Warning there is a tiny bit of torture its nothing that will make you throw up but i needed to warn you guys.

9: a trip into darkness

So I know I am a terrible person as people who really need help don't get it and I'm over here faking extreme exhaustion just so I can be sandwiched by women...

Ok so if you haven't guessed it yet after yesterday's incident I asked Brooke if she wanted to stay and do some more training, she pointed both hands towards the now barren wasteland that was scorched beyond repair and shot from each hand a different magic, from her left hand a small icicle that had a small blizzard accompany it until it reached the end of its path and from her right hand a small lightning current that looked as if it pulsed stronger the less or more mana was channeled.

Ares shouts "The icicle created a small ice sculpture of a flower, its so pretty!" and then Brooke looked towards me and said(sign language) "it's fine I know my limits and my skills abilities."

So I say/signal alright lets go back to the Village and get some food and shut eye, I turn around take two steps and purposely fall, Brooke and Ares instantly notice and help me to my feet, "Sorry it seems I used my ability too much and my legs are like jelly, you two can go on ahead and I'll wait here until I can walk again."

They both shake their heads like I hoped they would, and Brooke lifts my right arm and places her neck under my arm to help me walk and when Ares sees this she does the same to my left, damn I am happy that worked I didn't want to sit out here alone...

We get home and eat some of the Barthuma(cow) meat that has a really nice smell and a very tender look to it. It's still weird watching it be cut from the cow, the women always look away and the first time I saw it I also looked away however it is amazing watching the wound regenerate.

It is very clear to see as the cow is less than 5 feet away in its own wooden fence with its grass, water, and some green goo that it loves to snort... looks weird, So we go home and sleep.

I wake up and notice that Paul is gone and Shiro looks very comfortable but his blanket had been completely kicked off so I readjusted the covers to keep him warm, and open the door to our room.

I look to my left and see Brooke who had walked out of her room at almost the same time as me and our eyes met, her face instantly turns rose red as she headed back inside her room almost at the speed Anastasia appeared behind Paul.

Did I do something after last night? or did she blush at seeing my face and quickly retreat, I wondered and then thought well it doesn't matter either way.

I noticed Paul walking towards me from the direction of the area we trained at yesterday, his face is grim. "What's up" I asked curious and he says "Brooke did that to the forest didn't she?"

I was thinking about messing with him saying there was a dragon that appeared however I just told the truth "She had cast her fireball skill 6 times her icicle once and her shock once, it would appear the more mana she channels the stronger and bigger the effect becomes."

He almost looks discouraged and says "I thought I was the strongest but how can I compare to someone who can turn a part of a forest into a barren wasteland when all I can do is split a tree in half." I laugh at his complaint and say "Don't worry about it you will get stronger."

"So will she!!!" he yells at me "Well whatever man lets group up and go Goblin hunting." I urge him on to help him forget about it.

We group up again with everyone after they have woken up and discuss how we go about this, "it would be faster if we split up into 2 groups and attacked several goblin camps however this is more dangerous and as it's our first batter I don't think we should separate.

Option 2 we move together at a pace where there are no breaks in between so we can save any villagers quicker.

Option 3 we approach the camps carefully have me infiltrate and take over one of the goblins and search through their memories for any captured villagers, if there are no villagers in the camp we move on to another camp and repeat.

All of these plans will have the same end goal which is after we searched every camp after we find the villagers left we purge all the goblins in this area so this never happens again here."

"Option 2" Anastasia, Paul, and Shiro say loudly "Option 3" Myself and (Brooke who just raised 3 fingers.)

"Option 2 it is, I will mark a goblin that I will take control of, while I'm in the goblin's body I will look through his memories to find any information that could help us, you will attack when I give the signal." (I show them the signal which is I raise the weapon over my head and bring my hand from the tip of the blade to the base.)

"Hey Lucreille"

He walks out from behind the corner of a building "yeah?"

"Can you go rent a Wagon and something to pull it that can carry a lot of weight, and buy about a dozen blankets and 3 dozen shoes?"

"Sure but if you leave before I finish with the preparations I will have to believe that you are running and will be forced to hunt you down."

20 minutes later Lucreille returned with a medium sized Wagon and a Gorilla like Beast that would pull the Wagon and 11 Wool covers, and 34 leather shoes... less than I expected but it's not a big deal

"Is that beast safe to travel with?" I asked in a worried tone as it looked scary... it had fucking tusks, TUSKS!!!

Lucreille responds with "The Galvitrax are a docile type of mammals and the only reason they would resort to violence is if they saw you attacking another of their race or attempted to take food from them after you have given it to them, violence against the Galvitrax is illegal in every city here in the country of Aztar, and they will not take food if it is not directly handed to them."

So with that we head to Goburi Forest but before we get there we see 2 people running as fast as they could naked, one was a man the other was a woman...

The man was bleeding and limping from his leg and to the right a girl with a decent body but the bouncing boobs were mesmerizing, my head had suddenly turned into a bobblehead...

However seconds later I felt a glare so strong it terrified me as I looked in the direction of the glare I see Brooke with a death sentence glare on her face and I smile back at her trying to keep my cool and I say "They are being chased by something let's get ready to ambush whatever's chasing them."

7 goblins emerged from behind them "Paul can you create a singularity behind the couple and Brooke can you fire 2 icicles at the singularity from an angle that won't hit the couple."

They both nodded and 3 seconds later brooke had positioned herself to the far left and Paul used his singularity and all 7 goblins got sucked into the space and the couple turned around only to see all 7 goblins in a ball floating in the air, they turned around and kept running towards us.

