Chapter 121 Goblin Territory

Nova had to shake her head for real to actually shake off the thoughts in her mind now.

'What are you thinking Nova, there are humans with the name Miles.' She thought, slightly tapping her head.

She took deep breaths to help her erase whatever was in her mind now.

'The past shouldn't control you, Nova.'

After getting herself back she dropped the list back on Nicole's table and turned to face the students' desk.

"Step one complete, now all that remains is to find the Angel, I doubt capturing him would be any hard." She said,

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Carl was riding on his horse approaching the area that led into the Goblins' territory, he was slowly riding alongside his brother Benjamin but they weren't alone as there were five more horses following behind them and those riding on them were well-equipped soldiers of the king who had come to help with the search.

Felix knew that paying three times of what he usually paid as tax was going to make things difficult for him but still he needed the king's help which was why he had pleaded with the king to accept a double instead, the king had agreed after a while and that was the reason why five of his soldiers were helping in the search now.

"Are you sure this is where you find the pouch?" The soldier who had his horse ahead of the other soldiers asked.

"I'm sure of it." Benjamin said, climbing down from his horse."And that's not the only thing I saw"

He bent down as he placed his hand on the large horse print on the ground.

"That must be his horse print," Jude said seeing that the horse's footprint extended further into the territory.

"Why would your friend ride into the Goblins' territory?" The soldier asked.

"He was looking for his sister and maybe he had ridden into there without knowing."

"Oh, I forgot we were going to look for her too." The soldier said.

"What are we going to do now?" One of the soldiers asked from the back.

"Although this area is known as the Goblins' territory, they do not have their base here, let's follow the horse footprints and just hope it doesn't lead us to their base," Carl said.

"The chance of getting led to their base is pretty high here." Benjamin.

"Hey, nobody gave you the rights to make decisions although you said exactly what I had in mind because of next time, remember, I give the orders."

The soldier had pulled up in front of Carl to say all these and after that, he had rode ahead with the rest of the soldiers.

"Some power crazy soldier there huh," Benjamin said as he climbed his horse and was about to move out when Carl stopped him by blocking his horse with his.

"Hey what gives?" Benjamin complained.

"You shouldn't come along, I have a feeling this is going to get dangerous," Carl said.

"Come on Carl, you know I can take care of myself, I'm even going to the Knights' academy next year.

"Which is one of the reasons why you shouldn't come," Carl said.

"Carl," Benjamin said with a pleading voice.

"No Benjamin, risking my life is already enough, I can't risk yours."

He needed to say anything else as he turned his horse and rode off as Benjamin sat there on his horse looking at him as he went deeper and when he was finally out of view, a smirk appeared on Benjamin's face.

The horse footprints had finally come to an end in the middle of nowhere and just from where it stopped were the markings of wheels heading in the same direction.

They were contemplating whether to follow the wheel tracks and whether it really had anything to do with Jude when fire shaped in the form of an arrow came flying from nowhere and knocked one of the soldiers off his horse.

"Goblin fire mage," Carl said quickly, pulling out his sword.

Everyone was on high alert now as they kept steering their horses around.

Another fire arrow came flying but this time it was heading for Jude, with his sword he was able to block the fire which couldn't make any effect on him.

The soldier on the floor had gotten up but was quickly attacked by three arrow-shaped fires that scorched his body and killed him on the spot. He had screamed so loudly that his mates had to cover their ears.

"We are surrounded by them." Carl figured.

The soldiers were doing their best to avoid the attacks while blocking the close ones with their swords and one could say they were doing great defending themselves.

The fire attacks had instantly come to a stop and now they could hear a voice coming from the bush by the side.

"First it was just one human, now an army." The goblin spoke as he walked into view.

'One human.' Carl thought. 'It has to be Jude.'

"Where is he? What did you do to him?!" Carl screamed.

"Oh, we don't have him." The goblin said with a smirk. "But we'll make sure we have you."

Immediately after saying that four black portals appeared around Carl and the four soldiers and emerging from each of those portals was a group of five goblins all wielding spears.

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Jude had been brought before the king again as this time he was going to face a level three hybrid beast.

"Maybe if you survive this one, I'll let you go." The king said with a smirk.

Jude knew well by now that every talk of letting him go was just a fake assurance to raise his hope and then slam it on the floor again, if he wants to get out of here he has to think of an escape plan.

"You are wasting your time, I'll kill all your beast," Jude said as he got up from the floor.

"We'll see about that." The king said, striking his staff on the ground. This had already become a regular occurrence for the young knight so he didn't flinch.

He once again found himself in the arena with his sword in his hand.

'I just hope this isn't another aerial beast.' He thought.

When the gate was opened and the beast walked out he had his mouth open in shock.

What could be worse than any aerial beast? A beast that had venom, what he could see on the other side of the arena now was a very large cobra whose shadow would easily cover him.

'I think we are going to fight poison with poison.' Jude thought as he touched the poisoned dagger sheathed around his waist.

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Mass release goals.

100 power stones or 10 pizza gifts= 3 extra chapters.

500 power stones or 2 dragon gifts= 5 extra chapters.

1000 power stones or a magic castle= 6 extra chapters