“Sky Demon, show yourself!” Yelled a deep gutteral voice in a heavily accented but understandable english voice.
“They know english?” Was all I could say, as I brought up my SMG and checked if it was loaded.
Shark stepped up on to my right LMG in hand, “I am more worried about who this sky demon that voice yelled out for.”
The voice from the top yelled again, “Don’t act like you don’t know who I am talking about Sky Demon. Show yourself!” It was demanded in English once more.
Ronin silently stepped in front of me with a flamethrower at the ready, Daniel stepped up onto my left Shotgun in hand. “It sounds like someone here among us somehow has a reputation with the locals already. Being called a demon from the sky is a reputation that sounds both cool and terrifying.” Daniel commented.
Gunther stepped right next to Ronin, his rifle and bayonet ready, “Honestly, I don’t give a damn, I just want food and if this guy knows English, then we should capture him.”
“I completely agree with that statement but if we stand here we’ll get nothing done.” I said, looking at the top of the hill.
Then a figure appeared at the top of the hill, everyone took aim at it. The figure despite being silhouetted I could somehow feel it was pointing at. “The tanned unarmored woman with cat ears, surrounded by soldiers in the front. You are the Sky Demon the Goblin Champion Senum Mermace is referring to.” The figure said in a heavily accented English I couldn’t recognise except the same as the deeper voice from before.
“Me?” I asked, pointing to myself. “For your information I’ve only been here for about 2 days. I am not this Sky Demon you are talking about.”
The figure responded angrily, with almost a hiss in its voice. “You lie, I remember your face. Everyone here knows your face, you built those walls in which you inhabit, barely over the horizon.”
Everybody looked at me, and held up a hand “I do not know what the fuck is going on. I don ot know where the fuck we are, and I think these people are pulling bullshit out their ass.” I said angrily and I looked towards Daniel to back me up who was surprised by cursing.
“Ceo is telling the truth, Ceo only cusses when they really need to make something clear or hit home a point.” Daniel said.
Everybody else seemed to take this at face value, and looked at the figure.
“If you continue following that Demon, then may your god save your poor souls from whatever torment she may bring you.” The figure said off in the distance.
I had enough of this idiotic charade and standing around doing nothing, I holstered my SMG, grabbed my whistle and yelled “Capture them all! Charge!” I blew the whistle and everybody ran forward. I pulled out my spell book, I would activate the spell once we reached the top.
“That figure is mine!” I yelled, charging ahead at top speed outrunning literally everyone.
“Hey don’t go ahead you’ll kill yourself!” I heard Daniel say it, but I didn’t listen.
When I reached the top of the hill, I suddenly felt myself get thrown backwards by a bit. However I didn’t hit the ground or went flying as far as the goblin did, no I was caught by Gunther and Ronin.
“You good kid?” Gunther asked.
“Yeah, thanks for catching me.” I said to both of them, getting up with help from Ronin and Gunther.
“Told you not to run ahead.” Daniel said as he too was forced backwards and we had to catch him. His armor was much lighter than I expected but the hit did hurt a bit.
“Stop! There''s something forcing us back.” I ordered everybody to stop. With the ones at the top having been forced backwards into the sky but the force wasn’t enough to send them flying unlike the lighter goblins.
We were quite literally right below the top, the incline the hill had was hard to keep footing on but I was able to crawl upwards to see what was happening.
There I saw the small figure much better, they wore a wooden mask in the shape of a face and I didn''t recognize it. They wore brown linen clothing, holding a wooden staff that was glowing green emanating a force field of sorts that was a barely opaque mostly transparent green wall.
Next to the goblin was a big guy, possibly coming in at 7 feet or so. They had gray skin with green stripes looking almost like tiger stripes but green on gray, a large horn was tipped sharply on a bald head covered in numerous amounts of healed scars, and healed bruises. They were shirtless with only a sort of skirt covering their genitals.They held a massive cleaver looking sword with numerous dents and scratches in it, and a bit of blood that looked fresh.
Surrounding them were a dozen or so smaller goblins that were scraggly as the one that is in two pieces at the bottom of the hill. They all held bows with arrows loaded in them all at the ready to shoot at a moment''s notice.
They were in front of the tower, behind some short stakes acting as a sort of cover. Next to them there were three mudbrick buildings, similar in size to the buildings down below. However they seemed to have put more care into its building, from more wood having been used to support its structure.
I crawled back down as an arrow had slammed into the spot I was at, throwing up lots of dirt almost like a bullet. In fact it burrowed itself through the ground and its tip stuck out the other side.
“Christ.” I said as I realized that they might have a lot of firepower.
“So that''s why they weren’t shooting at us from above. Their arrows would be going too fast to accurately fire non direct volley methods.” Gunther surmised right below me as dirt fell down the hill.
