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Umbreal Infernias
Chapter 4: We require more minerals!
"Why does it feels like it's been 83 days ever since we left Majula?"
"I... what? Are you alright, M'lady?"
"Nothing. How are things going for Mydriel, Sarlina?"
I called out as me and my soldiers are jogging through the narrow tunnels of the Rampart. We have to go one by one in a line due to the narrow pathway, plus the sabercats are kind of big for my huntresses to direct their pathway so they have to be careful while running though these claustrophobic tunnels.
The reason why i'm calling for Sarlina for the status of the other forces is because I don't want any more surprises. Especially if it turns out another force of Lizardmen comes from another direction to attack Majula or they run into the frickin ogre that wanders around the forest.
"Mydriel and the half of the other forces under your command haven't come across anything troublesome, though Mydriel did note most of the roads and bridges have either eroded away by time or nature have reclaimed them. They have no choice but to take detour here and there due to the Glaive throwers unable to cross large rivers of waters, so they will be late to meet up with you."
"Dammit!" I cursed, not liking this as this means i'm half down of my current forces for the moment until Mydriel manage to reach us in time for the big push.
"Can't help it boss" Bo'svania stated whom happen to be behind me "we gotta do with what we have at de moment, mon!"
Right... Guess we gotta improvise for the moment unti-Wait. I almost stop in track as i heard the sound of steel clashing and shouting further up ahead. "Shit, everyone to arms! We got trouble!"
I summoned my steel daggers while the rest drew their own weapons as just we finally left the cramped tunnels, did I see that the forward base was under attack. I could see several lizardmen in rags and loinclothes wielding bone weapons or wooden clubs, however, I could see couple of hollow footmen among the lizardmen fighting my forces who is currently having a hard time dealing with them due to the numbers.
"Hey assholes!" I shouted, gaining a good deal of their attention as we ran toward them with weapons raised "Eat shadowbolt!"
I threw two bolt of shadowbolt at two of the lizardmen, killing them instantly as the dark flames ate away at their flesh, which is enough for them to ignore the forward base forces and focus on us instead.
It was a blurr for me as me and the others dashed forward and engaged the reptilians and undead in close combat. So far things went better for us and the forward base soldiers as we manage to kill most of them while the rest of the Lizardmen near the entrance fled in terror.
Once the fighting died down as one of the trolls axe throwers cut the head off a Hollow as it crumbles to dust, likely will respawn elsewhere since all of them were Tethered.
Looking around as I could the see the pile of corpses that not only belonged to the Lizardmen but some of my Night elves archers and Troll axe throwers. My heart wrench in grief and rage at the men and women under my command lies dead, as we were not fast enough to get here in time.
Shaking my growing anger I focus on getting some damn order around here as I exclaim "Everyone gather our dead for burial while throw the Lizardmen's bodies in a pit and burn them. Who is in charge of the forward base?" One of the Trolls steps forward, showing he's different from the others axe throwers with war paint and a left shoulderpad with a skull of an animal.
"Dat be me boss!"
"Status report" I ordered, sheating my daggers as me troops went to work.
"Aye Mon, an hour ago dem Lizard folks have been sighted several times seemingly watching us but stayed out of range of our bows and axes. It was den dat dem Lizard and de undead attacked us, caught of guard as they seemingly appeared out of nowhere." Points at the entrance "Dey just poof into existence, several good men and women died de moment dey appeared and speared them with weapons."
"Out of nowhere? Are you telling me that they were cloaked?" I asked seriously, not liking this implication.
"It seems so boss, what are your orders?" The troll group leader asked.
"...Focus on fortifying our position, send Huntresses to send out their owls to keep an eye out for any more cloaked units." I ordered, after a moment of silences as I pondered what to do here "We need to secure this entrance as it is one of the few places that can easily Access Majula, once Mydriel and the others aren't far from us we're going to the gold mine and secure it."
"It will be done boss!" The Troll saluted and barked out orders for the Trolls and Night elves to secure the area and spread out the Owl spirits around the area.
