Chapter 5 Punitive force to destroy the Goblin city Part 2
The Moving Shadows
The day of the raids was beginning tomorrow; Miyuki’s platoon was taking this day off to relax after their gruelling 16 hour dungeon hunt the previous day. She wanted to go talk to the other platoon leaders to see if they could cooperate and kill thee goblins faster but they were all a weird bunch, the guild leaders seemed to be only interested in their own affairs and would refuse to help if it wouldn’t benefit them and the remaining captains seemed to be delusional especially the one called Jarven, who kept saying he was the prince of Damacia while trying to hit on Miyuki. Being disturbed by this she came to the conclusion that it would be best to avoid them.
Miyuki knew this area fairly well, she spent over a week here training her skills but she did not know the goblins patrol roots. So she decided to ask help from the rouges in her platoon to come scouting with her, only 3 of them was online at the time and they all agreed. They introduced themselves as the 3 siblings. The oldest of the three introduced himself: he was called Terry he looked about 20 but was short and very slim, Nick the middle one was around Miyuki’s age, and lastly Keyla was their little sister, she was around the twins age so Miyuki thought she would introduce her to them later. They ran for at least 5 miles towards the city before reaching the first goblin patrol, it was a small group of 50 goblins but they seemed very organised, they even had 10 goblins on horseback leading the group. Also their levels seemed to be over 200. Miyuki saw this patrol as troublesome and decided that they should avoid them as much as possible, after a couple more ours of scouting they saw a pattern. The closer they were to the city the higher the level and the more organised the goblins looked but they had lower numbers. About 5-6 miles away from the city you could see larger goblin patrols who were between level 150-180 but were very disorganised, instead of patrolling they looked more like hunters because they had leather armour and the was a group of 40 kolbots behind them being forced to drag lots of dead animals. Those goblins were in groups of 100-150. And lastly the patrols Miyuki wanted to focus on were about 10 miles out from the city consisting of around 300 goblins with worn down gear and, about level 150.
As they were about to leave a goblin spotted Miyuki and shouted
“that’s her that her”
“kill her, she kkilled our families”
“kil,kill,kill”
…
...
They goblin patrol saw her and they were in a frenzy and began chasing Miyuki. A window popped up.
Goblins harbour a deep hatred for you. By murdering their families and friends when you wiped out the surrounding goblin villages, they lose any and all higher thinking capabilities and whill attack you and chase you whenever they see you.
Goblns rage
Effect on gobllins
+100% attack
+40% dexeraty
+20% fighting spirit
-100% wisdom
-100% intellagince
-40% defence
Because of the lack of intelligence the goblins throw away their weapons and armour so they can catch you faster, will also ignore all enemies apart from you.
Miyuki smiled, “I can use this”. She had thought of the perfect plan using herself as bait for the full scale war. While casting a wide areas slow spell she ran away along with the siblings. When they got far enough the goblins regained their consciousness and found themself in the middle of wolfs territory half naked over a day’s walk form the city. Let’s just say they died quickly and unknowingly Miyuki contribution rose slightly.
Even though this could be an advantage, it was a double edged sword the massive damage and dexterity increase would not help them during the smaller skirmishes, so Miyuki decided to hide herself while they would attack the patrols and only show herself during the big war. In big battles the organisation of an army could lead to a great victory or a quick demise.
Once they got back to the camp the royal knight and his army had left and began their journey to the north side. At the camp she addressed her platoon and reorganised the formations a bit. Two of the groups were merged to make the vanguard with Prina leading them. Their job will be to lure the goblin scout party and hold them at a advantageous point while the 2 other groups will flank the right and left side. One group was led by nana and leez the other was led by Hope. Even though Hope was shy and did no damage, her ability to run head first into battle with little armour and come out alive had been a big morale booster in the dungeon hunt.
