Starting My New Life As An Adventurer
Escapees

"Purghh..nghh..." Ooki who was lying next to grandfather woke up.

"Master... Rondo..." With all his might the ooki crawled closer to grandfather.

"Ah... You're still alive, yeah..." Grandpa spoke with blood all over his body.

Ooki was shocked to see everything. He finds himself impaled and his grandfather is already on the verge of his death.

"What's going on... What's with your whole body, Mr. Rondo."

"The goblin's killing me... But they don't seem to let me die so easily... Uhuk... Thank goodness you survived ooki." said grandfather.

"Let's go sir, it's not safe here." Say ooki while pulling grandfather's hand.

"No need...." Grandpa said with short breath.

"Ooki, please tell Hikaru and Kiara that I love them."

"Ohukk... Tell them I'm sorry I can't accompany them anymore..."

"Mr Rondo What did you say. We'll both be safe!" Ooki reassured grandfather.

"Ah... Maybe this is too soon but tell Hikaru happy 10th birthday. Take this, it's his birthday gift." Grandpa handed him the sun-shaped necklace he always wore.

"Mr Rondo...." Ooki looked at grandfather and began to understand.

"Go away, leave me here." Grandpa let go of Ooki's hand at him.

He cried lamenting what happened to Grandpa. Can't be saved. The goblins tortured grandfather quite badly but did not kill him. They just let him die by himself.

Ooki walked step by step leaving grandfather while covering his wounded stomach by walking limp and his gaze began to blur. After continuing to walk in the middle of the night the village lost consciousness and fell unconscious in the middle of the street.

....

We ran for more than a day. Even when it had come this far the goblins were still chasing. The hunger we felt and the anxiety that haunted us.

We are currently running towards the nearest town from the village. Led by Kenzo we walked through the forest. At first there were about 400 people who ran away with us.

Dozens of people were caught goblins and several others were lost. Currently there are only about three hundred people left who are with us.

We did not have time to collect food. Only had time to pick up the fruit seen during our escape and drink from the river in sight.

"Kenzo, how long are we gonna be?" Said a father who came with us.

"A few more hours, hold it all up!" Answer Kenzo.

The distance from the village to the city that we will travel is actually only a day walk

That is if we use the regular road. Right now we are taking a much longer and more dangerous jungle path. Just one reason we or actually the reason Kenzo chose this route. Because the goblins are chasing us.

The reason we were still able to run from those goblins until now was because we took the forest path. If we take the usual path we will be easy to see and easier to catch. All this time we ran while hiding from the goblins chasing us.

Although many of us got caught and ended up there.

"Kenzo! The goblin army is on our left!!! And there are so many!" Shouted one of the young men from the left side of our line.

We caught! This large horde of goblins is right next to us. Prepare to catch us.

"Everybody who can fight moves to the left! Kids, parents and women keep running. Let us distract them." Speak kenzo while directly moving to the left row.

The young men and women who ran with us moved to the leftmost row. Taking out the weapons that are on them or for those who do not carry weapons only takes wood as a weapon.

"I'm coming too!" I said while holding my katana.

"Hikaru, don't do anything dangerous! You're still a child." Kiara said to hold me back.

"Trust me, brother Kiara, I promise I will return safely." I immediately left Kiara without letting her return my words.

I'm moving to the left, they're having trouble holding those goblins. They said it would be a distraction. But what I saw from their faces was like they were ready to be live bait.

Of course I don't want to die, and I want to save them all.

I darted into the middle of the battle and instantly activated my skill.

I learned this from the time Yuki left. The combination of the wind slash I learned as well as my ouroboros black fire skill. A black fire slash that could hit the enemy from afar.

"Unique skill ouroboros, Hell Slash!

My black fire slash hit the many goblins that attacked us. Everyone who was fighting was shocked to see what I was doing and they fell silent for a moment.

"Don't just shut up! Help the boy!" Kenzo said to wake them up.

"They can't chase us anymore! Let's go." I said to all of them.

"Let's go" Kenzo directed everyone and left the forest that had been burned by my black flames.

We caught up with those who ran first. I met Kiara and of course she was mad at me.

After a long escape we finally reached the nearest town from the village. Georgetown, our village is very well connected to this city. The leader of the city's nobility was also well-known, Viscount Abby George.

"Stop there! Who're you! " When we got to the city gate, we were dismissed by the gatekeeper.

Kenzo came forward and spoke.

"We are from Rondo village. Our village was attacked, let us in."

"Rondo village, wait a minute I'll ask the mayor."

Said one of the soldiers.

We wait before the gate hoping for kindness from the mayor of this city. After a while the soldier finally came back.

"The mayor has heard the news, you may enter. We also prepared a place of rest and food for you." Said the soldier.

"Thank you very much." We walked into the city in dirty, hungry clothes.

We entered the hall prepared for refugees like us. We were able to take a shower and we were also given proper food. While we were eating the mayor came into the hall with his bodyguards.

"Are you from Rondo village, welcome to my town." The mayor came in and greeted us.

We all rushed to our feet intending to pay respect to him.

"No, no, sit down. Finish your food first. I just came to see how you guys are doing." The mayor asked us to sit down.

"I've heard the news. I'm sorry for the incident that happened to your village. Rondo touji is a good person and he also helped this city when we were in trouble. Take as long as you need here." said the mayor.

"Thank you mayor, my Kenzo representative from the village thanked you."

"Yes, and where's Rondo? I don't see him here." The mayor looked at us all.

"We were separated from him, in fact we were scattered as we ran away from the village." Kenzo said sadly.

A soldier ran up to the mayor saluting and whispering something to him.

"Oh sorry for everything I have to go first, it looks like we're getting additional refugees." Speak to the mayor and then leave.

The new refugees came, and thankfully it turned out that they were villagers from our village. We asked them and it seemed like they were choosing the forest route like us. But unfortunately not many of them can survive to this place.

The first came only a dozen people. But every few hours some of the refugees from our village managed to survive and come to this city. The city of Georgetown currently hosts four hundred refugees from our village.

....

Turn to the town hall from Georgetown. Currently all employees are busy registering refugees and preparing shelter for those who have just come.

"Mayor, sixteen refugees are coming again." Said a soldier.

"Let him come in, accept everyone who needs to be saved." The mayor gave permission.

"Are you sure Mr. mayor" the secretary standing next to him questioned the mayor

"Look, our city's finances are more than safe to help others." The mayor's words appeased his secretary.

"But we should already be able to talk about the maximum number of refugees we will receive in our city." Answer the secretary.

"That's the problem we'll talk about later, right now our top priority is to save as many people as possible." Answer mayor.

"I also heard reports that there were a lot of runaway villagers who were separated while heading here and some were lost and are still out of town. What do we do?" Ask the secretary to change the subject.

"Command some search squads to rescue them! Also bring a doctor if only a runaway villager was injured while lost."

"Okay, mayor." His secretary saluted leaving the mayor and immediately ordered their city search force.

....

We've been here for three days now and the number of refugees in the city is eight hundred.

It has been heard many times from the city soldiers that the Horde goblin again attacked the villages around our village. They talked about the destruction of our village which is the largest village around that makes the goblins can attack the surrounding villages freely without fear of reinforcements from other villages. Even the Horde goblins this time attacked several villages at once. In the three days since we got here, it was reported that Deuce had destroyed ten villages. But no refugees from the village came to this city. Most likely they are on the run from goblins and will arrive tomorrow or in the next few days.

It will be as bad as this goblin disaster. Deuce, who until now had kept ordering his goblins to attack other villages relentlessly, has brought these times into the refugee incident that will happen soon.