Chapter 87: Vantage Point
A moment of distraction was a moment too long. As soon as Irene’s eyes went elsewhere rather than the mess of goblins all around her, she was knocked to the ground and her head narrowly missed a pile of stones. She felt lucky that she was at least wearing armor over her back, shoulders, abdomen, and wrists or she would be much worse off than she was at that moment.
However, there was no time to consider silver linings when the goblins all around her were going to kill her.
She had no choice but to figure it out or succumb to the blades of monsters.
Seeing a person down, the goblins began to swarm at the easy target. All they knew was attacking without rhyme or reason.
The clicks erupting from their throats and shrill shrieks that already filled her mind caused momentary panic to set in, but it was enough to have her slash at some of the monster’s legs. Even if she was only reacting and not thinking for a moment, it took down a few and gave her a window to stand up and to move away.
When she was finally not being swarmed, she needed to clean up the mess she made from falling over and attracting more goblins to the area.
With her best efforts, she tried to cut down as many of the putrid monsters as she could, but she was getting overwhelmed.
Fortunately, she soon heard someone shout her name and she saw Sir Phillip arrive from where he had been at the heart of the battle.
With a more practiced swing and a longer blade, he managed to do more damage than she ever could.