Putting herself into the children's shoes, Lucelle knew the feelings of helpnessness and wanting to survive as she just experienced it three days ago.
"I wanted to survive, yes, but I more wanted to survive with my family." she uttered.
She only managed to stay alive with the help of her parents. If not, maybe a tragic fate would also fell into her.
"Me being here means those children have some hopes of being alive. I need to save them as much as I can, no, I will definitely save them..." she mumbled.
Aside from the five children, there were also traces of blood and corpses found on the magic array which only meant many children had been sacrificed so far.
"These bastards...! It is a sacrificial magic array, and perhaps it is to awaken the person inside the black coffin. Hmph! How dare they treat human beings as nothing but expendables...!" Lucelle's thought.
The five sorcery goblins, who had few meters apart and forming a star-like position on the edge of the magic array, began to cast a forbidden spell.
"Oh, Lord Dominus of Darkness! Bring forth your almightiness! With these young and virgin sacrifices, descend in th---"
Before the goblins finished enchanting, a huge explosion interrupted them.
"Who is there?!" shouted by one of the five sorcery goblins while looking around.
"Come out! Stop hiding like a coward!" added by the goblin who lead the children earlier as he raised his short sword.
Lucelle came out from her hiding along with a ball of flame on her right hand, "Stop what you are doing or else, don't blame me for taking actions!"
All the goblins laughed boisterously when they saw that only a single human appeared. They thought some big forces arrived to stop them from awakening their lord.
"How dare a mere human halted us?! Do you know the consequences of what you're doing?!" yelled by the warrior goblin with an indignation tone.
"Where did she get confidence to confront us? Is she only seeking her own death?" one of the two guarding goblins spoke out.
"Did she came here to save these children? Then, how unlucky for her as we are here!" exclaimed by one of the five sorcery goblins.
Lucelle ignored them and looked at the children who were still trembling and crying in fear. While the goblins who were being disgarded couldn't help but to be indignant.
The warrior goblin was a 1st-circle short sword user and the two guarding goblins were just ordinary goblins. Whereas, one of the five sorcery goblins was a 2nd-circle and the other four were 1st-circle.
"I can easily kill them, but it is hard to ensure the children's safety while fighting them..." she mumbled.
She couldn't think of any plan but to get the goblins' attention onto her and it can only be done through... provoking them endlessly.
"Hey, green-colored tiny bastards! Are you all stupid asking me an obvious questions?" uttered by Lucelle sarcastically, "And... did you say I'm seeking death, are you sure? Can't you see that I'm a 2nd-circle magician, while all of you are below to my level aside from that old hag over there?!"
Goblins were angered by her words. Their veins on their forehead were almost bursted. They couldn't believe that a mere human would insult them greatly.
"You are too weak for me. I can easily burn you to ashes. Even this sacrificial magic array was not that profound and could be easily broken! What's more, maybe your lord in the coffin is also weak that's why he was there, died. And what? You goblins wanted to resurrect him with poor strengths? How delusional!"
With Lucelle's additional provoking words, the goblins couldn't think rationally anymore. They were consumed by anger and only wanted to tear the mere human who insulted them into pieces.
"How dare a mere human insulted our Lord Dominus! She is really tired of living!" the 2nd-circle sorcery goblin yelled rampantly, "Kill this mere human into pieces...! No, capture her alive and we can offer her as a sacrifice to our Lord Dominus! Let her soul and blood be an offering to awaken Lord Dominus!"
The warrior goblin and the two guarding goblins rushed through toward Lucelle while they were being strengthened by the sorcery goblins' power. Whereas, Lucelle hurled the ball of flame that was on her right hand to the three goblins.
Despite being strengthened, the goblins still sustained injuries. They were stunned for a moment and continued to
The goblins stopped for a moment to block the ball of flame with the use of their short swords. Despite being sustained by injuries, they still chose to fight back by slashing her. Lucelle took a step back to avoid the slashes and casted a chain made from her fire essence to restrict their movements.
After restraining them, out of the sudden... shadow spikes casted by the four 1st-circle sorcery goblins were about to hit her back, but with a luck, she immediately activated the blazing red cloak before it could hit her.
The blazing red cloak that shined like a sun withstood the attacks completely, while it remained unscathed. It could even block an attack made by a person who had a higher magic-circle level than the cloak's owner, let alone a bunch of 1st-circle goblins. So as long as there was no opponent with 4th-circle magic level or above, Lucelle was nearly invincible.
Yeah, nearly invincible... because blazing red cloak could only use as a defense, it could not be able to attack or kill someone. Thus, if one hadn't enough magic power or hadn't any means to counter attack the enemy, one couldn't prevent being killed at the end.
Furthermore, magic power was consumable and wouldn't last long in a prolonged battle. In order to recover magic power, there were three ways; (1) take a rest for hours depending the amount of magic power being consumed, (2) meditate while absorbing the magic essence of the surroundings, but not recommendable during fighting if one wasn't capable of doing so, and (3) was to use elixirs and other treasures that had magic essence within to completely recover.
So although Lucelle's confidence of subduing all the goblins was great, she still needed to do it as soon as possible before she would run out of magic power.
The 2nd-circle sorcery goblin mumbled a certain magic spell to help the three goblins break the chains. She wanted to dispel the magic spell, but it was too late as she was occupied by the other four sorcery goblins.
_TRAVANGEL_