Forest of Death by Yurii Zobkiv

Author:Yurii Zobkiv [Zobkiv, Yurii]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

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Howard deflected the awkward thrust with his mace and crushed the goblin's head in the same smooth motion. Finally getting a moment of rest, Howard looked around and tried to judge the flow of the battle.

To put it shortly, things were not going well. Earlier in the afternoon, the expedition had dug in at the top of a small hill and triggered the attack. There wasn’t much forest around, so they could not build fortifications out of wood, but what they could do was dig. By the time the goblins arrived, the human force had a wide six-foot-deep trench going all around their position. Additionally, the earth they dug up formed a four-foot rampart on their side of the trench.

The defenses should have been a great obstacle for the goblins. And they were for the first couple of hundred of them. But there were a lot of goblins, and they were tenacious and fearless creatures. Soon they were just walking right over several fleshy bridges right up to the rampart.

Beautiful creatures, Howard thought and then immediately shook his head. What? Why? That wasn’t like me.

Howard raised his shield, and an arrow embedded itself in it. It looked like the main goblin force was finally joining the fight. While the goblin archers peppered his position with arrows, the goblin soldiers marched forward. Most of the adventurers were still busy dealing with the smaller classless goblins, and the goblin soldiers advanced mostly unopposed. Only a few spells and abilities flew at them.

The goblin soldiers, or them managing to kill him, were not Howard’s biggest concern, however. Before the mission, Ikaria mentioned that she would bring him back if he died. What worried and angered him the most was the continuing absence of the four remaining master rank adventurers that were supposed to be doing the bulk of the fighting.

The five master-ranked adventurers were all part of one party. There were three melee fighters, a mage that used a wind magic skill, and a dedicated healer. As the expedition traveled, Howard got to see them a lot, and if he had to describe them in one word, then it would be arrogant. However, the second word would be family. He had never seen a group of people so happy about being in each other’s presence.

Earlier, when the first wave of goblins came into sight, the five master-rank adventurers were still with the group and inspired confidence in the mission's success. While the melee fighters and the healer did not have many ranged options, the mage by himself managed to wipe out hundreds of goblins before they even came into anyone else’s range.

Then disaster struck. Five small figures, wrapped in rags and practically invisible, sneaked right past the sentries in the back while everyone was distracted. The wind-magic user noticed the threat just in time and managed to defend herself. The healer was too slow, however, and was decapitated by the goblin’s shortsword. One of the goblins grabbed the severed head, and then they scattered, killing two sentries on their way out.

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