Elf tells Slayer that the giant creature charging towards them isn’t an elephant, but the One That Stops the Waters: Mokele Mubenbe. They also spot a goblin riding it on a saddle, and Elf quickly takes it out with an arrow to the chest.
While Lizard and Dwarf use a shout and a spell to halt and stupify the riderless dino, Slayer catches a giant rope tossed to him by the Cow and Guild Girls, and uses it to trip up and cause it to fall. Priestess heals its injuries. All in all a nice bit of work, with Slayer informed by what he learned of hunting from his dad.
That night, Elf’s big sis again tries to get her to fully appreciate what continuing to go with Slayer and the others means, considering she’ll outlive them all. Elf assures her sister she’s fine with it; whether Slayer dies in four decades or tomorrow, she wants to be by his side. I love their sisterly chemistry here, initially speaking in elvish, with Elf mocking her sister’s fiancé, and her sister giving her a forehead flick.
Speaking of the fiancé, he’s in the capable company of Lizardman, Dwarf, and Slayer, who drink with him (he’s a lightweight) to celebrate his impending nuptials. Slayer and the others will head up the river through the forest to where the goblin-ridden dino came from, which Slayer believes to be a nest. He’s learned how to think like a goblin, and knows they’re not complete idiots either. The elves have become too carefree, and are ripe for attack.
That very night, Sword Maiden is deciphering the stone tablets and cross-indexing them with texts on hand. She prepares to write a letter to the chief of the elves, as she’s worried there’s a great threat on the horizon that could even destroy the world.
Our goblin slaying crew is concerned with the more immediate threat of the goblin village. At daybreak, Slayer says goodbye to a scantily clad Cow Girl, while the also-scantily clad Guild Girl hides in bed, not wanting him to see her without her makeup. Cow Girl understands, but also wants Slayer to see what she looks like all the time, since every time he leaves it might be the last time she sees him.
The fiancé offers the assistance of the sylphs on their journey up the river, along with two boats: one to carry the party, and another ahead of it that serves as an effective decoy, manned with Lizardman’s dragontooth warriors. The goblins hiding in the woods are caught off guard and give away their positions, and Lizard and Slayer pick them off one by one.
The river takes them, as the fiance warned, “beyond the darkness”, and we see what that means: the woods are littered with the rotting and defiled corpses of far too many elves. Priestess has seem some shit, but even this is a lot. They they come to another “One That Stops the Waters”—a well-built fortification that seves as a dam.
Once the guards are dealt with, Elf picks the lock to the entrance and the party heads in. After the lush pleasantness of the elven village, this foreboding stone dungeon is far more Goblin Slayery in its atmosphere. They descend a vast barrel-shaped vault, then enter a chamber where there are still more corpses.
From the looks of things, the goblins are poisoning the elves water with the blood (and other fluids) of the elves they killed. Elf Archer once again retches at the realization her home is being defiled in this way. Slayer suspects a goblin shaman is at work here, and decides they’ll camp there for the night, after giving the corpses as proper a burial as they can.
That night, Slayer and Elf have a warm and touching scene together that belies the horrible place they’re in. They talk about how this situation has gotten to the Priestess, as they had to throw corpses into the river rather than burying them. He then apologizes to Elf for “it being goblins again.”
Elf draws closer to him and puts her head on his shoulder, telling him it’s okay; she doesn’t want goblins this close to her home, especially with her sister getting married. She insists Slayer get some sleep while she keeps watch, and he agrees, though of course his helmet doesn’t come off.
Elf then notices Priestess trembling in her sleep and calms her with a caring hand. As the curtain falls on this first night beyond the darkness, everyone is still together and safe. All we can do is pray it stays that way, and the party can deal with the goblin threat and head back to attend the wedding.
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