Haniel TGV – Ch. 3 War Began

Time passed by, the war began. One of the Askia plain…

The sun rises from the east as our troops began to march.

I wore a white armor which my late foster father have crafted for me while I concealed it using my long black cloak. By my side was the sword that accompanied me all this time, they call it blue dragon fang.

I feel confident in defeating the high orc groups but I’m a little nervous inside. This is the first time that I will lead thousands of troops, my blood is boiling. I’m agitated.

My muscles are slightly twitching, I don’t know. Maybe, it’s adrenaline rush kicking inside me.

“Master, Leader Tarusa has already arrived in his position.”

Akaila said while holding an orb. She looks beautiful even in her set of black combat suit.

“Okay. Tell him to hold his position and engage when the enemy start to notice something wrong. We’ll wait for Kaizer to light up the signal.”

“Also tell Gamian to intercept enemies’ communication signal now and activate the isolation array as soon as the signal light up.”

I climbed at the tallest tree and look at the plain, I can see that the enemies were still not attentive. Five guards stood not far away from me. They were my hand picked subordinates, outstanding in their own ways.

As I look at our enemy base, one look and I can tell that their base was easy to be attacked, it was mostly made of woods and some stones.

There’s no defensive array or walls with formation. They only have earth formation and a fence made of thorny woods.

I can tell that they only care about is the stability of the ground, stable enough to hold their large built.

The watchers and their patrols look timid. Maybe because they didn’t think that enemies will come during this early morning. It’s a good chance for us.

They thought that no enemies will dare to attack them at their territory.

It’s normal to think that because as high orcs, they have advantage fighting in plains.

With their large built accompanied by their strength and defense they instill fear to their enemies, how much more in this wide open area where they fight best and showcase their brute strength.

In addition to that they have many separated dens outside their main camp not too far from them, it acts as a vanguard and reinforcement at the same time. With this they believed that no one in their right mind would attack them.

But they are mistaken, we have come prepared.

We will use our isolation array and divide them to conquer.

This time our surprise attack will succeed and their advantage will be their downfall.

As time goes on the deafening silence affect our mood, I feel that the tension in our troops were rising.

It’s normal because our enemies were high orcs. Even though we will launch a surprise attack many lives will be lost here.

Some were nervous but most of them were full of fighting spirit. No one wants to die. We have to do our best and clean the battlefield as fast as we can.

“Master, look! That’s the signal!”

Pointing at the north, the smokes are rising.

“Tell Gamian to activate the array. Don’t let anyone or anything slip by.”

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The signal has been lit. I ordered the troops to attack. In a while, orders were being carried in the battlefield.

“Vanguards, line up.”

“Archers ready your bow.”

“Magicians! Attack! Bombard them with spells!”

“Archers, release your arrows.”

“Argh… Enemies!”

“We are under attacked!”

“Ahhhh!”

“ATTACK! DON’T STOP!”

“Don’t let them retaliate!”

The deafening silence were replaced by deafening explosion of magic spells and cries of war.

Rain of fire, frost spears, thunderbolt and all kinds of elemental spells followed by rain of arrows, the high orcs even with high defense can’t retaliate fast. Their numbers kept decreasing but the war has just began.

“We only killed the few lower ones, there will be elites soon.”

Just as I thought, the higher ones have arrived.

“ROAR!”

With just one roar, the morale of the orcs rised!

It also affects our magicians and caused some mental damaged. The roar stops our magicians from bombarding spells.

A high level high orcs have appeared together with its group of elite, a leader class.

He's the leader of this messed up troops.

A giant high orc holding a totem that was as thick as a tree came out and allowed the orcs to regroup.

“The orcs are regrouping. Vanguard assemble. MOVE!”

“Archers support the vanguards.”

“Healers heal the magicians fast.”

While I watched at the rear, Gecko supervise and lead the attack from the front.

We outnumber the high orcs and we are winning on our side but their elites were still watching at the side while the messed up orcs were trying to regroup.

I suddenly felt that there is something wrong.

“Akaila, what is the situation on the other sides?”

“Master, Leader Tarusa were on stand still with the 5 leaders of the high orcs.”

“While at Leader Kaizer’s side, they succesfully killed 1 leader and they were now intercepted by 3 leaders.”

“They have 13 leaders at your report. But we only see 10 leaders now. The high orc king is still missing, maybe he is waiting for an ambush to turn the tides. We don’t know where he would appear.”

“Send them a message to be careful. I’ll personally lead the attack now if needed. We need to finish this before their reinforcements arrive.”

It's been a long time since I last fought, I look at the battlefield and stare at the distance. I have a feeling that the High Orc King will definitely come here.

“Be careful Master.”

The war goes on, I observed the battlefield.

With our consistent ranged attacks we are winning and almost no casualties on our side but if our isolation array broke down we will be in a difficult position. Because the enemies’ reinforcement might pincer one our attacking groups.

Alas, the orcs have successfully regrouped. They were now in a defensive formation and buying time.

They built a defensive wall that look like a shelter with their heavy large shields.

Our ranged attacks will not work now with their sturdy defense. We need to engage in melee combat now if we want to destroy their defensive stance.

And with their defensive stance they definitely didn’t think of attacking. I think they were waiting for something.

“Master if our situation continues our magicians will definitely exhaust first before we exhaust our enemies. Should we tell Leader Gecko to…”

One of the five guards behind me, step up and he reminded me but I interrupted him,

“It’s not time. Gecko knows what he is doing. Let’s just watch for a while.”

Suddenly Gecko ordered our magicians to stop attacking and the troops made way for him. He left our cavalry troops and move forward himself.

He tied his long black hair hanging loose while he sits on the back of his dark horse carrying dozens of spear.

His looks was noticeable since he was a dark elf. He will stands out even with the elven race.

As he move forward with his mighty looking horse, he release his bloodthirsty aura that overwhelm the orcs.

He looks intimidating that even the leader of the high orcs and their elites can’t help but frown.

The bloodthirsty aura surprised them and at the same time their aura was released too changing the atmosphere.

I feel the tension rising in the air with Gecko’s each step moving forward. Both of our troops and the enemies would bare their fangs and blade with each other any moment.

After arriving at the front, Leader Gecko steps down from his horse and gets one of the spears tied in his black horse.

The troops fall back while Leader Gecko shouted,

“I HEARD THAT HIGH ORCS LOVE TO BATTLE!”

“THEY SAID THAT THERE’S NO COWARD WITHIN THE HIGH ORCS!”

“I CHALLENGE NOW THE MIGHTY LEADER OF THE HIGH ORCS IN A DUEL, DO YOU DARE TO ACCEPT MY CHALLENGE?!”

“OR ARE YOU GOING TO HIDE BETWEEN YOUR FATHER’S 4SS?”

“HAHAHAHA!”

“PVSSY! HIGH ORCS!”

“PVSSY! HIGH ORCS!”

Each booming words reverberated in the battlefield that orcs can’t help but bare their fangs as the laughter of our troops made it hard for them to accept. Together with the chant of our troops they grit their teeth as bloods came out.

“GRUGRUGRU!”

“VERY WELL! SINCE YOU WANT TO DIE BADLY!”

“I ACCEPT YOUR CHALLENGE!”

The Leader of the high orcs step up and appeared with his fully armored body. His large built was like two orcs combined. He jumps high going to the center of the open field to battle Gecko.

But as he jumps in the air he suddenly got goosebumps all over his skin. Danger aprroached him.