“Shade!” Calie shouted at him as multiple arrows bounced off
her shield, “Where’s that potion?”
“Head’s up!” He calmly called back at her as he pulled out a
grey, thick, potion from his trench coat and tossed it up in the air. Right
before the potion was to fall down onto Calie’s head she lifted up one of her
shields. The potion collided with her shield and she slammed it back down in
front of her blocking a fireball at the last second.
“Hahaha!” She laughed excitedly as the surface of her shield
suddenly turned into jagged stone, “Try and get through me you bastards!” She
screamed at the top of her lungs, inciting every single goblin in that area to
strike out at her.
“Why in the gods’ names are these goblins able to actually
put up a fight?” Rede rhetorically asked as he smited a goblin leaping out from
the trees above them, “Normally this is much easier.”
Shade shook his head at Rede, “Fight now, question later!”
She pulled out a swirling red potion from her coat and handed it over to Gorgos.
“Power?” She asked him as she set one of her large two
handed axes onto her back.
“Power.” Shade smiled at her.
Gorgos grabbed the potion and shot it immediately. As she finished the glass she hurled it at the nearest goblin shattering it on his skull. She growled as her muscles bulged freakishly. She flipped her large two handed axes around her hands and started laughing manically. “DIE!” She shouted as she leapt out from behind Calie’s shield cover, sweeping them through swathes of goblins.
“Where’s Walker?” Rede shouted as he cast healing spell
after healing spell onto Calie and Gorgos.
“Should be behind their lines by now!” Shade told him
smiling, “Think I should give him the signal?”
Calie shoved her shield into a charging goblin, impaling him
on the jagged surface, “Hit it, Shade!”
Shade smiled to herself and pulled out a potion of bottled
light. It was a gorgeous little potion to look at. As his friends fought
valiantly around him she gave the glass surface a light kiss and whispered,
“Don’t fail me, love.” With all of his strength Shade threw the potion as high
up and far back into the goblin horde that she could. “COVER!” Shade screamed
at the top of her lungs.
Walker saw the bright potion fly up above the goblin mass as
he hid out of sight. He immediately grabbed and hurled one of his many throwing
knifes for a collision course with the potion. He turned back around and
covered his eyes with his arm. As his vision lit up for a fraction of a second
he smiled to himself, “Bull’s-eye, bitch.” He smirked as he quickly uncovered
his eyes and pulled out his daggers. The goblin horde was stunned, blinded by
the awesome blast of light created by Shades potion. They had no idea how long
the goblins would stay stunned, so they all quickly made short work of as many
that they could.
While this horde of goblins was significantly stronger than
what they had been used to, they seemed to be just as vulnerable to being
stunned as normal, weaker ones. Calie charged one of the last of the goblins as
they woke up and slammed him against a tree with one of her shields, using her
other one to bash another one sending it flying backwards into one of Gorgos’
swinging axes. The last of the goblins scrambled away as they came back to
their senses leaving the party alone, surrounded by a massive amount of goblin
corpses.
Walker walked up to the rest of them as he wiped his blades
clean, “Not too shabby, eh?” He asked them, “Told ya I wouldn’t miss.”
Rede rolled his eyes at him, “Good thing you didn’t, there
must have been a least a hundred of these guys.”
Calie knelt down over her most recent kill and sighed
heavily shaking her head, “What sort of damnable goblin problem does this town
have…? Makes no sense.”
“What now?” Rede asked her.
“There was no goblin leader-king, in sight.” She grumbled,
“And we just slew more goblins than some whole goblin camps have.”
Walker chuckled, “This was just a hunting party.” He told
them.
“How do you know?” Rede asked him.
“I can speak some goblin tongue. Heard them talking.” Walker
smiled at him.
“You can speak goblin?!?” Both Calie and Rede asked him in
shock.
“Guys, I used to be a crime lord, I can speak a little bit
of ANY language.” Walker smirked to himself as they stared at him still
shocked, “Anyways, there’s no way we’re gonna continue on this quest right? At
least with what they said they were paying us. I think we’ve earned that coin
just by doing this.”
“Agreed,” Shade spoke up as he helped calm Gorgos down from
her battle rage, “If this was just a hunting party there’s bound to be hell of
a lot more in the actual camp. If they want us to clear that out, we need more
pay.”
Rede grumbled, “I hate to demand more pay from our quest
givers, but you guys have a good point. This is ridiculous. Let’s go have a
talk with the lord of that town, hmm?”
“Let’s.” Calie pushed herself up off of the ground and
walked with Rede as they lead the party back into town.
It took them just over an hour to return back to the town
where they had been given this task by the man who lorded over it. They marched
right back up into the mansion that he ran the town from and approached the
lord. “I don’t see a goblin king head.” The lord remarked as the party stopped
in front of him, “The deal was I pay you once you return the head of their
leader.”
“We demand more pay if you want his head.” Rede told him
sternly, “We just slew over one hundred of those rascals and that was just a
hunting party. If you expect us to charge into that camp, which will be full of
gods know how many goblins, we need more.”
“That’s not the deal we made.” The lord calmly addressed
them, “I’m sorry you don’t think you can handle it.”
Rede opened his mouth to speak back up, but Walker quickly
jabbed him lightly cutting him off. Walker took a few steps towards the lord as
he spoke up, “Listen here you bureaucratic piece of shit, you’re either going
to give us the gold you promised at first, pay us more to go clean out that
camp, or we’ll cut off your balls and shove them down your throat…Kapeesh?”
“Gua-“
Calie cut him off, “We just killed one hundred goblins like
it was nothing; Do you really want to try that…?”
The lord glared at them all as he took a deep breath. “We
can’t afford any more coin!” He begged them, “We’re just a small town.”
“Bullshit!” Walker called out, “Goblins follow coin; they
wouldn’t be here if there wasn’t coin for them to take.”
The lord shifted in his chair uncomfortably. His head
twitched slightly in annoyance as he grabbed a bag of coin and tossed it on the
floor, “Take your coin and leave, cretins.”
As Walker picked up the bag Shade spoke, “Fascinating, for
someone with such a large goblin problem you seem pretty quick to send us
away…in fact everyone in this town doesn’t seem too concerned by it at all. No
curfews, no constant guard rotations, no escort system for going out into the woods…”
“Just take your coin and leave!” The lord shouted at them,
obviously getting irritated by their presence.
“You know,” Rede spoke up, “That’s actually a very good
point. You all seem less than concerned about this whole goblin problem.”
“What sort of deal have you worked out…?” Walker asked him,
“That’s the only viable explanation. You and the goblins have some sort of
deal. What is it? You hire adventurers like us to go kill them promising gold
for a much smaller amount of goblins, sending us to our death, and in return
they leave this town alone? Well?”
The lord glared at them with piercing anger, “Take your
fucking gold, leave, and never come back.”
“Hostile are we?” Calie asked, “I think it might be in your
best interest to tell us.”
“I think it might be in your best interest to leave, NOW.”
The lord snapped at her.
“Oh…why?” She asked him.
“Because,” Shade spoke up, “This is all a lie.” She quickly
flicked a small vial out of her coat and it shattered on the ground in front of
the lord causing a plume of smoke to engulf him. As the smoke cleared a large
goblin stood where the lord used to be, “Found our goblin king, lads.” Shade
smiled.
“FOOLS!” The goblin king shouted as he pulled out a large
wooden staff. Behind them more goblins started to pour into the room, “This
shall be your grave!”
Everyone in the party quickly readied themselves for battle,
“Any plan this time?!” Calie shouted at them.
“Let’s just kick some ass please!” Rede shouted as he
quickly summoned a light elemental to help them in the fight.
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