36 Scorched Earth Pt.3 (2/2)
Alex grabbed one of the axes he had thrown, ripping it out of a nearby goblin. Looking around the edge of the clearing. turning to look to Bellie's direction.
”Come out here and heal me!” He looked angry, he managed to get hit, it had hurt him but barely. He was more annoyed he was not fast enough. If the goblin had been better equipped it could have been dangerous.
The girl in the robes came running out, seemingly trying her best to keep up, but she had ragged breath, clearly not being in proper physical condition and having to keep up with the two adventurers.
”Hurry up will you!” Alex growled keeping an eye on the edge but he turned around annoyed to look at the girl.
Meanwhile, a goblin had been hiding in the rocks, it had simply not dared to go out, it was staring at the adventurer's eyes wide. when it saw its chance to cause pain and death, Bellie was retrieving arrows from bodies and Alex had turned his head away, its instincts were overridden and it came out from behind the rock, and threw a spear, this spear was a javelin with a new metal tip.
Bellie managed to just spot the goblin about to throw the javelin, so did the girl in the robes. But Alex was oblivious and to slow to react from the shock in the girl's eyes to turn.
”Block the arrow Sylvie!” Bellie shouted out, the girl suddenly jumped in front of Alex and the javelin pierced into her shoulder. She cried out in pain and collapsed. Aled turned around and flung his ax into the skull of the goblin.
”Phew!... That was a close one! Thanks, Bellie! id never had thought of that!” Alex sighed as he gave thanks towards Bellie instead of the robed girl strangely enough.
”You are too kind it's all.” Bellie pulled out an arrow.
”Well! are you alive! Heal yourself Sylvie!” He pulled the javelin out of the girl's shoulder giving her a rough command, a pained cry came from her as her hood fell off. A pretty but dirty face of a human, with shortcut curly blue hair, and a pair of fluffy cat ears from her head. She was in terrible pain but her body almost moved on her own as her hand was put on her shoulder, and she began to heal herself, tears streaming down her cheeks as a collar around her neck was glowing faintly, compelling her to move regardless of what her body might or might not want to do, upon hearing her name and a command.
”Good, we caught all the runners, they might know the direction, but not our numbers. If Gavrin handled his group as well we should be a lot safer now to approach the nest.” Alex said as he kept watch til Bellie had retrieved her arrows, then she began to watch as he picked out his ax's and also to dig into the goblins skull, looking for something.
”Hmm these goblins all seem to have some good magic stones!, they must have been in a mana-rich area for a while!” Alex popped out a small round transparent rock, these magic stones were the bread and butter of the adventurers as they could be sold for a good price depending on their quality.
The girl in the robe cried as she healed her self, the wound had stopped bleeding but was not entirely healed.
”Pff... Pathetic, she is almost out of mana... Here... Too soon to already be using these... I told you she was not worth it... That slave dealer did say she did not have a lot of mana and her healing was sub-par.” Bellie said as she took out a small blue vial forcing the drink into Sylvies mouth making her drink it.
”Bah he also said she could recover her mana fast though!, she just does not have a big pool of it is all!” Alex shrugged, he 'helped' Sylvie up on her feet, and they began moving, ”That's enough healing, for now, the wound is closed enough, save the rest for us, Sylvie”, Alex said to her, ignoring her tears that were silently flowing, as she pulled up her hood once more and followed in behind the two as they left the slaughtered goblins behind in the clearing, her mouth in a pained angry grimace.