chapter 33: The pitch black plane.

33-1

The creature standing right in front of me was a hobgoblin….

An unusual hobgoblin I knew….

The same hobgoblin that I spared on our first encounter.

the same hobgoblin that stood by as I slaughtered its kind.

the same hobgoblin that ran away and now he is standing in front of me...

but this time there was no fear in his eyes, his eyes were burning with rage….

"So, it was you," I said.

But there was no response in return. The hobgoblin didn't make any move, it stood there without attacking me.

"You want revenge for your people and family right?" I asked as I summoned a snake in my hand.

The snake I summoned glowed purple which then solidified to turn into a polearm. This is the seal marking of the snake which I got after my mom's death.

"Let's get it over with quickly." I said as I took a ready stance grabbing my polearm, "Come and get your revenge.".

I expected the hobgoblin to attack me any time, but I still wasn't attacking me.

But this time the fury in hobgoblins' face was apparent.

The goblin glare gave a blazing murderous intent, drool flowed down his clenched jaw which exposed the hobgoblin's full set of sharp teeth.

I stepped forward carefully in a defensive position towards the Hobgoblin.

As I was going to take another step, I saw goblin retreat one step back.

"Are you trying to run away again?" I asked as I stepped one more step closer.

It took one more step back.

was he afraid?

Fine, ill finish it off.

I dashed forward to finish it off, I thrust my polearm aiming towards the Hobgoblin.

My attack connected and went through the Hobgoblin.

Huh?

My attack did connect, but the hobgoblin turned into a black mist. The hobgoblin disappeared into thin air.

I looked around me and found myself surrounded by black mist.

The more I looked around, the more I realized. I wasn't surrounded by dark mist, the physical world I was standing on was a different one altogether.

I was in a different plane from the forest, this was a different reality where everything was pitch black.

There was only darkness as far as my vision could go.

33-2

(Third person POV)

Upon entering the new dark plan, the first thing Grey wanted to do was sort his thought.

He took a defensive stance for guarding himself against any possible attack and he tried to think about all the possible reasons for his current situation.

But it was useless, he lacked information.

Grey was suddenly met with a surprise as Hobgoblin instantly appeared in front of him.

(When did he?) thought Grey.

Before Grey could realize it, he was instinctively blocking an incoming swing from the hobgoblin. Grey staggered back when the hobgoblin smashed his fist right into Grey's hand.

But the damage was already done, Grey's right hand was fractured by the sudden blow.

The hobgoblin dissolved back to the pitch-black darkness like he was never there before.

As Grey was trying to regain his defensive position, he was struck with another strike with the foot by the hobgoblin who appeared out of nowhere from the darkness in front of Grey.

Grey again used his right hand to block the sudden blow. But the force of the kick further damaged the fractured bone of the Grey.

Upon blocking two of the attacks by the hobgoblin Grey realized that he couldn't risk blocking another attack.

(The force of the attack is no joke, I can't keep tanking attacks from this monster.)

Grey paused focusing closely on his surrounding.

(An incoming attack from behind!)

Grey rolled forward to avoid the incoming attack from behind him. This time he was successful in avoiding the attack.

Without losing his focus, Grey focused on the next attack.

(A kick to the left!) with the sync with his thought, Grey dodged down avoiding the attack.

This series of Dodging and blocking kept on going for a while. Grey was cornered into defense.

Grey kept getting more and more injured as he kept blocking attacks from the hobgoblin.

He couldn't see the opponent he is fighting, his opponent seems to appear out of darkness and disappear back into darkness

And the dark plane he was standing in seems to throw his sense of distance off.

Everything around him was pitch black. The sky, the ground, and anywhere his vision could go.

Ground being pitch black messed up his footwork,

This darkness made it hard to measure any distance between him and his opponent.

This feeling of not being able to see anything other than endless darkness made grey feel like he lost his vision.

An opponent with overwhelming raw strength, a plane that is making Grey lose his sense of reality and the opponent's power to blend into the darkness of this plane.

This battle was getting harder and harder on Grey.