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In the adventure guild Rookie Warrior and Apprentice Cleric had finished giving their report of the barbarian women to the guild staff, giving them their written report of what they learned. They are now talking with the other guild members about what they discovered. With Amazon being very surprised that there are 10 of the barbarian women who are even bigger than her.
"How tall are we talking about?" Amazon ask.
"Well," Apprentice Cleric said looking around the room till she spots Druid Girl. "Druid Girl come over here."
"Yes?" Druid Girl ask coming over.
"Can you stand next to Amazon?" Apprentice Cleric ask.
"Sure," Druid Girl said standing next to Amazon", her being a rhea only came up to Amazon's waist.
"Yeah that looks about right. The women I saw are about that size. Amazon you would be about Druid Girl's height compared to the women I saw," Apprentice Cleric said.
"And they're even more muscular then you are. They were pulling fully loaded carts and wore bear skins," Rookie Warrior said.
"Sounds like berserkers. Warriors who enter a fury after a spell or drugs is used by them. They simply don't care if they die as long as they can kill the one who kills them before they die. Had to fight a bandit like that," Heavy Warrior said.
"He broke your sword and I had to save you," Female Knight said.
"They might be giants," Spearman said.
"But they're not tall enough," Rookie Warrior said.
"It depends on the type of giant," Spearman answers.
"How many are there?" Female Knight ask.
"The fort doesn't look that large but it houses over a hundred of those women," Rookie Warrior said.
"As long as they're in the forest the monsters around that area will be low and no quest for awhile to handle any monsters," Heavy Knight said.
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Weeks later -
The tracks the goblins left were easy for Goblin Slayer to track through the forest. The quest is the usual call for help from a farming village, goblins raided the village stealing food, livestocks, and two of the women. The group from the tracks is about 20, the women could still be alive.
Getting to the cave Goblin Slayer found someone had already beaten him to it. Goblin bodies have been impaled on poles, stuff into their buttholes and through their mouths, a shaman and two hobgoblins are among the 34 bodies, with spears being used to impale the goblin children. All of them have been dead for at least a day or so.
Goblin Slayer looks at the ground and found human foot prints all over the ground, has to be around a 100 or so who attack the goblin nest. He check the cave and found it has been strip bare with any loot the goblins had gathered gone. He followed the tracks through the forest which had tracks from a wagon, leading out of the forest and back to the village that make the request.
At the village, Goblin Slayer learned that the women that have been captured by the goblins are all there who were still alive. The ones who rescued the women and wipe out the goblins are a small army of women wearing rawhide or fur armor and carrying axes, spears, and bows, numbering over a hundred. They been traveling around wiping out goblin nests for villagers in exchange for farming goods or seeds.
When they were ask why so many of them are hunting goblins. They answered that the goblins are jokes that are only dangerous because of how much people don't take them seriously. Experienced adventurers do not, as a general rule, accept goblin slaying assignments, primarily due to the low reward involved and high risk involved, as the reward is put up by the peasants being harassed by the goblins, who as a general rule are very poor. They'd much rather accept a job that involves, say, clearing out a group of bandits bothering a major trade route for the much fatter reward that a merchant would put up. Which allows the goblins to do more than they would otherwise get away with.
Goblins owe their success as career raiders in massive part to the fact that, outside of occasional recruitment into multipolar evil armies, they are limited to attacking the boonies and fringes of society, and at that only in intermittent cycles. The aristocracy are barely aware of the occasional frontier hamlets wiped out, and dismiss it as the perils of expanding civilization and lack of vigilance so long as the problem doesn't spread more.
Which the women don't take lightly and attack in large numbers to make sure that they can't be overrun as they outnumber the goblins. They're on a mission to wipe out the goblins and won't stop till they're all dead. Leaving a goblin Slayer to wonder what the barbarian women from the Eastern forest are up to. (1)
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Elsewhere -
Other adventures are also learned of armies of hundreds of barbarian women are going around hunting and killing every monster and dangerous race they come across. They took any job that needed to be done no matter how big or small. For larger villages and towns that have a sewer system, the barbarian women would clear them out of Giant Rats and Giant Cockroaches.
A Manticore that was attacking travelers was hunted down.
Wolves and warg parks have been hunted down.
Basilisks and their larger cousins cockatrices hunted and their nests checked for young and eggs.
A nesting wyvern that's been raiding farms was brought down and eggs taken.
Giant spiders making travel through a forest road not safe, been killed.
