Chapter 23 Chapter 22 The Scenes of Hell

The majestic steed rushed over like a storm, bravely carrying its owner towards the enemy leader.The bear goblins stood up to block the knight, but Temeresa ducked his head and rushed straight through their encirclement, knocking them apart like fallen leaves. Temeresa staggered, entangled in one of the fallen creatures.From the hidden undergrowth shot a trident, piercing Temeresa's flank, stopping the steed's charge entirely.Temeresa fell heavily, hissing and twitching from the poison on the tip of the vile weapon. Abeles broke free and looked back in amazement at his steed gradually becoming still.

When the elf prince looked around, he found that the ground between himself and Ragnor was empty. "Come on, elf," spat the half-ogre, recognizing Abereth's fight with it before. "I defeated you once, and I will kill you this time!" Ragnol raised his foot and kicked the corpse of the elf next to him, further provoking his opponent. Although the half-beast ogre was extremely confident, he was taken aback by Aberes's fierce charge.Aberes' sword slashed angrily, and blocked Ragnor, and after the half-beast ogre narrowly avoided the first blow, he stubbornly slashed again.

"I'm going to avenge my father!" Abeles yelled, slashing sideways with his sword. The confident Ragnol smiled wickedly.The elf king is this kid's father?Ragueno has gained a lot today! Abeles' furious attacks flooded in like a tide, while Ragueno remained on the defensive.Half-orcs have experienced many battles and know that angry attacks are not long-lasting, and their strength will be exhausted quickly.At that point, it was Ragnor's turn to attack. ※※※ Cadderly hadn't seen any fighting going on, and he passed through many freshly battered places along the way.Trees that had been chopped down and deformed, and the bodies of those who died in battle were all around him.The wail of the dying is like a ventriloquist death game with so many bodies that young scholars can no longer tell which cry comes from where.

A goblin grabbed his ankle as he passed.Intuition told him that he should shoot a crossbow at the monster, but he immediately realized that the goblin's eyes had been cut blind by the sword, and he was on the verge of death. It just grabbed him out of fear and didn't want to attack at all. the meaning of.Cadderly wrenched his foot from its grasp and staggered away, lacking both the courage to finish the creature and the time to tend to its mortal wound. In the distance, a walking tree stumbled and was buried by the bodies of hundreds of monsters.Most of these monsters were dead, entangled in the branches that clung to them, but those that were not were still hacking ferociously at the stumbled oak.An elf rushed to help the tree, knocking down two orcs before being overwhelmed and torn to pieces by other monsters.

Cadderly didn't know where to flee, or what to do.For the scholar had lived his whole life in the shade and safety of the library, and these sights were hell to him. He heard a soft cry from a nearby tree, and saw Hamadin standing at the trunk, his shoulders shaking with sobs. From the shadows came the groan of a dying goblin; and in the unknown distance, a scream pierced the air. Cadderly started running, skirting the monsters who were still chopping down the fallen trees.He wanted to find a hole to hide, but he knew that if he stopped, he would die. He walked through a thick birch grove—the one they had avoided on their way to Hildrett Woods, he guessed—and came to a patch of chest-high blueberry trees dotted with with a few trees.Suddenly, however, the war was on Cadderly's side.In the woods on the opposite side of the land, a group of goblins were trying to break through the tight defense line composed of many elven archers, and there were also a few warriors rolling around in several places in the blueberry tree, but all of them were within Cadderly's sight. outside.

He could hear them, though, and saw the bushes shake with the fierce battle in them. Cadderly made his way across, down a slope, to the back of the hill.There, he was so overwhelmed by another scene that he couldn't move. "God Denir!" murmured the stunned young scholar, barely realizing what he was saying.Cadderly had seen ogres before and had nearly fainted from the size of the monstrosity, but now he saw a giant for the first time in his life.It was almost twice as tall as an ogre, and, Cadderly guessed, probably ten times as heavy as an ogre.This made Cadderly, standing under its shadow, extremely small indeed!

Fortunately, the giant had his back turned to Cadderly, and was busy collecting stones, presumably to throw at the elves in the woods.If Cadderly had been smart enough, he would have sneaked over, but his reaction had scared him out of his wits. He shot an arrow at the giant's back. "Hey!" the monster roared, rubbing its burning butt, and turning around.Realizing his blunder, Cadderly had already begun to flee, only turning his head once to fire another arrow.The arrow hit the monster's chest, but the giant barely frowned at the explosion. Cadderly ducked his head and fled towards the shelter of the woods, hoping the elf wouldn't mistake him for an orc and shoot him an arrow.

He didn't look back at the giant, because he guessed correctly—it was coming. The giant laughed foolishly, thinking it would be easy to catch the human.But when the two dwarf brothers jumped out of the nearby bushes, its expression changed drastically.One dwarf hacked into its hind hamstring with an ax; another slammed it in the kneecap with a wooden club. The giant turned and fell to the ground, and while it was still shaking from the force of the fall, Stoneshoulders jumped on top of it. "It's a good place up there!" Ivan said to Pikel, driving the ax into the giant's neck.

