Chapter 8

Authors Note: Would the audience that reads my story need a POV reference when i switch scenes or is is pretty clear on whoms point of view your watching from? Word Count 3956.

The goblins began to surround the walls of Ridge City using the forest as camouflage. All of the near goblin villages were gathered here today for the first strike against the so called higher races. Once all the villages were in place the Goblin chiefs brought out their horns and blew. The sound causes the guards to look towards the forest as the goblins spilt out. The madness in the eyes of the goblins stuns the guards. Before even one guard can respond the goblins are already half way to the walls. Finally a guard clears his mind enough to sound the bell. The ring of the bell awakens the other guards and the rest of the bells ring. The goblin forces are coming from all directions!

The guards let off a couple of shots with their bows. It was a futile effort to say the least. The guards on the ground are able to close and lock the gate to the approaching enemy forces. The goblins come prepared and throw ladders at the walls and start to scale. The guards switch from their bows to the sword and shield. With only 20 guards on each wall the goblins are able to scale the wall and fight the guards on the stone wall. The goblins chiefs start grumbling and stomping the ground forming what to be called a primal dance. After their dance is complete the goblins start to gain a small red aura. The guards raise their shields to the goblins as the goblins raise their cleavers above their heads and slashing at anything that was an enemy.

The goblin shaman starts chanting in chorus. The shamans are starting to sport cuts all along their bodies and blood begins to flow above their heads forming a magic circle with runes inside. After a couple of minutes their chant ends and the magic blood circle shines and a blue aurora beam flies to the closed gate. The gate shatters at the pressure and flies off the hinges.

The chiefs of the villages gather their strongest and lead them into the city. The chiefs all start to babble of the goblin language as soon as they past the blasted gates. When they all seem to be in agreement they lift their axes in unison and roar into the air. This causes all the goblins to stop and fall to the ground. Seconds pass without them getting up. The Guards start to stab at the fallen bodies to make sure they are dead. Finally, all the goblins get up and start to move around in a frenzy. The Guards were all shocked at seeing the eyes of the goblins that shown a bright blue. In minutes the guard are forced into a circular formation as to not be caught in the frenzy of the goblins.

"We are going to die today," One guard voices the thought of every guard's.

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Alexandra grabs her staff tightly and looks towards the city wall behind the monastery where the guards were just starting to clash against the few goblins that got to the top first. Alexandra looks left and right and then directly at me with a hint of horror in her eyes.

"We need to protect the monastery. The people who cannot fight will come here to receive our protection." I look towards the East district where my love is. "Please I need you here."

Looking towards the East for a second longer I tear my gaze from it and looks towards the center of town where the kids are already running towards us from the Orphanage with Ms. Johnson closely behind carrying the youngest of the groups. The families hastily head towards them carrying babies and some valuables. " Fine I will protect the people, for now."

"I need to head to the backyard for the goblins from the wall. I will leave you to the front. Protect it with everything you have." She gives me one last look and then runs through the front door and out the back.

'Alright need to look at my Chi Fist. Spell Status Chi Fist'

Chi Fist

Beginner Level 1 0%

Cool Down 0s

The skill enchants your fists with the power of Chi causing every strike to do 110% damage at the cost of 10 chi or 20 health.

"That... Is... Useful." Stunned at how strong this spell could be at later levels. 'I am going to have to grind this skill, it will most likely be the bread and butter of my skills.'

Snapping from his thoughts at the scream of a young boy. Focusing towards the entrance of the plaza he saw a young boy running with a broom in his hands. Three goblins came around the corner with their blue eyes looking for any signs of life. The boy saw this and begun to trip over the bristles of the broom. He quickly got up and left the broom on the cobbled streets. He has begun crying as he ran past me and the goblins pick up their pace at his cries.

Getting into a fighting stance as the goblins stumbling over each other trying to get in the first shot on me. Finally, one place his foot on the other goblin's face and pushes off launching himself at me with his rusty cleaver above his head. This was his demise. Thinking the skill Chi Fist I use every muscle to throw a punch with my Chi Enchanted Fist. My fist lands right between his eyes. I feel every bone my fist touch break. Until all I feel are his shattered bones. Seconds later his body vanishes with coins falling to the floor. Before I can identify the coins the other goblins are upon me. One tries to swipe at me with his claws. Taking a step back and bring my hand to grab a hold of his swiping claw. Pulling him in and using my other elbow as I smash his face. It wasn't enough to kill, but he seems dazed. I swing him around causing his body to lift from the ground. I slam his body into his partner. This causes them to tangle into each other as they try to push away from each other.

