“What do you say we go and find this place where they appear from?”
Jaimie, who was listening to the two’s conversation, jumped in with a pumped-up expression. “I like that idea! We don’t need to look for them anymore, we can just go to their place.”
Robb raised his eyebrow at the young boy next to him. “You’re becoming scarier and scarier, you little shit. Where has my innocent Jaimie gone to?”
Jaimie scratched his head and laughed, “Hehehe, I just want to fight stronger monsters. Even ogres are becoming boring now…”
Roy scratched his chin in thought for a few seconds. “We need to go look for the largest groups of goblins. I think that’s how we’ll find out what’s going on.”
Robb raised his eyebrow. “The large groups of goblins are all on the other side of the village, close to the hall and the church. Are you sure you wanna go there? We might cross with John’s men.”
Roy shrugged his shoulders. “Even if we cross them, there is nothing they can do. We’re too strong right now.”
Robb’s expression turned solemn. “Are you sure about that?”
“Well, I’m not completely certain,” Roy furrowed his eyebrows and tilted his head at Robb’s question. “But we’re much stronger than even Davis, and he was the strongest of his group.”
“I’m not talking about that.” Robb shook his head. “Do you have it in you to kill them is what I’m asking?”
Roy looked at Robb silently for a few seconds before taking a deep breath. “If they come for my head, I will take theirs. That’s my way of doing things.”
Robb looked at Roy with a hint of doubt for a second before sensing the sincerity in his friend’s eyes. He nodded, “Good. As long as you can do that, then it’s fine.”
The group of three made their way to the other side of the village. The more they inched closer to the village hall, the more they found large packs of goblins and stray ogres. As they went past the hall, they descended a small hill that was on the verge of the forest.
Robb, who was scouting in front of them, signaled them to stop and quiet down. Roy and Jaimie made their way through the shrubs and trees before sitting down next to Robb.
“Look, they’re fighting.”
Roy looked down at the main road only to find two armies at a standstill. John stood on his horse with his white-plated armor and commanded hundreds of knights that were standing on foot.
His army could look intimidating and powerful to other humans, but compared to the monsters, it was nothing. The army of goblins and ogres was at least a thousand men strong. There were close to twenty ogres and they were led by the giant and powerful blue variant.
“Charge!”
With this single order, a clash of fantastical proportions exploded in front of the village entrance. The colors of the rainbow mixed and clashed, with red taking center space. The knight massacred the small and tall goblins with their aura-clad blades. However, they were easy prey to the giant ogres. With each swing of the giants’ clubs, three or four men would be sent flying across the battlefield.
The blue ogre was especially fearsome. While those of his kind would break bones and crush teeth, each of his strikes would vaporize a knight into a mix of pulp and red mist. It used its blue aura right at the start of the battle and showed the humans in front of it the foolishness of their ways.
“Let’s move,” Roy urged. “We found our trace.”
He then pointed at the back of the monster’s army. Small groups of goblins and lone ogres continuously joined from within the forest.
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“Damn, I really wanted to see that battle,” Robb complained. “Just imagining that ugly mug of John being crushed by the blue ogre is getting me hyped.”
“That motherfucking beast is gonna come after you next if it kills them.”
Robb shrugged his shoulders at Roy’s worries. “And what of it? We already killed one yesterday, this time it’s gonna be a piece of cake. Especially with Jaimie here, you can easily go and assassinate it, right?”
Jaimie covered his chin and pursed his lips in thought. “Hmm, if you give me your sword, I think I can do it.”
“It’s not that easy,” Roy sighed and looked back at the battlefield. While the monsters did have the morale advantage at first, it slowly shifted to John’s side. Davis, especially, was showing an incredible amount of valor. The knight captain led the charge against one ogre after the next and fought them with tooth and nail. In just a few minutes, he had already killed two.
Looking at the brave knight, Roy felt even less motivated to down and flank their army. He could only bite his lips bitterly at the thought that such an amazing warrior was serving loyally under his enemy.
Roy shook these thoughts out of his head before looking back at his friends. “Let’s go, we didn’t come here for this.”
Seeing Roy’s serious expression Robb raised his hands, “Okay, okay, no need to look at me like that.”
The trio slithered through the bushes and trees while avoiding any visuals with both the monsters and the knights. After they made sure that they were in a spot where no one was around, they finally went down the hill and entered the forest. They then followed the trail of the monsters for kilometers.
On their way, they killed many groups of large goblins and stray ogres, and their pace did not suffer. It took only a couple of slashes from Robb to kill an ogre by now, and the goblins did not even matter anymore. However, they soon met an opponent that they could not just glide over.
As they were walking through the forest, they saw a large horde of goblins that was one-hundred men strong led by five normal ogre and a blue variant.
As Roy saw these monsters, he conjured a large fireball in his hand before Robb stopped him. “Stop, are you crazy?! You’re gonna burn the whole forest down if you throw that shit.”
As the young man understood his mistake, he focused on the spell that was floating on his hand and willed it to disappear with his mind. Surprisingly, and thankfully, it dissipated at the same speed that it had appeared.
His mind raced for a solution as he saw the horde of monsters charging at them. His eyes widened for a second before he exclaimed, “Let’s run to the road! We can blast them off there.”
Neither Robb nor Jaimie responded, but they both followed immediately after him. As the young boy’s speed was slow in comparison to the two of them, Robb carried him under his arm and dashed. As their speeds reached absurd levels, only the blue ogre and some of the normal ones were able to keep up with them.
After ten minutes of running at full speed, the forest finally cleared out and made space for the main road. It was a large one, made for multiple carriages and horses to pass through it easily.
Roy didn’t stop until he reached the other side of the road, where he then turned around and waited for the blue ogre to appear. He did not have to wait for long, as the moment he turned, the beast pounced out of the dense trees and stood in the middle of the road with a proud expression on its face. In its mind, its prey had grown tired of running and was now desperate.
“Eat this, you ugly fuck!”
Roy conjured a Fireball with a diameter that almost reached his own height. As the blue beast looked at the mass of fire in front of it, all of its instincts screamed for it to run. However, just as it was about to bolt away, Roy launched his spell like a bolt from a ballista.
The impact of the explosion threw Roy, Robb, and Jaimie backward into the other side of the road. As the young man looked up to see the result of his spell, he was shocked, and his shock soon turned into panic.
A massive inferno engulfed the dirt road and with it the blue ogre inside it. The beast screamed and roared in pain as it tried crawling out of the flames, all of its skin and flesh had been burned and bone poked out from its face. Just as it was about to get out of the hellish fire, Robb jumped in and cut off its neck with one swing.
“We need to stop this shit from spreading!”
Roy’s panic did not come from the surviving ogre, but from the grass that was catching fire on both sides of the road. The three then immediately bolted into action to stop the grass from burning and spreading the fire to the rest of the forest. They did not have water, but they did have dirt and sand all over the road. They took it by the handful and threw it at the burning grass, and they kept doing that until the fire stopped. If a place still had some embers left or just small flames, they stepped on it to kill it quickly before it grew larger.
After few minutes of damage control, the inferno grew small enough that it no longer reached the edges of the road. Roy wanted to lay down and rest up for a bit, but Robb immediately stopped him.
"Let's move. Those ogres might come here."
Remembering the horde of ogres, Roy's face turned pale. Robb quickly took the red gem from the beast's burned corpse before the group of three walked along the main road. They continued on for another fifteen minutes to make sure that no monster was on their trail, before they finally let out a sigh of relief.