Capítulo 37: Goblins?

There it was, a purple robe, dark violet hair and slight pointy ears. What cemented the body's status was the symbol of a golden dragon with four claws etched onto the robe.

'What have I done?'

The girl was one of many elves that aspired to leave the forest and see the world as adventurers. What should have been just another day as an adventurer had gone terribly wrong. Her and her party had somehow appeared in this godforsaken place and were constantly attacked by the aboriginals of this place. One by one, her party was killed, and she was the last one surviving until she met up with some survivors just like her in this place.

Before she knew it, she was part of the group and was out hunting, protecting their stronghold with everything she had.

She didn't know how long she had been here but the last thing she remembered from the surface was the crown prince of the Drakos Empire's approaching eighth birthday. Now, she was looking at the dead body of that same crown prince, that was what she thought.

Slowly her fellow companions started surrounding the body, one by one a grave yet deep look passed their faces. Their heart beats slowed as they couldn't believe their eyes. Amadeus watched the group gather with torches. A middle-aged man in leather tunic was in the lead as he looked down on the body. A knight was also there explaining the armoured footsteps.

A magician seemed to be with them as they had hovering light orbs moving alongside them.

Amadeus couldn't see what the knight looked like, but his young voice did give him a faint idea of his age.

"Well, it is the least of our worries, and besides, it's not like anyone outside of us will know about this. We are after all stuck here."

These words seemed to have taken a weight off the group's shoulders as they visibly relaxed.

"Let's just see if he is still alive-"

"Wait!"

The leader suddenly exclaimed as he scrutinised the body,

"There's no shadow."

"What?"

The group looked confused as they all turned to the body. It was true, despite the light from the orbs, there was no shadow. While the others were hesitating, Arrow moved forward and gave the body a slight kick. Expecting some sort of resistance, her leg just went straight through the body and landed on the stone floor.

"Huh?!"

The rest of the group were also surprised as the came closer only to see the illusion disappear. Seeing the body vanish, the group readied their weapons and vigilantly looked around.

"Who or what do you think it was that set it up?"

The leader took out his sword and also looked vigilantly around,

"I don't know but the fact that it could trick all of us, it's not something we can underestimate."

Taking one glance around, a turned towards Arrow,

"Can you see anything?"

Arrow shook her head.

"It's either escaped or it's currently watching us right now."

Some of the cowardly ones looked up and down, trying to see if anyone was still around. Suddenly, Arrow along with the leader looked in one direction. Slowly the group noticed this just before a faint rumbling could be heard in the distance.

"It's the aboriginals, it seems they caught our scent."

Letting loose a few arrows, the group started retreating leaving Amadeus still hung up on the stalactite. He was now interested in what the so-called aboriginals were. This however proved to be a bad idea, because the closer the group of aboriginals got the more of a bad premonition Amadeus got. Feeling something not right, Amadeus dropped down and also ran in the direction the group went. He turned back, trying to see what the aboriginals looked like, but they were too far for Amadeus to see.

Not long after, Amadeus came cross a fork on the road and he entered a random one. Slowly, he could feel himself descending and the sound of rumbling get quieter. Slowing his pace to a walk, Amadeus vigilantly carried on walking forward making his presence as quiet as possible. It was just an endless corridor for Amadeus with no light in sights.

"Where are they?"

Amadeus muttered under his breath as he hadn't even caught a glimpse of either Solaris or Luna. All he could do was continue further into a cave. It was only with this decision when Amadeus noticed the cave walls get smoother and slowly change into actuals stone walls. The path he now walked on was covered in tiles as he started seeing lights up ahead.

Reaching the lights, Amadeus noticed that the hallway continued for quite some time with other hallways intersecting it. Amadeus continued on in his path as he started seeing ladders going up and ladders coming down. It seemed that he entered a labyrinth of some kind. Hearing some noises, he turned only to see an injured Arrow, the leader and the knight run towards him. He looked at them and turned into the opposite direction of them.

The three looked like they had lost some hope until they saw a figure in front. They didn't get a clear look though as the figure started running in the opposite direction from them.

Only one word was left in his head,

'Nope.'

