25 Chapter 25: Bandit Coalition (III)

|3rd POV|

"Attack!"

Torik, the leader of the Shadow Snake, shouts as he points his sickle at the village in front of him. Torik and Gorn, the short hammer-wielding man, will be the ones attacking from the front, while Carim, the barbarian brawler, will sneak inside the village and attack them from the back.

"YAARGH!"

Torik smiles a little as his men ride their desert lizard, the fastest creature in the desert and a perfect mount for bandits like them.

He watches as his men charge at the wall and prepare to climb the wall. The Shadow Snake is a bandit group that specializes in frontline attacks, as they are known to be able to climb walls using their weapons.

Torik's grin gets bigger at the thought of the spoil of this battle, and orders his men to start the war song. He wants to taste the fear of his enemy, and the sound of war drums in the middle of the night will put fear in any person hearing it.

"Will you join the fight?"

Torik looks at Gorn and sees the short man grunt at him.

"Unlike your group, I did not have any fighting technique that could block a large amount of arrows coming at me. I will let my men and their armor reach the wall before I join them."

Compared to Torik, Gorn and his men's fighting technique did not have fancy moves. Their fighting technique increases the durability of their skin, making them hard to pierce, slice, and chop.

"Bah! Then I will leave the gate to you. Destroy that thing, and the rest of us will start the massacre."

"Heh. That I can do, or my name will not be Gorn the Gate Breaker!"

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"Fire!"

Arma orders his soldiers to shoot the incoming enemies and see them release a hail of arrows at them. Arma frowns a little when he sees some of them manage to destroy the incoming arrows using what looks like a fighting technique that controls the wind.

Unlike magic, a fighting technique did not require much mana but rather a strong body and excellent control of the mana inside the body. They can create a magic-like effect using only their strength and control over their small pool of mana.

"Captain Jargu, prepare the others. I have a bad feeling about this."

"Yes, my lord! I already told the others to prepare when I see we are facing the Shadow Snake group."

"Who are they?"

"They are bandit groups that like to attack from the front. They are able to tame Desert Lizard monsters and use them to rob cities and villages. They are fast and can dodge arrows coming at them. As for the people we will soon be facing… They have a fighting technique that lets them destroy arrows coming at them and the same technique that lets them climb walls without a ladder."

Arma nods and looks at the incoming enemy with a frown. He takes a deep breath, takes out his dagger, and starts to chant.

"O Lord of Light! I call for your help! Bless us with your light. Embrace us with your warm light! Banish the darkness! Let us be the shining beacon in this dark hour! Wall of Jericho!"

After he is done chanting, the enemy can see a giant golden wall appear above Sol Leon. This is one of the few buffing spells from the [White Mage] card he gets from his gacha. This spell will increase defense against physical and magical attacks.

This spell cost him too much as Arma staggered a little bit from the amount of mana this spell took from him. Captain Jargu quickly moves and uses his body to make sure Arma does not fall, and it even seems as if Arma is whispering something to him instead of staggering from the overconsumption of mana.

Arma gives a grateful nod at Jargu and takes a deep breath. He looks at the enemies, who are getting closer by the second. When one of them manages to climb the wall after all the arrows and people trying to stab them, Arma runs toward him and thrusts his dagger at him.

The surprised bandit gets stabbed in the shoulder and is about to swing his sickle at Arma. However, before he can even do that, Arma's dagger releases a lightning current to fry him from the inside out.

When he sees the corpse fall to the ground, Arma gives a command.

"Archer! Get to the tower! Shielder! Front and center! Spearmen! Support!"

Slowly, the archers walk toward the towers, and the soldiers holding shields walk to the edge of the wall. Not only that, but the spearmen also stand behind the Shielder, hidden from the people who try to climb the wall.

When several of them manage to climb the wall, they use the shield to jump away, but sadly, the spearmen are ready for them and thrust their spears at the bandits.

While Arma made sure the bandits did not get through their formation, he did not see Gorn and his elite unit already arrive in front of the gate. Gorn takes out his massive hammer and takes a deep breath. His entire body gets bigger, and he swings his hammer at the gate.

The entire wall shakes when his hammer hits the gate, and the gate gets torn apart by the impact.

"Bwahahaha! Attack!"

Gorn shouts loudly and orders his men to attack. However, before they can get far away, his men meet an unmoveable wall in the form of Captain Jurgan and his elite unit. Jurgan already knows Gorn and Torik's identities and gathers his elite unit to greet Gorn and his unit behind the gate.

Gorn grins and says.

"Good! I don't like easy raids! Let's do this!"

Gorn and his unit jump at Jurgan and his unit, who stand their ground against the enemies.

On the other side of the battlefield, Torik looks at the battlefield with a frown. This is not what he expects from the village in the middle of a desert. The bastard who informed them about the village assures them that this will be an easy job, but here, they have a wall and soldiers who are competent enough to fight them.

Torik clicks his tongue in annoyance, takes out a second war horn from his belt, and blows it.

After he blows the war horn, another warcry can be heard on the other side of the battlefield, and Torik lets out a smirk once again. He can see Carim and his group coming out of the sand dune and charging at the weak point of the village.

With Carim attacking from the back, Torik and his unit prepare to join Gorn. However, seven giant golems appear from the other side of the battlefield before they can even move, making his eyes widen.

"Golems?! What kind of village is this?!"