the hills

After now two builders could make stone houses Aron instructed one of them to teach others. Then it was time for the wooden dummies, the woodworkers had 10 done in no time so Aron started randomly swinging his mana sword.

After 10 minutes Jack came and did look at Aron hitting a dummy ove and over again. It kinda looked like training something Jack was getting found of. So he went to another dummy, this is kinda fun still I wonder why Aron is hitting the dummy.

30 minutes since the start of Aron's training on the dummy his system finally gave him a message.

[New skill slash]

Aron now changing to sword and shield did try to do something like [slash] only with a shield bashing after. This time it took Aron an hour before he got a message.

[New skill slash and bash]

[Skill wound +1 level]

Aron: hey Jack, did you already get new skills? I just got my second with what I just did.

Jack: sadly not, perhaps I can copy you later. I'm getting bored. I don't know how you do it, staying focused like that. I prefer to look for adventures or create one.

Aron: we could explore the hills for a bit, we are still looking for materials to make glass.

Jack: I will get a few people, how many do you want to take with us?

Aron: I don't know what about between 20 and 50. It's only half a day, although I have the tents in my spatial bag if we can't make it home in time.

Jack: 50 it is, I will be back in 5 minutes.

After 10 minutes they left the settlement for the hills. Aron's team stopped at the mine and took one of the miners with them incase they could find some resources. After two hours of walking the saw a few goats together. Jack inspected one for fun.

[Name: Billy

Level: 15

Race: goat

State of mind: looking for a fight

Health: 10.000

Mana: 200

Strength: 40

Agility: 35

Stamina: 50]

Jack: Those goats will be a pain if the stay together. Just look at them Aron do you think we can handle them?

Aron: Not with the team we have now, although it would be 50 vs 10. I think they do more damage as the bunny's we killed the other day.

Kim: Do you think they came out of a dungeon as well? If so two hours travelling towards our mine is a short distance.

Aron: Yes it is. It's also making me worried about the other directions. This is the second dungeon break in this area.

At that moment the goats all looks towards the west and started moving slowly. Aron's team seeing one of the goats still standing on the spot saw this as the perfect opportunity to get one killed. The hunters reading their bows, the mage's their staff's, Aron and Jack their sword and shield.

Aron: Now let's get a bit closer, shoot all arrows and fireballs at Jack's command.

Jack: 3..2..1.. go.

25 hunters and 15 mage's did release and onslaught of arrows and fireballs, the goat didn't even have the time to dodge when he noticed. Leaving him severely injured, but and injured animal can do strange things. He rushed to the team of hunters and mage's trying to take out as many as possible.

The goat now with only 3000 health left was to fast to land a second hit. Lucky for the hunters and mage's Aron and Jack were ready. Jack taunting and Aron dropping his shield and stabbing, slashing as much as he could before the goat did hit Jack. The goat now on 500 healt got his first hit on Jack.

[You received 2500 damage.]

Jack: That hurt, kill him fast please.

With the goat now standing still the hunters and mage's could hit their target again killing it before it could hit again.

Aron: Something isn't right, most of us are over the level 15 and some people even level 20 and we still receive so much damage.

Jack: Did you notice that we can't see their skills and skill levels? It might be that but it's indeed a pain, perhaps setup more dummies and let the damage dealers train for a few hours a day.

Aron: That was what I just thought as well, it wouldn't work for us two and Kim and Ricky. We need to find a way for us to get more tanky and see if we can improve the health output from Kim, Ricky and all other healers.

Erik: What about sparring? Guards and captains sparring each other and the healers healing you at the same time? I would love to spar.

Erik looked happy after saying that, he was a battle maniac he loved martial arts. He just didn't know how to get the best out of it with all the animals so he relied on hit skills. Fighting a human would be different because they could think more clearly and adapt faster.

When everyone was thinking what to do, they saw around 30 small humanoids running towards them with 3 goats on their tail. Aron signals towards everyone to hit one of the goats with all they had. Aron now picking up his shield getting ready to take two goats.

They didn't take the time to look at the humanoids, they only thought was safe them. This time the hunters and mage's got one of the goats down with the first hit surprising themselves.

Aron: FOCUS, two more goats left. Kill Jack's goat first and as soon as possible.

Before Jack's goat was dead he got 4000 damage on him, Aron on the other hand would be in more danger if the battle took longer than needed.

Jack: KIL, Aron's target now!

Aron's system was full of messages.

[You received 1000 damage.]

[You received 2500 damage.]

[You received 500 damage.]

[You received 2000 damage.]

[You received a wound applying 200 damage a second on you]

Aron was happy he did have Ricky healing him and that he had a decent amount of health but he was now more sure then ever that something was off. The team now started on Aron's goat and killing it in no time.

The humanoids stopped running after they saw the group of humans killing the goats with out any issues in their eyes. Aron and his team could now take a good look at them. All of them where between the 1 meter and 120 meters high, their muscles were well toned. Most of them had beards only the smaller hadn't started growing a beards. The group was mostly women and younger ones.

Lady: Thank you for saying us, my name is Thovora can I know yours?

Aron: Your welcome, my name is Aron the team leader of this hunting team. Is this the first time you come to this area?

Thovora: Yes it is, although our ancestors did come here before. Could I ask you of a favour perhaps, of course I would return one to the best of my abilities as well.

Aron: It's depending on what you want us to do. If it's in our capability to do we will for sure help you.

Thovora: We are this first of a group of a 100 fleeting dwarfs, can you also rescue the rest? They should be on their way with a couple of goats behind them.

Jack: How many goats?

Thovora: 4 at the most per group, we did split up into 4 groups. As you know we had 3 goats, I know our young men did try to take as many as possible away from us. The older men and older woman should be smart and have a few. The total number I don't know, to be honest I was to scared to notice.

Aron: We will try to rescue as many as possible. But I guess you wanted to lose the goats so how and were? Perhaps we can intercept them before that happens.

Thovora did give all the details about their plan, Aron and Jack planned accordingly to save as many dwarfs as possible. Jack did give his spatial bag to one of the hunters who would be returning to the settlement for backup.