Chapter 92. Time of the Wolves (2)
Due to the monsters suddenly rushing out from behind the camp, the formation of the allied forces was shaking.
Although the allied forces somehow took formation and blocked the monsters, the cumulative damage caused by the sudden situation couldn't be helped.
However, Baron Kamora, who actually had to resolve this situation, just stood still as if he had become ice upon seeing the appearance of the fiercely rushing monsters.
Baron Kamora, who had been exerting the greatest influence among the three barons until now.
However, since he was a person whose military ability could not be evaluated highly even with kind words, he just stood blankly in a sudden situation like now.
Moreover, the absence of Arcosi, his confidant and competent knight, also played a part.
However, those gathered here were existences like kings ruling their respective territories.
“Stand shoulder to shoulder! We must unite!”
There were two more barons here.
Baron Langketa naturally reorganized the soldiers and tried to handle the offensive of the monsters.
“Vicious troops, come to me!”
Baron Vicious called his soldiers with a voice filled with madness.
The allied forces, who were able to enter combat stance in an instant due to the agile response of the two barons.
The result of training steadily to oppose the Cadmus army was showing now.
Even so, it was unavoidable that they suffered some damage due to the sudden surprise attack of the monsters.
“Baron Langketa!”
“The Cadmus army is preparing to cross the river!”
The Cadmus army preparing to cross the river taking advantage of the confusion caused by the monsters.
If they crossed the river which was practically playing the role of the biggest obstacle, one of the big reasons for settling here would disappear.
“We cannot stop even them! Right now, blocking these things and settling the situation comes first!”
Of course, since it was an allied force reaching nearly 4,000 troops, blocking the monsters’ raid wouldn’t be difficult if they just reorganized their stance, but the problem was the Cadmus army.
If they advanced using the monsters’ raid, it would inevitably become a shape of being attacked from front and back.
“……Let’s charge.”
Baron Vicious, who scanned the battlefield with eyes filled with madness, spoke.
“What does that mean…….”
Seeing Baron Vicious trying to attempt a reckless charge for his revenge even when fire had caught on their feet right now, Baron Langketa couldn’t help but be deeply flustered.
However, Baron Vicious wasn’t insanely mad in an ordinary way.
His soul was heated hot with vengeance, but his head was moving coldly.
It was a judgment possible because he was Baron Vicious, whose thoughts connected in a bold and linear form regarding matters about Blanc.
“I will use the momentum of the monsters.”
“What do you mean?”
Baron Vicious grinned and answered.
“I will make way for the monsters and make them flow in the direction of the Cadmus army.”
Madness dwelt in Baron Vicious' smile.
***
“All forces, halt.”
Blanc raised his hand and stopped the advance of the troops.
“Excellent judgment.”
The allied forces were moving.
Just like parrying a sword with a shield, they aligned in a diagonal column, turning the direction of the monsters running down from the forest and sending them to the riverside.
“All forces, halt crossing and form a formation on the riverside.”
Blanc noticed that sign and pulled back the troops that were trying to cross the river.
“The allied forces are advancing behind the monsters!”
Rather, the allied forces were trying to use the monsters, the trap Blanc prepared, as their arrow shields.
However.
“I can’t let Rakshar’s efforts be nullified that easily.”
The master of this battlefield was Blanc Cadmus.
Blanc closed one eye and invoked his mental world.
Thus, he drew out the scream of a soul filled with fear.
“Front line, raise shields!”
The Brand of Tiday engraved on Blanc’s left shoulder began to heat up red.
***
Baron Langketa couldn’t help but admire Baron Vicious' move, which turned the defensive instantly into an offensive.
As a result, the allied forces could be free to some extent from the threat of arrows the Cadmus army shot.
‘Like this!’
If they just led the monsters down well like this, it was a situation where the monsters might take the impact from the charge instead.
No, it was a situation where that would happen.
If only that happened, they would be able to minimize troop loss from the charge they feared.
The soldiers of the allied forces now almost entering the riverside.
They were pushing the monsters with spears, forcing them toward the Cadmus army.
If they succeeded in crossing the river like this, it would truly be a successful charge.
However, an ominous shout spreading widely across the battlefield struck his ears strongly in an instant.
“Get lost!”
The thunderous shout of a Demon-breaking Knight, filled with ominous evil energy, echoed throughout the battlefield.
“Ugh!”
Soldiers affected by Blanc’s shout flinched unknowingly for a moment.
‘No!’
Because of the shout that seemed to dig into their souls, the momentum died down in the middle of charging for quite a while.
