38 Scorched Earth Pt. 5 (1/2)

Lurk hinted towards the man in armor with the axes, towards Vorm. Vorm nodded as he was suddenly clad in a shade of darkness. He moved out along the edge of the room away from the glow of the floating lights each member of the adventure party had swirling gently around them.

Lurk then motioned to the woman with the bows to Aurk, Aurk already having his bow ready, he aimed at the woman from his hiding spot. Lurk then turned his attention to the Dark elf, who was about to clasp another collar onto another woman.

Alex gave a shocked cry of pain, as Vorm suddenly leaped out from the shadows that literally followed him as if stretched out from the darkness. Alex was stabbed in his leg, where his armor had been damaged from the battle with the goblins inside the cave, they had had a fierce battle in here with the remaining goblins, Alex had taken the brunt of the goblins charge, something he was used too.

Bellie was about to react when suddenly an arrow flew out from the entrance of the room, piercing into her should of her dominant arm. Causing her to yelp out in pain. How did she not see the goblins coming! Her eyes looked towards the entrance seeing now that there was a subtle disturbance, someone had used Dark magic! to shield goblins from view! She was wounded but she still managed to ready her bow and fire off arrows into the darkness in a spray.

”[Rapid fire!]”

Aurk got hit by one arrow in his leg, the other missing thankfully due to the darkness making it impossible for a proper aim. But the robed girl behind Bellie suddenly rushed closer to her and a gentle glow went into Bellie.

Grandir flipped around from his focus on the women seeing that they were being ambushed, he lobbed off two wind shearing spells towards the darkness in the entryway, they rushed forward causing everyone in the cave to feel the wind blowing past them. But then suddenly they slammed into a different gust of wind that caused them to dissipate into different directions. Everyone's hair and clothes were blown about from the explosive burst of air coming from the two air spells hitting each other.

Alex now reacted turning around swinging his ax at the assassin, but the assassin was grabbed onto his back following behind his turn. Alex tried to get the goblin off, in a brief panic, feeling another attempt of a stab against his back but his armor deflected it this time!. He managed to focus and called out his shield skill.

”[Shield Wall!]”

His shield got the gentle glow around it expanding the width of his shield greatly. He swung his shield back behind him, the extra width surprised Vorm and he got knocked off with taking a violent strike to his body sending him flying off Alex that wasted no time to spin around, slashing out with his ax, Vorm was lucky that he had been hit as hard as he was. The ax missing by a hairs width.

Grandir now suddenly felt immense danger as an explosive burst of wind happened from the shadows, A goblin with one arm came bursting out directly at him with a sword in its other hand.

”[Burst!]”

Lurk had cast his new spell, Burst would propel him forward at immense speed, he was about to strike out at the Dark elf mage, when he called out another skill.

”[Slice!]”

His arm moved rapidly, striking the mage multiple times across his body, but the mage had managed just barely to cast one of his own spells.

”[Mage Armor!]”

His body was covered in a small field, each of Lurks strikes caused ripples to spread out from each location. It was just like the stasis spell Mercia was under. But it was already breaking, as opposed to Mercia's that could take several goblins constantly striking her for a long duration. But it was enough to save the mage from the strikes.

Grandir grinned wickedly, having been unharmed by the sudden attack. He waved his arm rapidly at Lurk, sending out a violent gust of air.

[”Shockwave!”]

Lurk and the women near the mage were all sent flying away from him, Lurk spinning in the air, he managed to focus and call out another burst.

[”Burst!”]

It stabilized him sending him back onto the ground, he leaped towards Grandir, as he flung his own spell at Grandir.

[”Wind Bullet!”]

Grandir quickly held up his hand using the quick wind spell to knock the bullet out of the way! This goblin was tenacious! It had been a while since he had seen such an adept goblin mage! And it was the one-armed goblin! They would now get the bounty too! along with all the slave women! Grandir was already counting the money in his head, a grin on his face. He was clearly feeling on top of the situation.

Meanwhile, Bellie was having a rough time, another arrow had struck her, if not for the healing of the girl behind her she would have been unable to return fire due to the pain in her shoulder, but the useless healer was already at her limit.

”Shield me from him Sylvie!!” Sylvie immediately leaped in front of the woman, the arrows suddenly stopped coming, surprising Bellie, who quickly took aim at something she could see without a doubt and aim true at. Her bow turned to face Lurk who was flying towards Grandir.

Alex leaped forward into the darkness, the light swirling around him, but the darkness that was flowing around the goblin would not accept the light to pass through it. It made it incredibly hard to aim his ax as he swung wildly into it, Vorm struggled madly to get away from the fierce warrior. When suddenly Alex began to feel a painful throb from his leg. It got increasingly worse and suddenly it increased tenfold as his pain exploded, his leg felt like it had just been flayed open, he collapsed onto the ground screaming out.

Just as Bellie let her arrow fly, Lurk quickly held up his hand to block the arrow with his own wind shield cantrip, the arrow flying right through it, but still diverged away from hitting him in the upper part of his torso, the arrow sinking into his side, causing him to gasp out in pain, gritting his teeth.

Grandir laughed out using both hands about to send out flurries of wind shears into Lurk and slice him up. When an arrow flew from the entryway into the cave right at him, past Lurks head, Grandir was shocked and in the midst of his attack spell casting turned to shield himself, but the arrow went past it, striking right into the lower part of his hand and into his arm even!

Grandir cried out in pain, seeing Lurk coming right at him, the sword moving straight for his head. But Grandir used his free arm to cast a spell creating a small shielding surface in front of it, causing the sword to be knocked out of the way.

Lurk followed up by suddenly lunging his hook arm up into Grandirs Chest, slicing him through his robe, but only a slight scratch was all he felt from the desperate attack.