We began to fortify the cavern and the entrance with better fortification. My huntresses sent their owl spirits to latch onto trees in order to see our enemies are coming and sure enough they spotted what looks like cloaked Lizardmen and Hollows, seemingly watching us from a distance.
Now that we can see them we didn't waste time to fire volley of arrows and throwing axes at their general direction, killing most of them while the survivors fled.
However one of the Lizardmen my troops killed looked different from the other lowly Shamans, garbed in cloth like robes with a hood befitted for a wizard of some kind, this one also held a magic staff and after observing the body I soon understand how they manage to catch my troops off guard.
Dead Lizardmen Mage
Level 3
HP 0/74
MP 0/140
Race: Lizardmen
Description: One of the few and rare gifted Mages the Lizardmen has, instead of bending the elements to their will these spellcasters uses the Arcane arts instead. Though rare and intelligent, they still are seen as lowly ranked footsoldier for the tribe leaders.
So apparently those bastards has wizards in their ranks, meaning these one used whatever sort of Illusion magic to go invisible before it broke when they attacked.
After finding out about this, I ordered the rest of the Huntresses and most of the witch doctors to send out their respective Owls and sentry wards to make sure those son's of bitches aren't sneaking up on us ever again.
It definitely paid off as my sentries were alerted by three squad of Lizardmen and hollows creeping closer to our positions, with all three groups has a mage in their ranks.
After we killed them and patching up our wounded, I kneel down to one of the bodies of our own as I respectfully pull a white blanket over them. Sighing as I stands up, glancing to the other white sheet covered bodies of our men, at least now I understand what it feels like losing people and hating every minute of it.
However I cannot let that take away my focus, not going to turn into Rosters teeth's version of Ironwood, even though I highly doubt he's like his shows counterpart in this world.
Walking over to the entrance as I glance around the cavern seeing now it's even more expansive and fortified with the help of the wisps. Now there is an actual bridge over the water and the small island has been removed, new rooms with a lot more smoother walls and pillars supporting the ceiling now exist where we can store more supplies and weaponry... Along with our dead without those lizards fucks desecrating them.
now outside after walking down newer stone stairs I could see barricades of wood and stone, with spears sticking out to prevent anyone from climbing them surrounding both entrances.
Nodding in good work as my troops stands guard, awaiting for the others to at least either reach us or almost to our position. Right now I rather not risk going in with half of my troops with me as I need more bodies to keep the caverns safe, also to have enough firepower to take on that fucking ogre that went sonic the hedgehog on my ass on the first day of reincarnating in this world.
"Sarlina, how's the progress of the others?" I asked out loud.
"They're making some progress through the woods, they should make to your position in around half an hour so hold out for a just a little longer."
"Noted." I said as I glance to see one of the huntresses riding their mounts comes running toward me with worried expression on her face.
"Lady Taesi!" She called out as she came to a stop near me "Our scouts discovered a large horde of the Lizardmen along with a good number of Hollows seemingly gathers at the front entrance to their lair, it looks like they're preparing to attack in any minutes!"
"Then we hold them off till Reinforcement arrives" I stated, summoning my daggers again "Everyone to their position, hold out till Mydriel and the others arrives to send these abominations back to whatever hole they crawled out of!"
As soon I ordered that, everyone let out their own battle cry and pumped to give those bastards hell.
I had most of my archers and axe throwers above the cavern entrance as we had built a wall around to make sure those fuckers don't have it easy to fight us. Along with some witch doctor and Bo'svania leading the upper troops up there to not only aiding fire their magics but to throw out some healing totems whenever we need them.
Down near the steps was me, Tervalian, huntresses and axe throwers acting as support rangers and melee fighters.
As soon we set up our defenses, it wasn't long we could hear the distance sounds of roaring and yelling from the Lizardmen charging toward our location.
Soon the first group of them appear around the sloped hill, most were fodder Lizardmen and Hollows, but behind them were shamans and two mages supporting the rear. Looks like they decided to say screw stealth as it is evidence their little sneak attack doesn't work anymore.
Either way, the first group were the first to die as my archers and Axe throwers fired a volley at them as their arrows and axes hits their mark, downing large group of them but that didn't stop the rest as they continue to charge forward with more following behind the first group.
