Dawn- An Age Of Darkness

"Got any bright ideas?" A large metallic Club came my way and I dodged, barely. 

It merely grazed my left arm and still made a chunk of ice fly away. It didn't hurt and regenerated quickly. 

Well, that was convenient. But this goblin king was no slouch. 

"Nope!" Dick threw fireballs towards the crowds of goblins and kept them stalled for the time being but that left the big guy for me and Servesta. 

I kind of didn't want to fight this thing or the smaller goblins though.

Was I being too picky?

Yes!

I switched the normal sword for the cane. If this thing enhanced my magic, then I didn't have any reason not to use it. 

"Keep em busy!" 

"Easy for you to say!" Dick was shuffling between the big thing and the goblins while Servesta was trying his best to attack and protect the unconscious hostages from rogue arrows and all that. 

I guess I was dumping too much work on them, but I didn't have a choice. 

'Flow like it's my blood, and into my soul?' I tried to focus. Needless to say, with the continuous arrows, yells, and the big thing there, it was kind of impossible. 

But my speed was also kind of impossible, so I counted on that. 

'Here goes nothing.' Deep breaths, and loads of focus. 

I couldn't focus though. 

Everything seemed normal and within a few seconds a ball of water formed at the tip of my cane, and a second later formed into a spear, bigger than my length. "Freeze!" And it froze. 

Well, that was easy. 'But how do I throw it?' I tried to will it to move like typical spells but it wasn't working. 

I guess that left only one choice. 

I grabbed it solidly with my frozen hand and threw as best as I could. "Out of the way!" The spear flew blazingly fast, at least faster than I thought it would. And it actually was straight too.

Dick jumped out of the way. "Hey, try to warn a little earlier!"

The goblin king tried to dodge but it was a solid hit, sadly on the shoulder of the thing. I was kind of aiming for the head. 'Do I have to take lessons about spear too?'

I actually didn't feel all that agitated anymore. Actually, I was relaxed now that I knew I had two morons fighting by me. But when I was alone, when Servesta just left and I didn't have anyone to watch my back, I felt terrible. I guess that's what Alisa felt when I left her back there too. 

'I really have to apologize.'

The stone, sword, and pendant's powers were also kind of aiding in keeping me calm. 

But now I had better control and I knew to which length I could throw these without touching. 

So, with a smirk, I focused and made small balls of water. Knife-like sickles formed and flew straight for the king, this time a solid hit too: on shoulders, forehead, and even one eye. 

He roared solidly. "Kill the mage!" I guess it could form sentences too. 

All the arrows, the stones were again focused on me. I guess I was treated as a mage now. I could try dodging, but since it was coming from all around me, I didn't have anywhere to run to. 

I was going to be battered again. I guess I had way too much confidence. 

Dick ran towards me but it was too late, instead, he threw his shield: I didn't expect that. 

I dropped the cane, grabbed the shield, and blocked everything. Even the arrows that came near my feet didn't actually touch me. Rather they just fell. 

It almost felt natural to hold this sword and shield together.

"What the hell? What was that!?" Dick was as confused as I was. 

"That's what I'm asking?"

I looked around and my body was surrounded by a white layer of coating on top of the swirling mana. So basically I had five layers now. One, my own, one from the mystic blade, one from the pendant, one from the stone, and lastly, one from the shield. 

What the hell, indeed. "That's new." And this thing was lighter than the sword too. I threw the shield back at Dick and picked up my cane. "Let's kill him."

"Why are you giving this back? With this, you'd have been invincible and you could have just finished this thing off and then given it back to me!"

I had reasons to give it back. My current strength was good and all but I didn't know how far it went. I didn't know my current limits with all three of these things. I didn't know if this was enough. I had to know, and I had to make this thing pay too, 

And I didn't want to underestimate my foes and become overconfident again. 

"And hear more of your complaints? No thanks. Besides, he's almost dead anyway." Arrows and stones still came for me but I just ran towards the big monster. "I'll take it from here!"

"There he goes, showing off again." Dick sighed and covered my back. 

No matter how much Dick complained, in the end, he always ended up smirking anyway. The guy really threw me off at times. 

"YOU DAMN INSECTS! YOU COME TO MY HOUSE KILL MY CHIL-" The goblin king was trying to say something. 

"Sorry, first time?" I sure didn't give a damn about its thoughts though. We were killing its children? Oh, and it was just having some fun with ours?

'Damn hypocrites.'

The monster swung its club, this feeling, it was similar to my first battle against a hobgoblin. I'd lost big time and the elves had saved me. But this time, this time I wasn't going to lose. "HAH!" I ducked and swung the mystic blade hard, cutting one of its heels. "Tell me, does it feel that good to ruin lives? Does it feel that good to eat people alive? Have you ever tried to even attempt to coexist?"

"What would you know human? You killed our gods, ransacked our world, took it, and now you preach coexistence!? What would you know! For as long as the blood in our veins remains, we will continue to destroy you!"

I actually wasn't following what this thing was saying. Took their lands? Ransacked their world? What were they even saying?

"Um, Daarc? Are you sure, you want to take this long? I hate to break it to you, but the goblins are starting to enter the stage." Dick's nervous voice reigned supreme in this almost silent place now that I thought about it. Just as the king spoke, all the remaining goblins were silent. They had glares in their eyes and hatred. 

'What the hell?'

"I advise you to hurry up!" Servesta cried out.

"It seems you really, don't know anything, Human!" The goblin king swung its club vertically, I jumped up and landed on top of its head. My height forced it down on its knees. I guess I was heavy with these four layers right now. 

"You're right. I'm not from this world: I don't know anything. But I do know the suffering humans go through because of you. And you lot almost killed me more than a couple of dozen times, don't take this personally." I raised the Mystic blade up high and made a swing: its head fell off. 

"So you're from our world…." Its voice trailed off, as its rolling head stopped. 

Their world? What was it even talking about? 

It threw me off, but we were still in the middle of something. "One down!" I glared at the rest of the goblins, and boy, oh, boy were they panicking. There were no more arrows, no more darts, and no more stones coming my way. They were just stumbling to get out of here. 

But their path was sealed by ice. It wasn't me though. 

And I had a very bad feeling about this. 

Seconds later, a beam of concentrated fire infiltrated through the ice and nearly vaporized the goblins in front. The rest were being dealt with by Dick and Servesta.

Me?

I was just resting atop the headless goblin. I was in for a hell of a lecture. 

And I deserved it too. 

'Destroyed their lands and ransacked their world, huh? Maybe these things aren't from this world? But-'

But why would the goblin say I was from its world? I got that there were more than one world, but no matter how I looked into all this, not many people knew about traversing worlds. 

I couldn't think too much about this, I guess. The hostages were mostly unconscious but a few of them woke up and were kind of petrified. Servesta was trying to calm them down, but his face was kind of scary too. 

Something got caught in my peripherals. Some of the goblins on one side were trying to cover something. 'Is that- a goblin?' It was a small one and it was about to be slaughtered, but another goblin was shielding it. In fact, a bunch of goblins tried to shield it with their bodies as fire from Dick charred them. They were being burned alive and yet, they were still protecting the little goblin. But the goblin didn't look like a goblin, rather- 'A human?'

"Dick, wait!" I jumped off and made my way. 

"What now?"

"Focus on the rest, I'll take a look."