Synthetic Survivor: Machine Age - Chapter 148

Surrounded by a hundred more smaller goblins, the hobgoblin cried out a roar that sent shivers down the spines of everyone except for One, who was spineless in a way that he did not have the ability to feel the shiver.

He wasn’t afraid.

The hobgoblin was armed with a big mace. A hobgoblin alone could take on an entire unit but since they were rare and could not be tamed by normal magic, bȧrėly anyone had to fight them.

But this was a strange occurance, a hobgoblin leading an army of goblins.

The hobgoblin pointed his mace not at the knights that at first glance seemed to be the main problem for the goblin army, but at One.

The Hobgoblin wasn’t as dumb as it seemed. Seeing the huge number of goblin bodies around this man in black, his immense killing intent, and the fact that he was staring down the hobgoblin itself without flinching was enough to say that he was their main obstacle.

The goblins around the hobgoblin charged while the hobgoblin stayed behind, thinking that his goblins could overrun the man in black easily.

He was wrong.

As soon as the first twenty goblins were in range, One dashed to meet them, startling the goblins with his speed and agility.

He drew out his two energy blades seemingly from thin air and sliced the goblins two and four at a time depending on how close they were to each other.

One spun around, jumped, and bashed their heads together before splitting apart their stomachs with a single hack to the side.

The reason being that if they ran, the hobgoblin would undoubtedly kill them instead.

It’s either kill the man in black or be killed by both.

The one hundred goblins that surrounded the hobgoblin were now cut to a mere forty in numbers.

They had expected One to run out of energy but so far, he was foing strong as if he felt no fatigue.

Before long, the last goblin sent against him lied dead on the grass, their blood spilled among nature, the smell of which drew in more goblins from the area.

The hobgoblin, seeing how his pawns were easily taken care of by a mere human, roared his loudest and charged at One.

Toby and the knight were busy fighting but all had to turn their heads in shock as the hobgoblin charged at One with all his might and his mace up above his head, ready to strike.

One returned the favor and dashed towards the hobgoblin.

“Lord Ben!” Toby and fbe knight shouted in unison, they were all concerned.

Using his bȧrė hands, he punched the mace with all his might. The mace was heavy and sturdy, but One was equally so. His fist and the mace were so evenly matched that they failed to make a dent into each other.

Instead, it sent out a powerful shockwave that blew the knights and the other goblins into the ground and pushed the trees.

The hobgoblin himself was surprised to the point that he stepped back. One then capitalized and leapt towards the hobgoblin’s left arm, burying his sharp hands into its skin, causing it pain and to thrash about.

Seeing their leader’s efforts, the knights, seemingly inspired, all charged together against the remaining goblins with a fury in their eyes. Toby, seeing that remaining as a support for the knights was no longer needed, he switched his stance.

From a support mage to a fire mage.

He cast a number of fireballs infused with explosion magic that he sent flying towards the goblins that still came out of the treeline, exploding upon impact and sending the goblins flying in the air.

Meanwhile, the ground shook as the hobgoblin  struggled with the man in black who was now against the nape of neck. One clung on to its otherwise sleazy skin and drew out one of his energy swords.

The hobgoblin then swung his mace in a clockwise fashion and spun around in a vain attempt to get rid of the man in black.

One then grabbed hold against the skin at the back of the hobgoblin’s head pulled. The monster cried out in pain and in a last ditch effort, tried to crush One by jumping onto it’s back.

One, predicting its moves, changed his position as soon as the hobgoblin jumped. He pulled his way to the monster’s face and without a second to waste, pulled out his other energy sword and sunk them deep into the hobgoblin’s eyes, blinding it.

As it fell to the ground, the hobgoblin realized that it doomed itself. One cut out its nerves to its arms, paralyzing it and preventing the hobgoblin from mounting a successful defense. With the nerves to his arms severed and his eyes blinded, One slit its throat without resistance and jumped off.

The hobgoblin thrashed as blood spewed from its major artery in the neck.

It was a gruesome death and One was covered in both the blood of the hobgoblin and the goblins before it.

The remaining goblins that were fighting the knights immediately turned their backs and tried to run away but the knights weren’t going to let them.

The last goblin was incinerated via a fireball, courtesy of Toby.

[You did splendid! Dear] Hailey praised her husband.

One smiled as he looked at the dead hobgoblin behind him.

Their surroundings were littered with hundreds of dead goblins. The knights were tired and so was Toby, having exhausted a quarter of his inner magic in the fight, more than he had anticipated.

One then walked over the hobgoblin’s body and looked at his men who were watching him.

The men rejoiced.