"Ooh!" Pikel agreed heartily, hitting the giant with his trunk-like club on the back of the giant's head. "Was it Cadderly who just ran past?" Ivan asked, and Pikel looked towards the dark bushes, then nodded. "What a trap!" Ivan roared.The conversation broke off abruptly, as a group of orcs stomped through the undergrowth toward the exposed dwarf brothers. A dazzling light flashed through the shadows.Cadderly heard some goblins howling, and then spotted the lightning elf, a familiar and friendly face. "Tintag!" he cried, rushing to the elven magician.

"Hello, young priest!" the blue-eyed elf replied sincerely. "Have you seen Abeles?" Cadderly shook his head. "I've only just been here," he explained. "Dorrigen has been struck down." He showed the ring he had pulled from the mage's hand, and the wand at his waist. "These might be a little—" "Squat!" Tinteg yelled, pushing Cadderly aside as a spear narrowly brushed their sides.The elf threw out a hand and said a spell.Magical lightning full of energy erupted from his fingertips, passed accurately between the trees, and drilled behind a huge tree trunk.On the other side, a dead bear goblin fell, its hairy body scorched in several places by magical lightning.

"Aberes," the magician said to Cadderly again, "I must find him, because I hear he is fighting Ragnor!" "He is." The dryad's voice sounded musical from one side. "Where are they?" Cadderly demanded, moving toward Hamadin.The dryad backed away timidly, leaning her back against the tree, and Cadderly guessed she wanted to run away. "Please don't go," the young scholar pleaded, softening his voice so as not to startle the easily frightened creature. "You must tell us, Hamaddin. The fate of Simista is in your hands." Harmadin neither answered nor moved, and Cadderly struggled to make out her shape through the bark. "Coward!" Cadderly growled at her. "You say you are a friend to the trees, but you do nothing when they need you most!" Then he closed his eyes and focused on the dryad. Hiding in the tree.As he tuned his senses to the tree, many wonderful and uncanny sensations came to him, and he discovered an escape route that the tree secretly opened for Hamadin. "No!" Cadderly roared, throwing himself at the tree with his thoughts. To Cadderly's surprise, the dryad reappeared suddenly, looking back at the tree as if it had betrayed her. "They're fighting in a beech forest not far to the southwest," the dryad said to Tinteg. "Do you know where that is?" "Yes." Tintag replied, glancing at Cadderly."What the hell did you do?" he asked after the easily frightened dryad ran away. Cadderly stood there dumbfounded, not knowing how to answer. The elven magician was well acquainted with the forest, which was his home.He began to mentally frame the image of the beech forest, then recalled another spell. "Cover me," he said to Cadderly, and the young scholar nodded, knowing that magicians were defenseless when casting spells.Cadderly loaded the cartridge with one of the two remaining arrow points and loaded the crossbow to shoot. A flashing door appeared in front of Tinteg, similar to the one Cadderly had seen Dorigen step through earlier.Cadderly heard a familiar grinding sound as a nearby bear goblin raised its spear. The young scholar turned quickly, took aim, ducked behind a few bushes, and fired an arrow that blasted the creature straight out from behind the bushes.There was no elation in Cadderly's heart, and his satisfaction soon faded, for when he turned back, he saw Tintag lay there, heavy with the spear in his back. Cadderly yelled at him, clutching the elf close to him, and then, having nowhere to go, he went forward, leading Tintag into the portal of light. ※※※ The giant groaned loudly, and Pikel briefly pulled away from his fight with a Uruk, just in time to smash the head of the fallen monster.The Uruk saw that his opponent was distracted, and decided to jump on the giant's back.But Pikel's club came halfway, knocking it some distance and falling in a heap. The dwarf brothers fought back to back, just as they had done in Dorigen's camp: fighting on top of an orc corpse.It's just that this time the dwarf brothers are at a higher position, standing higher than the opponent's orcs, so these monsters have to climb a long way to beat their enemies.Half of the team of ten orcs had died beside the giant, and none of these monsters could get close to the dwarf. The Stone Shoulders brothers enjoyed this feeling very much. There was a commotion in the nearby woods, and both the dwarves and the orcs glanced that way.Danica ran out like a gust of wind, followed by an enemy mix of orcs, goblins, and bear goblins.Two of the orcs who had fought the dwarf brothers broke away from the fight and went to hold her back. One arrow landed in the chest of one of them, and another arrived just inches behind.The remaining orc made the mistake of looking sideways, at the elf girl in the shadows of the woods. Danica flew through the air, feet forward, hitting the distracted orc with a double kick.It was kicked away, disappeared among the blueberry bushes, and was never seen again. In an instant Danica was back on her feet and started running. "I'll help you clear the way!" Ivan promised, and jumped off the giant, landing right between the two orcs.Swinging his ax left and right, he quickly delivered on his promise. "Nice to meet you, Miss Danica!" Ivan said, extending a thick-knuckle hand toward her.Together they went back to join Pikel who was pounding the last Uruk.The newly appeared enemy was not far behind, but when this group of mixed legions rushed forward, they found that the team was getting thinner and thinner, because the arrows kept flying out of the woods, hitting the target one after