Chapter 139: Intercepting the traffickers - IV (1/2)
Merlin drew his bow back, aies
His first goal would be to prevent the carriages frouards, it was likely that the carriages would continue to their destination while leaving the guards as a distraction
For this task, he only had to kill one of the two horses each, as the dead horse's corpse would serve as a severe inconvenience that would hopefully prevent the other horse froon much, if at all
As the horses rode closer, Merlin's eyes locked onto the clover insignia on the covered wagons, which was all he needed as confirmation to let the first arrow fly The arro out of the treeline, e the leading wagon
The horse beca the cart towards the treeline and knocking over one of the guards, only to drop dead a few moments after The sudden boost of speed, followed by the sudden stop as the wagon's wheel hit the dead horse, caused the driver's body to jerk forwards, throwing hiuards shouted out in surprise as another arro out of the forest, hitting another horse in a siuards had drawn their weapons and ons were effectively disabled
Merlin could hear startled cries co of bloodlust to groithin hi into the heart of one of the guards And fortunately he wasn't given a karma reduction, whichuard that was hit in the heart staggered towards hi after taking a shot frouard dropped to the ground afterit about half way from the road to Merlin's position in the treeline
"It's just one guy, be careful of others still hiding" One of the guards shouted
The rest of the guards, and even the drivers, had startedtheir way over to Merlin's position A couple uard's aruard that was yelling out orders, causing that guard to drop dead uards had closed in on Merlin's position, so he was forced to throw his bow back into his inventory and e He kept the quiver on his side however, not bothering to take it off just yet
He drew his daggers and ran towards the nearest guard, who had been barely scraped by one of the arrows This guard had started wobbling around as he h his systeh of a dose as the others so it was taking longer
Merlin had loaded each arroith enough poison to overdose a horse within a otten it all, it should still be a lethal dose
"An owl?" The guardhis sword at Merlin
Merlin dodged the guard's desperate sword slash before slicing the ers, finishi+ng the guard off
The last three guards had pounced towards him with their weapons drawn, Merlin parried away the closest blade while leaping backwards to avoid the others But as he leapt back, the guards continued rushi+ng towards hih room to plan his next attack
"Fine, we'll do it this way" Merlinhold of three poisoned arrows
As his foot hit the floor, he leapt backwards oncethe three poisoned arrows into the air above hilanced up towards the arrows briefly, wondering what the purpose of that action was But as their attention all snapped back towards Merlin, they witnessed three vines suddenly burst out of his body
"What the, it's not huuards shouted in surprise
The vines extended up towards the arrows, each wrapping around one It was at this uards realised as about to happen
Before they could even react to the attack, the vines, alongside the poisoned arroere suddenly thrust into the guard's bodies
"A deuard who had the arrow thrust into his neckhiot an arrow to the shoulder ran towards Merlin once s