บท 65: Ogre army invades!
Knock. Knock.
"Breakfast is ready, master."
A low knocking sound followed by Syaitona's gentle voice woke Mays up from his sleep. With how active he was last night, it was normal for him to still be sleepy. Mays looked at his left side and saw Ria curling like a ball while hugging his arm. She was still in deep slumber.
Mays was about to get up when he felt something was strange. He felt the same warmth coming from his right hand.
"WHOA!"
Mays accidentally shouted in surprise when he realized that there was another young woman sleeping on his right side.
"What happened, master?"
Intrigued by that shout, Syaitona opened the door and rushed toward Mays who was still on his bed. After those shouts, Ria who was asleep earlier was now wide awake. That other girl who was on the same bed also woke up at the same time.
"You... you... WHY ARE YOU HERE?!!"
"Ccc... Crystal Dragon Drasca?"
Ria shouted the moment she noticed Drasca was also on the same bed as them, obviously naked. Syaitona stuttered as she recalled who Drasca was.
"Uh... What's with all this noise?"
As if impervious of the current situation, Drasca yawned lazily before she started talking.
"YOU! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"
Ria once again shouted her heart out. She was totally shocked by their current situation. Only Mays was still calm as he started observing his surroundings.
"Calm down Ria. Syaitona, you go out for now and tell the others not to worry."
"Err, okay."
"Yes master."
Syaitona immediately left the room while Ria was still fixated on Drasca who was laying on the bed beside Mays.
"First of all, you both should get dressed."
"Eh... ah!"
As if she didn't notice it before, Ria hurriedly grabbed the blanked and covered her naked body which was totally visible since the moment she woke up. Drasca on the other hand just snapped her finger once before her white dress appeared out of nowhere.
"Ria, as you already know, this is Drasca. For the time being, she is under my command."
"WHAT? HOW?"
Obviously Ria wouldn't believe it just like that. Drasca was a grand character, the one who ranked fifth, one of the strongest being in this world. How come she suddenly turned docile and serve others?
"Not just for the time being master, I'm yours for eternity."
Nobody knew what Drasca was thinking but that sudden correction to Mays's statement made Ria's brow furrowed while several deep line appeared on her forehead. It was as if she had caught some hidden meaning behind those words.
"Care to explain in detail what that means, Mays?"
There was clear trace of anger in her tone. Those blood vessel on her forehead became more visible compared to before. Depending on the answer she get, she might even erupt on the spot.
"Ria."
"Yes?"
"Know this."
"What?"
With a firm and determined look, Mays stared directly at Ria's beautiful eyes before he continued.
"You are my one and only. You may not be my first, but you are absolutely the most precious. I am forever yours as long as you need me."
That cheesy line was totally a perfect counter on Ria. If others said those line to Ria, they might had it easy if they only got several bone broken but Mays was different. The moment Mays said those line, Ria's angry expression took an instant turn into one of happiness and embarrassment.
"You mean it?"
As if she was still not convinced, Ria asked in a low tone.
"Of course I mean it, silly."
Mays flicked Ria's forehead as he replied.
"I'll be honest, you are the second girl I gave my heart to in this world. The first one left me years ago so i don't even wanna talk about it. Rest assured that I never cheated on my girl, unless you give me the green light."
That confession was more than enough to make Ria fallen completely. She hugged Mays right away before she shyly replied to him.
"I love you the most, Mays."
"Yeah, I know."
After that, Mays explained everything to Ria without hiding anything. It started from the time Drasca saved him at the dungeon instance followed by his one week journey together with Hallel. The atmosphere was nice with Ria in Mays's embrace all the time.
Drasca even interrupted their conversation once by telling them why she could retain her human appearance now. With her body recovered more than fifty percent already, she had no need to be in her small dragon form any longer.
"By the way, what do you think about Hallel?"
"Err, she is a good girl?"
Mays gave out a vague answer. He totally didn't know what to say other than that.
"What if she confessed to you? What would you do?"
"What else can I do? I can only turned her down nicely since I already have my one and only queen."
Ria smiled sweetly when she heard that answer. She felt that everything was worth it, her whole life was for this moment of bliss. Her hardship all these years were all washed away when she accepted the fact that Mays was now hers.
Their lovely moment was torn down when Drasca once again interrupted them. She might be bored after being ignored by both Mays and Ria who was lost in their pink zone but she suggested something really unexpected this time.
"Master, can we do the thing you do all night yesterday? It seemed fun."
"NO!"
Ria rejected that suggestion instantly without the need to think. Her face was quite red when she realized that Drasca actually watched her in action with Mays last night.
"Mays is mine and I ain't sharing. You hear that?"
"I never said that I want him. I'm just saying that I'm his so he can do whatever he want with me."
With how simple RIa's mind work, that simple line shifted her hostility from Drasca to Mays. This Drasca was good in manipulating minds indeed. She just innocently uttered that one line while blinking her eyes mischievously at Mays.
