Chapter 31: The Night Battle (Part II)
With a large number of wooden spears thrown at the camp, the situation on the battlefield once again tilted rapidly towards the nezumi side. The Knights of the Hammer barely managed to save the wounded from the horses after paying a terrible price, but the horses that had been shot by the wooden spears had no choice but to leave them where they were. The rescued wounded and uninjured horses were grouped around the campfire, and those who could move were held with shields around the campfire.
"How many of these guys are there?"
A sword pierces the oncoming proto-nezumi, and Jack says a question that everyone wants to ask. Although it is impossible to determine how many nezumi there are in the dark, judging from the number of wooden spears that have been fired, counting the proto-nezumi who participated in melee combat, the number of these attackers is at least fifty or more, which is a terrifying number, because so far, with the loss of nearly ten people, there are only twenty proto-nezumi who can be confirmed to be killed. It seems that the battle loss ratio of one to two is very impressive, especially on the human side, most of them are only temporarily lost due to injuries, but don't forget, the more than thirty people present are all the elite knights of the Hammer Knights and the best of the Frost Guards, with such a squad level to play such a battle loss ratio, especially several planned attacks in succession, which have made the danger of these proto-nezumi increase rapidly.
"No, there's something wrong with these proto-rat people. "Ever since the vine spell was unleashed, Cheese has been forcibly protected at the rear of the battlefield, and mages who have lost the ability to move one arm are too vulnerable to danger on a battlefield where wooden spears are flying, and neither Frost Guardian nor Heather can take this risk. And thanks to this, the mage once again observed something unusual.
"The only problem with them is that they are outrageously strong, and there are outrageously large numbers!" said even Heather out loud as he separated a flying wooden tenon with his sword.
"The power of these wooden spears is wrong, the first wooden spear instantly penetrated a warrior wearing armor, but if you look at these throwing spears now, they can be separated with a slight block of the sword, their power is too weak!"
In fact, there is no need for the mage to say, everyone present can feel this, after all, the momentum of the first wooden tenon flying out of the darkness is too terrifying, if the attack strength of each wooden spear is like that, the people present are afraid that they will be shot into hedgehogs long ago. Although a battle-hardened warrior can quickly insert himself into the enemy's weakness with his combat experience, it is based on facing the same type of opponent, and if he wants to find the enemy's weakness in the first battle, and he is at an absolute disadvantage, neither Heather nor Mona can do it. But luckily, cheese can.
"What do you mean?" the warrior asked, knowing that the mage's next answer would most likely change the outcome of the battle.
"I think there must be a special individual among these proto-nezumi, who led these nezumi to make such tactics as feints, and it was also the one who threw the first unusually powerful wooden spear!" Cheese replied loudly.
"You mean it's like those caveman guys?" the chief knight quickly reacted, thinking of the cavemen she had fought before, and Cheese's speculation was very likely.
"But what can you do? This leader is much more cunning than the fools who can only dig holes. The "monkey" tried to fight back with a bow and arrow, but the darkness beyond the firelight made it impossible to know if it would work.
"By the way, do you still have the kind of stone you used in the cave?" Elsa thought of the lighting method that Cheese had used in the cave before, and in such an open environment, the lighting range of the torch and the glowing stone might actually be larger, so no one thought of asking Cheese to make that kind of lighting stone again.
Hearing the proprietress say this, Cheese also thought that using the lighting stone as a sign to guide the way was a solution, so he quickly rummaged through his pockets to find the materials to make the lighting stone.
"Found it, I can make two!" said the mage, using a skillful hand to light one of the illuminating stones.
Heather had never seen a mage make this kind of lighting tool before, and naturally she didn't know what it was used for, in her opinion, this glowing stone was indeed a good lighting equipment, but it was not enough to expand their current lighting range.
This question also stumped Cheese and Elsa, although they now have the Illumination Stone, if the mage ignites the whole stone at once like last time, it can certainly illuminate the surrounding environment, but the strong light will also affect their own warriors, even if they find the leader of the nezumi, it is impossible to kill the other party in a short lighting time. And once the enemy has a sense of crisis, with the cunning of the opponent, I am afraid that the human side will not be given a second chance.
Just as the situation was at an impasse once again, the mage saw Jack's bow and arrow.
"I've figured out a way!" shouted Cheese.
"Monkey, Heather, I need your help. ”
The two who were called by the mage temporarily withdrew from the battle circle and retreated to the mage's side, waiting for Cheese's instructions.
