Galadia stopped at the entrance of a cave covered with gravel.
"right here."
Griffith looked inside. It was just an ordinary cave. The winding tunnel was as tall as a person, allowing several people to walk side by side, and extended to the invisible depths.
"Spread out and check if there are any exits nearby," Griffith said. "Those with shields will go down with me, and the others will guard this place."
The elf bit his lip and plucked up the courage to say, "I want to go too."
According to the prior arrangement, half of the militiamen followed the captain to ensure the retreat. Griffith and Galadia covered each other and advanced along the dark cave passage. In this narrow cave, more troops could not be deployed.
The unbearable stench became more and more intense, and Griffith was a little worried that the torch would cause explosion or suffocation in this place.
"Ah!" Suddenly, several militiamen shouted. In front of them, large and small eyes flashed in the darkness, looking at the humans outside with extremely vicious eyes.
Goblin... Griffith waved, and four militiamen armed with wooden shields immediately stepped forward to form a solid line of defense.
"Prepare for battle!" the trainee knight shouted. He had no plan to hide his traces from the beginning, "Garadia, do it!"
The elf lit the arrow and shot it towards the eye in the darkness. Then there was a scream and the sound of falling to the ground. The bright flame ignited the goblin's body and illuminated the road ahead.
"Jie Jie Jie!" The Goblin guards immediately swarmed out and rushed toward the shield line in front.
Galadia fired a series of dazzling rockets into the crowd. Her shooting speed was extremely fast, and the continuous sound of arrows and strings merged into the sound of tearing linen. The fire even formed a line and swept across the enemies in front.
Griffith was shocked. In last night's battle, Galadia's archery skills were indeed superb, but not to an exaggerated level. The elf's wrists and arms looked slender and delicate, but this round of continuous shooting
Her explosive power and sustained power have surpassed those of the strongmen in the army. Even those veterans who are strong and specialized in archery cannot match her.
Could this be an Extraordinary from the "Ranger" path?
The intensive shooting knocked down a dozen enemies one after another, sweeping away the rushing shadows. The flames and the grease on the arrows ignited the shot goblins, and also illuminated the dark cave clearly.
Griffith put his hand on the shoulder of the militiaman in the front row.
"go ahead."
The team stepped past the dead goblins and headed deeper. When they passed a corner, a dozen more monsters suddenly jumped out of the darkness.
"Hold still."
"Jie Jie Jie!" The screaming Goblin ran headlong into the wooden shield defense line. The militiamen held up their shields and couldn't see clearly what was going on in front of them. They only knew that there were a dozen little monsters waving a variety of weapons and beating them hard.
"Attack, kill them!" Griffith took the lead and stabbed the spear downward from the top of the shield, nailing a little monster to the ground on the spot.
The militiamen in the back row followed closely behind, constantly thrusting hard from the gaps between the shields or from above. The goblins crowded in front of the shields were killed in the blink of an eye.
The third wave of attacks soon followed, and more than a dozen Goblins rushed forward. This number must be the upper limit of the number of Goblins that can be thrown into the cave at a time. In a narrow space that cannot be detoured, regardless of these
No matter how hard the goblins tried, they could not break through the defense line of the large wooden shield held by the militiamen.
"Replace!" Following Griffith's command, the second row of militiamen held up their shields to replace the first row of militiamen during the fighting. The replaced soldiers were unscathed and retreated to the back to drink with a relaxed look.
Water rest.
Immediately after the fourth wave, the fifth wave of goblins launched an attack. With the cooperation of spears and shields, they left a few corpses and retreated into the depths of the cave while screaming.
"What an insidious tactic~" Galadia had no chance to attack again since she fired a round of bows and arrows at the beginning. "It was the same last night and it is the same now. Your tactics made it impossible for the goblins to exert their power. From then on.
Is this all the war experience learned on the front line?”
If these goblins rush up together, they may be defeated by a hail of arrows. Griffith shot a corpse on the ground and said calmly:
"War is unscrupulous. Use defense to consume the enemy's physical strength and courage, and rely on formations to attack unorganized stragglers, so that we can leave the battlefield alive. And this can't be called a war, at most it can be regarded as a security war. Pay attention, the road ahead changes.
It’s open.”
After breaking through this road, the human militiamen arrived at a larger circular cave. It was very spacious and was no longer a road that could be blocked by four militiamen.
"Get some lighting!"
Galadia and the militiamen in the back row threw torches and straw piles forward, lighting up the big hole in front of them, and then they could see the whole place clearly.
"vomit……"
The moment they understood the scene in front of them, several militiamen vomited.
In this spacious cave, four or five mutilated human skeletons were scattered on the ground. Torn cloth strips were still hung on the skeletons.
