Chapter 44: Wall of Fire (1/2)
Chapter 44: Wall of Fire
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The battle had already started. The gnolls took the initiative to start the fight.
Just as the first lights of dawn could be seen, the six mutated aardwolves rushed forward. They were followed by a dense wave of gnolls.
Ordinary people would feel shivers running down their spine when looking at this.
Even though gnolls weren’t that strong, those numbers were enough to overpower anything.
Without troops from River Shore City, it would be quite difficult to face those gnolls with only White River Valley garrison members.
Everyone was hiding behind the fortifications and holding their breaths.
They picked this mine entrance because it was the closest to the edge.
There was a hill on the left and a forest on the right, making it relatively easy to defend.
The garrison’s young men were tightly clutching their weapons, ready to deal with any surprise attack coming from the gnolls.
The last time they were in this situation, Marvin had ordered them to retreat due to being heavily outnumbered.
But they couldn’t retreat this time!
This was the only way for them to get back their homes!
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”I need some time!”
Hearing Masked Twin Blades calling for him, Joey the archer didn’t make things difficult. On the contrary, he was straightforward.
All veteran adventurers knew what to do in battle.
Although they agreed to let Marvin handle the gnoll Sorcerer, but he was only a lone Ranger. If he couldn’t find his target, the hiding Sorcerer, the battle would turn quite troublesome.
Joey was indeed quite outstanding, or else he wouldn’t have been able to become famous in River Shore City by only relying on himself.
His farsight specialty wasn’t only used to restrain those using stealth. It was also extremely useful for reconnaissance!
Despite the lack of light, he soon found that short gnoll!
That peculiar short gnoll was standing in the southeast hill. He had a few dozens of guards protecting him.
They didn’t charge with the others. They were merely standing there.
As for the other gnolls, they split into three waves and kept a fixed distance from each other while charging toward the human camp.
‘Seems like that gnoll knows some military tactics!’ Marvin thought. ‘This guy really seems to have high intelligence.’
Usually, when gnolls attacked, it would be messy and disorganized. But they seemed a lot more organized under the Sorcerer’s orders.
This wouldn’t be easy to handle.
Under Joey’s directions, Marvin also quickly found the Sorcerer.
As long as he was able to kill that gnoll, the battle would become a lot more simple.
But there was a problem.
They were quite far from each other. Marvin was hiding in the camp and that cunning Sorcerer was quite far in the southeast hill.
And he also had guards.
Stealth would definitely not work. This Sorcerer had the eye of pain, so anyone using Stealth around him would be in for a lot of trouble.
”Joey, help me!” Marvin thought hard, and then called out to the archer.
The latter straightforwardly rushed to Marvin’s side.
He moved very carefully and wasn’t noticed by the gnolls.
”I’ll go kill that gnoll Sorcerer.”
”But I need your help. First we have to approach from behind.”
”Can you use Stealth? Never mind, we don’t really need to get too close. The eye of pain has a range.” Marvin quickly explained his battle plan.
After hearing the plan, Joey thought about it for a short moment and felt it was doable.
Marvin waved at Anna, and then the two used stealth and left from the eastern part of the camp.
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As for the front line of the battlefield, the six rushing mutated aardwolves would soon reach the camp.
”Is that woman, Anna, frozen in fear?”
”The time has come and she still hasn’t called for us?”
Inside the mine, Cat was looking at the situation and was somewhat unable to hold back.
Everyone else in the Lynx team was also restless.
In their eyes, White River Valley garrison would simply be unable to resist this assault.
If they collapsed, they would also fall into a crisis.
They should have been sent to kill those gnolls in one breath.
Why hadn’t Anna given the order yet?
This made them quite puzzled.
However, Gru, the other captain was actually very calm.
He kept watching the situation while holding onto his heavy sword. He only said one sentence to his restless team members:
”Wait a bit more.”
The Bramble members immediately relaxed.