He didn't run away from the three, but seeing their state, he knew that whatever attacked them was nothing to scoff at. It wasn't that he was scared, but he would rather not get involved without knowing who or even what the thing was that brought those three to the state they were currently in. Taking some twists and turns, it only brought Amadeus to the place he least wanted to see, a dead end. However, he didn't stop and get depressed or stop and heroically face the adversities to come. Instead what he did was clench his fist, coalesce some energy and swing it forward.

As soon as his fist made contact, large cracks appeared rippling across the wall only for it to crumble to pieces. Once the dust settled, Amadeus came upon an epiphany, that hitting a random wall was not a good idea. Indeed, misfortunes never come singly. What appeared in Amadeus' eyes were a group of humanoid creatures. Each of them had a pair of large eyes and a long nose, yellow teeth and the body odour of rats mating with cockroaches.

Still there was a slight scent of blood within that pungent smell and small smudges of blood upon them. The first being that came into Amadeus' head was,

'Goblins?'

Yet, apart from the eyes, nose, mouth and smell, everything about them was different. There were no two alike, apart from the various normal ones between them. One would have extremely dark green skin while being the height of two metres, some had the upper body of a goblin while the other half of a boar. They were all different. Looking around, he realised that the earlier commotion had attracted their attention. Seeing their yellow eyes bore down into him, Amadeus laughed to himself and pulled out his wakizashi. Holding it in a reverse grip, he heard some footsteps behind him.

The three had heard the loud sound and came towards it only to realise that they had jumped out of the frying pan and into the fire. Standing next to Amadeus, the three didn't feel shocked about finding about Amadeus' identity.

"It seems like it's the end of the line for me…"

Amadeus heard the leader speaking. Finally, closer to him, Amadeus got a clearer look of him. The man's eyes spoke of experience while his face showed scars cementing them. A large scar ran over his left eye, while another over his nose reaching the middle of both cheeks. A stubble had appeared on his square face while his slicked back hair showed signs of whiteness. He wore a part leather part iron armour over his body and carried a long in both his hands.

The knight had lost his helmet and what had replaced was a rather average face with black eyes and brown hair. His freckled face carried a simple look and an honest smile. Despite being pushed into these dire circumstances, the smile never left his face. Yet that smile looked as crooked as ever,

"Well, it seems like I'll be joining you…"

Lastly, Arrow was standing there scrutinising the place. Despite the hood, a mask covered her face allowing only her luminescent green eyes to be seen. She had her whole body covered in leather, not allowing any exposed parts. She had her bow ready and was just waiting for the other party to attack. She stayed quite unlike her two friends.

Amadeus didn't pay any further attention on them and looked back at the goblins surrounding them. They had slowly started to move closer and closer to the group. Then out of nowhere, Amadeus made his move. Leaping forward, he attacked the closest Goblin which was the dark green one.

Aiming for the head, Amadeus succeeded in slicing its neck only for it to stop midway. Amadeus then felt something tighten around his arm.

"Wha-!?"

The three looked shocked by the sudden change of situation. Amadeus looked down only to catch a glimpse of the dark green goblin's hand grabbing his arm. Feeling the arm tighten, Amadeus pulled out his other arm and showed his palm to the goblin. Directing it at the goblin's face, a ball of fire coalesced in front of his palm,

"Fireball."

A calm voice left his mouth as the fireball shot towards the goblin. Due to the close distance, the goblin barely had time to react once the impact happened. The fireball left a faint trail behind it as it caused a mini explosion on the goblin's face. Feeling the goblin's arm loosen, Amadeus kicked the goblin and launched himself backwards, away from the goblin. Not even for waiting for the dust to settle, the goblin's surrounding them were already attacking. Amadeus had barely landed when he was already surrounded by five goblins. One similar to the one he just defeated and four normal ones.

Seeing their ragged weapons come closer, Amadeus moved his wakizashi to block their attacks only to see an arrow fly passed him and hit the dark green goblin's eyes. The next moment, the knight came with his shield and rammed the four goblins while the leader got his longsword to lop off the dark green goblin's head. Their teamwork was impeccable.

"Well still, fighting next to royalty is an honour…"

Amadeus stayed silent while the knight just laughed,

"Yeah…"

"You two shut up. We have more pressing matters to attend to."

Arrow's voice shut the two up as a serious expression masked their face. Amadeus also turned around and the four put their back to each other. Amadeus didn't trust them yet, but they were not in a situation where they could ignore each other.

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