Travelling back to Tamedlances, Eric discovered a goblin siege camp. With a feeling of unease, he began to sneak towards the camp, directly north of north. To his northwest was a goblin recruit, undoubtedly a guard. The guard spotted him, and yelled about an intruder.
Eric decided to run, having the goblin chase him around the back end of the tent, but then, for some reason, the goblin ran away, yelling for help. Unshaken, Eric approached the tent's entrance, but the tent was already alerted as a pike-wielding goblin rushed out to attack him. Eric drew his sword and shield and prepared to battle. After a quick parry, Eric slashed the goblin's upper body, his sword shattering through the goblin's left false ribs and knocking him unconscious. Jumping into the unconscious pikeman knocked him into full view of the tent, and a goblin hammerman now rushed out to do battle. After another quick parry, Eric swung his sword, lodging his sword firmly in the goblin's neck and shattering his upper spine. Walking into the tent, two goblins and a human axeman had their backs turned to him. Eric took advantage of this with two quick stabs to the goblin axeman's back, tearing through his left lung. After a parry, Eric stabbed a third time, this time tearing through the goblin's right lung and causing him to pass out. After making quick work of the other goblin and human, Eric exited the tent to find the paralyzed goblin hammerman trying to slowly inch his way away from the tent. Eric ended the goblin's suffering by crushing his head with his steel shield.
He saw a second, smaller tent southeast of the main tent, with at least four more goblins inside. Having quickly killed them as well, Eric travelled away from the tents to find the goblin recruit who tried to run away from him. Eric snuck up behind the goblin and punched him in the back of the head. The recruit, startled, swung back, but Eric jumped away. The goblin kicked Eric the arm, to which Eric responded by grabbing the goblin's head and throwing him to the ground. Eric punched the goblin's head multiple times, even kicking the goblin's throat, which resulted in him bleeding to death very quickly. Travelling further north, he found himself greeted by a silver crossbow bolt, which he narrowly avoided. There was another goblin encampment. He slashed his way through and continued north to Tamedlanced