*Boom!*
The door to the throne room begins to shake from something smashing into it from the other side.
"Are they serious?!" Sir George asked with annoyance while he readied himself.
Quinus, along with everyone else, prepared for the worst as they faced the large door. All they could do was wait for the Hobgoblins to smash through the door.
*BOOOM!* The doors swayed and cracked under the impact of the large Hobgoblins smashing against the doors, but they still held strong.
'Fuck me! Why didn't I leave this goddamn labyrinth when I had the chance, RYAN!' Rya thought as she cursed and chastised herself in hindsight.
*BOOM!* *BOOM!*
The Hobgoblins started to bash the door again and again with no signs of stopping. Each time, causing more of the door to crack and whine under the stress of being hit. Everyone was on edge and tense as they waited for the monsters to burst into the throne room.
*BAM! BAM! BAM!*
'Damn, they're really going at it.' Rya thought as her heart rate was beginning to race.
"Ready yourselves!" Quinus ordered while he readied his sword.
*BOOOOOM!*
*CRUSH!*
The door to the Throne room was smashed open as the Hobgoblins charged in. The horde rushed forward with their swords and axes. They were ready to strike anyone or anything at a moment's notice when they came into the room.
"Hold the front line! Don't let any of them through!" Quinus yelled.
Sir George took the lead as he readied his shield on the front lines. Quinus rushes towards George's right side while the Merc takes the left position just before the hobgoblins come into striking range. The rest of the party followed behind the three.
"KILL THE HUMANS!!!" screamed a hobgoblin as it raised its crude axe into the air.
*Swing! Clang! Crunch*
"AAARRRRR!!!" The Hobgoblin screamed as it was sliced in half across its chest by Quin's quick diagonal slash.
*Swing! Clang!*
Rya watched in horror as a massive number of Hobgoblins attacked her fellow comrades.
'Shit! SHIT! SHIT!!! They are coming after me!' Rya panicked, seeing some of the hobgoblins coming around the front line and heading straight towards her. She readies her sword and tries to hit one of them.
*CLANK!*
When she tried to swing, she was blocked by one of the Hobgoblins who came at her.
*CLINK!*
"FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!!!"
Rya desperately tried to swing and dodge the attacks of the two Hobgoblins who were trying to kill her. At one point, her sword crossed blades with the Hobgoblin's sword as it tried to push his weight into her, hoping to knock her off balance. The Hobgoblins smiled maniacally at her, showing their crooked teeth and wild eyes. Even though Rya's sense of smell has gotten stronger since she's turned into a Dark Elf, if she were still a human, the Hobgoblin's breath was enough to make her gag.
Rya used all of her strength to push the Hobgoblin away and then took the opportunity to stab him.
*Swing! Clash!*
But this Hobgoblin was good as it blocked her attack and tried to strike back. Causing Rya to jump to the side, dodging his blow and slashing at his defenseless back.
*Swing! Slash!*
*SCHTINK*
"GAH! AAAAARRRRRR!" Hobgoblin screamed as he turned around to strike back at her.
*Clang!*
Rya barely blocked his blade with her own while gritting her teeth as she was holding her ground. Then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw the other Hobgoblin, who had tried to attack her earlier, running past her, trying to flank Sir George with its axe. Before Rya could think, her instincts took over and channeled her mana to her hands and feet.
She stomps her foot on the ground and brings up a 6-foot wall of obsidian to form about one inch in front of her foot. It came up from underneath the Hobgoblin with the sword, sending it straight up into the rock ceiling, caving in its skull before its body came crashing down to the floor. Rya didn't notice this as she focused her attention on the other Hobgoblin attacking George. She moved to the left of her wall and quickly hit it with the palm of her hand, sending the 6-foot wall of obsidian flying at breakneck speed toward the Hobgoblin attacking Sir George's blind spot.
"GEORGE, TO YOUR LEFT!"
George turned his head slightly toward Rya's direction.
"HUH!? AARRRR~" yelled the surprised Hobgoblin as it was caught by Rya's flying wall, moving as fast as a speeding car until it smashed into the far wall of the throne room. Squishing the Hobgoblin like a bug.
George watched in amazement as the obsidian wall flew past him with a panicked Hobgoblin stuck on the wall's surface before it crashed into the other wall, 20 feet away from him, leaving a large dent in its wake.
"Wow!" he gasped with amazement before another Hobgoblin came at him from the doorway.
"HOLY SHIT! I'M A FUCKING EARTH BENDER!!" Rya exclaimed in shock and awe at the destruction she had just caused. She didn't know how she knew that move, but was happy that she did. She felt as if the power of earth had called out to her and helped her create that obsidian wall. She was also excited that she found a new way to use her mana, which might help her get out of this labyrinth alive. It was like she'd always been a warrior her entire life.
"Lady Rya! Behind you!" Percy yelled as he shot an arrow at the attacking Hobgoblin, stunning it before it struck her.
"DAMMIT!!!" Rya screamed at herself. She was so distracted by her magic that she forgot to watch her surroundings. She was oblivious to the Hobgoblin coming up from her blind spot. And thanks to Percy, she was able to avoid its attack. But even in pain, the Hobgoblin tried to swing its stone mallet at her again. Rya was able to sidestep its attack once more as its stone mallet was coming at her with ferocious force.
*Boom!*
The stone mallet makes a small crater in the ground.
'Fuck! How strong is the guy!?'
"ARH!" Roared the Hobgoblin as it was annoyed with missing her. It looked like it was going to press the attack as it regripped the handle of its weapon.
As soon as the Hobgoblin was about to attack her again, it was surprised when another wall of obsidian formed from beneath its feet. Making the Hobgoblin go flying toward the ceiling. Until it smashed into the rock with such force that its head exploded in a bloody mess, covering the ceiling with a splatter of its brains and blood. The lifeless corpse came falling back down onto the obsidian floor below.
Rya was panting hard and sweating from the stress of fighting.
"Wow..." Percy said in awe. He didn't know that Earth Mages could use the Earth Element like that. He was used to them shaping and forming the dirt and rocks into good-sized boulders and walls, but not creating them as quickly and effortlessly as Rya had. He had a newfound respect for her.
*Clang! Swish!*
*Swing! Tears!* "Alpha, are you well!?" Dalia asked as she tore through the throat of a Hobgoblin.
"Y-Yeah! I'm just not used to fighting for my life!… For every Goddamn MINUTE! WHOA!" Rya flinched as a spear flew past her face, just missing her by an inch.
*Clank! Tears!*
Dalia took down another Hobgoblin with a single stab to the neck with her claws.
"Hmm? Well, you seem like a natural to me, Alpha," Dalia stated to Rya, who was having trouble holding back the massive battle axe that came from another attacking Hobgoblin to her right. She was able to halt its attack with another rock wall she created.
"I CAN'T TALK AND FIGHT AT THE SAME TIME, DALIA!" Rya replied in frustration as she sent another wall flying with a screaming Hobgoblin attached to it.
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