Ouch

“W-what the hell was that!?”

Ena had awoke about a few hours later. Her body was aching as she struggled to get back on her two feet. The moment she was sure she can stand, the elf priestess looked back up to the Hills of Autuo.

“D-did that hobgoblin…send me flying!? Unbelievable!!”

Ena put her hands together and summoned a massive gust of wind that carried her all the way back to the top of the hill in a matter of seconds. She then stomped all the way to the front of the door and channeled all her magic into her right fist.

“You disgusting creature…GET OUT HERE!”

With one punch she smashed the wooden door to pieces. Inside the house was the hobgoblin who was lazily resting on a rocking chair. At first, he looked shocked that his front door was broken into but then his face relaxed and looked more exhausted when he realized it was Ena.

“It hasn’t even been an hour elf!” 

The hobgoblin grumbled.

“Get the hell out of my house before I send you packing with broken ribs!”

Ena huffed in response, a dark energy like a raging flame began to surround. She looked less like an elf and more like a surreal monstrous being, but the hobgoblin still showed nothing more than a relaxed expression.

“To think that a hobgoblin…a disgusting, fat, and smelly hobgoblin would dare touch someone as grand as me…!”

“I don’t know why you’re mad, you’re the one who came to my house looking for fight.”

“If you think you are going to get away with humiliating me like you did—then think again!”

Ena threw her ups in the air and released a flood of wind that equaled in strength to a hurricane. The house was getting wrecked as the wind broke through the walls, floors, and smashed all the items and appliances. The hobgoblin got up and began snarling.

“Are you serious!?”

“Take this!”

The elf priestess then channeled the wind and created a blade of dark edges and white scriptures written in the elven language. Not even touching the hilt, Ena was able to make it move with the wind itself and threw the sword at the hobgoblin like lance.

“As the Blade of the Sky pierces your rotten flesh—beg to the gods that you will reincarnate as a pure being! Now suffer in the most—“

But the hobgoblin smashed the blade with his own fist before it could even pierce him. The fragments of the blade scattered across the floor and then disappeared into fog.

“…Huh?”

The magical aura that surrounded Ena’s body vanished and the elf priestess stood where she was with a face covered in sweat and eyes widened in complete disbelief.

“T-that…was my most powerful spell—“

“ I told you…”

The hobgoblin then stomped over to Ena and picked her up easily as if she was a trash bag.

“H-hey! You nasty creature! What do you think your—“

“I told you…to get. The hell. OUT!”

With all his strength the hobgoblin tossed Ena into the sky, making her fly miles and miles away from the house. The elf priestess screamed in absolutely terror as she soared through the air and in a matter of seconds landed back at the bottom of the Hills of Autuo, crashing into the dirt and kissing it with her face.

“…Ouch.”

And so, Ena Shaharice first mission as an adventurer ended in failure. But she would not let anybody know of that.