Episode 109 – Survivors (9)
‘I’m worried, I’m worried. There are as many as 10,000 people, so we can’t be without damage.’
Complaints and sighs. After preparing his own war in earnest, preparing everything from a neck pillow to food to sit on, he felt indigestion due to tension and clicked the mouse whenever he had time to operate the chainsaw and hammer.
It was a very reasonable and efficient decision. Because before the enemies approach, provide as much help as you can.
It was like this when fighting bugs. Of course, bugs were the ones who would crawl and fight if they could move even if their bodies were cut in half alive, so it was not strange for them to become numb.
“Again, again!!!”
“It’s evil black magic!”
But his mouse clicking became a terrible disaster for others.
They were marching majestically with a large number of conscripted soldiers in the elite expeditionary force that won the battle against Garhan, but were shocked by the indiscriminate blow falling from the sky.
Although it was only a short period of time, the giant chainsaw pulverized people alive along with the ground.
Unlike the bugs, they were violently shaken by this terrible disaster.
“Stop making such a fuss! “Didn’t you already know that!”
Luke’s henchman Gir, who was to lead the expeditionary force, gritted his teeth and shouted. Obviously, as they said, they already knew about this.
This is because Garhan’s forces also experienced this first-hand when they once faced the Arin tribe. But hearing it in words and actually experiencing it were different. A giant hammer and chainsaw falling from the sky was not something to ignore just because you already knew about it.
To begin with, they didn’t even know what a chainsaw was.
“Paulo! How did this happen? “I didn’t say that the shaman’s magic could be enough to stop it!”
“Well, I never expected it to be this powerful…”
Gir called the chief shaman who led the shamans and urged him. This is because the chief witch doctor boasted that they could prevent evil witchcraft with their magic.
However, the power of actually destroying the desktop was too strong. The problem was none other than frequency. This is because the shamans, who were not many in number, lost their hammers more often than they recovered their stamina.
“Is there any use in reprimanding you after we’ve already come this far?”
“Then what are we going to do? If we keep going like this, we’ll all be dead before we even see their faces. “I heard a rumor that the Arryn people consider that evil witchcraft just now to be a divine punishment from God.”
“Ha, that’s nonsense.”
A wizard wearing a hood approached the energetic Gir. When Gir told the wizard about the hammer and chainsaw, the wizard openly laughed.
“The power of God is imbued with divinity. In reality, those who call themselves paladins and priests are those who use that divinity. “There is no sense of divinity in those things falling from the sky.”
The wizard shook his head with a statement that was close to conviction. Since he said it so openly, even those around him, including Gir, could not deny what he said.
“Looking at the pattern, it appears that a certain amount of waiting time is required after the attack. It’s not like you have infinite power, so it’s better to break through quickly. We will also help with defense.”
“If you hurry and your horse gets tired, it’s at a disadvantage in the fight… but it’s different if you help us.”
When the wizard was frustrated and said they would help him, Gir quickly asked him about it. Anyway, this expedition is done out of mutual necessity. There was absolutely no reason for either side to drag on.
“They picked up the pace. “You will see it here tomorrow.”
“Everyone, prepare for battle.”
The enemy’s actions of speeding up before being hit by more hammers and chainsaws were soon conveyed to the Arryn people. Varun, who realized that it was time to pour out what he had thoroughly prepared over the past few days, ordered the assembled troops to prepare for battle.
“Bring more arrows here!”
“Put the fence a little higher…”
Even late at night, they were busy moving around. They occupied a hill that could be called a strategic point and turned it into an outpost, stockpiling sufficient supplies and thoroughly preparing to face the approaching enemies.
Meanwhile, Varun separately called Larsen, who was holding a cane.
“Riena and other elite warriors have fallen back for a counterattack. As such, we must block this place in a weakened state. “There is no defense tower given by God.”
“yes.”
“It has been confirmed that there are many shamans among them who use witchcraft. Your magic will be your secret weapon. So, no matter what happens, don’t step forward and cast that great spell the moment I tell you to.”
Varun thought of Larsen as a weapon that would change the atmosphere of the battlefield. Larsen also nodded with a nervous face as he realized the important role he was playing.
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“I see them!”
“Are you planning to attack me right away without even sleeping? “I guess he was afraid of heavenly punishment that much.”
And at dawn that day. A scout on top of a watchtower saw with his excellent eyesight a large number of men and horses approaching from a distance and shouted.
Varun, who woke up from a short nap, laughed bitterly upon hearing the report.
“Everyone, take your seats. “It is time to unleash the defensive warfare taught to us by the dwarves.”
Arin soldiers did not ride horses. The plan was to completely drag them into the siege, relying on the makeshift wall that the transporters had built in one fell swoop.
Grassland tribes are weak in siege warfare and fortification warfare. However, the Arryn people had only scratched the surface of their air and defensive warfare capabilities and infantry tactics through the dwarf survivors.
