The constant screams of the villagers he lived with day and night entered his ears, making his eyes redder than his face.
If only I had noticed sooner—
But there are no ifs in life.
Despite his efforts to don his equipment and gather other militia members as quickly as possible upon discovering the goblin invasion, there was no way these undertrained individuals could stop the invasion of nearly a hundred goblins.
They didn't even have time to close the village gate before the goblins had already breached it, pushing the situation towards an irretrievable abyss.
Even though they managed to counter-kill more than a dozen goblins, that was their limit.
[Goblin count = 88-17 (Captain's level) = 61]
The increasingly impatient goblin fighters began to punch harder and faster.
The sounds of their fists hammering on shields, the ever more violent throbbing of his heart, and the tinnitus from repeated collisions reverberated in his skull, forming the chimes of a countdown clock.
