Chapter 170 : Trap!

Few minute later.

The blood wigg had far outrun the disorganised group of beastmen who were in chase and reached the target place as planned.

" We are piercing straight into their fort wit... "

General who had brought his men near the fortress gates was startled thoroughly.

The fortress gates were opening wide and a unit of hundred half step emperor powerhouses in heavy armour had welcomed them and quickly flown behind the blood wigg group to stall the beastmen army!

Stop!

Initially the blood wigg army was prepared to fight them, but general waved his hands and signalled his troops to stop with it, as he knew that this unit of powerhouses were dispatched by his ally who must be here to receive them.

The blood wigg army then moved in, reached the core of fortress only to be startled by the looking at two floating figures whom very few were familiar with.

" Lord Mark! Miss Wendy! "

How come they are able to float freely into enemy lands? As far as i know, werent there half step transcendent existences present inside the fort?

Still there was no time to satisfy his curiosity as he needs to make preparations for incomming battle quick!

The officers and higher commanding personnel who identified him had given a salute before exclaiming.

" Lord, every thing had been executed as planned, could we really defeat their army after luring them in? We mean, They outnumbered us by dozen times! And this is their own grounds, so... "

The tanned vice general who fought ferocious since the beginning had asked Mark.

" Haha! You're Atkin right? "

Mark exclaimed out with a mild laughter.

" Yes this humble one is named Atkin, It's an honor for lord mark to remember this one's name! "

Looking at Atkin who gave an Knight salute, Mark smiled a bit before exclaiming

" 40 thousand... Good! Good! I never expected you blood wigg to eliminate twenty thousand by yourself, I'll remember it, I'll remember it! "

" Wendy, add this into their list of achievements, we should reward the worthy for their efforts right? "

Wendy gave a nod, before summoning a book and noted it down.

Reward?

Achievements?

We probably need to survive before for them right?

Looking at the two who were totally acting out the scene, as if they could control the life and death of one's in this fortress, the common soldiers of Blood wigg were becomming more and more confused as to who these two lords were.

Officers and even their general were acting humble before these two, let alone them the common solders who didn't want to get bad impression from them.

One minutes later.

The enemy soldiers had returned back to their fortress, rushing to the core to surround their invaders from all sides.

The soldiers of orange rank bases felt a bit amass as the blood wigg soldiers had safely entered the fortress core region without even losing a single one from their army.

One should know that the fortress was not left completely deserted for blood wigg to enter in.

Five terrifying old monster, their leaders, amd vices, had stayed behind in case some unexpected things were to took place.

The orange rank base soldiers were able to see an unexpected situation yet their leaders were no where to see.

They didn't rush in to attack the blood wigg army on sight, but waited enough for their comerads to enter in and surround the blood wigg from all sides to prevent them from escaping out their clutches for an another time.

They didn't want to underestimate this blood wigg, as the previous time had made them pay heavily by losing a third of their army.

On the side of Mark, the blood wigg soldiers were getting anxious with passing seconds, rows and rows of enemies were surrounding them from all sides.

Though they weren't getting afraid of being killed, they were afraid of getting killed without any greater cause.

Before, the thousand six hundred comerads of them had fallen under the clutches of sixty thousand enemies.

Yet not only was blood wigg able to pass through them, they were even able to bring down a third, which itself was an achievement honoring the deaths of fallen.

But looking at the present situation they were trapped like a rat from all sides, waiting for their eventual fate which was about to befall them.

They weren't able to understand why their general would command them to enter enemy base and let them get surrounded from all sides.

Looking at the enemy numbers which were surrounding them from all sides like a giant vortex, which was about to devour them bit my bit, they clenched their weapons waiting for their general to give command to break through this encirclement.

Just when the soldiers were about ask their general to give command, six old commanders of enemies had stepped forward, gazing at the blood wigg army before yelling.

" You win humble humans, surrender peacefully, our leaders might atleast pardon your people inside your palace! "

The commanders knew that their army could wipe the blood wigg, yet the fact that heavy casualties ensured in that fateful battle be any thing but less, and they might inturn lose multiple numbers crippling the strength of their own army by a large number.