If they lost breakthrough power and hesitated, it was a natural situation that the damage to the allied forces would grow.
‘Still, if we push the monsters!’
Baron Langketa believed the monsters in front of them would minimize that damage.
However.
KRAAAA-!
AAAAHHH!
The monsters in front suddenly turned their bodies and were rushing toward them.
“What is this!”
Baron Langketa couldn’t help but be extremely flustered at the suddenly reversed situation.
“Raise shields!”
A situation where they stopped in front of the river right before crossing.
With monsters even rushing at them in a situation exposed entirely in front of enemies, it was truly a maddening situation for Baron Langketa.
‘Why are they leaving the way they were going and suddenly rushing at us!’
Monsters were existences moved by vicious instincts rather than reason.
Therefore, if the rushing momentum was twisted and sent in the direction where the Cadmus army was, it was normal for them to continue moving that way.
‘They are fleeing?’
The behavior of the monsters reflected in Baron Langketa’s eyes was strange.
It was a movement as if rushing at them terrified by fear.
Baron Langketa raised his head and looked across the river.
There were two streaks of blue light shining chillingly behind the monsters.
It was Blanc Cadmus burning a coldly blue gaze.
‘Blanc Cadmus!’
Baron Langketa noticed that it was Blanc who created the series of situations happening now.
Goosebumps rising all over his body at that moment.
‘That guy moved the monsters!’
Baron Langketa felt as if his soul was freezing even to the edges facing Blanc’s blue gaze.
‘Since when on earth!’
If he could use such tricks, naturally he could have dragged them down long ago.
However, he didn’t do so while gaining sufficient profit through the detached force.
Only then did Baron Langketa realize.
Blanc deliberately made them mistake that they were advantageous and kept them pinned in the encampment.
“Blanc Cadmu—s!”
Baron Langketa, realizing he had been played in the palm of Blanc’s hand until now, spat out a roar toward Blanc, but.
Blanc coldly ridiculed him and raised his hand.
“Shoot.”
And slashed down firmly.
SWISH.
An eerie sound heard along with it.
Baron Langketa raised his head to look at the sky unknowingly at the sound coming in.
There were black things filling the sky.
“All forces, raise shields!”
Arrows poured out by the archers of the Thornbush Mercenary Corps filled the sky black and were falling onto the heads of the allied forces.
***
Baron Vicious clicked his tongue seeing soldiers collapsing hit by arrows in front of him.
‘The damage will be great.’
It was a battlefield Blanc had intricately woven.
He moved the giant fish called the allied forces as he pleased and eventually drove them into a dead end.
The arrows shot by the Thornbush Mercenary Corps were ceaseless.
Since the allied forces had stopped with their feet tangled due to the abnormal behavior of the monsters, there would be no better target than this.
However, it was a situation where a thousand troops faced 4,000 troops in the first place.
The difference in troops was about 3 to 4 times, so the situation was still that the allied forces were superior in just the number of troops.
If they accepted the damage.
“All forces charge! The way for you to live lies across the river!”
If they could cross the river stepping on their corpses using many lives as sacrifices.
Then they would be able to approach in front of Blanc Cadmus.
Madness overflowed from the eyes of the commanding Baron Vicious.
Following Baron Vicious' order, the Vicious troops under his command struck the monsters blocking their path in front strongly and began to cross the river.
“Aaaaaah!”
“Save me!”
However, as they were crossing the river sluggishly in a situation where damage would be forced even if they jumped in a single step and leaped over at once, there was no way the Cadmus army would just watch that appearance quietly.
In an instant, the blue river water began to be dyed red.
“Baron Langketa! It is irreversible now!”
Baron Langketa hesitated for a moment watching the scene of the Vicious troops crossing the river, but just as Baron Vicious said, it was not a situation that could be reversed now.
“Everyone cross the river! We must settle this today!”
Even if they turned their horses and fled, considering the damage they would suffer while retreating, it would be better to clash heavily at this opportunity.
Moreover, even if they fled like that, it was obvious they would eventually be defeated individually by the Black Wolf filled with grudge and rage.
Now, while still maintaining a huge military force, was the last moment they could at least occupy supremacy.
Baron Vicious leading from the front and Baron Langketa reorganizing the stance from the back.
Under the command of the two barons, the soldiers of the allied forces crossed the river steadily even in the rain of arrows pouring down.
“Too many!”
“Shoot in the time you think!”
Wiseman, the captain of the Thornbush Mercenary Corps, was driving his members harshly and flying arrows incessantly, but it was impossible to catch all 4,000 troops crossing with just about a hundred archers.
