Relief

But just as the fight seemed to intensify, a loud animalistic roar echoed from the back of the goblin hoard. Silencing and stopping the entire group of goblins.

Jason raised his hand, and the Parthenon party stopped fighting momentarily. Closing his eyes he let out a small grimace as the horde of goblins slowly surrounded the group of 4. The goblin general who was followed by the two goblin magicians walked over to Jason, its heavy footsteps shaking the ground.

The goblin general didn't seem to have any pupils, just pure red eyes, that glared at Jason, with murderous intent.

Of course, they were also surrounded by a huge group of goblins, but Jason was much more worried about the goblin general as it slowly walked through the goblin horde. The goblins let out small terrified squeaks and quickly moved aside to let the goblin general pass through.

The goblin general reached the edges of the circle the goblins made around Jason and the party and slammed his two-handed axe into the dirt while pointing at Jason.

It spoke to Jason in a low rumbling voice

"human, you are a brave one, if you surrender now, I will give you a quick death"

Juno walked up next to Jason.

"and what if we refuse?"

The goblin general spread its arms out

"I rule this part of the forest, no person can escape me and my army"

Juno's eye twitched in anger and she took a few steps forward clutching the handle of her sword.

"then we will just have to kill you here and now"

But a hand quickly caught her shoulder. Juno swiveled around ready to berate the person who stopped her.

Jason looked at her with a small grin. He winked and raised his hand again, this time pointing to the sky.

"any time now"

The goblin general along with the rest of the goblin horde followed Jason's finger, looking up at the sky.

A massive fireball was slowly descending towards the valley, alongside it was a shower of arrows and windy gusts that propelled the projectiles faster.

"behind me"

The entire Parthenon party ran behind Jason, as the entire goblin army panicked under the mass of projectiles incoming. THe goblin general let out a grunt towards both of the magicians and they both raised their staffs and raised up a magic shield big enough for the three of them and a smaller group of goblins to hide behind.

The rest could only hopelessly scramble for cover. As the whistle of arrows echoed through the valley.

The arrows flew faster than the fireball that peppers had launched, Jason wished he could have seen the goblins fall to the massive arrow rain that Hild and Edilda worked together to make. But sadly the arrow rain couldn't discern from friend or foe. Which was why it was up to him.

(5th form)

The rosy aura flew from Jason's sword to his legs and eyes, his perception seemed to slow down and his field of vision also widened as his legs tensed feeling the surge of strength in them.

Leaving a gust of wind behind, Jason ran around the Parthenon party deflecting any arrows that fell towards them. Sometimes he would use a huge sweep to knock a large portion out of the way, other times he would slice them in half and left the split pieces to embed themselves on the ground next to him. Other times Jason would kick them out of place with his feet and once he even caught one while his sword was busy blocking an arrow from hitting Uranius in the face.

The massive fireball that Peppers had spent all of her mana on, her big bomba blast as she liked to call it was slowly descending on the valley.

Lots of dead goblins laid on the ground already impaled by the arrow rain. But there were many goblin leaders who were able to tank the arrows. Jason spotted out of the corner of his eye as he simultaneously knocked 2 arrows out of the sky one with the hilt of his blade and the other with the tip of his sword, a goblin leader with its shoulders covered in multiple wounds arrows sticking out of them. Letting out a loud roar as it grasped a handful of arrows and yanked them out of his shoulder.

The goblin leader turned around and stared at Jason who was busy defending the party. With a furious growl, it charged towards Jason, as it charged, arrows kept on peppering its body. It didn't deter this goblin leader and it continued to push through.

But a loud hissing sound made the goblin leader lookup. A huge fireball about the size of a car bright orange and red with flames collided with the ground sending up a large smoke and dust cloud as the flames spread out in a circle burning the monsters nearby.

Jason could hear Peppers complain from the top of the valley

"aww come on that wasn't a good one, give me some mana potions I wanna try again"

Jason looked up at the sky, there were no more projectiles that were falling.

With his job done, he looked at Juno resting his sword on his shoulder as he looked back at her, with the dust cloud billowing up in the background.

"wanna take the general together?"

A smile emerged from Juno's face and with a quiet nod, she unsheathed her sword and gently swung it.

"it would be my pleasure"

Uranius from the background raised his blood-red axes in the air in slight celebration.

"we'll take care of the rest of them"

And with a joyful chuckle, he took off running through the cloud of smoke and dust, with Swifteye stealthily running behind him.

From the other side of the dust cloud, a group of 10 or so goblin leaders stood up coughing, most of them had been blasted from the sheer impact of the fireball and several of them had huge burns on their bodies.

The goblin leaders looked around to see absolute carnage, many of the goblins were taken out by the arrow rain, they had all condensed into a tight pack when they surrounded the 4 humans. Only around 100 or so goblins had survived the massive AoE attacks.

The goblin general alongside the two magicians looked completely unfazed as the magic shield that was protecting them slowly disappeared as the two goblin mages lowered their staffs.

The goblin leaders looked towards the goblin general for instructions, after all this was the goblin general that was once at their level, but through pure strength and terror had risen up to the level of a general and had united all of them into this powerful goblin nest.

And now this goblin general stood there under the protection of the two goblin mages not lifting a single finger to help the rest of the nest.

A bit of anger rose from the goblin leader, but before they could do anything. This loud voice from behind the dust cloud started to shout

"here we goooooo"

A shirtless man holding two axes burst out of the cloud with a wide grin on his face. Almost instantly Uranius activated his strongest skill

(blood whirlwind)

A bloody red aura burst out of his body, a huge shockwave burst out of his body as bits of dark red energy rose out of his body. The energy started to culminate above and around him, slowly rotating around him.

The goblin leaders let out war cries and ran towards Uranius with their various weapons, Uranius raised one of his axes and threw it straight towards the goblin leaders, with a satisfying thunk it flew into the first goblin leaders head.

With an insane speed, Uranius crossed the distance between the two and simultaneously swung out with his other ax cutting multiple goblin leaders that tried to get close to him as he grasped the other ax handle that was embedded in the fallen goblins skull.

The blood whirlwind around Uranius seemed to grow stronger, the blood of the fallen goblin leader slowly flying up and joining the red energy rotating around Uranius.

A goblin leader took this moment as its chance and leaped at Uranius with its club intending to smash the human into bits just like the rest of them.

But just as he took off pushing himself off the ground, a cold feeling emerged from his back, it slowed the leader down tremendously in fact, its feet touched the floor again and as it tried to raise its hand out to catch itself from falling, he saw a black dagger poking out of his stomach.

The goblin leader only had time to slightly turn his head around, and spot a black-figured man pulling out his dagger while casually flicking it to get rid of the yellow goblin blood on it.

The goblin leader fell to the floor, as the black-figured man disappeared into the shadows.