One had to know that the initial army of hundred thousand were strong, yet their underestimated enemy had annihilated more than half their numbers, which itself was a major blow to their strength.

And the blood wigg army which were dozen times lesser than their numbers had created a miracle, annihilated a third of their force which created the term called fear in their hearts.

Though an eventual battle between these both might result in their victory, the loss they might have to bear wouldn't be less and who knows this crazy blood wigg might bring down yet an another twenty thousand before they get annihilated?

The old commanders of orange rank base weren't fools, yet they were not able to understand why this blood wigg army would choose to run into their fortress after breaking through their ranks?

Either the blood wigg must have complete confidence to face their force or either want to surrender to them but show out their might to get a good position while negotiating.

But if they were to ask them to pardon their princess, the negotiating is long over from then, and the end result would be "war"

But the commanders were surprised when a little boy floating in air had answered them with the same proposal but added a fuel to it which made them fume out in fit of rage.

The blood wigg had no intention of surrendering from the beginning!

" Humble beastmen you won, surrender peacefully atleast you would be able to have an intact corpse to be buried along with the fort!

If not you might suffer a fate to serve this lord even after your deaths! "

Looking at the arrogant self of mark, Who was asking the enemies to die peacefully, the blood wigg soldiers had roared out excitedly, cause this unknown lords were willing to fight with them against their enemies.

Judging by their aura which were no weaker than their general they became ecstatic as their chance to putting a fight against the overwhelming army had increased!

" Arrogant bug! Your arrogance will be paid with your life! "

Shortly following it, the commanders of enemy forces ordered their soldiers to charge in.

Since battle was inevitable why not be the first one to strike down to gain a tactical advantage?

The orders of these commanders could be self explainable.

Right when the enemies were charging in, Mark raised his hand, signalling the blood wigg general to get ready.

He then signaled Wendy to thrown in a surprise for the invaders which caused their charge to pummel at a rapid rate.

Three, five meters long wooden log were sent over the enemies side.

They weren't inscribed with restrictive formation, nor were there any presence of suppressive artifacts over them!

What caused the enemy charge to pummel were the bodies which were chained over them.

Three extremely familiar bodies, with half ripped limbs, torn vocals and broken back!

Though the blood wigg army were unable to understand what's the matter with these bodies, but looking at the despairing shock expression from enemy side, these bodies should definitely belong to a high ranked personnel amongst them.

One anxious enemy commander couldn't help but yell " lord Omir! " which caused his soldiers to be shock ridden to be frozen in spot!

Admist the panic which the enemy soldiers had fallen into, Mark instantly appeared before one enemy commander, slashing his blade through neck to sever the commanders head before yelling

" Last time when an ignorant person called me arrogant he was nailed and chained to a wooden log! "

" So what are you? Just a servant of that ignorant person yet such gall? "

" Wendy! "

Hearing the cold exclamations of Mark, the enemy soldiers were terrified.

Yet their sheer advantage in numbers had made them steel their heart to take up a bold decision.

" He's just one, what are we fearing about? Kill him and avenge our leaders! "

One after the other, roars to avenge they leaders were yelling loud!

The initial delighted expression from blood wigg army became ugly!

They were ready to poke holes in enemy brains with spears, yet an abrupt change took place within the fortress which caused their movements to halt.

The fortress began to shake and all the perimeters of it were covered with thick grey mist.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

Several reverberating metal noises were heard shortly following which, screams of enemy soldiers running for their life's could clearly be seen by then.

Army?

The undead army was summoned in the fortress around the perimeter of fortress to surround the enemy army within their fortress.

They marched out the mist, took position before filling in the gaps and surrounding the enemies from all sides, pointing their sharp weapons threateningly.

They marched in and started killing the living indiscriminately while marching towards the core region, leaving the orange rank base soldiers in panic, who were unable to stop their surprise attack which caught them off guard.

The bait in the name of blood wigg and choosing the fortress as battle place was all intended for a single thing which was to trap beastmen, with no chance at flee!

Blood wigg soldiers at the core regions were watching the scene from afar with excited gazes.

