Year 5009 after the system day 20 of the sun season Zylph perspective.
"Lord Zylph, it seems we're being chased by some weird goblins riding wolves and what I believe to be wild boars."
"This has become rather complicated, but we can't halt now, we stick to the plan if we wish to survive!" He shouted nervously while grabbing the reins tighter as they gallop through the path Aurora mentioned over and over making him tired of hearing it.
"But lord if we go this way, we'll be going into the middle of the traps won't the goblins simply follow through us towards the safe route?"
"It doesn't matter mercenary chief Laharl, you saw the same as me, a little girl with high intellect it's too late to have doubts about her, as we've already provoked the enemies by launching a big fire spell like that," Zylph turned around watching 40 thousand enemies riding beasts chasing after them.
'Shit, they'll close in, in no time, but we must at least reach the safe route ahead,' he hit the horse body with his feet so the animal would start moving faster even though it was already at maximum speed.
As he looked behind once more Zylph noticed someone giving orders to black-clothed men, further on the rear who seemed to be preparing a different spell from before, making him suspicious as he knows most of the mercenaries,' whatever you implemented in my forces on my back, better keep me alive Aurora, or I'll come back from the dead and haunt you girl!'
The allies passed through the safe route and then as the enemies approached the rear, Romeo shouted," blessed skill sage boost, and skill amplification!"
With the initial use of sage boost increasing all his skills considerably, he combined it with amplification, channeling both together towards the green spell the men on the rear were chanting, as such once they released it, something fantastic happened.
A big and vast boulder fell on the ground between them and the goblin riders shaking the ground increasing the gap, forcing the enemies to go around it from left and right instead of wasting time destroying it, as it would take a tremendous amount of time doing so.
The goblin in the front touched the wolf's head making it howl aggressively, causing new orders to spread through the rest of the riders.
As the human force kept on moving away at a fast pace, the riders entered the sides of the path, increasing the weight on the ground severely as they gave chase.
By the time 5 thousand on each side were running through it, the ground collapsed making ten thousand goblin riders fall into trapped spikes at a depth of 8 meters, making them unable to climb out of it, the rear guard of the cavalry then chanted a fire spell similar to the one they had used to provoke them, and sent a fireball to each side burning the goblin riders who couldn't escape, decimating every single one of them as together with the spikes, loads of oil had been poured.
With madness and rage for their kin that was slain the, goblin riders went around the long pitfalls to murder the humans which made them once again ride further away from them.
"Square formation like we trained!" Zylph shouted before they entered a new ground segment of the terrain, following Aurora's orders meticulously as they didn't want to end up like their enemies.
The goblin riders upon seeing the enemies moving through the entire ground unlike before, mimicked the humans by going in a big flock of riders, almost catching up to them when a soft voice triggered the unthinkable.
"Ava your turn," a really big circle appeared beneath the goblin riders as the girl along with Aurora were hidding behind some rocks that looked like a natural camouflage, hidden from everyone else, the general unleashed a great amount of mana channeling it to Ava's body, who poured all of it into a big explosion making the ground collapse once more, making 20 thousand goblin riders fall onto their deaths burning, and being stabbed by the dangers that were beneath them, as the hole like the last ones became hotter than an oven.
"Now! Charge!" With Zylph order, the 20 thousand men, turned back and charged at the leftover ten thousand goblin riders who were in complete disarray as they were extremely confused about what happened since the humans moved on top without any issue, and suddenly there was a gigantic hole in front of them after a loud bang, that harmed the sensitive ears from the animals they rode on.
The human cavalry used a pincer attack on the enemies from both sides by going around the pitfall, ultimately encircling the enemies with the rearguard causing nothing but destruction to their forces, causing even more screams, as the ones from the goblins becoming charcoal inside the pitfalls, since flying was a skill no goblin or human possessed, one of the pieces of information Aurora received from torturing goblins.