“I will kill any bastards who have arrows remaining in their quivers today! Shoot! Shoot!”
However, Wiseman had no leisure to think about such things.
He was feeling it while following Blanc all this time.
That Blanc Cadmus was one who had wings.
He was definitely not a figure to sit down in a place like this.
‘I must cling on tenaciously!’
Perhaps now was the biggest opportunity among the opportunities he grasped while living as a mercenary.
If only he could ride the wind blowing from behind him while sticking close to Blanc’s side.
‘I might be able to escape the mercenary life rolling on the streets!’
Since it was the situation of the Cadmus family where vassals had not settled properly yet, if he caught his eye, perhaps he might occupy a big position.
“It’s fine if a finger or so gets cut off! If not now, when will you shoot, you bastards!”
Therefore, Wiseman struggled to somehow establish military merit and catch Blanc’s eye.
Thanks to such fighting of Wiseman, the Cadmus army could inflict much more damage than Blanc expected.
It was a flame-like attack that produced at least 500 casualties.
However, they couldn’t stop all the allied forces gradually stepping up to the riverside and taking formation.
“Brass Helmet Mercenary Corps!”
“Ready!”
Ulvent banged wildly on the brass helmets worn on the members’ heads and shouted aggressively.
“Shoulder to shoulder and look only forward! Bunch up like one body!”
Having raised the morale of his subordinates in a mercenary’s way, he soon saw the herd of allied forces rushing toward them after taking formation.
The soldiers of the allied forces, full of venom, were rushing with fierce momentum.
Seeing that appearance, Ulvent pulled his brass helmet down deep.
His eyes, darkly hidden under the helmet, were moving incessantly.
‘Not yet, not yet, not yet, not yet.’
At the appearance of the allied forces rushing like evil spirits without hiding malice, a member of the Brass Helmet Mercenary Corps swallowed dry saliva.
However, Ulvent, a competent mercenary captain whom Blanc took in and trained as a mercenary in the last life, had no wavering at all.
Through the bold heart he possessed from birth, he watched the thousands of soldiers rushing at him as if nothing and waited for the time.
And the moment he captured that time.
Ulvent’s eyes shone.
“All personnel! Two steps forward!”
“Oh!”
The Brass Helmet Mercenary Corps did not simply guard their positions firmly.
Right before encountering the soldiers of the allied forces.
They moved subtly forward, making the breakthrough power and impact point created by the rushing allied forces subtly misaligned.
“What!”
“Uwaaaak!”
Seeing the herd of pikemen suddenly stepping out in front of them, the soldiers of the allied forces were pierced by spears with the momentum they came with, unable to even extend the spears and swords pulled back.
“Don’t push! You bastards!”
“It’s too packed!”
Even though they moved the formation momentarily, the Brass Helmet Mercenary Corps was successfully blocking the allied forces’ charge using spears and shields without a bit of disarray.
“Hold on! Hold!”
“Huuup!”
Soldiers in the 2nd and 3rd rows behind the 1st row were supporting their colleagues’ backs with all their might.
Because of Ulvent’s witty advance, the momentum of the allied forces that crossed the river died down significantly.
However, instantly, there was a group pushing through the soldiers of the allied forces and coming out.
A group rushing while wrapping their swords in shining Aura.
They were the knights of the allied forces.
They approached the Brass Helmet Mercenary Corps in the blink of an eye and struck with swords, breaking the mercenary corps’ spears.
The ranks of the mercenary corps fluctuating and shaking like waves momentarily pushed by huge power.
However, Ulvent did not shake.
The two eyes inside the deeply pulled-down helmet did not shake.
“Front line, turn shields!”
Members who received Ulvent’s order threw away broken spears, grabbed shields with two hands, and turned them to the left.
The ranks of the Brass Helmet Mercenary Corps where a space for one person to pass was created momentarily.
From that place like a dark hole.
Knights holding snow-white swords rushed out.
They were knights of Cadmus and Tolome.
“For the Baron!”
“The Goddess protects us!”
The Cadmus Knights rushing out with loyalty to Blanc.
The Tolome Knights strongly united with affection and friendship for Blanc.
Among them, a knight with a huge physique rushed at an allied knight with the momentum of his charge.
“This is exactly why I stand here today!”
Bauer’s war hammer soared high into the sky.
And when he brought the hammer down, the head of the allied knight who dared not block his war hammer was exploding like a firecracker.
“For Blanc Cadmus!”
Knights’ close combat ensued on both sides of the roughly roaring Bauer.
Cadmus and Tolome.
Two packs of wolves and lions rushed to bite the throats of the allied knights.