Jacob readied his sword as his body tensed at the prospect of fighting 3 kobold warriors at once, the enhanced kobold warriors did not give him a chance to consider anything as they roared and ran towards Jacob.
Each of the kobold warriors held two wicked looking blades each of them were the length of Aurelius and than some. With their extra reach granted by the insane height advantage they have and the length of their blades, Jacob decided to bide his time. Instead of meeting them head on, he channeled Flowing Water with a good amount of essence, enough to start explosions and cut through most things.
2 of the kobold warriors came down on him with four giant blades, cutting off his retreat on both sides. Jacob pushed off the ground and moved backwards instead, avoiding the immediate threat of the blades as they crashed heavily onto the ground in front of Jacob. His footing shaken slightly by the tremors caused by the swords, Jacob swayed with the shaking. He swung his sword down trying to test his sword against the blades of the kobolds.
Blue sword met kobold blades and to Jacob’s surprise the sword dug into the blade a little before being stopped. He quickly brought it back up smirking as he did so and got back to his ready stance, bringing Flowing Water parallel to him and squared his arms towards the two kobold warriors. The 4 kobold blades lifted up into the air, Jacob stepped back again as the blades immediately sprang forward without being brought back fully.
This time, Jacob poured forth enough essence to cause Flowing Water to rage and churn vigorously. As he began to swing Flowing Water to cut apart the weapons confidence brimming from his little test, the hair on the back of his neck raised in warning. Jacob quickly stepped towards the direction where the danger was coming from and brought Flowing Water slashing out in the same direction turning his body to face, the most immediate danger.
The third kobold warrior circled around to flank Jacob while he was distracted by the two in front of him, for its effort it had a wooden stake sticking loosely out of its right shoulder. Now Jacob is gonna reward the kobold warrior too, Flowing Water cut through the blades that threatened to take off his arms starting from the shoulder.
As the blades came down the upper half of the blades flew off into the distance, the screech behind Jacob told him that at least one of the part hit the kobold warriors that were now behind him. Jacob not wanting to be caught in the middle of three kobold warriors, rushed towards the least threatening one Flowing Water at the ready.
He kept the sword at his left as he passed the stunned kobold warrior, he quickly put the warrior out of that state as he circled to the back of the monster and pushed all his strength into Flowing Water as he stabbed out with it aiming for where the heart would usually be.
However, the spells cast by the kobold mages did more than make the kobold warriors faster, stronger and bigger. It made them much tougher too, as sword made contact with kobold skin. It slid in smoothly at first but only after a few inches deep, the sword did not move any further as if it had met an immovable object. Jacob’s grin did not falter as he managed to illicit a scream from the kobold warrior, a scream means the kobold could feel and that Jacob could deal with.
Jacob forced more essence into Flowing Water to get the blood inside boiling, even if its defense was toughened up the blood inside can still boil and cause an explosion. As the sword increased its churning, the kobold warrior’s reaction started growing along with the churning within the sword.
The immovable object transitioned to a screaming one as the kobold warrior screamed bloody murder, the muscle catching the sword started giving way. It started a positive cycle for Jacob as the further the sword digs into the kobold warrior, the more pain it delivers and the kobold warrior further drops in its defense. Until the churning brought the sword all the way to the organs of the kobold warrior, Jacob felt a squish as an organ burst into pieces within the kobold warrior.
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He kept up the churning for awhile longer until the kobold warrior collapsed onto the ground knee first followed by the rest of the body, blood pouring out from all its orifices as its body slid away from Jacob. Jacob gave the slinking body a helping hand and kicked it away, receiving an orb of dark blue essence in the process.
He reveled in the victory. ‘One down, two more to go. I just have to avoid catching any of the non-vital parts’ as Jacob finished his thought, the two kobold warriors are coming for their third swing.
With nobody to assault him from behind, Jacob stepped forward and over the corpse of the recently deceased kobold warrior whose body was shrinking visibly in real-time.
He dodged under the the swing of the four blades as they were crisscrossing the spot where Jacob was, he decided to run right in between the kobold warriors and re-enact what he just did with the previous kobold warrior.
He was met with 2 ferocious kobolds swinging their rusted weapons loudly, a single swing put an end to both of them as two light blue essence entered Jacob. Feeling the pressure from the unabsorbed essence, Jacob felt the increased duress to move faster and start absorbing some of the essence.
He quickly moved in-between the two kobold warriors who were moving to open up the space between them so that they could cut Jacob apart without harming their fellow warrior. Jacob did not give them the chance to accomplish their objective, he put his full-force behind Flowing Water as he swung towards the kobold warrior to his right with half of a blade embedded in its right eye, Jacob was injecting as much essence as he could into Flowing Water from the get go. This time the resistance was lesser compared to the previous kobold warrior, this one however was enduring the pain. It did not scream out as Jacob felt its insides churning along with Flowing Water, instead it grabbed onto the sword with both of its hands as they released the weapon on their hands.
Jacob tried pulling back Flowing Water as the kobold warrior tightened its hold, he was not able to achieve even a little bit of success in moving the sword. He took a quick look back to see the approaching dual blades coming right for his head, with no time to think. Jacob let go of his sword and rolled forward, hands grabbing one of the blades on the floor as he completed his roll.
As Jacob picked up a kobold blade, the kobold warrior with Flowing Water stuck onto its mid-riff slowly losing the furious churn. Pulled out the sword along with some liquified innards, it merely grunted from the pain and loss it experienced. Jacob did not spend anytime marveling at the difference between the two kobold warriors. He pumped essence into his legs as he bent them to accumulate energy. He shot upwards, feet leaving the ground and blade in hand.
Before the kobold warrior could react with Flowing Water in its hands, Jacob gave out a roar as he brought the blade directly down onto its left eye. He felt the soft squelch of the eyeball as it popped after making contact with the blade and with Jacob’s pushing the blade in. It quickly made its way through the eyeball and into the brain.
With another squish, Jacob quickly let go of the blade as another dark blue essence entered his body increasing the pressure he felt around his core yet again. With no time to waste, Jacob spun back to see the kobold warrior extending its torso to cut Jacob mid-air. The two blades were aiming for where Jacob would be as he fell, so he decided to kick backwards and launch himself off the kobold warrior.
His head made contact with the kobold warrior’s face, it squished a little before Jacob felt his head rattling from the clash. He had many regrets of his decision as he crashed to the ground defenseless right in front of the kobold warrior with two sharp blades. He rolled to his right hoping to the Gods that the kobold warrior is a dull creature who had no aim.
His hope was dashed as he saw two diagonally approaching blades aiming for where he would be and where he might stop. Jacob shrunk himself into fetal position and drew out all the essence that he could and circulated it throughout the body to give himself, the best chance of receiving the strike from the kobold warrior. He squinted his eye and trembled as he awaited the approaching blade followed by his own blood spouting from his wound, the strike did not come. Instead, Jacob felt wet splatters hitting some parts of his body, but none of the pain he anticipated. Hence, he opened his left eye to peek at what was happening.
A hand sprouted from the chest of the kobold warrior it was covered with red and black essence. It was sizzling the meat as it exited from where it came. The blades having lost the driving force and grip, clattered onto Jacob harmlessly. He quickly felt his own body to make sure nothing was injured, after a quick moment passed by. Jacob sighed in relief and quickly got up. He did a quick survey of the land, none of the kobold warriors were around anymore. Aurelius was right in front of him, Riley and Brian was busy catching their breath beside the corpses of two kobold warrior who shrunk to their original size.