We prepped out weapons for combat and got next to the reinforced door leading outside. "Sound's like shit hit the fan outside. Let's find out what exactly is going on but be careful. We don't know how many or what is outside causing the screaming." Ray finished his small speech and we all nodded that we were ready. Ray motioned for us to go and he opened the door while the rest of us followed. With Herald ready to blcok any incoming attacks.

What greeted us was hell. There were dead bodies lying everywhere. Buildings with holes in them and smashed doors. Most of the bodies were goblins and ogres but there were a few civilians and what looked liek adventurer bodies sprawled through the streets in various states of disarray. Ray tightened his grasp on his spear while Herald simply sighed while shaking his head. Herald was the first to move forward towards the adventurers guild. He turned towards us saying "Well? Standing around won't help those that have already died, but giving this information may help somewhat. As little as it may help at this point it's better than doing nothing."

Ronia shook her head and started walking with Herald. "Yeah let's get moving. Cmon guys, we better hurry." With that, we started moving towards the adventurers guild. Ray looked like he was going to tear someone a new one. Who he was mad at I could only guess that it was at the Corrupt mage. I wonder if he has some history with a Corrupt mage? That'll be something to find out at a later date.

We were carefully heading down the street and head some fighting off in the distance along with the occasional scream for help. Every time someone screamed out for help Ray would tighten his grip and look in the direction it came from in helplessness. As we were walking we heard a growl coming from a house to our left. Herald turned that way and Ronia nocked an arrow A goblin popped up and screeched while peeking from the window. Instantly an arrow whizzed through the air and pierced its throat, killing it instantly. Ronia was looking around for other goblins when a screech came from behind us. A goblin leapt from the second floor of a building behind us, diving onto Herald.

It clawed at his helmet and screeched in frustration. Herald whacked his shield's edge at the thing, sending it flying off while scrabbling at his helmet. I heard more screeches and called out to the others saying "Heads up! Sounds like theres quite a few of them!" Herald raised his shield and roared, using his aggro skill. Around a dozen goblins hopped out of the second story window with 6 more coming from the building the first goblin was spotted in. I fired 6 ice shards, but missed 3 since I still felt a bit off from that whack to the head. The 3 goblins that were hit screeched in pain as the shards of ice plunged into their chests, killing them nearly instantly.

Ronia used a skill and fired several arrows rapidly. 4 more goblins dropped dead with arrows lodged into their skulls and chests. That left 11 goblins alive, which collided with Herald's shield. Ray swung his spear and decapitated 2 goblins, they sprayed blood from their necks before dropping dead. I fired a few more ice shards and swung my sword at a goblin that was swinging a club at me. My sword sliced through the wooden club and tore through its arm, slicing it off. The goblin screamed in pain before scratching at my leg with its remaining arm. I kicked it away as hard as I could, sending it skidding across the ground.

I fired an ice arrow at some goblins in the back and was given a satisfying Thunk as it obliterated the skull of a goblin. I looked over to my left and saw that Ray and the others had managed to whittle down the amount of goblins down by quite a bit and there was only 4 goblins left on their side. I turned to check if there were any more goblins near me and saw one hiding running towards me. I fired an ice shard at it but to my surprise it flopped onto the ground and faceplanted to avoid the shot. It then got up and clawed at my leg. The claws skid off of my Shadow Wolf leather armour and the attack made a few scrathes into my armour but nothing more. I stabbed my sword through the goblins skull, killing it off.

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I turned towards the others after checking for more goblins lurking and saw that they had finished off the rest of the goblins. I started to walk over and noticed the small scratches in my armour were repairing themselves. "Weird, does the armours passive healing enchantment apply to itself too? I guess I have self repairing armour." I walked to Herald and said "We might want to hurry. It seems theres goblins everywhere. The faster we can tell the guild that the monsters are coming from the sewers." Herald nodded and said "Yeah you're right. Alright lets book it straight to the guild. Cmon!" With that we set off once more but this time we weren't being as slow and careful as before and were instead rushing straight towards the adventurers guild.

Ronia would fire arrows into buildings when she saw goblins and I would launch a fireball or ice shard at any goblin she didn't hit while Ray or Herald would take care of the goblins that rushed us. We had gotten around halfway to the guild building when we heard sounds of fighting nearby. We heard someone yelling "4 Ogres to the north! Don't let them get close to the range units! Shit, theres a small horde of goblins coming with the goblins!" The yelling was followed up with several battlecries and goblin screams. There was a loud crash and someone screamed in agony before gurgling and someone cried out "Jeromine! You bastard Ogres! Raaagh!"

I looked at the others and they looked conflicted. It seemed that they wanted to go help but also wanted to get the intel to the guild as fast as possible. I took one more look at the direction of the shouts and made up my mind. "Lets go help them. We can deliver the information later but saving lives is more important than that." Everyone looked at me and took a few seconds before nodding and Ronia said "Alright. Let's go and kick some Ogre butt and look good while doing it!" Ray chuckled and I laughed while Herald shook his head and smiled. We got our weapons ready and headed over to where the sounds came from.

We turned a corner and saw several ogres and dozens of goblins running towards a barricade defending an orphanage. It as filled with civilians that had escaped there and over a dozen adventurers were defending it There were also a few injured adventurers being patched up. Somebody saw us and said "Hey theres some more adventurers over here! Hey, glad you are here, we could really use some help defending the civies over there in the orphanage." Everyone replied with nods and we headed towards the barricade the adventurer's had set up. There were dozens of goblin bodies littering the place and they were starting to pile up. Some people were trying to get rid of the bodies to prevent the monsters from simply climbing up a pile of corpses but it was slow going. Other than that there was a lot of fighting going on.

Herald said "Let's go over there and reinforce the line. The adventurers over there look like they are going to fall over dead at any moment." We started to head over but I realized something and said "Hold on, i'm going to just put the corpses into my inventory to help speed up the clearing process." Ronia said "Nice idea. We'll head on over there while you help clean up. Don't take too much time though." I started to jog over to the clean up crew while the others went ahead.

There were several adventurers hauling corpses and finishing off any goblins that came too close for comfort. One of the guys there saw me and said "Hey mind helping us haul these corpses? The more hands helping the faster we'll get this done and the faster we can finish off the goblins over there." "Yeah I'll help out. This shouldn't take too long." I walked past the barricade and headed towards the corpses. I fired an ice shard at a goblin that was getting too close.

Once I got close enough I started chucking all of the corpses into my inventory. The other adventurers sat there and stared in shock until one said "Spacial magic? The heck? Oh actually this is great! Dude we'll cover you so just get rid of all the corpses. Telphan, Bernam c'mere and help me kill the goblins while this guy gets rid of the corpses!" I continued to put the corpses into my inventory while the other guys covered me. We were doing well and I was nearly done cleaning the corpses up when I heard a familiar roar nearby. It was a sound I really didn't want to hear at the moment. "Shit, a Horbrot Splitter. This just went from bad to worse."