Chapter 85 Hasting! Do you dare to fight me? (1/2)
Chapter 85 Hasting! Do you dare to fight me?
Translator: Tchu
Editor: Amaranth
With a bang, the shield in Shaar’s hand exploded into countless pieces. The iron fragments scattered everywhere and even decapitated two Byzantine soldiers who were standing near Shaar!
Flying a few feet into the air after the impact, Shaar crashed fiercely into the ground, as his arms were broken in several places. His injuries were so major, that when Shaar jumped up from the ground, he immediately spat a mouthful blood, fiercely shaking his head. Suddenly, a ruthless aura could be seen in his eyes. Pushing Slate to the side with his arm, he grabbed a spear, and jumped up on the platform as he looked out in the distance……
As if it was fate, he saw a small silhouette standing in the back of the dense Odin formation. This lonesome figure was standing there, with the surrounding Odin soldiers all keeping their distance……
Shaar’s eyes turned crimson as he took several steps back, preparing to sprint. Using the momentum from his sprint, he roared and hurled the spear into the sky……
While standing there, Hasting saw a gray shadow shooting out from the camp. As he watched it pierced through the sky, he stood there motionless……
*Bang* About ten meters away from Hasting, two Odin soldiers lifted their shields to block the incoming gray shadow, but they immediately got pierced by it. When then the spear fell to the ground and exploded into a dozen pieces!
Hasting gently wiped of a drop of blood which splashed on his face.
“Good power ……humph, accuracy still missing a bit.”
Hasting’s gentle eyes had a small trace of warmth while saying: “He is a strong one. Strong hahaha ……”
There was a clear smile on Odin’s Lord of War, but his eyes remained ice-cold. However, it was that small trace of warmth in his cold gaze which made the guards around him felt fear in their heart.
Taking a breath, Hasting picked up another spear and started to prepare for another shoot ….
However, when he looked up, he heard some weird noise….
After hearing a few trebuchet slinging sounds, several huge stones were catapulted out then they fell near Hasting’s vicinity……
With several rumbling noises, bursts of pitiful cries could be heard where the stones landed. A dozen Odin soldiers were immediately smashed to pulp. Moreover, the falling stones were bouncing around, sweeping away another dozens of Odin soldiers……
Standing in the camp, Shaar looked at the distant place while breathing heavily: “Fuck ……Do you really think that this uncle was trying to compare shooting accuracy with you? I was pointing the target for the trebuchets……”
The first wave of Odin’s offensive eventually ended one hour later. At the wall before the camp there were so many corpses that they formed slopes at several places. As one could imagine, the Odin soldiers didn’t even need to take ladders for their next offensive and could just step on the corpses to climb the stronghold walls.
“We ……will probably have some difficulties while defending against the second wave.”Slate smiled bitterly.
After the first wave, the Odin side left behind more than 1000 corpses before finally being repelled. However, both Shaar and Slate’s hearts were filled with worries.
Their loss wasn’t small either since at least 500 of their soldiers died. Also dozens there were severely wounded soldiers who lost their strength to fight on and needed to be carried to the rear. Since their already weak battle power which had the initial strength of 2000 man who could fight, their battle power was almost reduced by one-third!
The more important problem was, their casualties who died in the first wave were all real soldiers! From the remaining men, 50% were auxiliary soldiers that took up their weapons the first time. They were logistic soldiers, craftsmen, horse caretakers, the cart driver, even the cook……
Seeing the wry smile on Slate’s face, Shaar kept his silence and lowered his head to think.
Exactly at that time, a horn sounded again from the direction of the Odin army.
Slate’s eyes widened: “It’s their formation horn! Once the horn stops, their formation will be finished……Then, the second offensive wave will begin!”
Shaar took some deep breaths. Both of his arms were wrapped in a plain white cloth, but it was already soaked red with blood. He started grinning and as he endured the pain, he took a deep breath of cold air, before his eyes flashed decisively: “Perhaps ……I have a way to win a little time. ”
He looked at the distance and suddenly smiled: “Do you still remember the rabbit general Ruhr?”
Standing up, he put his hand on Slate’s shoulder: “No matter what, each second is precious right now! Perhaps in the next moment ……The general kills his way back here.”
Picking up a spear, he started walking slowly towards the platform……
His eyes suddenly flashed with crimson and with a loud roar, he shot his spear into the sky. With a loud whistling sound, it landed on the middle of the battlefield!
His roar which sounded like a thunder suddenly got the attention of all the Byzantine soldiers in the camp and Odin soldiers who were preparing for the formation.
When the spear landed on the ground, it broke into several pieces and with a loud voice, it stirred up a cloud of dust!
A loud and majestic voice spread over the entire battlefield:
“Hasting!! Do you dare to fight me!!”