Though they weren't able to figure out the existence of them as undead, they should atleast be able to discern that their reinforcement had arrived, and finally Marks words proves reasonable for his earlier arrogant claims.

30 thousand undead, all stronger than ordinary added with the element of surprise had put the enemy at severe disadvantage.

The undead were a strange set of creatures which aren't feared of death.

They don't get tired easily, recover their injuries by devouring the fleshly energies of their killed and even get stronger amidst the process.

Though both the sides were unevenly matched in numbers, regardless to say the final Victor would ultimately be the undead without much expectations as the weakest link in Mark's undead were nearing mid order aura king itself!

Cries of pain and slaughter was echoing within the fortress with dead that were piling on thousands.

1 thousand... 2 thousand... 5 thousand...

Within seconds thousands of orange rank base soldiers were killed, making their moral to take a serious blow.

The enemy commanders were shocked by this development and ordered their soldiers to keep a part of their army to keep blood wigg in check and fight the undead with the rest of their army as they were forced to do.

" General its your turn now! "

Mark laughed loudly before signalling the blood wigg to join the frey and kill the enemy to heart content.

10 thousand... 15 thousand... 20 thousand... 25 thousand...

The war prolonged for a time where the enemy soldiers were forced to stay defensive and gather around with surviving groups to repel the other party.

The initial large group of 40 thousand was reduced to 15, and Mark was very well satisfied with the result as less than thousand undead were expended to achieve it so.

Mark and Wendy were glancing at the whole battle field from above, conserving they strength for later when the real battle was about to start for real.

Though the great number of 40 thousand aura kings were terrifying, they didn't amount much to Mark as he could easily slay them just with the help from Wendy alone.

One had to know that the existing number of undead in Mark's arsenal had reaches 50 thousand.

So he wasn't actually worrying much about the battle taking place below, as he was sure about his undead army to become victorious!

One should also know that Mark had purposefully kept the leaders of the base alive, as them being dead at current situation would cause his worries to be increased as hundreds of half mutants would be popping up by then.

Though it was brutal Mark had to opt to this, as half step transcendents could not be held captive easily, and the thing about ripping their vocals while alive, it was a precautionary measure taken by wendy to prevent these lords from summoning half mutants, like with the case of Gazil!

If it was just those half mutants, Mark didn't necessarily had a need to worry, but the existence of silver grade half mutants were a worry to him.

Just with twenty brainless half mutants, his previous encountered silver half mutant was able to restrict him by much, almost droving him to the clutches of death by then.

What concept would a pair of those existences playing with hundreds of half mutants in their control would create.

So Mark wanted to strengthen his powers, improve the cultivation of Wendy and increase the chances of her in forming the knights of White, which would come in handy for him to face them!

The war cries had subsided, and general had taken captive of an commander from enemy side who he wanted to interrogate.

The fortress was heavily piled with corpses and Wendy ordered her undead to bring in the corpses from battle field outside the warlords palace as she had use to it.

Though the blood wigg army were unable to understand what's going around, they could atleast discern that Wendy was cleaning the battle field to prevent disease and plague from forming up.

Once again the image of Mark and Wendy in their hearts had risen to a new level.

" General blood wigg! Return back to palace, I have plans to discuss about the aftermath, this war it's yet to reach a stop, so recuperate well for future, as it's unpredictable! "

Mark gave a casual sigh and said

" Fortify the defenses, stay well within the inner walls and make sure to keep no one outside it! "

" I want no news of today to be spread out! At least this way we could delay the unknown party and buy more time for her breakthrough! "

Mark exclaimed in a reducing voice and by the time his words neared the end his voice could no longer be heard externally.

General gave an nod and reorganized his men before heading out the fortress.

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Author's notes:

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Status:

# Mark - 7th stage of refinement! ( High order aura emperor equivalent )

# Wendy - Peak order aura emperor!

Wendy's undead forces

1. Initial order aura king - 20,000 ( normal ), 20,000 ( peak-initial)

2. Middle order aura king - 6,000(peak-mid)

3. High order aura king - 1,200(peak-high)

4. Peak order aura king - 600(nearing HSAE)

5. Half step aura emperor - 1200 ( mostly piled up from half mutants and green rank base leaders )