'It appears that the defender/owners of this land are some amazing looking saber-toothed . '
Dan and his beast folk followers could freely witness the opponents of the forest widow spiders at this time.
At the moment, about ten tiger like shadows jumped out of the forest and proceeded to tear down every low stage forest widow spiders at the front lines of the horde that where closest to the forrest and their sharp claw.
Left and right one after the other low stage forest widow spider started to die almost every few seconds.
A massacre, parts flying everywhere
The Spiked Forest Widow Spider Queen, seeing the massacre of its children, was infuriated , wanting to tear the perpetrators apart inch by inch.
Another loud screech was released from her, filled with anger.
From what happened next , it is clear to any observer that the loud screech was an order for the spiders to pursue the blue striped tigers and kill them at any cost.
The spiked forest widow spiders that could pose a treat to the tigers where currently in the back of the army , so it took quite a while for them to reach the front of the horde, some spiders might have gotten in the way and died unnecessary deaths .
In the mean time the white blue striped tigers delivered a massacre among the front line, filled with low stage forest widow spiders, what else could be the result.
As soon as the stronger spiders were about to reach a close area to start a battle, the tigers chose a strategic retreat back into the forrest.
By the time the mid-stage widow forest spiders arrived at the foot of the mountain , they had no targets to hunt, but the area had a mountain of low stage forest widow spider corpses.
'hmm , looks like those saberthoot are smart, they should have a good leader commanding in the back, probably the source of the ear deafening roar' thought dan to himself
Once again the forest widow spider queen was enraged, the mid - stage forest widow spiders where about to enter the forest in pursuit of the tigers , but they where soon stopped by the rage filled screech that came from their queen .
starting a war and already loosing a couple of hundred soldiers without bringing harm to your enemy. Who would be able to stay calm in such a situation, especially a blood thirsty beast.
"has it learned the lesson ,? will the mother queen plan out her next attack well, or will she blindly charge forward again?"
Said Dan while surprised that the spider queen has ordered the mid-stage spiders to stop their pursuit in the forest.
While dan kept observing and pondering to himself , on the battlefield , the spider queen continued with her stupid actions, or at least dan thinks that that way , but considering it is just an evolved wild beast , it is acceptable.
On the oder hand his curiosity was attracted more towards the forest and the intelligent beast that was commanding the beautiful white coloured blue striped tigers.
Above the battle ground, the forest widow spider queen changed her tactics, from the looks of it.
she gathered all the spiders next to her, surrounding herself with a layer of the strongest mid-stage mutated fourteen spiked forest widow spiders , the rest of the normal mid stage spiders where the next two layers of defence while the remaining low stage forest widow spiders where positioned towards the forest
As soon as the queen was done with the preparations , which took about three minutes. she started marching forward ,this time the army of spiders didn't sprint forward towards the forest , but proceeded to march at a low pace as a whole group, from the looks of it, noting came out of the forest, at the roots of the mountain , allowing for no disturbances to the spider army.
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Shaking his head side to side in a disapproving manner , dan pondered to himself 'altho i applaud your strategy to stay as group , is it really a good idea to fight in an unfamiliar terrain , against opponents that you have little to no information on ?, from your actions, i am guessing that you don't know anything about them tigers. '
Obviously by now dan readily predicted that the forest widow spiders might never set foot out of the mountain forest.
'looks like i am gonna need to enter that area now , if i want to further observe what is happening and find out more information on those awesome looking tigers or sabre-toothed creatures .'
Dan was very surprised by the actions of these tiger, without even noticing, deep down subconsciously, he already had desire for them.
With that thought in mind dan went down from the tree he was observing from and sprinted in a curve like trajectory around the back of the spider hoard to the other side and entered the forest at the foot of the mountain side, on the right, about 500 meters away from where the forest widow spiders where currently still entering.
Once Dan was under the cover of the tree branches and leaves, he proceeded to follow the rear of the forest widow spiders army.
Since the outer layer of the forest widow spider army is composed of the low-stage forest widow spiders which provided a perfect opportunity for dan to sneak closer and observe without being found out .
While he was doing so , his newly acquired followers, Akirigera and his scouts proceeded with the earlier order to scout the area and keep an eye out for anything strange,and to inform their new leader, that way he could adjust his plans according to the situation, as safety is a priority at the moment, after all who would want to lose what he just acquired? but more importantly, a leader needs to prioritise his people, above short term benefit or monetary riches .
As for the forest widow spider queen, she was observing the fight that was currently happening in front of her, which had commenced a few seconds ago.
At the foot of the mountain that was covered by the beautiful emerald canopy, a massacre was currently being conducted under it, splashing the ground with more green than it needs. (their blood is green if i am not mistaken)
The blue striped tigers where currently killing every forest widow spider with their powerful claws, some of them even killing more than one spider with a single wind claw attack.
The blue striped tigers where strong, fast and could manipulate the energy in their body to produce powerful and magical strikes that decimated the front lines of the spiked forest widow spider queens spider horde , even thou they where outnumbered the forest spider queen didn't seem to mind that her children where perishing left and right, a complete different attitude than what she expressed a few minutes ago .
The battle continued without her interference
By now it had been close to an hour since the battle started, the blue striped tigers took out more than half of the spider by now
In these forty minutes dan noticed that the blue striped tigers weren't just strong , but also wise and intelligent.
While the forest widow spider queen was using the hoard wave tactic, i.e. by constantly sending her week children to their death to exhaust the tigers stamina and energy , and than attack with her elite forces for an easy kill. she could always produce or capture more weak spiders on a later date.
in retaliation , the tigers replied with their own ingenuity. The blue striped tigers where powerful , fast and few of them could take out multiple spiders with a single wind claw attack.
so they used this to their advantage , the tigers used the guerilla warfare method, in groups of three and five, separately.
the group of three would be composed of one blue striped tiger that could use the wind claw attack and two others assisting the main attack power, Dan had observed around 12 twelve such groups, that worked in rotation, a good tactic to keep your troops from loosing stamina.
and the same like the previous group, the group of five tigers also worked in rotation, even thou they had bigger number in this group they still were not as efficient as the smaller group , showing just how powerful the smaller group is, about 6 six of such groups where currently on the battle field.
'guerilla tactics combined with elite soldiers, it indeed is a beautiful combination '
a smile was plastered on his face, he didn't notice.
and trough these last three hours the tigers continued to reduce the numbers of the forest widow spiders without suffering any casualties.
That doesn't mean that their numbers did not reduce, on the contrary , they where getting tired/exhausted, and by this point in time, less than half where still fighting while the rest retreated in the forest because of exhaustion. and yet still no tiger had died, altho some did suffer some damages ranging from deep cuts to holes that didn't stop bleeding.
Noticing them tigers getting tired and the reducing in numbers , the spiked forest widow spider queen finally changed her current tactic, she charged to the frontline with her powerful guards and elite forces of about two hundred strong.
Once Dan saw this action, he was certain that the spider queens tactic was to exhaust the tigers and than to go for the kill when they have no stamina to put up a strong resistance, leading to an easy kill , albeit a big loss of personnel.
'why doesn't she care for them ? is a question with a ton of answers i guess' sigh
unknown to her, the spider forest widow queen fell into a trap.
Charging forwards, the queen could already foresee her victory over the magnificent tigers, after all, the bodies of these tigers will provide her with energy rich meat helping her with increasing her spider elites .