With two hundred human casualties and forty thousand goblin rider deaths, the humans further retreated into the outpost, before the rest of the goblins who were marching would get to them, after burning once more the ones who fell in the pit, making sure there were no survivors.
With this, unknowingly to Aurora, she had destroyed the most mobile force the goblins had in their territory, allowing her to have the most movable force in the wars to come which would allow her to fully use Zylph to her heart content, a man who by no means enjoyed being used, but without choice and seeing as today had granted him quite the achievement, he was forced to be basked in that glory admired by the mercenaries, and those around who started wanting to learn how to ride to join him.
Once the cavalry reached the outpost gate, the healers started attending to the injured, while the ones who were fine took the horses to the stables so they could rest and eat.
With a smirk on her face, Aurora took Ava back with her to the camp on a horse that was waiting for them a bit further to the east.
Ava had been silent the entire trip thinking about what had just happened, causing her to be the reason so many goblins died, it's not like she regretted any of it the problem lied elsewhere.
'Just now when I was using my explosion element to cause a small bang in the middle of them with a thousand mana the circle... it extended at least 10 times more!'
'Who in the world is this Aurora!? The mana she charged me with felt infinite, I had so much power circulating through my body that I was able to cause a devastating explosion killing no less than 10 thousand, and I received the entirety of the experience as giving mana to someone else doesn't share it!'
'I just won 10 million experience from 40 thousand beasts, the riders and the ones they rode! Simply like that! I'm currently level... personal info... uh? Why am I only level 60? Not like it's a low level but... my experience towards it is 6000 out of 6000, don't tell me this is my limit?' Mixed tears of happiness and sadness started flowing down as she grabbed the girl's waist tighter in front of her as they rode the same horse.
"What's wrong Ava?" Aurora asked confused feeling the grip looking behind hearing her crying.
"I reached level 60, my experience is maxed and it didn't go higher... I think this is my limit even my rare class got maxed at level 3 and nothing happened, it didn't evolve or anything!" She shouted while the tearing got worse making her lean the face on the back of Aurora drenching it.
"I didn't know there was a max level for us humans, since I'm only level 3," Aurora laughed surprising Ava with the information she spouted.
"Level 3? With all that mana? How is that possible?"
"Well I got blessed by the Saintess and the goddess so I suppose I breakthrough somehow? Plus my sister's class is level 4, that's certainly not the limit for a human, you might just not have the requirements to go further as you currently are, so cheer up, you did a great job, and I'm sure you'll eventually find what you're lacking," upon hearing such words Ava cried like a little baby, but this time instead of sadness she did it out of relief, as she wanted to surpass her teacher Ryan while he was still alive.
With a soft trembling voice, she said softly," thank you, general, no, thank you Aurora for easing my heart," a kind smile appeared on the blonde girl's expression going forever unnoticed, as no one was there to see how beautiful it looked.
As soon as Aurora arrived at the gate later than the cavalry, she was greeted with victory shouts and applauds for yet another small successful victory to what the girl shouted.
"Prepare the defenses, there's a chance we'll be attacked by the goblin king today or in the following days, we may all celebrate together once we've won this war! Don't get complacent! For the war that is a monster has just started engulfing its victims!"
The gate opened and she went inside silencing everyone, forcing the soldiers to focus on the open field in front of them, for any following enemies which wouldn't arrive, for a while.
Some time passes and Aurora can be found inside her tent alone thinking.
'Thanks to Ava I now know the full utility of fame and disgrace, without it being high enough the class level will get stuck thus capping the user and class level, in other words, on Iris case...' A grin appeared on her expression as she knew her sister had an abnormal amount of disgrace.
'From Balthazar side of information, it is within the expectation that the first awakening occurs when she reaches level 5 of her class, seeing as Ava is level 3 it means her fame and disgrace are low, she needs more titles to rank it up and possibly to kill different species, her goblin slayer title should be maxed now, but that would only give so much fame.'
