Chapter 653: Entering the town (1/2)

The ploy was successful. Minotaurs are good at an open field and direct clashes, but they are not good at hunting hidden prey. They can kill a wild boar running at them. But they are not good at tracking a rabbit hidden in its hole.

Finding Sam and his two teammates turned out to be the latter case.

They would have to nail down the whole forest in the surroundings.

But if they did that, the Dwarves will crush them.

Anyway, now the battlefield changed completely there is only a few tens of meters of distance between two troops and the Dwarves have a way to retreat and Minotaurs have no choice of retreat.

They can only clash ignoring and Sam and his group for now.

They also realized that except for the weird behavior of the Minotaurs the water and lightning attacks are not really attacking them severely with any considerable damage.

But their concession caused them to pay a price.

For the day, the Dwarves and Minotaur continuously clashed and the dwarven and some human archers stood on the wall as they provided cover.

The best help still came from Sam's team, they are continuously hindering the Minotaur troops with their attacks.

Sam's undead attack is completely ruthless. He collected around thirty corpses in the Prana Village and he used them well.

The decaying flame turned out to be more useful than they originally thought. In this way, without even directly participating in the battle, they are creating chaos in the Minotaur troops.

The battle went on like that for two days.

Sam and his team are just sitting ducks in the forest as they witnessed. After their initial interference on the first, they didn't need to interfere on the second day. They left the battle to the dwarven troops.

They are easily taken care of and by the end of the second day, Philip, Jack, and Watt returned with what they wanted.

Now the crisis for the crops is also over. From what he heard currently the harvest in this town is still going on as the Medium grade corps take a little more time to mature than lower-grade ones. The time is not exactly a lot. Just a few days.

But that delays the process of harvest by a few days too and they also had to focus on the war. So, the harvest was slower than usual. The Minotaur's plan is to mix whatever solution this is into the water and spoil the soil to temporarily spoil the land and make the yet to be harvested crops useless.

Then they will wait for a few more days, to clean the land as the water is flowing stream and the influence of the liquid will be gone soon. They would once again start farming. Anyway, the war is destined to be dragged on for months and even a couple of years. Their true benefits lie in long-term plans. Losing some crops to get to the fields is acceptable to them.

But since, their plan is revealed, Sam and his group decided to take advantage. They want to enter the dwarven society and they can enter is more easily if they can do some favors to them and this was the perfect chance.

So, the trio went to intercept and gained whatever liquid they wanted to use and also reduced some forces for Minotaur.

Now that they helped all they can to turn the tables, that would do for now. If they are even more capable, the dwarves wouldn't be welcoming and become suspicious. So it is better for them to tone down their involvement.

They waited for the dwarves to deal with the rest of their enemies.

To their surprise, the dwarves actually subdued some of the minotaurs. They brought some shackles that are bound to the necks and limbs of the minotaur and connected a chain as they dragged them like they dragged cattle.

This is something they didn't expect.

After everything was over and they are cleaning up the battlefield and Sam came out with his teammates.

The dwarven commander looked at the team and greeted them.

”Thank you for your help. We really needed that.”

”It's okay. We couldn't take them on completely anyway. We can only be of some small help. And here this is the liquid they are going to mix up. We ambushed the team that is bringing it here. They are actually not that guarding over this as they thought this is a tight secret.”

Sam said and took out the large Barrel from the storage.

The barrel has a lot of death energy. It is a Black liquid and it is devouring the surrounding vitality.