Max sighed visulising the hord of goblins rampaging until a army stoped them something similar had happened before max was born it remapped a few different kingdoms and some where lost entirely .
Max was now fourteen the age of a man in this world so he had a vote on what to do " how about instead of the walk the men who will go hunting go to stop this hord instead perhaps we can gain supplies and we can keep a few of you valued elders " the silence hit like a wall no one spoke about the elder men who ensted of being a drain on resorses would leave the community and never return when resorses got low during the year long winter .
" eye that's a idea boy " Tomas thatcher the thatcher said " I can say that's more fun " he looks at one of the older goblins " you can show us where they are we can offer your family sanctuary they can eat from my family's storage " he said " I can " the older male goblin said " give me a heavy cross bow and some armour and I'll show you the way " he said " we can spare a that and a knife " max put his hand up " I'll make him a pack up " he said " we will need someone to come with and come back once we have dealt with the horde " Simon Davidson said " I'll go I want to check the mountains out " he said and with that he left to pack the groups packs .
A day later the goblin Toby as everyone called him , his name sounded similar but meant big ear in undercommon was covered in a child's armour set and had a large but supisingly light cross bow on his shoulder lead the way up the mountain .
The path they followed often had to be enlarged as the wood was over grown and was starting to show the effects of a dragons hunting ground max was creating a map as they progressed stoping to draw every hour so everyone else can rest .
The forest was deathly silent the silent edge of winter creeping in the party only encountered monsters that where specialized in stealth luckily Toby knew of there hunting grounds so the humans where prepared or avoided those ares it was about a week later that the party started to come across signs of a war mostly goblin bones .
" they look cooked " max said " hobgoblins can eat us " Toby replied the following day the party found a scavenging group of goblins which the party dealt with after Toby said " if they are here they lost there minds to the war priests " a party of trained markmen aginced a equal number of cloth wearing unarmoued goblins the bolts and arrows cut though them very quickly .
Burning the body's we start following the former hunting party's tracks though the woods .
Soon a head the part noticed a thinning of the trees and then as the mountain was ahead and the entire tip was gone .