As my range units were picking them off, I counted a rough number how many were attacking and holy shit I don't like the number at all; over 300 hundreds of them were attacking and they don't seems to be stopping anytime at all!
As soon they were into melee range, both my Huntresses and axe throwers immediately threw their respective weapons as the glaives cut several into half, in a straight line while the throwing axes hit either the chest or heads of some of the enemies that either looks a bit stronger or a bit away from the main group.
It was then me, Tervalian and the Huntresses pounce upon the first group of Lizardmen and hollows that manage to reach the first line through the barrage of arrows and axes.
The battle was far too quick and blurry for me to properly remember, only that my senses were going overdrive and I was a storm of flurry of knives as I slashes and stabbed, leaped at one after the other and blasting groups of them with my shadow and nature magic while doing my best to heal some of my Huntresses and axe throwers.
Sadly a good deal of them were cut down as some were far too away for me to either heal or cut down in a single strike to the head or stabbed through the heart.
It felt like an eternity fighting but in reality it's ony been over 15 minutes of non stop fighting. But so far things are going well enough that we're keeping the horde at bay, enough for the archers to take out the bigger chunks of the army.
Thud
Thud
Thud
Until the ground shook at what I could only think of each steps as something new emerge to the battle...
At the distance behind the horde of Lizardmen was a huge reptilian like creature... Or more like a toad like entity as it was not only fat but easily huge around 7 to 8 feet tall with bulging muscles, toad like head with glowing eyes and it's only garb was a loincloth, some iron shackles on its arms and feets and it's main weapon of choice was a bloody tree with a large rock tied to the end, acting as a hammer.
I steps back while my warrior covers me so that I can use observe to understand what the actual fuck we're dealing with here.
And, well... They're NOT good!
Ravenous Toad warrior
Level 8
HP 630/630
Race: Toadman
Description: Another creation of the Iron king, this one being made through human, Toad and hill giant flesh and this horrid result was the Toadman. This Ravenous Toad warrior are always hungry, capable of eating anything that get's into its mouth and is much more sturdier than a regular Lizardmen.
What makes this worse as they are more intelligent than the Lizardmen and goblins are, capable of using other victims as hostages or force breeding with them to grow an army to conquer. Be careful when dealing with this abomination as it takes a lot of men, weapons and magic to kill this thing.
Oh fuck me...!
No sooner as I read the information of that thing, its throat suddenly bulge and opened its mouth wide to show a row of sharp teeth and a long ass tongue that shot out and latch onto a huntress, pulled her away from her mount and swallowed her whole with one gulp before letting out a loud burp then slowly charges forward.
The way how it just ate one of my warrior was just too sudden and now it was barreling toward us, knocking aside the Hollows and other Lizardmen or even trample on them as it readies its club.
"Blast dat thin'!" Bo'svania exclaimed above as a good deal of archers, axe throwers and witch doctors fired at the lumbering half giant.
Most of the shot hit as it is too big of a target to miss, but it didn't seem to do much other than annoy the things as it growls and swipe its club at the nearest target, sending both my Night elves and Trolls along with even its own allies in the air by the sheer strength of this giant toad man.
Seeing this thing is the bigger threat, now most of my range units behind me focus on trying to bring this fucker down but it doesn't seems to do that much damage to it as one barrage seems to only bring like over 40 or 50 points of its health down.
Seeing as we need to distract that thing as we can't focus on both the toad thing and the army of Lizardmen, I call out "I'll distract it, focus on killing both the damn lizards and their mages!" And dashed toward the lumbering giant.
The toadman sees this and bulges his throat again and shot his tongue out at me, but dodged to the side and had to even jumped forward into a roll as it actually swipe its head to the side, swinging its disgusting tongue like a whip.
However it's action actually grabbed a nearby Lizardmen and pulled the poor sucker inside his mouth... Then spit the thing right at me like a fucking projectile!