Also this time because of the larger and better equipped enemies they would be facing Miyuki changed the platoon’s formation. She told the mages to use area of affect damaging spells aiming at the archers and spell casting goblins and continue casting area of affect slow spells everywhere. When the rangers have died they would switch to target spells to focus on the front lines. All the archers were removed from the groups and miyuki told them to find a vantage point in the terrain and wait for the vanguard to lure them in. If there were no hill they should climb on trees. Their job was to just shower the goblins with arrows as soon as the 2 groups attacked the flanks which would lead their patrols into chaos.
Lastly because the size of the platoon is one third of the size of the scouts with this surprise attack there was little chance that Miyuki platoon could kill them before they regained their composure and began a counter attack or retreat. This is the point that Miyuki would reveal herself. If they were getting ready for a counter attack Miyuki will reveal herself behind the goblin forces giving her platoon time to escape and if the goblins were getting ready to retreat she would join the vanguard so they didn't run and they could finish them off.
Everyone who herd the plan was in good spirits, at first they were wary because of the reports that goblins had high level patrols with knights and heavy armour. But their captain would focus on the lower level goblins to level up before facing them. They felt they made the right choice to follow Miyuki especially after another of the captains called Garren was just spinning round in circles with his double handed sword telling his platoon to do the same. “All we have to do is spin when they get close and it will be an easy victory my comrades”, its same to say even his platoon thought he was a phyco.
Miyuki went to the twins who were working at their portable anvil
“Hello, Nana, Leez what are you up to?”
“Nothing much were just repairing equipment”
“That’s great I was hoping you could make me something for tomorrow”
The twins finished repairing quickly and looked at Miyuki very interested in what she wanted, their staring made Miyuki a little uncomfortable and she stuttered back a little.
“it’s nothing much I just wanted a mask so that goblins wouldn’t recognise me”
Nana smiled, while leez seemed to be in deep thought
- what kind of mask would suit her, wait does she even need a mask so pretty, her curves, her cute breasts, those breasts-
Leez began to drool a little: Nana then turned and looked at her with a worried look
“Are you ok?”
Leez jumped out of her fantasy world
“uuum yes im fine sorry” she said while wiping her drool
“don’t worry about her she gets like that” they all giggled and Nana said she would have the mask made for tomorrow. Miyuki would actually
prefer a leather mask or a cloth hood but she didn’t know of any tailors, she could only hope that a metal one would be fine and not too heavy.
***
In another part of the camp a shadow appeared in front of Ray bard the captain of a different platoon.
“Everything is ready” he made a small bow and vanished into the night
He smiled and entered his tent to get some sleep
***
The next morning came and Miyuki woke up early to go find Hope, because hope was shy she was worried she wasn’t up to the job for leading her group. But when she found her she was with her group and they were all sitting together having breakfast. Hope wasn’t talking much but the hole group had gotten use to her after the dungeon hunt and treated her like their leader by calling her lieutenant instead of hope. Miyuki joined them and moments later the other groups joined as well. So their whole platoon was enjoying a massive picnic breakfast before the assault starts.
Apart from Miyuki platoon the atmosphere in the camp was sour, now that the NPC soldiers left, the guild leaders and captains tried to take control over each other to increase their contribution. Furthermore they were annoyed at the happy go lucky platoons who were acting like they were going to a wedding not to battle. The troops kept smirking at Miyuki platoon believing that they would get wiped out by the goblins because they went serious enough and had a female leader. But at the same time they were jealous at Miyuki platoon was 80% female and they were all very attractive. In Royal road you could change your appearance so almost all players made small changes to their avatars to make themselves feel better.
After breakfast was eaten it was still about 6:30am, but most of the other platoons had set off so Miyuki decided it was about time to head out as well. She sent the 3 rouge siblings ahead as scouts and they all marched towards the goblins. It took 3 hours to reach the outer edge were the goblin scouts routs came by, the scouts sent a message of the first group that was coming, 220 goblins strong and were going to arrive in 20 minutes. Miyuki started shouting orders, the orders were over platoon chat so no one other than them could hear.
