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Chapter Twenty Three

  It was late at night in the forests. Where one could find a small cave that was called home by a small Tribe of Goblins. Most of the Goblins in that cave were sound asleep, the only ones still awake so late where the guards were currently on shift.

  With two guards posted at the entrance of the cave on the lookout for intruders, and the other two were stationed in a passage within the cave itself, guarding against the dangerous stone golems.

  So, if someone was able to see the expressions of both sets of guards at this very moment, they’d see two very different sets of expressions.

  While the two guarding the cave entrance leading to the forest were both equally shocked and happy as they ran back towards the rest of the Tribe to let them know the good news.

  But the two Goblins guarding the passage within the cave could be seen running with expressions of dread and worry to wake up Jaba and the rest of the sleeping Tribe to warn them of the incoming danger.

  Two different sets of guards, two different sets of alarms.

  


      
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  ‘Ah, Velora I’m finally home!! Look! I can even see the cave entrance now! I might cry! It’s been far too long dammit! I missed these little green bastards, especially Jaba.

  ‘Well, I suppose he isn’t actually all that little huh, either way, I miss them!

  ‘Hey, look there’s the two Goblins who should be guarding the cave. I wonder if they can see me… oh wait where are they going? Before I could even say hi, they immediately ran back into the cave.

  ‘Hmm… maybe they didn’t recognize me? I’ve been gone for three weeks after all. And not only that… I left looking just like them, but I came back looking Jaba but with tattoos. Even I’d be confused.

  ‘Well can’t do anything about it now, they’ll know I’m the great Goblin Rick soon enough! Let's just walk in.’

  [There’s a lot of noise coming from the cave.]

  ‘Maybe they’re just happy to see me? I mean who could blame them, it’s me after all.’

  [I doubt it.]

  ‘I’m starting to think you're hating on me Velora, but anyway there’s definitely a lot of noise, it almost sounds like...screaming.’

  [Why would I hate on you? What does that mean? And It doesn’t just sound like screaming, it is screaming.]

  ‘No time for that! Could it be the stone things attacking?! What type of crazy-ass story book coincidence is that?

  ‘It only took a couple of seconds for me to sprint into the cave to where the Goblins slept, though not a single one of them was currently sleeping.

  ‘No one even reacted to my arrival, not even the two guards who saw me from the cave entrance paid any attention to me, but I couldn’t blame them.

  ‘The stone monster, golems or whatever they were called were here after all.

  ‘At the back of the cave I could clearly spot Jaba at the front of three rows of Goblins lined up in an orderly fashion with spears in hand giving orders of some sort.

  ‘I even saw more than one evolved Goblin standing next to Jaba.

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  ‘After orders were given, Jaba and the evolved Goblins that stood with him, turned around just in time to see the large masses of stone that were steadily approaching them.

  ‘They were truly huge.

  ‘About ten of them and they all easily surpassed twelve feet in height, they were dark brown in color, as if representing the cave walls themselves, they also had some sort of shiny bronze thing around their stomachs.

  ‘They didn’t make any sound except for their loud steps as they made their way towards the waiting group of Goblins.

  ‘It was at this point that I dropped everything in my hand except for my latest spear and immediately charged at them.

  ‘Velora scan them!

  [Understood.]

  {Race – Earth Golem}

  {Tier – One}

  {Strength – 25}

  {Agility – 5}

  {Dexterity – 8}

  {Intelligence – 1}

  {Endurance – 50}

  {Mana – 30/30}

  ‘Good news is, their only Tier One… bad news is, they have flipping mana?! Isn’t that cheating? Are they going to start casting some type of Earth Magic spell or something now? Dammit, Jaba didn’t mention this when he told me about them.

  ‘Ah whatever I’ll deal with it when it comes.

  ‘I ran towards them with my spear at the ready, being careful not to interrupt this little formation Jaba has cooked up…which was neat to see by the way…they’re like a little Goblin army marching.’

  [Focus Rick.]

  ‘You’re right! My bad!

  ‘It was then that Jaba and the other Goblins finally noticed me, but this isn’t any time for greetings!

  ‘Once I reached extremely close to the rearmost row of Goblins, I did my best to muster every bit of strength into my legs and jumped forward as far and as high as I could and using the momentum from the mad sprint I was in, my giant body was able to soar right over the Goblins.

  ‘Is this what it feels like to be a movie star in Hollywood?

  ‘Before I could get lost in my thoughts, my short-lived period of flight and stardom came to an end as I came crashing down on the closest Earth Golem in front of Jaba and the rest.’

  BOOOOOM!

  ‘Of course, I didn’t forget to drive my spear, which was surprisingly really effective for the limited materials it was made out of as it drove straight through the head of the golem. Though of course the spear didn’t survive the ordeal since it wasn’t necessarily a clean entry and more like smashing the spear through its head.

  ‘Ending its pitiful boring golem life in the process. Well at least I hope I did.’

  [The Earth Golem seems to have been successfully killed, and it doesn’t show any signs of regenerating.]

  ‘It was good to have Velora around to confirm things like that because I didn’t know if the Stone Golems were the type to come back after being destroyed or anything along those lines. Jaba didn’t mention anything like that either but can never be too careful.

  ‘I quickly jumped back towards Jaba and the rest of the Goblins before the other Earth Golems could converge on me. Hopefully they all got a good look at just how dashing I was! HAHAHA!’

  “RICK IS THAT YOU?!”

  ‘Jaba, who seemed shocked beyond reason, immediately yelled out to me once I reached them.’

  “Of course it is.”

  ‘After replying all cool like since this is my great green Hollywood style return to the Tribe, I faced the incoming enemy before saying something else to Jaba.’

  “We’ll catch up later, let's put these guys back in the dirt first.”

  ‘Jaba nodded at me then promptly shook off all of his surprise from seeing before quickly barking out some orders to the other Goblins. I couldn’t help but wonder when they got this organized.

  “Nothing changed! Follow the same plan as before! Geedi and Dal will lead a group of seven normal Goblins each!

  Tars will take the remaining nine! All three squads will constantly run in, hit them, then quickly run! Keep repeating this process using everything we’ve learned! Never stay still, you are faster than them but weaker! Let's go!!!!”

  ‘I watched the orders from Jaba immediately get carried out and to be honest I’m a little stunned, when the hell did they get this organized for real?! And since when did Jaba know what hit and run tactics were?!’

  [You should go help them.]

  ‘Oh yeah...I knew that already Velora!

  ‘I watched as Jaba instantly ran up to one of the Golems alone with just his fists as his weapons, I trusted him to handle himself, so I took off running to the next one. Now even though my spear broke, I still had my trusty fang dagger instead of just my bare fists.

  ‘Both Jaba and I moved around the battlefield with plenty of speed and power. But Jaba’s surprisingly well trained squads didn’t fall behind much either.

  ‘Needless to say, the remaining Earth Golems didn’t stand a chance. Gang green strikes again.’

  [Is there a need for you to say gang green.]

  ‘You're ruining the moment Velora!’

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