"Son of a bitch!" I growled out as I dodged the screaming wet Lizardmen as he crashes to the ground with a sickening crunch due to the sheer strength of the toadmen spitting it out. Just as I was near the thing it tries to swipe at me but I didn't stop running and slide underneath both its swing and between the legs, swiping my daggers out to slash at the thighs of the thing, drawing blood.
Looking at the health of the giant toad man I dealt just half of what a squad of my range units does against it, likely the fact i'm hitting the more weaker parts of its skin as I stood up and jumped onto its back with my daggers, stabbing repeatably as I climbed up to the back of its neck as it roars in anger and pain.
It wasn't idle as I climbed up on its back as it swung around, hitting its own allies as it swings its muscular meaty arms and since the thing doesn't seems to have a proper neck it can't swing its head back to hit me.
I hissed as I continue to stab one of my daggers the back of its neck, earning another roar of anger as it now hops around trying to throw me off as I clung to it with my daggers.
However, since I've distracted the lumbering giant it allowed my rangers and axe throwers to focus on the larger horde and cut down their numbers, enough to soon focus on attacking the lumbering toadmen as more arrows and axes soon pelts its wet, smelly skin that I had to kick off from it as the thing is now being bombarded by my rangers.
Flipping in the air I landed in a crouch as I watched the toadmen finally dies as my huntresses leaped for the kill and slashed at it, with the last one slicing its neck and blood spills out.
It let out a last groan, fell to its knees and fell face first into the blood soaked ground.
I panted slighty and quickly looked around to see the battle isn't over yet as there are still Lizardmen and hollows attacking, one hollow even tried to swipe at me with their sword as I blocked it with my dagger, stab the other into its chest and kicked it off.
The battle went on as me, my warriors and rangers continue fight on as the numbers doesn't seems to end.
After like half an hour of just fighting and killing, soon a sea of dead bodies of Lizardmen along with half of my forces lies on the blood soaked ground, even turning the river beside us red with blood.
I step back panting, covered in sweat and blood with few tears and scratches from the enemy getting lucky hits on me but not fatal enough to put me out of commission.
I gazed at the battlefield and noted the numbers of the Lizardmen aren't thinnin out, we pretty much killed at least over four hundreds of them and yet they still keep coming. If those fuckers has any sense at all they would have flanked us through the woods and yet they charged in a single line.
I'm SOOOO glad they're fucking dumb as bricks because we would have been overwhelmed a long time ago, long before that giant toady bastard came!
Thud
Thud
Thud
...No.
Don't fucking tell me...
I watch as not one, not two, but THREE giant toadmen lumbers in with even more numbers of Lizardmen charging.
I stood there frozen in terror and noted that most of my huntresses and Troll Axe throwers are dead, with only handful of them left along with half of my ranger units behind us are left as they weren't spared either as the Lizardmen and Hollows either got lucky shot with their bow and arrows or some manage to charge past us.
The witch doctor did their best to heal and support but even they couldn't do much as they either ran out of mana or were killed by stray shot by arrows or rocks.
but worst of all, Bo'svania is dead.
The witch doctor saw that a number of Lizardmen and hollows manage to slip by us and stood between them and our rangers, doing his best to stall them and fighting them off at the best of his abilities.
...Sadly, he was soon overrun. Impaled by several bone spears and left bleeding on the ground that even with healing magic, he was done for.
It was just me, Tervalian, whom was looking just as rough as I was, dozen of huntresses and troll axe throwers going melee was all that stood between the incoming horde and our ranger units behind.
And yet...
I grip my daggers hard, refusing to stay put and allow those freaks to triumph over us.
I was about to rally what's left of my forces... Until a large glaive came out of nowhere suddenly impaled into one of the toadmen, effectivelly killing it as it was sliced in half and the giant throwing glaive wasn't even finished as it cleaved seven more Lizardmen that was behind it.
"FOR LADY TAESI! FOR THE CONCLAVE!" Mydriel roars out as several dozen of huntresses come charging toward the incoming horde by flanking them, along with the rest of the rangers firing their weapons and the Glaive throwers firing their giant glaives that cleaved through dozen of Lizardmen, Hollows and mortally wounding the surviving toadmen.