“Archers to higher ground, a couple of you climb those trees here as well”
She decided to be in character for this so she referred to the twins, Hope and Prina as lieutenants.
“Lt. Hope take your troops to the left and hide in those bushes, Lt. Nana and leez to the right”
Before Nana left she handed a bag to Miyuki
“hope you like it”
Opening the bag and taking out a mask Miyuki was shocked, it looked like the mask from an early 20 century horror movie called Jason 13, Miyuki remembered watching it once when she was young, she hated classic scary films ever since. Furthermore the mask was pitch black like her robes which wen worn made her look like the goddess of death, all she was missing was a scythe.
Hard carbon plated bronze mask of death
Made by two up and coming blacksmiths with incredible talent.
Duribility 30/30
Effects:
If you're fighting spirit is higher than your opponent you gain a chance to stun them.
-100 attractiveness
+5 def
+10 fighting spirit
Makes your eyes glow red at night
You gain 50% more notoriety when wearing this mask
Requirments:
Level 150
Miyuki sighed and wore the mask and then got focused on the upcoming battle again.
“lt.t Prina, get your troops ready between those trees try and hold the line while backing up slowly”
Lastly Miyuki shouted
“Make sure none of you die, anyone injured fall back immediately I will cover your backs as air support”
Miyuki was planning to fly up amongst the trees while sniping with phonon masor. The moment after she got into the tree from a distance she could see three figures running with the goblin scouting party pursuing them. Miyuki felt they got lucky because this group was smaller than she expected. The goblins fell right into the trap, as soon as they engaged Prinas group Miyuki ordered the attack and the two side groups rushed and joined the battle, followed by a barrage of arrows from the trees. After the initial assault killed almost half of the patrol the battle raged for 2 hours before they killed the rest of the goblins. Miyuki felt it was more of a slaughter than a war, even though the goblin were high level and took time before they died, they were very disorganised and after the surprise attack their moral had dropped to the point where only a few of them were fighting back. But she was happy no one died.
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They repeated this process, having a break only for Lunch and Dinner, it was getting late and the sun had started setting. Miyuki and the lieutenants all agreed it was time to head back when an emergency report came in. 2 large scout groups and one advance scout group was on their way, which was around 600 goblins and 50 elite goblins. This was bad news but Miyuki was thinking ‘How, the goblins never deviated from their paths before and the knights were only seen close to the city’,
Another report a couple of minute’s later confirmed her fears, the scout groups seemed to be chasing a lone shadow leading the scouts to Miyuki platoon. Everyone was exhausted from fighting all day even if they ran they knew they couldn’t get far, also it will be dark soon and the goblins will become 50% stronger. The atmosphere was tense everyone had given up and were waiting for the death that would surly come.
“Everyone run back to the main camp now!!” Miyuki shouted, her loud voice and natural charisma filled the platoon with hope.
“but captain we can’t leave you”
“Yeah lets fight”
*Bam* Prina smacked the warriors heads that said the wanted to fight
“don't be silly the only way we can live is if Captain acts as a decoy”
Everyone knew what she said was true but they still wanted to stay
Everyone started chatting of what to o but to everyone surprise hope raised her voice
“OUR CAPTIN SAID RUN SO LETS RUN, THERE IS NO TIME LEFT” she immediately coward into a ball after saying that blushing like mad I
can’t believe I said that.
After a short silence they all nodded and left, Miyuki could hear the hourses which ment the goblins were near by. She decided to use the same method when dealing with the villages. Making and ice cone and stiing on top of it she waited. As the Goblin came near they saw the red eyes from the masked and were all stunned for a moment. But the goblin knights began moving after a millisecond planning to ignore Miyuki and head for the bigger crowed running away.
