Chapter 180: A Moment of Solace
Leif and Felix found different paths that night as they culled the goblins down enough to get into the township and ensure others hiding in the darkness. Upon Sir Eitan’s instruction, Felix went along the outer edge and found plenty more goblins to deal with, while Leif followed Sir Sven and went far right and managed to do much of the same.
However, there were more goblins where Felix went, and he spent what seemed like ages slicing them down. Even the crying of ’necromancer’ wasn’t enough for him to stop with the important task handed to him.
Leif, on the other hand, found peace more quickly as he helped Sir Sven pour buckets of water over a storage house that was up in flames.
Their peace was fleeting. It evolved to horror as Leif saw the skull of the ogre reflect fire and moonlight. At that moment, he wished he were more of a bow wielder because then he could truly do something about the monster. Sir Sven was quick to his bow, and all Leif was instructed to do was try and light a path of grass on fire so the monster wouldn’t go into the township.
Leif dutifully took to his tasks. However, there was a moment he was frozen as he saw something unexpected from a rooftop, and merely stood there dumbfounded as he witnessed their smallest apprentice crouch for a moment before standing with a fire arrow and aiming it at the largest monster.
She had a way of impressing everyone. He wondered if everyone would be more impressed if they knew that a small girl was the one doing all of these brave things.
There wasn’t more time to contemplate that because the ogre began to change directions, so the pressure lessened, and the ogre disappeared as it crumbled to the ground.
Shortly after, Leif was allowed to go to the inn, where he was met with Felix. They were relieved to see the other in one piece. Others hadn’t been quite as lucky.
They were then taken to the dining hall, where they were given food. Neither one of the apprentices even realized that their stomachs were screaming for food until they were eating.