Author: Kagyu Kumo
Illustrator: Kanntuki Noboru
The series centers on a man who desires to become an "adventurer," but insists on only killing goblins. The story begins with a female priest who has just joined a party, but quickly gets in trouble. She is saved by the man known as the "Goblin Slayer," a man who is ranked Silver (third highest) in his local guild in subduing goblins. In the story, he says, "I won't save the world, I just kill goblins." After hearing rumors about him, a female elf approaches him with a request.
Spoiler for Small segment I translated from the novel because I hate you guys, except Solace because he scares me:
—The man before her, who was he?
The young girl thought he was the same as those goblins, no, he was a monster with an even more mysterious origin.
The man's equipment, temperament and behavior was too strange.
「……Excuse me, you are……」
The young girl asked while enduring the fear and pain.
「A Goblin Slayer.」
—He was a slayer, what he hunted wasn't dragons or vampires, but the weakest monsters, goblins.
If it was as usual, hearing that answer, she'd had found the name funny and ridiculous. Now, however, she didn't think that way.