Chapter 313 (2/2)

Crick also laughed, waving his hand to order the troops to march again.

He wasn’t worried that Rena would deceive him. In her character attributes, he could see the degree of favor she had for him had risen from sixty to sixty-five.

Although Rena seemed to have something on her mind, it didn’t matter. Who didn’t have secrets?

As long as tasks could be completed well, what was the problem with having a secret?

When the troops set out, they no longer marched slowly, but ran in a hurry. They took the back roads and entered in between the mountain and the river.

At this time, a chaotic scene could be seen in the open space around the curve of the river. Rena had done a wonderful job. She had found a sheep and a wolf. At first sight, the sheep seemed to have been killed by the wolf. The wound forged by the senior adventurer might not have deceived her colleagues, but it was enough to deceive these Gnomes. The wolf had been killed by a sword to its head and body at different places. With the horseshoe mark next to it, it looked like the wolf had hunted a sheep and then been killed by a passing adventurer. The adventurer had to have been so skilled in martial arts that he killed the wolf with a sword without even getting off of their horse.

Rena wasn’t a fighting adventurer, but no matter how bad at fighting she was, her combat profession of level 10 shouldn’t have been taken for granted. A wolf was not a threat to her at all.

In fact, she could have tried to exterminate the Grey Gnomes by herself, but it would have been a little risky. If Crick had offered more money, she wouldn’t have minded taking a risk.

But Crick was not a foolish spender…

After occupying the favorable terrain, the recruits were busy putting on armor. They were heavily armored soldiers, and their armor had to be worn on the battlefield, otherwise… A suit of armor weighed more than forty pounds, so it was absolutely impossible to fight for a long time in such a suit.

But heavy armor also had its advantages. The fact that it was heavy meant that it could provide a strong defense. When these recruits put on the heavy armor neatly, then put on a barrel-like helmet, they immediately became a moving steel fortress. Thirty such steel fortresses were drawn into a huge arc. Holding almost nine-foot-long long spears with both hands, they marched fiercely…

Although the soldiers couldn’t understand the Gnomes’ language, their reaction was clear. When they saw dozens of steel fortresses armed with horrible long spears, chanting slogans—’One, two, one,’ in order to keep the ranks in order—coming slowly toward them, they were all shocked and froze. The soldiers could even see a Gnome with bleeding flesh in his mouth making a strange cry. His mouth was so long that they wondered if his chin would dislocate and the flesh in his mouth would naturally fall out.

The Grey Gnomes weren’t very smart. Crick could see at a glance that they were all stupid, with the highest intelligence never beyond 9, but even if they were that dumb, they knew that there was no way out now, their only option to fight to the end.

A tall Grey Gnome quickly picked up a bow and arrows from the ground. He bent the bow and shot an arrow at the recruits.

The arrow whistled to the chest of a recruit and bounced off the solid metal armor, leaving only a shallow trace on it.

Then several other Grey Gnome archers started shooting arrows, but their performances weren’t better than that of their peer. Facing heavily armed soldiers with their heads covered in barrel helmets, ordinary wooden bows and dental arrows didn’t pose a threat at all.

The rest of the Gnomes also picked up weapons. Most of them chose spears, but a few of them took big sticks. They screamed angrily and rushed towards the recruits.

Faced with these ugly monsters rushing at them, the recruits’ neat footsteps were suddenly disturbed. Shawn, who followed the troops, immediately shouted “calm,” but failed to calm them down.

Just then, behind them came a roar. It was Crick.

“Attention!”

The recruits immediately and subconsciously stood at attention, and the chaotic ranks were restored to order. Shawn was relieved and hastily ordered soldiers to hold up their spears, put on an offensive posture, and proceed slowly according to his orders, continuing to reduce the movement space for the Gnomes.

The following scene was really a bit tragic. The charging Gnomes bumped into the forest of spears, and no one could reach the recruits alive. Their light grey, green, and reddish blood sprayed all over the ground and onto the recruits’ bodies.

The recruits immediately became flustered again, but this time, Shawn had a good command of the rhythm and led them to regain order and move on with his shouts and orders.

The failed Gnomes had nowhere to go, so they turned back and jumped into the river. At this moment, it was time for the veterans under Ryder to fight. Most of them knew how to use bows and arrows. Even those who didn’t know how could pick up the rocks near the river and throw them. There was even a slinger. Under all kinds of long-range attacks, the slow-moving Gnomes in the river didn’t even reach the other side alive, and soon became corpses accompanied by waves of blood in the river.

It was interesting that there was one Gnome hiding in a pile of corpses on the bank of the river, pretending it had died. This fellow was seen at a glance by Crick. He pointed at it with one finger, and the Gnome was stabbed by several recruits until it died.

Twenty-seven Grey Gnomes had been wiped out in this battle, and none of the recruits led by Keane had been killed or injured!