Angel Monarch

Jogging was the most she could manage, but it was better than nothing.

After another hour the night had arrived in its fullness. Above her the full moon had already passed and it was slowly waning into its third quarter, all around it the stars shone as its eternal companions. Together they brightened the plains she was walking, not that it made any difference for her sight.

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The tracks she was following slowly grew as more footprints and drag marks appeared.

\'Seems like the goblins congregate here and continue on together towards their camp... I must be getting close then!\'

On Sera\'s face a large grin slowly crept on. It was nice to let oneself go and not worry about decisions being right or wrong. There was a flicker inside her which tried to suggest not to go and mercilessly slaughter goblins, but she smothered these thoughts with the anger burning deep inside her.

After looking around a while longer she increased her speed into a light run. Every step sent a shiver of pain through her leg, but Sera ignored it and continued... Time was of the essence.

It took her another half an hour to finally saw the lights. On the horizon a few kilometers away was a small hill, and on top of it was a large encampment. Hundreds of fires burning with different kinds of meats cooking on each. Some were monsters, some were animals... some were humans.

Her anger flared anew and her speed became faster. In her mind she was praying for Kastral to be safe, until she reached him. Sera conveniently forgot the fact that he couldn\'t really die without her dying first, but she seemed to forget a lot things lately.

The pain in her leg grew with her distress, the camp was only about two kilometers away at this point and she finally heard it, not the giggling of the goblins... but the screams.

One thing she never really thought of is that goblins weren\'t stupid. They were only a lot more primitive and evil. After taking humans as prisoners they wouldn\'t just eat them, they would actually feed and fatten them. And while they were kept well fed they would use their bodies for their other, more horrible desires.

Images of Nightmare and the nights with him came to Sera\'s mind. No matter how hard she tried there was no way of burying them this time.

The goblin camp was less than a kilometer away when her eyes turned bloodshot from anger. In the back of her head a small laughter could be heard... She didn\'t even realize that she was the one laughing.

The first of the goblins turned towards the sound, but before any of them could speak they were cut down without second thought.

From the darkness of the night a demon came out of, at least that\'s what it seemed like to the goblins. Sera was covered from head to toe with goblin blood and her weapon changed as well. It turned into a two meter long sword with a double sided serrated blade.

The serration served no actual point since every slash was a kill for her, but it caused the fear factor to increase around her.

Whenever the goblins tried attacking the fear increased so much that they stopped and fell down trembling. Sera wasn\'t even in a hurry at this point, she slowly walked towards the kneeling goblins and stopped a meter away from them.

*Laughter* "How fearsome you lot are! The strong goblins that caused fear in humanity once..." She moved and stabbed one through his chest. "Pathetic!"

Within the next second two more goblins were dead. "Is this all you got! Where is your leader! I want to kill him or her, I don\'t discriminate by gender!" *Laughter*

Sera moved through the camp like an executioner, not caring for any goblins that surrendered. If they were too weak to kill her, what gave them the right to exist?

Behind her only corpses remained, she didn\'t even check the tents. She knew that only captives were in them, and not her enemies. Her laughter haven\'t stopped all this time, but the giggling of the goblins had long since turned to silence, and with that screaming stopped too.

After executing for half an hour she finally reached a place that looked like a large square. It was right before the largest tent in the whole encampment... The leader\'s home.

As she came into the middle she stopped laughing and looked in front of her. The bloodshot eyes in her sockets focused on the goblin that stood above the rest. He was nearly the height of Sera, but still about a head shorter.

Around him was something that resembled an honor guard. Ten goblins, all female, they were close to the leader in height and their body covered in shining armor. They held spears as their weapons, all covered in engravings.

While Sera was still staring at the group of eleven, around her goblins began pouring out of every corner of the square. There was at least a thousand of them if not more, but her eyes never left the leader\'s, and no matter how bad the situation seemed the mad grin never left her face.

After a few more moments she finally looked around at the encirclement and laughed when the goblins shrank down from her sight. Their armor was better than those she fought on her way here. It wasn\'t made of some rusty metal, but actual monster materials. Their weapons weren\'t bad either, made of sharpened bone.

The army would\'ve scared most evolved, but not Sera. There was a hatred burning from her very soul, but what was even more important even to this insane self of hers, was Kastral. She still didn\'t know where he was kept, and she will kill this whole camp if that\'s what it takes to leave with him.

"Ugma Ba Rem Qua?" Said their chieftain, but it fell on flat ears since she didn\'t understand a word. The leader looked confused for few moments then he spoke again, this time in the human language.

"What whore here for?" Sera didn\'t get offended by getting called a whore, one thing she learned from her professor is that goblins used whore as a word for human. It must have related to our purpose in their eyes.

*Laughter*

She chuckled because of the question, which made the chief second guess his translation. Of course there was nothing wrong with it, a bit crude but better than one would expect from goblins.

"Why am I here? The answer is very simple, because I can and I want to!" She said as the smile remained on her face. It took a few moments for the chief to understand her meaning and slowly his mood worsened.

"It is good you here! Me and my wives was lack a new whore! You will serve good!" This caused a bout of laughter and giggle to spread through the goblin horde, but soon Sera\'s own overpowered the rest.

*Laughter* "You... You mean to tell me... *giggle* Those ten females... *snicker* Are your wives?! Was it hard to find the ugliest goblins in the camp, or you just have a good eye for this sort of thing?" *Laughter*

The anger on the chief\'s face flared, same as the rest of the army. They didn\'t take kindly to having their leader\'s harem called ugly. He made one exaggerated hand movement and soon two hundred goblins came at Sera in full force.

Whatever did the goblin chief expect didn\'t happen. The laughing only increased in volume and soon white specks of light appeared all around Sera\'s body. In her hand the weapon changed as well, it took the shape of a four meter long odachi.

The 200 goblins were already about ten meters away when the laughter abruptly stopped. They thought it weird, but didn\'t stop their insane rush... Which they soon regretted.

As they got into the range of Sera\'s sword a blinding light exploded from her body stunning the small horde of creatures. She didn\'t just turned it on and off, instead the light stayed for about ten seconds.

In that time the goblin army only heard screams of pain. Since it was night the effect of her light greatly increased, but Sera knew another weakness of the goblins... Their eyes.

They had big eyes that could see in darkness perfectly well, but they also have an evolutionary weakness to abrupt changes in brightness. So the light was only on for ten second, but it took them a full minute before they could actually see what was going on...

What they saw made them wish for the blindness.

The screams stopped even before their sight came back, and when Sera noticed their reaction she began laughing again.

The two hundred goblins that ran at her were in pieces all around her. Some cut with a sword, others literally ripped apart. The pristine armor that she summoned was already bright green from goblin blood.

Her eyes stared into the goblin chief\'s very soul as she laughed and said, "So little goblin? Who\'s next?"