Sneak Attack

I start my attack with a wide slash at the pigmen with the katana infused with ice element. They both dodge the attack by moving to their right and try to attack me from both sides.

I take two steps back to avoid a slash from my right while I block the other. They attack me continuously while I dodge one and block the other giving me no chance to counterattack.

Tariq and Vimal has already started firing arrows made of elements towards the rest of the pigmen to keep them stay unfocused on the little battle that is going in front of them.

Bang.. Bang.. Thud.. Thud..

All of a sudden, both of them attack at the same time slashing in front of me. I used my katana to block both their attacks and had to take two steps back to diffuse their strength, I couldn't help but a smile appeared on my face.

They are strong, individually they are not, but when both their strengths combine. This will be a good chance for me to learn to fight against humanoids who has advantage of strength over me.

If they have attacked me individually, I could have defeated them within minutes. Unfortunately, they are fighting together, on almost equal terms with me with just a little increase in their strength which I can easily overcome, if I activate my ice armor.

I used the time they took to reach me to activate the armor and they looked surprised to see me covered in a white ice armor that drops the temperature around me a little.

My control over the ice element has increased a little which allows me to reduce the temperature of my surroundings by a fraction when I use skills related to ice. It also allows me to increase or decrease the strength of my skills. Currently I am wearing a thin ice armor that is equal to the grade E armor which they are wearing.

It will also increase my strength and speed a little which will help me in defending their combined attacks with ease. I would have not used this skill if it was just animals I am fighting, but these are not just monsters, but humanoid monsters which are far more intelligent than the monsters I have faced before.

I do not wish to take any chances against them, but just want to even the odds to fight on equal terms so I can increase my fighting experience against the humanoid monsters and humans, if I have to fight against them in the future.

I keep dodging and blocking their attacks with ease which makes them more angry as they can see me smiling when I do it. They also increased their speed and power of their attacks by every minute along with the anger.

After a few minutes, I get the opening I needed when they attack me together from the front just like the first time they attacked together. With the strength and speed from the ice armor, I block them head-on without moving an inch back, but I can feel their raw strength entering my hands from the katana and making them shake.

SULCH! THUD! THUD!

I push their swords back and swing at the pigmen on my right cleaving his head clean. The head rolls on the ground and the body falls with a heavy thud in front of the other pigmen making him more angry and he comes swinging his sword at me with even more speed.

I just smile at him and take a step to my right to dodge his attack. Unable to maintain his balance, he falls with the swing which gives me the change to attack.

DING!! PULCH!!

I pierce the head of the pigmen from his backside before he can roll away from me. His helmet showed a little resistance, but with the extra strength and speed from the ice armor, I pierced it and his head, killing him instantly.

I look at Jack to see if he has killed their leader and the other two pigmen he engaged with. To my surprise, he is still fighting the leader and has only killed the other two. There are still eight pigmen left in this group as Tariq and Vimal has killed five more with their archery skills while the rest are trying to block or dodge the elemental arrows coming towards them.

It is a good thing they have come closer to each other to form a shieldwall to defend against the archers which gives me the very first change to use my 'Ice Wave' skill in a battlefield.

SWOOSH...

I slash my sword from bottom to top activating the skill and a metre length and half a metre height ice wave materialize in front of me and goes towards the shieldwall with half the speed of an arrow.

The pigmen and their shieldwall freezes with thick ice covering them for almost a metre high within a few seconds the ice wave hits them. This gives me the perfect chance and I use it to kill the remaining pigmen without any resistance.

"#&*%##* ARGGGH"

Seeing me slaughtering his men like chicken, their leader gets angry and comes at me shouting like a maniac, but is stopped easily and subdued by Jack with little to no effort. Jack started to bind him instead of killing him while Tariq and Vimal comes out of their cover and joins me to keep an eye out for other monsters or wild animals.

We go to the village after that to handover the leader of the Pigmen squad to the command so they can do some interrogation with him to know the basic layout of the dungeon for the raid.

I just wonder how they will do it as I don't think anyone here in the village or the command tent can understand the monster or how they are going to get the details, they need from this intelligent and strong Pigmen.

I just ignore those thoughts for now as I don't want to know about it. I go to Tariq to find out how he became a scout for the Defense Corp and how he came to know I have joined the Obsidian Shadow as no one, not even my sister or parents know about it.