'There's also a chance the system didn't see it as her own sole effort, thus not giving her special titles for what she achieved, in Iris's case, everything was her own effort no matter how basic it might have been, and at a young age too.'
'This leaves me with a sole doubt, now that I'm fully awakened my class remains without a level... perhaps as a weapon I don't need to level it up, as I'm already fully fledged or almost completely awakened?'
'My pandemonium skills are locked I didn't even get to try them... Ugh, the system sure is making things complicated for me, I can't help for Iris to awaken and remove these restrictions.'
"May I enter?" A familiar male voice entered her tent interrupting her thoughts.
"Yes Romeo, come in."
Upon entering he said," we managed to defeat those goblin riders, and we sent a team to bring their meat to store it for the moon season through multiple magic bags, and the warehouses we built with the help of the few ice mages we have upon your orders."
"Do be careful as the goblins may attack us at any given time."
"Yes, of course, though after that big loss, I don't think they'll attack right away, their leader must be pissed off, at least I would be in their place."
"That would be nice, a leader who falls into rage won't think straight allowing us to capitalize on more opportunities, thus allowing us to close our number gaps for the upcoming fights."
"I followed your instructions regarding my skills they were quite an amazing combination, it made the spell of the men I took with me become extra fierce!" He said excitedly unable to keep his composure.
"I'm glad it worked out since it was not my skill, I was unsure if it would work, but since it did, in the future we shall make good use of it once more," upon hearing such words he grins happily like a kid overjoyed of the power he has which is different than the one from the past.
"Shouldn't you be giving the good news to Sophie?"
"Ah, you're absolutely right, thank you for reminding me before she felt like I ignored her killing me in the process," he started laughing nervously and headed out of the tent in a rush.
'I guess with the changes on his body by the goddess, Romeo became quite different from what he used to be, the old man sage who was annoying to deal with, in my case, I didn't receive a new body neither am I a human being, so I guess I didn't receive some sort of brainwash by the goddess Aria.'
"Thanks to her handling the sage and the hero, it has become quite easier."
Year 5009 after the system day 20 of the sun season Zylph perspective.
"Lord Zylph, it seems we're being chased by some weird goblins riding wolves and what I believe to be wild boars."
"This has become rather complicated, but we can't halt now, we stick to the plan if we wish to survive!" He shouted nervously while grabbing the reins tighter as they gallop through the path Aurora mentioned over and over making him tired of hearing it.
"But lord if we go this way, we'll be going into the middle of the traps won't the goblins simply follow through us towards the safe route?"
"It doesn't matter mercenary chief Laharl, you saw the same as me, a little girl with high intellect it's too late to have doubts about her, as we've already provoked the enemies by launching a big fire spell like that," Zylph turned around watching 40 thousand enemies riding beasts chasing after them.
'Shit, they'll close in, in no time, but we must at least reach the safe route ahead,' he hit the horse body with his feet so the animal would start moving faster even though it was already at maximum speed.
As he looked behind once more Zylph noticed someone giving orders to black-clothed men, further on the rear who seemed to be preparing a different spell from before, making him suspicious as he knows most of the mercenaries,' whatever you implemented in my forces on my back, better keep me alive Aurora, or I'll come back from the dead and haunt you girl!'
The allies passed through the safe route and then as the enemies approached the rear, Romeo shouted," blessed skill sage boost, and skill amplification!"
With the initial use of sage boost increasing all his skills considerably, he combined it with amplification, channeling both together towards the green spell the men on the rear were chanting, as such once they released it, something fantastic happened.
A big and vast boulder fell on the ground between them and the goblin riders shaking the ground increasing the gap, forcing the enemies to go around it from left and right instead of wasting time destroying it, as it would take a tremendous amount of time doing so.
The goblin in the front touched the wolf's head making it howl aggressively, causing new orders to spread through the rest of the riders.
As the human force kept on moving away at a fast pace, the riders entered the sides of the path, increasing the weight on the ground severely as they gave chase.
