[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-am-not-a-goblin-slayer":3,"chapter-i-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-i-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-chapter-126":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I Am Not A Goblin Slayer",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1311228,1741,"Chapter 126 - 117: Altar","i-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-chapter-126",126,"\u003Cp>The light inside the church was dim, barely illuminated by a few beams squeezing arduously through the tall, slender windows on either side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stained glass windows that once depicted holy relics had long been shattered, leaving behind hollow gaps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cold wind poured in, swirling the floating dust and mouse fur, and even the beams of light that should have been as clear as water were tarnished with filth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this nest of Ratmen, even sunlight was dirty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss stepped on the sticky, hard-shell ground beneath his feet and couldn’t help but feel a bit disgusted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he didn’t show it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These are all part of the adventurer’s life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exploring demon nests, whether in abandoned buildings, deep caverns, or other dark corners, never aligns with cleanliness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, a person with severe cleanliness OCD is destined not to be an adventurer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze swiftly scanned the filthy hall and quickly locked onto a stone stairway entrance on one side, seemingly leading to the underground depths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Squeak, squeak, squeak!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only a few startled little mice scurried away in panic at the entrance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two arrived in front of the heavy wooden door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the door was tightly locked and didn’t respond when pushed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this were a properly equipped adventurer team, this would be the time for an experienced wanderer to step forward and display their unlocking skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, neither of them were wanderers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, they could only...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please step aside for a moment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss gestured to Aaliyah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he took out the heavy and sturdy Unbreakable Staff from the storage pouch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under Aaliyah’s slightly surprised gaze, he took a deep breath, mustered all his strength, swung the metallic staff, and smashed it hard onto the center of the door panel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boom!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The deafening roar echoed within the empty church.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wood fragments flew!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The door panel, already in disrepair, groaned painfully at the frame connection under this thunderous blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire door shook violently, as if it were about to fall apart in the next moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss kicked the edge of the door panel again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thud!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wooden door, overwhelmed, collapsed inward with a puff of choking dust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Done.\" Gauss indicated to Aaliyah from a distance that she could come over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You... have quite some strength?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s okay, I usually pay attention to exercising,\" Gauss casually replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aaliyah looked at the twisted and deformed, completely ruined door panel, then turned to look at the staff in Gauss’s hand, which seemingly should be a casting medium, and was momentarily at a loss for words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, is this power just mastered through exercise?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The longer she spent with Gauss, the more she felt he was unlike a traditional mage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss looked towards the passage, thought for a moment, and kicked a panicked little mouse into the dark staircase depths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He listened closely, confirmed there was no movement below except for the rustling of fleeing mice, and then stepped into the deeper darkness with Aaliyah, one ahead of the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Light Spell!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tip of the staff instantly lit up with a soft white light, dispelling the dense darkness before them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cold, solid stone walls revealed their contours under the glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss and Aaliyah cautiously moved forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To prevent triggering traps, he specially activated Insight Skill and Mage’s Hand, carefully inspecting all the way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, they were never attacked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that the air seemed to become more turbid, and a bloody smell drifted into their nostrils.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Be careful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After descending the last stair, the cellar appeared before Gauss’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This underground space was wider than expected, evidently large enough to accommodate a multitude of Ratmen, yet...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the cellar seemed extraordinarily spacious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other than dead mice on the ground, there were no other living creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Have they hidden away? Or have they fled?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss stepped on the mouse corpses, making an unpleasant \"splat\" sound, continuing to advance cautiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, his heart was filled with alarm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following his intuition, he looked up swiftly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several Ratmen with relatively small builds, whose claws flickered with eerie green light, were clinging to a giant, long-abandoned metallic chandelier frame overhead like bats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the green light in their claws had already formed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sizzle!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several large blobs of pungent acid-smelling dark green viscous liquid poured down from above!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hiss!