Chapter 296: A tragic battle (1/2)
Chapter 296: A tragic battle
In the mountain valley, members of the alliance were either lightly snoring, nodding off, or dead asleep. Very few were able to stay awake. The few solitary, cautious folk also gradually closed their heavy eyelids beneath the sleeping effect of the fog.
Everything seemed perfect. The outcome seemed predestined the moment the Death Guards started to advance into the mountain valley. This sneak attack could simply be considered a classic one for the books, if it hadn’t been for a frightening, loud rumbling sound.
Rumble…
A surge of wind blew from who knew where, just as the Death Guards crossed the channel into the mountain valley. The power of it was violent. The wind first uproot a small tree on the mountain, creating a strange butterfly effect. One tree after another fell in bizarre succession. This finally caused the unbelievable collapse of the rocks on the mountain.
Moss-covered rocks, as large as a millstones, smashed straight down on the mountain valley. This kind of movement created earth-shattering sounds, waking up all of the mercenaries that were sound asleep. They abruptly jumped up, as if faced with the greatest enemy of their lives, grabbing their weapons before looking at the situation.
Edwin was also an accomplished alchemist on the side. He understood that only sleeping drugs with minor effects would be the kind not as easily discovered by experts. Edwin had been gloating over the victory within his grasp when the rumbling sound completely destroyed his wishful thinking. He looked at the mercenaries stationed in the valley all looking around with weapons in hand and then at the Death Guards entering the mountain valley. Edwin had to swallow back his curses and issued an order to attack, “Forward, kill!”
Both Edwin and Laureton understood that their ambush would no longer be perfect thanks to the rumbling avalanche. The two secretly cursed as they hastily issued orders to attack, while their eyes looked up and down at the epicenter of that tumultuous incident. A strange suspicion filled their hearts.
Why had that avalanche happened? How could its force have been so large? How could it have generated such an astonishing effect? If it were man made, then who’d done it?
Doubt after doubt instantly piled up in their hearts, but only for a moment. The two couldn’t think much as all of their attention was pulled back to the slaughter that was about to take place in the mountain valley.
“Enemy attack, enemy attack!”
The thousand mercenaries in the mountain valley were jolted awake by the rock avalanche. A small portion of the mercenaries near the edge of the valley constantly dodged the falling rocks. The mercenaries at the outermost region, who were responsible for night patrol, had now discovered the Death Guards by now. They immediately started yelling loudly.
The mercenaries of the alliance immediately reacted. They took out weapons, started to chant magic incantations, and notched their arrows. They all aimed at the entrance of the mountain valley.
The Calamity Church’s three hundred Death Guards spread out like wraiths in the night, whizzing about like faint shadows under the moonlight. Evil, sinister air permeated their bodies, their eyes filled with frenzy and excitement. Exotic spiked weapons were grasped in their hands, they speedily glided across the ground into the mountain valley.
The ground trembled as a series of sharp earth spears pierced out of the ground. A blazing fire quickly gathered into a defensive firewall. Lightning bolts twisted and flashed across the sky above the mountain valley then smashed downward. Mermen and water dragons gradually materialized and rushed away from the zone of the firewall.
Whistling sounds accompanied arrows that fell endlessly upon the Death Guards. Mages and archers formed layer after layer of obstacles within the mountain valley. They instantly hindered the momentum of the rushing Death Guards, itching to kill the entire bunch of blatant invaders.
However, as the religious scourge, whose notoriety had spread all over the Profound Continent for so many years, the Calamity Church’s Death Guard naturally weren’t that easy to deal with.
The speed of the three hundred Death Guards didn’t decrease, but instead spiked at an alarming rate. The blackish gray robes that they wore had a strong resistance to magic, the coming flames were snuffed with just a wave of their sleeves. Even the violent thunderbolts only made them pause a little without causing any fatal damage.
“Hmph! The Death Guard’s armory is one of the secrets of our Calamity Church. How could normal magic attacks have any effect!” Dark grand magus Edwin landed behind and looked forward with a sinister face, speaking contemptuously. He could have soundlessly exterminated the majority of the force in the mountain valley. He naturally felt irritated now that this unexpected incident had thrown a wrench in his plans.