Book 3 Ch 6.
The Great Warboss's massive double bladed chainsaw staff moved through the air with the speed of lighting, it struck like thunder and just trying to deflect the blow enough to jump out of its path felt like a cannonball's fury striking their blades as Warrior and Noble Fighter desperately tried to hold their ground against him.
An almighty downwards blow came towards the both of them and they had to form a crossblock with both their blades and use every ounce of their muscle to stop the blow.
"Master Warrior and Mistress Noble Fighter, you both disappoint! I was expecting more from those that are held in high enough regard by Grand Master Goblin Slayer that they are his champions" Great Warboss said with a deep cultured voice that shocked his two opponents.
Which was what he wanted and using their moment of distraction he gave Warrior a good kick that send him flying into the Field Mouse, crashing against its surface.
The Great Warboss then turned on Noble Fighter and gave her such a powerful sideways slash, that despite magic to block it, she too was sent flying. After which he turned his gaze towards both High Queen who was giving birth and towards the downed Goblin Slayer who was being healed by priestess as all around the battle raged on.
"IT appears that our mysterious interloper has robbed me of the right of conquest on you. A pity, yer an easy hunt is nothing to sneeze at. I shall have to thank the invisible one, right before I kill it to eliminate any competition. But….I think I can make a delay and focus on potential future problems." Great Warboss said as he started walking towards High Queen as she was giving birth to her first twin.
Immediately Apprentice Slayer ran forwards and stopped right between the Great Warboss and his wife and children.
"Standing to fight then? Very well, I could use a good laugh." Great Warboss said and raised his staff for another blow, Apprentice Slayer quickly pulled out from his belt a bag of water and threw it at his foe.
As it burst open on impact, from it a hagfish burst from the bag, the creature was a life form that secreted a great amount of slime when in danger, and when the Great Warboss instinctively deflected the bag away, his staff was immediately covered in very slippery slime, making him loose his weapon.
Not the table shad turned, Apprentice Slayer charged at the Great Warboss, who was now for the very first time was vulnerable!
Worry appeared in its eyes for a moment as Apprentice Slayer went for a killing blow to the throat, but the blow fell short, the creature had caught his sword in its massive right arm!
Apprentice Slayer tried to go with a shield blow with his left arm, but the Warboss caught that two and how he held Apprentice with both hands like a puppeteer with his main star!
"Well, what are you going to do now, Apprentice?" The Great Warboss chuckled evilly, and then immediately roared in pain as an arrow was launched straight into its right eye!
High Queen had taken up her personal crossbow, and fired it straight at the Warboss eye right before she turned her attention back to birthing her second child.
A second and third arrow came, courtesy of High Elf Archer, her arrows struck the Warboss left eyes, blinding him, and hit the very centre of High Queen's arrow, splitting it and piercing the Warboss's right eye a second time.
Apprentice Slayer charged and gave a vicious head bash that made the three arrows penetrate the Great Warboss's brain.
Then a humming sound came from behind him.
Great Warboss could not see, but he could hear his chainsaw staff being picked up and revved up. He never bothered to get it enchanted so that it only worked for him, because he never really thought he might lose one day.
"That will do it." The Great Warboss said as the now partially recovered Goblin Slayer raised the chainsaw staff and stabbed it right in the Warboss's neck, spraying blood in all directions as Goblin Slayer decapitated the Great Warboss.
"To big." Goblin Slayer said as he let go of the staff and with a hatched on his belt the cut the staff into two CHAINSAW SWORDS.
"Here" He said and gave one to Apprentice Slayer.
"Protect the Queen and the wounded. I'll go and plug the gap made the warboss." Goblin Slayer said and charged the entire horde with his CHAINSAW!
"Barrier!" Priestess said as she did a long range cast of barrier at the gap in the wagon wall were the goblins were pouring trough as Goblin Slayer charged those that had crossed it and were now trapped inside the defenses because of the barrier.
Goblin Slayer hurled himself in the mess of thousands of Goblins and slashed wildly in all directions, gone was his plans or traps, or hidden aces, now it was only brute strength and the fire of their beating heart to which destroy the green tide.
He had throw himself so savagely that he had breached the goblin's formation, was now surrounded by goblins and continued forwards, cutting, killing ripping and tearing uncountable number of goblins!
Priestess was right behind his, and she cast a second barrier behind them so as to not be flanked by the goblins as Goblin Slayer carried out his one man mad blitzkrieg.
That was working and breaking up the goblin line!
The goblin formation inside the breach was broken and the reserve defenders that had been fighting it, shaken, broken, now all rallied, got their second wind and charged forward cutting down the now broken goblin formation.
"To the KING!" Knight Captain shouted and the whole line got a second wind and as one they gave chase behind Goblin Slayer, Warrior, Noble Fighter, High Elf Archer, Lizard Priest, Dwarf Shaman Noble Fencer and her crew all rallied forth and joined this massive wedge that had goblin Slayer at it's very tip!