"Listen, the reason why gray aphosphorite glows is because it burns, and I used to heat it up in one go and let it burn out in a very short time, so that it emits a strong light. But this time, I'll try to heat it up at a lower temperature, no, maybe it's better to ignite it. Cheese spoke at great speed what neither of them understood.
"Anyway, Heather, I need you to wrap this stone around the cloth and throw it into the nezumi pile, the guy in charge of the command should be in the densest place where the wooden spear is thrown. Then, Jack, I want you to shoot this stone with your bow and arrow, remember, be sure to shoot it above the rat crowd, and I'll enchant your arrow so that it can detonate the gray apatite, and those exploding fragments can give us a longer view before falling. Got it?"
After both of them nodded in understanding, Cheese handed the lighted illuminated stone to Heather, and the chief knight took a slight look at it, aimed at the position of the proto-nezumi, and waited for the next command.
"Elsa, I'm going to enchant Jack's arrow, and you give the order. The mage stood beside the archer and said to the proprietress .
Although Elsa had not participated in the Frost Guardian's military operations before, she also knew that she had to stand up now, not to mention that Cheese was willing to trust her at this critical moment, which in itself made the boss lady full of determination.
"Okay, I see. Call...... , three, two, one, throw!" took a light breath, and Elsa gave the command to throw.
The illuminating stone wrapped in a strip of cloth was thrown into the air by Heather with a final shout, like a star of hope rising from the ground. The monkey's eyes followed the meteor, and when the illuminator flew to a point in the air, the archer pulled his hunting bow, and the mage-enchanted arrows on the bow shimmered with a dark red glow.
The hand is loose, the string moves, the arrow comes out! In an instant, the arrow with the hope of everyone flew towards the illuminating stone, however, a cold wind blew, and the arrow trembled slightly in the air, missing the falling illuminating stone. The lighting stone smashed into the ground and quickly lost its light.
"****" A foul word with the characteristics of the Northland came out of Jack's mouth, he had always had a lot of confidence in his archery, and the mistake at this critical moment made the son of Orion a little annoyed.
"Don't be afraid, there's another one here. Cheese regretted the failure, but the mage knew that now was not the time to make a mistake, so he quickly lit up the remaining gray apatite and handed it to Heather again.
Taking over this last hope, the chief knight looked at Elsa, who was in charge of the order, and signaled that she was ready. The proprietress received the knight's signal, asked the mage and the archer, and when she got the signal that was ready, she took a deep breath.
"Three, two, one, throw!" The second command sounded, and another illuminated stone was thrown at the nezumi.
With another extraordinarily loud sound of strings, an arrow glowing red sliced through the night sky in a perfect trajectory, hitting the illuminating stone accurately.
"Hit!" At this moment, everyone present couldn't help but exclaim. Immediately afterward, the shattered Illumination Stone in the air glowed with a strong glow from the enchanted arrow, and it instantly ignited the wrapped cloth, and the light from the burning made the nezumi hidden in the darkness reveal their faces.
"There are two!" The sharp-eyed knight saw through the burning dust two of the proto-nezumi who were out of place, one of them was exceptionally tall, about twice as tall as the average nezumi, and their thick arms could not hide their terrifying power even if they were covered with black hair. It seems that this is the one who threw the deadly wooden tenon. The existence of another alternative nezumi was beyond Cheese's previous expectations, only to see that there was a gray-haired nezumi on one side of the giant nezumi, its fur color was grayish-white, and its body was thinner than that of ordinary nezumi, like Gloria who had been stabilized and mutated, but although it stood beside the giant nezumi, its presence was not weaker than the latter. The gray-haired nezumi had long, narrow eyes, and when Cheese saw them from a distance, he knew that the commander of these nezumi must be this nezumi, because those green eyes contained something that a mage had never seen in the eyes of other native nezumi.
"I'll take care of that big one, Frost, you guys get that gray-haired one!" Heather drew his knight's sword and single-handedly burst out of the defensive circle.
Mona and Jack were not far behind, and they also caught up with the female knight chief with their weapons, while three more knights followed as cover.
"For the Hammer!" the familiar battle cry sounded once again.
As if in response to friendly forces, the two who charged ahead and Elsa also let out a shout.
"For the Frost Legion!"
Seeing that the night is coming to an end, this fierce battle will soon have its end. Cheese also seemed to be infected by the atmosphere of the battlefield, although he did not shout any slogans, but for the first time he felt a flame burning in his heart, a primitive desire for battle made his eyes unconsciously flash with a dangerous light.