Meanwhile, Hallel and the spirits were all waiting downstairs for Mays and Ria to come down and eat their breakfast together. Syaitona was also there as she was told to wait.
"NOT UNDER MY WATCH!"
Ria's shout reverberated all over the villa making all the others perplexed by what actually happened.
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Sounds of bickering was heard even from the hallway, outside of the meeting room. Two people were walking leisurely before they entered the meeting room where its door was not locked.
The first one to enter was a handsome male elf with a long blonde hair. He had the air of a monarch around him. His attire was a simple white magic silk adorned with golden dragon embroidery. Following closely behind him was a beautiful female elf with a fiery red hair. She wore a purple silk dress enchanted all over with magic.
"Are they trustworthy?"
"I'm not sure. But there are elves among them."
"They are elves but those elves are not our tribesmen. I don't think they can be trusted."
"But their goal is to attack those wretched being we are fighting. We are on the same side."
The bickering continued for another short while before one of them turned toward the person who just entered the meeting room.
"Your majesty, what do you think?"
The council of elders were going nowhere even after several hour of discussion. It was then when the chief elder irresponsibly turned toward their leader to make the final decision.
MoonElf King, Sikacak.
Ranked fourteenth in the top gold rank insane boss list, he was without doubt the strongest elf in HeavensTale. His word was literally the law for the Moon Elves.
"The moon whispers..."
"Those people..."
"Godkins..."
"We stand by them."
Word by word, Sikacak talked as if he was a poet. His words has rhyme of its own, making those listened to be dazed for a few second before they regained their sense.
"As you wish, Your Majesty."
"We abide Your Majesty's will."
Almost all the elders kneeled at the same time after they heard their king's decree. They then immediately dispersed from the meeting room, leaving the king alone with his fiancée.
They might be called elder and they literally had lived for hundreds of years, but every single one of them looked like a handsome young man in their twenties. Elves never aged after they passed their twenty fifth birthday.
"Is it fun to talk that way?"
The elegant, beautiful fiancé who was silent all this time started talking after all the elders left the meeting room.
"It is..."
"It might..."
"It should be."
Apparently, Sikacak was still planning on talking that way.
"If you keep talking like that with me, i'll ignore you for one whole week."
That threat was said in a soft tone yet the king knew that it was real. He knew his fiancée's temperament best.
"Okay, sorry. I won't do it again."
Sikacak apologized in a normal way, totally discarding his poetic tone from before. He was quite afraid of his fiancé. In fact, his fear was not unfounded. This fiancé of his was actually his distant younger cousin.
She might not be known worldwide, but her combat prowess was top notch. In a few century, she might even enter the top list for gold ranked insane bosses. Her name was Green Empress Comel, the second boss in MoonElf Palace's dungeon.
"When will we launch the attack?"
"Their side would do so at the last day of this month which is in four days. We will also move at the same day. Two pronged attack sounds quite nice."
"Which city are their target?"
"I'm not sure about the specific but they marched north until Grey Swamp area if I'm not mistaken."
With his finger under his chin, Sikacak answered vaguely. He really didn't know what the target of those godkins were.
"We are at the border of the continent. It is easy for us to destroy our enemy before their reinforcement arrive."
"Yep. Both demon empire and their allied dukedom are located far away. We can easily defeat them with the help of godkins."
"It still come back to the main question though. Are those godkins trustworthy?"
"I don't know. We can only hope so."
The two of them were engaged for almost a decade already. It was not known why they were not married yet. Nobody ever bothered with it either. But one thing for sure, they loved and cared for each other more than anything else.
The two of them then leisurely walked away from the meeting room while chatting idly. There was suddenly a commotion not too far from them and it seemed like someone was actually rushing toward them with haste.
"Thank god you're still here your highness... hu..."
From how hard this guard was gasping for air, it was obvious that he was rushing here as fast as he could. There must be something important he wanted to report at all cost.
"It's an emergency your highness. Our border had been breached by the enemies two hours ago. The ogres are coming in full force."
"What did you say?!"
Trace of anxiety was clearly visible on Sikacak's face when he heard that news. Their attack plan four days later was now complete scrap. They themselves had been attacked instead.
"Three settlement had been ravaged by them. Alfe Treetown, Lexendria and Greenwood had been turned into ashes. There was no news of survivors so far."
"DAMN IT! THOSE WRETCHET OGRE!!"
Sikacak now was totally furious. Three elven settlement had been destroyed. That was one tenth of the total number of settlement inside MoonElf Dukedom. With how few the number of elves were, it would take them long to recover.
"Comel. Contact those godkins. It seemed like we can't join their fight four days later. Our fight is now!"
"Yes your highness."
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An elven scout who was stationed at the border was observing the surrounding area while humming. His days was always free of trouble as enemy attack never happened since he started being a scout. But today, he felt restless. He had this weird feeling ever since he woke up today.
