It honestly wasn't even a fight but more of a one sided slaughter.
With Odeta, Andrew and myself here, there was no way a couple of goblins could overpower us.
Odeta managed to kill two goblins while Andrew and I dealt with one each, allowing the last two to be handled by our other teammates.
We then gathered the Mana Crystals from the goblins' bodies, putting us at the halfway mark to our objective for this lesson.
We continued through the forest and I was reminded of Katsuki's skills in being able to sniff out monsters. If she was here, she could have easily sniffed out monsters for us to hunt.
But on the other hand, Odeta's tracking skill was also nothing to scoff at. She was able to find tracks of monsters and tell us who we might be facing before we reached them as well.
Those six goblins were a surprise only because they had been moving towards our direction and thus didn't have any tracks for Odeta to find.