In a vast and frozen field, or you may even say a river that was frozen, a huge army of goblins were crossing over the huge bridge that was built there over a thousand years ago.
The name of this bridge was called Sid bridge it was built with something made from crystal like material.
Of course crossing to the other size prove to be difficult due to the size of the bridge, and the sheer size of the army itself.
A total of 200 goblins and 4 chariots can only cross at a time, so of course crossing the bridge especially for an army of a total of 167, 820 goblins would prove difficult to accomplish.
But crossing the bridge itself wasn't the hardest thing, some of the goblin were suddenly dropping down dead, either due to intense over work, or they just reach their natural life span.
You see a goblin life span is only three months, but what made it worse was the fact that this world was experiencing a mysterious plague that shortens the life of a tremendous individual by a large amount.
But of course the goblin race didn't climb at the very top for things such as amazing physical prowess or immense ability, no if anything the goblins were the most dangerous race due to their hyper speed reproduction + absolute breeding + plus reproductive adaptivity + plus with the aid of evolution they were unstoppable.
You see this is a world full with sword, technology, and magic.
Goblin exist before any race dear to come here before them, so of course when the god of this world came and bless the world with magic, all creature was bless with the talent to use the magic.
Well all creature except them of course, but despite been a race hated by the world and the gods themselves, by cross breeding with someone with magic capabilities they can produce offsprings that are call new generation goblins capable of casting magic.
Of course once one goblin dies their descendant inherit all their pass experience and once this cycle of passing on experience through their cells reach a certain threshold or in layman term after hundred of generation of passing downs genetic code to the future generations is complete.
An elite goblin is born, but of course the cycle goes on even from their after an elite goblin pass down his genes from generation and experience from generation to generation a goblin champion is born, from there a hero, then a Monarch and finally a God.
But to become a God or to birth a Goblin god, two condition must be met.
You see in order for the goblin Monarch to Ascended to God hood they must consume the fruit of the Elder tree, which only produce a transcends fruits once every 100 hundred years.
And to produce a second generation Goblin god the new appointed God must crossbreed with the Elder spirit that resides in the tree.
And this huge army of goblins was heading for that tree that only grows in one spot, which was located in a small run down village popular for their medical herb that grow around the Elder tree.
The name of this village is called Elder village.
The plan was to send a small army of a hundred thousand strong at Elder village to receive the divine fruit that would make the goblin king achieve godhood.
And the importance of this fruit was so immense that an important meeting was been held inside a giant Chariots the size of school bus that was armor down from head to toe, as it was been pulled by seventeen ground beetles.
"Commander Goben, we found the harlot that took your left eyes, she with the remaining force of the royal family."
"I see good job Duke Gobras, I presume you have the mana cannon prepared I want the remaining of the royal family, dead."
"Yes it shall be done commander, but I must say what will be of the harlot once captured by our forces"
"Hahaha... in normal terms I would say leave Joan of Arc alone but since we manage to curse her with the curse of sealing with the joint efforts a thousand enchanters."
"She is nothing like before, unless all the enchanters are dead... after all we also took her divine sight, I must say how does the eyes of prophecy look on me although useless since I destroyed it."
"It makes a fine trophy, honestly if fits me more than the bitch if you ask me."
"It looks marvelous on you my Lord."
Spoke a human woman that was wearing nothing but bikini armor, her hair was blue and her eyes was a brown shade, she wear many jewel, she was also pregnant as well.
"Agh... of course this wouldn't have been possible without you Pierre, with this you deserve a promotion, if you didn't trick Joan then I am afraid half of our army would have been annihilated by her magic."
"So from here on out you have been promoted from public breeding slave to one of my personal slave."
The woman had a face of joy plastered on it, but her eyes spoke other wise it was the eye of someone who wish for nothing more than death.
"Thank you for your grace master."
"Good leave me now woman."
From there Pierre bowed gracefully as she exist to the other side of the chariot, meanwhile this man who controlling the army
was the strongest commander of goblin army, and a goblin champion at that.
Commander Goben he was at least 8'7, extremely muscular, his skin was blue meaning that he was crossed with a human, and since a goblin champion he can lived for 10 years easily.