“Would a dozen volley spells break their wall?” Shark asked.
“I don’t know if that wall is just a gust of air that forces us back or something else. So I am not sure if a blast spell would even work, or the magic shells would just be redirected back at us like a game of cursed ping pong.” I said.
“It''s worth a shot to shoot the wall with an explosive spell.” Shark said.
“Alright then, I’ll crawl back up there and activate a blast spell. Hopefully I can run away fast enough before they would be able to respond or the spell fires.” I said.
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“I’ll have a medkit waiting for you, if you do get injured.” Gunther said.
I nodded, “Tell Ronin to wait here.”
“Sky Demon, why don’t you just summon your constructs and have them destroy us?” The goblin leader asked.
“Because, I want to beat your asses personally.” I answered, crawling up towards the top I readied a blast spell and once I saw that green translucent wall I activated the spell. It took me a second but I visualized what would happen, then I heard the low loud almost ship horn like drone of the blast spell.
I instinctively ran away from where I activated the spell.
Then “BOOM!!!” As all I heard was my ears ringing, dirt flying up, and I realized I was rolling down the hill, only to be caught by Ronin.
I looked at the top of the hill and saw the dust was thrown up right where the green forcefield was. My ears were still ringing as was likely everyone else''s, I was sure my eardrums were blown out but I saw red particles start to fall above me. The ringing stopped and my hearing returned, and time seemingly slowed down.
I got up quickly and ran up the hill, to see the others were right ahead of me.
“Capture the one in the wooden mask!” I ordered as I saw a large cleaver swing my way.
I couldn’t move out of the way and I slammed into the large cleaver like a sword, yet my body was as hard as steel with only my uniform having been cut.
But my momentum was only stopped as the sword came down to me at an extreme. I was barely able to react but I didn’t need to. I was essentially unkillable for as long as the spell was active which meant I needed to make the most of my time with these temporary boosts to my own abilities.
The large unicorn thing, which I think was the Goblin Champion Senum Mermace their leader was referring to before. The sword slammed down onto me several times in quick succession, on my head, my shoulder, stomach, and legs.
The Goblin Champion scowled at me and he simply charged forward yet he wouldn’t be fast enough. Thing was I could move with the force of a Rhinoceros, because I was just that much faster.
I got into a running stance and pushed off with my right foot, I was likely moving at 60 or so miles an hour.
The gs from the acceleration barely bothered me as I slammed my head into the Goblin Champions chest and rib cage area, I heard every single bone in his chest crack gruesomely as I sent the large Champion flying backwards.
I saw the Goblin Champions face, he barely had got the chance to react as one moment he was running the next he was in the air.
I immediately tried to break on the grass, and the moment my boots had hit the grass I was thrown forward into the short wooden stakes. I had hit the pointed end of the stakes, yet I didn’t feel the stakes as they had broken from the rapid cracking of them as I slammed into them at 40 miles an hour.
There was nothing I could use to stop myself, except to spread my arms out and slam into the tower. Which I did anyway, without the part where I spread out my arms like an angel.
I slammed into one of the central support logs of the watch tower, which only cracked partially, not all the way there would likely be lots of weak points now in it. I fell down and immediately got up at my normal speed with my reaction time increased to twice as fast meaning I likely appeared as a demon to the goblins.
I looked up and saw they were already captured by everybody else and the healing spell wasn’t even over yet. The entire event probably took only 20 seconds.
And the spell ended, in reality the fight took 30 seconds. 5 seconds fighting 25 seconds in the air and slamming into things like a wrecking ball.
“Ma’am you good?” Gunther rushed over to check on me.
“Yes I am, I stopped being a wrecking ball right before it ended meaning I healed either way.” I said.
“I am surprised your clothes are still holding on.” Gunther said.
I looked down and I saw my uniform just torn to shreds, barely holding on for dear life. The pants had been torn from knees down with bits having been torn up at the hip. The shirt barely covered my breast which I had barely begun to notice that they exist, now they were revealed to me. The sleeves had been cut where the cleaver like sword of the Goblin Champion had hit me with a lot of force that should’ve killed me.
“Me too, stop staring.” I told him.
“Sorry.” He said looking at something else.
“James.” Daniel said, approaching me helmet down with several arrows in his armor. “How did you even do that?”
I looked at the destruction around me, the Goblin Champions chest caved in his heart and lungs likely crushed. Towards the stakes which was covered with ripped cloth of my clothing, and towards the tower which its central support was partially caved in.
“I don’t know, all I know is that I am given immense strength, healing, speed and increased reaction time while a healing spell is active over me. Do you get that?” I asked.
