While Jayce is unconscious on the ground, a Hobgoblin is there walking, smelling the scent of blood of both humans and goblins. As Hobgoblin draws closer, it readies its long sword and notices goblin corpses all around. It grumbles to itself, it notices Jayce's, the barghest and Alex's body all on the ground and immediately goes to inspect them. As he was just about to grab Jayce since he was the closest, but a large beam of light magic hits the Hobgoblin.
Moments after the beam disappeared it was visible that the hobgoblin was able to block it using its shield. The hobgoblin starts getting ready to fight when the shield breaks and falls to the floor shattering into a few large pieces. When another beam of light comes its way it uses a dead goblins body to block the incoming magic and when the light disappears again it pulls out its longbow and fires 2 arrows swiftly. The arrows go into the darkness, and the only thing that can be heard is the arrows hitting the floor. The hobgoblin roars into the darkness while still clutching its bow.
As the hobgoblin gets ready to fire more arrows he doesn't realize that the rocks around him are forming around his feet, and the hobgoblin realizes too late and all the rocks form around it trapping it in a rock tomb. It drops the bow and arrows to the ground while trying to escape the rocks surrounding him but fails and slowly becomes engulfed. The hobgoblin is in a large sphere of rock. The rock slowly becomes more squished and starts shrinking as if someone is crumbing up a piece of paper. Large amounts of blue blood come leaking out of the sphere as now the sphere is now only about a quarter of its size.
All the rocks surrounding the hobgoblin slowly start falling apart revealing the completely squished and crumbled body of the hobgoblin. The sound of thudding draws nearer; it is revealed to be Ms. Ivy with her block heels with a flick of her hands. Large Vines appear from the ground breaking through the rock and gravel wrap around Jayce and Alex and a greenish glow envelops them. The wounds on Jayce slowly recovers and Alex slowly starts recovering and wakes up.
Alex quickly sits up and starts looking around while clutching her bow and is still a bit shaken. She notices the bodies of the barghest and the crumbled up hobgoblin, she then sees Jayce's body inside the vines.
"What happened?" she says nervously
"Well where do I start" as she puts her hand on her cheek
" after you fainted after seeing the barghest. Jayce had to fight it alone and protected you while doing it but he also got injured because of it. But the thing that surprised me is that it was a greater barghest hiding in a starter dungeon and that Jayce was able to beat it by himself." putting her hands on her waist and sighing heavily.
"He should wake up soon, so how are you feeling? Can you move?" as she slightly turns to Alex
"I can move but, I never noticed the barghest with my vision but I saw the Hobgoblin, was it disguised as a Goblin?"
"Yes, they are normally disguised as any type of goblin. However they shouldn't be here, it's very concerning."
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In the deeper part of the cave, sound of rocks moving and a considerably large amount of light footsteps can be heard. As a horde of goblins start slowly appearing. They start rushing toward Ms. Ivy but one in the back seems to be casting a fireball.
Ms. Ivy takes notice of this and mumbles to herself, "Interesting." As the goblins get closer she starts casting but stops midway. "You can take care of them for me right? I don't wanna use any more mana."
As the goblin gets closer, Alex looks scared and tries to shoot her arrows but drops them. Ivy crouches and starts watching the goblins come closer. At that moment, the Goblin in front of the hoard is about to strike Ivy, a hand covered in metal seems to grab the battered short sword. "Yeah I can take care of it, but can you get someone else to babysit you next time? This is twice now that I had to do this."
"Cutting it close aren't you."
As the man coats his entire body in metal, he breaks the goblins sword and grabs the goblin by the throat and picks it up. "Well I wouldn't have had to, but you made me get the other kids first so I was a bit late."
While the goblin struggles to escape this man's grasp, it slowly starts turning purple as the man starts choking it. He throws the goblin to the floor, the moment the goblin passes out from lack of oxygen. He starts slowly walking forward, while he walks he purposely steps on the passed out goblins head on the floor crushing it. The blood comes oozing out and on the man's shoe is brain chunks and is covered in blood. Each step he takes has power and pressure in it, as he gets closer a metal blade comes out of his right arm.
All of the goblins focus their attacks on the man, but all of their blades break the second it makes contact with any part of his body. The mage goblin launches a fireball at him and while it was a direct hit as the fire slowly dissipates the man is left unscathed and the goblins near the man try to fight it with little knives but their faces show worriness. The man grabs a goblin and crushes its throat, then proceeds to start decapitating each goblin around him. He slowly walks closer to the mage goblin killing any goblin in his way.
He is about to reach the mage, it tries to run away but fails as a large metal spear comes out of nowhere impaling its leg preventing it from moving. As the goblin shrieks in pain and tries to move away from the man. The man picks up the goblin and knocks it out using a strong punch. Jayce slowly starts waking up, and as he sits up he sees a metal man, dragging a goblin through a puddle of blue blood, goblin heads and bodies. His metal body slowly dissipates, the man has wide brown eyes. His fine, straight, silver hair is worn in a style that reminds you of a flowing cape. He is very tall and has an athletic build. His skin is chocolate-brown. His wardrobe is professional, with a lot of blue.
He throws the goblin mage in front of Ivy, and picks up Alex and Jayce from the ground walking them out. Behind them Ivy wraps the goblin in a vines, and starts dragging it using a vine rope. "Why are you making me take the goblin, Leo? It wasn't heavy for you at all." as she is struggling to keep up while dragging the body.
"Do you wanna carry the kids instead or do you wanna leave them in the cave?" as they are almost at the entrance another 2 hunters enter the cave. Ivy sighs heavily and continues to drag the body tripping on a rock and face plants.
Leo drops off Alex where the other kids are at, and takes Jayce to a tent, with Ivy. Jayce’s body is aching, and is still barely able to move a lot, Jayce gets put down on a camp bed. Leo and Ivy sit near the entrance of the tent and a lady enters the tent. This intelligent looking lady has hooded eyes the color of amethysts. Her fine, curly, white hair is worn in a style that reminds you of a turtle's shell. Her skin is deeply-tanned. She has bushy eyebrows. Her wardrobe is attractive, with a mostly gray and violet color scheme.