"Yaaarghh!"
The screams of soldiers could be heard as Reign and his troops clashed against the enemy army. Their superior numbers do little against the elite soldiers under Reign as they plow through them like a hot knife through butter. A dark hue covered all 200 of them as they moved forward with relative ease towards the general who was simply looking at them with a slight interest. Between the two stood over 2 000 soldiers and more were on their way while the general personal troop was already getting into a defensive formation.
The dark hue covering the soldiers was a special formation type of skill that would allow them to act as one and share their strength. It worked wonders as they were able to move together as one while fighting through the enemy troops. Reign was acting as the spearhead of the formation as he slaughtered all who stood before him with no mercy.
This was the tactic Reign decided on in the end. He thought of many other things he could do but the trial would probably not let him. First of all, he was able to communicate with his troops but from them, he found out that the enemy army spoke a completely different language. With that information in his mind, he crossed over an infiltration as he would definitely be stopped after leaving the forest. Without the ability of communication, it would be too easy for the enemy soldiers to see through his disguise and attack him.
Trying to sneak around was equally impossible as the army was located perfectly to stop such things from happening. No matter from what direction you went there was always tens of meters between the forest and the army. It was evident that the trial wanted him to fight through the soldiers until he managed to get to the general and kill him.
Reign was slashing his enemies apart as he moved with the troops. He could see a great number of reinforcements drawing closer to them, it was impossible for them to break through before they arrive. He calculated that there would be at least 2000 more soldiers they would need to break through before reaching the general's personal troop, which numbered about 300.
The problem with that was that although the personal troop was only 300 men strong, all of them were elites like his own troop. That coupled with the troop's captain who was a mini-boss and was currently guarding the general made it incredibly difficult to get close to him. Not to mention that the captain was not the only person guarding the general as the general's right-hand man was there as well, he, of course, was also a mini-boss.
"Fucking hell, this is almost impossible to do." Reign sighs as he continues moving forward. With his strength, it truly was difficult to pass through and kill the general. The Dark Colonels from the previous trial were also mini-boss level enemies and they were able to respond to his attacks while he was using the power of the stars, the two next to the general looked stronger compared to them and were slightly below the level the Dark General was. But luckily for Reign, the power of the stars was not the highest level of power he could achieve.
Shadow was moving through the busy streets of the city as he looked for a place to get more information about the celebration the king was hosting tonight. He was pleasantly surprised when he found out that the merchants he previously went to were speaking English. Well, it wasn't English, but to him, it sounded like it.
Being able to communicate was a great finding for Shadow. He pretended to be a weary adventurer that stumbled here and was looking for a way to enter the city. As he was talking the merchant caravan was attacked, everyone but Shadow was shocked by the turn of events but he wasn't as he had already spotted the bandits hiding behind the trees before. They were the reason he went to this caravan in the first place.
Shadow moved and helped the merchant caravan defend themselves from the bandits. His strength greatly impressed the merchants even though he held back so as to not show too much. The merchants were immensely thankful towards Shadow who had defended them and probably even saved all of their lives. They told him not to worry about entering the city as he can simply go together with them as a guard.
That was how Shadow managed to gain entrance to the city. Now his goal was to get closer to the castle and find out more about the celebration being hosted tonight. He enters a tavern as a couple of gold coins jingle inside the leather bag the merchants gifted him before saying goodbye.
Bam!
Tank bashed an enemy soldier with his shield as the poor guy flies off towards his comrades who all get thrown back by the immense strength behind the hit. Tank was slightly panting as he pushed a ladder down to stop more enemies from coming on the walls of the castle. His troops were fighting bravely against the enemy, but the seemingly endless number of soldiers simply kept on coming without a moment of rest.
Two siege towers were slowly arriving towards the castle as well while a battering ram was already at the gates. Tank's soldiers tried their hardest to kill the soldiers that were pushing the battering ram, but the tens of shield-wielding soldiers around the ram made it hard to hit them. Not to mention that even when they managed to kill one, another would simply take his place.
The four elites were commanding the soldiers near them in an attempt to swiftly take the ladders down while fiercely fighting the enemy soldiers. It was effective for a while, but compared to them and other elites the soldiers were simply of average strength and they couldn't fight so long before tiring out.
Bam!
The battering ram hits the gate with full force. The gate trembles as the soldiers on the wall look below with a horrifying look. If the gate gets breached then that was it, they were all dead as the enemy would attack there with everything they had.
Tank looks down with worry as he grits his teeth.
"Julie!"
"Yair!"
"Donovan!"
"Ector!"
Tank suddenly shouts as the four looks at him.