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss reacted extremely fast, dodging sideways in an instant. Aaliyah also simultaneously retreated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the cellar space was already narrow and cramped, inevitably splashing quite a bit of corrosive acid onto them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The corrosive acid contacted the defensive protective field Gauss had preemptively invoked, releasing wisps of acrid white smoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Luckily, under the defensive protection, both were unharmed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Magic Missile!\" Gauss pointed the tip of his staff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A missile precisely hit the fragile, rusted part connecting the chandelier to the stone wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The metal chandelier, along with the Ratman caster hanging on it, crashed heavily to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several Ratmen were thrown into complete disarray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before they could regain their senses, Gauss drew his rapier and killed the Ratmen on the ground one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Total monsters killed: 411\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An Apprentice-level Ratman caster?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss felt a bit surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A small Ratman clan, having both cavalry and apprentice-level casters, so well-established?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, how did these Ratmen master tricks?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did they rely on the spellbook to explore and learn on their own, or was it an instinctual awakening from deep within their bloodline?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On both sides of the cellar passage, there were rows of dark, silent rooms.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss’s Light Spell shone into them, finally revealing his targets in the room, those short, common Ratmen with crimson eyes lighting up densely in the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dense arrows shot out from the shadows of the room like a sudden rainstorm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They clattered against the bodies of Gauss and Aaliyah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You step back first, use the Entanglement Technique if needed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss instructed Aaliyah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, he took out a large bag of oil from his storage pouch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His arm exerted force suddenly, tossing it accurately into the room packed with Ratmen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Flaming Arrow!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Flaming Arrow streaking with orange light shot in, igniting the oil with a roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boom, boom, boom!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flames exploded instantaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Orange-red tongues of fire rose, turning the entire room into a churning sea of fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many Rat shadows twisted, rolled, and screamed in the flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several Ratmen engulfed in flames tried to escape from the room, but Gauss kicked them back in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, his magic wand surged with light again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Magic Missile!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several missiles howled into the sea of fire, triggering even larger explosions in the boom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rat Slayer*1\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rat Slayer*1\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rat Slayer*1\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Text prompts continuously flashed before Gauss’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These few spells were the most efficient killing spells Gauss had ever used.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the dust settled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Total monsters killed: 432\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only 21? Gauss quickly calculated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although such a simple strike killed 21 Ratmen, he was very satisfied with the result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But 15 Ratman cavalry, 4 Caster Apprentice Ratmen, and 21 common Ratmen only amounted to 40.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where were the other Ratmen in the cellar nest?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He continued deeper along the passage, checking each empty or charred room on both sides one by one, still finding nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only dead silence and an increasingly thick stench of blood and sourness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, he reached the end of the passage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss’s gaze swept over the last extraordinarily large room, which seemed to be a sunken, long-abandoned altar area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon seeing the scene in the room, a visceral sense of discomfort surged in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Corpses of Ratmen, giant rats, and other indescribable human or animal bodies, shattered entrails, and decaying plant roots soaked like desecrated offerings in a bubbling, pungent dark green viscous pus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pus emitted an aura of death and ominousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at the edge of this filthy altar, an exceptionally old Ratman elder stood there silently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turbid rat eyes pierced through the darkness, emotionlessly fixating on Gauss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, the Ratman elder’s shriveled lips moved, unexpectedly uttering words in a clear common language.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lord Vesperilia... will be watching you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the words fell, it leaned back without hesitation, with almost frenzied devotion, its entire body sinking into that pool of bubbling dark green pus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, all that filthy pus, along with all the corpses and debris within it, vanished without a trace in front of the two, as if swallowed by some enormous invisible mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the center of the dried-up pool, only a scale rapidly fading to pale remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss and Aaliyah looked at each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What just happened?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the completely silent, now only scorched with rat corpses and stench of the cellar, doubt rose in their hearts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shouldn’t this commission be considered complete?\u003C\u002Fp>",1449,"2026-06-05T18:36:35.127Z",1,"novelbin.me","de5232de1dc09936d1c5d74309ca81bccb9f7f1b0011a14d062479396461627c","i-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-chapter-127","i-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-chapter-125",640,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-cover.jpg"]