It has been three years since his birth, and since then he made a name for himself, he destroy many empire's and offer the royal family as gift to the goblin king since both queen and the king loves playing with high quality humans.
Eventually he earned the title of Marquis and was given the Moniker "Goben the usurper". he has destroyed 20 human empires and brought all the survivors as slave to the mighty goblin race.
It was for that very reason that the Goblin king task him with the job of retrieving the Elder fruit from Elder village.
But there was one thing stopping them, it was the fact that Elder village was a place that might be run down but it's was highly guarded, and since the royal family of the Einsberg bloodline who are descendant of the great hero Sid who was a person that was summon from another world, in short his blood protects that place.
You see he made a pact with the Elder spirit Beatrix of Eden, the oldest creation to exist in this world, the mother of the Elder fruit.
And since those triplets are alive the goblin force or any other race that is not a pure blooded human, much less a person from the Einsberg family, cannot harvest the Elder fruit
Hence the reason those triplets and the godamn newborn has to die, and without their deaths the goblin race or any other race cannot harvest the Elder fruit.
"Commander by the way the cannon fodder has given word that they spot someone along with Joan and the remaining of the royal family."
"Is that so, who might it be?"
"We think it's the Elder guardian."
"Tsk... So they already made it to the Elder tree, sigh no matters we will just dispose of the guardian as well."
"Ha but commander Goben a guardian is an a monster from ancient time maybe as old as the Elder spirit Beatrix, their no way we can attack it without casualties."
"Hmmm... do you still have ancient scroll we got from koil labyrinth.".
"Yea we do have it, why do you ask?"
"The scroll poses an ancient spell called [Reveria] after I made Dr. Gobjii did some analysis on it, we discovered it a spell that flip defense, meaning it turn a strong defense into a weak and feeble defense, the only thing is, it uses life force instead of mana, so we might need a hundred enchanters or so to cast a spell of this magnitude."
"Ha... how do we cast it?"
"Well it a spell that this from the unique variant class which is the [enchanted swordman] would use in the old days by sacrificing a portion of their lifespan so they can cast it upon their blades and when they attack their enemy, they can cut through things like Mithril with ease, even divine armor wouldn't be spare from it."
"Amazing who is the creator of such a spell?"
"Hahaha... it was created by Gildmore the elven dwarf, or the sage that travel with the hero Sid."
"Are you serious if that the case then that spell has to be at the divine rank, how do you expect a mere 100 goblins to even cast a spell of that caliber instantly, it would take us years to master a spell of that level."
"Hahaha.... for the Duke of the goblin emperor you rather stupid, anyone who has traveled and defeat a labyrinth, and had the luck of receiving a scroll would know that the spell has already been cast but need a catalyst to release it."
"Tsk~~~ are you trying to say we should sacrifice a hundred goblin enchanters, to kill off the guardian."
"It a small sacrifice on our part, get it done and stop your blabbering before I rip your head off and feed it to the orc carriers."
Upon hearing those threatening words Gobras flinch in fear a little, but deep inside he for one wants nothing more than to kill this man, he never listen to him, despite his experience on the battle field.
But been a weaker caliber of goblin he had no ways of disobeying, so he followed his orders as he said with a Shakey voice.
"Right away c-c-commander."
Spoke Gobras as he hesitantly leave the chariot and flew towards the mana cannon.
"Oi you get me the horn."
"Ghaa."
Spoke the new born goblin pointing at himself as he was enjoying the pleasure of flesh of a half dead female knight.
"Yes of course it's you, who else is hear move you stupid fodder hurry up."
"Ghaaaaaa!"
Spoke the stupid goblin as he rush to fetch the assembly horn for Gobras.
And after a minute or two the nameless goblin return with a giant horn struggling to fetch it in the first place, as he bowed before Gobras giving him the assembly horn.
The goblin then went back doing what he was doing earlier since he was with reproduction crew.
Gobras then walk upon the long barrel of the mana cannon as he order the rider to to cease it motion.
"I can't take the commander sometimes who the hell does he think he is, just because he is a champion doesn't give him right to push me around."
Spoke Gobras he prepared to blow the giant horn that stop the army in it's track.
Although Gobras was short in stature, even shorter than normal goblins he was still an elite goblin, he wore nothing but a coat made from a deer like monster as the hood still had the antlers on it.
