The nameless goblin watched the drunk guard walk betweeacked cages filled with goblins while leading the pair of men. They dragged the enraged male goblin who had been interrupted mid-coitus. The guard stumbled drunkenly to lean against ay cage as he searched for the right key. Iing it into the lock as he mumbled ily.
The guard pulled the iron cage gate open, allowing the pair of men to toss the disgruntled goblin ihe guard smmed it closed behind him and locked it before whistling a merry tune.
He started to walk toward the nameless goblin. His expression became more sombre as he approached. His whistling grew more forced and his steps grew more measured. The pair of men had goo the guardroom door arieved a crossbow each before returning.
The pair of men watched the nameless goblin warily as they prepared their crossbows. Standing each side of the drunk guard, whose expression had bee sober. They raised their crossbows with trembling hands to point at the nameless goblin. The drunk guard began to sort through his keys, cursing as he fumbled and dropped them. The nameless goblin sat up as the guard leaned down to pick them up, causing the guard to immediately leap away from the cage. The nameless goblin watched quietly as the pair of men aimed their crossbows with unsteady hands as the bolt tip shook.
The now-suard gulped as he slowly crouched down to edge close to the reach for the keys beside the cage. His eyes never moved away from the nameless goblin as he extended his hand to retrieve the fallen keys. The guard was missing two fingers at the end of the trembling hand. One of the men had a bandaged hand holding their crossbow. The nameless goblin smirked as he casually reached out of the cage, grabbing the keyring as the guard touched them.
The guard snapped his hand away like it had been bitten, falling onto his ass as he scrambled backward. The pair of men looked uain as they stepped away from the cage, fingers h over the trigger. The nameless goblin sorted through the keys with practised ease to find the key to his cage. Reag through the cage, he ied the key ihe lock. The men watched anxiously as he turhe key, with a click, the gate swung open.
The nameless goblin stepped out of his cage with an exaggerated stretch. He gri the terrified man before walking toward the sed cage taining the reddish-brown goblin mage. He unlocked the cage and tossed the brass keys into the arms of the uain guard. The nameless goblin opehe cage gate and reached io grip the goblin mage by the ear, dragging him out of the cage.
โDonโt just stand there gawking. You said it yourself, we have a mage to kill. Lead the way,โ the nameless goblin instructed the guards.
He pced a foot against the back of the goblin mage, shoving it toward the pair of men. The men hurriedly lowered their crossbows, catg the goblin stumbliweehe now-suard was the first to recover. Standing upright, he marched to the first pair of stacked cages. Unlog both cages stacked atop each other, he reached inside and dragged out the disgruntled goblins from ihey made a fuss, but they didnโt dare resist as the guard cuffed them around the side of the head with a curse.
The mehe goblins out of the stabling area toward an ope of reinforced double doors as a sed pair of men wheeled out the cart taining the phantom cat. The cart was loaded onto a woodeor powered by a pair of winches ed in thick iron s. The men moved to follow the group entering the double doors.
Ihe doors, the nameless goblin saw rows of crude melee ons hanging on wooden racks. The goblins were halted outside as the men pushing the cart entered aurned carrying two swords and a magic focus. In this case, the focus was a wooden staff covered in pyrography-etched are ruhe swords were hao each of the disgruntled goblins, while the staff was given to the goblin mage. Nothing was given to the nameless goblin.
โAhem, s-stay back,โ one of the men with the crossbows said to the nameless goblin.
The newly-arrived me baside before emerging a moment ter, holding a crossbow each. All four men nervously aimed their crossbows at the goblins, the nameless goblin in particur. The nameless goblin sneered after their as.
That must be the masterโs doing. That miserable old bastard knows that I could hahe journeyman mage alone, even without attu. They must have paid him a small fortuhey must be someone important if heโs this cautious iing any โactsโ. Too bad that they had to insist on fighting me. Iโll py along.
The nameless goblin walked onto the elevator, standio the cart with the phantom cat. Its hackles were raised as it growled and pressed against the iron bars on the opposite side of the cage. The two goblins holding swords huddled as far away from the cart as they could. The goblin mage stood at the front of the elevator between the winches while holding its staff and fag the wall. Two of the men stood at the back with their crossbows aimed at the nameless goblin while the other two went to operate the wihe now-suard returo supervise his charges ihe stabling pen.
The ptform rose steadily to reveal sunlight streaming from above. The nameless goblin shielded his eyes against the gre. He could see the tticed grill of the iron portcullis blog the sands of the arena. Standing opposite the portcullis oher side of the arena air of enormous wooden doors, currently closed. The stone walls were eroded with age. The nameless goblin smirked as he stepped off the elevator. The meated as he walked to the damaged walls, bending down to sift through the sand.