“tch” miuyki was annoyed so she removed her mask
The goblins went crazy into a frenzy and started to throw their weapons and Miyuki and run up the ice to no avail. The goblin knights and higher level goblins didn’t seem to be affected but they stopped chasing the platoon and began circling the ice cone.
“This isn’t going to be easy” Miyuki mumbled. She could use Nephilim but the area was too large and to freeze most of it she would use too
much mana and would have none to fight any who didn't get caught. Or she could fire phonon masor but eventually she would run out of mana and the ice cone would melt. Also if she flew away the horseback knights would still have enough time to reach her platoon. Miyuki was in trouble.
***
“its done 10 out of the 16 platoons have almost been wiped out, 3 platoon were destroyed only captain Tryndamere’s platoon and captain Miyuki’s platoon seem to have taken very little damage”
Bad Ray and other members of the guild in the tent eyes widened
“The barbarian Tryndamere and his platoon of barbarians went on a slaughtering rampage it was a gruesome sight they were like undying monsters. And Captain Miyuki seemed to have isolated herself to hold off the goblins as her platoon retreats once she dies we can just assimilate her members”
They were a little worried that 2 platoons survived but it was still a great victory for them. The remaing players were about 300 out of 1500 and they would be disorganised until their captains and the rest of the players could log back in in 4 days. Meanwhile the herms guild could kill a lot of the patrols by then reaping the most contribution.
***
Miyuki decided to risk it she activated Nephilim and killed as many as she could in one go. She was trying to think of a way to use mental interference magic her specialty but this world didn’t seem to allow it, as soon as she tried to activate it a window kept popping up
System error- you are not allowed to manipulate mental coding
Almost all the goblin scouts were dead but 5 goblin knights and several advance goblin warriors were encased in an ice block broke out and were still alive, it was night now and the extra health and their magic resists help them survive. Miyuki had about 5000 mana left enough for several phonon masors or half an hour of magical reinforcement while using some acceleration magics.
Opting for hand to hand combat she activated magical reinforcement and sided down from the cone deactivating the magic holding the cone frozen to replenish some mana. She faced off against the knights it was weird to see but even goblin knights had honour and only one knight came charging at her. He was on a horse and had a long spear. Miyuki knew that if she was hit it would be over so she used acceleration magic to imbed the knights spear into the ground making him poll volt into the air. Miyuki dashed and grabbed the spear, twirling it in the air then she slammed it into the ground. As the goblin fell it got impaled by its own spear and died. Miyuki dashed back and grabbed her staff and got ready again. This time 2 knights came charging at her, it seems they have honour but are still monsters so they tried to gang up on her.
They attacked from two different angles
If they weren’t on horses this wouldn’t be so troublesome thought Miyuki
***
Little did she know that in the forest lied the two of the three shadows that brought the goblins to her. They were watching for the outcome; they had orders to kill her if the goblins can’t finish the job.
***
Miyuki dashed to the left into one of the knights dodging his spear, but before she could react the other knight clipped her waist. This sent her rolling on the floor. Thanks to the armour and her defence she didn’t die instantly.
-1012 hp
When a knight is on a horse their damage can get multiplied by 5 times. Miyuki still had a lot of health left but in this situation she decided to use phonon masor to take care of the horses. With 4 quick shots she killed all the horses. As the goblins fell to the ground Miyuki had enough time to get herself into a defensive posture.
The goblins were now mad, all the remaing knights and warriors began running to Miyuki, the two knights who were closest attacked first. Miyuki had very little mana left so she was forced into a melee. She blocked the first incoming swing with her staff and extended her hand stabbing the goblin knight’s shoulder. As the goblin fell to the floor she looked up and saw she was surrounded. She understood she had lost but she wouldn’t give up, saving any remaining mana she had left she decided to damage the goblins movement as much as she could then fly away.
