The mission was simple, a begginer one to start adapting to kill monsters as the people in the squads have only 1 month since they joined the army, so they have only one month of training on them and no experience at fighting what so ever, so we will only wait in the outskirts of a goblin lair in ambush for any monster that tried to escape while the main force atacks the lair with more experienced soldiers of the legions , it was training and nothing more for them, for us our very first battle, the soldiers in my squead were nervous, other 3 squads came with us and we divided to four diferent points in the forest.
The march was tranquill but with the lingering fear and orhers with cockiness as if there wasn't any danger, only the squadron comander wasn't nervous nor letting his attention off from the forest. A squadron is composed of 10 people, the commander of a 10-man squad was someone more experienced than a normal soldier or was a little more powerful than them, but that was it.
And they finally came, with high pitched squeaks, and ragged loinclothes, rusted and wooden weapons, goblins.
Half of the new enlisted of each squad were trembling while spacing out. Among them, the only calm one was Apfel.
The squads comanders treated to maintain formation and protect the greenhorns, but it was then that someone broke out of formation, but not to escape or retreat, but to charge forward, of course he would, this people were just burden for him like they were now.
He thrusted the tip of his spear into the heart of a goblin.Seeing this reckless soldier the other goblins charged at him, while the commanders yelled. He ignored everything, rised his shield and resumed his charge, it was like a dance, and every thrust was exquisite like a venomous snake bite, one thrust one death, no unnecesary movements his charge was like gale and atacks like thunder, in a minute tens of goblins killed like a joke, silence reigned supreme, what else could they do in front of such display of ability, they couldn't move, they were too astonished.
The person himself, on the other hand felt unsatisfied with his performance and then started to feel the efect of conquest. It was an exhilarating feeling of power, his 'stats' at least doubled and his agility tripled with this battle, well, he monopolized so many monsters and he was really weak right now so it was no wonder.
But there wasn't time to waste, this wasn't the end, just the first wave. And just at that moment another group came, but they were diferent. This goblins were elites, goblin warriors, goblin archers and even 4 goblin shamans.
Then the soldiers woke up, and thanks to Apfel charge their moral increased and with a battle cry they dashed forward, of course this was the plan of Apfel from the beggining the first wave were weaklings, these goblins were proper soldiers so, even he would have some inconvenience if they surrounded him as his 'stats' and equipment were low level right now, even though he would win, this was a better setting, more eficient and he can take care of the shamans faster, they would boost his magic power for sure, and he was lacking it extremely.
So as the rest of the soldiers charged he shot like a bullet towards the 4 shamans on the rear as he anihilated anything on his way. He reached them as the shamans chanted desperately atacks, he dodged the first two atacks, used the little magic power he had to reinforce his shield, defending the other two and trowed his spear to one, then bashed the closer one with his shield, made a turn to the goblin on the left while unsheating his sword and sliced it's neck, crushed the head of the shaman that was on the ground because of the shield bash and dashed toward the last one, as this one was about to finish his chant, he used reinforcement on his feets and reached it before it could and finished beheading it. This all happened in mere 4 seconds.
After thet it was onesided masacre, as the goblin lost all their moral, even like that there were 2 or 3 life lost on their side as well and some injured, it could have been worst, in the game, the npc soldiers panic made them useless and the commanders and the players brave enough protected them, but the players were clumsy obviously nothing noting so the second wave that came, concentrated on the commanders, killing them with magic and arrows, but before going down, they take the shamans with them, then the players needed to resist for a determined time until the principal force came to rescue them as the squads were the ones anihilated instead. Because this time he didn't monopolize his 'stats' didn't grow as much as the first wave but his magic incresed, at the begining is really difficult to obtain and by the end of they day he became 4 times stronger.