Daniel looked at the devastation I created. “I do get something similar, but not to the level of you. You probably broke a zero to 60 speed record just right now.”
“I think I did.” I looked at the goblins “but it seems like you guys are in much more control than I am, so let''s go home and interrogate our captives, but I need to go find what they have here.” I said.
“Alright, you''re going to check out the mud brick house over there, and I''ll check out the tower?” Daniel asked.
“Doesn’t matter, as long as we see what they have.” I said, quickly approaching the mudbrick house.
Everybody was staring at me, and I was sure most here are 16 year old boys. With half having been genderbent into girls, but I could care less as I had more pressing matters to deal with.
I entered the building, with Ronin having placed himself at the entrance of the small building.
Inside I found an actual bed, it used ropes as a mattress with a simple thin blanket. It was on the right side of the building which was a single room. An actual desk that seemed to be crafted by hand was at the foot of the bed.
There was a chair that wasn''t pushed in like they left in a rush, the desk was wooden pure wood. A candle lamp sat on the top left of the desk, there was a piece of parchment in the center of the desk with a message written on it in an unknown language I didn’t recognize.
A small bottle of ink with a feather quill in the bottle sat on the desk on the top right of the desk. There was a cubby below the top of the desk, I felt my hand in it and found simply more parchment and a curved wooden hand.
I grabbed it and saw it was a stamp with a seal on its stamp end. A plant that looked like a venus flytrap with only one mouth, and flowers on it. I took the ink, parchment, feather and stamp. I felt around some more and found nothing more and so I left.
Almost everybody was still outside when I got out, with the captives being tied up. Shark was with the goblin leader interrogating him.
“Who do you call your people?” Shark asked calmly.
The goblin leader didn’t speak, simply staring downward at the ground.
Shark sighed, “Alright then let''s start with your name.” Shark said.
“I won’t tell you for as long as that demon is alive.” The Goblin Leader threw me a glare.
Shark sighed once and pinched his nose. “The name is Shark.” He said, sitting down getting down to the Goblins height.
The goblin clicked his tongue and said “Adertan.” He answered.
“Nice to meet you Adertan.” Shark said.
“That''s all I’m going to tell you, Shark.” Adertan said.
I approached the two, Adertan was on the ground legs crossed “Well I believe it''s time we went home. It is getting somewhat late.” I said, the time was probably around 5 PM.
Shark got up and faced me. “We also need to get all the stuff from that ship too, so we’ll be getting home pretty late.”
I looked down at my torn up uniform. “Along with new clothes for me, I can''t believe I already ruined this uniform. Might need to rock the Adushashan uniform now, or I could go with the Rostoran uniform.” I said as we walked down the hill towards the gate.
“I’ll be in the back Shark if you need to know where I am.” I said.
“Alright, the missions about to be over anyways take a break from all the leading.” Shark said.
I slowed down and pulled to the side of an empty mudbrick house as the crowd quickly passed me by. Ronin as always was next to me along with Gunther of all people as well.
“I would say today was a pretty eventful day wasn’t it?” Gunther asked as we began walking at the rear of the crowd.
I yawned, “It was an eventful day for sure, it felt so long. Now we need to get new clothing.” I said, looking once again at my torn up clothes which were still barely holding on.
"Yeah, you were quite reckless today. Head butting that giant guy and somehow accelerating from 0 to 60 in like half a second. Isn’t that like a bunch of gs?” Gunther asked.
“Yeah, it is.” I said as we passed the broken gate and out onto the open hilly fields, we followed the river downstream and we passed the ship.
I looked at the beached ship and Ronin spoke, “I saw some clothing in the ship''s storage, I could get you that.”
“What is it?” I asked.
“Silk clothes.” Ronin simply said.
“That’ll work.” I said as we splitted off from the group and Ronin led me through the empty ship. Then to one of the boxes, he was mumbling to himself in Japanese while searching the boxes.
Ronin then brought out a simple white silk dress, “you fine with dresses?” Ronin asked.
“As long as it fits.” I took the white silk dress, tested it and covered my chest and legs well enough. It was slightly larger than my size but it seemed to fit. “Now I need some privacy to change.” I said.
Ronin and Gunther left to the opposite entrances and guarded them, as I took off all of my torn clothing and put on the dress.
It was a simple slip on dress, there was nothing to tie it with meaning it was very loose fitting but it didn’t matter as long as it didn’t fall off.
“Alright I am ready to go now.” I said, pulling on my boots and tying them.
Gunther came in as did Ronin. “Gonna be honest it looks like it suits you well.” He said.
“I just need something to cover myself, we’ll be taking this stuff tomorrow morning anyways.” I picked up my torn and dirtied clothes and held onto them.
I stretched out my arms and said. “Well lets head back to base, we have a long week ahead of us.”