Chapter 12 (Goblin Noble)

Six minutes had passed since we split up, we had been walking in alert, waiting for goblins to come at us, but none came. We had run into a dead end, only a empty open chest and one dead body next to it, a soldier.

'What the fuck, why was he alone?' Alex

'It seems the chest was a trap, look' Jake

We turned the body completely over and needles covered the whole soldier's face. We all fell back and just looked at the body, then to each other. This whole cave was a trap, we started jogging to where the paths had split hoping to rendezvous with the soldiers, and that is when we heard screams and bullets being fired then finally coming to a stop. We started to run a little faster, and that is when we encountered a dozen goblins armed to the teeth coming from the path that the soldiers had went.

"prepare for battle, this one is going to be a little difficult" John

Looking at the goblins info, they were all rank F and one was F+ {Goblin Low Noble F+} {Goblin Noble Guard F} They were wielding swords and spears, the noble had iron armor throughout his body except for his head. Mark and Chris loaded the looted arrows, and shot them to the head, taking down two goblins. That is when they began to sprint towards us.

Hendricks got into the front and yelled 'Lion's Pride Roar, it was his first skill that he had received for being our tank and taking most of the damage from enemies. The skill boosted his defenses by 15% and got the attention of three goblins, whom were then shot in the head by Chris and Mark. I went in, and dealt with two goblins, using the sword to cut off one's arm and the others head off cleanly. I then proceeded to finish of the other goblin, leaving five left including the noble. Jake had moved fast like the wind behind two goblins and sliced both their heads off, he had gained a powerful skill, {Double strike F+}. Alex killing one goblin with ease, the only one left was the noble, with anger in his eyes, he ran towards us. His body began to show a red aura and attacked Hendricks. But what we did not know what the aura meant, hurt us deeply. He had broken the shield with his sword and sliced through both shield and his left shoulder, going through all to his heart.

'Nooooooooooo' we all screamed

Hendricks fell with his eyes wide open, and blood flowing out of his body as if it was hose spraying water out. Chris shot an arrow towards his head, but the goblin grabbed it with his empty hand and crushed it, splitting the arrow in two. The goblin then started to sprint faster than before, behind our frontline headed towards Chris and bringing his sword up to kill him. Just as he was about to bring it down, Mark got in front of Chris and got strike instead.

'Get this piece of shit, pierce him through meeeeeee' Mark yelled as he hung on to the goblin with all his might staying alive as the sword was stuck on his left shoulder.

We all ran towards them, ready to strike the goblin down, but he quickly pulled out a dagger and sliced Mark's throat, leaving him to die and let go of his arms. He dodged two attacks and fell back and looked at us with a smile as we were in deep anger.

Jake had began to rush in with paying no attention to his surroundings, 'You bastardddddddd'.

"Wait Jake nooooo, watch out" John

The Goblin had anticipated this and quickly dodge the pierce attack and brought his sword up ready to slice down. However, Chris had shot another arrow towards his head, and distracted the goblin for a few seconds, enough for me to go in undetected. The goblin grabbed the arrow and was surprised to see me, up close and swinging my sword towards his head, cutting it completely off. The headless goblin fell down, and the head was sent flying hitting the wall and flopping to the ground to roll to a stop.

Jake hit the ground with his fist and yelled, 'These bastards are going to pay, I will kill all of them by myself if I have to'.

"I know how you feel Jake, but we have to stay calm, we need to focus if we want to live. We have to continue, after we are done….. we will get the bodies.." John

I did not know what to say, I was shocked, we lost two companions just like that, by one monster. This goblin was far stronger than the boss we had fought previously, we were lost and for the first time scared to what the boss of this portal was like.