"How did the goblins know we were coming!" Ace mumbled.
"That doesn't matter anymore, does it?. All can do now is fight back." Tessa shouted. "Archers ready yourselves."
Some of the remaining people from the group, brought out wooden bows and quivers of arrows from their inventories.
"Fire at every tree you can find." Tessa commanded.
They drew, aim and fired at every tree they could lay their eyes on. Slowly the fire balls shot at them were becoming less while goblins fell down one after another from the trees.
While all this was happening, Edith's ears picked up something heading their way.
"Something's coming and fast." Edith said.
Since Edith was in her hybrid form, she had better sense of hearing which made her hear things the others couldn't hear. Suddenly loud shrieks and loud footsteps could be heard coming from the direction of the settlement.
"They're here." Edith said looking at the army of goblins advancing towards them.
[Undead Summon HAS BEEN ACTIVATED]
The Warrior Skeleton which he now called Aamon, Alpha and Tank appeared from the shadows portal and stood by Lloyd's side, waiting for his orders.
[Puppet Summon HAS BEEN ACTIVATED]
Chris also summoned his three strongest puppets to prepare for the fast approaching battle.
It was an army of about three hundred goblins charging towards them all holding stone swords.
"Attack." Tessa shouted.
Edith ran into the horde of goblins without any fear. She was easily able to kill them in a single slash of her razor sharp claws.
The first one that rushed towards her, was meet with a claw slash to the chest, then four goblins charged all at once towards her.
[Claw Swipe HAS BEEN ACTIVATED]
She slashed her claws, then eight white claw marks travelled from her hands and ripped the goblins to pieces.
At Tessa's side of the battle, the goblins rushed at her with their swords on hand.
[Lightning Slash HAS BEEN ACTIVATED]
Suddenly, she vanished from her position and the goblins were dying at a fast rate, goblins in front of her were being mercilessly slaughtered, from her lightning fast movements.
They weren't even able to react, all the goblins could was wait for it's turn to be mercilessly killed.
In the span of five seconds, Tessa was able to kill thirty five goblins. After five seconds passed the skill entered it's cooldown returning her speed back to normal .The goblins were now finally able to see the person who had been killing them and more rushed towards her.
Then from behind her a blackish red dire wolf, jumped past her and bit off the head of the closest goblin. Even after seeing the behemoth of a wolf, they shown no signs of fear and kept on moving.
All the attacks from the goblins were futile to Alpha, as any form of damage it took would be regenerated almost instantly. Of course, this did consume a bit of Lloyd's stamina but it wasn't something to worry about.
Zeke, Aamon and Chris' Attack Puppet were an unstoppable trio, killing goblins with ease. Slowly, the goblins were going down, from three hundred goblins the ones that were alive were no more that twenty, all this was done without a single casualty one their side except for the few people that died from the ambush.
The remaining goblins were quickly taken care of.
Exhaustion could be seen on the faces of every one. Heavy breathing sounds filled the air.
"We rest here for a while, before attacking." Tessa ordered.
Ace walked up to Tessa, because something had been on his mind the whole time.
"How did they know we were coming?" Ace asked.
"That's what I want to know." She said.
"When you attacked this place before, did this happen?" Ace inquired.
"No, they didn't even know we were coming."Tessa asked.
Just then Edith back in her normal form walked in and joined in the discussion.
"Our element of surprise had been exposed, our only advantage now is the night." Edith said.
"Do these goblins understand human language?" Ace asked.
"Only hobgoblins and the chief do." Tessa answered.
"I think someone warned them in advance." Ace said.
"That's not possible. The goblins attack humans on sight, there's no way a person could enter without being spotted." Edith said.
"And secondly, you told us it was a hundred and eighty goblins that were at the settlement, but I saw was almost double that number." Ace said. "And, we are yet to face those hobgoblins you talked about."
"We're terrible sorry for the false information, Duke and some men from the hunting team told us that one hundred and eighty goblins were the estimated number of goblins at the settlement." Tessa apologized.
'This seems too suspicious to be a coincidence.' Ace thought.
Just Ace was still in thoughts, Duke approached Tessa.
"Tessa, I think it's time we attack the settlement while it's still dark." Duke said.
"That's gonna have to wait till we've recovered some of our stamina." Tessa said.
"We don't have that time on our side. In a couple of hours, the sun is going to come up and the only advantage we have over them would be gone." Duke agrued.
"Resting is the best course of action. We attack after thirty minutes. That's final." Tessa said, before walking away.
Lloyd sat down under one of the trees, trying to regain his stamina, when Tessa came and sat besides him.
"How to you intend to take down the Goblin Chief?" Tessa asked.
"With those hobgoblins of course." Lloyd said.
"You said that before. I want to know how you intend to do that. It's not like you can just command them." Tessa sarcastically said.
"What if I could." Lloyd said with a smile.
"What do you mean?" Tessa asked.
"You'll see pretty soon." Lloyd said.