"Command the soldiers, I will defend the gate!"
"Defend the, what?!" The four exclaims as they widen their eyes in shock as Tank suddenly jumps from the wall. He jumps high in the air as he glints with a metallic luster, he suddenly hugs his legs as he starts falling in the direction of the battering ram
Wrecking Ball
Bam!
The impact from the attack makes the earth tremble as a huge dust cloud was formed in front of the gate. The enemy army even stops for a moment as they look towards the gate with shock in their eyes.
The dust starts settling and a big figure was slowly becoming visible through it. In a couple of seconds, the enemy soldiers were able to see the aftermath of Tank's attack. The battering ram was destroyed, crushed into pieces while tens of corpses lay down around it. The figure of a big man standing tall against them was clearly visible.
"I am Tank, and you!" Tank shouts as he points at the soldiers.
"SHALL!"
"NOT!"
"PASSSS!!"
Tank's shout reverberates through the battlefield as everything stops for a moment. Silence was present on the battlefield for the first time after the battle had begun. The enemy soldiers looked at the big man with slight fear in their eyes as they could still feel the vibrations of his shout even now.
One man was standing alone against thousands, it was a sight nobody present had ever seen before. ( AN: So this scene came to me when I thought of the Three Kingdoms period of China, and how Zhang Fei stood on Chang Ban bridge alone, facing the army of Cao Cao, and of course, the quote came from a slightly popular movie that came out about 21 years ago. )
"Always wanted to say that." Tank smiles brightly as he looks at the soldiers who were now even more scared after seeing the lunatic standing in front of them smile.
At another battlefield flames were blazing high as a tower was set aflame, soldiers were running around frantically as they were burned alive.
Swish
Wolf was standing in the middle of the outpost as he stabbed a soldier who was pretending to be dead on the ground. Right after being stabbed the soldier started shrieking in pain as he was set ablaze by Wolf's flames.
"That's the fourth."
Wolf said as he looked around him. The outpost was burning and wouldn't stand for much longer. It was the fourth outpost he had come across after leaving his original area. The soldier had given him a lot of valuable info in hopes of surviving, that of course didn't happen as Wolf was never one to be merciful towards his enemies, not to mention that sparing an enemy might give him a lower score in the trial.
Slowly he goes outside of the outpost and continues going towards the enemy army. Every step forward was bringing him closer to the final part of the trial, he was partly bored with the outposts as the enemies there were truly too weak.
"I hope they got some strong guys." Wolf smiles wickedly as he starts running.
Swish
Thud
An arrow hits a speeding deer right in the head as the poor animal falls down to its death. The deer was not a normal one as its size and speed were far above an average deer's. Beast was standing on a tree some 10 meters away from the deer as he slowly goes down. The way points were collected in the contest was simple, if your arrow was the one that killed a monster the magical formation present in the whole forest will pick it up, and increase your score.
Of course, different monsters gave different points, as stronger and harder to hit monsters gave more compared to the average ones.
Swish
Beast looks towards his left as he simply extends his hand to catch an arrow that was shot at him.
"What?!" A man hiding in a nearby tree exclaims as he looks at the relaxed Beast who was inspecting the arrow.
"That was honestly just bad man, you need to control your breathing more, not to mention that you were making noises the whole time you were in the tree, you almost scared off my prey," Beast says as he notches the arrow on his bow while looking at the location the man was located at.
"Wait, we c-" Before the man could finish his words an arrow was stuck in his throat as he starts choking on his own blood. The man falls down from the tree as Beast comes to him and takes the arrow out before dragging his body to the deer. He lifts the man up and slams him down on the antlers of the deer before slowly going to another location.
"That is already the third, does Goldilocks even have someone decent under him?" Beast mutters as he continues walking and searching for prey.
Laura was standing on a big branch of a tree as she used her ability to heal the animals located below her. Corpses of a dozen soldiers could be seen littering the forest soil as they had previously been massacred.
The monsters were slightly injured and healing was not really needed, but Laura didn't want to risk anything as she concentrated on healing them. Usually, healers would also use buffs and some protective spells in fights to help out their team and defend themselves, but she was different compared to them.
Her way of helping was through fighting as her ability gave her good potential for that. Healing herself and her teammates while fighting against enemies was not an easy task, that was something she learned from her previous trial. She needed to improve fast if she ever wanted to be truly helpful to Reign and the others, and the early stage of the second trial was a good place to start.
She looks up at the sky as she wonders how the others were doing at their trials. She had only met them yesterday, but she already considered them as people dear to her, especially Reign who had saved her from the demoness.
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