A few minutes had passed since Alicia, Chara and Redway defeated the abomination and they had at last arrived behind friendly lines, being protected by the knight squads holding the enemy of.
"Lieutenant Callir, report!" Redway shouted towards one of the knights stationed on the left side of the shield wall, hearing the captains words a man standing nearly a head taller than Chara appeared before them, his dirt blonde hair short paired with almond colored eyes. A small scruff on his chin showed his mature age.
"Captain Redway, we are holding back the enemy, but our troops don't have endless stamina, at least twenty dead, among them thirteen guards from town, and another fifteen injured. If we can't break their line soon they will overtake our defenses."
"We have taken out the eastern high-grade monster, and it seems prince Will and his allies have succeeded against the bear-like monster. Callir. Call over the eastern and western knight squads, Me, Chara, Elaine, Will and Magnus will lead the front charge, take your men and create an opening for us to breach through their lines."
"Alright captain. good luck on the hunt!" Callir saluted and rushed over to send knights to call back their troops. After only a few minutes Redway could finally see their remaining troops. All squads have suffered minor damage but the threatening past was stamina. He knew they had to act hastily before their men ran out of energy and are overrun. His thoughts however were interrupted by the approach of Will, Elaine and Magnus rushing behind their lines.
"Will, glad to see you alive!" Redway called out, getting a nod back Redway began relaying the information they had gathered from the squads. Will looked over the battlefield and contemplated their next set of attacks.
"You are right, our troops don't have endless stamina, and we don't have a proficient healer to mitigate the injuries. Lieutenant Callir and Lieutenant Dawson will lead the offensive, Chara and you will take on the wolf monster, look out for its speed and jaw. Preferably aim for its legs or shoulders." Will relayed the hastily thought of plan.
"Me and Magnus will continue the attack west and ambush the spider monster, I have battle against similar type of monsters up north." Will acknowledged. The prince looked over to the exhausted Elaine and Alicia and asked them to aid the knights in holding the line, getting nods in agreement he smiled and tightly clenched his swords.
"SOLDIERS!" Guards and Knights looked over for a second to listen to the foreign prince's words and continued holding back their enemy.
"VICTORY IS IN SIGHT, A FIELD OF BLOOD SHALL BE FILLED, A SKY OF THUNDER SHALL SHOUT OUR SUCCESS." Will raised his left hand into the air, the soldiers filled with hope and the voice felt like a protective blanket on their back.
"SOLDIERS OF SYBEN, KNIGHTS OF RUUN, GIVE ME BLOOD, GIVE ME FIRE, LEAD US TO VICTORY!" Will shouted his final words before rushing towards the arachnid to the left, Magnus slightly behind him. Seeing and hearing the princes words caused their line to shout in fervor as their battle intent grew and the began to push back harder, leaving two openings for the two groups right to the high-grade enemies. As they rushed forward a searing pain erupted from Will's shoulder blade as a white light engulfed his entire body and out of the light a silver wolf, around two meter in height and four meter in length appeared from thin air, rushing beside Will. Shocked for a moment he could innately sense his companion.
"Fimbel!" Will called out happily seeing his wolf finally grown up.
"Glad to see you again Chosen, I have followed your battle and I have come to help you!" The wold spoke telepathically into Will's mind.
Nodding the two men and the wolf rushed forward and arrived in front of the giant spider. Adorned with eight razor sharp legs and eight glistening red eyes the color of blood inspected them. Its jaw opened up like a bear trap and a scattering of inhuman noises filled their ears.
"Magnus you take the right side, me and Fimbel will hold it in place!" Will called out.
Hearing the command Magnus rushed forward and dashed to the right, dodging one of the legs trying to slam down on his body. Will rushed forward during this time and clashed his left-held sword against the front leg, but the sword didn't budge as sword met leg with a clash of steel.
"Damn, tougher than I thought." Will muttered as he approached the underbelly trying to make a similar kill like the bear monster before. His plans was interrupted by several legs rushing towards him trying to impale him into the ground, fast thinking made him dodge to the left and seeing the massive spider legs passing by he knew they wouldn't be able cut through its steel like appendages. Noticing the bulging abdomen behind its head he called out to Magnus to gain its attention once again.
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"You know Will, either they pay has to be good, or the plan is water proof. And I know damn well you don't have any money. Let's try it!" Magnus called back as he rushed back and appeared beside Will and Fimbel. Magnus began rushing towards the monster's front legs and slashed in a wide arc, slamming the axe into one of the joints on the left leg. A shrill voice came from the spider's mouth as it began focusing on Magnus' body, slamming its legs downwards trying to pin him in place. Rushing beside the massive body Fimbel began slashing against the spider's body but its claws couldnt penetrate the thick body. Whistling to gain Fimbel's attention Will pointed up towards the monsters back, seeing his master's plan Fimbel rushed towards Will and caught him gently in his jaw, flinging him up on his large silver fur back.
