9 Prologue 9 (1/2)

It was twenty or so minutes later that we met another group of goblins. They were eating a rotting corpse of some 'animal'. If anything, else ate it would most likely kill them, but goblins… they can eat anything. This was one of their abilities, and what makes monsters different from normal animals. They don't have a soul.

Instead, they are born with elemental essence in their bodies, granting them strength, vitality, and in some cases powers that are comparable to Artist's skills. In the case of goblins, all they could do is eat.

But that was enough to make them dangerous.

We slowly approached the group, there was twelve of them. ”We are keeping the same formation, Dom, you need to be ready some will defiantly go through us,” Jackson said.

I nodded in acknowledgment, soul essence was already distributed around my body ready to manifest the soul image at any time. With the amount of it I have right now, as long as I pay attention and minimize the usage I will be fine till the end of the day.

But the struggle of managing it will be soon solved, as my soul grows more soul essence is stored in it. With only a few days since I started, there is enough to partially use it for an hour. But if I summon the image of the entire soul, it gets cut down to ten minutes.

This means that in a fight, for a few more days I can only manifest the soul image on my arms and legs during attacks, and when I need to defend.But for goblins, that's enough.

”Marcus, with Dom here we shouldn't risk it, Play safe. Lily, Havier, do what you always do.”

Everyone nodded to Jackson's words. We closed in on the goblins and started our attack. Havier and Lily released their attacks taking out two of them.

”EARTHEN SCALES!” Marcus shouted. The ground around him shook and flew up attaching to his body. Around his armor earth started to gather creating a solid layer, his shield grew almost twice in size with the earth gathered on it.

He charged into the group, smashing into three goblins. ”ROCK SPIKE!” the ground split, and a spike shoot out of it right into Marcus's hand. Without hesitation, he used it to impale one of the goblins he knocked down.

Jackson ran into the fight right behind Marcus with his sword covered in red flames. With a swing, he cut one of the goblin's arm.

'Screech!'

The goblin shouted. It was only a few seconds after the attack started and only with that shout did they realize the enemies attacked them. With their small bodies and high strength, they moved fast.

Three attacked Marcus, but with his armor, they couldn't do anything to him. He quickly crushed one of them with his shield while one was trying to get to his neck with another one attacking his back.

Jackson was in a better situation two of them were trying to attack him, but with his flaming sword, they couldn't get close to him.

The other three goblins rushed towards me and the other two. I got ready to fight.

'Schhwaff.'

An arrow flew past me and hit one of the goblins in the stomach, it didn't kill him but at least slowed down his approach. Manifesting the soul image on my leg, I waited for the right moment…