‘It has finally begun.’
He, too, was watching the two forces getting closer and closer through the screen.
He was so nervous that he looked gaunt and gaunt. From now on, I was saving up on destroying the desktop to help in case of emergency.
“Warchief! “I think they sent a messenger.”
Just before a full-scale collision, everyone was tense. Gir’s troops stopped marching and sent several men to the outpost where the Arin tribe was waiting. To hear what they were talking about, Varun let them come without shooting.
“We are the people sent by Luke, the great warchief who will rule this land.”
“Nice to meet you. “I, too, am Varun, the chieftain of the Arin tribe who rules this area.”
“…The Warchief said that if you wanted, you could become a member of the Great Grassland Kingdom.”
The messenger who came to deliver the message flinched slightly when he saw Varun wearing Drake’s skull helmet, and then recited the words he had memorized.
The content, of course, is to tell Varun to crawl in on his own. It was something I expected, so Varun didn’t even pretend to hear it.
‘You look surprised.’
Instead, I looked at the eyes of the lions rolling around and realized that they were now surprised to see the outpost. What was unfinished when the spy visited it became a kind of fortress that took over the entire hill in that short period of time.
“If it means that the warchiefs should become friendly with each other, I would be willing to consider it. There is no reason for this body, which dares to serve the guardian spirit, to fall under another warchief. “Go and tell it.”
‘Now, what should I do?’
Varun chased away the lions and predicted how they would come out.
There is no way they had not been preparing for a siege. This is because it was known through spies that they had already built a huge wall.
Nevertheless, the fact that they brought in troops like this means that they have prepared accordingly.
“General, what should we do now? “Compared to that big village of those guys, it’s an ugly castle wall.”
“Well, just go back to the original plan and burn their fields and livestock.”
As Varun predicted, opinions within the expeditionary force were divided.
In the first place, they did not come to properly attack the 10-meter wall that the transporters worked hard to build with blocks. They planned to use the typical method they used to plunder the settlers: destroying and plundering the fields and livestock outside the castle.
But now, in front of me, there was a formidable outpost that seemed worth doing.
‘Damn, those guys are planning to come after us if they have the chance.’
Gir gritted his teeth as he figured out why Varun had created the outpost. I realized that you had openly cast your siege strategy.
“Be honest. “If we do our best, will we be able to overcome that castle on the hill?”
“It’s quite possible to build a castle of that small level, so tell me to build a ladder first.”
Gir glanced at the wizard next to him. Gongseonjeon and Suseongjeon were the special skills of the local residents.
The wizard sighed when he saw them hesitating even though the castle was only a wall at best, and recommended that they attack the outpost.
“Hmm, it looks like they are going to trample on us first. “Are you confident or are you being reckless?”
“Warchief. “I will prepare for battle.”
Varun chuckled as he watched the opponent slowly spread out to attack the base. The laughter got louder as they dismounted from their horses with hastily made ladders.
“The battle has already begun. If they run at you, shoot them without hesitation. There is no reason to be afraid. “They don’t have a strong carapace like the black monsters, nor do they have strong legs that allow them to climb walls.”
The Arin soldiers standing on the castle wall loaded their arrows all at once. This special arrow, which could even pierce a bug’s shell, had a weak magical power and was waiting for the enemies to approach.
The enemies who began to approach prepared to defend themselves by raising their own shields, but they also planned to pierce the shields.
“Charge!”
“It’s coming, shoot!”
At the same time, a full-scale battle began at a time when both sides thought it was the right time.
The expeditionary force ran desperately, carrying ladders and shields, and fired arrows to cover their allies. The Arin people continued to fire arrows using the castle wall as a shield.
Casualties began to occur on both sides, but the casualties of the expeditionary force were overwhelmingly high. Because the arrows of the Arin people flying from high up flew farther and were stronger.
“Ugh, the shamans will have to step forward right away.”
Of course, there were quite a few believers in the expeditionary force as well. The first to step forward were the shamans, who had lost face by failing to properly stop the heavenly punishment falling from the sky.
‘Are they similar to me?’
Varun, who had suddenly transformed into a bird and was flying in the sky, looking down on the battlefield, fell into a deep sleep when he saw the shamans.
This is because the strong wind summoned by the shamans caused all the arrows fired by the allies to miss. Thanks to this, the enemies quickly climbed up the hill, placed ladders on the castle walls one by one, and began climbing on them.
“Damn it!”
Of course, I didn’t just watch that.
Hammers fell from the sky and struck down the shamans who were casting spells.
Some people responded or barely escaped, but if they couldn’t, they, along with many others around them, were left exhausted and writhing on the floor.
‘You just have to hold on a little longer.’
Varun recalled the story he had heard from the dwarves. The battle between the castles is ultimately a battle to see who can last longer. In the current situation, the allies benefited just by holding on.