Chapter 215: Hydrogia’s First
Two of the greatest knighthoods in all of the kingdom coming together to face the goblins that had been driving the north to ruin. It would have been somewhat beautiful if it weren’t for the circumstances of introducing the strange poison to the men who were only there to help.
Sir Gunnar could only warn them so much. They would have to experience it on their own to know the severity.
And experience it, the Knights of Hydrogia did.
Without hesitation, they rushed into battle, some on horseback but most on foot, and they raised their swords to the goblins, taking them down effortlessly. At first, it seemed like the circumstances didn’t befit the explanation they were given before by the knights.
However, they quickly learned that the goblins didn’t merely attack. They never seemed to end from wherever they came on the hill.
What kept the knights from pushing them forward more was the black poison.
As Commander Lothian sunk his large, dark metal blade into the chest of a massive goblin that had been giving one of the Chemoian apprentices trouble, he was shocked when a cloud of black rose into his face. Whether it came from the goblin’s body or something around it, he wasn’t entirely sure. All that he knew was that if he were to have directly breathed it all in, he would have been in much worse shape. He only caught a small breath of it, but it still made him cough. Since he wasn’t someone who ever got sick, it was a miserable feeling being unable to catch his breath for a few moments.
That wasn’t enough to keep his blade from swinging. He took down more of what he could reach, but he soon noticed that, rather than the knights being able to keep up with the sheer amount of goblins that had attacked, the monsters were able to retreat to wherever they came from.
Cutting them off at the source would be the only way, but how?