another. "It's Xuelin," Danica explained to her admiring dwarf brother. "Glad she's on our side," Ivan commented.While he was speaking, another arrow flew out and hit a goblin in the side of the head, causing it to fall dead on the spot. "We can't stay here long," Danica told the dwarf brothers. "This whole district is in chaos. Goblins and giants seem to be everywhere!" "How are the trees doing?" Ivan asked. "Yeah!" Pikel chimed in excitedly. "The trees did great damage to the enemy," Danica replied, "but they were few in number and dwindling, for some fell and some fought the enemy's fire. The elves scattered, And, I'm afraid many of them are already dead." "Then hurry back to the woods!" Ivan roared, jumping off the giant again, and rushed towards a group of approaching enemies.He rushed back and forth with such ferocity that most of the monsters turned and fled, only a few remained to fight him.Danica nearly laughed, then drew her short sword, slashed into the nearest enemy target, and charged forward.Pikel passed her and joined Ivan. It took them only a few minutes to get back into the woods. ※※※ Cadderly came out from the other side of the light gate Tinteg had made and loaded the last arrow point.He carefully lowered the wounded elf to the ground, and immediately spotted Abereth and Ragnor.They were just a few yards away, fighting furiously. He saw Galandale too, dead at their feet. Cadderly had no doubts about where to shoot this final arrow, and told himself that he would feel no sadness if he could blow a hole in Ragnor's ugly face. However, a charging bear goblin forced Cadderly to change his plans. The young scholar had no time to think about what he was doing, but turned and shot the point of the arrow into the hairy creature's stomach, which was only a step away from him.The bear goblin wobbled violently, staggered past him, and fell face down on the ground. Cadderly looked over to Tintag, who lay helpless, twisted in pain.He wanted to attend to the elven magician, at least to get the spear out of Tinteg's side, but it was clear to him that Abereth had no defense against the mighty goblin. "I swore to fight to the death with you," the young scholar whispered.He thought for a moment whether to dig into his bag, pull out the container of impact oil, and try to make another arrow point, but realized he didn't have time for that.Cadderly had no choice but to drop his useless crossbow and take out his cane and frisbee, thinking that these things would look ridiculous in the face of a powerful enemy like Ragnor.He repeated the oath he had sworn to Abeles, and rushed to the side of the elf prince. Spotting Cadderly charging up, Abereth asked breathlessly, "Why are you here?" The elf ducked quickly to avoid a sharp slash from Ragnor's heavy sword, the goblin One of the few retaliations that the devil has ever fired back. Cadderly knew immediately how the spar was going.Aberes was visibly exhausted, barely breathing, and Raguenor bore a number of small bruises, none of which were deep or severe enough. "I said I'd fight with you," Cadderly replied.He took a step forward, swung his cane, and threw the Frisbee out.Ragueno blocked the blow with his forearm, eyeing the strange but apparently useless weapon curiously. "You have a strong helper, Elf Prince." The half-ogre laughed mockingly.Cadderly struck again with the Frisbee, and the half-ogre didn't even bother to lift his hand this time, just letting it hit his chest, laughing all the time. Then Abeles leapt forward deftly, slashing back and forth with his exquisite sword, sometimes stabbing straight through.Ragnor clearly cared about the weapon, and while the half-ogre was focused on fighting it, Cadderly grabbed his staff with both hands and hit Ragnor on the elbow. The goblin ogre flinched in pain. "You'll die an ugly death!" it snarled at Cadderly, angrily parrying several of Abereth's tempting slashes. "Very ugly!" Cadderly looked at his weapons as if they had deceived him.He knew that he couldn't really hurt Ragueno, no matter how accurately he hit the target, but he also knew that for Aberez's sake, he had to make some use of himself in this fight. He waited, watching the ebb and flow of the fight, and remained in the rear, hoping that Ragnol's attention would be diverted to him at least a little for the next moment. But even if Raguenor cared about the young scholar a little bit, it didn't show it. Abereth's sword spun around Ragnor's, and thrust forward, sinking into the goblin's arm.Ragnor roared, but if Aberes is the more agile swordsman, then Ragnor is the stronger one.The goblin ogre continued to attack, slashing with its huge broadsword.It struck Abereth's shield with such force that it split in two and Abereth fell to the ground. Cadderly knew he had to act now, or watch the elf prince cut in two.He threw his staff to the ground, screamed ferociously, took two steps toward Ragnor, and jumped onto the half-ogre's arms.He held onto it tenaciously, with his arms wrapped around the half-beast ogre's neck, and his feet were tightly hooked on one of Ragnol's legs. Cadderly was not a small or weak man, but the strong Ragnor walked all the way to the elf, barely shaking.The half-ogre looked to the side in disbelief, and Cadderly held on as hard as he could. Ragnor could have killed Cadderly then, but Abereth jumped up and came back to attack immediately.As Cadderly scratched and pulled, drawing most of Raguenor's attention, Abereth's slash hit more times. "Get down!" roared the goblin ogre.It knocked Abereth back with a powerful blow, then grabbed Cadderly's with its other hand, keeping the young scholar's grip from it.Ragnor's strength was terrifying, and all of a sudden Cadderly found himself flying through the air.