"Where's Vivi?" asked Ellaria.
Flora gestured back the way they had come and Ellaria bounced to her feet and strode off, still completely buck naked.
The others followed after her. They soon came across Vivi, the battered fox girl busily tugging her longsword free from a fallen tree trunk. The sword had apparently fallen from the sky and embedded itself in the wood hilt deep. She finally managed to get it out and stumbled backwards.
She noticed the others and her face lit up, "Hey! We all lived! Which one of you guys kicked that jerk's ass?"
"Flora, she took him down."
"Noice! Where's the body?"
Flora's eyes slid over the horrifying pancake that was the hobgoblin.
"Uhh, don't worry about it, best you don't know."
Vivi looked non-plussed but shrugged and swung her sword before sheathing it. Fey fussed over her, running her hands over the fox girl's body and healing any injuries.
Ellaria, who seemed perfectly comfortable being stark naked around the others, cracked her knuckles together and jogged on the spot. Fey couldn't help but stare, the elf's perky breasts bouncing up and down in the most hypnotic way possible was not exactly easy to look away from.
"You okay captain?" said Vivi.
"Hmm? Oh yes, I just seem to have a lot of excess energy, like alot alot. I feel so incredibly refreshed for some reason."
"Uh... right."
"Hey, you know we're not done with the job, there's still the goblin camp, there's no way that was the last of the goblins. We should go do that, go go go."
Vivi grinned. "You took the words out of my mouth. I could do with blowing off some more steam."
The elf suddenly started jogging away. Fey blinked in dismay as the distance between them increased quickly and she hurried after the elf. Maybe there were some slight side effects from using such a strong healing spell. After a little while the elf began to run and then to sprint and the others found themselves running after the pinging hyper elf not sure what was happening or why they were running. Flora had given up moving the trees aside and was currently floating overhead above the canopy.
"S-slow down!" called out Fey.
The elf did, but only because she had run straight into a clearing. The clearing was occupied by a few dozen tents, crude homemade tents, made from leathers. Goblin tents.
The band stumbled to a stop behind the naked elf who had her hands on her hips and was staring confidently at the goblin camp.
The goblins for their part slowed about their work and stared at the centaur, the fox girl, the indecently exposed elf, and the… well they didn't know what to make of the giant gnome orb floating down onto the grass.
A group of goblins with weapons began to coalesce at the edge of the camp, the noises they made growing increasingly angry.
"So, all we gotta do is put a stop to all that and we get paid then we will have enough money for travel to the nearest city and hopefully a little for Fey's Soulomancer. Simples." The elf snapped her fingers together several times.
"Is it just me or is Ella acting a little... off," murmured Vivi.
"Definitely just you."
"Yep"
Said Fey and Flora.
Vivi scratched her head and gave the pair a suspicious look. But that didn't stop her from slipping free her longsword, flipping it into the air, catching it and then forming up as the goblins broke from the camp in an angry roar headed straight toward the band.
The goblins… did not stand much of a chance. The only reason they weren't immediately vaporised by Ellaria was because the elf had somehow decided the best way to defeat this oncoming foe was to set her fists on fire and beat the snot out of them.
Suffice to say it wasn't long before all that remained of the goblins was a few piles of burnt diced up meat and two or three survivors struggling to get away, one a hobgoblin struggling beneath Ellaria's foot, a regular normal hobgoblin, not the thing they had fought in the woods.
Flora floated down beside her, her hand on her chin.
"Hmm, you know this is kind of an opportunity."
"An opportunity to do what?"
"To do some testing."
Flora flicked her hand and one of the goblins rose up in the air and began drifting toward Fey who was facing away from them. The struggling goblin came to a stop on top of Fey's horse back. It blinked down at the broad back it was suddenly straddled on top of.
Fey yelped and turned her head trying to see what was on top of her. When she saw it was a goblin sitting nonplussed her eyes snapped to Flora, her brows furrowing.
"Flora, what is the meaning of this! You don't just do that stuff to a centaur! Any other plains centaur would kick your shins off for doing so!"
"Just give it a second yeah?"
"Wha? Wha- OH! Oh gods!"
The goblin on Fey's back suddenly started to rapidly shrink down, losing inches, its face becoming chubbier and cuter.
Fey herself experienced a pleasurable feeling rushing all over her body, a stretching straining feeling. She realised that it was the feeling of growth, however slight. She couldn't help herself and stretched out her arms and moaned.
"Huh, so it does work with monsters. Interesting, interesting."
"Try this one next," said Ellaria, removing her foot from the hobgoblin.
"I'll do both!"
The hobgoblin and last remaining goblin lurched into the air and were slapped down on Fey's back behind the now meek and chubby and weirdly cute previous goblin.
"H-hey! Stop that nuu! I don't want to grow any moar!" said Fey between gasping breaths as the hobgoblin began to shrink down. The hob didn't stop shrinking after just a bit, no, he shrunk down all the way until he was the same size as the first goblin.
Ellaria and Flora paused.
"H-hey, is it just me or does it look like Fey just absorbed that monster's evolution?"
"...That does appear to be the case…"