91 Chapter 91 - Assault on the Elven For (2/2)

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{Gone.This is the biggest hole in our defenses and they left it undefended.}Tyro didn't like how the new blood was quick to abandon their posts.”You three, go check to see if they're messing with the women.The rest of you stay here to defend this hole.”He'd go from door to door making sure that they hadn't done anything stupid.

The dining room was closest to their post so Tyro figured that there were probably a couple of them in there.Inside was a sole soldier making himself something in the large pot in the kitchen.It smelled good but now was not the time to be having a meal.”Soldier, return to your post.”

The soldier took a mouthful of what was in the pot before screaming in pain.{The idiot drank boiling hot soup!Shit!Cold water?The well!No, that might make it worse.The doctor will know what to do.}Tyro pulled the soldier outside and yelled for someone to help him.

After getting the soldier to their hospital and leaving him with their doctor, Tyro and the soldier that assisted him ran back to check the other buildings.Other than a soldier that was fucking their own wife, no other soldiers were inside the buildings by this part of the wall.The three of them made their way back to the hole in the wall.

”Still not back?You guys wait here.I'll go see what's holding them.”Tyro didn't know that the other soldiers were already killed and that he was headed to his own death.

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”That makes four more dead.Do we wait for Gren?”Letta managed to kill the last bandit that came down the stairs with her crossbow.The other three were killed by Dhalra and Shenzi.Since Gren wasn't there, they hid the bodies in the hole.

”We don't have time to wait.They could have him in their custody right now.”Jasmine was visibly upset but managed to keep her cool and not rush ahead to find her husband.

”We're waiting.Gren might be an idiot at times but there's no way to capture him unless he wants to be captured.”Annie had confidence in his abilities.”He'd be making a lot of noise if he was under attack so I don't think we have to worry.”

”Remember, there are around one hundred enemies remaining.We can't afford to be caught yet.”Zell remembered the numbers that Mimi estimated earlier and had been keeping track of their kills.”We're doing good but if we make one wrong move then we're all dead.”

”Zell's right.We should pick off the ones that come down to 'ttack us.”Krieger hoped that they could get rid of another dozen bandits before the real fight begins.”If they keep comin' here we might not need to take the fight to them.”With two veteran mercenaries and the leader all in agreement, it seemed like the argument was settled.

”How much time do you think it'll take before they realize that we're not behind that wall?”Suze was surprisingly against Krieger on whether or not they should wait.”Their weapons are much weaker than our own, with the exception of Kuroa and Tokala, of course.Even if we get into a fight with them now, we can win.However, that's only if they haven't finished laying a trap for us.”

In the end, Suze managed to convince the others that it would be best to end it sooner so that Ahk, their powerhouse, was able to rejoin the battle.Kuroa was sent to inform Ahk of their plan and to defend the women in the shelter.Kuroa's armor didn't cover her entire body and her air support relied on Gren being there since she had only one javelin on her.

There were a total of six more bandits near where Gren killed the previous group.They weren't difficult to take down but one of them got a shout out before having Shenzi tear his throat out.”Remember the leader's explosive arrows.Hit the enemy fast.Try not to die.”Their group moved at different speeds so Annie figured that they'd end up separating.

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Shenzi sped off with Midna and Luna towards the stairs leading up to the next level.There were only three levels to the wall if you counted the top of it.The two levels below the top of the wall had tall ceilings so the Elven fort's wall was still taller than the wall that Fort Togo had.There were a few archers on the second floor; they were likely using the smaller holes to shoot out of before the man below had alerted them.

”You two pick off the ones that I miss.Don't get hit since the rat slayer isn't here right now.”Luna and Midna couldn't dodge things as easily as Shenzi could since they were larger types of beastmen.

”Try to miss a bunch of them then.I really want to sink my teeth into these people.”Luna's obsession with biting things was weird but Shenzi appreciated her enthusiasm.

”Gren will be angry if you eat the elves.”Midna knew how much that Luna liked to eat meat but humans and demihumans were off the menu.

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While Shenzi's group dealt with the soldiers on the second floor, Annie led the rest to the top of the wall.That's where the bulk of the bandits were located.Everybody that had a shield was currently lifting it up to protect the rest from arrows.The stairs leading to the top were exposed and so was their position.After reaching the top, the shields were aimed forward to block the arrows

A glowing arrow landed in front of Letta so she raised Gren's shield and covered it, recognizing what that arrow was about to do.The blast was mostly contained underneath the shield but Letta was launched backwards and flew off the wall.With the leader exposing his position, Dhalra took the opportunity to shoot him with an arrow.She couldn't get the killing blow but it'd be difficult for him to launch any other arrows with an arrow in his shoulder.

A howling could be heard from the forest in the direction that Letta fell.”Wolves.Letta might still be alive, I'm going down.”Cammie jumped from the top of the wall, using her axes against the side of the wall to slow her descent.Cammie had gotten to know Letta during their time as night watchmen and didn't want to see her die.

Gallia and Buthi charged forward towards the enemy with their large tower shields.The bandits weren't that good with melee weapons; the ones that managed to slow the insectoid duo's charge didn't last long against their dual wielded weapons.Suze used her magic to release a gust of wind, pushing some of the bandits off the wall towards the inside of the fort.Another explosive arrow came flying, headed straight for the ground in front of Suze.

