The baby goblins hung around Adil and Swift, one of them began to cry before another tapped him.

“Show no fear.” The goblins said in its native language.

The smaller goblin shuffled back in silence and began sucking its thumb whilst the other stood in front clearly trying to look brave.

Seras was having a silent mental breakdown, still avoiding eye contact with the goblin creatures, not sure how to take what was going on.

“Aaaah” She growled.

“The fuck.”

The little goblins recoiled in fear.

“Cool your shit.” Adil said to her.

She gave a stern look but ultimately ignored him and carried on self-deprecating.

The sound of clattering steps resonated behind them and a goblin appeared in the doorway. A look of despair and trauma as he saw everything around him, he had a faint blue skin contrasted to a bone and metal armour.

He dove in to cut at Adil, but Seras reacted and caught his blade halfway, stopping the blade but flinging her axe out of her hand. She chopped down at him with her other axe but the goblin changed the angle of his sword and caught it. As Seras pushed down on him the goblin drew to one knee, dropped a hand from his sword and pulled out a dagger stabbing into Seras as he shifted the axe to the side.

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Seras braced the pain and kicked the goblin away, the dagger still in her side. She pulled it out as the goblin looked around. Adil and Swift still hadn’t made a move but he only looked at the dryad on the floor with a stone sadness. The goblin dove with his sword forward, running in. Seras stood to the side seeming fed up, Adil made little movement trying to show he meant no harm but fell back as the blade pierced his arm, went through and clipped his neck, Adil shrieked in pain as Swift jumped forward, tackling the goblin. Suddenly the goblin and Adil were held in a magic force.

Then the dryad lowered him in a walking position to the ground. The contrast between the angry expression turned towards Adil and the casual walk he was making was unusual.

“Stop fighting.” She said.

Adil clenched his teeth and gave a look of pain and confusion to the Dryad. A quest notification appeared.

Reunite!

Task:

Find Swift, and solve the mystery of the hidden caves.

Exp: 600 - complete

Space suddenly seemed to warp around them.