"Always pay attention to the movements around you!" Roland raised his lance and reminded them. No one dared to underestimate the orcs hiding in the dark. In this place shrouded in darkness and evil for a thousand years, their perception was suppressed to the lowest level and they were in danger of being ambushed at any time.
"Your Highness! This is not a suitable place for knights to lead the way!" said the captain of the Royal Guard.
"Indeed, we are rushing too fast and may be surrounded by orcs. We need to clear the streets and houses along the way one by one. The most important thing is that we must keep the knights' fighting spirit full. It is unrealistic to maintain a state of glory all the time!" Omsk nodded.
"Then the knights will stay behind to provide support, the Royal Guards will be in the front, and Elnino's Rangers will be in the middle!" Roland said readily.
"Be careful!" A team of 10 royal guards came to a dark doorway along the wall. When the leading royal guard was about to go in, he was grabbed by the people behind him.
"Stab!" A sharp spear lashed out from behind, the gushing battle energy forming a spear beam nearly three meters long, plunging straight into the darkness...
"Ah!" Several shrill roars were heard, followed by a stream of purple-black blood flowing out from the cracks in the rocks.
"Orcs! Torches!" As the cry rang out, several torches fell into the darkness, illuminating the stone house.
I saw several fully armed orcs lurking here, but two of them were unlucky enough to be hit by the royal guards' instant stab. One of them was directly pierced through the chest and abdomen, and a half-meter-long wound appeared on his torso, and his whole body was "empty". The other orc had his left leg cut off by the sharp spear of war energy, and the wailing sounds just now were obviously from his mouth.
"laugh!"
"puff!"
After several of the inrushing royal guards stabbed them randomly, the orcs were freed one after another, leaving behind only a few remains full of holes and blood on the ground, telling of the brutality of the Lagrang people.
"Roar!" The large stone slab beside the road was suddenly opened, and a group of orcs jumped out. The orcs who appeared in the team in an instant made everyone pause, and then the Lagran soldiers with extremely high combat skills reacted one after another. An Elnino ranger dropped the bow and arrow in his hand, drew the rune blade on his back, and chopped off the head of an orc. The headless corpse suddenly rushed forward a few steps before twitching weakly and falling to the ground.
"Kill them all!" El Nino's rangers reacted one after another. They all abandoned the longbows that were a burden in close combat. The longbows that were enough to hunt dragons could only serve as their death warrants in close combat. The reliable Rune Blades on their backs were their most trustworthy friends.
"Protect the king!" The Royal Guards had a different focus from them. Ranger El Nino, who was eager to attack, was thinking about how to kill the attacking enemy, while the Royal Guards stood in front of Roland at the first moment.
"Don't block them! Kill them!" Roland stared in shock at the giant tortoise-shell formation that suddenly formed before him, and wordlessly gave orders to the Royal Guards. These fools had actually immediately locked the brave El Nino Rangers outside the shield formation...
"Bang, bang, bang!" The royal guards who reacted showed no mercy and charged forward with their large shields. The clear sound of broken bones made Roland's heart tighten. He suddenly had the illusion that an orc was hit by a train. When the royal guards passed him, only a bloody, limp, and unrecognizable corpse was left there.
"Damn it!" Roland couldn't help but curse. Today, he finally realized that El Nino Ranger's melee ability was truly abnormal. He was worthy of the fact that he almost wiped out the Dragon Clan's army. This melee ability was truly more ferocious than that of the Battanya Archer. (Badania Archer: I feel offended. It seems that my title of the most powerful melee ranged soldier is about to be ceded.)
These El Nino Rangers, with their nimble agility... showed off their Orcish skills! In Roland's eyes, each of these 50 El Nino Rangers was a masterful agility, their combined movements imbued with endless murderous intent. As the Orcs attacked, they used their agility to perform all sorts of difficult maneuvers. Splits and bridge poses were child's play. The truly impressive thing was how they actually spun and leaped within the path of the machete's attack... with their eyes closed. Then, with a single swing of his long arm, the sharp, broad Rune Blade mercilessly sliced through the throats and cervical vertebrae of three bodies...
"Puff! Puff!" Bloody gun tips suddenly emerged from the backs of the orcs, and then left with a spray of blood, and the orcs' lives were gone along with them.
The Royal Guards, reacting quickly, relied on their superior defense to press forward, pushing forward despite the Orcs' slashing and stabbing weapons. In that short moment, they had placed the Orcs next to the ranged units. Strictly speaking, this was a clear dereliction of duty, but Lagrande's ranged units... were they really ranged...
The orcs, who were in tears but had no tears left, were hacked away by the rune blades of the Elnino rangers who were overjoyed at the sight of prey. They finally realized that this long-range army that didn't even have helmets was not incapable of equipping helmets, but that their terrifying strength disdained defense. After all, when their attacks fell, these terrifying rangers had already killed the attackers or hid elsewhere.
"Push them back!" Omsk glared. The light and shadow hero, who was not good at mental power, had almost the same perception as the naked eye in this place shrouded in darkness. Evil energy and atmosphere were everywhere, which seriously affected the coalition's detection ability and made Omsk very ashamed. After all, the enemy almost hit Roland in the face.
"I should have brought the priests out..." Roland missed the exploration array that the priests had jointly released. It was believed that this thing could dispel darkness and evil and pull out the orcs hiding in the shadows.
"Your Highness..." Omsk said guiltily. Fortunately, it was a group of orcs instead of a Ringwraith that came out. Otherwise, that instant would be enough for him to kill dozens of people. Of course, Roland, who was the first to be hit, had no chance of survival.
"It's not your fault. Accidents can happen here at any time. We can only try our best to avoid them, but there are bound to be some oversights. Don't take it to heart," Roland said soothingly. Honestly, these orcs' skill at tunnel warfare had even shocked Roland, let alone the others. However, they were just ordinary orcs, devoid of any fighting spirit. They couldn't cause any damage to the Lagran soldiers, or even wear them down. At least they had used their lives to show Roland what it meant to be as ferocious as a tiger, only to be dead a minute later...
To be honest, Ranger El Nino treated them like meat, not to mention the Royal Guards, who were just tin cans. If the Royal Guards, holding their shields and spears, leaned in hard, they would either break bones or get stabbed into a mess. Ugh! The kind that splashed black blood...
"Is it clean?" Roland asked as he looked at Omsk coming out from below.
"Of course, no one is breathing!" Omsk gave a thumbs up.
"Keep moving!" Roland ordered, while holding his shield high above his chest. He was also afraid that an orc would suddenly attack him.
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