The Trio stepped on the top balcony, weapons drawn… Gnarlo slipped into the shadows and was responsible for taking out the casters.
They stepped into the darkness and were attacked by hob goblins… both men were a lot stronger than they were the last time they dealt with Goblins en masse. Kadrin was furiously smashing his war pick and axe through heads, left and right… Maro's giant executioner's axe made it feel like he was just mowing the lawn.
Gnarlo was in and out with the knife as two Goblin shamans collapsed.
They fought long and hard until over a couple hundred dead hob goblins lay before them.
Damn, they weren't expecting all Hobgoblins right off of the bat… They walked past all the dead bodies and into the large circular room at the top of the mountain…
In the back of the room was a bed… on that bed was a hugely obese Goblin witch… in the centre of the room was a pool of blood and all along the circular room, people of all races were chained to the wall barely alive. They all looked drained of blood and some even had limbs missing.
The Goblin Witch smelt absolutely disgusting, although naked and covered in jewelry, you could barely see her skin from the amount of warts she had… and each wart was pierced like it was a nipple piercing.
Maro and Kadrin both looked around for Gnarlo, wondering if he was into her or not. But alas, Gnarlo was hiding in the shadows, not trying to get an erection…
She looked at the three men and bellowed, her piercings shaking all like an instrument. "Who dares disturb the Blood Queen" She snickered.
Maro stepped forward "We are here to reclaim the mountain!"
Kadrin gripped his weapons "You fat beast, you die today"
Gnarlo jumped out from behind her, and stabbed her in the neck to disappear again.
"HA HA HA HA" she laughed as she drew blood from the pool to heal herself completely. "I will enjoy drinking your blood!"
Maro activated Consecrated Ground, only for it to struggle to spread, the blood on the floors was holding the spell back… Maro gulped…
He activated Bloodrush, his muscles swelled.
The Morbidly Obese and Nude Goblin Blood Queen, raised an eye… "my my, such beautiful blood human… you will make a tasty batch of blood wine" she licked her lips with her disgustingly long and green tongue.
Every time she spoke, she jiggled with her piercings.
Kadrin charged her, he was easily stopped by a solid wall of blood. More of a defensive fighter, Kadrin had a tough time breaking through, as soon as he shattered it, another one would cover him.
Gnarlo jumped out of the shadows to stab her in the head this time, but was pierced by a blood spike as she bled from her head wound… Gnarlo jumped back in pain while the Blood queen healed immediately.
Maro noticed that she was using the blood in the middle of the room to fuel her spells. He had to think on his feet… she was just a caster… one clear hit with the axe would split her in half…
[Vanguard Charge] he exploded out to reach her, only to smash against another blood wall. Maro quickly used Holy Judgment on the wall and it worked to dispel it… momentarily as more blood from the pool kept going to replace it.
At first it seemed pointless but then the pool in the middle was bubbling from being drained to keep up with his holy spell.
Maro thought it would be a battle of attrition between him and the Goblin while the Short Kings found a way to kill her… They had a chance
The chance disappeared when a dwarf chained to the wall started shaking and suddenly turned inside out as all his blood left his body and it formed a large ball above the Queen's head.
Shit, there were 100 people chained to the walls, she would win in a battle of attrition.
Maro stepped back from the blood wall while Kadrin and Gnarlo went on a meager offensive trying to distract her.
He ran to the pool and stuck his hand in it to cast Holy Judgement directly into it, as soon as he cast it, the pool started bubbling from the cleansing light and then the pool of blood exploded drenching the entire room in blood.
At first the Goblin Queen laughed like Maro had doomed himself by covering everything with blood… but after a second she realized she couldn't control the purified blood. She blew up two more chained people and took their blood… the ball above her head got larger.
"Any ideas!" Kadrin yelled
The Queen restarted shooting spikes of blood at the men, Kadrin with his Mithril Skin, was tanking the blows pretty well, Maro had a film of Holy Judgement surrounding his body that dispelled all the attacks on impact. Still the force of the blood spikes made it very hard for either man to move.
Gnarlo, still hiding, looked for an opportunity, he went for a risky play… He tried to kill one of her blood banks, he slit the throat of a Ram beastman to see what would happen… Bad Idea, the queen immediately absorbed his blood and shot a blast of blood spikes in his general direction, wounding him badly.
Maro changed his focus for a second to heal Gnarlo back to form.
The battle of attrition was looking worse and worse… Maro was constantly being drained of energy dispelling all the Blood spikes hitting him, while Kadrin's defense was slightly faltering… the Blood spikes weren't all shattering on impact anymore, some penetrated just a tiny bit to stick to Kadrin. Kadrin wished he never left his shield at home.
Every time one of the three got a cut, the Queen would try to pull their blood out, only to have Maro heal it closed. The trio would not last much longer.
This was a dangerous stalemate and the men didn't have 100 blood batteries they could take from.
Every minute or so the Blood Queen would drain the blood of one of the chained people to reinvigorate herself and her attacks.
Soon more than half of the people were dead and the Trio were panting hard, something had to be done soon.
Blood spikes stuck out of Kadrin like he was a porcupine, Maro was almost drained and Gnarlo was getting the worst injuries, the blood spikes would pierce him through and through. He was hiding again looking for any opportunity.
Maro had an idea… a dumb idea but they had no other choice. "On 3, attack her!"
She cackled and jingled with all her piercings "What could you possibly do, ha ha ha ha"
"One…" Maro yelled while straining
The blood queen split her attention between the three of them, anticipating attacks…
"Two" he yelled, as he took some steps closer
The queen laughed and used up a lot of blood to protect her back from Gnarlo and to encase Kadrin in a block of blood as he thrashed
She laughed even harder as she thought she foiled their plan, still launching blood spikes at Maro while maintaining walls to keep the other two away.
That's what Maro wanted, he couldn't break through the wall anyways.
There would be no countdown to one… Maro used Vanguard Charge again… he was impaled dozens of times… he just needed to get close.
The Queen cackled and jingled as Maro fell dying at the foot of her bed.
Kadrin and Gnarlo went absolutely mad trying to get to her, forgetting about Maro already, she left him to bleed out.
Kadrin was her next focus, she tripled up her rate of fire on him… he was getting pierced endlessly… Gnarlo couldn't do anything, he couldn't even block a spike with his body, it would just go through him.
Suddenly a golden glowing hand reached out from under her bed… it instinctually and smoothly slipped between her immobile legs and then the hand thrust forward… touching her on her magic button.
It took Maro a little while to realize that the Goblin queen was still a woman… he touched her down there with the most Holy Judgement he could muster.
All of her blood spells turned back into a liquid and dropped to the floor, she started shaking and jingling around like a pair of tambourines, her eyes rolled back into her head. The divine holy orgasmic attack was working… getting the jist, Gnarlo popped up behind her and started repeatedly stabbing her in the neck.
Kadrin rushed and was tearing chunks of fat off her obese belly with every swing. The Queen couldn't even register pain with how much ecstasy she was feeling… she died having the best orgasm of her life… her head was half off and Kadrin had dug a tunnel in her obese belly, big enough for Gnarlo to make a home.
Maro got up… bleeding heavily… he took Kadrin's axe and slammed it down, cutting off the finger he used to touch the Goblin's… clitoris. With the next breath he healed himself back up to full, if his finger didn't heal back… it would have been okay… but luckily it did.