Chapter 158: The Orcs Attack - IV (1/2)

Due to several of the knights being in a severely wounded state, the group was forced to split into two, leaving hts back to town A few of the wounded knights eren't critically injured had started picking up their deceased co thehts stayed behind and began following Merlin's group back to the ca

To their surprise, it seeroup had also made it to that spot and were quickly explained the plan before they did anything stupid

The group was rather large, consisting of twenty knights, and with the addition of the five that they had saved fro as their guide, they had a total of twenty-six knights to assist theiven the order to bait sroups away from the camp and lead them as far away from the warlord as they could They were explicitly told not to engage in cooal wasn't to kill the army yet, just the leader

The plan was set into nated the two ers were standing by to separate the last few orcs away fro to be dealing dahts spread out along the treeline around the caht would leap out of the treeline, appearing before a group of orcs They would usually throw a rock or branch at theeneral direction, before sprinting back into the forest and rabbing about seven orcs each, with so three ca after the plan had started, the warlord see When it saw that a little more than half of its camp had suddenly disappeared into the forest, it becaan barking orders at its are' Merlin thought to himself as he listened to the orc warlord

Up until this point, all the languages that he had encountered were languages he never found in the ravestone, the strange Bashkatil language he found in the vae symbols on the door frame of that one ruin

This was the first tie that wasn't just common, and Merlin felt happy that he could still so

The orcs started stoe variety of bladed weapons drawn The rangers, besides Callisto and Merlin, quickly scattered, they started baiting the orcs further into the forest Eventually, the warlord was al by its side

"Everyone seeuys while I start uy?" Merlin asked Callisto

"Why don't you take the two orcs and I'll take the warlord?" Callisto responded

"You can kill the little guys faster than I can," Merlin explained "If you take care of both orcs quickly, you can help kill the big guy too"

"Alright, fine" Callisobcked off, accepting Merlin's plan "You better not kill it before I get a few hits in"

"Oh, I don't think that'll be too hard" Merlin re it"

Callisto quickly escaped her cover and shot two arrows out, aiets, angering all three enemies It seemed the warlord was now alerted to her position too

"Alright, it's my turn," Merlin relethe flower around in his hand, filling his hand with loose scales He activated phanto his body to quickly fade out of sight Once his body had disappeared, Merlin ran straight for the warlord

The warlord waspast them in mere moments The warlord reached Callisobfore Merlin could catch up, and swung itsa small cloud of dust to kick up as the axe struck the forest floor

But the dust didn't block the painful sight that Merlin witnessed As Callisto was about to be struck doith the war axe, she quickly dropped down to the ground, and her body slid underneath the orc warlord's legs gracefully

But as she was sliding underneath the orc, she seeion was an acceptable attack Merlin couldn't help but cringe as he iined the pain the orc must have felt at that moment

The orc warlord suddenly dropped down on one knee, as if it lost all strength in its legs for akids again" Merlin ht in front of the warlord's face, throwing a handful of mothflower scales at it, which caused his invisibility to end abruptly "Although, that's probably for the best"

The orc warlord breathed in the scales, and Merlin watched as the creature's nose became runny, and it briefly threw up But it didn't seeainst ordinary orcs, rather it see

Merlin barely dodged a fast claipe as he leapt backwards He began sending his vines out to scratch the warlord, hoping that he would trigger his rose blight passive in the process

The vines were leaving sainst the creature's exposed lie at all But while he was focused on that, rabbed hold of one of his vines

"Oh cra--" Merlin swore as his body was suddenly jerked around by the vine He tried his hardest to stay grounded, but eventually, his feet left the ground, and he found hi spun around like a ball on a chain