Chapter 71 Arrow!! Arrows!! (1/2)
Chapter 71 Arrow!! Arrows!!
Translator: Tchu
Editor: Superposhposh, Amaranth
The incoming Odin soldiers immediately stopped their advance, threatening Shaar with their fearsome swords.
At the same time, Shaar felt a gust of wind pass by his face as a giant axe chopped down, forcing him to desperately block with his fiery pitchfork!
Peng!
With a sharp noise, the axe instantly broke on the spot, leaving Shaar stunned. It was as if he got struck by lightning! After receiving this brutal attack, Shaar couldn’t even lift his numb arm. When he looked up, he saw a bear-spirit warrior standing next to him with a broken axe in his hand!
(What great strength!!)
Shaar quickly grabbed the gothi and retreated several steps while started to shout, “Hurry up, and ask them to stop! Or this guy gets it!”
As he spoke, he lifted his fiery pitchfork and stabbed it into the wound on the gothi’s thigh.
This old gothi screamed in pain and finally yelled out something in the Odin language. Hearing the sudden command, the spirit-beast warriors immediately halted, staring at Shaar with an intense, smoldering gaze. Their eyes were burning with a piercing green flame, the sound of their breaths emitting a steady, hammered tempo. .
Shaar grabbed the gothi’s neck and quickly retreated to where Sarbar and Kato were. He didn’t care about the Odin shouting in the distance, much less what they shouted, since he couldn’t understand any of the shouting and cursing.
Shaar lifted his hand and cut off the cattle tendon ropes tying both of his companions and helped them up. Wielding his weapon again, Shaar cut off a branch and gave the gothi to Sarbar while he stuck the branch into the campfire. The stick instantly burst into green flames, turning into a green torch.
After waving the torch in front of the surrounding spirit-beast warriors, Shaar quickly retreated into the forest with his two companions. It was apparent that the spirit-beast warriors feared the green flame as they involuntarily took a few steps back.
They slowly retreated while still facing the Odins. They appeared to highly value him and be concerned for his safety, since they continued whistling in anxiety.
Shaar’s group quickly withdrew from the forest and arrived at a hillside with a downhill slope which was about five meters long.
Turning his head, Shaar yelled towards Sarbar, “Quickly, jump down!” His two companions looked at each other before grabbing the gothi and rolling downhill.
The hillside wasn’t too steep or high, so when they finally landed on the ground, Shaar had already followed them down in one leap.
Exactly that moment, the Odin pursued them towards the edge of the hillside, and after seeing how Shaar’s group had leaped down, they started to roar wildly.
It was only when Shaar arrived at the bottom; he saw that the opposite side was also a hillside, and that they were in a valley. It was only around several hundred meters wide, but it had already turned into a battlefield! The ground was littered with corpses, dead mounts, and fragments of equipment!
There were some Odin soldiers who were currently sweeping over the battlefield, but when they saw Shaar’s group, they immediately gathered from all directions and encircled Shaar and his group. Forcing the gothi to scream out a few words, Shaar immediately saw that those Odin started to fall back, not daring to approach.
Looking towards the south, they noticed that the exit of the valley was only a hundred meters away. While carrying the gothi, the trio immediately dashed towards the exit as they were being pursued by the Odins from behind. While running, Shaar sometimes stabbed the gothi with his fiery pitchfork in order to threaten those Odins and forcing them to keep their distance.
Spirit-beast warriors were running at the front, but the green torch which was still in Shaar’s hand was almost burned up as it got weaker and weaker.
At the same moment, Kekkan was standing on a nearby hillside and watching Shaar’s group with a gloomy face.
He already obtained a report from his men.
“Idiots! How could you let a Byzantine ambush happen! Furthermore, how could you let them capture the high gothi?!” Kekkan face wasn’t warm or gentle anymore, instead it was contorted into an angry grimace – he was much angrier than when he heard the news that his younger brother died in battle.
An Odin soldier pointed pointed out Shaar in the distance, muttering a few words into Kekkan’s ear. Suddenly, Kekkan’s eyes lit up!
“Oh? So that’s the Byzantine warrior that killed my brother? Haha ……Interesting ……” Kekkan instantly restrained the anger on his face and squinted his eyes. Looking at the fleeing Shaar in the distance, he suddenly smiled and turned his body towards the bony throne, before taking off a big bow, which was half the length of a person.
It was completely white and made out of rare animal bones, and had two white fist-sized stones embedded on both sizes.
Kekkan gently pulled the bowstring, which lacked an arrow, and aimed at Shaar in the distance.
“Since we can’t rescue our honored gothi, then there is no need to save him anymore! Rather than being captured and taken back by the Byzantines, it’s better for him to die here.” Kekkan spoke in a flat tone, and the corners of his mouth tugged a cold smile, “This is also the murderer that killed my brother, I must kill him here and now, or else how could I face my dear father, the Emperor?”
Buzz!!!
Shaar, who was still retreating, heard a strange buzzing sound approaching him. Just when he raised his head, he could immediately point out a twinkling silver speck in the air. It was rapidly increasing in size as it flew closer to him!
Immediately, a piercing feeling of danger enveloped his body! This incoming light made Shaar feel a desperate crisis! With a roar, he brought up his fiery pitchfork to block the incoming light!