So with the super strength of an elite goblin Gobras took the giant horn and began blowing with all his might.
---Honnnnnnnmnnnnk!--
The loud and mighty horn echoed throughout the field, it was so loud each and every goblin present here heard it loud and clear.
This was an assembly horn they are four types each bearing a different sound they are use to summon goblin of different classes.
You see in this world they are four classes which are.
[Enchanters]
. Who are people that use the mana in the atmosphere to manipulate the elements around them to there bidding
[Fighters]
. Who are people that use the mana in the atmosphere to increase their physical prowess to unleashed destructive martial arts upon the enemy.
[Healers]
. Who are people that manipulate the mana inside said individuals to cleanse disease and sickness along with speeding up cellular regeneration to heal a target.
[Misfit]
. Who are people lucky enough to be born with a inherent mutation cause by excessive mana in the body which cause the mana to mutate over time granting a person a special ability unique only to them.
And this one horn was made to summon fort the enchanters.
And after a blowing it many enchanters came before him as they all bow down.
From there Gobras began explaining the plan of using the ancient scroll to cast Reveria upon the the destructive cannon balls.
And little to no time a small army of 200 enchanters were line up one behind one another's as they use themselves as a catalyst to cast Reveria on the the cannon balls.
And after the first ten was finish a total of 123 goblin enchanters fell dead to the ground.
While the remaining pass out, some even nearing death.
Gobras then look upon the rider as he spoke.
"Gobit do you think you can use your marksman skill to hit the enemies, after all, you did use your powers to locate the harlot and the royal annoyances in the first place."
Spoke Gobras as he spoke to a goblin who had woof hide as his loin cloth along with full green skin, he has weird red tattoos plaster all over him.
But what made him stand out the most was the fact that he was one of the lucky ones to be born a misfit.
Evidence to this was the fact that his eyes look like scope, if anything it made him look really ridiculous, but don't let looks fool you these eyes have a rather annoying ability, and the name he came up with for his power is called "The all seeing eye"
With this ability he can link his vision with anyone he has seen beforehand.
Making him a perfect spy to gather information.
"How is the target, are you confident you can hit it?"
"Of course I Go it can hit it, from ever since I know my self I have never miss a shot."
Spoke Gobit bragging about his inescapable aim.
"Well you better not, commence the attack."
"Yes."
Gobit then began to use the all seeing eyes as he took the aim towards towards the royal children of the Einsberg family.
He align it perfectly to all four of them as he prepared to take the shot.
"Hehehe... what a beautiful woman I only hope and pray commander Goben will make the colony have a round or two with her before he kill her."
"Hmmm... I'm guessing that big guy is the Elder guardian, maybe I should send a fake to draw his attention, if I do that by the pact made by the Einsberg family, he should protect them, yeah let's send a fake with enchanted destructive cannon ball, I doubt he will be able to survive, after all, a divine rank spell isn't to scoff at."
With that said Gobit pulled the trigger to send a fake as it land six meters away from the children.
And upon impacted they all jump in fear.
"Hahahaha... slip slip... little maggots if you don't move it will be over quickly... and the big guys he running away how laughable, how laughable."
Spoke Gobit with a creepy smile on his face, jumping in excitement, as his long tongue was drooling and flooding the ground beneath him.
"Fufufu... let's go again, let's go again."
From there he send yet another shot, this time it was send to kill the children but just in a nick of time Joan of Arc jump in to save them but the cost of such brave stunt was her hand, as the destructive cannon ball rip through it, blood stain the snowy ground beneath as she weeps in pain, holding the now destroyed limb.
"Agh... the crazy bitch tank it what the hell, oh well the corpse would do fine, by the time it reach it should have some warmth left."
"Now then big guys let's see how much those children mean to you."
--Boom!--
The destructive cannon ball rip through the air as it flew towards the children, preparing to rip them to shreds.
But just as he predicted, the big guy jump in front of them to take the attack.
And upon impact, it completely destroyed his entire upper body, intestines were falling out, blood sprayed all over the places, his still beating heart was exposed for all to see.
"Hahahaha... the guardian is dead no one can survive that, what a bloody mess, praised Gobit."
