With that settled the goblins show themselves.

I’m prepared as well, I widen my stance and get ready to activate inferno to kill them all quickly, but then a giant roar came from behind me.

“HAHAHAHA, I see you don’t have your master here to protect you, time for my revenge!!!”

It’s the mother dragon from before, and she looks angry but composed as well, her child is also with her.

As if on cue, the goblins all run off into the mountains, so I follow them, and then the dragon follows us as well.

I’m worried about the dragon as well, but apparently, according to the old coot I’m strong enough to beat her, the goblin king though, not really sure.

The next group of goblins weren’t ready and were sitting around eating mystery meat, then they saw the dragon and ran towards the mountain, I got faster as well, then a plan formed within me.

It’s a simple plan, for now, keep running.

The dragon is behind me spitting curse words I do and do not know.

A third and fourth group were chatting, completely unprepared to run, but they do, all the different colors do.

I recognize some like the water and fire goblins, and of course their signature green, but there are also lighter green goblins, gray ones, and also a few yellow ones.

So lightning must not be as rare as I thought.

However, very few could run as fast as that dragon, almost none actually, most of them run off the side of the straight path to the mountain, easily dodging the dragon.

The others who weren’t smart enough to dodge got smashed under the mother's feet or were ignored completely.

I wasn’t having trouble, but the almost thirty to forty groups of ten to twenty goblins were getting tired.

Then I heard another more petite roar from a small distance to my left.

It was the baby dragon.

“For my siblings!”

“No, stop it, child!”

The goblin in front of me stopped because the baby dragon was in front of us, I could have charged through and was going to, but then I would hit the baby dragon and I can’t say I had no pity for the dragon mother.

I stopped and the dragon mother jumped in front of me, grabbing the baby dragon in its mouth, not biting hard, just to pick it up.

“I’ll be back.”

With that she ran off, then all the goblins slowly turned towards me and smiled.

Then they tried to pounce, but I was already running, not too fast.

This wasn’t really part of the plan, but it works the same way, they chase me, I get more enemies, my stats increase because of the multiple enemies amount buff.

I just have to keep adjusting my speed so they can keep up.

About ten more groups have joined, which means I’m basically walking for them to keep up with me.

I finally get to the base of the mountain, and the dragon is back, with its child.

It says something too it, and now we’re running away from the dragon again, but up a mountain this time.

The closest thing to a mountain I climbed without flying was that mound from when I died to hang gliding, but there were stairs their, the mountain had clumps of loose dirt, and the goblins were having a tough time even though they live here.

I was flying, something I perfected in two days, I’m going a decent speed now as well, flapping my wings and everything.

Then a gray goblin came forward and used a skill.

It made a concrete-like stone walkthrough and started running up it, more gray one started doing the same.

The only problem was that it also gave the dragon a walkway.

The dragon was having much less trouble going up the mountain than the goblins were, except when it hit a wet dirt patch it slipped twice as far as the goblins did.

It was kinda funny watching them, but I realized we had gone less than a fourth up the mountain, and it’s been around 30 minutes since we started running, I set a timer.

I start going a little faster, hoping to egg on the goblins, however, I soon found out that they are already going as fast as they can, so I slow down keeping the goblins at a steady pace.

Every time the dragon got ahead of the goblins, it slipped on the mud, so now it’s waiting patiently for the stone goblins to make paths.

A group of goblins rush out of a hole, but this time with three king goblins in their ranks, I look back and see there was actually some larger goblins in the mix of the goblins, they might be king goblins, or other breeds, but they were the first that I noticed.

They see the dragon and some start running, but one king goblin yells for them to stop, then point at me, the goblins look at me and then look at the dragon.

Then they look at each other, while running, and nod in agreement, like, ‘if we’re gonna die, we may as well do it following our orders’.

Keep in mind there was more than six hundred of them doing this, I am kinda threatened at this, a little disbelief in the back of my head, but the major thing was realizing that over six hundred things were about to risk their lives killing me.

It was kinda disheartening, more groups were joining as we ran, and all had their eyes on me, and only me, they were all planning for my demise.

But I still need to get the goblin king.

He threatened me, took my family, and made me go on a quest to get stronger.

The last part wasn’t bad, I don’t really care about him threatening me, and I’m only partly attached to my family, mostly just mom, but I wouldn’t let anybody die if I could stop it.

So I keep climbing, and then the timer went off in my head.

Then I hear the smart one yell, “Well little bird, times up for the first one, let's start with this one.”

