Chapter 671 - Battle in Pamire Mountains 3 (1/2)

“Ugh! These men need to be killed right away!”

Lenuk was furious at the current turn of events.

After he ended up getting caught in a surprise attack, he kept on suffering from drawbacks because of the enemy’s special forces for five consecutive days.

The enemy cut off the roads and ended up stopping the monster march, blasted down the cliff, rolled down the mountain rocks onto them.

They even had the audacity to leave behind a mocking article like this one.

80 kilometers to Verange. Here are the shortcuts to those sluggish nerds who are wandering around the mountains.

Blast!

The sign which was struck in front of a forked road was smashed by Lenuk.

When he saw the scene, the subordinate who was behind Lenuk, tried to stop him.

“Be patient, Elder Lenuk! If we do something wrong, we might be shot by the enemy men!”

“Shut up! You think I would die because of a wooden flying stick?!”

Lenuk, an 8th circle warlock, wasn’t afraid of arrows, but his subordinates were.

The enemy, regardless of day and night, persistently aimed at only the warlocks.

During the march ahead, it seemed common for arrows to fly in, and the fire arrows would sometimes aim for the barracks created for rest in the night.

Some of the warlocks who picked up roadside herbs died after having them, and few fell into a trap created by them.

If the number of warlocks decreased like that, controlling the monsters would turn very difficult.

In fact, the large army of over 100,000 was reduced to 90,000 and more than dead ones, the monsters which fled were huge in number.

They were fortunate if the monsters just ran away.

Violent ogres and orcs attacked the monsters around them as soon as the brainwashing got released.

Anyway, when the sniping of the enemy turned frequent, Lenuk organized a pursuit unit to wipe out the enemy’s special forces.

But there wasn’t much of a good news.

It happened only a few times when the special troops of the enemy hurried away like rats, or sometimes they would lead the warlocks into a trap they dug and the chase would end right away.

“This won’t do! I will go ahead directly and take down those sneaking bastards…!”

“Please be calm! If the squadron elder itself leaves, more monsters will end up leaving.”

“Then do you expect me to keep hiding like this until we get past the mountain?! Watching the monsters like a nanny?”

Right now, most of the warlocks were hiding themselves in between the monsters or using an invisibility magic.

Some even disguised themselves with monster skin like Orcs.

“… this can’t be helped.”

“There is no other right way now.”

At the words of his subordinate, Lenuk broke the staff which was in his hand.

But that didn’t mean that he completely agreed with the subordinates’ words.

“Ah, such useless ones around me… hurry up and continue marching!”

The monsters who had paused for a while, began to march at Lenuk’s order.

However, they didn’t take the shortcut which the Symphonia men had informed them about.

Even if they looked into the information given by my spies, they knew that the shortcut was clearly the right path, because it was a lot narrower and more difficult than the other one.

‘If we enter that one and end up falling into a trap those men have dug, everyone else will turn disheartened.’

With that Lenuk, ended up taking the path which he thought was the safest.

Without realizing that the shortcut was really the safe path.

“The enemy is coming our way!”

At the scout’s report, Marquis Rogers looked at the defense he had built which would block the path.

Along with the barriers which were installed as the obstacle points for the enemies, dwarves wrapped several layers of newly invented barbed wire.

The barbed wire was like a thorny bush of twisted wires, and even if the Gigant was safe, it was effective enough to deter humans or small to medium-sized monsters.

Behind the barrier and the barbed wires were several small pits, which had a pointed stake in the center.