But that celebration was soon cut off as Gobit witness something he has never witness in his short life.
The guardian flesh and bones started to reform once more, the serious and life threatening wound that should kill a person immediately disappeared.
The bones that were crack began to mold and reshape back together, as flesh and tendons wrap around the bones reforming everything that was destroyed and dismantle back to its original state, and at super fast speed at that.
"No, no, no this is impossible what the hell is that monster, Gobit refuse this, Gobit must correct, let's see if you can hand a full power blast from the mana cannon."
--Booom!--
Gobit send yet another round, this time at full power, the mere force was so fast an so powerful the orc holding them jerk back as it fell to the floor.
But just as the shot that was fired towards him nearing it's destination, Gobit witness something truly terrifying, his projectile was destroyed by its own force, as it was flatten by the armor of the guardian.
"H-H-How is this possible, that was a full power shot from a mana cannon, that was enough force to blow a fire dragon head clean off."
"What the hell is that immortal monster, I must inform Gobras immediately."
From there Gobit went to inform Gobras about the enemy who survived a full power shot from the mana cannon without a single scratch.
"What are you serious?"
"Yes, yes I saw it with my own eye, it completely destroyed him the first time around, but the second time I fired it at him he survive without a scratch present on him, and it was a full power shot at that."
"Shit! I told Goben that a guardian isn't a easy prey to scoff at, yet he ignore me fuck! look Gobit keep an eyes on the guardian inform me of it's every movements, meanwhile I will go and inform Goben of the potential danger of the guardian."
Gobit look at Gobras as he shakes his head in understanding, and began turning around to go back at the pilot seat, but as he did that both him and Gobras began hearing a menacing whistle cutting through the air and coming from the north.
--Fhreeeee!--
Gobras instantly turn to the direction of the loud cutting sound, as he strain his eyes to see what causing the sound.
"What the hell is that bright red dot coming from the sky?"
Gobit stop to take a look as he spoke and said.
"Give me a moment I'm going to zoom in and see what it is."
Gobit then zoom in as he got a good look of the thing before him, it was a giant red spear that look more like a lance with a pointy tip, it was easily over eight feet tall and when he got good look he said.
"It look like a giant spe...
--Stab!--
But before Gobit could say what he wanted to say he was brutally impale by the spear that was moving so fast that Gobit was actually looking at nothing but it's after image this entire time.
Red blood flew in every direction as Gobit whole head was impaled by a falling projectile that was moving at supersonic speed.
It was moving so fast if you view it in the sky, you would be looking at nothing but it's after image.
The large projectile peirce Gobit and impale him tightly to the metal Chariot.
One of his scope like eyes role toward a shocked Gobras, who look back the now dead Gobit, his face covered in blood.
In shock he look at the giant lance like spear both in awe and fear, but mostly fear as it was producing a scary and terrifying aura.
In pure shock, panic, and confusion he began to ask.
"What the hell is th...
But before Gobras or any other goblin that present here could utter another word.
A bright red light engulf everyone, and in that moment Gobras ears ringed loudly to the point he soon began to be deaf to everything that was around him.
And in this silent world, he feel his thoughts were trap in time, glaring at the light in pure shock that suddenly aroused, it grow brighter and brighter till eventually it engulfs him and then.
--Booooooom!--
What happen next can only be described as catastrophic, because everything within a four mile radius was annihilated without question.
A giant fire ball emerges shortly after annihilating and disintegrating everything that was unlucky enough to be caught up in it immense destructive power.
The frozen ground beneath them instantly melt away and the lake brake apart causing water that hasn't flow for thousand of years to flow once more while been evaporated.
The tree around were blown away due to shock wave that was been produce, or burnt to a crisp, the bridge was instantly destroyed, the clouds were push aside, and heavy wind were been produce in every direction as countless projectile flew with much destruction, caused by the immense force of the impact winds, to scattered the rubble's and debris causes by the explosion.
And by the end of it, all that remain were pieces of the metal chariots melting slowly in pits of lava, the scorch ground burn from the immense heat that came from the explosion, and a giant mushroom cloud that was rising above the clouds for all to see emerge.
This day would be the day that an army of 167, 820 goblin perish to the wrath of Author Pendragon by a single attack.