I looked up, a red blob was falling down on the other side of the mountain, I don’t know any of the red ones so they haven’t gotten to my family yet.

The goblins let out a war cry, celebrating holding me back for an hour.

I keep flying, noticeably faster, the goblins scramble to catch up, the dragon egging them on, the baby is farther away.

We’re about halfway up the mountain, the goblins that can’t do anything are getting out of the way, mostly going into holes in the mountain, into goblin tunnels, however the dragon is threatening the stone ones to keep going.

One said he was out of MP, then the dragon ate him, the others who were looking tired immediately got back into shape.

Then more goblins started running out of the holes ahead, they must have shortcuts inside of the mountain, I’m okay with going on the outside though.

I fly past them and they go back inside the mountain, except a gray king goblin who the dragon found, and immediately put to work.

They actually made some progress now, so I could speed up.

“Why are you already here.”

The goblin saw me, which shouldn’t be hard, red and black aren’t really camouflage.

“What are they doing down there, oh shoot booming voice is o-.”

Now that I’ve been noticed three-quarters of the way up in almost an hour and fifteen minutes, record time.

More goblins came out, but not a lot, the goblin king must be in charge now.

I look at my boost, hasn’t changed, that means as long as they view me as an enemy then I win, I still haven’t seen three hundred of them, my boost has 1700, which is multiplied by 50, I don’t think I need to wait anymore.

I stop stalling and go up, it takes less than a minute to go up the mountain.

The top was dug up, revealing a small crater with a bunch of the long-legged tribe, but not all of them, tied up, and a weird-looking orange goblin.

My dad and our group are there though, except mom, and the big guy is injured.

They saw me, they were already crying, but when they saw me their heads went down.

I went over to them, as fast as I could, startling them, and asked my dad, “Are you guys okay, why did he get injured.”

He looked even further down, “I’m sorry, Kwehzalcoatl, we couldn’t stop him, he's strong, run, run now, run!”

“Stop him, I’ll do that now, why is he the only one injured.”

The girl, I think Rukra was her name, hugged me, “I’m sorry, I couldn’t stop him from throwing FlashFire down, I’m sorry.”

It hit me, that mom is a fire chocobo, and that the pink was temporary.

I stopped moving, something was flaring up, the girl stopped hugging me, startled by the red aura I am emitting.

“Hehehe, meet you now stupid birdy.”

“Get ready, little bird, it’s time for you to die, wait, where’s your status, what does it mean not enough authority?”

I turn around to see the targets of my rage, a six-foot body, orange entirely, with black tattoo’s, looks like a king goblin, except this one is wearing full clothes, a light shirt, and shorts, but at the top of the chest is two goblin heads, one with ears that go up, one with ears that go down, one with a snout that points down, one with a snout that points up, one with plenty of hair, the other had no hair.

I didn’t really care enough to be surprised right now, my head was full of rage.

Dunga (smart side of the goblin, bald one) POV

I have seen people with no status before, but none that said not enough authority, that means that whoever gave him the skill is more powerful than me, that’s kinda scary.

Anyway, he still has the boost from his skill, meaning my goblin army is still around 1900 strong, if he only has plus ten then this’ll be a walk in the park, otherwise I’m dead.

He suddenly appeared in front of me, and hit me, I went flying, definitely not only plus 10, well I’m dead, and all I’ve worked for is gone.

I can survive at most three more hits, four if I block one with Iron Punch.

(“Dunga, we die, right. Run no possible.”)

Our secret link, it’s a skill I told him not to use because he can listen in on my thoughts without me knowing, but he can only talk to me with it, and I’m grateful, he’s the only one I want to hear right now.

The chocobo kicked us out of the air, we hit the ground, hard, but my calculations of surviving are still valid.

(“Yeah, we’re dead, thanks for everything Weler.”)

(“No, me thank you, me never strong without Dunga.”)

We get hit with a fireball barrage followed by an inferno, we have fire nullification, doesn’t hurt us.

(“No, I would’ve gone crazy without you, I needed you to keep me strong.”)

(“Really?”)

(“Yes.”)

He sees us struggle to get up, then flew downwards, kicking in between our heads, knocking us down again.

(“Weler, do you want to go out giving him a goblin goodbye.”)

(“Do it.”)

I activate booming voice, “I’m gone goblin army, goodbye, whoever kills the baby chocobo and most of his family members will be the Divine Beast.”

The chocobo slammed his feet down on our heads, and I’m back into the cycle of reincarnation.

Goodbye Weler.