Three young women were naked and pressed to the ground. Their bodies were covered with wounds from beatings and bites, and disgusting filth was smeared everywhere.
How dare these ugly, wretched goblins...
Galadia clenched her silver teeth and trembled with anger. The militiamen on the side were also furious after vomiting, gasping for air and about to rush forward.
Griffith glanced around the scene nervously and was surprised to find that there were only more than fifty ordinary goblins here.
What's going on? Where is the upper level plant to gather the goblins? There are no goblin warriors?
"Hold still, don't move!" Griffith realized that the situation was not good, "Everyone, hold your positions and don't disperse."
But everyone present was overwhelmed by anger and humiliation, and everyone was gearing up to take revenge.
At this moment, a naked goblin suddenly raised the lower body of the woman in front of it and dug into her flesh with its sharp claws.
"Ah!" The dying girl screamed.
Damn it! Griffith grabbed the hand of Galadia who was about to rush forward. Beside him, the angry militiamen roared and swarmed forward, pounced on the little monster in front of them without any formation.
"Stop, this is a trap!" Griffith shouted in vain. His shout only reminded Galadia. Before the militiamen could get through half of the cave, the soft ground suddenly collapsed.
Go down.
"Wow!" Three or four militiamen fell into a hole filled with sharp wooden stakes and were killed on the spot. The remaining people panicked.
At this time, more than fifty goblins swarmed forward and used various weapons to attack the chaotic militia.
Galadia hurriedly bent her bow and shot, knocking down several of the strongest and fastest goblins, and then immediately attracted a large group of enemies to attack from all directions.
"Back up, back into the passage!" Griffith threw away his spear and raised his buckler to resist, and at the same time drew his sword to attack. The long sword was not suitable for wielding in the dark cave, so he patiently looked for opportunities to stab him.
, each hit can kill a goblin.
The besieged militiamen gradually fell, and the remaining people were forced to retreat to the corner and fight to the death.
"Hold on a little longer!" Galadia blew a whistle as she ran outside, calling for help from the militiamen outside the cave.
However, instead of having militiamen come to support outside, there were screams and shouts, as well as the sound of sword fighting.
Griffith and Galadia fought and retreated, and it took them a while to reach the entrance of the cave.
Under the dense shade of trees that the sun cannot penetrate, the main force of the militia behind the palace has collapsed. Broken corpses are lying on the ground, and only a dozen people are divided into several groups to resist desperately.
Before the two of them could clearly see what was going on at the scene, a huge, powerful creature rushed toward them waving a thick tree trunk.
The two of them ducked to one side subconsciously and almost got hit.
In front of them was a three-meter-tall green-skinned creature. It was not as insignificant as an ordinary goblin. It had a rough and tough face, and a body as thick as a bucket. The giant stick in its hand was a broken tree trunk.
, it was covered with flesh, blood and bones.
"Goblin monster!?" Galadia's voice was filled with surprise and panic. This was a variant of Goblin that had a higher status and was more powerful than Goblin warriors and shamans.
No wonder it was the shaman who led last night's attack. This giant is the ruler of this group of goblins.
"Crack!" The Goblin troll squeezed his left hand, and the head of a human soldier caught in its hand exploded on the spot like a crushed watermelon. The headless body was thrown to the ground, twitching slightly.
Only then did Griffith recognize from the leather armor that this was actually the warrior of the Eden family.
More than thirty goblins followed the giant monster, some of them were besieging the remaining militiamen, while the rest were scanning the slim elf from top to bottom with lustful eyes.
"Whoa!" The Goblin monster swept over with its giant stick.
Its attack was as irresistible as a violent wind. The trainee knights and elf archers were repelled by the violent wind pressure without even being hit. Galadia seized the opportunity and shot two arrows. The sharp arrows were like nails on the city wall.
The same thing pierced the giant monster's chest deeply.
The giant monster didn't even sway. Its strong and huge body and fat were its best defense.
If I fall into the hands of such a thing... Can I escape now... Galadia looked at this terrifying creature, her heart beating hard, and her hands holding the bow and arrow were full of sweat. She first looked at the top of her head.
At the top of the tree, he found that the distance was too far and he couldn't help but look at the trainee knight next to him with a pale face.
Griffith knelt on the ground, stared at the Goblin monster, slowly put down the buckler in his hand, and breathed calmly.
The elf's eyes widened in surprise. In front of her, this human soldier wearing crude mail armor seemed to be immune to fear, as calm as a cold rock.
"Garadia," Griffith slowly stood up and trotted towards the Goblin troll, "shoot it in the head!"
To be continued...