They cut down every single goblin that had breached their defenses and when they reached the barrier that plugged the gap in the walls they slammed into it with the power of a tidal wave on a beach!
The Goblin horde fell back, the 3 armies cheered as they fell back from the walls and from the barrier itself. But that cheer quickly turned to silence as they saw the wave that came after the horde.
It was a heard of great war rhinos, all ridden by goblins!
The Slayer army, the Sea Tribes, the Water Kingdom all were silent at the sight.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
But only for a moment.
As the great and mighty war cry stunned the beast riders and the goblin horde that was rallying behind them.
"So what! The bigger they are, the harder they fall!" Warrior shouted forwards.
"Plenty of fat and ugly beast for me to kill. I lik'em fat, they make a funny noise when they hid the ground dead!" Noble Fighter added.
"Don't you dare kill steal from me Dwarf."
"Ha! Fat chance elf. Finders keepers, elves are weepers!" Dwarf and High Elf argued.
"There is plenty to go around. No reason to argue." Lizard Priest said.
"Look at all da little bitty insencts, TIME TO STOMP!" Big Boss bellowed out.
"The royal heirs are born, we must give them a worthy present, so the death of all this is our gift to them! Terminate…with extreme prejudice!" Guard Captain bellowed out.
"I won't be covered in goblin guts this time. I won't EVEN IF I HAVE TO KILL ALL GOBLINS HERE MYSELF!" Priestess shouted her battlecry towards the heavens and the gods all saluted her warrior spirit and worthy cause.
The Slayers were used to odds like this, the Water Kingdom had some of the best lands in the continent, so it was well versed in war and the Sea Tribes often fought the monster of the deep dark sea.
All 3 armies were veterans of war and now they had just killed the giants, saw how the Warboss had been killed, witnessed the mysterious creature's death and now they just retook their main key defenses. They were all 3 armies of top killers now and their blood was up!
And the goblin horde that had shrunk considerably to about 100 thousand goblins?
They stared to piss themselves.
In the middle of that Goblin Slayer took a step forward and then shouted at the goblins:
"YUM YUM!" Goblin Slayer said.
"YUM YUM! YUM YUM! YUM YUM!" He kept bellowing out as he started walking towards the enemy horde, they did not know the tongue of man, but all creatures could recognize the meaning of those words:
"YUM YUM!" The 3 armies all started bellowing out as they followed goblin Slayer forwards.
I WILL EAT YOU! The defenders of good said to the champions of evil as they charged them.
"Upwards boost!" Wizard was propelled into the sky by her acolytes and once she got high enough she used FireFly once more to shoot a laser like beam of light and with it she created a stream of melted sand behind the lines of the Goblin Horde, trapping them now between a stream of magma to their rear, the crazed army of vicious killer to their front.
Their only escape was the sea, and death by drowning.
They all broke and ran towards the water. The Goblin Lords at the rear cried: STAND!. The goblins in front shouted: RUN! As the 3 armies smash against them.
High Elf Archer killed war rhino after war rhino with arrows to its eye. One shot, one kill.
Lizard Priest caught one charging rhino, raised it over his head and power slammed the thing into the ground behind, breaking its back. Lizard Pries then raised it and used the dead rhino as a massive club.
"Allright you gnomes! Time to work!" Dwarf Shaman said, using the spell that he just learned.
"Come out. Great Volcano Magma Whip!" Dwarf Warrior said as a whip made of red hot magma formed from the river created by Wizard, ending it a rock that allowed Dwarf Shaman to wield it and instantly turn to ash a hundred of goblins with each lash!
"War! What is it good for? THIS! KILLING GOBLINS!" Noble Fencer shouted an cackled with glee, ripping apart goblins with her bare hands.
Tens of thousands of goblins now died every minute.
This was a good night and the evening had barely just begun!
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''Keeps the reader turning the pages''- Pennie Mae Cartawick, author of 'Sherlock Holmes: The Gaslight Collection'
"Think of Lovecraft and Poe, and then put on 3D glasses." -Howard Lipman- Author of the 'Delphic Oracle' and Tesla's Tower'
What if in the struggle between magic and science, magic was the victor?
What if technology disappeared and magic became what was used to colonize the galaxy?
What if now magic is used to wage war across the stars?
The imperial fleet's only hope for victory is the 'Hero of the Empire' Metternich. Too bad that the man many consider to be their greatest hero, is in fact their greatest coward.
Metty once more finds himself in a desperate situation on the Planet of Volun 4. Newly promoted to the rank of Commodore, he must take command of the defeated 378th fleet cops and lead it to victory against a superior foe, and he must do that before the arrival of an even greater enemy force, while also keeping his secret cowardice hidden from his own troops, lest they turn on him.
Meanwhile rebellion stirs in the Occupied Territories, as a mysterious figure called 'Nobody' emerges to rally the rebels and lead them to victory against the Empire. But is he truly their salvation?
Enemies to his front, vengeful rebels to his rear and surrounding him are allies that may betray him at any moment.
Just another weekday for poor ol' Metty.
-BALADA: a Song of Stars by RM Solea.
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