By the time 5 thousand on each side were running through it, the ground collapsed making ten thousand goblin riders fall into trapped spikes at a depth of 8 meters, making them unable to climb out of it, the rear guard of the cavalry then chanted a fire spell similar to the one they had used to provoke them, and sent a fireball to each side burning the goblin riders who couldn't escape, decimating every single one of them as together with the spikes, loads of oil had been poured.
With madness and rage for their kin that was slain the, goblin riders went around the long pitfalls to murder the humans which made them once again ride further away from them.
"Square formation like we trained!" Zylph shouted before they entered a new ground segment of the terrain, following Aurora's orders meticulously as they didn't want to end up like their enemies.
The goblin riders upon seeing the enemies moving through the entire ground unlike before, mimicked the humans by going in a big flock of riders, almost catching up to them when a soft voice triggered the unthinkable.
"Ava your turn," a really big circle appeared beneath the goblin riders as the girl along with Aurora were hidding behind some rocks that looked like a natural camouflage, hidden from everyone else, the general unleashed a great amount of mana channeling it to Ava's body, who poured all of it into a big explosion making the ground collapse once more, making 20 thousand goblin riders fall onto their deaths burning, and being stabbed by the dangers that were beneath them, as the hole like the last ones became hotter than an oven.
"Now! Charge!" With Zylph order, the 20 thousand men, turned back and charged at the leftover ten thousand goblin riders who were in complete disarray as they were extremely confused about what happened since the humans moved on top without any issue, and suddenly there was a gigantic hole in front of them after a loud bang, that harmed the sensitive ears from the animals they rode on.
The human cavalry used a pincer attack on the enemies from both sides by going around the pitfall, ultimately encircling the enemies with the rearguard causing nothing but destruction to their forces, causing even more screams, as the ones from the goblins becoming charcoal inside the pitfalls, since flying was a skill no goblin or human possessed, one of the pieces of information Aurora received from torturing goblins.
With two hundred human casualties and forty thousand goblin rider deaths, the humans further retreated into the outpost, before the rest of the goblins who were marching would get to them, after burning once more the ones who fell in the pit, making sure there were no survivors.
With this, unknowingly to Aurora, she had destroyed the most mobile force the goblins had in their territory, allowing her to have the most movable force in the wars to come which would allow her to fully use Zylph to her heart content, a man who by no means enjoyed being used, but without choice and seeing as today had granted him quite the achievement, he was forced to be basked in that glory admired by the mercenaries, and those around who started wanting to learn how to ride to join him.
Once the cavalry reached the outpost gate, the healers started attending to the injured, while the ones who were fine took the horses to the stables so they could rest and eat.
With a smirk on her face, Aurora took Ava back with her to the camp on a horse that was waiting for them a bit further to the east.
Ava had been silent the entire trip thinking about what had just happened, causing her to be the reason so many goblins died, it's not like she regretted any of it the problem lied elsewhere.
'Just now when I was using my explosion element to cause a small bang in the middle of them with a thousand mana the circle... it extended at least 10 times more!'
'Who in the world is this Aurora!? The mana she charged me with felt infinite, I had so much power circulating through my body that I was able to cause a devastating explosion killing no less than 10 thousand, and I received the entirety of the experience as giving mana to someone else doesn't share it!'
'I just won 10 million experience from 40 thousand beasts, the riders and the ones they rode! Simply like that! I'm currently level... personal info... uh? Why am I only level 60? Not like it's a low level but... my experience towards it is 6000 out of 6000, don't tell me this is my limit?' Mixed tears of happiness and sadness started flowing down as she grabbed the girl's waist tighter in front of her as they rode the same horse.
"What's wrong Ava?" Aurora asked confused feeling the grip looking behind hearing her crying.
"I reached level 60, my experience is maxed and it didn't go higher... I think this is my limit even my rare class got maxed at level 3 and nothing happened, it didn't evolve or anything!" She shouted while the tearing got worse making her lean the face on the back of Aurora drenching it.