Pulling the goblin's brunette hair I slam another chi enchanted fist into his unprotected face. This causes him to become dazed again. The goblin underneath pushes his dazed companion off of him and jumps up. He swipes at me like a maniac. I can't follow his crazed movements. Finally, I have had enough of his crazed movements and I let off one more punch before his partner clears his head. I was able to land the punch, but at the cost of his claws landing two swipes against my abdomen. The pain causes me to flinch. We both back up from each other. His partner gets up from the daze with blood trickling from his nose.

I won't be able to take them two versus one like this. I take one more step back and my heel bumps into something. Taking a peek down I see the broom. With a smile forming on my face I jump back and scoop it off the floor. Twirling it so the bristles are facing down. I land a curb stomp and successfully break it half way through... -.-

The goblins waste no time and attack me before I make a clean break. One of the goblins is faster and jumps at me. Hoping this works I twist the bristles into his face.

*Crack! *

The bristles are now broken and I have a useable staff??? The broom handle starts to give a slight silver glow an a blue box appears.

Broken Broom Handle

Type: Level 0 Staff Durability: 9/15

Damage: 1-2 Element: N/A

Requirements: N/A

Bonus Status: N/A

Description: With a dash of ingenuity and a glop of depression this once broom has become a useless staff!

Do you want to Equip this Staff?

Yes No

"Yes!" the boxes disappears with a goblin's claw behind it and lands a claw across my face.

'Damn it, I am already down to half health'

I hit the goblin in the stomach causing it to take a step back. I move the broken part of the staff to the above position and hold it in front of me. A goblin charges me and when he becomes close enough once more he jumps again to strike at my face. I smile at the stupid goblins basic tactics and aim at the approaching goblin's eye. With a satisfying jerk the staff went into the eye of the goblin. I push him to the floor. With all my strength and weight I push further until he disappears into motes of light and copper coins. This causes me to fall forward without the goblin's body supporting me anymore.

The goblin taking advantage of this slip and jumps on my back and wraps its tiny legs around my side and tries to claw my back. Before that happens, I push off the ground and slam him into the pavement. His grip loosens and I roll off and pick myself up. The goblin is still holding his bleeding head. I curb stomp him multiple times before he disappears into motes of light. This time he drops 5 copper coins and his bull ring. I pick up the coins and place them in my inventory and examine the bull ring

Goblins Bull Ring

Type: Level 1 Bracelet Durability: 29/30

Common Accessory

Requirements: N/A

Bonus Stats: +1 Defense

Description: When goblins are born, they are given a bull ring to wear to signify they are part of a tribe. This also becomes a test to weed out the weak goblins who bleed out from improper healing methods

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Do you want to Equip

Yes No

I push the yes button and take a look around. Seeing the copper coins scattered around me, I begin to grab them all and place them into my inventory. I sit into a meditated formation and open my menu and click the options button. Looking through it, I find an option that lets items that drop automatically be placed into the inventory. The only downside is that it won't place it in the most space efficient way.

With that all done, I get back up and pick up the fallen broom handle. I begin to twirl it around to get used to the weight. Taking a couple of steps around the plaza to check if any part of my body was too bad to wear. Suddenly a scream from a young man comes from the entrance to the plaza.

"Somebody help! I am being chased by beastman and goblins!"

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The bells could even be heard from inside the dance hall. The students start to talk in fright and others begin to gather their items from their lockers. Melody looks from left to right for the teachers. Victor races to the center of the room where he claps his hand in quick succession. Once he gets the attention of all the students.

"Now lend me your attention for this brief second. I understand you have families at home and you want to get to them, but we are not only dancers we are warriors. Our bodies are weapons that can captivate our foes and make them do foolish deadly mistakes. Those guards need our help. No matter if you're a beginner or a master dancer we need everybody that is willing to volunteer .So please wear your best outfit and lets us defend our homes from the invaders." The speech had a calming and positive effect on the group. This also causes all the dancers to grab their dancing outfits from the lockers and undress right there.

