Chapter 27: Drooling over eyecandy (II)
Phil rushed in with his dagger in hand. He slipped it, in-between the neck of the goblin. In that brief moment, the goblin tensed its muscles, making it difficult for the dagger to penetrate into the skin. Instead, he was viciously flung back and onto the wall.
"Phil!" I yelled. This was no walk in the park. These five buff goblins were a whole different class in their way.
"Explode! Explode! Explode!"
The sounds of continuous explosions from the magic stones resounded in between the three goblins as I threw magical balls at them. Smoke covered all three of them, and in an instant, a broad ax swung from the side, splitting apart the smoke.
"That wasn't strong enough!" Phil got up and knocked an arrow and fired. Each arrow struck a vulnerable spot that the armor could not cover.
The goblin screeched in rage and pounded its chest like a gorilla. Bulking up, the goblin threw the ax towards me. Just barely dodging the ax that was thrown towards my head, my feet slipped and got caught on a small hole in the ground.
Stumbling forward, I fell face flat onto the floor. "Ugh." I groaned. The pain shot through my whole body.
"Berry!" Phil called out in desperation.
I turned over, and a loud thunk was heard right next to my face. A large ax was embedded into the ground, and it sliced a bit of my hair. I gulped. Holy cow, I almost died there. This fighting business was definitely not my specialty, but that did not mean I would die here and now.
Pushing myself off the ground, I rolled away and avoided getting punched in the stomach. Each time I moved, I activated a barrier around me. Even though each barrier was broken quickly, it gave me a couple of seconds to dodge out of harm's way every time one broke.
Bloodied, Don leaped out from the side and pushed his dagger into the goblin's eyes. The goblin roared and thrashed around in pain. His hands swung from side-to-side in a desperate attempt to grab onto Don, but Don slipped out of the goblin's grasp.
Something unexpected happened before my eyes, Don's figure split up into multiple shadow bodies. I could feel the tense pull of magical energy around Don and the goblin. Each one of Don's clones jumped forward, slicing the goblin into little pieces with his small dagger.
I was shocked at how Don was able to use magic illusion. Then it hit me, maybe he too had magic of his own when he came to this world.
I don't know how he was doing it, but the goblin fell onto its knees. With a final turn, Don stabbed the goblin in the other eye. With a thump, the first of the five goblins fell down dead.
"How?" I called out, confused. It didn't make any sense. Was it possible for a dagger to cause that much damage?
"Poison and skill," Don replied, and he bounded forward towards the next goblin.
My eyes sparkled at the skill that was displayed before me.
"Move!" Phil growled.
I took a step back, and both the goblin and Phil came rushing by. They were fighting a heated battle among each other, trying hard to get the upper hand. Even Don was putting a couple of punches in as well when he got the chance.
Where was the other one anyways? I glanced around and saw the third one fighting with a group of women and children. They were easily battered away as if they were annoying gnats.
"No!" I yelled and threw a red and blue magic stone. The blue flew towards the grounded women and children while the red flew towards the goblin. "Barrier! Explode!"
Kaboom!
The fireball was three times more powerful than a regular level E Magic Stone. It was a level D magic stone that I had saved for a special occasion.
Running over to check if they were alright, she noticed that blood was spilled all over them. They were heavily injured. Quickly picking out a level D magic stone, this time, a green-colored stone was in my hands. Squeezing it, I called out "Activate Healing."
A bright flash of green light appeared around me. I did not have enough red potions to hand to everyone. I honestly only carried two. Warm light could be felt in the space inside the barrier that protected the people. I placed the magic stone in the hands of the child and turned towards the goblin.
The smoke cleared, and the muscular goblin wearily stood back on its feet. Horrible burn marks were left all over its body and face, but even still, it did not phase the goblin at all. Instead, it brought it into a full rage.
"Damn goblin! You are going to die today!" I ran out of the barrier, already ice magic was forming in both my hands into a claw.
I ducked the oncoming attacks from the goblin. I was not going to let this ugly goblin win. My life was at stake. No demon lord or a beefed-up goblin was going to kill me today. With my resolution resolved, I furiously dug my icicle claws into its side.
The claws finally pierced through the thick armor. The goblin roared and swung, its footsteps faltering, making it stumble sideways. When the goblin opened its mouth to screech, I spit out a red magic stone into its mouth.
"Explode!"
A loud explosion of fire burst in the head of the goblin. Black and green goblin blood splattered onto my face and on my hair. Yuck. I gagged and spat.
Pulling out my ice claws, the claws once again broke. Was it because the icicle claws and sword weren't sharp enough, is that why they break so easily?? I glanced down at my hands. I noticed energy slowly trailing from my body towards where the broken icicles were. It was already starting to form another claw-like weapon in its place.
Phil killed off the third goblin without much trouble, but he was finally out of breath. The battle was too intense for Phil to continually attack the goblin at his speed. He was lucky that he was able to slip his sword into the chink of the armor and kill the goblin in one hit.
Phil's grandmother was having a heated battle of her own. She was fighting two buff looking goblins simultaneously. With each strike she punched, a large dent formed in on their armor. With relentless attacks, she pursued her prey.
Ten strikes to the helmet causing temporary blindness from the rattling of their brain, twenty blows to their gut until they spew up blood, and finally with a single hit to their heart and the goblin fell over dead. That was indeed a one-sided battle.
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