"Let's go!" Will shouted as they headed towards the back of the spider and with a leap the wold pounced forward and with the momentum Will jumped of and clutched his body to the large abdomen on top of the spider, sensing something wrong the spider began shaking and slamming down on the ground trying to get this foreign thing of its body. Will however held on strong and sheathed his right hand sword, leaving him with his longsword, gripping the hilt with both hands he slammed his whole body down into the monster's back. As blood spurted from the wound Will could feel the muscles and tendons inside and before the spider could do anything Will jumped forward and with the downward momentum slammed his whole bodyweight and sword into the spiders skull. A deathly shriek erupted from the monster as it slumped down, dead. Seeing the dead body of their foe laying on the ground Magnus took a short breath as he looked over the standing body of Will jumping of the spider's back to the ground.
"You know Will, someday your actions will get you killed." Magnus called out as Will unsheathed his sword and walked towards the last remaining spawn, seeing around fifty or so he knew that they had a good change of surviving another day.
"It hasn't happened yet old friend, and I don't plan on visit the lady any time soon." Will chuckled as he began moving towards the enemy, Magnus gripped his battle axe and began rushing behind Will with Fimbel beside them.
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On the eastern side Chara and Redway were deep in battle with the wolf-like monster. They had tried several times to approach on its side but its speed surpassed them and they couldn't get a proper hit.
"This fucker won't stay still." Chara exclaimed to one, dodging to the right as one of the monster's leg tried to slash her with its massive claws. Her stamina was quickly depleting but her thoughts were interrupted by the sudden roar of the wolf as she could see Redway slamming his sword into its side, the blade cut several centimeters into its side, Chara smiled as she thought they had successfully killed the enemy, but her joy turned to horror as she saw that Redway didn't react in time as the wolf pushed back and slammed its massive body into the captain, flinging him several meters back as his body slumped down, motionless.
"YOU FUCKER!!!" Chara screamed out in anger as she grit her teeth in anger and her legs pushed into the ground, her body moved on its own as she pushed forward, embers surrounded her body as her mana surged inside her and moved towards her arms and legs. Her speed caused the surrounding dirt and dust to fling in the air, her body rushed forward as she nearly instantly appeared before the monster's head, her sword clenched tightly with both hands as she slashed sideways in a wide arch. The speed and momentum slammed into the monster's head as her blade cut straight through the monster's jaw. cleaving the mouth in two, leaving the upper part still intact but the whole lower part dropped to the ground. Chara's legs and arms screamed in pain as she gritted her teeth, not wanting to scream out in pain. Panting in exhaustion she knew she had to get the killing blow soon. She tried several time to lift her dangling sword but her arms screamed out in pain, not moving the blade a centimeter from the ground.
"fuck.fuck. FUCK!!" Chara screamed in her mind as she saw the limping wolf slowly moving towards her, trying to move her body screamed in pain as her still standing body didn't budge no matter her want to escape. As the wolf appeared before her Chara shut her eyes, her final thoughts of her allies at home, the knights of Ruun, her idiot brother that only thought of honor, and finally on Alicia.
"If only she was here, I wanted to tell her..." Chara had accepted death but a sudden voice, a familiar one that she thought would never appear again.
"THUNDERSTEP!" Chara turned her aching head as a wave of lightning and sparks flew beside her and a female woman, dressed in a beautiful blue dress, bandages covered her arms and eyes stood in front of the wolf, her right arm holding the familiar book and in her left raised hand the familiar sword she had used this whole time tightly clenched in her grasp. She followed the hand and sword and saw the blade deeply penetrated into the wolf skull, its eyes rolled back as its massive body slumped down, dead on the ground. Her shock subsided as she could see the faintly smiling Alicia standing before her, sword and book in hand, as her body swayed and slumped down.
Chara didn't know how but her body pushed through the pain, her body moving on its own as it slowly moved towards the slumped woman before her. Alicia sensed her knight's body on top of her as Chara's energy dropped to zero and slumped down beside her.
"H-How?" Chara asked, her voice trembled in shock and soreness.
"A knight also needs to be rescued sometimes." Alicia chuckled as her eyelids grew heavy and unconsciousness took over. Chara looked over the sleeping body of Alicia and chuckled back.
"This idiot liege of mine." Chara thought to herself as the familiar darkness took over and her consciousness faded away.