. After registering as one at the desk, she was quickly recruited by a group of new adventurers who are in need of a healer in their group. She joins the group for their first quest, which is to clear a cave of goblins and rescue the women they abducted.
Inside the cave, the young Priestess got a bad feeling about the adventure, since they didn't prepare much for it. The rest of her party quickly reassured her that they would be fine because they were merely hunting goblins, the weakest of monsters. Priestess, still in doubt, slowed down her pace while being lost in thought and prayer and thus stayed a certain distance back from Warrior and Fighter with only Wizard beside her.
While Wizard chided her to move faster, Priestess heard a noise behind them. Wizard, already irritated with Priestess's behavior, told her that there couldn't be anyone behind them since they were moving in a straight line. But as she turned, she saw goblins behind them and screamed. The goblins managed to dig a tunnel behind the party and ambushed them from behind. The party's Wizard started the offensive by firing an Arrow of Flame and killed the first goblin with it. As she invoked the second flame arrow, she was grabbed by the other goblins and pinned to the ground.
During her struggle with the goblins, Wizard's staff was broken, and a goblin pierced her stomach with a dagger, while Priestess tried her best to keep the goblins from Wizard with her own staff, albeit unable to hit any of the goblins with it. Nevertheless, in this struggle, she managed to pull Wizard away from the goblins and perform a Minor Heal spell on her, while the two front fighters joined the fight.
Warrior jumped between the goblins and his party members and started killing the goblins in front of him. Since he himself didn't have much fighting experience and rushed alone at the goblins, he soon became injured, sustaining a goblin's sword buried in his thigh. Becoming surrounded, Warrior tried to cut his way out of the encirclement, but unfortunately during one of his strikes he hit the cave wall and lost his blade. The goblins didn't miss this opportunity and swarmed him with their crude weapons and struck him down.
Fighter became shocked, seeing her childhood love die in front of her eyes, and after a moment she took up a fighting stance and told Priestess and Wizard to run. Shortly thereafter Fighter attacked the oncoming goblins with a flurry of strikes and kicks. The first and second goblin fell easily, but the third, who turned out to be a hobgoblin, caught her kick and flung her against a wall. The other goblins jumped on her and started beating Fighter mercilessly with their clubs and tore off her clothes. In this chaos she managed to yell at Priestess to run.
Priestess, finally running away from the cave with the unresponsive Wizard hefted over her shoulder, tried to run but quickly fumbled and fell onto the floor with Wizard. Then Priestess realized that Wizard was not responding and foaming blood from her mouth. After investigating the closed wound of Wizard, Priestess was struck with a crude arrow in her left shoulder, and two goblins emerged above her. Fearing the fate to come, Priestess considered suicide on the spot, but stopped herself since the teachings of the Earth Mother forbade it. Instead, she shielded the unresponsive body of her companion with her own.
Then, in the darkness, Priestess saw a light. An adventurer in dirty leather armor and a filthy steel helm appeared. The two goblins left Priestess behind and went to attack this new adventurer, but he killed the two goblins without any effort. After a brief introduction, Goblin Slayer tore the arrow from Priestess's shoulder and handed her a healing potion. Priestess, learning what item it was, suggested that Wizard needed to drink it instead of her, but Goblin Slayer deduced that she had been poisoned and it was too late for her to even consume an antidote. Shortly thereafter Wizard uttered "...ill...e..." to them, and Goblin Slayer obliged by cutting her throat, ending her suffering.
After a brief exchange, Priestess decided to join Goblin Slayer and save Fighter.
Deeper inside the cave, the new party discovered the remains of Warrior, and Goblin Slayer looted a sword and dagger from his body. They did not find the body of Fighter and thus went deeper into the cave. After more fights against goblins, having killed the remainder of the horde, including the hobgoblin and a goblin shaman, they found Fighter used, broken, but alive. Goblin Slayer quickly found a hidden store behind a throne, made of human bones, in which he discovered goblin children.
Priestess, seeing that Goblin Slayer intended to kill them, tried to reason with him to spare the goblin children. After a short exchange of arguments, Goblin Slayer pondered for a second and concluded, "The only good goblins are the ones that never come out of their holes", entering the store and finishing his hunt.
Interlude[]
The gods sat somewhere far away and yet incredibly close and played a game of dice. Illusion had a pretty good day and enjoyed the game herself. Suddenly, she rolled terribly and became disappointed, since even the Gods could not change the result of fate and chance. After Illusion's bad roll, Truth, being as cruel as he always is, used this opportunity to mock and laugh at her, telling her that she was a fool to gamble on a quest full of risks. Illusion didn't talk back to him since she herself had not held back when she had taken on "fate-guided adventurers".
Having thought that the adventure was over and all her adventurers would die, Illusion readied herself to make some new adventurers and try again. Suddenly Truth gave a disgusted grunt, and Illusion delicately turned back to her "lost" adventure, because they both noticed that he appeared on the board.