She dashed into one of the goblin warriors slashing its kneecap but she didn’t stop as the goblin fell, Miyuki ran past the warrior freeing herself from the encirclement and towards a large bolder. With this behind her she could fight without worrying about attacks from behind. Unlike her brother Miyuki was unable to view the information dimension so she was vulnerable to attacks from her blind spots.
The goblins gave chase, they were mad, so mad infect they trampled and killed the goblin Miyuki just slashed. They attacked her with no coordination, the knights previous coordinated fighting was nowhere to be seen. Even though it was like 10 children swinging swords recklessly, every so often Miyuki would get hit, and these children are level 250 goblins. Miyuki was able to take care of all the warriors and 2 of the knights.
The fight lasted half an hour and she had regenerated enough mana to use acceleration magic on the last two goblins propelling them at incredible speeds into the sky, they died as the hit the ground. Miyuki was exhausted, her stamina was depleted and she only had 15% health left. She was glad that she didn’t resort to flying away because the goblin knight would track their platoon then call for reinforcements to take out the main camp. Relieved Miyuki flew up to the top of the bolder and lied town. It was knight time now and she could clearly see the stars of this world high in the night sky. Even though it was all fake, she still believed it was a beautiful sight.
The two shadows however were not going to just stand idly and let this opportunity pass. They quickly and quietly jumped form the tree and appeared on top of Miyuki and stabbed her while she was admiring at the stars.
Fatal blow
Paralysis poison failed
Fatal blow
Paralysis poison failed
You are bleeding, unless you get immediate medical treatment you will die.
Her poison resist saved protected her against the poison but she was in trouble.
They were surprised that she lived after being stabbed twice but after seeing the fatal strike notice they thought their jobs done and were about to leave.
As Miyuki got stabbed she immediately reacted and on reflex she grabbed the two men’s wrists.
Drain magic is now active
You are draining 0.4% Health and mana every second while in contact
You are in a dire situation, bone tree staffs will to survive augments this affect x10; you are now draining 4%/ sec
Before they realised what happened their mana and health was already at 80%, they both quickly pulled out another dagger with their free hand and swung to stab Miyuki again. But she had regained a massive amount of mana and health, immediately using acceleration magic on their hands propelling the daggers onto each other’s hearts receiving fatal damage. They had lost a lot of health and became paralysed form their own poison. They stood there with horror on their faces, there life was being drained and they could do nothing, after a short while the drain magic and the bleed from the stab wound killed them and they faded into dust.
Miyuki was breathing heavily, she had regained a lot of health and mana but because of her mental and physical exhaustion she lied down for a while. Her mood was ruined and slowly began reliving the event. She only came up with one plausible explanation, they were betrayed by another platoon, her suspicion was then confirmed when she returned to the main camp and saw only her platoon and one other came back with minimal casualties. There were lots of people from random platoon complaining about how they got ambushed by goblins and their only choice was to run. There was also a platoon who seemed to have over half their members left but they were all massive barbarians who claimed that they just killed the goblin ambush.
However no one but Miyuki seemed to notice that there was one platoon not participating in this panic, they kept to themselves and seemed to be preparing for battle.
“You will pay” Miyuki said to herself within the commotion.
***
In the headquarters of the herms guild, the guild heads sat and began to plot. Their plan for the foremost was a success, most of the other platoons were out of the picture, and it would take them 4 days to return. They will use this time to sweep up the most contribution points and use the influence they get to begin their campaign to take over the kingdom of heaven.
“It was a success but captain Miyuki and captain Tryndamere survived and the assassins we sent to take care of them are not responding to pm’s so we can assume they are dead”
It was slightly troublesome that they survived and they could expose their plan.
“we don’t know how much they know, we will have to keep an eye on them but we cannot use the same tactic twice because they will be on guard and if we fail again it might cause a head on confrontation with them. That would become a worst case scenario because the mission will fail and this trip would have been for nothing”
They all nodded and decided not to take action for now, they were confident that they could become the largest contributor even with the two other platoons killing goblins.
Notes:
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