It was then when the sky turned dark all of a sudden. It was as if the a heavy cloud was passing in haste. The elven scout saw a group of black dot appeared from far away, approaching the DarkElf Dukedom.
Elven dukedom was located adjacent to each other with a total of three dukedom. DarkElf Dukedom was located the closest to the forest portal of demon continent followed by the HighElf Dukedom and lastly the MoonElf Dukedom. Apparently, the relationship between these three elven dukedom was complicated.
A group of huge flying beast passed by the outpost in mere seconds. Led by a dozen of dragons, countless flood dragons and several other huge flying beast were moving forward in unison. They were without doubt mounts, mounts of a certain army.
"They're in MoonElf Dukedom right? We should be there in a less than a day."
A young man fully equipped with berserker gear asked.
"Yep, they're there. At Norlenta Waterfall to be exact."
It was replied by a young man in silver.
"Heh, nice. I hope Mays is there."
This time, it was someone with a mechanical arm who added.
"He's not there yet. I've told you that already."
"Who knows if he reached there already. They are coming too right?"
"Well, yeah."
Both the man in berserker gear and the one with mechanical arm were looking forward to meet with Mays again. They were none other than San and Obelisk. Jace and Rose were also inside the same carriage of the dragon mount.
Their army were large, way larger than any army of a dukedom. Just the number of godkins alone amounts to five hundreds. Their spirits were at least around two thousands. And those were just number of spirits already summoned while those still in their archive were not accounted.
Not to mention that all of them were gold ranked with more than half of them were the peak existence at level one hundred. This kind of force could easily trample all over the dukedom if the leader felt like it.
At the border of MoonElf Dukedom, the ogre army had been advancing nonstop with brute force. The resistance led by the local city guards were like puny ant in front of the large army of the ogre. Countless elves were killed mercilessly. Not even the women, children and elderly were spared.
"Kill them all. These tree lover should be exterminated long ago."
"KILL!!"
"KILL THEM ALL!!"
"HUHA!! HUHA!!"
Unexpectedly, the one leading the ogre charge was the ogre chieftain himself, Oggy the Smasher. Oggy was a huge ogre. His size was at least twice the normal ogre. His strength obviously multiple times the normal ogre. He wore a simple worn out heavy armor while his weapon was a heavy metal club.
He was indeed a small fry if he was compared to the top gold rank insane bosses but he was still a gold rank insane boss nonetheless. All the commanders around him was just gold ranked intermediate bosses but their might was more than enough to trample civilian city of elves.
Cries of agony and desperation echoed as the ogre slaughtered every living things in the town. None of the ogre cared about the pleading of the weak. They only knew how to kill and destroy.
Just after they finished trashing the fourth elven city of MoonElf Dukedom, the ogre army was finally stopped by the MoonElf Royal Army. The one leading the royal army was Commander Sicantik, an elven female blade dancer.
Sicantik was cladded in purplish silver metallic armor while her twin short sword was burning with golden light. With her tall and curvy body, her long blond hair and beautiful face, she was without doubt a top class beauty in this world. She was a silver ranked insane boss, a beauty with strength indeed.
"Cease your rouge action, wretched ogres!"
Sicantik bellowed in anger. The vein on her forehead was visible showing how angry she currently was. Her brethren were killed in front of her eyes.
"Hahaha! Finally there are enemies worthy for this lord to attack by himself."
Oggy laughed as he remained be seated on top of his mammoth mount. He never joined the fight in previous four town raids. He had no reason to. His army of five thousand ogre was more than enough to finish the job.
Ogre was a demonic beast famed for their strength. It took at least three normal people of the same rank to take down one ogre of the same level. They had insane regeneration rate and high enough vitality to even fight a dragon for several bout. Because of that, their pride as a warrior race was always high.
"Brothers and sisters. To arm!"
That order given by Sicantik was loud and clear. All eight thousand elves cladded in silver armor immediately readied themselves. They were the third and fourth battalion of MoonElf Royal Army. The third battalion unsheathed their rapiers while the fourth battalion pulled their bowstring and held them as they awaited further orders.
"My lord. Please give me permission to lead the first charge."
An ogre with an eye patch bowed to Oggy as he asked for permission. He wore a skull helmet with armors fully decorated with skeletons. Even his main weapon was a bone club. He was the Ogre Commander Bonito, a silver ranked insane boss.
"The price of losing is your head."
"Yes my lord!"
Bonito then rode her mammoth forward leading a small number of elite ogre rider with him. He stopped just in front of the ogre army before he shouted as hard as he could.
"ATTACK!"
That one word opened the curtain of war between the two army. The third battalion charged forward without fear while the fourth battalion unleashed their first volley of arrow. The ogres were also rushing forward with wicked smile on each of their face.
The war between the ogre and elves had officially begun.
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