Seeing now that the Reinforcement has arrived boosted the morale to my troops as I raise my dagger "Everyone, give everything you have against those bastards!" I screamed out and everyone gave their own war cry as we charges toward the now fleeing Lizardmen.
The battle was quick as the lizardmen, hollows and the lone toadmen fell much more easily as they were now flanked by both sides, plus having couple of warmachines that can wipe out a squad worth of those fuckers also helps!
By then, we killed so many now that the horde of Lizardmen finally turn around and flees back to their lair, the only one still fighting are the Hollows as they lack the survival instinct the living has and kept on fighting till the last was killed by one of the rangers shooting an arrow at its head, falls over and crumbles to dust.
I panted heavily, the fighting took much longer and so frickin intense just by the sheer number of those fuckers attacking us.
But now that we finally have some respite from the attack, I was able to look around the carnage and see the aftermath. A long line of sea of bodies belong most to the Lizardmen along with four dead corpses of the Toadmen, with some of our own in the mix.
I looked at the Hud screen to see how many I lost and it isn't good.
172 archers, 28 huntresses, 74 axe throwers and 22 witch doctor were all that was left along with our four Glaive throwers who is now emerging from the forest.
Mydriel and Tervalian walked up to my side and both has grim expression on their faces as they likely aslo sees that we lost a lot of good men and women to this attack.
"Alright..." I sighed "We beat them, but we lost a lot of good people... Including Bo'svania."
"I know, I saw his body. He and the others will be given proper burial once we manage to take the gold mine for ourself." Tervalian said.
I nodded, I used the gamer system to get an accurate number how many fucking lizardmen and hollows we killed because holy shit; i knew there were going to be a lot but not THIS many!
Once the system finish counting, I was shocked beyond belief about the sheer number those fuckers has at their disposal.
Dead Lizardmen: 641
Defeated Hollow: 422
Dead Toadmen: 4
Combining the number we held off over a thousands of combatants, the number shocked me beyond belief and scared the hell out of me that it makes me question how the fuck do they have this many Lizardmen in their ranks?
Are there like, other female creatures out there that they force themself upon to build up their number? Are there other races that lives in Drangleic other than humans once did?
Shaking my head as i need to focus on the current aftermath.
I ordered most of my warriors to tend to the wounded and round up our dead so that they can be given proper burial back in Majula. While I'm organizing on how many are staying behind to guard the cavern entrance while taking the rest with me to the gold mine.
I discussed with Tervalian on how to proceed with this and it was agreed we take half of our units with us, along with two glaive throwers to assault the gold mine. Not gonna lie, the prospect of losing more people are very likely since we are dealing with fire breathing salamanders that sizes of ogres.
before i could round up our forces, Sarlina contacted me.
"Lady Taesi, while you and the others were busy tending to our wounded. I asked Ithalaine to send his owl spirit to scout out the fortress and, well... it's just as you feared my lady."
"...How many?" I asked, dreading to ask the question since it is now obvious there are more than THOUSANDS of those fuckers than i thought there were.
"He wasn't able to get an accurate number but Ithalaine said that the Lizardmen numbered over five thousands along with another thousands of undead soldiers, along with a dozen Toadmen within the fortress. There is a possibility there might be more hiding within the buildings or caves."... Shit.
Ok yeah, we DEFINTELY need that gold mine ASAP!
"My lady" Tervalian spoke up "You and Mydriel go on ahead and secure the gold mine, I will stay behind with whatever forces there are left and safeguard the entrance while you and the others capture the mine."
"You sure?" Mydriel asked.
"Yes, right now the mine is our priority if we are going to survive this nightmare."
"Then we make haste for the mine" I stated "The faster we can finish this, the better we can prepare our defenses while coming up ways how to counter their numbers... It is clear that the Lizardmen has no serious training at all, meaning we can use that against them for the time being but their numbers will be too much for us to bear."
The two nodded and we began focusing on gathering who either comes with us or stay behind to safeguard the cavern entrance while also tending to the wounded and our dead.
By half an hour I manage to amass near a two third of our forces that can still fight while the rest stays behind, have to leave behind the two Glaive throwers to give the forward base some fire power.