Dill jumped on the arrow--much like Letta did--and prevented Suze from being hit by the blast.He didn't go flying back but the blast escaped from the shield, blowing off his right arm and engulfing him in flames.Sachi, the cyclops, had the medical bag on her back so she pulled Dill behind the front line and applied a healing potion to his mangled upper arm.She was afraid of the fighting but if she didn't help him then he'd die.

Several of the bandits realized that they couldn't win the fight and started to run down the other set of stairs, only to run into an even scarier enemy; an angry minotaur with the biggest shield and axe that they had ever seen.Ahk crushed the first few enemies with her shield and sliced most of the rest of them with her axe.There were a few that managed to slip by but the beastman trio had already cleared the enemies on the second floor.The bandits ended up becoming their playthings.The few bandits that were watching the other sides of the wall were able to get away but five or six bandits escaping would still be acceptable.

Ahk and the three beastmen women blocked the path of escape for the remaining bandits, including the leader and a pregnant elf woman by his side.”It's over.Surrender or die.”Annie wanted to avoid killing the woman but didn't care about the rest of them.

The bandits all knew that surrendering meant death so they decided to have a futile last stand.Zell swung his massive greathammer, killing the man that decided to charge his way.One guy decided to take his chances and jumped off the wall, breaking his legs on the ground below.Chase dodged an arrow that was headed his way and returned fire, hitting the man in the middle of his forehead.The bandits' numbers were dwindling as the mercenaries closed in.Eventually, it was just the leader and the pregnant elf that were left.

”Hiding behind your men.You're a coward.”The leader of the bandits had himself a crown so it was clear what his role was.”Now you're going to use a woman as a shield?”

The bandit leader pushed the pregnant woman towards Annie and jumped off of the fort wall.A blindingly bright light surrounded him and vines appeared around his body, forming a new set of armor and wings.Dhalra tried to shoot him down but he was flying too fast away from them.There was nothing that they could do to catch him with Kuroa down below.

The pregnant woman had been abandoned and was reaching out towards the man, crying out in another language.It seemed like she might jump off the wall to follow him so Annie brought her down carefully and tied her up.The way the battle ended left a sour taste in her mouth.It was fine if the weaklings ran away but the leader escaping in such a way wasn't acceptable.Even though the request was technically completed, that guy would probably continue his twisted campaign.

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Back when Cammie went to help Letta...

The shield that Letta was carrying had been heavily damaged and the sword wasn't in its sheath.Letta couldn't be seen near the equipment so she must have landed in the forest.Cammie needed to find Letta before the wolves arrived.Cammie had lost two of her throwing axes in the fighting earlier so she was down to three now; she'd need to be careful not to lose any more of them.

Looking through the bushes, Cammie finally found Letta.”Letta, are you alright?Can you hear me?”She seemed conscious but dazed; her eyes were moving around but she didn't seem to acknowledge Cammie's existence.Her helmet was off, exposing the chainmail on her head.Cammie spotted the helmet a little bit down the hill, against one of the trees.

Cammie grabbed the helmet and put it on Letta's head before dragging her in the direction of the shelter that Gren placed by the hole.She could hear the fighting intensify up on the wall but she was more focused on the noises coming from the forest.The wolves were closing in; she wasn't going to make it to the shelter.

Cammie pulled Letta to the wall and stepped in front of her, raising her shield to prepare for the wolves.There was a decent amount of room between her and the forest so she'd see when they attacked.A loud whistling sound came from the forest just before the five wolves leapt out and charged.

Cammie didn't expect them to attack with such coordination but what was even more surprising was the person in fur that rid on the back of one of the wolves.{The beast tamer?}Cammie slammed her shield into the first wolf that got close enough and tried to hack at it with her axe but another wolf went for her axe arm, gripping on to her armor.

Cammie jumped up and slammed the wolf that was gripping her into the ground before pounding its head in with her shield.One of the other wolves started pulling on her leg so she threw her axe at it with her now-free arm, killing it.The other two wolves that she hit were still alive so she was still outnumbered.There wasn't time to retrieve the axe from the wolf's skull so she pulled out one of the two axes she still had on the back of her hip.

The beast tamer was angered by the death of their wolf and started shooting arrows at Cammie.Their bow arm was weak so the arrows didn't do anything to her armor but that was to be expected from someone the size of a kid.Cammie was assaulted by another one of the wolves so she kicked it down and threw her axe at the wolf that the beast tamer was riding.It hit the wolf in the neck; the wolf wasn't dead, but it was only a matter of time before it died.

One axe remaining.One wolf went after Letta and started pulling her away while the other two went for Cammie.Cammie's left leg was held between one wolf's teeth while the wolf that she kicked lunged at her upper body.It obviously didn't learn its lesson as Cammie just knocked it down with her shield.Her arm was clear so there was nothing stopping her from killing the wolf that had a grip on her leg.

The wolf that she had kicked and now bashed was struggling to get up so Cammie finished it off.There was only one more wolf and the kid to deal with now.Looking back at Letta, the kid was climbing onto the back of the wolf that had been trying to pull Letta.The kid tugged on its fur and the two went running.

Letta threw her last axe, taking out the wolf's back right leg.After the kid checked on the wolf, they looked up and saw Cammie running at them.Scared by her, the kid bolted towards the forest.She had no more axes but Cammie had one last projectile on her.

The kid was hit and fell down, their groaning could be heard from where Cammie was standing.After running up to the kid, Cammie tied them up.Her helmet rolled a bit after bouncing off the kid's back so she went to pick it back up.It took a while to retrieve her equipment and drag the kid and Letta back to the wall but Cammie finally got a chance to rest.