[{"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-576":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},1311368,1741,"Chapter 576 - 317: The Arrogance of the Strong (2)","i-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-chapter-576",576,"\u003Cp>What gave her comfort was that the other’s movements had paused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She breathed a sigh of relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, the desire for immortality is innate in humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether you’re a stunning prodigy admired by the world or an ordinary person struggling in the mire, you yearn for a longer life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss looked down at the shattered, head almost void of the dark aura in his claw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other’s gaze mixed fear of death with a glimmer of post-crisis hope, as if clinging to the last straw, trying to sell him the so-called \"method of immortality.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss was silent, his grip seemed to loosen slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared into the witch’s eyes, as if scrutinizing the truth of her words, weighing the pros and cons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Megan, the witch, was overjoyed inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The will to survive made her endure the pain, using the fastest pace of speech in her life to persuade desperately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s true! I’ve studied for hundreds of years!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Brain transfer surgery, just find a body that matches yours, and you can constantly reincarnate into new young bodies.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As long as you spare me, I can teach you! We can share this secret!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"By then, you’ll have endless time to explore the essence of magic, to obtain everything you want! Power, knowledge, strength...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Gain immortality, and you’ll have infinite possibilities.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her words were full of temptation, depicting a beautiful picture that was hard for ordinary people to resist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finishing in one breath, she opened her eyes and watched Gauss, trying to catch even a trace of movement deep in his gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So, the portraits on the wall earlier are all past ’bodies’ you’ve replaced? And the little girl in the cellar too?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes.\" The witch didn’t think there was anything wrong, she nodded quickly, like a salesperson under enormous performance pressure. \"I’ve experienced dozens of lifetimes and will continue.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can too.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, disappointingly, when she finished saying all this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss’s eyes were still very indifferent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So indifferent that it made her shiver all over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He... is he really not interested?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is immortality, her most precious secret.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Immortality? I think you’re truly grotesque.\" Gauss shook his head. \"Like a parasite in a sewer.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t you think so, Chief?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss looked up toward the distant woods, his voice not loud, but it carried far with the wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no movement in the woods at first, but under Gauss’s intense gaze, the people inside finally realized they couldn’t hide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the sunset, the village chief, along with a few other villagers, walked out from the grove with heavy expressions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Down below, Aaliyah and the others, who had just dealt with the puppet, looked over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chief?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You knew as soon as we left the village, didn’t you?\" Gauss’s tone was firm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t surprised that the chief and others appeared here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They hadn’t disguised their departure from the village at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So as long as the chief had someone watching them, he would know they had left the village and in which direction they were headed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, from the simple conversation before entering the house, it seemed that even if not everyone, at least some people in the herb village were aware of the witch’s stone house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chief Hodder didn’t answer immediately; his gaze first swept over the filth left by the witch, Megan, then to the broken head held like a chick by Gauss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His throat rolled with difficulty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, he looked at Gauss, with eyes filled with awe and an indescribable bitterness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lord... Lord Gauss...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"We... indeed followed the traces you left.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss shook his head, neither confirming nor denying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So if I kill this monster now, do you have any objections?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss’s gaze fell on them, especially village chief Hodder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The invisible pressure seemed to descend on them along his line of sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hodder couldn’t endure this pressure and fell to his knees with a thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lord Gauss... please... spare Lady Megan.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aaliyah and the others beside them flashed with surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had just heard the conversation between Gauss and the witch during the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Learning that the missing girls from the village were abducted to become her next body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They speculated, thinking the old witch had threatened the villagers for their safety, forcing them to keep the secret and supply her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But didn’t expect these \"victims\" to proactively kneel and request Gauss to spare her, even addressing her with respect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lady Megan protected our village, shielding us from monstrous ravages, granting us spell inheritance... All thanks to her, our herb village has maintained peace until now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if every so often, she has to abduct an innocent person from the village to extend her life?\" Gauss looked at them, increasingly disappointed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although vaguely aware of the relationship between the villagers and Megan, at the moment when it was ruptured and the true face revealed, he still felt a mix of emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What’s wrong with that, sacrificing one life to maintain the safety of dozens of households, the prosperity of the village?\" Chief Hodder cautiously raised his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss opened his mouth, his lips moved, but he remained silent for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"... Lord Gauss?\" Hodder asked softly, anxiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’m sorry, but I cannot agree.\" Gauss shook his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the benefit of the majority, to sacrifice the lives of the few.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t agree to such rational \"sacrifice.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would the girl imprisoned in an iron cage in the cellar agree to being used as a pawn to prolong the village?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More crucially...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I apologize.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will only do what I believe is right.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is, the arrogance of the strong.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss’s tone was courteous, but the content was resolute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t need to waste words explaining to these people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without waiting for further reactions from the witch in his palm and the villagers before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His palm tightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A terrifying force exploded from within, concentrated like a dragon claw!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boom!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The already precarious head exploded like a crisp apple in Gauss’s palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The witch Megan, died on the spot!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hodder’s voice had just spoken out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A warm splash sprinkled on his cheek.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slowly lowered his outstretched arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mind went blank, like the extinguishing of hope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"symbiotic\" relationship with the witch Megan was the village’s biggest secret, known to only a few and maintained over time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To this day, they were accustomed to this sheltered life, like sheep in a livestock pen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stared wide-eyed at Gauss, throat moving, yet lacking the courage to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss’s \"brutal\" image of crushing the head lingered before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was quite afraid now that Gauss, in anger, might also \"squash\" the few villagers present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he was being petty and unfairly critical of Gauss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss merely gave him a glance and then withdrew his gaze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t care what these people thought; he only did what he deemed right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ultimately, these seniors could never become Megan’s \"next body;\" no matter how beautified as a great cause for the village’s continuation, this sword would never fall upon them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seemingly selfless, yet in truth selfish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for acting against them, Gauss had no such intention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At most, they were accomplices, but not to the point of public outrage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the private human experimentation by wizards was openly resisted by the laws of all countries, a notion held by everyone to be exterminated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Gauss’s Adventurer’s Handbook acknowledged it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Defeated Commander Level Demon Mind Shifter *1\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Commander Progress: Defeat 5 types of Commander Level Demons (4\u002F5)\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yes, the witch Megan who just died at his hands was recognized as a demon in the Monster Atlas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the first time Gauss \"killed a person,\" yet it counted towards the atlas tally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even he hadn’t expected this to happen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It showed how \"inhuman\" Megan the witch truly was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gauss felt this wasn’t necessarily judged from a \"good versus evil\" perspective, after all, he had killed bandits and brigands in the past, generally all complete villains, yet they didn’t count towards the atlas species count.\u003C\u002Fp>",1336,"2026-06-05T18:36:49.310Z",1,"novelbin.me","e7de69ccf985a699e2100a86a3df52f7d77e7cb2e09871435c3545e1c8d08f64","i-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-chapter-577","i-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-chapter-575",640,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-am-not-a-goblin-slayer-cover.jpg"]