Thirty minutes passed in a flash and most of them had fully regained their stamina, while some had theirs to some level.
The bagan making their way towards the goblins settlement.
"Approach with caution." Edith said back in her transformed state.
When they were close to the entrance of the small settlement, they were surprised to see another army of a hundred goblins and and about twenty hobgoblins waiting for them by the gates.
"How can they still be this much even after the ones we killed before." A man said already losing hope.
"Do not feel hopeless. The goblins aren't a treat, only the hobgoblins and the chief are the real treats here." Tessa tried encouraging them.
This small words of encouragement, made them regained the courage they lost.
When the goblins noticed them, without any hesitation that charged head first towards the small army.
Edith ran straight to the incoming without fear, then Tessa followed. The next was Zeke, then they all charged in at once.
Metals hitting against each other resounded throughout the entire forest. Dealing with the goblins were easy for them since three to five attacks were more than enough to kill a goblins, the hobgoblins on the other hand were much harder, and they haven't been able to kill a single one.
The hobgoblins used heavy hitting weapons like Warhammers, Clubs, and Maces. A single hit was enough to put some of the soldiers in a critical state.
There were thirteen hobgoblins in total and the rest were the normal goblins.
Edith was currently fighting against two hobgoblins at once. Using her speed to it's fullest. She narrowly avoided most attacks
from the hobgoblins, while doing some minor damage to them.
'This won't work, I'll only exhaust myself if this drags on.' Edith thought.
Lloyd noticed from the corner of his eyes that Edith was having troubles, he ordered Alpha to aid her with the hobgoblins.
Alpha rushed towards the hobgoblin closest to it and tried bitting off it's head in one go, but the used it's mace and smacked it's head out of the way.
Alpha was sent crashing to the ground, it's body slid across the ground. Although Lloyd summoned creatures felt no pain, Alpha was on the ground for a few seconds.
Lloyd took a peek at Alpha's status window and saw that it's health dropped by nearly half it's hp, but it was quickly going up as it was regenerating with Lloyd's stamina.
The only one who seemed to be holding the upper hand against it's opponent was Tank, who in terms of strength surpassed the hobgoblins.
[Hellfire HAS BEEN ACTIVATED]
A wave of red flames spewed from Lloyd's armor and devoured the hobgoblin which Tank was fighting. Immediately the hobgoblin started shrieking in pain as the flames vigorously consumed him.
Lloyd received a notification informing him that the hobgoblin was dead but he didn't have the time to immediately check it out.
Lloyd instantly moved towards the dead monster on the ground and held his hand over it.
"COME FORTH"
[Soul Extraction HAS BEEN ACTIVATED]
While all this fighting was going on, two cloaked figures stood on one of the trees watching the battle going on.
"Things sure have gotten interesting don't you think, Shark?." One of them said.
"That body has similar powers to the master." The other person added. "Well the deal has been made with that man, things should fall in place from now."
Most people who saw Lloyd extracting the shadow of the hobgoblin a feeling of fear and shock entered them.
Now with the combined strength of the Hobgoblin and Tank, killing was second one was easy
See him extract the shadow from them and controlling them, Tesss finally understood what he meant before.
Since Alpha was currently fighting against an hobgoblin Edith bagan pouring a barrage of attack on the other one.
[Tempest HAS BEEN ACTIVATED]
The air around her moved towards hers hands and started swirling around created a ball of concentrated and condensed air. She threw both hand forward hitting the hobgoblin's lower abdomen.
"DIEEE"
The moment the orbs of air came in contact with the skin of the monster it exploded leaving two massive holes at the area it touched.
The hobgoblin was blown away by the explosion, the other hobgoblin which was currently fighting against Alpha turned towards towards the direction which Edith was fighting.
Edith who was already approaching the hobgoblin scratch it's face with her claws the moment it turned it's head.
Alpha used this chance to pounce on it and ripped out it's throat with it's fangs.
"Never take your eyes off an enemy." Edith said said as she watched Alpha rip it apart.
Slowly, the goblins were being pushed back, by the humans and more than half the hobgoblin has already been taken down.
"Lloyd it's time we head over to the Chief." Chris said while pulling out his sword from the head of a dead hobgoblin.
Chris and his puppets had kill their second hobgoblin and was sure they were ready to take on the Chief.
The two figures who had been watch entire time from above began noticing how the goblins were losing.
"It seems we greatly underestimated their capabilities. Well, that won't really change much." The figure known as Shark said.
"If I could just go down there and have some fun. The blood, I love it, I love it." The other person said giggling.
"Control yourself Baron, the Master won't be happy if you try disrupting his plans." Shark said. "Let's prepare for the next phase of the plan."
Suddenly they disappeared from the tree they were on.
Lloyd now had four hobgoblins under his command. In total he has nine summonings,
'I'll keep the last slot for the Chief.' Lloyd thought.
He left, two hobgoblins, Tank and Amon behind to help the rest of them deal with the remaining goblins.
He and Chris maneuvered their way through the goblins and went into the small settlement.
The settle consisted of about fifty huts that could shelter around ten goblins each and a bigger castle looking hut.
"That building should be where we'll find the Chief," Chris said.
They head for the building which they assumed the Chief was.
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Good day my lovely readers, I know I haven't updated my book in a long time and I am terribly sorry. A lot happen in my life recently. I lost a family member to cancer. That's why haven't been able to release any chapters, but from now on I'll try my best to release more chapters.
Thank You