Journey Alone (8)

"Pffft- hehehe"

Josh giggles as the blood of the goblin get sprayed at him. The goblins that died, withered and turned into cubes. (The cubes can be traded for a few certain things, they can also be sold for a hundred XEN each)

" What the- has your master gone crazy by a mere betrayal?" Zen who was the cause why the goblins explodes asked while stepping away from Josh to Lance.

" That. . ."

Lance couldn't answer.

" Oh, sorry sorry, I was already told by Lance that they will stab my back, but. . . , I didn't know it'd be so soon" Josh explained while trying to stand up. *Gasp* "Ugh, I'm covered in sticky and stinky blood. . ." Josh added and wipe off the blood on his hair and face.

"Master, you should hide. They came back to see their masterpiece, and by a masterpiece, I meant, your corpse" Lance said and Josh did as he was told. He hid inside the bush since he'll be found he just hide behind it.

" Whoa! Those little goblins are awesome! They didn't even leave a single bone behind! Hahaha!" Kai laughed.

" Isn't it odd, we did see a few bones on the way here or a few players still being feasted on, we saw it live that the goblins leave the bones behind" Ice stated. Goblins are goblins, after all, they're no dogs to eat the bones or bury them.

" Oh. . . Maybe because his bones are weak or he's delicious" Kai shrugged.

Ice looked at him with an expression saying: "Seriously. . ." . "What kind of logic is that? Moreover, he kicked a deer's horn that caused it to snap, how can you say that he has such weak bones. And about delicious, Dude, are you for real? You're not a cannival, are you?" Ice said as they both landed on the ground.

" Oh, so there's only one reason why—that's because he escaped!" Finally!, Kai figured it out.

" Even if he did, I doubt that he'd be unscatched, let's leave, hell die any moment now anyways, besides, we've already leveled up thanks to that weakling," Ice said, he spread his wings and flew away with Kai following him behind.

Josh who was hiding in the bush left the bush and stood up.

"Phew, they're real bad news haha" he chuckled. He grabs the small cube and collects them for future use.

Zen and Lance have gone quiet. Well, who'd be calm if they saw their master or second master get thrown into the pack of goblins by birds, but still laugh like it was nothing? Sure the real master(Daniel) has been betrayed a lot more severe than that but Daniel would never laugh at it like everything's alright, he'd just sigh till he's satisfied.

Josh turn towards the two.

"Hey, why so quiet?" He asked.

" Lance thinks you're stupid"

" Zen's worried about your mental health"

The two said before looking at each other and say "I didn't think that!". The two snarls at each other angrily

"Alright alright, no need to fight. I'm alright, I just thought they'd take a few more days to do it, I didn't think they'd be impatient so I thought it's a little fun-"

Before he could finish his words, he got cornered again by the goblins.

"Are they a little too excited, haha" Josh laughed even though his death is near.

". . . Uhh, Is this normal?" Zen asked Lance about Josh's condition.

"Yes" an immediate answer from Lance.

Red spots started appearing on Josh's clothes, most of them are in his head. The red spots represent where the goblin is aiming, and by the looks of it, his head is the main target.

Just when the goblins drew up their hands where daggers started to glitch before appearing, He jumped backward at the same time as the daggers being released from the goblin's hands. The daggers missed Josh.

' So it took them a second of aiming before throwing!'

" 1.5 nanoseconds" Lance corrected.

' Eh~' Josh whined but Lance only chuckled as a response.

Josh started kicking the little goblins while evading the others to hit him with their flying daggers with the help of the red dots, of course while doing so, he's thinking about what Daniel said to ease his guilt(The faster they die, the faster they respawn). At first, Josh is struggling a little because he's not quite used on fighting beings smaller than him and the fact that the goblins are outnumbering him makes him a little more conflicted of whether he should fight or flee, but as minute goes by, he soon got a little used to fighting them.

. . .

A few minutes later. . .

"Phew"

Josh sighed from relief that he has finally finished beating up the goblins and picking up the small cubes that they dropped.

" Finally Done!" Josh said cheerfully as he pose a winning pose, lifting his fist high with a smile ear to ear.

" (yawn) Watching a weakling fight to be strong is boring" Zen whined loudly, making happy Josh dejected from what he just heard. In a blink of an eye, his smile vanished, he now looks like a poor dog sheltering under the tree on a cold rainy day, shivering like he'd be dead in no time.

*smack!*

" Wha-?! You have hands?!" The surprised Zen rubbed his pained head as he ask and glare at Lance.

Lance walked past Zen and gave a change of clothes to Josh. "Master, You're a person with OCD and germaphobe, It must be painful so please change immediately" Lance gave one last glare to Zen before hitting Zen's head again.

Josh who was stunned at the sight of Lance's form stuttered: "Y-you can t-turn into a h-human. . . With a horn. . .?!"

Lance looks at their master, " No Master, I can have human limbs but I am not able to turn into a human form. The wings and tail are still there, I'm only hiding it. Please do not mind me and change your clothes immediately" Lance bowed and look at the angry Zen.

" Oh. . .okay" Josh turn away from them to change his drenched clothes by blood and to give those two some space.

' Hmmm, I thought master's adaptivity would be great by now, guess not' Lance thought, a little disappointed.

" Oi! How dare you hit a God!" Zen gritted his teeth as he look at Lance's unique form.

" It's not like that God can hit me even if he wants to, so why bother acting high and mighty?"

" Bastard! Just because you've got a name! If you haven't, you're nothing but a weak bat!" Zen retorted. It's true, Lance is nothing but a weak bat without its master's trust and given name, without a name, he won't have anything to be proud of as a servant of its only Master.

The unoffended Lance said: " Aren't you ashamed? Your Master asked you to protect Master, a single person with all your life, yet instead of protection, you're giving him near death situations. Is your life that cheap? if that's it, then it's understandable. Anyway, try to take away my master's smile again and I'll make sure to report it to the guy that you said is stuck in his past even though the truth is, he's trapped inside the curse. You know well what happens when he woke up, right?"

Zen has gone quiet and obedient since then.