Meat eating plants burned or harvested.
A iron mine that's overran by a family of Rock Eaters were hunted exterminated, with the mine being taken over by the barbarian women instead.
Goblins being wipe out wherever they're found, orcs, grolls, trolls, ogres and other races are also being killed off. And the ones who survived flee for their lives.
A number of dragons that have been raiding farms and villages had entire armies worth of barbarian women swarming them like ants. Their bodies butchered and dragon horde taken.
Which is what Chosen Heroine and her party of Sword Saint & Sage stumbled upon. The demon lord has been gathering monsters and creatures to him to fight for him, they were sent to kill a powerful dragon that sided with the demon lord. But by the time they got to the dragon's lair, the battle was already over.
The dragon an old dragon the size of a mountain has been gutted and was half de-scaled revealing bone and muscle underneath. Its head was missing, along with all four of its clawed hands and feet. The wings had been removed and were spread out on the ground, along with all the spikes that had once dotted its spine. (2)
An army of women dress in furs and leather armor are swarming the body of the the dragon. Using axes and oversized meat cleavers, they're slicing and hacking off pieces of the dragon into smaller manageable sizes. The meat is being wrap in cloth and place in wagons that are lined from the bottom and sides with ice. Huge iron cauldrons are rendering the fat collected from the dragon for the recovery of oil. The organs of the dragon are also being collected, even the dung of the dragon from its intestines are being collected as fertilizer.
"I think it's those barbarian women from the eastern forest," Sword Saint said having talk with other adventures about how quests have been drying up thanks to said barbarian women hunting so many monsters.
"There has to be over a thousand of them," Sage said the scene before her reminds her of ants she once watch that we're picking clean the reminds of a hambone of the remaining flesh.
"Come on let's see what we can find out about them," Chosen Heroine said leading her party to the dead dragon and the women butchering it.
A mountain of a woman dress in a bear skin and wearing leather armor walk over to them as they walk. Standing over 9 feet tall, thickly built with muscles. The parts of her body the 3 adventurers could see are rip with muscles but didn't dampen her good looks. Not to mention that she's incredibly voluptuous, wide hips and giant breasts that are bigger than any of the 3 adventurers own or their heads which would be completely be engulfed between them.
"Can I help you?" the giant woman ask.
"We're adventures who were given the quest to slay the dragon," Chosen Heroine said.
"The dragon has already been slain and the horde it had, has been looted. All it took was to just overwhelm it by sheer numbers," the giant woman said.
"But how?" Sage ask.
"We took out the dragon's wings as he was flying and sent him falling to the ground below and finished him off. All it took was one of us cutting into his eye and crawling inside and stabbing his brain," the giant woman said. (3)
"Eeeewww really?" Sword Saint ask.
"Don't care how powerful a dragon is, once you do some brain damage it's over and all that's left is to butcher it," the giant woman said.
"Are you part of the warrior women from the Eastern forest," Chosen Heroine ask.
"Yes we're hunting and taking care of the monsters and other threats," the giant woman said.
"Hunting?" Chosen Heroine ask.
"Yes we're hunting and getting rid of all the threats that we find. Come since we took your quest you 3 can have some dragon meat," the giant woman offered.
"I never had dragon meat," Sword Saint said.
"We're trying to harvest as much meat before it starts to rot," the giant woman said walking to the butcher assembly line that is cutting up the meat.
The adventures followed the giant woman not only to get some rare dragon meat but also information on the motives of the barbarian women. They have the numbers to field hundreds of their warriors at once. They also have the resources to arm all of them. They have heard of them from other adventurers and seeing how they're able to kill a dragon, they're not foes to take lightly.
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Author's Notes -
1 - Seeing how the goblins usually only have to deal with adventurers and aren't seen as big of a threat, the goblins are joke monsters that an army of soldiers could easily wipe out but don't. Which is the big problem for Sword Maiden as the city guard could easily wipe out the goblins but those above her don't see the goblins as a big deal and that adventures can handle it.
Making the whole Water Town a plot that only happen because the joke monsters are seen as a joke allowing them to become a much bigger problem later. Which Sword Maiden knows too well that taking a joke monster as nothing but a joke doesn't stop it from stabbing you in the back.
2 - The dragon is the size of Red Death from, How To Train Your Dragon.
3 - Seeing how big and heavy a dragon would be, having it fall from a great height would seriously harm the dragon. And brain damage will either kill any creature that has a brain or cause it to be unable to move.
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