Snide is sitting in front of the fire eating the meat and drinking the water, throwing sticks on the fire. After eating he gets the shield and sword and starts training again. He trains by holding the shield in front of him, running forward and swinging the sword. He does it again and again. He trains until he feels tired in his arms.
Snide went to the pot and drinks the rest of the water. Snide moves all stuff inside and takes the pot and a metal tipped spear with him and walk into the forest. He follows the marks towards the pond and making them deeper while looking out deeper into the forest for any wildlife. He is seeing little movement by small animals. Nothing Snide can spear without failing highly. He is nearing the pond and starts to hear noises but not animal sounds, it sounds like a battle. "Great that noise is scaring the wildlife away and I am low on food" Thinks Snide as he sneaks up to the edge of the forest behind a bush near the pond.
He place the pot the down, what he sees surprises him. It is a group of 3 humans having trouble fighting a group of 7 goblins.
The group of humans has a male that is 1.7 meters with short blonde hair, shiny metal armour, a metal long-sword, white skin. Another is a long pink hair female that is 1.6 meters. holding a long bow, black skin and normal cloths made from animal hide. The last human is also a female that is 1.65 meters tall with black hair with white skin. she has a staff, that is a pink heart on a stick and priest looking cloths.
The group of goblins has a black goblin that is 1.5 meters tall wearing full metal, without a helmet holding a sword and iron round shield, a green goblin that is 1.2 meters tall wearing a leather armour holding a iron tip spear, a red goblin that is 1.4 meters tall wearing loincloth holding a 1 bladed axe, 2 brown goblins 1 and 1.1 meters tall wearing loincloths that have small bows, a pink goblin 0.9 meters tall wearing cloth clothing holding bags and a purple goblin that is 0.6 meters tall wearing blue leather that cover everything, but not their ears, holding 2 daggers.
Snide watches as the leader, light his 2 handed sword on fire and swing, missing the black goblin. The green goblin attacks the leader with spear stabbing the joints of the armour piercing it. Snide hears the healer shout "heal" and a green light starts to glow on the leader. After the light disappears the wound was healed. The pink goblin throws a bag. Hitting the leader covering him with purple powder, turning off the fire that covers the sword. The human archer shoots an arrow hitting the purple goblin in the neck killing the goblin. The red goblin rages and attacks the leader with an axe, cutting the leader's knee at the back. The healer shouts "HEAL!" again, but this time after the green light disappears, the cut on the leader is still there.
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"What is that purple powder?" Thinks Snide watching the leader kneeling and fighting, the leader is struggling now. The healer keeps shouting heal and the healing is doing nothing. The brown goblins starts to shoot arrows. hitting the leader in his arms, disabling him from using his sword. Snide watches as the leader screams and starts to cry. Snide does not want to help and even if he want to, he knows that he would also die. He watches as the black goblin stabs the leader in the chest. "NO!" shouts the woman. The black goblin pulls his sword out of the leader and the leader falls over sideways and start to bleed out. The healer starts to yell "heal" continuous until the green light stops lighting the body up and keeps doing so until the archer snaps the healer out of it and pulls the healer into the forest, Snide hears the healer shouting "No, go back and let me save him."
Snide shakes his head as he watches the goblin takes the bodies and equipment and carry it into the forest the opposite way the humans went and towards the mountain, he gets his spear ready and follows them
"I will try and grab an archer, keep them quiet and kill them as the others gets far enough ahead and take their equipment, even though I want the axe, but that will be too risky" Thinks Snide.
He speeds up his sneaking behind the goblins.
Snide grabs the closes brown goblin by the neck with his right hand and the other hand over thier mouth. He pulls back hard, pulling the goblin off their feet and onto their back while Snide keeps his hand on the mouth. slamming the head hard on the ground, dizzing the goblin, as the goblin is getting back to consciousness. Snide grabs the spear near the tip and jams it into the neck of the goblin while keeping his hand on the mouth. Snide looks around in case the goblins notice 1 of them is missing. Snide keeps his hand on the mouth and wait until the light fade from the goblin's eyes. after the light faded, he removes his hand and starts to undress the goblin and take the equipment, he now has a short bow and a quiver of 15 arrows with a loincloth. Snide walks back to the pond. He gets the pot and fills it with water, He washes his hand to clean it from blood. he carries everything back to the cave. as he is traveling, he starts to think about the purple powder.
"If I am hit by it, it won't not do anything important, but it will be stop me from getting healed by magic or to use magic items. The equipment of the human will be nice to get. but getting that now is impossible and the goblins will be using it." Thinks Snide getting back to the cave, he places all the weapons and loincloth in the cave and the pot next to the fire pit. He tosses more sticks on the fire and put the pot over it. he gets the 3 meat pieces ready to cook.