The two goblins sprioward the elven maiden, fetting about the attuned men in heavy armour in front of them. A veteran stepped forward and swung his sword in a wide, two-handed sweep at the neck of the lead goblin. It charged heedlessly into the bde, maddened by lust. The lopped off head hitting the sand with a wet thud seemed to sober the sed goblin, apanied by the cheers of the crowd in respoo first blood.. It turned in panid began to flee with a shriek of fear.

  The other attuned had circled behind the retreating goblin to block its path. The goblied instinctively with a wild swing. The man blocked the swing with the crossbde of his sword, twisting it to effortlessly disarm the goblihen tihe motion to ter with a ssh.

  The goblin fell backward in an attempt to dodge, only to be impaled on the bde of the first veteran as the other sword sshed across its throat. Blood gurgled from the goblins mouth as it attempted to stop the bleeding at its neck. The first veteran rammed his sword deeper then cut upwards with a flourish. He held eye-tact with the nameless goblin as he dissected the goblin up to the shoulder to remove his sword. He was attempting to intimidate the nameless goblin with his dispy. The nameless goblin only smirked as he bouhe stone k in the palm of his hand.

  “This isn’t what you promised me. I paid to fight your best!” the eleven maiden shouted in e toward the stands where the master was seated.

  “Lady Estra, they were only grunts. The two remaining are far more dangerous. Don’t let yuard down. There is also the phantom cat to sider,” the master replied.

  The master stood up from his seat in the private booth to leahe rail. He lump human male of below average height dressed in opulent bck robes decorated with purple are runes. He had short-cropped bck hair and a thin pencil mustache.

  “Then unleash the phantom cat. That bck gobli even have a sword!" Lady Estra retorted.

  "Please resider, Lady Estra. Your father will have my head if those animals get a hold of you!" The master pleaded.

  "Give the order now. I o be prepared for my quest oher side of the wall," Lady Estra replied.

  The crowd began muttering among themselves after hearing that the elven maiden would be travelling past the wall into the expanding woods. The nameless goblin began to ugh in amusement.

  "You're mad, woman. Your tier three noble house status won't protect you in the expanding woods. There are things ihat make that phantom cat look like a kitten," the nameless goblin couldn't restrain himself as he mocked.

  The elven woman was stunned speechless after the nameless goblin spoke. The pair of attuned veterans became alert. The nameless goblin shook his head in disbelief as he tio bouhe stone.

  "Wait, who allowed it to get that rock? You will be punished for this!" The master shouted as he began to panic.

  The attuned veterans frowned in fusion after deteg the master's panic. The nameless goblihe back of his neck begin to tihe reddish-brown mage chose this moment while everyone was distracted to unleash a fmethrower at the group of oppos.

  As it arched through the air, a barrier appeared as the elven maideed to intercept the fireball. The attuned veterans separated to run in opposite dires in a practiced pincer maneuver as the are sigil p the barrier became visible. Cracks spread across the barrier's surface. The moment it shattered, the nameless goblin took the opportunity to unch the stone under cover of the fmethrower.

  The rock disappeared among the fmes, causing the smoke to swirl at the force of its passing. When the fmethrower ehe elven maiden was unscious with blood seeping from the tre of her brow.

  "Stop. Don't touch that sword. Fuck!" The master futilely anded as he became hysterical.

  The nameless goblin suppressed his racial instincts as he fought the urge to ravish the vulnerable maiden ying in the sand. Instead, he focused his attention toward the attuned veterans closing in on the goblin mage. He walked to the headless corpse of the decapitated goblin and crouched down to retrieve its crude iron short sword.

  The master unleashed a string of profanities as he began to el mana. The nameless could feel the itg sensation on the back of his neck as he watched the purple runes of the master's robes light up. A crystalline barrier ehe unscious elven maiden while the lock to the transport cart was undone.

  The iron gate swung outward as the phantom cat swatted it open. It moved with deadly grace as it exited the cage. The suspension tension was released like a springboard as the weight of the rge felihe deck to nd on the sand in a cloud of dust.

  The phantom cat flinched away when the nameless goblin looked at it, losing all sembnce of poise. It became a its rea as it hissed at him. The moment the nameless goblin stepped toward the phantom cat, it fled to the wall of the arena and attempted to escape by climbing the iron portcullis. The master cursed as he activated the arena’s magic defences. A ripple appeared in the air as a dome formed, knog the phantom cat to the ground.

  It climbed back to its feet and groomed its fur as if nothing had happened. It g the nameless goblin with a haughty expression. Then it began to stalk the goblin mage, choosing it as the easiest prey. The phantom cat crouched low with its belly rubbing against the sand as it crept toward the goblin mage, who was distracted by the attuned veterans.

  The nameless goblin ughed at the feline’s as, swinging his sword casually to find the bance. After he was satisfied, he started to jog across the arena to intercept the first veteran. The man was the most dangerous of the two. The nameless goblin could see the glowing are runes of a mana tattoo above the colr of his armour on his neck.