With that me, Mydriel and the rest followed the path leading to the gold mine.
It took us near an hour walking while we conserve energy and held an eye out for any ambushes, which we were rewarded with several Lizardmen and dozen untethered Hollows that were wandering in the woods tried to attack us, but with our combined might they literally didn't stand a chance against us.
By then, we soon stumbled upon an ancient dirt road with few wooden fences here and there. Indicating that the Gold mine isn't far off.
"Tervalian, how goes guarding the entrance?" I called out as we continue follow the ancient road.
"So far so good, the Lizardmen tried to attack again but we manage to repell them. Fortunately they were quite low in numbers, it is very likely who ever it is that are leading these monsters are trying to poke our defenses or trying to weakening us."
"Hold out for a just little longer, we're almost at the Gold mine!" I called out just as I dogded an axe throw from the woods as another group of Lizardmen ambushed us.
We made quick work of them and lost none so far the entire journey, but either way we're here!
The gold mine definitely looks like a regular Warcraft 3 gold mine, just larger and already has a built opening to support the ceiling. Cart and railroad already presented and of course a strange heat emitting from the entrance.
Geez! I'm like standing 20 feet away and I can actually feel the faint heat of fire coming from here!
"This looks like it" I stated, my troops already going forward to secure the area. The wisp that I had with me already went to survey the area to built an Ancient of Life once we dealt with the fire Salamanders.
Looking at the entrance I grimace as I realize the Glaive throwers barely fit inside, meaning we have to be extra careful to guide the war machine as it honestly can't turn around the narrow tunnels.
"Area secure, m'lady!" Mydriel said "What are your orders?"
"...Have some archers, axe throwers and few witch doctor stay outside to make sure we're not attacked from behind, the rest of you follow me and be careful! The tunnels looks narrow so evasion is going to be a bitch!"
With that, we entered the entrance of the gold mine with the purpose of clearing it out of Fire salamanders, knowing that many are likely will die.
But even so, we gotta do it if we want to survive against those monsters.
With that, I entered the now bloody warm underground tunnel with my daggers ready and my troops ready to fight.
It's going to be a Looooooong day isn't it?
HOLY SHIT THIS TOOK FOREVER TO MAKE!
I'm apologizing that this took far longer than it should have, but if ya folks been keeping up on either DA or FA and read my journals of what the actual fuck is happening with my life, the sheer amount of constant bullshit, stress and depression hit me hard for a very frickin long time! More than I would have liked because of sorry excuse of human beings making my life a miserable fucking hell because half of them have suddenly got a power trip due to the previous boss left SO MUCH UNFINISHED SHIT to both our newest boss AND US that everyone is TRYING to boss around or control and demand we work the same way they do!
But holy crap, finally getting some control back and temporarily transfer to another group that actually treats me like a human being until I either finally get security checked to jump over the other group to work at the military base OR to another part of the city, far away from both those fucking assholes and Ikea!
Anyway! Sorry if the chapter is a bit short on 5k words but I wanted to show that i'm still working on this story as I actually planned this one to be at least around between 7k to 9k words.
Unfortunately we all don't get what we want due to idiots either don't know how to fucking work or too lazy and blame each other just to shift attention from them.
*Cough* Anyway... I've been working on each chapter to both this story and the others, but the progress was slow due to being far too busy and trying to get my life back under control.
So don't worry if i have abandoned them, because I have not!
Also just a curiosity but I've been thinking of making another RTS gamer story but with the main character being an anthro pokemon Lopunny, but only problem here is that I have NO IDEA what sort of army she would have.
I pretty much made a poll to see which one you rather want for the OC to have has as her army, along with which world she would go to as it is also not sure which one I wanna try my hand to.
And as for making a story of Taesi like I mentioned before I pretty much disappeared for like two months, that's going to be a bit hard to do as I'm now a bit more busy as of late, both with IRL stuff and work related things. So i can't be 100% say that there will be a story involving her dicking around in the world of gaming or anime.
Anyway, sorry for the long as rant! hope you enjoy the story and be sure to vote if you're interested!
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