"I didn't know there was a max level for us humans, since I'm only level 3," Aurora laughed surprising Ava with the information she spouted.
"Level 3? With all that mana? How is that possible?"
"Well I got blessed by the Saintess and the goddess so I suppose I breakthrough somehow? Plus my sister's class is level 4, that's certainly not the limit for a human, you might just not have the requirements to go further as you currently are, so cheer up, you did a great job, and I'm sure you'll eventually find what you're lacking," upon hearing such words Ava cried like a little baby, but this time instead of sadness she did it out of relief, as she wanted to surpass her teacher Ryan while he was still alive.
With a soft trembling voice, she said softly," thank you, general, no, thank you Aurora for easing my heart," a kind smile appeared on the blonde girl's expression going forever unnoticed, as no one was there to see how beautiful it looked.
As soon as Aurora arrived at the gate later than the cavalry, she was greeted with victory shouts and applauds for yet another small successful victory to what the girl shouted.
"Prepare the defenses, there's a chance we'll be attacked by the goblin king today or in the following days, we may all celebrate together once we've won this war! Don't get complacent! For the war that is a monster has just started engulfing its victims!"
The gate opened and she went inside silencing everyone, forcing the soldiers to focus on the open field in front of them, for any following enemies which wouldn't arrive, for a while.
Some time passes and Aurora can be found inside her tent alone thinking.
'Thanks to Ava I now know the full utility of fame and disgrace, without it being high enough the class level will get stuck thus capping the user and class level, in other words, on Iris case...' A grin appeared on her expression as she knew her sister had an abnormal amount of disgrace.
'From Balthazar side of information, it is within the expectation that the first awakening occurs when she reaches level 5 of her class, seeing as Ava is level 3 it means her fame and disgrace are low, she needs more titles to rank it up and possibly to kill different species, her goblin slayer title should be maxed now, but that would only give so much fame.'
'There's also a chance the system didn't see it as her own sole effort, thus not giving her special titles for what she achieved, in Iris's case, everything was her own effort no matter how basic it might have been, and at a young age too.'
'This leaves me with a sole doubt, now that I'm fully awakened my class remains without a level... perhaps as a weapon I don't need to level it up, as I'm already fully fledged or almost completely awakened?'
'My pandemonium skills are locked I didn't even get to try them... Ugh, the system sure is making things complicated for me, I can't help for Iris to awaken and remove these restrictions.'
"May I enter?" A familiar male voice entered her tent interrupting her thoughts.
"Yes Romeo, come in."
Upon entering he said," we managed to defeat those goblin riders, and we sent a team to bring their meat to store it for the moon season through multiple magic bags, and the warehouses we built with the help of the few ice mages we have upon your orders."
"Do be careful as the goblins may attack us at any given time."
"Yes, of course, though after that big loss, I don't think they'll attack right away, their leader must be pissed off, at least I would be in their place."
"That would be nice, a leader who falls into rage won't think straight allowing us to capitalize on more opportunities, thus allowing us to close our number gaps for the upcoming fights."
"I followed your instructions regarding my skills they were quite an amazing combination, it made the spell of the men I took with me become extra fierce!" He said excitedly unable to keep his composure.
"I'm glad it worked out since it was not my skill, I was unsure if it would work, but since it did, in the future we shall make good use of it once more," upon hearing such words he grins happily like a kid overjoyed of the power he has which is different than the one from the past.
"Shouldn't you be giving the good news to Sophie?"
"Ah, you're absolutely right, thank you for reminding me before she felt like I ignored her killing me in the process," he started laughing nervously and headed out of the tent in a rush.
'I guess with the changes on his body by the goddess, Romeo became quite different from what he used to be, the old man sage who was annoying to deal with, in my case, I didn't receive a new body neither am I a human being, so I guess I didn't receive some sort of brainwash by the goddess Aria.'
"Thanks to her handling the sage and the hero, it has become quite easier."
