A flash of blue came from where the second person Shiva was speaking to was hidden, and then the sound of stumbling.
"Wh- what is this? Is this some kind of prank? H-hey wait! Stop!" came a third voice.
The fwhip of a knife and a spatter of blood and then a gasping gurgling came from behind the stone which ended in the sound of someone collapsing.
"Why did you just make your human summoning stone worthless? I admit that I have not heard of a human summoning stone before but you seem to have already destroyed this rarity."
There was a second flash of blue and a woman's scream and the spatter of more blood. Shiva raised a brow.
"I see. Interesting. Very interesting."
"You will never run out of food. This is nigh infinite, I know, I have tested it thousands of times."
The Kobogon shifted, her centre of balance suggesting a sense of withheld murder.
"You are going to give this to me."
"Well yes, It is a gift. You will of course join me afterwards."
The Kobogon paused. "Why?"
"Because I can provide the thing you want the most, this is simply a sample to prove I am worthy of trust."
"You cannot give me what I want goblin."
"Can I not? I know you want to see the dragons fall, all this time scurrying around in the backwoods of the world trying to avoid their attention, you are one of the original birthed Kobogons, as ageless as the Dragons, all this time and you have not even begun to approach thinking about taking her on, taking on… the Queen."
This got a reaction out of Shiva and her lip curled flashing her fangs.
Fey thought the Kobogon was about to leap on the person she was speaking too but she withheld herself and it was as though that moment of passing fury had never happened.
Braddox was nearing by this point and Fey and Ellaria hurried after, they passed by the stone at near the same time, Braddox lifting his hammer.
Then the person Shiva was speaking to came into view. It took a moment for Fey to realise that the Kobogon had been speaking quite literally about what they were. A grubby goblin child with a split lip and a bloody knife in his hand was standing on a shelf cut from the stone to be of a height with Shiva, his filthy rags barely covering his unwashed body.
The goblin child blinked, squinting as though trying to see through a haze, and then his eyes seemed to find a focus and he looked right at Ellaria and then Fey and then he staggered and the knife fell from his hands as his eyes fell upon Flora who was casually picking her nose. Shock, then something else crossed his face, as though some horribly traumatic memory had suddenly been brought to mind.
"It- It can't be, h-how did you psychopaths find meeee!?"
Ellaria's head snapped to Braddox. "Do it now! He knows!"
Braddox lifted his anvil hammer high in the air.
"LIMIT BREAK: METEOR STRIKE!"
The anvil hammer abruptly quintupled in size, becoming a monolithic block of metal of unimaginable weight. It seemed to have inherited velocity because it was already moving, the air around it immediately igniting into streamers of blazing fire, a thing coming down from the stratosphere to earth like the wrathful burning fist of a war god.
"Shiva! it's -"
Shiva didn't need more warning than that, her head turned and a pulse of magic blew out from her causing a tingling sensation to wash across Fey's skin, Baerinda let out a scream behind her and collapsed atop Chloe. The illusions were gone.
Worse, the Kobogon's arm whipped out and her clawed hand slapped up against the descending super sized anvil, her body efficiently slid into the absolute most optimal position and she simply took the anvil's combined weight and velocity. She immediately sank about a foot into the solid stone beneath her, her clawed feet punching through, creating meters wide craters of fractured stone.
Braddox roared and put his all into it, but it didn't matter, somehow the impossible had happened, the Limit Break had been halted, the immense hammer now held in the slim Kobogon's one hand.
Then she turned and punched Braddox.
Fey could only look on in horror, time seeming to slow to a crawl as it happened. The Kobogon's fist hit Braddox's chest and much like the stone below his chest Cratered, the impact point causing his ribcage to go concave as his shattered ribs shredded his flesh, his lungs becoming pulp as bone ripped through and fired out the back of his torso.
Blood gushed from his open mouth, his eyes wide with shock, as he was launched backwards through the air to slam against the cave wall with a gruesome crunch before he fell to the ground, blood waterfalling from the dome-shaped torso wide crater, his body a ruin.