'No shame in showbiz I guess' Without any dancer outfit to put on she begun to walk over to Victor. Victor was talking to the teachers about how to separate the students and which teachers would take lead of which group. After he explained it, he turns around and bumps instantly into Melody who was listening in on the conversation.

"Sorry to bump into you. The beginners will be with me since I won't need that much in the way of CC to preform my dance of death." He walks towards the beginner's corner with Melody falls short behind. "Alright ladies and gentleman this is our show and I shall be the director. I ask you to preform the first dance you all got, The White Lily. Know this if we are all doing the same dance the effects are multiplied.'

"I am sorry Ms. Victor but I actually never got The White Lily skill" Melody claims. Victor looks over at her and gives a quick nod.

"I knew you wouldn't Melody, as a bard you won't learn any dancing skills. You can still manually dance it, but it won't cause any effects." Victor once more starts calling names and getting the students into rows so they had enough room to dance. After he was done, he walks over to Melody. "I am going to need to do something a little different. I need you to sing the song called Calling of the Earth. Do you know the song."

"Yes, I know the song, Teacher." He nods his head a couple more times as he thought of his plans. Melody slightly impatiently pokes Victor. "Is there anything else I can do?"

"Well, sadly there isn't a piano around that you can play. So they only thing you can do is sing. SING UNTIL YOUR LUNGS GIVE OUT." He hastily outside and once more Melody follows him.

"My god..." Melody was looking upon a truly horrific scene. Goblins are all along the top of the walls attacking guards and overwhelming them. The goblins in their berserk state, even fell from the wall. Most of them landing head first thus turning into motes of light, but the unlucky ones would end up with shatter limbs if the sounds that were carrying were of any indication.

"Alright everybody lets go, lets go." All of the students came out to the front of the dance guild. Facing the students that are forming groups he rises his hands and spreads them afar. "Hurry, hurry we need haste in your steps. Alright on the count of three."

As the students finally formed their groups, the gate explodes and pieces are flung towards the groups. Some of the students scream at the power behind that shot. Victor faces once more at his students and looks each of them dead in the eye. "Do not waver! The spell they used can only be used once. Do not worry I will show you the secret behind the dancer class."

With his hands once more in the air, two knives appear and drop into his open hands. He turns back to the shattered gate and watches as the goblins spill from it like a flood.

"One." He begins to bob his head while he hums a song. Melody takes her position in the center of all the groups so that her song had the full AoE effect. The goblins sees the mass of people and aim their killing intent at them.

"Two." He starts to spin while bobbing his head. Melody gathers all her courage and prepares her voice. The goblins are tripping over themselves to get first blood.

"Three!" Everybody starts to dance causing buffs and debuffs in mass. The beginners dance causes the goblins who watch to be effected by charm debuff. Victor jumps into the goblins and begins slashing the goblins close to him.

Melody began her song.

Calling of the Earth

Beginner Lvl 2 35%

All who hear this song are granted 1% increased mana regen every 3 seconds. Buff does stack.

The soothing sound of the Earths embrace was the exact opposite feeling of the bloodshed that Victor and the other dance instructors were causing. Victor was now throwing knives at goblins that were breaking from the charm debuff. With each knife that he threw another would appear come out of no where and be caught by his hand.

The Bards guild came from around the corner with Instruments and used them as weapons against the goblin forces. While not as pretty as the spinning Victor, they were just as prepared to kill the foreign invaders.

Melody raises her voice even louder in the hopes that her buff could reach the bards and any other fighter in the city.

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"Somebody help! I am being chased by beastman and goblins!" With that the young man came bursting into the plaza. Behind him were the same beastman that he had argued with earlier. The hyena and bear were running on four legs behind the young man's heels. What they brought along were at least ten goblins. Ripe for the killing.

"Run past me. I will take care of your goblin problem." At the sound of my voice the young man gave one last burst and flew by me. The hyena and bear saw that the man was safe and began to slow down. Once they were by my side the got back up on two legs and turn towards the approaching goblins.

"Are you a player or a resident. If you are a resident follow the boy inside. My husband and I will take care of these goblins." The bear spoke without letting the goblins leave her sight.

"Player. Class is monk. Party up?" The goblins are too close for proper introductions.

"Shaman and I accept." The bear then roar towards the goblins stopping their advance.

"Warrior and I also accept" The hyena roar was less intimidating as it was a laugh. Half of the goblins got mad at being laughed at and went towards the hyena. "Nice Unattended Taunt."

