Transmigrate to another world

Chapter 109 The Plains [ 4 ]

"Crap! How long until they get here?"

Mericel says "I'm not sure, maybe two hours?"

"Okay, we will deal with it. First, I need to finish freeing these girls."

Mericel says "Alright, what do you want me to do?"

"Go back and keep an eye on them, see if you can overhear anything."

Mericel says "Am I looking for something specific?"

"Yes, it is weird for that many troops to be marching away from the border. I want to know what the king is up to if possible."

Mericel says "Alright, I will see what I can find out."

"Thank you."

Annya says "Is there anything I can do to help?"

"Sure, you can help Myria. We need to get everyone organized, figure out who can ride, and how soon everyone will be in shape to move."

Annya says "Sure! Most of these people are my people anyway!"

As Annya goes with Myria to start helping I continue going down the line removing manacles. A thousand soldiers, how are we going to deal with this? We can't fight that many at once, maybe if we can split them up somehow.

'Drog, how are things to the north?"

Drog thinks 'I'm outside the city, a thousand soldiers just arrived in the city from the north.'

'Another thousand? What is going on?'

Drog thinks 'Another thousand?'

'Yeah, we have a thousand coming up from the south. You should head back now.'

Drog thinks 'Yes, master!'

Two thousand troops, this is definitely a trap. I guess the king figures I am heading for the border and means to trap me between the two forces. My best bet may be to act as a decoy until the girls are all able to move.

"Myria, Annya, Leyla, come here please."

Myria says "Yes, master?"

"Okay, we definitely have to prevent that."

Ruby says "So, what's the plan?"

"We are going to attack the middle of the column, I will cut a path right through the middle of them. Mericel will follow behind me and kill any I miss, Ruby I want you to throw as many fireballs as you can to either side."

Mericel says "Okay."

Ruby says "I can do that!"

"Okay, after we make it through them we head east into the grass, we are going to make them spread out trying to find us."

Ruby says "And once they spread out we kill more of them?"

"Yes, as we can. Our objective is to delay them until morning, then we make our way back to the others. We will either meet up with them on the road or to the west of that."

Ruby says "Okay, sounds like a solid plan."

"Once they spread out it will be fairly chaotic, if we get separated don't try to find each other, just fight till morning then head back."

Mericel and Ruby say "Okay."

"Let's do this!"

We creep alongside the road until we are even with about the middle of the soldiers, I look at Ruby and Mericel and get a nod from each. I draw Blitz and step out of the grass already swinging. The first two soldiers die without ever knowing they were under attack.

I take a step forward and swing again, more die under my blade, and now the shouting starts. Each step forward I take another swing, a few manage to dodge but I ignore those, Mericel will deal with them. I've taken five steps when the first fireball explodes off to my left killing dozens of soldiers.

Ten steps brings me to the middle of the road, Ruby's third fireball goes off and then a second explosion goes off behind me. A quick glance back shows Ruby covered in blue flames, but she has a huge smile on her face so I focus on my task. Another ten steps, another ten swings, and I reach the far side of the road.

Turning back to make sure Mericel and Ruby are still with me, I notice all the bodies, rough guess we killed over a hundred. They will definitely come after us now, so I turn and lead Ruby into the grass. We pick up the pace as soon as we are hidden in the grass, I match my pace to Ruby's.

Now we play cat and mouse with the remaining nine hundred soldiers until dawn. After covering a few hundred yards I slow down a bit to let Ruby catch her breath.

"Ruby, what was the other explosion earlier?"

Ruby says "Oh, I leveled up!"

"Awesome! Congrats!"

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