I went to the door of the cage and opened it. After opening it I was suddenly met by a body tackle, I wasn’t fast enough to dodge it. When I looked at what tackled me I saw a green set of hair and then I heard.

“Thank you! Thank you! I thought I was going to have to give up on this character I worked so hard in making”

As I heard that the head moved then I saw a pair of blue eyes looking at me. Looking at the person on top of me she was beautiful and judging from the weight of her body she seems small in stature.

As I was thinking these things the girl on top of me suddenly went red and stood up then bowed saying.

“I-I’m sorry!”

Then a blacked haired girl wearing a large top hat and large rimmed glasses appeared behind the green haired girl saying.

“Please forgive her she can sometimes be over excited when doing things”

“Um yeah sure it’s alright I wasn’t hurt or anything”

“Then for all of us trapped in the cage I would like to say thank you”-Black haired girl

“Don’t worry I have a quest regarding the miners anyway”-Redd

“Is that so?”-Black haired girl

While I was talking to the black haired girl the others inside the cage came out. The first to come out were the players

then the miners came out.

Looking at the players there were 6 of them 3 girls 3 guys judging from there equipment 2 of the guys were the vanguard the one with blond hair carried a 2 handed great sword and the one with brown hair was carrying a sword and shield the last guy with black hair was carrying a bow so I assumed he was an archer the green haired girl was probably a rogue or rearguard since she was only carrying a knife while the black haired girl I was talking to was probably the mage and the last girl who had brown hair was probably there healer since she was carrying a staff with a cross.

After a few greeting they introduced themselves and their position in the party which I got right the 1st to introduce herself was the black haired girl

“Hi I’m Kim, my role in this party is the mage and strategist”

Looking at Kim she had shoulder length hair and average height her race seems to be human from what I can see. I couldn’t see the shape of her body due to the baggy cloak she was wearing. I could only see half of her face due to the size of her glasses that covered her whole face but as far as I can see she has a small mouth and pink lips.

Then the green haired girl.

“I-I’m Mio, my role is being a rearguard I plan to get a job as a thief when I get to the city”

Mio had short green hair and blue eyes she was definitely beautiful she had long ears which signify that she should be an elf, she was small in stature about 5ft she was quite slender build which was showing through her tight fitting leather armor and her boobs were above average and I couldn’t help but stare at them for a while good thing she didn’t catch me stealing a glance at them knockers.

Then the blond guy

“hmph the names Skylar you better remember it, my role is the vanguard”

Skylar was tall he was probably more than 6ft tall and he was handsome he had one of those big athletic build from what I see he seems to be human or barbarian judging from his size. He reminds me of those jock douche bag jocks in the teen movies I watched back then.

Then the brown haired guy

“Thanks a lot for saving us I’m Jake, my role is a vanguard”

Jake looked very average aside from his happy go lucky attitude and very friendly nature. His race should be dog beast man from the ears on top of his head.

Then the black haired guy

“Names Kuro, I’m the archer of this party nice to meet you”

Kuro looked Asian judging from his name probably Japanese he was very handsome or beautiful since his features were quite girly. His race was probably dark elf or something like that from his blue skin and long pointy ears. Kuro was taller than Jake by an inch or 2 he had a very lanky body which makes him look more girly.

Lastly was the brown haired girl

“My names Meg short for Megatron don’t ask why I named myself that, my role is healer and rearguard I’m planning to be a battle priest or any healer/warrior job”

Meg was like Jake an average looking person but she had double D’s those things were very impressive that I ogled at them for a bit and even got caught looking at them. Meg looked human but due to her eccentric personality I doubt that.

After they introduced themselves they told me what happened to them. They said that they were given a mission to find the miners but they got overpowered by the sheer numbers of the goblins and got captured. They said that they were stuck in that cage since last night real time, they logged of last night then went back an hour ago.

It seems that if they got killed while in the cage they would lose 2 levels and half their items and money so they didn’t wait for their characters to be sacrificed and for the last hour and a half (the 1.5 times faster than real time) they were formulating an escape plan with no avail luckily for them I arrived since they said in about an hour they would have been killed since there was a timer.

After talking for a while with Kim and Mio I noticed Skylar staring at me with a bit of killing intent which surprised me since regular people usually can’t produce killing intent unless due to a dire situation or mortal hate towards someone.

I ignore the weak killing intent since I don’t give a fuck about him.

After talking to the players I asked the miners what happened to them. They told me that an army of goblins suddenly attacked the mine and captured everyone inside it.

I asked them if they knew what the goblins were planning but they didn’t know all they said was there were more of them back then but the goblins kept taking 8 people every 5 hours and they never come back.

I then asked the miners if they know where the smith’s son is and they said that the boy was one of the people that the goblins took 3 hours ago. Guessing from the information I have it seems that they are doing an experiment or ritual of some kind that needs 8 people every 5 hours the smith’s son might even be dead.

After gathering all the information I need I readied myself to go find the other people more specifically the smith’s son.

When I told Kim that I was going further inside she was reluctant to part ways saying that they couldn’t repay the help that I gave them, I replied that they should just escort the miners back to the village but she still refused and after a few minutes of convincing she and the other players reluctantly agreed except for Skylar who wanted to get out the moment they got free.

After I was ready I said goodbye to the players and the miners and proceeded to go deeper inside the mines. As I went deeper inside I met a few patrols but I easily killed them since all of them were ordinary goblins.

After 20 minutes of walking and occasional killing I met a group that was composed of 10 goblin guards.

When the guards saw me they weren’t like the normal goblins that attacked immediately. This group just shouted at me and they then formed a defensive wall limiting my attack path.

I charged at them and used my sword to parry any spear thrusts the goblins threw at me. I first tried to attack the one in the middle of their formation to break their formation, but it was impossible there were too many spear strikes to dodge or block I even took 3 spear attacks luckily none of them were critical hits if not I would have been dead due to my lack of defense.

After the failure of my first attack the goblins got cocky and initiated the attack. They tried to surround me and riddle me with holes using their spears but this was the moment I was looking for. I attacked the first one to move out of their defensive formation, I pushed the guard away from his comrades and tried to kill it quickly but I couldn’t because they were much harder to kill than regular goblins.

Seeing that their plan of surrounding me failed the goblins went back to their defensive formation and tried to draw the fight out. I attacked again but this time I targeted the guard at the side of the formation it was the one that I failed to kill so it had less than half its health remaining after a minute of exchange it finally died which made his comrades angry and charge at me.

I was ready for their attack and tried to deal with them one after another but they were really too many so I had to do hit and run tactics. Using the hit and run I killed 2 of them then after that they realized that attacking me individually was stupid so they went back to their formation.

When they got back in formation I just used what I did before and attacked the weakest side of their formation. It took me almost an hour and a few health and stamina potions to survive and kill the goblin guards.