CH 24: fighting an army

As everyone got closer their started to grow. What would happen when they die? Does God exist is the after life real? No one had any answers. Everyone got set into their positions as the goblin mayor and the 2nd evolution goblins stood there in silence.

"*GULP* sh*t this is scary." Josh spoke as he stood next to John

John nodded as he bent his legs, ready to charge. With fully equipped goblin gear everyone was slightly more confident.

"everyone remember, protect those close to you, protect yourselfs and kill as many of these bastards as you can!" John screamed before adding his last words

"EVERYONE CHARGE!"

[skill (war speech) activated]

[skill (war shout) activated]

[skill (morale boost) activated]

[skill (true team) activated]

[the effects of these skills gave reached the raid Party ]

[skill (dash) activated]

[skill (strengthening) activated]

[skill (light steps) activated]

[these skills only affect the user]

Using his skills John rushed in as fast as he could trying to kill as many goblins as he could. One strike, two strike, John sliced the goblins with his sword as quickly as he could. After the training John decided to practise with the sword and found that despite being hard to master it didn't require a mastery over the weapon to use against goblins, of course John still kept a bunch of daggers with him for emergencies.

To begin with John estimated that there were two thousand if not more goblins on the field. Another hit, another kill, John continued to push on and kill as many goblins as possible.

"ARRRGGHH."

*BLEGH*

*KEUK*

"AAAARRRGGGGHHHH"

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John heard many people getting attacked by goblins and John could even see a few peoples auras disappear as they died. When someone or something died the magic that surrounded them vanished and only some remained which slowly disappeared in the time span of around a day. John stopped caring about the deaths as he carried on and activated his skills again. After some experimenting whilst training John realized that although the skills didn't take a stat point of magic they actually took a small amount and after several uses of skills a stat point would be deducted. He also learnt that his passive skills didn't take any magic at all other than the (magic strengthening) skill which required a single magic point but never actually took any away.

Using his sword and sometimes the (light steps) skill mixed with throwing his daggers, John continued to cleave through the goblins. John thought that he could hear the sound of system notifications but he didn't pay attention to that and instead concentrated on the battle. After what felt like hours to him the goblins backed off quickly and John decided to give the order to step back and prepare for the rest of the battle.

"everyone get back and group up!!" John screamed as he looked around at the low amount of people left.

Out of the over four hundred people to begin with only around two hundred remained. Just over fifty long ranged attackers remained and not much more than one hundred close combatents remained. Seeing the small amount of people left and the large array of injurys John attempted to create a settlement zone. Seeing this everyones mood increased dramatically as they knew the healing effects created by this. Once the lined joined together Johns magic pulsed showing how the zone was completed. Everyone could feel a warm energy flow into them but this only lasted a second as suddenly the lines broke apart and disappeared.

[the zone is insecure]

[(settlement creation) failed]

John cursed as he read the notification and straight after checked his skills to see if he had anything that could help. Looking at his skills he saw a few new ones and cursed as he didn't see one that helped.

'YES!' John screamed internally as he saw a new skill that he gained and seeing a new description on a pre-existing skill

[skill (fast regen) activated]

[skill (war shout) activated]

*ROOOAAARRR*

roaring at the goblins everyone could feel there strength increase once again but this time could feel their wounds healing. Unfortunately due to the low levels of the skill the only wounds that healed were the smaller cuts and grazes and only a bit of the larger wounds healed and some minor bleeding aswell. Everyone felt slightly better but they still couldn't imagine facing the remaining goblins, after all so many of them have already been killed by those monsters.

*BANG*

The goblin mayor suddenly started killing the goblins only leaving around 20 left. These remaining goblins looked at the raid group and smiled as they lifted up their staffs. John's eyes widened as he saw the magic around the goblins start to gravitate towards the tips of those staffs.

"EVERYONE GET BACK AND GET DOWN." John screamed as he turned to look at his remaining settlement members

Everyone saw the worry on his fast and ran as fast as they could before diving to the floor. The magic around the staffs finally stopped moving and John could see a light extend from them and become a small ball.

'is that a fireball skill.' John thought before the balls of fire flew towards them

*CRASH* *BANG*

The sound of fire balls slamming into the ground could be heard aswell as the screams of the dying. The onslaught finally ended, smoke blocking their sights. Everyone waited for the smoke to clear before standing up and looking towards the goblins.

"how the hell did they do that." josh asked as his face became pale

John didn't know what to say until he remembered what they were. Goblin shamans, long ranged specifically.

"their goblin shamans, they can use magic to attack." John informed them before grabbing a spread from a charred body and throwing it towards a shaman.

*SPLAT*

The sound of the shaman being impaled could be heard throughout the entire field as it fell to the floor. Everyone looked at John in shock before quickly picking up their own spears or bows, if they had them spare as they kept a bone spear with them as it increased their strength. The sound of goblins being struck down could be heard over the sound of laboured breathes as everyone tried hitting the goblins. Everytime the shamans attempted to gather a fireball together John would tell everyone and their attacks would be aimed at them.

After a few minutes all the shamans were dead and the goblin mayor just stood there calmly. Smiling the goblin mayor walked forward, a hint of intelligence flashed in its eyes. Opening its mouth the goblin mayor who stood around 6 foot 9 inch spoke in a loud and booming voice.

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