2 seconds after the singularity was created 2 icicles flew from the left and hit the goblins that were hovering in the air, most of the area of impact became frozen it was beautiful but also a little on the gruesome side as well as the goblin that took the first hit had a hole in his body and in the once crystal clear ice was a red liquid leaking that painted the inside of the ice.

I noticed shards of ice being forced apart due to the pressure of the singularity "Everyone get behind the trees and take cover!"

The couple heard us and hid behind the nearest tree and within 2 seconds the singularity had exploded and sent shards of blood stained ice in every direction piercing trees and goblins alike.

"Thank you so much we would be dead if not for you."

The man says while holding his leg and the woman crouched behind him to hide her womanly parts.

"Are you villagers of Gathri?" I asked

"Yes how did you know?" The man responded

Ares stepped out from behind the tree and said "oh it's good to see you two are safe, mr. and mrs. Volk, where is Vincent?"

The two flinched and then became angry "You!!! because of you Vincent was... you were supposed to protect us but instead you ran and found some attractive man to follow!"

"She was captured as well and I happened to save her from the goblins, Paul can you tear up one blanket into 3 short pieces and give 2 to the Volk's?"

"Yeah no problem." Paul responds

I hand 2 pieces of the blanket to the Volk's and 4 shoes and ask if they know where any other survivors were.

"There are at least 6 being held captive in the Goburi Forest, and there were 2 running towards the Cursed Grounds of the Bathalli Hills.

That's all we know thank you for saving us... if you find Vincent can you please save him."

"Yes, I'm sorry I wasn't strong enough to protect everyone." Ares says depressed.

I motion everyone to keep moving and so we arrive at the front entrance of the Goburi Forest, before we enter the entrance I ask Ares something.

"How many villagers were there in Gathri and do you know how many didn't make it?"

"All together there were 31 of us, I know 5 didn't make it." Ares responded sadly

"Ok we will find everyone else and save them if it's possible." I said confidently.

There were at least 8 goblins sitting around a campfire with 2 sentries at watchtowers, 1 to the left and 1 to the right with 1 goblin guarding the front gate, there must be some sleeping as well so maybe a total of 13 or 14.

"I am going to take control of one of the goblins and see what he knows, I hope I pick one that knows something, I'll kill the sleeping ones and then I'll give a signal for Anastasia to kill the sentry on the left, I'll kill the sentry on the right after I give the signal and when it's done I will give a second signal which will begin our attack." I come up with a plan so we would be better prepared and everyone agrees to it.

I ready up and get into a meditating stance and use my soul corruption and fly towards the goblin sitting closest to the camp fire, as I take over his body and search through his memories, there were a lot of goblins so I wasn't sure if they were repeating or if they were all different individuals except for this incredibly big pig faced goblin who tripled the size of me, and then I looked for the villagers in his memories.

Only to find the torture and rape of 2 woman around the age of 30, 2 men used as sparing individuals although it's really just torture as they can't really fight back and if they do fight back they get beaten harder...

1 child and 1 elderly woman, the elderly woman was killed on the first day as the chief who was a big orc used her as a seat and the child would run around fetching whatever the orc wanted. the child was crying profusely when the old lady was killed which leaves me to believe he was her grandson, when the kid wouldn't stop crying he was dragged to the camp fire and had the back of his hand burned by a stick.

After acquiring this knowledge I proceeded to the sleeping goblins I had picked the sleeping goblin that was the biggest and sat down next to him/her I am not sure as the goblin is sleeping on its face and I don't want to stick my hand into its private area to check, so I ready my dagger and pierce its neck with one quick motion.

To be honest when it turned its head and opened its eyes it freaked me out as I expected it to die right away but it completely caught me by surprise as its eyes pulsated with a red color and a black outline and it caught me off guard as it turned the rest of its body and forced itself on top of me... its a male I figured it out.

You're welcome world the mystery of the sleeping goblin has been solved.

Its squishy object pressed against my leg so I did what anybody would do when they panicked I grabbed his holy green mace and cut it off except that didn't stop this savage beast as it opened its mouth... fangs... fuck it's a vampire breed now it makes sense, I looked down at its dismemberment and it had already started to regenerate...

It sunk its fangs into my neck and drank and I got the hell out before I took anymore damage however the only way to leave a body is straight and guess what was in front of me? I had just hoped my intelligence was smarter than this vampire goblin breed and to my great dissatisfaction I wasn't.

After leaving the body of the goblin I immediately ran into the soul of the vampire goblin which rejected me and I was shot back and forced back to my body...

"What happened?" Anastasia whispers this to me

"They are probably on alert now as I failed, the sleeping goblins had vampire blood or something." I said dejected as I hadn't thought something like that could happen.

Lucreille steps up after hearing what I said "Did you say vampire goblins?"

"Yeah, do you know how to kill them?" I asked hoping he knew

"3 ways I know how to kill a vampire type, 1st use a silver dagger or wooden stave, the silver dagger will disable to vampire but it will live however stabbing a wooden stave into their hearts will kill them.

2nd eating Gaelic(garlic)will make it so when you are bitten by a vampire they will become paralyzed and then die if fed more Gaelic while they are paralyzed.

Lastly if they are burned completely so that not even ash remains, complete disintegration." He explained descriptively

"I guess were going with disintegration, think you can do it Brooke?" I motion her with a serious expression.

"She looks back at me determined and her face slowly gets red as our eyes were locked on each other and she nods."

"Ok new plan I will take control of the sentry on the right, Anastasia kills the one on the left we will move on the rest of the goblins and kill them off quickly.

If you find a vampire type yell it out and someone who isn't in danger will signal Brooke to target that individual, if you find a vampire type don't take your eyes off it as its really strong and pretty fast. They probably already know they are being attacked and so will be on alert, be careful."

We ready up and get ready to hunt these red eyed pricks!

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