"At least you are a warrior." I sarcastically claim. As such I put myself with the shaman. with 5 goblins heading towards the shaman and myself. I didn't think we have any problems. The bear starts chanting behind me as the enemy engage me. As I struck my makeshift staff upon the closes goblins head, ghostly thorns start to wrap around my body.

"Do not worry about the thorns they are mine." Once more the she beast begins her chanting. Thorns usually means reflecting damage to melees. Lets try out a couple of things. With my thoughts wandering for the slightly of seconds a cleaver's tip was able to give me a shallow cut on my leg. The thorns lite up and shot a thorn at the goblin who attacked me.

'Confirmed its a reflection spell. Now lets see how well it works.' From that thought I begun to experiment with the spell. My movements became fluid with my objective in mind and I went by one blade with ease and even got a quick strike to his knee. A thorn shoot off at the goblin I hit. 'Oh I was not expecting that. So not only if I get hit but if I do the hitting it fires off. Now back to what I wanted to check.'

I dodge a few more cleavers and finally come upon the only goblin without a cleaver and let his claw come at me. I then block his swipe with my staff. As soon as they collided a thorn shot at the goblin. With a big smile hit the unarmed goblin's shoulder with the butt of my staff and twirl around him causing all the goblins to now be at my front. The once more raise their cleavers above their heads and before the could take a step forward a deafening roar came from behind them. The bear woman finally finished her chanting and begun her attack. Swiping her claws at the goblins and they threw from her impact.

*Whistle* "You must work out!" The goblins looked at the bear that was mauling their front line. I used the opportunity and start smacking the weaponless goblin all over his body. The thorns were having a field day shooting up this goblin. After the fifth strike the goblin disappeared once more into a mote of light. The goblin closes to its death cries turn and starts swing his cleaver unintelligently. I do not parry or block the cleaver as my staff already had a low durability to begin with. The staff luckily has a longer reach, so while i land a strike upon different parts of his body he isn't able to strike me. Its slower then the full brute force but it got the job done. Two down I look at what was left our group. Seeing only two more goblins fighting the woman I turn towards the hyena and see he is still fighting two goblins too but his body is sporting a good amount of cuts.

"I need to go help your husband." The bear kept attacking. Hoping she heard me I ran to the hyena and struck the goblin behind his knee causing him to fall to the ground. The next strike was to his head. It must have been a critical. The goblin poofed out of existence and I once more face the remaining opponents. I stab the next goblin in the ear with the jagged edge of the staff. The goblin turn around and only succeeds in making the wound worse. The pain causes him to the ground as he is holding his bleeding ear. With a curb stomp I end its pain. At the same time the hyena pushes the other goblin to the ground and bites his head off. The hyena look at me with his tongue out like a dog in the car and jumps over me and finishes the last goblin with his wife.

*Ding

Battle Report

10 Goblins Defeated

Loot:

33 copper

2 rusty cleavers

1 Goblins Bull Ring

As the Pack Leader how would you like to sort the loot.

"Sort Equally."

Sort.....

Loot Earned

11 copper

1 rusty cleaver

The hyena and bear nod as the see their loot. Seconds the hyena had the rusty cleaver in his hand and he cut back and forth. The bear equipped the Bull ring and nodded. With their new items they came to stand by me.

"I guess it is time for introductions. I am Taotuz, Monk. Elf and Tiger beastman mix. Staff Melee User."

"I am Gaia, Shaman. Brown Bear Beastman. Spellcaster Wand User and this This dufious of a husband is Mufasa, Warrior. Hyena Beastman. Undecided Weapon Melee User." Looking at the pair I could tell they have been together for a long time.

"Thanks for the help Taotuz. I don't think we would have made it out without your assistance." Mufasa gave me a crooked smile.

"Worry not about it but if you don't mind I will need help guarding the monastery from this invasion."

"If my wife will have it. Then I have no problem with it." Mufasa looks at Gaia.

Gaia nods and sits down. "I need to eat and mediate. Sucks that we only have these slime jerky."

"How about something a bit more tasteful?" At that I pull out some left over food that I made at the Orphanage. Both the beastman devour my left overs as we sit and wait for the next group of goblins to find there way into our plaza. We start to discuss possible strategies with in our set up.

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