Book 6- Before the Commonwealth Ch. 4.
Wizard and Wizard boy nodded and went to where Fat Boy was ready to go.
It was a great energy crystal that had runes carved into it, around them various mages, all who had a very specific type of magic started chanting.
This put the soldiers and adventurers around Fat Boy uneasy, for this class of mages was one that, up until recently, was feared and ostracized.
These where Necromancers.
And they chanted a very unique spell, a variant of the drain spell that took life-force from a sacrifice in order to raise undead and the crystal gloved as inside the crystal the 'sacrifices' where drained of their life-force.
Namely red lobsters.
Lobsters where biologically immortal, they could live and grow for centuries if not millennia before succumbing to a rival or deep sea predator. Goblin Slayer had heard this and had told Wizard Boy during one of many conversation during dinner at Slayer Keep.
The young prodigy became inspired by that and immediately had the idea to substitute the usual human or demi sacrifice, since those where the ones with enough life-force, with living lobsters and it worked!
The spell activated and a great aura shot out from the crystal, engulfing the battlefield.
The Skaven stopped for a moment in surprise at this new development, then they were all shocked as the dead Skaven slaves came to life and started fighting the stormvermin and the still living slaves.
"How many lobsters do we have with us?" Goblin Slayer asked.
"About 3.000 pieces. Do you think we will need to deploy the second prototype as well?" Wizard Boy asked, trying not to sound to hopeful.
Oh, who was he kidding, he would jump at the chance to test the second prototype!
"I hope not. But we will be ready for such an event." Goblin Slayer said as he clenched his fist so hard that those around him where unsettled when they heard the leather of his gauntlets almost snap from how hard he was squeezing his fists in anger.
"I did not plan for any goblins beneath this city. Nor did I even entertain the idea that there were other things beneath the earth. I will never be caught unprepared ever again!" Goblins Slayer said with iron determination in his voice.
"There wasn't anything you could have done Goblin Slayer-san, you would have to be all knowing to be have foreseen something like this. And only the gods are like that." Priestess said, trying to comfort their comrade.
"Only a God? Then, I will become a God. And that way nothing shall stand in the way of me killing goblins every again!" Goblin Slayer said and after a moment of shocked silence from those gathered around him, a great roaring laughter erupted.
The armies of Slayer Keep, the allied kingdoms, the elf troops and various guests all laughed like mad upon hearing that proclamation.
Why did they laugh?
Not because they thought that Goblin Slayer could not do it, but because they just couldn't imagine how'd he top becoming a god after achieving said thing.
Why even the gods themselves laughed with merriment at the fact that someone had proclaimed to become all powerful, so he could use supreme power in order to kill the most lowliest of evil creatures in the world!
Drugs could not provide such humorous euphoria as that sentence.
As the laughter from the defenders echoed through the battlefield, it was heard by the skavens, who were fighting off their undead slaves.
As they heard it, the rat men felt their blood run cold.
What kind of mad creatures laughed like that on such a bloody field of butchery?
"C-crazy man things!"
"Yes! Yes!"
"Unleash big things, now, now!"
The Skaven General said and from the hole sin the ground, rat ogres, and giant sized Hell pit Abominations( chimeras of countless random creatures stitched together, forming a grotesque giant like creature the size of giant came from beneath the ground) Thousands of ogres and hundreds of Abominations.
They all ploughed through the great field of hundreds of thousands of Skaven slave zombies and crushed, slashed and bit their way towards the defenders.
"Activate Little Boy." Goblin Slayer said as the creatures made their way towards the walls.
Wizard nodded and gave orders that the Lobsters that where fully drained where to be taken out of the crystal tank and as soon as they were taken out they started growing.
The lobsters where robbed of hundreds if not thousands of years of their lives, and since they never stopped growing, what was once palm sized, became a forearms length by the time they were placed in Little Boy.
Which was just a modified version of the gunpowder powered bazooka that Dwarf Shaman created, only their payload was not grenades of flame bombs, but rather a small plane designed to transport the still growing lobsters
"Fire!" Fighter ordered the Little Boy battery, and as one they launched their rocked like transport that carried the still growing lobsters, at the Rat Ogres and Hell pits Abominations.
They were the size of a small child when they were launched, a third into their short flight they were the size of an elephant, half way through they were now the size of a great whale, and by the time they reached their target zones, they dwarfed the hell pit abominations, and acting on instinct, the still growing lobsters attacked them and started devouring the abominations and the slaves.
They left the zombies alone, they smelled bad, so they avoided them, which was a good things since the zombies could not penetrate the shell of the giant kayju like lobsters, so they returned to attacking the skaven.
"What happens when those things run out of skaven to kill?" Forest Princess asked.
"They'll eventually grow so big that their bodies will collapse under their own weight." Wizard replied, and any fear that Forest Princess had for her kingdom was partially settled from hearing that.
But at the same time she was worried that such weapons where in the hands of Slayer Keep, and only in the hands of Slayer Keep.
"And when where you intending to share the existence of such weapons with the rest of us?" Forrest Princess said pleasantly, but there was an edge to her voice.
"During the gifting part of your wedding." Goblin Slayer replied as a matter of fact, which caught Forrest Princess of guard.
"What?"
"I said: 'during the gifting part of your wedding."
"Y-you would just give us weapons like this?"
"Yes, they are ideal for dealing against goblin threats, also we planned on leaving the plans and several advisers here and in the High King's court, so that you both could start production on your own supply of Fat Men and Little Boys." Goblin Slayer replied and this left Forrest Princess speechless.
She soon recovered however and then turned back to her little sister.
"I see why you keep hitting this madman frequently."
"Don't I know it, my foot's starting to get sore from all his shenanigans." High Elf Archer said and the two sisters shared a giggle, it seemed like they were on the path to reconciliation.
The Goblins where dead, the skaven where being slaughtered by zombies and giant lobsters, and two sisters where reconciled.
All in all it seemed to be very successful reception.
BAAAAAANNNNNG
But there was always the unwanted wedding crasher.
"What was that?" Goblin Slayer asked as for some reason fear started to overwhelm him.
"T-that was the 13th toll of the Skaven's Bell of Lost Souls…..Looks like they found a way to make it sound 13 times once more." Dwarf Shaman said as great beads of sweat came from his brown. Great dark beads of sweat.
That 13th toll of the bell had frightened him so much that he was now sweating blood.
This unnerved the battle hardened warriors around him
"What does that mean?" Priestess asked din worry.
"That we killed to many of them. When enough death is gathered, the skaven can toll the bell a 13th time. And then…he comes." Dwarf Shaman said and up above them a great explosion was heard as a tear in reality spread in the sky.
From it a great light emerged.
But it was not a beam of light, it was an eye, one great massive eye peaking trough reality, then a great screech was heard, one echoed by the skaven on the battlefield as a great clawed hand, one the size of a city emerged from the tear.
The Great Horned Rat, the Devourer God of the Skaven had arrived.
And he was hungry!
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